Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-17
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TRADE NOTES.
workingmen's Climbs.

The fourth annual congress Of working.
men clubs Of the L nited States convened
at Boston on Thursday evening in Wells
Memorial Hail. The total membership OF
of the thirty clubs in the United States IS
1000. Some of them own houses and have
their own libraries. Several have an or
gapized class for instruction, and seven
teen provide lectures, concerts and other
entertainments for their members.
Work of the Women.
At Boston there is Woman's Educa-
tional and Industrial Union, the plan OF
which might be initiated in other cities and
established to advantage. The Association
secures lecturers, has classes in languages,
elocution, painting, stenography, drawing,
designing, dressmakirg and host oil other
branches. The ladies of Massachusetts, are
taking great interest in this asso ;iation.
Donations are liberal. The products OF te.
male labor are exposed for sale. The total
value Of sales last year was Sii,35e
Condition of Wage Workers Improving
The Philadelphia Record says: The con-
dition of the wage workers is improving,
through the outlet afforded West and South
and because of the markets growing there
for manufactured products Fewer idle
men are to be net with each succeeding
week. taking labor in the aggregate. More
small industries are springlng up IN the
West than In the East, in order to save
freight charges and to take advantage OF
the cheapness and nesrness to fuel, which
is being found in large supply in Illinois,
Iowa and Missouri.
Report of Chief of Labor Bureau.
Frank A. Flower, the Chief of toe Wis
consion Labor Bureau, has Just submitted
his fist report, which is divided into ten
parts, and goes over the questions of sp-
prentices, industrial education, trade aud
labor unions, strikes and other Ike ques-
tons According to the report hundreds of
manufacturers in that State ore losing
money. The object of the labor unions OF
Wisconsin, according to the report, is the
establishment of uniform minimum wages
for skilled labor is given trades, and mu-
tual support in case Of need. Very few
trades appear to be organized. Agric IL
tural, dsiryiDg, stock raising, wool aud to-
bacco growing are the principal occupations
of the people.
Did Not Confer.
Mr.. Joseph ID. Weeks informs the Labor
Tribune, in a courteous communication,
that he did not 90 east last week to confer
with manufacturers regarding the wages
scales. The amisble secretary was report
ed upon authority of press dispatches Per
sonally we doubted the statement, for we
were certain almost that if Mr.. Weeks had
gone east with reference to the scales 1t
would have been to demand that eastern
and western manufacturers agree TO ad-
vance prices to q reasonable figure in order
that there should hereafter be no question
as to maintaining living wages and profits.
Mr.. Weeks Of course knows that the same
Yisor in this direction that has been wasted
in cutting cards would likely accomplish
the object.-Pittsburg Labor Tribune.
A Philadelphis capitalist has purchased
site for button factory at Egg Harbor
City, n. J.
P.J. Maguere, of the Carpenters Nation
al Union, will visit Sedalis, Mo-, in July in
the interest Of that organization.
President Strasser, of the International
OggaTulAheFS NuiOut n6o RCSSaNON "S1N
from Troy Union that its members success
fully resisted Q reduction of 81.
The house painters Of Cincinnati struck
on q small scale, but it did not last longer
than three or four hours. The employers,
seeing the men were determined, submit
ted.
The fuishers employed in the cloth man
ufactory OF Charles Spencer L Co., Ger nan
town, Pa, have received noti6c .tion Of an
increase of wages.
The plasterers of Philadelphia have unsu-
imously resolved. that the union wages here
after snail be uniform at 50. 70 per day. If
the demand is not scceded to By May Is all
those COW receiving $3.50 will strike.
Several weeks ago the proprieto7s Of
Rochester, \. Y, foundries decided upon q
reduction in wages Of l2l per cent bat 200
men employed in the various stove fouu-
dries refused to begin work. The propie.
tors of the foundries assert that q similar
reduction has been accepted By the mold. |
era in every city whose stove manufactures |
compete with Rochester A leading mem
Der Of che uriou says: She stove manu-
facturers cleared 9 cash dividend of |
40 per cent last year. Toeir union
or association met at Chicago, aud
after congratulstipg each other that there |
had been no failures among their NUMBER |
in the last year. they formed combination !
to.keep the price of stoves this year up to |
that Of last year. Notwithstanding this, |
they now ask ,us to do Q dollars worth Of |
work for about Isl cents, We are nov Civ !
ing them dollars worth for SO cents. In |
shops where all the work is done By tbs |
piece the men make about $ls per week"
Conferences were begun this morning in
each of the shops The action Of the strik. !
ing molder will throw about 400 men out OF |
employment.-Ex.
James P. Witberow & Co Of Pittsburs.
have contracted 60 build a new steel plant
Tor the Cedar Point iroa and STEEL works. at |