Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-20

been with the employees, and the gen.
| eral movement toward the closing Of
Offices and stores at noon on Saturdays
during the months of June, July and
| August has received a new impetus
this spring by the effort to add the
local city ticket offices of the railroads
to the list of early closers.
In Great Britain agricultural wages
continue to increase. The drain upon
the country districts made by the war
has enhanced the scarcity caused for
the last year or by the busy build
ing and railway operations, and farm
ers are in many districts at their wits
end for laborers. The mar with the
hoe is getting quite a pull here in con-
sequence. Wages in February further
advanced one or two shillings per week
in many large rural districts.
After Pennsylvania m Indiana
with the next largest representation in
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel & Tin Workers. Pennsylvania of
all the States organized is much the
strongest, with forty locals or lodges,
and approximately 5000 members. In
diana has twenty-three lodges and
1000 members. The rest of the %, 1000
LAD . oOdUlClCQ IL lC OIAC oAo"
tricts of the organization, comprising
Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia
and Alabama.
Says j.. M. Glenn, SECRETARY OF the
Illinois Manufacturing Association:
Even if Chicago is not now the larg-
est manufacturing city in the country,
the census Of 1910 will show that it
has distanced all competitors. Chi
cago in a few years will be the
~ufacturing center of the country. The
number of factories and the value OF
the products of the Chicago factories
have more than doubled in the past
ten years. l think that we are far
ahead of Philadelphia and that we are
treading on New York's heels"
John K. Ingram, l.. L.. D.: "At-
tackled and denounced as scarcely any
other institution eVer has been, the
unions have thriven and grown in the
face of opposition. This healthy vi
tally has been due to the fact that
they were a genuine product of social
needs, indispensable as a protest and
a struggle against the abuses of in
dustrial government, and inevitable as
a consequence of that consciousness of
strength inspired by concentration of
numbers under the new conditions of
industry. They have been, as is now
admitted by all candid minds, instru-
ments of progress. Not to speak of
the material advantages they have
gained for workers, they have devel-
oped powerful sympathies among
them, and taught them the lesson of
self-sacrifce in the interest of their
brethren, and, still more, of their sue
cessors. They have infused a new
spirit of independence and s~elf-re-
speet. They have brought some of the
best men to the front and given them
the ascendancy due to their personal
qualities and desirable in the interests
of society"
American husbands who get big bills
from dry goods houses ought to pay
them with a prayer of thanks that
their wives do not live in Japan. The
| Millinery Trade Review, in an inter-
esting account of Oriental store GUS
toms, says that time is of no conse-
quence at all to the storekeepers of the
East. They are not eager to sell. The
customer states what he wishes and if
the proprietor is very obliging he will,
without duress, admit that he has a
vague suspicion that he possesses such
an article. That is the first step. Moth
ing is in sight, SO you must ask him,
Honorable Sir, may I refresh my eyes
with a sight of your most meritorious
merchandise, if it is not against your
honorable custom?" Ten pieces of an
article sometimes cost twelve times
the cost of one. They will not sell
100 at a less rate, but insist on your
paying extra because of the large
quantity desired. They frankly tell
you their price to a Japanese customer
and then that foreigners have to pay
about so or 100 per cent. more, and
laugh. In the largest dry goods store
in TOXIC fifty clerks are seen kneeling
down upon the floor of the large build
ing, but no merchandise is visible. It
is kept in fire-proof CD structures in
the rear, and carried to and fro for
customers inspection by numerous
boys.