Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-26
WORLD OF LABOR.

New York has a Hebrew actors
union.
Cincinnati is to have an industrial
exposition.
Egypt has only male telephone OPP
orators.
Denmark railway workers demand
a ten-hour day.
Alabama is to have a State Fedora
ton of Labor.
Dartmouth, England, gives pension
to aged workmen.
Peoria, ILL.,, BARRIERS demand $40 per
week as minimum pay.
Indiana bricklayers have organized
a State union.
New York unionists want to name a
candidate for Congress.
Dayton CO.. laundry strikers will
establish cooperative plant.
st. Paul BARRIERS who did not attend
the unions picnic were fined IS.
Vancouver union members of the
militia have been expelled from the
union.
New York's Federated Union pro-
tests against Chinese crews on trans
ports.
There are over 100,0oo,000 people in
China who are engaged in the tea in
dustry.
Kansas has a girl Coroner.
Philadelphia boasts an automobile
hearse.
Erie. Pa, will probably get the tenn
ple to be erected by Order of Railway
Trainmen.
At Ishpenning, Mich, the Finnish
colony is erecting extensive co-opera-
tive stores and workshops.
The Cigar makers Label Commlttee,
of Brooklyn, has issued union LABELS
for 900 900 union-made cigars
The Bookbinders' International Union
Is making an effort to organize the Wo-
men workers of the trade.
The Austrian government has intro
duced an eight-hour day in workshops
conducted by the State.
The Pacific Coast seamen's Union has
donated 800 to the locked-out and strik-
ing cigar makers of New York.
Members of French Bakers Union, 10,
San Francisco, Cal. have started a CO.
operative bakery in that city, and are
doing we'll
The supervisors of the city and county
of San Francisco, Cal, have decided to
have all the city and county printing done
by union labor.
In Peru it was once the custom for do
nestle servants to have two of their up
per front teeth extracted. Their absence
indicated servitude
In the State of Indiana the Labor Com
missioner reports that workingnen in
the window glass trade have banded to-
gether and are conducting prosperous
cooperative factories
The United Government Workers Fed
GRAFTON of Great Britain has decided to de-
mand a minimum wage of "a shillings per
week. and are pledglng members of Par
lament 20 support them.
The New York Assemblyman who in
troduced the bill that abolished the trad
ing stamp was presented with a costly
diamond ring and a set of resolutions in
a gold frame by the Retail Grocers' Union.
Norfolk & Western Railroad company
has announced it's determination TO MAIN
people in West Virginia until It's right
10 do so is denied by judicial authority.
After a four months contest the Shoe
makers Union, of San Francisco, have
won out against the G. NJ. Kutz Company
IN tnat city. Inc former employees Will De
reinstated at union wages.
AT Kansas City papers were circulated
among all the churches of the city for
signatures to petition the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners TO enforce the Sunday
closing ordinance in reference to saloons.
The eight-hour day has been conceded
by every employer in the granite cutting
trade from Maine TO California.
A machine has been invented that will
do the work of section gangs of railways
and is displacing thousands of laborers,
because 1t is IS per cent. cheaper than
hand work.
Forty years ago. when one man was
engaged in perforating bank notes, he
took 80 hours to do $4,000, at a labor cost
of $50: while now. with machinery, six
men are employed, but do the work in
nine hours and fifteen minutes. and al
though they get about double the wages
per hour, the labor cost is only 81, instead
of $3.50
The Amaigamated Society OF Painters
and Decorators has notified all painters
who worked for less than $3.50 per day on
New York school buildings during the
last year 10 report the fact 10 the Exc
cutive Committee The cases will be
placed in the hands of lawyer. and It is
expected that over $4,000 will be asked