The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-20
THE WAGE WORKERS.

n day.
Hemoatropine, drug, costs $500
pound. 1900
Northerners at Atlanta talk OF iormin,
n club.
Denver stonemasons get 81 80 for eigh
hours.
Chicago coopers get 20 and % cents To-
tierces.
The Ohio Legislature contains thirty
five farmers.
The farmers Alliance OF Kansas favor
tariff reform.
Railroad laborers at Bangor, Pa, were
cut to 81 a day.
At MERGED, CAL, steam plow doe4
l20 acres a day.
A coal mine ut Sunderland, Eng, il
l,770 feet deep.
Denver hodcarriers got 50 so and S
for eight hours.
Hay is exported from the United
States to Manitoba.
In the English cotton trade 100000
persons are employed.
at Randall, H., the farmers will run q
cooperative creamery.
No iron furnaces in the West ten years
ago; now there are 400.
New England French Canadians talk
Of holding convention.
Decatur (lll.) merchants demand re.
spectacle railroad depot.
4 new machine "cuts and buffers $50
loaves Of bread an hour"
Manila has $1,000 cigarmakers, Of
whom only 1900 are men.
Some New York marble.workers are
out against non.union men.
1n Virginia tho ten hour law has
caused talk Of cutting wages.
New York cloakmakers are out because
they will not leave the union.
Hartford painters are winningthe nine
hour day and % cents an hour.
San Francisco ireestone.cutters will
strike for eight hours on April l.
A New York painters union has won
the eight hour day and g IS a day.
Washington (pa.) printers will de-
mand 30 cents per 1000, or 81 day.
A bill to exclude Pinkcrton detectives
from Ohio is before the Legislature.
The Beer Drivers Union members are
fined IS for drinking non-union beer.
New York coal shovelers won strike
for the discharge Of non.union man.
Chinatown" San Francisco, embraces
twelve blocks and has 10000 Chinese.
The San Francisco Nationalist hold
open meetings every Sunday evening.
Newark trunk.makers struck because
they could not make over S. 60 day.
Some South Omaha (Neb.) coopers
struck against cut from s. 90 to s. rs a
day.
On Nebraska railroads bridge carpen-
ters get 3 so to IS 50; laborera, 81 50 to
s. O0. ~
San Francisco box-makers are fined
50 Tor patronizing non.union restau-
rants.
at New York 1900 Hebrew shirt.
makers struck rather than leave the
union.
The leading contractors OF Milwaukee
favor the eight-hour day, and will con-
cede it. ,sE5s Z
Cleveland men object to the employ
ment Of Canadian captains on American
vessels. /
The Sailors and Firemen's Union will
hold national convention in New York
on April II. r}
Alpena mich. livery stable men are
happy; sixty days Of sleighing out in
that country. "a -.
New York bricklayers have agreed to
work the nine.hour day, and the pay
will be 81 so. r
Concord IN. H.) granite cutters de.
mand nine hours and pay day at least
once month. EsE.#,
The Gretna In. )mill will be the biggest
shingle mill in the world; will make
100000 day. l sElI~5
Detroit plasterers get s. so for nine.
hour day. They want eight hours, same
pay, on April l. ts.5
Miners in the Granite Mountain, Mon.
get s. 90 under ground and s. to s. SC
at surface work.
| The Michigan Labor Rureau shewt
that Detroit furniture workers dom
average 81 day. +% * :
The vessel Vigilant runs between
Santa Cruz and st. Thomas, and ha!
been ailoat a century.
The strike Of the 1900 cotton opera
tives at Nassau, N. H., was settled b,
lessening the reduction. Many striker
have left the town. @7 .ata. q i
New York furniture workers won ,
strike against non.union men. Unio1
men, who worked during the strike
were fined $o5 each.
Representatives OF sixty.three New
York cigar factories met to. demand
higher wages. They have been cut q
per cent in late years. 81 ISL.
! Attic London shorthand tournament
| De Bear took down 1000 words in ter
minutes and transcribed the 1000 int,
longhand in forty minutes.
| The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, founded in 1868, has %, 900 mem
beers, pays 5000 at death and $l.5OO 10
permanent disability; has raised wage
so per cent. III
The Atlanta tailors havo won seyera
strikes within tho last few years. Til
employers have organized, and refuse t
pay new demands Of the journeymer
: Some mike SIS to $40 week.
Iron works laborers at New Yor
: make from 81 rs to ST Is. They are o,
posed to reioining the knights becaus
they were assessed and paid dues as hig
as men making s. so and 81 dry.
Good Neva From Uinl.