Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
WORLD OF LABOR.

New York has 4,090 drug clerks.
Russia announces glass skates.
Havana contains one soap factory.
Brooklyn hasn't a morning paper.
South Dakota has go creameries.
New York Unionists talk of forming
labor political party.
There was not a strike under the juris-
diction of the Br.cklayers' International
Union during 1898.
New York has a Church Association for
the Advancement Of Labor.
Three large New York Cloakmakers
recently signed the Cloakmakers' new
scale of wages.
A bill before the New York Legislature
requires BARRIERS to pass an examination.
Typographical national conventions will
be held annually hereafter, instead of
every two years.
Assemblyman Reddington has submit
ted to the New York LEGISLATURE bill
making railroad companies liable for
damages for injuries sustained by en-
ployes While employed.
Assembyman Harburger's bill to per-
nit operation of theatres in New York
city on Sundays is opposed by the New
York Actors Union.
The initiation fee of the New York
Gold Beaters' Unto has teen reduced TO 81.
drawn from the Syracuse Building
each for violating the sanitary bake shop
The next convention of the Bricklayers'
Union will be held in Rochester.
The Bricklayers' International Union
has appropriated 5000 for the organiza-
ton of new unions
Painters and carpenters have with
be removed
Trades Council.
State Factory Inspector o Leary opposes
the movement to abolish ''sweatshops,"
which, he says, give employment to 5000
persons in New York and Brooklyn alone
in the making of clothing. He claims that
if the drastic sanitary laws he recon-
mends were passed and rigidly enforced
the chief objections to sweat shops would
be removed
The Standard Oil Enterprises give en-
ployment to upward of 25,0o0 men, or
number equal to the United States army
before the last war. The pipe lines con-
trolled by the Rockefeller concerns
amount to more than 10000 miles. Placed
end to end they would reach almost
around the earth. In addition to the pipe
lines 200 steamers and $500 tank cars are
employed in transporting the product.
The draft of a measure providing for
the taxation of churches that rent their
auditoriums for entertainments is now in
the hands of the District of Columbia
Commissioners and will soon be present.
ed to Congress.
Cleveland Musicians Mutual Protective
Association says that knights of Labor
musicians are cutting prices. Union
prices for dances are 81 from s p. m. to
8 a. m, and 50 for three hours on the
street for parades or funerals.
Washington Building Trades Council de-
feated a proposed amendment to the con-
stitution, which provided that no one
should be admitted to the council as dele
gate who is not engaged in the calling of
the organization sending him.
Thomas Salmon former president Of
the Red Lodge (Mont) Miners Union,
who killed Superintendent O'Conner of the
Rocky Fork coal mine, for discharging
him, and who was subsequently repudiat-
ed by the members of the union. was
hanged at Red Lodge last week
In New Zealand the House of Repre-
sentatives has voted pension Of $50 a
year, s1.75 a week, to every person in the
colony with less than 1925 a week earn
ings. whose age exceeds g.
Assemblyman O'Connell has intro
duced a bill in the New York Legislature
requiring employers to maintain a re-
pository for mechanics tools or be liable
for their value if lost from place of en-
ployment.
The Railroads Committee of the New
York Assembly will give a hearing Feb
ruary 8 at p. m. on Mr.. Striefler's two
bills to compel Buffalo street cars TO be
all vestibuled and requiring street rail-
road companies to pay interest annually
on deposits exacted from employees.
A delegation from the Garment Work