Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-27
WORLD OF LABOR.

Russia may take ten million tons Of
coal from Pittsburg.
The city of Newark is planning a
State industrial exposition to be held
in that city in 1902, and it is hoped to
make it larger than anything OF it's
kind ever seen in New Jersey.
One of the largest railroads on the
Pacific coast has decided to substitute
oil in place of coal as fuel in its en-
gines. 1t is claimed that considerable
work will be saved, and it is much
cleaner, and will not create any smoke
or ashes.
st. Paul woodworkers' strike won an
exclusive union shop, a ten-hour day,
an increase of 10 cents a day in wages
for all those receiving up to and in
GLIDING $3.50; time and a half for over
time work, and double pay for work on
Sundays or holidays.
A number of Brooklyn men and
women started an industrial and social
cooperation society as a remedy ''for
poverty, injustice and inequality" Its
title is the Brooklyn Cooperative Club.
There will be discussions under its aus
pices held in different parts of the
borough during the remainder of the
month.
To be buried with pomp and cere-
mony is the lift-long ambition of a
Japanese. The higher the rank the
greater the display. When the En-
press Dowager died in 1897 no less than
Sf00,0 600 was appropriated from the ma
tional treasury. The ceremonies occu-
pied several weeks, as they were con-
cluded according to ancient usage.
A novel trolley car is in use in Ber-
lin. Outside the city it runs on tracks
with an overhead trolley contact just
as the ordinary car. When the city
limits are reached extra sets of trucks
are lowered and the a becomes an
e~lectromobile omnibus propelled by
storage batteries carried under the side
seats of the car.
Organized labor in new York has re-
solved to inaugurate a movement on
the lines of the Journals demand for
public ownershop. 1t will start at
first with an agitation specifically for
the municipal manufacture and distri-
button of ice. Delegate Lord stated
that the American Ice Company had
brought 800 drivers to New York from
ANCh EuSIdlQ dIQ was pay llS Iuem oil
a day less than the union rate for
truck drivers.
In New York there are 5000 idle
cigarmakers. Last week it was ofici-
ally announced by the committee that
$4,000 had been paid out to $500
strikers. The union strikers received
S. each and the non-union strikers SO
each. The latter were in the majority
and the payment Of strike money to
each of them was a violation of the
last injunction issued by Justice
Freedman.
Walter Vrooman, who founded the
labor college at Oxford, has started a
movement for a new sort of Anglo
American alliance. 1t Is a union Of
the workers of both countries through
an international convention at Oxford
celebrating the second anniversary of
the first labor college February %,
1901. 1t is proposed to have delegates
present representing the workers Of
Great Britain and her colonies and the
United States.
Toronto teamSters earn $3S a month.
While we are rebellious against CO.
cent ice let us look at Puerto Cabello,
where the price is 81 a hundred, and
at Caracas, where the manufactured
cakes are twenty inches long, i've in
ches wide and three inches thick, with
the centre half-frozen, leaving Il ridge
of snow. This sort of stuff melts
quickly and costs 4 cents a pound.
The better families buy only two
pounds for breakfast and dinner. Such
a thing as an ice chest is almost I'M
known. The people are afraid of iced
drinks. In Ecuador ice water is re-
garded as unhealthful. Guayaquil, a
city of $4,000 inhabitants, consumes
two and a half tons a day. The rich
drink claret, the poor Chica, guarapo
and mavorca.
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