Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-05

ed labor and never have the least trou-
BILE each believing that the one has no
right to Cypress the other
The government of New South Wales,
which operates the telephones business,
recently reduced the rate TO $40 year
for business places and $25 for resi-
dences
All the world over the problem eXer-
cising thinkers is: What shall be done
for the OUT of-works? The government
O. New Zealand put them on co-Opera-
tive works adjacent TO plots of land,
upon which they offered easy terms for
settling ther5upOn as tillers of soil and
wage earning at odd times upon public
works. Just now a conference is sit
ting over the GOrdian knot in our sis
ter colony Of New South Wales. One
delegate (Mr McGarry) moved that the
government should establish a modern
village of workingmen'S homes within
80 miles of Sydney run trains from the
city TO suit the residents, and build
markets and Other public buildings
New Zealand Letter in Eight Hour Her
aid.
\ big mass meeting was held at Los
Angeles Cal. under the auspices of
Trades Council to boycott japanese and
Chinese restaurants. 1t is said there
are seventeen japanese restaurants in
Los Angeles in full blast. They have
put meals down TO ten cents, with cake,
pie, ice cream. etc. thrown in
Not few people in San Francisco
fear that the Introduction of the one
cent piece would reduce wages.
The Lake Carriers Association has
increased The wages of lake seamen
1872 per cent. over the card figures Of
April 1895 This practically embraces
all the shipping on the great lakes
PttsbuTg caulkers lost a strike for 81.
Fort Wayne machiu.-.s were forced
to leave The Central Labor Union by
their employers electric light firm
when the Central Union declared for a
municipal light plant
The San Francisco Labor Bureau has
billiard tables all the LATEST papers,
chess and checker boards and a library.
lt has its own cigar store and laundry;
also its lyceum.
Knoxville blacksmiths will reOrgan-
I ize.
/ The Legislative Council of the Vic
toria australia Council decided to
amend The factories bill in the direction
eff having a Board for each affected
trade for the whole colony to fix the
hours and rates Of pay such Board TO
| be elected by the employers.
The Manufacturers and Producers
| Association of California wants people
20 paJronize home California; indus
tries.
Manchester, n. h cutters and last
/ ers struck against cUJ-the former 10
| $3.50 per week.
The jOurneymen plumbers, gas and
steam filters of Kansas City will de-
/ mand eight hours on May 4 $3.50 for
senior plumbers; So for senior steam
| filters. and s. for juniors.
At San Francisco. Jabez Swan, Of
Swan & Stein. stated that he wished the
plumbers union would win their fight
/ He said: Prom the first I have al
ways conducted a union shop. When l
was asked TO give the house-painters
/ eight hours a day I did so. and volun-
1 tarily reduced the time of the sign
| painters 10 eight hours also. Ny men
| are all at work to-day. although I urged
| them not to come back until the strike
was settled or at least until it was all
right for them to do So" The painters
| demand So for eight hours and decline
20 work with nOn-UniOn men.
The master and journeymen horse
shores or Omaha are taking a series Of
| lectures on that portion Of the horse
which is connected so closely with their
trade.
The Minnesota Iron Company notified
its miners that union men would be dis
I charged and in week the membership
of the Union doubled
! A Duluth theatre is being bovcotted
Mayor Sutro. of San Francisco, has
| ordered that union men be employed in
his bath establishment
Detroit has 500 union shCemakers
/ but employers have never recognized
the organization. Mayor Pingree is in
/ terested i'm a new factory and the union
men are rejoicing.
Iron and steel workers will hold their
/ international convention at Detroit.
/ May 49,
Typographical Union No. 6. of New
| York. paid Ou- S46.000 TO UNEMPLOYED
members last year. A tax of l per cent.
{ is now talked of FOR this purpose. SO
that those in enforced idleness may be
\ given 81 a week.
A ST. Louis organization handles law
suits for unions and unionists for 20
cents q year
Cuban cigarm9kers at Tampa. Flori-
I da, pay I cen, day to a man who reads
for them newspapers, etc, in the fac
/ tory. Eight hours is a Lay.
! Chicago union carpenters will not
/ work for contractors who do not belong
/ to the employers organization.