Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09
WORLD OF LABOR.

Korea has $4,000 Japanese.
Paper is made from turf.
There are 222 BARRIERS unions.
| Japan has 5000 union printers.
Shanghai has eight cotton mills.
There are 10000 union dock laborers.
Artificial silk is made of wool fibre.
Denver carpenters get Al cents an
hour.
Boss bakers have formed a national
union.
San Juan carpenters and painters
struck.
New York bridge workers get $3.50
a day.
/ Indiana fire insurance agents Or
ganized.
Japan has women commercial
schools.
Brooklyn has a Social Progress
League.
A pound of phosphorus heads 1,000,-
600 matches.
Indiana is making railroad cars for
! New Zealand.
Norwich, Conn, has a colored la
/ borers' union.
There are so 900 brotherhood painters
anu decorators.
| New York sheet metal workers de-
mand 81 day.
| London is to have an American de-
| partment store.
Frances mushroom crop yields ST.
| 10000 a year.
Lowell, Mass, councils appropriated
| 81 GOO for Labor Day
New York has a HebrewHTerican
Typographical Union.
Lactrald, a substitute for celluliod,
| is made from skim milk.
| The Womens International Union
Label League is thriving.
! Even the negro Republic of Lii 3ria
has an exhibition at Paris.
! Germany brews one-thlrd Of all the
beer consumed in the world.
Japanese doctors do not accept fees
from poyerty-Stricken patients.
All Vancouver, B. C., Municipal Uni
forms must be made by unionsts.
California's trade with the Philip
pines amounts to $4,000 month.
The machinery of the United States
is doing the work OF 1000, 000, coo men.
The Brewers National Union is to
raise 100000 for home for aged mem
beers. 20
Per capita tax is now paid to the In
ternational Association of Machinests
upon $4,000 members
Brooklyn steam filters have been
| successful in their demand for a wage
scale of 81 for a days work of eight
hours.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen will hold its twenty-seventh
| annual convention at Des MOines. Ia,
| on September TO-
| In 1906 the tailors organized the first
lobar organization in the United
| States In 1919 the hatters organized;
rhe printers in 1881.
In New York forty-five yards of
| paving will hereafter constitute a
| days work for a payer and 80 yards
! for each Zimmerman.
! To-day one man and two boys can
| spin as much cotton as LOO spinners
! could have done one hundred years
| ago. One weaver does the work of
| fifty-four.
| The lady members of the Frisco
Typographical Union are gratified to
| learn that a rule has been passed pro-
hibitlng smoking during sessions of
the union.
| IL 10 cdIQ tuil tuC UdhSiS anu Gull
fectioners' unions in New York intend
/ TO start an agitation for a ten-hour
workday, to go in force the first of
May next.
In the Prussian Government dock
| yard at Kiei all the great machine
shops are to be electrically driven from
a central power plant of capacity OF
$500 horse power.
The stamp-canceling machine in use
| in the postoffice can handle from 40-
| 000to $4,000 letters an hour. New ma
chimes are being tested with capacity
three times as great.
| Brooklyn Furniture Workers Tool
Insurance Fund has a membership OF
$50 in good standing. The insurance is
OF two classes-$25 and s5O-and the
amount of insurance is $35,670.
/ The cotton industry in the United
States now operates a, total of 2057,-
953 spindles and 490,e00 looms. Massa-
chusetts leads, with Rhode Island sec
ond and North Carolina third.
Labor Day was celebrated first in
New York City. The celebration took
place there on Monday, September :.