Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-28
WORLD OF LABOR.
liza exports wheat.


England has women blacksmiths
Germany has over 10000 brewers
Buffalo Express has been unionized.
ployes.
Mexico has abolished her export cof-
fee tax.
Kentucky unions will hold a State
convention.
Minneapolis has a dressmakers I'M
ion.
England's coal output last year was
222,000,000 tons.
Illinois has Railway and Tele-
graph Employees Political League.
At Denver union teamsters enjoy
the 12-hour day; others 16 and IS.
Pittsburg machinists struck for a
nine-hour day without reduction in
pay.
Glasgow is now talking of munich
pal bakeries and the municipalization
of the milk supply.
Milwaukee has reduced street car
fares, during the morning and evening
hours to- four cents.
AT Minneapolis the Stonemasons
Union has decided to raise the initia-
ton fee to SIS after April l.
Within year the membership of
the Minneapolis Electrical Workers
Union has doubled.
Switzerland makes a monopoly of
the whisky business and up to date
she has $11.000.000 on the right side
OF the ledger, with very little drunk
enneSs.
Five hundred st. Louis BARRIERS, who
e. Stofo in
alton, or did not care to take 1t, have
left that dreamy Old city.
Miss Susan B. Anthony delivered an
address before the Bricklayers and Ma
sons International Union of America,
on the subject Of Woman Suffrage"
Pittsburg marine firemen struck for
$50 per month and board on the down.
river boats and $50 per month on the
pool boats.
The first annual exposition of the
Des Moines Jobbers and Manufacturers
Association Will be held in Des MoineS
on the six days commencing February
z6 and ending March 3.
4 number OF women have joined the
Milwaukee Hatmakers' Union. This IS
the first union in Milwaukee which has
1du Uu6DlDtIS VI DOIIl SCACS anu may DC
the opening OF a new era in labor or
CARNATIONS.
The proposed bill of the Central AS
ISOLATION OF the New York Steam En-
gineers for State license law provides
that all engineers must be examined be-
fore being licensed, and that the chief
OF the bureau shall receive an annual
salary of So, 800. Places keeping open
day and night must conform to the
eight-hour law.
The Gamers have received quota
tons from the tin-plate trust, which
show that it will cost them $28.25 a
thousand for cans this year The price
last year was $14.50. Ii will be neces-
sary, declared the convention of the
Indiana State Gamers Association, to
advance the price 16 cents a dozen TO
meet this>rise in tin.
The Department of Water Supply in
Brooklyn is evidently bent on employ
ing only union men and paying the
scale of wages asked for by the various
unions which they engage They have
asked the Central Labor Union to fill
out a blank, giving the union rate of
wages for laborers and mechanics. The
union has complied with the request.
The strike of the New York United
SouseS miths and Bridgemans Union,
begun eleven weeks ago, has not yet
been adjusted. A few OF the employers
have acceded to the demands of the
men, but the majority remain firm in
their refusal to grant any increase. In
many instances they refuse even 10 con-
suit with the men. The men On No
vember l requested that they be paid
40 cents an hour instead Of 80 cents,
They laid stress on the fact that their
work during the construction of a
building was the hardest and most
dangerous. All of their demands was
ignored. and strike followed.
A bill submitted to the Ohio Legis-
lature: Section l. That in any pro-
fession, pursuit or service of any kind
where female labor or professional
services are employed, such females
shall be paid for such labor or profess
sional service the customary amount
Of compensation paid male employees
for like services. Section 2. Any per-
son, firm or corporation or public
board violating the provisions of this
uSl SAol1, uROA De-
fore any court of competent jurisdic-
ton, be fined in any sum not less than
500 nor more than $500 for each Of
Tense. Section 8. This act shall take
effect from its passage"
At a meeting of the Indianapolis
Anti-Saloon League DR.. Callen said
that too much attention was given to
the saloonkeeper, who was being per-
secuted by the misguided members of
the Anti-Saloon League and other
temperance organizations, when their
efforts should be directed to the party
most benefited in the liquor traffic,
which was none other than the gov
eminent. He said the saloonkceper
made less money than anyone, and
yet they were prosecuted by tie gov
eminent, the breweries. whose vassals
they are, and by the temperance peo-
pie, and all the time the druggists who
sold more liquor, kept open 365 days
in the year and paid no license to the
State, were treated with reverence by
all.
One of the best things devised In
connection with the housing move
ment is the municipal family home of
Glasgow. In the home there are
nurses who look after the children