Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30

men for the cultivation of sugar.
Mexico has 112 cotton mills.
Russia's pig iron output is steadily
/ increasing
New York has a Socialist Metal
Trades Council
Georgia sends thousands of peach
trees to South Africa.
Mexico sold us 100000 worth of sisal
grass in September.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, favors
municipal ownership.
The engines of first class British
man-o'-War cost about e175,000.
The two Socialist parties in Massa-
chusetts at the recent election cast al
together 12,206 votes for President.
Prisoners in Morocco are compelled
to pay the officers for their trouble in
Iarresting them, and escorting them to
jail.
The biggest match factory in the
world is the Vulcan match factory at
Tidalhalm, Sweden. 1t employs over
1,200 men, and manufactures daily 900,-
600 boxes of matches.
William j. Bryan announces that he
will do mechanical work on his paper.
The COmmoner, and that he will join
the Typographical Union.
A servant girls union has been
formed in Waterfowl, N. Y. ON a basis
of hours from Z a. m p. m. and $4
and S. per week as wages.
At Berlin, Ont, there was not
union man in the city year ago, and
now there are several fiourishing
unions, with somewhat over 500 mem
bers.
Laborers' Union /, of Brooklyn, re-
ports that all its employers are pay
ing union wages.
| Union labels to the extent of 2000,-
( 900 were sent to San Francisco from
the headquarters of the Bakers and
COnfectiOners' Union Of America last
week.
The average daily compensation for
the general officers of the various rail
ways in the United States is STAT,
while the average for the working en-
plOyes is SLIGO
Chicago Union carpenters will not
give up the Saturday half holiday dur
ing the winter months. The referen-
dunn vote, which is being taken, shows
that the proposal to abolish the half
holiday will be defeated by a two
thirds vote.
The Brooklyn On " Central Labor
! Union decided that on January l the
delegates to that body must begin the
new year by wearing clothes bearing
the union label. On the first Sunday
! in the new year a committee will in
! spect the clothing of the DELEGATES,
all
out the label will be suspended from
the meetings.
Chicago union carpenters will not
give up the Saturday half holiday dur
ing the Winter months. The referen-
dunn vote which is being taken, shows
that proposal to abolish the half
holiday will be defeated by a two
thirds vote
A Chicago inventor has perfected
and patented a device for registering
the number of calls on the telephone,
which has heretofore been tried in
vain. 1t has long been the aim of tel
ephone companies to adjust rates &C
COrding to the number OF calls, but
the labor of keeping account of the
same rendered it i1npracticable until
the Chicago artisan supplied the long
needed invention, which is reported to
be exceedingly simple
One chemist writes to the Manches-
ter Guardian that the simplest of all
remedies is to follow an example set
by Bavaria nearly 400 years ago. In
1915 an edict was issued forbidding the
employment for the making of beer OF
any other materials than barley. hops
and water That is the law in Bavaria
to-day. and it is enforced The quail
ity of Bavarian beer has also been i'm
proved through the operation Of GER
tain tax laws, under which it is profit
able for the brewer to use the best
barley that is obtainable.
Application is to be made by Off
cials of the Pittsburg Coal Company
for a charter for the Pittsburg Coal
Company Employers Association. the
object being to inaueurate the Good
eratiye idea prevailing in the Penn
sylvania Railroad and other large cor
porations. Any of the $4,000 miners of
the combine will be permitted to pur-
chase preferred stock on small month
~ payments. and it is hoped by this
plan to create a new LOYALTY and in
terest in the employee. The company
will later develop the relief and insur-
anee system in force in many cor
porations.
Rigid economy is the mother of ac-
emulation. One of the buster bushes
men of this city. with offices In Broad
way. never purchased scratch book
IN his life and never wastes fresh
piece OF paper on memorandum or a