Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
WORLD OF LABOR.


king.
There are $4,000 Brotherhood carpen-
tiers.
The average annual rice crop of ia
pan is 1873 ,275,715 bushels.
During the past ten years shipbuild-
ing in Germany has become a great
industry.
An agricultural settlement near New
York supplies the Celestials OF the
Eastern States with their diet.
In Toledo, Ohio, eight hours now
constitute a days work in all depart
ments under the city government.
l am told that there is tea grown
and gathered in Japan that sells for
as much as ten dollars per pound.
Union upholsterers in San Francisco
Every shop in the city is said to be
thoroughly union.
Unions subordinate to the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Oil Well Work
ers will vote upon the question of
electing the international officers of
the parent body by the referendum
system.
The new scale of salaries for the
president, first, second and third vice
presidents of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers has been fixed at $4,000,
81 800 81 300 and 81 200 per annum, re-
spectively.
Nearly 100000 women in Spain
work in the field as day laborers; $780,
600 women are registered as day SER
vants-that is, they work for their
food aid lodging. There is no such
class anywhere else.
Owing to French law compelling
the French mercantile marine to man
only with Frenchmen, the foreign sea-
man cannot be introduced to displace
and defeat the French shipping
unions. As result they are uniform
ly successful in their strikes.
The Building Trades Council, with
more than 10000 building workmen at
tached to it, resolved to support the
Metallic Lathers' Union in a fight with
the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers,
with 1900 members. Sympathetic
strikes will follow.
In Melbourne a case was unearthed
where a government contractor was
paying his men nine shillings a week
and tucker. The contract was quashed,
the money in hand confiscated and dis
tributed among the men to make Up
to six shillings a day, their shortage
under that amount. The contractor
went broke.
The Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union,
which is $500 strong, has obtained
from the Associated Shipowners AS
ISOLATION a fixed concession of eight
+a oh
per day. The rate for casual hands has
been fixed at one shilling an hour, with
overtime at Is. 3d. per hour and Is
per hour after p. m. on Saturdays.
In New York building unions with
$4,000 members are divided on a war to
the knife. The 5000 members of the
Amalgamated Society Of Plumbers and
GasfitterS and the Brotherhood of
Plumbers and Gasftters decided to re-
fuse to be governed by the rulings OF
Otto NJ. Eidlitz. The unions submitted
their disputes to Mr.. Eidlitz for arbi-
tration.
One matter in connection with the
substitution of Italian for black labor
on the boats that is giving some con-
Germ TO the ShOpkeepers and others in
New Orleans is the fact that the: negro
is liberal spender. while the Italian
is not. Every collar that the negro
makes he spends The most of the
money may go in crap games, but at
all events it goes and is thus kept in
circulation. The Italian, on the other
hand is frugal, sparing of appetite and
niggard of purse. He will make a few
cents day cover all of his needs. while
hn h
tie time OF lis return to Italy.-Savan-
nah News.
One hundred years ago it was esti-
mated that population of $4,000 900
exchanged goods valued at 81 500 ,O00.-
600. Since that time the population
has increased 1876 per cent. The trade
which. a. th2 century's beginning, was
only s2.3 far each person, has nov in
creased to si3.2z. The advance in the
decade from 1880 to 1910. just after the
introduction of the railway. was more
than twice as rapid as that of the ten
years previous to the railway era. The
telegraph system introduced in 1914 has
spread, until now it embraces / ZOO. 900
miles of wire, with 10000 miles of
submarine cable. A large proportion
of the 100000 land messages sent ev-
cry day are commercial in character.
Other factors in the growth of COM
merce have been the increase in the
cultivated areas Of the world from
500 900 900 to nearly 100000. 900 acres
the advance in coal production from
Il 100000 to O0,000,0OO tons. and in
pig iron from 100000 to 100000 tons.
Did you ever give thought to these
men? They build our sky-scrapers,
bridges and trestle work. They fas-
ten together the steel beams and Cir
| ders that form the bones and muscles
of our high buildings. They weer no
uniform. No band of music plays
when they go to work. Not one OF
them has ever received a medal or
stripe upon his sleeve. No editorial
writer probably every has commended
them as patriotic citizens. The city
has never given banquet in their
honor, or even passed vote OF thanks