Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-10
World of Labor.

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world of Labor.
Denver has two soap factories.
New York has a union of Chinese
laundrymen.
Toledo Building Trades Council may
adopt a label.
At Diamondville, Wyo., miners
struck for an increase of ten cents a
ton.
The municipal nine-hour day at
Houston has been declared unconstitu-
tional.
Toledo Building Trades Council,
wants the city officials to include a
Building Inspector.
No skilled mechanic earns as much
as the average third-rate boxer, many
of whom earn over $4,000 a year.
A New York Carpenters Union has
suspended two members because they
are interested inthe saloon business.
AT Columbus a new street railway
company has asked for a franchise and
guarantees that fare will be three cents.
Labels for over $40, 600 cigars were
issued last week by the Brooklyn Gil
garmakers' Label Committee to local
union shops.
West Superior (Wis.) Trades and
Labor Assembly expelled the printers
delegate because he Joined National
Guard company.
At meeting Of the Frisco carpen-
tiers a donation of $40 was made for
the relief of member who is paralyZed
and has wife and four young children.
At Atlanta milk costs 71a cents per
quart. The milk dealers claim that this
advance was made necessary on ac-
count of the advance in the price OF
stock feed.
The Terre Haute Street Railway
Company has yielded to public opinion
to the extent of making a cheaper fare
when tickets to the amount of 81 are
bought.
The Chicago Federation of Labor has
adopted a resolution pledging its finan-
cial support to the piano and organ
workers, who are now engaged in a
strike against piano and organ fac
tories in Chicago.
1t is said the Boston convention of
the K Of l. was the poorest the order
has held during the thirty years of its
existence, and that it's membership
outside the States of New York and
Pennsylvania has shrunk to shadow.
New York union printers are pleased
over an official announcement in the
City Record which says that parties
rendering for printed supplies to the
Board of Education must state in
their proposals that they are paying
the recognized and prevailing scale OF
printers wages in that city.
At Burlington, Ia, in the bankrupt
cy case of j. N. Byrne g. Co., of Bur-
lington, in which the employees claimed
landlord made the same claim for rent,
Judge Shiras, of the Federal Court, of
Des Moines, decided that labor had a.
prior claim over the landlord.
At Denver, the Retail Butchers Pro-
tective Association has formed the
Butchers Mutual Ice Company, for the
avowed purpose of knocking out the ice
monopoly so far as possible. The
company will furnish ice at rate at
least one-third lower than at present
charged by the ice combination. The
present companies have been charg-
ing SO ton.
and, while it may not furnish COM
plete solution Of the labor question, it
points the way to a great improvement
of conditions. The success Of many
cooperative and profit-sharing enter
prises in European countries and the
United States has been too marked,
and their results too beneficial, to adj
nit of being put down by any person
of limited information and narrow
views Indianapolis Journal.
Does not the money -coddhng SEN
ator Hanna know that when labor
trembles capital turns pale, fearing a
fall-that labor is the turtle of Atlas
upholding the world-that labor must
be contented before those standing on
his back can feel secure? Say, rather,
that the Trusts are constantly finding
it more to their advantage to treat
with labor. The men at the shekel
end of the money treadmills in this
country are beginning 10 realize that
if the laborer is not listened to, justly
and fairly, something will drop. In the
days when might was right the most
powerful human brute was generally
the most wealthy by reason of his su-
erior physical facilities for robbery
New York Journal
The trouble between Brooklyn Bridge
car men and their employers and the
anticipated tie-up OF the car lines in
consequence furnishes more evidence
OF the failure of the private ownership
of urban and TRANSFORMATION lines. These
car lines were once oerated under mu-
nicial ownership. The men were en-
ployed on their merits and under Te-
formed. civil service regulations They
worked eight hours a cay. we're We'll
paid when their work was done. and
were apparently contented. The city
furnished them their uniforms and
badges. The elevated railway company
took over the lines and there was a
change. The men began to know what
grievances were They were required
to deposit first a dollar and later three
dollars for badges, said TO be worth
about fifty cents. Pay day was chang
ed from Monday to Thursday, out the
intervening three days wages were not
paid when the change was made, so that
the comany was three days behind in
paying them, and has remained so.-
Chicago Journal (editorial).
The Brooklyn Master RooferS Associa-