Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-17

etc, from any county where they have
been located for the last ten years, or
from their location in any county which
has aided such railroad companies by a
donation of it's bonds, except by consent
of the Legislature, and providing for In
junction to prevent removal.
Mayor Tuhey welcomed the convention
of the international Union Label League
at Muncie.
Youngstown quarrymen won a strike
against a cut from 20 cents to 171s per
hour
Brooklyn women want 2-cent fares for
those not afforded a seat in street cars.
The delegate of Brewers Union No.
l. reported 10 the Miscellaneous Section
of the c.. +. T., of New York, that his or
ganization has appointed a committee of
two hundred portly member to receive
Mrs. Nation, the Kansas saloon-smasher,
when she arrives in New York.
st. Paul bookbinders donated IS to the
striking textile workers of jamestown,
n. Y.
Municipal ownership of gas plants is au-
thorized in the bill which the State legis-
lullNC COIllllIltttt vi llG SlilCR1SO Slly
Council adopted and recommended to the
City Council.
Members of the Chicago Hodcarriers'
and Building Laborers' Union have been
granted % cents an hour.
A trust tobacco factory to be estab-
lished at B~inghamton, n. Y, will employ
5000.
A book entitled the Real Chinese
Question" by Chester Holcombe. long
connected with the diplomatic service of
the United States in Pekin, presents in
it's Introduction some Of the little under
stood phases of the Chinese character.
Our misunderstanding of them is hardly
less than theirs of us. He says: They
need machines to make work, not to
save it," A reviewer of the book in the
New York Evening Post illustrates this
epigram by an amusing experience of his
own. He was with a Chicago manufac-
turer OF machinery when he persuaded
the native superintendent of a factory in
Hankow to purchase a machine which
would save nine-tenths of the labor in a
certain process, When the factory was
visited again three years afterward, the
machine was there, but still in its orig
maj poNhilS NocC' iO super illSllNlCIiI
said: ut is most valuable where it Is.
Pointing to it, with a threat of putting
it in operation, strikes with panic and
puts an end TO all labor roubles with
operatives Labor-saving devices in
that country mean, for the time being,
starvation. The reviewer tells of a
Steamboat without any engine" the
wheels being set at work by fifty or more
men working in a sort of treadmill that
covered half the deck.
Oak Park (Chicago) carpenters want
31la cents per hour.
Among the questions asked applicants
for employment by the Christensen En-
| cheering Company, of Milwaukee,, are:
Are you married or single?" What is
your height and weight?" The company
states to all applicants by letter that
there is a strike on in its machine shop.
The W~orkingnen's Club, of the Church
of the Holy Communion, New York City,
is a social and benefit society. During
the twenty-eight years of it's existence
it has paid out So, 092 and the receipts
lave been S33. 646. The initiation fee
ranges from 81 for candidates between
eighteen and twenty-five years of age to
81 at fifty years. The dues are 40 cents
a month. Besides these payments. the
doctors examination costs 81 and there is
an assessment of 81 at each member
death. Any mar well recommended /:
eligible to membership. The benefits pai6
are: Sickness, IS a week for twelve weeks
So for the second twelve weeks and a doc.
tor free; a fee of 30 cents for the doctor:
service if required by any one of a mem
ber's family; IL a members wife dies HI
receives so cents from each member; If h,
dies his heirs receive 81 from each mem
Der.
New York Postal Clerks Union will de
mand the S-hour day.
Local No. 90 of the Metal Polishers
and Brass Workers National Mo ha.
leased and fitted up a four-story building
at No 1011 Spring Garden street, as head
quarters for the brass workers of Phila
delphia. The first floor will be used as Z
cooperative cigar and tobacco store, will
only union products on sale. The secont
floor will be a reading room, library, etc.
and pool tables will furnish entertainment
for members who may be awaiting a cal
to employment. The seeretary's office o,
this floor has been equipped with a tel
ephone. which the leading employers il
val competent help.
1t is not often that a labor strike occur
in China, but when it does the employee
has a most expeditions way of settling
matters. A strike which occurred in Can
ton recently was settled by the employe
in two no airs. 1t occurred in a .sumpau,