Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-10
World of Labor.

Philadelphia has 23S,6S5 dwellings,.
kansas needs 10000 farm hands,"
Frisco is to have a labor temple.
The Princess of Wales is a book
binder.
Manchester, England. g%rayediggers
struck.
London is to have municipal tele-
phones.
Cincinnati carpenters enjoy the
eight-hour day.
Bahia, Brazil, has no soda water
fountains.
frisco talks of a municipal tele-
phone system.
Prince of Wales has a $4,000 pair of
opera glasses.
Saloonkeepers of Miles, Mont, have
petitioned their customers for permits
sion to close on Sundays.
Fall River textile ~unionists are to
establish and operate an immense cot
ton mill.
In proportion to its size Great Brit
ain has eight times as many railways
as the United States.
The milk dealers of Richmond, Ind,
have put up the price from 5 cents a
quart to Ga cents, the new rate TAX
ing effect to-day.
IN New York the United Brewers
Association has over 1900 members,
has S25, 900 in its treasury, n controls
nearly 30 breweries in New York and
New Jersey.
The street car company at Kansas
City has about S45, 900 as deposits from
employees, the !nteres- on which is sufi-
cient to pay nearly the entire running
expenses for Il day.
The rush from California and Gown
the Yukon from Dawson will easily
bring the total number of newcomers
to be landed at Cape Nome during the
next sixty days to above 25,00D.
Chicago unions have sent out a plan
to form a stock company which is to
| control the labor funds OF this country
for the purpose of fighting organized
capital.-Cincinnati Commercial Tri-
bune.
Fifty farmers in Adams township of
Madison county, Ind, have organized
an independent telephone company and
will establish communication with
each other with Markleville and with
the Anderson Telephone Company, of
Anderson.
Southern mill help are finding their
way to this city, and are getting en-
| ployment in the best factories. They
say they know that many of the South
ern factory workers will come north to
work or they viii insist on getting
equal mill conditions in the South
Fall River Herald.
In New York contractors in a num-
Der of trades are rapidly forming as
sociations and getting into line ready
to join in a general fight against the
labor unions. At present the contract
ors are united in opposition to Electro
cal Workers Union 3 in its demand for
81 for eight hours work.
In 1899 our total mineral products
were valued at $500, 000. 900. Great
Britain came next with S443, 900, 900,
followed by Germany with s340, 000, 600,
Russia with STAG. 600, 900, France with
$40, 000, 900, Austria-Hungary with
sos, 000, 600, Spain with $44, 000, 900,
Italy with SAB, 000, 900 and Canada with
$50, 000, 0G0.
The trusts have undesignedly enter
ed upon the great business of organic
ing labor, for there are already be-
tween three and four millions Of wage
workers in their service, and these mil
lions must by the very nature of their
oNA WIZ 70 SubJCNS W Vi 5dLlEdtiOH
When all the great Industries are con
trolled by trusts-as most of them are
| already-and when the general mass
of workers are employed by trusts-as
as millions of them are ~already-we
may expect to see something's that are
not yet visible.-John Swinton in New
York World.
There will be no war between the
American Federation of Labor and the
National Union of United Brewery
Workmen on one side and the Knights
of Labor and the United Brewery AS
ISOLATION or Local Assembly 1890, of
New York on the other. The journey
men brewers organizations have held a
conference and practically settled all
their differences. These differences
have existed many years. Both sides
made concessions. The settlement is
as much a victory for one ~organiza-
ton as it is for the other. Together
the journeymen brewers, now united.
will declare a new war. not against
any other trade or labor organization,
but against the master brewers OF
Greater New York. This war can end
only in a victory for the union men.
The Old World produces very little
silver-less than $40. 600. 900 worth per
annum, against s15o,000 ,0o0 worth for
North America and S25, 000. 900 worth
Tor South and Central America. AT
the present time, by the way. the
worlds total stock of silver is about
equal to its total stock of gold. The
worlds output of gold in 1890 was
Sis. 5000. and not until 1896 did it
pass by a small margin the s200.O00 600
mark. Last year the total gold pro-
duct OF the world was about 1925. 600
eco, and this year it would have
reached $400, 0G0, 600 had it not been
for the war in South Africa which has
interfered with the working OF the
mines OF the Rand. The worlds stock
OF money gold at present is about So
coo, 100000, which would make a solid
block forty-two feet cube-the size OF
a fairly large building-weighing 1892
long tons. OF this total stock one bill
lion dollars worth or one-hfth of the
whole, is in the United States, IN the
shape of coin and bars.