Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-21
Trade NOTES.

The horse.collar makers Of New y ork
and Brooklyn have formed a union.
Cumberland, Md, will soon have typo.
graphical union.
Eight hours at forty cents an hour is
"cn the card" among bricklayers of Chi
esgo.
There are twenty-six knights OF Labor
assemblies in Chicago, and forty.Gve other
labor unions.
The are 10000 women in Chicago who
work Tor ESGas. They are beginning to
organize for their proteeuGn.
The Detroit Free Press has sucum5ed to
the boycott put upon it by the printers, and
now employs union men.
Two hundred laborsrs at the Atlantic
iron works, Sharon. Pa have been granted
an advance OF ten per cent iR wages.
Every newspaper in New Haven, Conn,
ia nov in the union. Thursday of last week
was gala day for the printers.
Many large shoe manufacturers OF Maine
are coming to their senses and making
peace with the knights of Labor.
The engineers and machinIsts are less
permeated with uuionisn then any branch
OF labor.
A resolution has been adopted by the
city council of St. Joseph, Mo, declarinE
that eight hours shall constitute a days
work Tor sll city eEIloyees.
One year ago there were only sixteen
Knights OF Labor in Milwaukee, and now
there are l 700 and coming in at the rate
OF 800 per month.
President George Harris wisely says;
Working men err in asking the Law to do
for them that when taey ssn do for them
selves"
The miners employed BY Berwind, White
L Co. and Fisher, Willer / Co, oil Clear
field county, Pa have rejected the offer of
these f-rs and are all out for the FEEDER
stion price.
The United Tailors' Union Of New York
has been organized since last September,
and up to the time Of their look out by the
middle men last December they had a mem
bership Of about 800.
The workmen of Indianapolis have adopt
ed and published fair warning before.
hand to the political leaders that they in
tend, 4 necessary, to carry the boycott TO
the bsllet-box.
The Shoemakers' Union gave notice to
manufacturers in New York who employ
Italians to make hand made shoes at nine
cents pair that they must pay the union
price, u cents.
A company has been organized, with
George P. Canister, Of Reading, Pa, ss
president, with a capital Of $1,000 for
the manufacture of clocks which are to run
on sort of perpetual motion theory.
The real reason why the box-msksrs quit
working for Maxwell Bros in Chicago last
month was that the firm employed boys or
ehild-lsbor in place Of the old workmen.
They never were 80 foolish rs to strike be
cause The firm employed improved ma
chinery.
The strike at French's spring works, IL
Pittsburg, lspirsl mill No. 3 is over re
duction in wages by putting piece men OF
By the day. The reduction will average =
Der week in many cases The boss ham
norman, who was also reduced, is at work,
having refused to come out. The firm ar
very generous to ward the fellows scaboinl
there, as they send them to their homes il
carriages sad buy their dinners for thsm
The hollow-ware molders employed b!
the Standard Manufacturing Company o.
Allegheny city, Pa, have received an sd
vance 10 wages equAlhug u per cent. 1
demsnd was made for per cent on tn
bench and 10 per cent on the floor, but o.
ter an arbitration Of the matter somprc
mice was effected as stated. On pay day
when the men who were on the commute
of arbitration got their envelopes, they wer
ssreesbly surprised to find that the fru
had paid them for the time they hsd bee
engaged in the work OF arbitration
The State Executive Board Of the Z.