Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-05
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.


Duluth has SO unions.
Debs favors woman's suffrage.
China has many labor unions.
Terre Haute teamsters struck.
Frisco shoe clerks organized.
Boston has 5000 union brewers.
Leadville miners struck for So day.
America has over $4,000 Touring
mills.
Cleveland puddlers demand s4.621A a
ton.
New York has a State Teachers As
ISOLATION.
Hartford laundry workers will organ
iZe.
Duluth talks Of building labor tenn
pie.
Washington Cd. c. timers are get
ting together.
Washington now has a White Bar
bers' Union.
Washington Cd. c. is to have a union
label league.
Marlboro (Mass) shoe workers struck
against a cut.
MurfreesborO N. c. railroad labor
.ers get $1.O5 a day.
Grand Rapids union barber shops
closed at noon July 4.
Nashville union BARRIERS are prose-
cutting Sunday BARRIERS.
National Farmers Congress viii be
held in Indianapolis.
Indianapolis has only one non-union'
paint shop of any size.
Indianapolis clerks are endeavoring
70 close stores on Sunday.
ST. Louis Italians are divided on the
question Of Sunday work.
San Diego is considering the securing
OF a city water plant.
Italians have taken the places Of
Clinton Qnd) striking miners.
The $4,000 union tailors of New York
and Brooklyn will shortly strike.
Astoria fishermen lost a strike. They
thus accept AZ cents for all fish.
There are nearly 5000 men in the
Railway Postal Clerks Association.
American Flint Glass Workers Union
will start factories and build homes.
LabOrers in Terre Haute Qnd) brick
yards get So and molders 1915.
Terre Haute sent a carload Of provis
ions to Sullivan, Ind, striking miners.
Printers enjoy the nine-hour day in
Austria. Hungary, Germany and Swift
zerland
Pittsburg's Director of Public Safety
wishes TO form a company of cOlored
fremen.
At Gilt Edge, Col, common laborers
bet SO a day; skilled trades. 81; board,
St a week.
Typewriter girls in a Chicago build
ing ousted an immoral tenant by
threatening TO strike.
The Brooklyn Metal Polishers' and
Buffers Local Brotherhood has increas-
cd its initiation fee to s..
The boss brewers of Washington,
( D. c.. have agreed TO recognize the
Painters Protective Union.
New Haven Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton says the wholesalers are cutting
prices and selling at retail.
"OverwOrk as a Cause of Accidents"
is o suggestive title of a report by
Switzerland's factory inspector.
New England brokers convened at
Providence. They want a 6O-hour
week and inspection of shops by police.
The union housesmiths of New York
have decided to demand minimum
scale of $3.50, beginning on September
1 next.
Women clothing makers in COlling-
wood. Victoria. Australia, struck
against a cut below $3.50 per week, u
hours per day.
Milwaukee City Council has been no
,iRsd by the City Attorney that the city
cannot buy stock in the proposed mu-
nicipal railway. -,
The United Labor League of ALE
gheny County Pa has inaugurated
series Of lectures on the labor question
10y eminent men.
Bartenders of Pittsburg have organ
lied for shorter hours and better wa
yes. They call their OganlzauOn Uhe
Knights Of the Silver Spoon.
Toledo BARRIERS Union fined one OF
its members So for doing paper hang
ing on Sundays, to the detriment OF
regular workers in that branch.
The Ladies' TailOrS Union, OF New
York. promised committees of Anarch-
lists and Socialists TO attend their re-
unions on July and July II respect
lively
In Brooklyn the average weekly wa
ges of bakers are as follows: First
hands. 1882; second hands, 1852;
third hands, 1882; general average,
$50.
The active member ship of the San
Francisco Merchants Association is
now over the SEQ mark. The organi-
zation is taking a spirited interest in all
public matters.
.Ihe industrial field" says Gompers.
ais Uttered with more cor1Ses Of organ