Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

gle Of ten years ago, which brought the
i membership of the principal union in
volved-the carpenters-up from about 1900
to 10000 and raised wages from % cents
an hour to 371a cents, and also caused
new bosses association to be formed,
which put the old one out of business.
The merchant tailors of Denver, in the
belief that their profession does not occupy
the position in public estimation to which
it is entitled, have formed an organza ton
to raise it to that position. The
formal statement of the purpose of
the organization is as follows: To
elevate and ennoble our profession,
and to raise it to that mechanical,
moral and intellectual position in our
great city, which it's importance as an
ancient and honorable art entities it to
occupy.
"A Boston Retail Grocers' Trust" is
talked of. Leaders intend to combine into
one great trust the 1900 odd grocers now
doing business in this city. The whole city
would be organized into districts and por-
toned to the various retail stores of what
might be called the trust" Employment
would be given in the central distributing
point to a greater part of the retailers who
had merged their businesses. Goods could
be bought cheaper, handled cheaper and
! delivered cheaper than by the present
method.
The parliamentary programme which
was adopted by the trades unions of Scot
land goes far beyond any project of Ameri-
can trades un.onism 1t relates to meas
| ures of a legal eight-hour day, for old-age
pensions, for the cumulative taxation of all
forms of unearned increment, for the or
ganizaion by government of self-support-
ing industries, by which the right to work
! shall be secured by every one, for the
fixing of a minimum wage law particularly
in the "sweated'' trades and for ample
provision for those disabled at their en-
ployment.
New Zealand's latest experiment is not
its least important. 1t now treats its
worn-out workingmen and women not as
I paupers, but as pensioners. Every one who
has been in the colony twenty-five years,
and as a citizen, and has an income of less
than $40 a year, is entitled to a pension
Of a shiliing-a quarter-a day. This is
not merely a rendered form of charity
as that which obtains in other coun-
tries; it is a distinct recognition Of the
honest toilers right to share in the
wealth he has created.-Atnslee's Maya
zine.
Since last fail the influx OF labor to the
/ iron and copper regions of Upper Michigan
I has glutted the market and the Marquette
Mining Journal now Acknowledges that
wages are rapidly going downward. For
! a time unskilled labor found ready en-
ployment at 81 per day, in some cases
even 81. %, but the newspapers were worked
Z with the usual effect and ii is altogether
probable that the surplus win eventually
/ involve the peninsula IN serious labor
! troubles, such as preceded the boom.
| 1t has just been judicially decided In Ore
gon that in an emergency case a physician
/ can drive across a bridge at a speed
greater than that permitted to ordinary
! traffic.
/ At Leavenworth. Kansas. a society. 70
| be known as the Great Western Manufac-
: turing Company's Sick Relief and Acct
1 dent Association, has been formed OF the
! employees OF mat company II has. for its
/ object the payment of relief TO It's mem
/ bers who become sick or disabled from
| accidents. Every employe is eligible. They
number about 10 men. On entrance an
admission fee of 30 cents Is charged. The
/ dues and benefits to be paid will be on the
| following basis: A member paving 3 cents
per month will receive $ per week when
| disabled; Is cents month viii give him
/ $ per week. One years benefits wiz bs