Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

its employ anyone not member OF
the union, or finally discharging an
employe without the sanction OF the
union, and requiring it to suspend with
out pay any employe on the demand
of the officials Of the union. The oper-
alton of the road must also be upon
schedules made by the officials OF the
union and of the company in concert.
At Limoges, France, the employers,
| having formed union among them
selves, give their support to trades I'M
ionism in every way. They employ
none but unionists, SO that the work
men must form union if none exists.
On the other hand, the workmen re-
/ fuse to work for any but associated
employers. If, therefore, any member
of an alliance leaves it or is expelled
for any just reason, his workmen must
leave his employment. While such a
dispute lasts the cost is shared equally
| between the two associations.
During the past two years sixty-nine
new local lodges of the international
Association of Machinists were organ
ized, 1854 members were installed and
1,051 reinstated by local branches and
337 were reinstated by the grand lodge;
125 lodges succeeded in getting an in
crease in wages of 10 per cent; IS pre-
vented a reduction of 10 per cent; AZ
prevented the Introduction of the run
ming of two or more machines by one
man; 81 prevented the introduction OF
piece work; 80 secured time and half
for overtime and double time for Sun
day; and % successfully opposed re-
duction in pay for overtime rat/.
The granting of pensions to the old
has become question of practical poll
tics in several countries. Great Britain
and the colony of Victoria are both
wrestling with the matter at the pres
ent time. The premier of the latter
has just prepared draft bill, provid-
ing for the payment of old-age pen
sions, with a view to introducing the
measure next session. 1t is expected
i that the bill will provide that any man
Or woman of the full age of IS years
will be entitled to pension of ELS a
year, provided he or she have resided
in Victoria for 25 years. The amount
of the pension will diminish according
to the income which the applicant has
from other sources, till 1t reaches the
vanishing point at about $40 per an
mum. That is to say, that any one
having private income of Is shillings
a week or Whereabouts will not be able
to claim the pension.
Who was it said Cotton is king?"
1t was Gen. Quitman, of Mississippi. In
the early fifties, when the agitation
over the Clay compromise measure,
known as the omnibus. bill, was high
and hot, in debate in the Senate Quit
man said Cotton is king of exports"
and he proceeded to show that but for
our sales abroad of the fleecy staple our
foreign trade would be petty indeed.
And, in the sense the originator used 1t
AZ years ago, it is still true. Except in
the years of the civil wdr and a few
years directly succeeding that contest,
cotton has steadily held first place In
the list of exports. Last years exports
Of cotton and manufactures thereof
amounted to s247, 466, 307 which was
more in value, worth more in gold,
than the combined exports of corn and
corn meal, wheat and wheat flour, the
-four being classed under the head of
"breadstuffs." So, as matter of fact,
cotton still wears the crown.-Chat-
tanooga Times.