Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-03

| ito Is one to Tour.
The aaatternmakers' Unoin, Of Bos-
ton, insures tools.
The New South Wales Parliament
has passed IN old age pension law.
Philadelphia letter carriers will wear
union-made uniforms, bearing the la
bel of the United Garment Workers
in the future.
at Boston, AID. Tinkham offered a
preamble and resolve that the city "
and control all sub-ways that may be
built in the future.
Nearly IA per cent. Of the total num-
Der of wage earners In Minnesota are
women, according to the report OF the
State Labor department.
For the first time in the history OF
Atlanta, every printing Office in it, in
Guiding book, job and newspaper Of
fees, is a union shop.
After a five-hours session the Chi
cago Lake Seamen's Union voted that
members holding political jobs could
retain their membership in the organi-
zation.
The German government not only
| sells life insurance to it's subjects, but
it requires those who earn less than
a certain amount to be insured against
illness and old age.
/ BY a general vote, the United Gar
ment Workers have declared against
! high initiation fees. Hereafter 30 is
| the maximum which local unions Will
be permitted to charge.
or the forty-one cities in which the
Tobacco Workers International union
has local branches, Toledo ranks thir-
teenth in the number of union labels
used on manufactured smoking and
chewing tobaccC5.
The labor commissioner OF North
Carolina reports that the wages OF the
mechanics of that State increased Al
per cent. in the past year, but that the
wage workers have received no benent
because the cost of living increased in
proportion.
The annual report Of the commission
er of labor OF Connecticut for 1900
shows an annual daily wage for the ar
tisans and laborers of sl.52, against
81 40 for the preoeding year. The
average yearly wages were S4oz.o4,
against S420.4 for 1899.
The scoffers at the potency OF the
union label are informed that IN one
trade this insignia OF union labor has
become SO powerful as to prompt a
manufacturer to agree to pay the IN
iatiation fees and dues of his employees
in order that he can use lt-Boston
Traveller.
The object of the coal salesmen's as
ISOLATION OF Chicago Is the protection
Of statesmen, and arrangements are IN
der way to secure the cooperation OF
the miners and coal teamsters organ
iZations to enforce reasonable demands
from the operators and coal dealers.
Michigan has become the big furni-
ture manufacturing State Of the coun-
try. At Codunna, Mich, men employed
in the furniture factories receive 70
cents a day. A recent effort to organ
ize a union resulted in the discharge
o. all those interested in the move
ment.
President Perkins, of the Cigarmak-
ers' International Union, reports an in
crease of 5000 in general membership
during the year. In the New York
strike $136, 900 was paid to n~on-union-
lists who went out. Cigarmakers Union
No. u, of Boston. alone contributed
S14. 600 to the strike and lockout in
New York.
The San Francisco Call says that
back of a steamship company recently
organized in that city with a capital
of S12, 500, 600, is a plan to COLOMBO
Mexico with Oriental laborers. The
circular adds that there is plenty OF
room for a million fishermen. and in
yites Chinese merchants to subscribe
to the capital stock of the company,
which it says will make a contract with
Mexico and China to admit free of
duty all Chinese necessaries, such as
tea, rice. etc.
The labor organization not only helps
those who belong to it, but it also
helps those who are not members. Fol
even those on the outside share to a
greater or less extent in the better
wages, the shorter hours and the more
favorable conditions secured by the
labor organizations. If unions or fed
erations make mistakes it must be re-
membered that perfection is not to be
expected in any work of human hands.
The good done by these organizations
far o~utweighs the errors which they
have committed.-William Jennings
Bryan in The Commoner.
In New South Wales in the furniture
trade the wages earned are: Cabinet
makers, o0S TO o0S, cnalr makers, DOS
to 45s: frame makers, Is Cd to EOS;
j%oiners, 35s to 54s; p%olishers, 30s to 55s;
wood turner's and carvers, 35s to 535.
| Picture frame makers obtain from lbs
to sos; mount cutters, from 40s to Sos;
Venetian blind makers, 27s ed to AIS
Cd; blind painters, 30s to ass; carpet
layers, 30s to 32s Cd; drapery machin-
lists (female), los to 30s; bedding
hands, 30s to SIS; mattress makers, 20s
to sos; uphalsterers (male), 25s to 35s;
upholsterers Qemale), 15s to 18s; var
nishers, 25s to ass; wire mattress ma
chinists, 36s to Cos: wire weavers, sos
to ass; paper bag makers (female), los
to lbs: card box cutters, 22s cd to SIS
Cd; caro- box makers. It's Sd to 39s;
bookbinders, 30s to 70s.