Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-05-06

ers are working for increased wages. to be.
gin on May 1.
The New York State Protective Associa'
ton of Bottlers has formed branch at Al
bany, N. Y.
Ship-builders Of Schwerin, Germany,
are on strike, and 3, 1000 Berlin shoemskers
are also cut
Larfie contracts for coke have been made
with Western parties at S1.10 and 81 rs
per ton
Lowell Mass master builders have
organized on the plan Of the Boston asso-
citation.
Rock Point (Pa.) coal miners have ac-
cepted A reduction to 75 cents per 2,1OO
pounds.
The building trades of Patterson, N. j..
have established the nine hour system.
The Brockwayville lumber output this
season will be about 100, 0OO.O feet.
The boilermakers and ircn-ship builders
will meet in Chicago on June ~.
A Biddeford (Me.l firm recently sent
500 bales Of cotton to China.
Heavy machinery is being run in France
by artesian we'll power.
Ground has been broken for the new Fall
River Mass yarn-mill.
Kansas City MO- master brickmasons
organized last week.
The ice dealers of Omaha, Neb., have
formed Trust"
IL ia claimed that oil has been struck in
Scott county, Ark.
In San Francisco female BARRIERS union
has been formed.
The Atlanta (Ga.) eotton-mills will soon
add sixty looms.
The Western Michigan grain men have
organized.
New York is to have cooperative coal
yard.
A trades council of all trades and labor
unions has been formed at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Altoona has raised $40, 900 Of the $45. 900
necessary 10 secure the location Of its COW
eted silk mill there.
Several of the flint glass factories in Pitts
burg resumed work on the first. All will
be working before the 9th.
The members of L. A. 1921, Saratoga,
n. c., have purchased lot and storehouse
and engaged in a cooperative business.
The Cincinnati coopers have been locked
ont by eleven firms for refusing to with
draw their resolution to abstain from pool
beer.
One hundred Cincinnati ssloonkeepers
are about to start large brewery, to be
run on strictly union principles, with three
turns OF eight hours each.
Fan Claire, Wis, is oyer-run with me-
chauies and lsborers, while outside men
are brought in every day. Wages are low
and going down weekly.
Local Unions Nos. 10 and Is Of the Bro
therhood of Painters and Decorators OF
Pittsburg will employ a man TO watch the
painting of the new court house.
The bricklayers and mssons Of Fall
River, Mass, have struck for nine hours
TO constitute days work. The contrac-
tors generally refuse to sceede to their de-
mands.
Notice of sweeping reduction in wages
was posted at the Wilkesharre axle works
Griday morning. The company employs
! !, 900 men and boys. The reduction ranges
from 10 to 100 per cent.
The members of L. A. 1880. Eau
Claire, Wis, have started cooperative
grocery store, With good prospects for
successful business. One hundred and
twenty-five members have already taken
shares.
The Building Trades Lesgue Of Kan
aas City and vicinity warn all workmen
and mechanics that Kansas City and ad-
Joining towns are full to OVERLOOKING, and
| fully oue-half the men are out Of work,
and have been idle ell winter.
The bricklayers and masons Of Falls
River, Mass, struck work Monday, April
80, because of refusal by contractors to
accede to their demands for nine hours O
day. The strikers are backed by the In
ternstional Union and have the moral sup
port of the Knights. of Labor of the city.
About 500 union employees in the brew
cries at Buffalo went out on strike May l.
The breweIies are running on q small force
and the bosses have given the strikers as
hours to return, otherwise arrangements
have already been completed to NIL their
places with outside men. No serious
trouble is anticipated.
Bricklayers. mssons, stone-cutters aud
plasterers in Denver, Col, work only eight
hours per day, and carpenters thereby
have often to lay of for want of having
the work ready from the other trades work.
ing shorter hours. Carpenters have been
working some nine hours day and others
ten hours. On June 4, Union 55 will in
sugurste eight hours day as the general
rule, wages to remain ut present rate per
hour. Success seems assured if men will
not 60 to Denver.