Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-15
World of Labor,


Asia has 10000 miles of railroad.
Cremation is expanding in London.
Minnesota claims 10000 unionists.
The Philippines possess one railroad.
Panama Canal employs 5000 labor
ers.
New York State has 225, 900 union
lists.
Laborers in Puerto RIGA get cents
per hour.
Silk culture employs $4,000 families
in Hungary.
North Carolina has $4,000 cotton
operatives.
Charcoal is almost the only fuel used
in Havana
Muncie, Ind, has a Labor ticket for
Common Council, composed of union
lists.
The New York Plasterers' Union
has donated s10O to the striking cigar
makers.
Toledo hod carriers are paid %
cents an hour for carrying bricks and
% cents for mortar.
Labor organizations of New York
have begun an agitation for 3-cent fare
on the street car lines of the city.
Initiation fee for membership in
Brooklyn unions of Carpenters and
Joiners has been raised to 500. 1t was
IS.
The San Francisco labor council has
declared against any amendment of the
Chinese exclusion act that will make
1T less stringent than at present.
Pittsburg bricklayers have settled
their scale for an eight-hour day, Of
fective May 1, at the present day wage
of SAILS, which now rules for the nine
hour day.
San Francisco parties are having
built at Seattle. Wash, a raft of logs
which when completed will be 625 feet
long and contain 100000 feet of
lumber, to be towed to Japan.
Seventy seven labor organizations
have thus far sent delegates to the
joint conference that is preparing for
the New York trades procession and
eight-hour demonstration on Saturday
evening, April %.
A wage scale of SO for days work
of eight hours has been recently adopt
ed by the Brooklyn Pipe Calkers' and
Tappers' Union, and four big firms of
contractors have already agreed to pay
the increased scale.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Marble and
Tile Layers union voted on scale of
pay to be 371a cents per hour, and
nine hours work for tile layers, and
271a cents per hour and nine hours
work for marble settlers.
When ladies go to buy a dress in
Japan they tell the storekeeper their
age, and if they are married or not, be-
cause there are special designs for the
single and double relations of life as
we'll as for ages.
Anderson Qnd) unionists have I'M
der consideration the question of es-
tablishing hospital day" The propo-
sition is to have the Central Labor
Union set aside a day on which every
union man will contribute his earn
ings to some designated hospital.
Cincinnati Central Labor Council
protest against the war in the Philip
pine Islands. Endorsement was also
made of the bill now before the Legis-
lature to prevent messenger boys from
enterting certain resorts.
The freight handlers of Duluth have
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son of 1000 at 35 cents an hour. This
is an advance of 5 cents an hour over
last season. 1t is expected that the
lumber showers will ask for 60 cents an
hour this year.
Twenty thousand cigar-makers were
present at meeting neld in New York.
1t was decided to give $4,000 week
to the 1900 striking men and women
employed by Krebs, Werthheim &
Schiller. The money for the strikers
will be taken from the cigar makers
strike fund. which amounts to $3.50 1000,
and every man who is working will
contribute so cents each week to the
strikers.
In the tailoring bushes sat Leeds,
Eng, the only section of the work up
on which anything like living can be
earned is coat making, upon which
men are mostly engaged while the
waistcoats and pants are operated by
women. This work is done by middle
men. Work begins at s a. m. and ends
at p. m, every day but Saturday.
The following prices are paid: Tailors,
$3.50 to $500 per week; machinists,
$S.75 to $11.75; pressers and filters,
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women is that of hell-Boston Post
The starting Of the great rapid tran
sit tunnel in New York has led to four
unions-the services of whose members
will be. required in its construction
to demand increased wages, the de-
mands of three of which will extend
to the principal, if not all, the bor-
oughs of the city. They are the cleo
trical workers. who demand 81 day,
to commence May l; foot drillers. who
ask $3.50, the present scale is $500;
rock drillers ask $275, they are paid
S225; engineers want So a Cay, they
are getting $3.50; carpenters demand
tor mill workers, $3.50 day or SIT for
a week of fifty hours.
The value of trade unionism finds
emphatic demonstration in the condi-
tions obtained by the British miners in
the Federation area, says the Iowa
Unionist. According to Mr.. Pickard' S
calculations. they have, owing TO the
minimum agreement, secured during
the last ten years $50, 900 600 $780,
,000) more in wages than they would
otherwise have had, and even though
in ordinary circumstances, the coal
owners would have declared themselves
unable to pay it, now that the As per
cent. has been obtained, it will mean
to every man in the Federation about
nine shillings a week, or nearly 60
100000 per annum.
When the union of trade gains an
advance in wages, or reduction of