Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-14
.THE WORKERS.
A Prospect That the Session viii Last TIL
Tuesday.
WHAT MAS DONE YESTERDAY.
The Proposition to Abolish the National
Committee
DOES NOT ELICIT APPROVAL.

The sixth day of the flint glass workers
convention closed last evening. Those
who counted on the session ending with
the week, are somewhat disappointed al
it now appears that it will be Tuesday be
fore the proceedings will close.
A good bit OF practical business was dis
Matched Yesterday, but the reelection o.
officers YVES deferred until the first OF the
week.
Some one introduced a resolution asking
hist the salaries of President and Vice
President be reduced. The former get:
81. 800 q wear. 1t is not princely salary
and man, who is the head of an organi-
zation like the flints. earns every cent Of
It.
The talk of abOlishing the national con-
ventions and submitting all questions TO q
vote Of the trade, did not meet with much
favor. The gentlemen ut the helm have
sn eve to business and will see that no such
sts % is taken. The election Of officers by a
popular vote would cause a complete
changing Of the officers most every year.
The eng1avcrs and mold makers are
feeling serene, rs they know that the
convention has done nothing IN their
branch that will cause the manufacturers
10 kick. They would have been better
plessed had the hours Of labor been short
ened somewhat.
The death fund which provides the
having ofS5 GOO to the nearest relative OF
a glass blower at the death of the latter, IS
one Of the good things done by the conyer-
ton. More than once it has occurred
that glass workers who had not laid up a
sum tor a rainy day had to be buried by
their friends. The money will be paid
out of the national treasury.
The Grievance Committee has quite a
pile Of smsll business on hands. Yester-
day afternoon some Of the grievances were
taken up and considered but IL will keep
the committee lively to the Gloss Of the
session TO report on all the complaints be-
fore it. Some Of the grievances are so
triling that they will never be considered,
but will be tabled without discussion.
Several Of the committees have been
holding night sessions IN hope OF rushing
business little Tire committees on
moves and lists have made few changes and
are about done the work allotted to them.
The Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent at
Bellaire sends the following telegram:
The wages sgreed upon in the confer
ence to govern the engraving branch for
the coming year has been ratified by the
convention. The following amendment
was insisted on in the convention:
"All foreigners applying for admission
10 the union shall be admitted on the
payment of $50, provided it is the inten-
ton to become citizens Of the United
States when eligible"
The apprentice law has been modified IN
the mold making branch to allow one sd-
ditional apprentice in shops employing
eight or more mold-makers. The list Of
movss and wages submitted by the manu-
facturers on paste mold tumbiers has been
rejected ana last years list adopted. The
amendment to reduce the salary Of the
officers was defeated.
The Dispatch has been publishing stuff
like this all week and labelling Ii "eXclu-
sive.n Some Of its news has been so lex
elusive, as to cause laugh among members
of the convention. The paper named has
obtained an amendment sheet, By hook or
crook, and has been cutting out stuff from
day to day and printing it, making guess
as to when it would probably come up.
These guesses have about all been wild.
A majority of the propositions which have
crept into print have simply been read to
the convention, and will not be voted on
till tomorrow. Some branches like the
mold-makers and chimney men, have got
their legislation through, but that is all.