Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-23
Delegates will be present from nearly

All countries.
Stock yards packers of Chicago have
stowed away bU0,OUO cases OF eggs.
The San Francisco Building Trades
Council has ordered a general boycott
against all planning -mlii material OF
mills working more than eight hours.
1 Fifty new unions and thiry-f1ve
/ branches have been organized by the
United Brewery Workmen during the
| last seventeen months. Others are or
ganizing.
Hawaii Territory's first Labor Day
was an unqualified success. The prin-
cipal speaker was U. S. District At
, torney Baird Governor Dole reviewed
the parade.
The Federation Libre, central labor
organization at San Juan, Porto Rico,
| has asked financial assistance from VAe
! New York unions with which to carry
on strike.
The British government is the owner
of over $4,000 camels. Several thous
ands are used in india to carry stores
and equipments when the regiments are
/ changing quarters.
| In 1898 the tobacco monopoly yielded
! France an income of 29,000,000 francs.
| Paper was first made about GEN.
fury after Christ by a Chinaman named
Isai-Laun. The Arabs introduced it in
| to Europe.
| The largest part of the worlds sup
ply of platinum comes from the Ural
Mountains, perhaps as much as IS per
! cent. of the platinum used in the arts
/ being found in the Russian and ST.
berian mines or placer deposits OF that
range.
! Delegate James Beggs, OF the New
York Musicians, secured letter of pro-
| test from the State Federation to Pres
ident Mckinley and to the Secretaries
OF war and the Navy against the CON-
petition of Government bands with
| civilian musicians.
| Columbus, Ca, will be considered the
model union city of the South. Strikes
are almost unknown and the employer
| and employe work in harmony. In
fact, it has been stated that the lead
| ing employers of labor in Columbus are
the strong supporters OF the union.
| rhe Cigarmakers' Union OF Syracuse
had a handsome float in the Labor Day
parade and would probably have won
SIS prize for artistic decoration, but it
was discovered that the horses were
Z oAOQ dl d ouOp ttlfQ ullC lIOdL
| was ordered out OF the parade.
The Trades and Labor Council of
/ Richmond, Va. has passed a resolu-
ton requesting the representatives in
| the State Legislature not to vote for
any man for judge of the Supreme
| Court who Is not in favor of the En-
ployers' Liability bill and has placed
himself on record as such.
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power distribution in mills and fac
tories is becoming widespread and al
most universal in the important tex
tile industry. Recently a plant has
been installed at Reverdo, in the South
Tyrol, in which 400 velvet-weaving
looms are operated by polyphase cleo
trio motors from central power sta
hilton.
The total number of organized work
ers in the United States on May l last
was estimated by the United States
Department of Labor to be 1905, 300
persons. On May the American Fed
Grafton of Labor had an enrolled mem
| bership of 100000, and the railway
(brotherhoods 10000. In the building
/ trades $50 900 men are organized on in
| dependent lines
! Conflicting reports reach us concern
| ing the success of the new under
ground electric road in London. The
most satisfactory part of the whole
business is that the road is to large
extent an American innovation. Its
/ twenty eight torpedo-shaped engines
were built here at cost of S14,599
! each. Our elevated railroad choppers
for tickets have been introduced, and,
after the style of America, the guards
are required to call out next sta
ton AS in the United States, there
is no distinction of passengers, first,
I second and third class carriages hav-
/ ing been abolished. This enables the
company to charge one fare for all
1 distances, the amount being only
cents.
( THOMAS c. Walsh, Secretary of the
! Executive Board of the Associated Car
! penters and Joiners of New York, says:
The initiation fee of the Associated
! Carpenters and Joiners of Manhattan Is
/ $4,000 The union scale of wages so
/ cents an hour. No deviation that would
lead to a forfeiture of the Saturday half
| holiday to be even thought of. No &C.
centric scale of wages that will permit
person to work for anything he can
get and hold a card to be dreamed Of
! None but carpenters and joiners are
eligible for membership. That the two
carpenters organizations, viz, the Anal
gamated and the Associated Carpenters
are working in unison and long for the
| day when the few carpenters that are
outside their unions will come into the
| folds of true trades unionism and by
concerted effort advance the cause of
unionism."
The French natio MAS Trades Coun-
| Gil which deals with labor affairs. Here
tofore the 66 members were appointed
by the Government, but Millerland the
| Socialist Minister, has secured an order
making 5 seats elective all to be filled
by trade unions. Building trades me-
c-anics and laborers and their employ
ers In Lyons also have in force a plan
of arbitration that prevents many
strikes. Both contractors and work
men are organized into societies called
| ''syndicates. The employers syndi-
cate comprises 625 members This syn
dictate was organized in 1862, and since
! that date only % strikes have occurred
/ in the building trades. No outside par
! ties, not even the Government Board of
Arbitration are permitted to interfere
/ in the adjustment of labor troubles.
/ They are always settled with only little
friction and expense, by committees of