Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-22
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

China has an alum mountain.
/ There are 1900 union carpenters.
New York State claims 2SS, 900 unionists.
Brooklyn contains thousands of l.. Of
| L.
A famine of gutta percha is Threatened
Frisco is to have Chinese daily paper.
Vienna washerwomen get forty cents a
day.
| Egypt's cotton crop Is 500 100000 pounds.
Oklahoma's wheat yield: 30, 900 900 bush
els.
Dayton. Ohio, has abolished bakers
night work.
| Saginaw, Mich, ice wagon drivers earn
81 a day.
| A copy of the British Museums cat
alogue costs 1920.
Brooklyn painters are paid So for eight
| hours work.
Russia's censor suppressed two news
papers recently.
Many New York Hebrew bakers enjoy
the ten-hour day.
Tennessee's Supreme Court Chief Jus
| tice earns $500 year.
| To-day the socialists cast a third larger
vote than any other party in Germany.
| Frisco plasterers day consists of seven
hours. for which they get $3.50.
! Japanese member of Parliament re-
Gently resigned his seat in order to study
socialism.
Sacramento beer bottlers want 81 per
day and the nine-hour day. instead of ten
hours and so per week.
| Morehead, Kansas, has cooperative
hotel, laundry, creamery and canning fac
tory and a cooperative dining-hall, with
several cooperative farms near by.
| The street railway employees of Day
ton, Ohio, receive twenty cents an hour
| for nine hours and twenty-five cents an
| hour for all time over nine hours.
The Socialist parties are a great power
in France to-day. casting over a million
votes and having fifty-nine representa-
tives in the National Chamber of Depu-
| ties.
There are nine branches in New York
State of the Women's International La
Dor League, whose object is to persuade
working men and women to buy only
goods bearing the union label.
A referendum vote has been taken in
Switzerland. which resulted in the rejec-
ton of the proposed law for compulsory
insurance for workiIgmen.
Lynn carpenters have been conceded
eight hours.
The Brooklyn Department of Charities
| and Corrections has agreed to recognize
and pay the new scale of $3.50 a day to
carpenters, being the standard wage
scale, and also agreed to the Saturday
half holiday.
A Detroit man has perfected an inven-
ton by which two men can do the work
| of twenty-seven, with cash saving OF
seventy-five per cent in the manufacture
| of brass castings. 1t is so much in adj
vance of the old method that it prom
Uses to displace men all over the world,
All members of the Frisco Musicians
Union who did not attend the funeral of
a former member were fined fifty cents
each, and those who were absent from
the city were fined twenty five cents
| each. Fines were also imposed on those
| who left the lines and on those who ap-
peared without instruments.
Frisco unionists will vote against every
| candidate who will not pledge himself
to support the anti-Japanese agitation.
| The Cloakmakers' union refused to admit
Japanese to membership, and the cloak
and suit. house wanting TO introduce the
| cheaper labor got back at the union by
| locking out it's members. The result is
a general boycott on the products OF that
firm.
| According TO the thirteenth annual re-
port of the United States Department OF
Labor, the cost of making 100 pairs of
mems cheap boots, which was formerly
$408. is now $50, reduction at a ratio of
! twelve to one, nearly. The labor cost OF
| 1000 yards of body Brussels carpet was
formerly 1907; now it is only ss1. The
labor cost of 100 pounds of sewing cotton.
| which was formerly $sss5. is now only
s1S9.
The Fort Worth Register. a cooper
| alive morning paper. was started some
four years ago by eight printers and a
pressman on a visible capital of so and
an invisible mountain Of hopeful expecta-
tons. Since the Register has become the
leading journal in Fort Worth. with the
largest circulation of any paper in Texas.
No one is employed except shareholders,
and all must be practical workers.
The general introduction OF machinery
into the lamp chimney manufacture is
revclutionizing the wage scale in that in
dustry. In factories where machines are
operated the plants are all being en-
larged, while many of those employing
only hand labor are being abandoned
| Il is said the Mscbeth-Eva Company.
/ with plants at Ellwood. Marion and other
points IN Indiana, has machines that pro-
duce three times the amount Of ware
turned out by hand
The demands of labor. which are pro-
claimed from the houzetops. have their
| root in that primevaf law Of equality
heralded by the Declaration OF Independ-
| ence. and in that familiar trilogy Of
common rights which jefferson put as
its preface. Let every man whose hopes
are bound up in the peaceful development
OF our young democratic republic seek
for ways OF peremptortiy righting the
wrongs that have turned IL out cf ~
proper course: - assured that labor Can