Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-12
THE WORLD OF LABOR.
London has 1880 diapers.

LoHuOn mas 4,ouU QfaperS.
Des Moines is to have labor tenn
pie.
Russian officers wear papier mache
scaboards.
Agriculture is to be taught in Mis-
souri, public schools.
Pennsylvania has five hundred street
railway corporations.
England has locomotives that were
made in Richmond, Va.
There are people living in the Wal
dorf-Astoria who pay $40 a day for
their rooms the year round
The movement to unite the various
Independent labor organizations in the
textile industry under one head is fast
taking definite shape, and bids fair
TO become operative within a very
short time
The servant girls of Watertown, n.
Y, are organizing a union They will
demand shorter hours, higher wages
and more afternoons off. They want
hours from 7 a. m. to 7 p. NJ, and
wages from 81 to S. a week.
Kansas City, Kan, Trades Assembly
recently elected Miss Bertha McPher-
ron Vice-president, and the Industrial
council OF Kansas City, Mo-, followed
suit and elected Miss Chat Hunter to
nil the same office in that body.
A Minneapolis clothing house sent IN
a communication to the council pro-
posing to give a banner to the most
popular organization of labor II the
cltV snph nnnnlo MI TO Il
the vote OF the Trades and Labor
Council.
The silk plush out of which mats
are made comes almost entirely from
France, all attempts to produce il in
the United States having ended In
failure. Nine-tenths of the felt hats
worn in America are made from the
fur of the rabbit and hare.
Resolved, That hereafter when a del
Jegate in this body uses profane or in
sulting language, his organization
shall be Immediately notified and re-
quested TO withdraw him as a repre-
sentative. This resolution was adopt
ed by the New York Federated Union.
The Mikado's palace is connected by
telephone with all the government Of
fees in the land; the electric light has
been established there, and, to the i'm
mense satisfaction of the Japanese
there are dynamos at work in the inn
perial house that were made by Japan-
csc workmen.
The Boston Central Labor Union now
debars all but men actually engaged at
their trade, except victimized members
or the agents of the respective unions.
from seats in the body. This provision
applies TO men who hold political posi-
tons and who still retain membership
in the union of their former occupa-
ton.
In New York State 900 persons were
killed and about 40 900 wounded in tine
factories last year. In the war with
Spain 20S Americans were killed and
1857 wounded. Based on these figures
the total killed and wounded annually
In industrial pursuits in the United
States would be 10000 killed and 9O0.-
600 wounded.
There Is constant correspondence
between the organizations on the other
side and this side of the Pacific. and
they have a banking system by which
any member who has made enough
AhcASs W AOAbAA W SDcnu the rest OF
his days in China can draw on the I'M
ions and go to the mother country
without the necessity of carrying his
fortune out Of the United States.
At a meeting in Boston communica-
tions were received from all textile
unions of the South approving of the
plan OF organization, and pledgine
their hearty support to the movement
The following unions. representing full
ly $4,000 textile operatives. were repr--
sented: National union of loom fix
ers, national union OF textile opera
tives. cotton mule spinners' national
union, national union of carders and
the national union of textile workers
the latter affiliated with the American
Federation OF Labor
The Pittsburg Telegram, in discuss
ing the question of labor-saving ma
chinery, notes that labor cost has
been reduced from $3.50 for a given