Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-31


Some Chicago carpenters won a
strike.
Detroit carpenters average '$1.34 a
day.
Milwaukee has 500 union carpenters
Fall River has $4,000 textile opera
tives.
All Duluth bakers signed the union
scale.
Kansas City painters won eight hours
and $40.
Detroit molders struck for $3.50 as
minimum par. :,
st. Paul and Minneapolis printers hold
joint meetings.
Toronto builders laborers accepted
Is cents an hour.
Switzerland railroaders won an ad-
vance of 25 per cent.
Good miners at Ishpeming, Mich,
earn $50 TO SIS month.
Convict labor killed the nut and bolt
manufacturers pool.
International Bricklayers' Union has
100000 in treasury.
Los Angeles now prohibits circus per-
formances on Sunday.
San Francisco brewers struck for rec
ignition of their union.
Timers and icemen formed unions at
Cleveland last Sunday.
Philadelphia's three unions OF cigar
makers will amalgamate.
White girls took the places OF Chinese
strikers at San Francisco.
The mayor of Louisville Is the presi-
dent Of the Miners Union.
A New York Assembly OF letter car
riers has over 1000 members.
The st. Paul Labor Exchange has ad-
ded laundry plant to its outfit.
San Francisco expert photographers
who draw on stone get $50 week.
The Chattanooga Central Labor
Union is again threatened with disrup-
ton by politics.
The New York Central Labor Union
is not in a hurry to join the Federation
of Labor.
Employees of Cleveland iron works
were granted an advance OF from 10 to
II per cent.
The manager of a summer resort near
Cincinnati has granted all the demands
of the walters.
Detroit structural iron workers de-
mand $3.50 for nine hours, and most OF
the bosses are willing.
The Journeymen Bakers and Confec-
TONERS International Union has over
$4,000 in treasury.
Owners of restaurants in the business
district OF Detroit organized and abol-
iShed the lucent meal.
Carpenters employed on Vanderbilt
North Carolina porperty won a strike
against non-unionists.
Toledo screwmakers struck against
the introduction Of milling machine
| hand into their department.
The Ohio law commanding labels on
prison-made goods has already caused
the failure of one contractor.
AT Detroit the tin, sheet iron and cor
nice workers nine hour demand has
now been universally granted.
The Custom Tailors' Union will have
it's label registered in the twenty-four
States having laws for that purpose.
The scale OF New York bakers union
calls for weekly wages from SO to SIG
and ten hours work per day.
mo ticket, no washee." At Balti-
more a Chinese laundryman who stood
by this principle won a case in court.
The convention of the Brotherhood
Of Painters and Decorators will be held
in the Chicago Municipal Council cham
Der.
The Detroit cigarmakers' strike has
been on year and has thus far cost
the International and other unions $780,
900.
San Francisco granite-cutters have
appealed to the Governor to prevent
convict-cut granite from being sent al
over the State.
The New York and Brooklyn union
tailors are being assessed so cents each
TO assist strikers in Evansville, Omaha
and Providence.
Some Detroit laborers were advanced
from 81 to SIPS a day, and teamsters
on the same job were given SO instead
of 81 day.
Towns along the G. T. R. want lower
rates on Saturday during the summer
to enable them to go to Toronto for the
purpose OF shopping.
The New York Silver Workers Union
has abolished the office of president and
vice president. WO cndTmen Will Dt
elected at every meeting.
Biddcford, Me-, textile operatives re-
sisted cut in wages, and the employ
ers decided to operate the mills 40 hours
per week at the old wages.
The mothers, wives sisters and sweet
hearts of street railway men have
formed national union and will hold a
convention next year in Toledo.
Four Detroit upholsterers employed
by casket company struck because
girls were employed. The introduction
of female labor cut wages from $3.50 to
81 day.
Frankfort, Ind, street laborers work
eight hours Wages for men and teams
were recently increased from Is and &c
cents per hour to 1874 and 3712 cents
per hour.
The Toledo Retail Merchants Asso-
citation announces its object to be the
protection of the people from sales OF
shoddy goods and worthless merchan-
disc generally.
LUMBER PLANT BURNED.