Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-07

we V4OAuSO JO0AAy sS0sSSVsSSS
pounds OF tobacco.
The suntlower is staple crop in
Russia.
st. Paul stonecutters will not ask
/ for an advance; they earn As cents
| per hour.
st. Paul servant girls have formed
union.
Davenport, Ia, painters struck for
| $3.50 and eight hours.
] England's postal savings banks pay
! 21a per cent. interest.
! Great Britains coal mines are work
| ed at depth of $500 feet.
Union cigarmakers Of America made
| 1,131 500 900 cigars last year.
! Ten Milwaukee factories use the
| woodworkers' label.
| Leavenworth painters now get $2.40
| for eight hours work.
The brewery workers in Houston,
! Texas, have won the eightthour work
| day.
The New York Workingmen's Edu-
cational Association is to erect $4O,-
900 building.
! Havana stevedores agreed to COM
| promise on $780, American money, for
day work, and 81 for night work.
! st. Louis anticipates compressed air
| tunnel motors before its Worlds Fair
| shall have opened.
| Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
freight firemen now earn 1920 day;
passenger train firemen, S1.95.
Chicago Millwrights union has I'M
] der consideration new wage scale
providing for 4212 cents an hour on
! all outside work and 50 cents an hour
| for shop work.
Charcoal is the great italian fuel,
| Naples alone consuming 10000 tons
| OF wood charcoal, at cost OF from
| .e4 to e a ton, the national consump-
ton being 100000 tons.
The Transfers Union, of San Fran
| cisco, has won it's fight for the reduc-
| tion of hours and abolition OF the
| boarding house system, the latter pro-
vision to take effect August l.
The Retail Clerks Union, Of San
| Francisco, has been served with an
| injunction restraining it from boycott
| ting firms that refuse to accede to the
| early closing movement.
The Brotherhood of Tailors and the
| United Garment Workers, assisted by
| prominent men of influence, have be-
| gun an energetic campaign for the alb
! clifton of the sweating system in the
| city of New York. 1t is estimated
| that 100000 men and women will be
| affected by the movement.
The unions of Mecca, Ind, have no
! titled the merchants Of that town that
after April l 1901, they must handle
goods bearing the union label, and that
union men will absolutely refuse to
purchase goods from those who fail to
comply with this request. Mecca has
three unions-two miners unions, the
other a Federal labor union.
Railroading in Mexico has been made
as harsh for the railroad trainmen as
the vigorous enforcement of drastic
laws can make it. In cases Of acct
dents from which employees are in no
way responsible jail sentences are
| given, and in many instances capital
crime is charged against the workman
where death results from railroad acct
dents.
The largest building ever erected was
the temporary structure known as the
Manufactures and Liberal Arts build
ing at the Columbian exposition at Chi
cago, 1893. 1t was 787 feet wide, 1857
feet long, 203 feet high, covered 30h
including galleries.
At Frisco the question of wages and
a desire to get rid of an Objectionable
overseer seem to be the grievances of
the men who are now out on strike at
the Union Iron Works. The men are
determined, also, that the present plan
of employing apprentices shall be
changed; that Todd must go and other
minor differences be arranged before
they will resume work Over 1000 en-
ployes are effected.
We support Mr.. Samuel Gompers,
head of the American Federation of La
Dor, in his opposition to compulsory
arbitration. With compulsory arbitra-
ton on the statute books we should
very soon see the trust bribing legisla-
tors or officials to appoint subservient
arbitrator. Workmen refusing to SUBJ
NIT to bribed arbitrator would be out
side the pale of the law, and another
disadvantage would be added to the
conditions which confront them.-New
York Journal.
The tide of organization seems, to be
turning the other way In England as well
| as in America, and the movement is to-
| ward freer and larger unions and against
| the subdivisions of industries along the
| line of trades and parts of trades. Gov
eminent reports just issued show, as far
as accurate figures are obtainable, that in
| the past year the number of unions in
| England decreased from 1910 to 1895 owing
| to amalgamation and consolidation, al
! though the membership increased from
| $40 231 to 1,Se251S
| At Rockvale, Col, according to the new
| terms, the miners will receive 70 cents per
| ton of 1900 pounds run of mine. The terms
were adopted without hesitancy. Under
| the old scale miners received 81 per ton of
! 200 pounds for lump coal. The strike was
declared en- weeks ago tomorrow. The
company also agreed to give the miners a
| check-weighman, the wages for whom
would be held from the miners pay by the