Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-24
WORLD OF LABOR.

NeWark is TO nave a labor temple.
Race track jockeys have organized.
Kentucky negro miners are organ
izing.
BROOKLYN has a cooperative iron
! works.
Chicago clerks demand Sunday clos
ing of stores.
Minneapolis painters union initia-
ton fee is now $25.
Cook county, ILL.,, union carpenters
earn 42Aac an hour.
In 1900 there were constructed in
this city buildings to the value of $780,
OO0, 900.
Cotton exports brought to this coun-
try $119, 900 900 more in 1900 than in
1899.
Sparta paperhaSgers and painters
have. been conceded Is per cent. ad-
vance.
Minneapolis coopers' union are OPP
posed to the establishment of a CO.
operative shop.
In Chicago members of the Advertis-
ing Sign Painters Union object to the
crusade Of the Municipal Art Commit
tee against the ~bill-boards located near
the parks and boulevards.
Carroll d. Wright, the federal labor
commissioner, has come to the conclu-
sion that the employers liability laws
of the various States are practically
worthless as a means of protection to
injured employees.
At last the compositors have come
to an agreement with the printing
trade employers, an agreement which
for the time being is the only way
out of a great difficulty. The London
Society of Competitors want &2 per
week and forty-eight hours to consti-
tute a weeks work.
A blanket injunction issued by Judge
Crumpbacker, of Albuquerque, N. M,
has been served on about $50 miners
and citizens at the instance of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, for
bidding them to interfere by intimida-
ton, persuasion, or otherwise, with
the employees of the company Or with
the prospective employees. Non-union
negroes imported by the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company have begun work
in the mines at Catalpa. 1t is said
that only about one-half of them are
miners.
Labor lobbyists at the Minnesota
capitol have an eye single these days
to the bill recently introduced by Sen
ator Dougherty, OF Duluth, making all
railroad employees special policemen.
The labor leaders see in this bill an
other covert body blow at organized
labor, and they will fight the measure
tooth and nail in order to defeat it.
Should the bill be enacted it would
be a powerful weapon for the railroads
in case of strikes or other disturb
ances. 1t would give them a special
police force. with ~pienary power.
The general trike of all trades at
Chou, a fortified seaport town In
Spain, eleven miles from Ovideo, on
the Bay of Biscay, growing out OF
the eight-hour question, has assumed
large proportions. Over Is 900 men are
out. The strikers thus far have been
quiet, but martial law has been pro-
claimed through the province and the
government has drafted there a sufi-
cient number Of troops to meet any
emergency. Soldiers have bee. sent to
| replace the striking bakers. Several
innuential newspapers are supporting
the strikers, who declare they are JUS
tilted in their action by the miserable
conditions of labor.
Between the laborer who is not a
member of a union, and who is un-
| protected by law, and the employer
equality very rarely exists. He sell
dom. if indeed ever, is in a position
to make terms as to the price at which
he shall sell his labor. Being seldom
capable of more than one occupation,
he has to find work at that or he has
to starve. tbs disadvantage is very
largely removed by trade unionism
which is to the laborer what capital
is to the employer-the machinery
which enables him to wait until the
market rises before he disposes of the
labor he has to sell. B. r. Wise, At
| torney General of New South Wales.
The humblest in England may send
a telegraphic message by affixing the
necessary stamps and dropping it in
the nearest letter box. The thrifty
wage-worker may deposit his saving
of shillings and pence at any post
Office, and feel that he is positively Sc
cure beyond any possible mischance
! That interest and principal will be re-
turned to him. no matter how financial
gales may stew the Investment high
ways with the wrecks NQf private cor
porations. And finally. Hodges hidden
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