Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24
Choukoutien, 10 miles; total. IS miles.
Grand total, 495 miles.
woorld of Labor

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Chicago has an egg inspectors union.
At Chinese mines coal costs Is cents a
ton.
Indianapolis has a negro hodcarriers'
union.
The South is to nave turpentine planta-
lions.
The Paris Exposition has $4,000 exhib-
itors.
John Bull uses 600. 900 pounds Of tea
daily.
Swiss Socialists now nave nine seats in
Solethurn.
There are 10. SOC. 600 working people in
the German Empire.
Cubs has 1900 square miles OF unex-
plered forest area.
The Kansas Sixth congressional dis
trict hasn't a newspaper.
Indianapolis furniture makers are TO es-
tablish a permanent exhibit.
More than 1000 kinds OF rubbe shoes
are made in the United States.
Kansas City employers say they will
not employ union stonecutters.
Married couples in Norway are privi-
legged to travel on railways at a fare and
a half.
HCW WAITS Will pass d COLlPu[-
sorry arbitration act modelled after New
Zealand's.
There is not a union granite cutter in
the United States now who is working
over eight hours a day.
Georgia union stone cutters say that
every member of the craft in the State
should receive equal pay.
In Londo steps are being taken 10 ac-
quire all the street car lines in the county
as fast as possible.
The Ship Plumbers Union OF Brook
lyn has demanded and obtained a wage
scale of $3.50 a day for its members.
A Toronto street railway company has
been fined for not providing rear yesti-
bules on its cars for the protection of
conductors.
That all employees shall be registered
voters OF Baltimore and union men. This
is a specification that Superintendent
McCuen will insist upon in all contracts
made in future city lighting.
Department stores in Minneapolis n
st. a provide bicycle stands, with a
boy in attendance, who checks wheels
free, whether the rider intends to visit
that particular store or not. Indeed a
bicycle may be SO housed all day.
1t is stated that large numbers of Eng
lish cotton mill employees are leaving the
Lancashire district to go to Mexico, Por-
tugal, Russia and Canada. Competent
dyers are offered $40 to $50 per week.
but usually the engagements are for a
period of only three years.
New York Carpenters Union, No. 513,
has assessed its members 80 cents each
for the support of the carpenters locked
out and on strike in Chicago. The as
essment is payable by August l. The
organization has voted in favor of re-
ducing the initiation fee from $40 to s..
On June "a there will arrive in this
country c. W. Bowerman, of the London
Society of Competitors. and James Sex
ton, of the National Union Of Dock
Laborers' of Great Britain and Ireland.
They represent the "Ruskin Hall move
ment,' in which are united for educa-
tional purposes the trade unions and CO.
operative societies of Great Britain.
They are in this country in the interest
of the international cnvention, which is
to be held mex year.
Pittsburg is to nave a new glass plant
that is to "revolutionize the industry"
Instead OF blowing the glass, as is now
the custom, under the new process it
Will be flowed upon tables to the desired
thickness and either rolled or pressed.
The idea is to educe the price of manu-
featuring the material to about one
third what it costs now, Or even less. If
this can be lone the glass trade through
out the country will be revolutionized
and the Glass Trust will have great COM
petition to contend with.
War upon the building trades of this
city has been declared by all the con-
tractors associations connected with the
New York Building Trades Club, and a
general trades fight similar to that in
Chicago is impending in Manhattan Dor
ough. The contractors in the various
trades issued the following notice.
which will be enforced July l instead of
Tune !: On and after June l, 1900, and
for the balance of the year 1900, all me-
chanics. laborers and men engaged in the
building industry will work for 10 per
cent less than their present rate of
wages,
The Big Four strike in the South
eastern Kansas coal districts is practi-
oally at an end. Three of the big
-Four companies have signed an agree
ment satisfactory TO the miners and the
f~ourth-the Southwestern Coal and I'm
proveemnt ~Company-is expected to ac-
-oede in a few days. BY the terms of the
agreement the 1900 white miners who
have been idle for more than a year will
return to work. BY the terms of the
agreement entered into, the miners are
granted an increase Of 5 cents per ton
on coal they mine, or an increase of from
10 to 1719 cents per day of eight hours.
AS a further safeguard, it is stipulated
that the operators shall in no case pay
their workmen less than the current
rate in the district" The mine run"
basis is also agreed to. The checking-of
system is accepted. All of the terms of
the old agreement which were mutually
satisfactory were renewed. Basing the
increase in wages given on the statistics
showing last years coal output in Kan
sas. it means that not less thar S525. 900
will be given the miners his year in
wages. During the strike the places OF
man. of the strikers were filed by ne
groes imported from Alabama and other
Southern States. It is said that their
services being no longer needed, they
will be shipped back again at the com
pany's expense. Mary of them are ex-
c~onvicts and have been a vicious element
IN the community.