Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25
catch on record, valued at over $780,

catch on record, valued at over $780,
600.
The Puyallup, Wash, hop market is
firm, and prices range from II to 141a
cents.
The Peru, Ind, Steel Castings Com
pany employs only men who do not
drink.
The London Statist predicts great
boom for shipbuilding in the United
States.
The Chicago Sheet Metal Workers
Union has reduced its initiation fee
from $50 to $25.
Shares in Lonuons water company
have gone up $4,000 per cent, though
the founder died poor.
Within eleven years the De Beers
mines have yielded diamonds to the
value of over S160,000,000.
During the fiscal year ending June
80, 1899, we used $685. 81 bushels of
wheat for bread-msking purposes.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
now represents $500 men in st. Louis.
Typographical Union No. has $50
members.
Every German paper except one in
. the United States is under the juris-
diction of the German-American Ty-
geographical union.
The Brotherhood of Railway Track
men of America places the number of
men employed by the railways of this
country at 928,924.
Fall River, Mass, can now be added
to the list of union towns in which the
nine-hour day is IN operation for prin-
ters
Minneapolis dressmakers won strike.
Ths hours during the day will be from
a. m. to p. M, with the allow
ance of one hour at noon for lunch.
In New Zealand no male under Is
or female under Is is permitted to
work in the factories. Men work
forty-eight and women forty-four hours
per week.
Canal that will beat the Suez: Uncle
Sam will spend 100000 on the sault
Ste. Marie, Canal and make it the
greatest artificial waterway on the
face of the globe
The barbersof San Francisco have de-
cided TO put the early closing move
ment into effect on Dec. l. The shops
viii close at p. m. on week days and
IL m. on Sundays.
There is law on the statute books
of Ohio making it a misdemeanor for
an employer to discharge or to at
tempt to coerce employees to restrain
them from affiliating with labor or 9TH
er lawful organizations.
During the year 1899, 1897 strikes
took place in Germany. The year be-
fore there had only been 9S5. which In
dicates the rapidly growing strength of
organized labor. and perhaps also the
multiplication of the causes of discon-
tent.
Nowhere in the history of organized
labor has such a body made the ad-
vance in so short a time as the Switch
mems Union of North America. Start
ing from nearly nothing a couple of
years ago. 1t now has 1873 local bodies
and 10000 members.
The preachers of Marshalltown. Iowa
have struck against a reduction of the
fee paid them for sermons delivered az
the Soldiers home, near that place. For
years they received S. to IS per SER
mon, but quit on receiving word that
the State had reduced the remuneration
to SO.
At the convention of the Illinois f..
of L. the coopers, boot and shoe work.
ers, broom makers, molders. and other
trades affected by prison labor will IA
vor the appointment of committee to
attend the next session of the Illinois
Legislature and urge the passage of
laws that will prohibit the competition
of convict with free labor.
Science, prompted and urged by the
commercial instinct. has demonstrated
that casein, from ordinary cows milk.
is quite as good for baking as the En-
est hen eggs, and company with Sc
5000 capital has been formed to man
ufacture out of it substitute for the
fresh" and strictly fresh" product
of the poultry yard. One pound of
casein is equal to six dozens of eggs.
The publicity given the charge that
combination exists between the con-
tractors and brick manufacturers OF
Milwaukee to boycott Chicago work
may be the means of breaking the
deal. Milwaukee builders are said to