Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24

in Montana. In accordance with it the
Anaconda Copper Company is prepar-
ing to establish the eight-hour system
in its smelters at Anaconda. This will
require the employment OF several hun
dred additional men.
The long strike of the electrical
workers in Texas is drawing to a close,
one Of the two concerns fighting the
union having granted all the strikers
demands. The other is expected to
yield soon. The struggle has been 60
ing on for six months.
With the withdrawal of the carpen-
tiers from all afiliation with the Chi
cago Building Trades Council it is
realized that the council has not MY
received a decisive blow. but that the
blow has come from the one organ
iZation which more than any other pro-
NOTED it's formation from the begin
ming.
Two hundred Cinnamon who were
employed in a clothing firm in Los An
geles as cutters, tailors and operators,
have been discharged and replaced by
members of the United Garment Work
ers Union of America, as a result of
the anti-Asiatic labor agitation and
the strong demand for union labeled
goods recently developed in Califor-
Mia.
Since the bridge and structural iron
workers withdrew from the Chicago
Building Trades Council the boiler
makers have been making great efforts
to obtain some of the work that has al
ways been done by the bridgemen. At
the last meeting of the iron workers 1t
was proposed to adopt vigorous meth
eds to stop the infringement on their
trade.
G. NJ. Schwab is said to be worth
now $50, 900, 600. His start in life was
very humble. After a brief, ordinary
school education he found himself at
Is driving a wagon at Cresson, Pa. AT
II he was working for $3.50 a week. A
little later Mr.. Schwab secured a job
driving stakes with an engineer corps
that was building a steel works for
Carnegie. He got 81 a day, and felt
very cheerful. A very short time after
that he was engineer, then chief en-
gineer. AT % he was superintendent
of the Homestead works for the Car
negie Company. At 80 he was In
charge OF both of the biggest Carnegie
concerns. At present he is So years
old; he has stocks and bonds in the
Carnegie concerns for seven millions,
and a good deal of property besides.
Members of the Chicago fire depart
ment are closely. watching the agita-
ton being carried on by the firemen of
New York for a shorter work day. The
latter have a bill before the New York
Legislature providing for the employ
ment of sufficient firemen TO give every
man in the department a day off. An
appeal has been issued to the New York
public which gives these reasons for
desiring a shorter workday: For our
spiritual welfare: That each and every
member may have a chance Of attend
ing divine service according 20 his re-
ligious belief, Sundays or other holt
days. For our loved ones: That we
may have an opportunity and a por-
ton of each twenty-four hours to de-
vote to their comfort and protection,
ard the education of the future citi-
zens of u State. For our home with
its elevating influence: q regulation
of the family meals and other home
comforts, that make home, sweet home,
the %grandest place in the whole world
You have asked me to talk of my own
experience-how / came to be president
Of a great transportation system when
a few years ago i was shoyeling gravel
on a night gravel train. When | was
a brakeman on a Long Island railroad
train | used to loaf in the shops at
night to learn the business OF the me-
chanics. In this way I built up the
groundwork for the success | have
achieved. 1t all dates back to those
long hours. If you are hired to do
this or that, do Just a little more than
your employer expects you to do. IN
all big Offices no man is more disiiked
than the clock watcher"-the fellow
who watches for the time TO come for
him to quit work. Many people depend
too much upon others. They are orig
inal enough to ask themselves import
ant questions, but instead of thinking
out the answer look to others TO an
swer the question that suggested itself
TO their own minds. Give me the
young man with sorne specially. 1
wan him TO have his mind c-oncentrat-
ed upon one thing. Clothes don't make
the man, but good clothes have got
many a man a good job. A bad man
with good often outdoes a
good man with bad manners. II you
have $25 and want a job, II is better
to spend $50 for clothes, 81 for shoes
and h rest for . shs 70 and hair cut
and clean collar than 70 20 with the