Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-05
WORLD OF LABOR.

WORLD OF LABOR.
France has a snail farm.
Finland has women bricklayers.
Springfield bootblacks organized.
Boston grocery clerks have a union.
Rockefeller's income is $4,000 a
day.
New York has a German Cooks
union.
New York has an Italian typograph-
ical union.
St. Pauls musicians union will con-
solidate.
Brooklyn has an Early Closing AS
Cleveland molders want their wages
increased.
England's postofice employs 10000
women.
Germany has a clock that is to run
for 5000 years.
Wisconsin photographers held a
State convention.
Chicago printers who purchase non
union goods are fined $40.
ST. Paul leather workers on horse
goods have formed a union.
1t is said that 100000 people are
unemployed in the United States.
Minnesota retail grocerS have State
association.
A retail liquor license at Bosier
Parish, La, cost $4,000.
The largest chewing gum factory
in the world is at Cleveland, o.
Boston metal polishers employed by
a bicycle company won a strike.
The initiation fee of the New York
Blacksmith's Helpers Union is 81.
Louisville Coopers' Union LETT the
x. of L. and joined the Federation.
Cleveland has the largest shoddy
mills in the West.
Cleveland longshoremen lore hand
lers) want II cents per ton.
Lafayette, Ind, volunteer firemen
struck for 81 a day.
The treasury of the United Journey
men Tailors of America contains $12,-
000
There are 545 unions Of locomotive
firemen in the United States, Canada
and Mexico.
Rev. Samuel Brazier advocated the
single tax at meeting of the Boston
Central Labor Union.
The Massachusetts Association OF
BARRIERS has prepared bill requiring
BARRIERS to pass an examination.
In the Connecticut wooden industry
the amount of wages paid constitutes
20 per ent. of the product value.
Boston Central Labor Union indors-
ed the proposed law fixing eight hours
as a days work for public employees.
Eighteen large manufacturers now
use the union label of the Boot and
Shoe Workers International Union.
At Barnsley, Eng, boys employed as
pony drivers in the coal pits went on a
strike for a week in an indeavor to
get overtime pay for work after 2:3O
D. M, but were unsuccessful.
The tube workers Citing and SOCK
ct Makers, of Wednesday,, Eng, $50
in number, have obtained an increase
in wages Of five per cent. This was a
six days strike.
The bricklayers of Hereford, Eng.
have had an increase from fourteen to
fifteen cents per hour after dispute
and strike lasting eight months.
The Limsrick, Ire, taiiors, after
their very long-sustained conflict, have
succeeded in getting a raise of one-half
of cent per hour
To encourage the removal of old
DulIuIUSS lie dulIOlltlto VI ASAAA'~
have decreed that if the owners of
1868 specified houses will replace them
with new structures they will be guar
anteed release from the payment OF
taxes for Is years.
The Cleveland Cigar, Newsdealers'
and Confectioners' Protective Associa-
ton is preparing to fight another Sun
dav closing crusade, which the mem
bers expect will be made in short
time by the Clothing Salesmen's IN
ion.
SUPERIOR is to have municipal en-
ployment bureau. The unemployed
will register at this Office, and places
will be furnished, when possible, free
of charge.
Cigarmakers' Union 81, of Boston,
has grown from a membership of Is
to over i 800. Three hundred dollars
have been donated to the Marlboro
shoe-workerS.
The operatives engaged in the small
chain trade OF hvSaafordsnire and
North Worcestershire have struck
work for a 10 per cent. advance OF
wages.
A memorial has been presented to
the EuSllSu SoNCl hAdSiie, ~ SAAAo
deal with the registration OF plumbers
in the ensuingssession in the interests
of the public health.
The contractors carmen of Sunder-
land, England, to the number OF about
800 struck for an advance of is per
week in their wages. They are at pres
ent receiving 21s per week, and con-
tend that the employees promised to
coneede the advance last week, but
failed to keep their promise.
Every member of the House OF Com
mons has been sent a letter from the
United Government Workers Fedora
ton asking them to SUPPORT the amend
ment to the address to be moved by
Mr.. S. Woods, NJ. P, in favor of raising
the wages of government workers to a
minimum of 24s per week.
STEUBENVILLE INDUSTRIAL.
Steubenville, O.. March 4-The Steuben-
vile Manufacturing Co., which was start
ed again recently by a company Of local
capitalists, is working full time and is
employing 80 skilled men in the hard wood
line, turning out telephone cabinets of
handsome design and superior finish.
They report orders coming in which will
keep them busy for some time. They are
arranging their work so that the number
of men employed now can turn out as
MANY cabinets as were turned out by sew
enty-five hands.
At Hartje Bros paper mill the work of
,,,o,y;,r ax-pnSsya improvements started