Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-26
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

hold, the capacity being considerably
increased.
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
Detroit ice workers have union.
ST. Paul has cigarmakers' strike.
Detroit fathers demand 1925 a day.
Blacksmiths' helpers have a union at
Cleveland.
Buffalo has an ice combine.
Toronto typefounders won strike.
Cleveland canvaSsers will organize.
Buffalo has 800 union bicycle-mak-
ers.
There are $1,000 union stonemasons.
ST. Paul unions run a free employ
ment bureau.
Buffalo has a Polish freight handlers
union.
A woman is president of the Lansing
Clerks Union.
Buffalo Italian and Polish laborers
are organizing.
Cincinnati boot and shoemakers have
just organized.
Detroit brewers, who wear non-union
shoes. are fined So.
New York is credited with 10000 I'M
ion iourneymen bakers.
Detroit woodenware workers struck
| against piece work.
Chicago bricklayers want six-hour
day
Persian weavers get from I'd. to Is. a
day.
Printers won strikes against two
Evansville, Ind, papers.
Some Cleveland metal polishers lost
strike for nine hours.
St. Paul unions are boycottng shoes
made by a Rochester firm.
At Berlin, on May 4, . Congress OF
Trades Unions will be held.
Joliet and Lamont quaTrymen struck
for % cents a day advance.
Many Nashville merchants have re-
| fused to handled boycotted flour.
Thirty-rine hours is weeks work
by machine typestters in England.
Louisville Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, turned down free silver resOlu-
ton.
Rochester garment workers say
wages have been cut so per cent. within
year
Toledo hlers forced the reinstate-
ment Of the shop committeeman after
two weeks strike.
1t is said that the Cigarmakers' Inter
rational Union has a surplus strike
| fund Of S1,00O000
Winthrop (Mich) miners struck
against returning to the ten-hour day,
and the eight-hour day was speedily re-
stored.
An international convention Of cloth
ing workers will be held at Lordon in
August. American delegates are in
vited.
The patternmakers Of Brooklyn are
about to make an effort to form q con-
federation OF all the metal trades of
that city.
Organized labor is well represented on
the tickets of the two leading st. Paul
political parties at the coming May cleo
| ton.
The Furriers' Union, OF New York,
has reduced its-iuitiation fee for the
present from $500 TO 1920. In Sep
| tender it will be increased to 5000.
Hotel employees will hold a national
convention at Detroit, September p,
anu II % EctlNdNlN llO4ll iDOON ~ Nil-
| les will be in attendance.
The Brooklyn Central Labor Union
is urging the Park Commissioner and
Common Council to open the parade
ground on Sunday for base ball, foot
ball and cricket playing
For over a year the Manufacturers
and Producers Association have been
endeavoring to secure Tor California
business houses the contract for sup
plying State institutions
There never was such spirit of Or
garization in the country as at the
| present time" said W. D. Mahon,
o. Street Railway Employees.
The St. Louis brewers still have their
BOYCOTT on. The brewers recently in
troducad a union brand Of beer from
Hamilton, Ohio, and maintain that
their troubles will be over shortly.
The Carpenters Union Of Minneap-
oils has arranged series of meetings,
the object Of which will be to encourage
a mutual friendship and sympathy be-
tween the employer and employed.
The boot and shoe union workmen
of ST. Louis are still boycotting one
firm. but that is their only fight now,
and the BARRIERS union is at present in
terested in the Sunday closing ques-
ton.
\ wire company at Cleveland threat
enc to abandon its plant unless its
striking employers return to work. The
Board of Arbitration of the Chamber
o. Commerce is endeayoring to adjust
matters.
The composition roofers of st. Louis
have just settled a controversy with
the bosses over the wage scale, and 1t
has been signed by all but two CT the
bosses.
The plumbers unions throughout the
country are voting on the ACCESSIBILITY
of electing officers TO the United Asso-
citation by popular vote of the mem
bers, instead OF through delegates, as
heretofore.
Tne Cotton Mule Spinners' Associa-