Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-30
LABOR WORLD.

! Norway has 2,941 factories.
Porto Rico has labor paper.
st. Louis has $500 unionists.
st. Louis has 900 union BARRIERS.
here are 1900 brotherhood firemen.
I New York has a Hebrew bakers
union.
-Logansport has cooperation groc-
cry.
Pacific coast unionists want Japanese
barred. -j2a
New York Building Trades Council
will raise $4,000 for Chicago strikers.
Weary, Wash, miners strike was
compromised. They had averaged $3.50
per day; now they get more.
| Labor decision in Germany: Inyen-
tions, when conceived or worked out
in employers factory, belong to latter
and not to employe.
The Democrat and Chronicle of Roch-
ester have signed a contract with all
the unions represented in the Allied
Printing Trades Council.
There are 104, 636, 404 gallons of whis-
key now ripening in bond in Scotland,
an increase of more than 70 per cent.
over the amount held five years ago.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, an ordinance has
been passed increasing the wages OF
laborers from $3.50 to 1926 day.
| Secretary Treasurer Webb, of the In
ternational Printing Pressmen's Union,
has forwarded 5000 by telegraph to the
Pressmen's Union of Galveston.
California wines are shipped to
France. French labels placed on the
bottles and the goods brought back to
| the United States and sold at prices to
pay all expenses and good profit for
the trouble
Nearly 500 emigrants day are be-
| ing shipped by agents of the Govern
ment of Queensland from England to
| Australia. For every adult shipped an
agent gets $3.50, and for every child
he is paid 1925.
In England during the past few
years, it is claimed, 140.320 farm lab
orers have been displaced by machin-
cry, while the making of the latter. it
is asserted, required only the labor OF
| 1000 men for one year.
An effort is to be made to bring
about consolidation of the various
organizations in st. Louis that are
Known as shop societies An utilization
| VI NhNiA ctt wall uuIlc dDUut lU.UUU
members under one common head.
Victoria, Australia, has built seven
| local railways on the co operative
principle. The railways Were esti-
mated for by contract at SAT. sos
| pounds, but by working the co-operat-
| i've principle they were completed
| for 251,211 ponds.
In Vienna telephone call boxes, or
booths" are provided with napkins,
bearing the request, Wipe, if you
please" The cloths are frequently
changed, and the practice of wiping
| the mouthpiece of the transmitter is
a sanitary precaution
The East River Bridge Commission
has decided that the wage scale of the
New York Granite Cutters Union. 81
a day, is the prevailing rate for this
region, and must under the labor law
govern the stonework being done on
the bridge approaches.
| The walters and mattresses employ
ed IN Lon~on are demanding straight
wages at Is cents an hour, with 10
| cents extra per hour for all time over
s hours day and so cents an hour for
work done between midnight and 6
! O'Clock in the morning.
Commissioner Gilbert, of the New
York State Board of Arbitration. tes-
titled at Washington, before the Ma
| tional Industrial Commission, that in
| his opinion the greatest cause of strikes
in this State is the opposition of en-
| ployers to labor unions
Chicago ornamental glass workers
new wage scale runs from S1.75 per
| day for glass jewellers to 50 for wheel
| cutters, glass painters and designers.
! Provision is also made for the en-
| ployment of union engineers at SO per
| day and firemen at % cents an hour.
In his principles of economics Prof.
| Marshall says that perhaps $500 000, 900
annually is spent by the working
classes and 100000 600 by the rest
OF the population OF England in ways
| that do little or nothing toward maxi
ing life nobler or truly happier. Mr..
| Atkinson has estimated that the waste
| of food in the United States from bad
| cooking alone is over 81, 600 coo 600 a
year.
The International Wood Carvers' AS
| ISOLATION convention has prepared a
| bill for presentation to Congress au-
I thorizing the United States Govern
| ment 10 acquire and set aside 5000 600
acres of land to be parcelled out and
| distributed through the Department OF
| Agriculture to workingmen who have
| been crowded from the mechanical
| trades and labor-saving machinery. and
whose only hope now for living is in
| the land. The Government would thus
| reduce the army of unemployed and
| disconten-ed workingmen,. and at the
same time cultivate a larger taste for
| agricultural pursuits among Ameri-
cans The bill provides that transpor-
| tation and farming implements be
| given to worthy applicants
Men. you all know me around here
| You know the truth of what / say. / re-
peat it to you 10 remind you of our com
mon lot of misery and suffering which has
made US combine to CRY ont for a better
order of things When | was six year,
and four months old went 10 work In tho
| breakers OF the Pancoast Coal Company
have worked nineteen years. every day
could get have never been on an ex-
cursion in my life have not drank i
| drop Of beer or liquor for nve years. and
Tor two years have not smoked. I have