Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-21
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

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ST. Souls is to have a cooperative
F congress.
The United Hebrew Trades, of New
York. has stationed a representative at
Essex Market Court TO look out for the
. interests Of Hebrew union men and wo-
men and to keep tab On ths reform mag
istrales.
San Francisco backmen won their
strike for $3.50 a day, but when their
leaders We're not reinstayed the strike
q was renewed
san Francisco mas a Socialist Labor
party
( Il is said that at Ishpeming. Mich,
I fully 80 per cent. of the workers are or
1 ganiz q, and similar conditions prevail
in the other mining towns of the upper
| peninsula.
The Railroad Te,eErapher says that
50 per cent. Of the railroad employees in
this country receive less than 81 day.
Omaha brewers were locked out.
Omaha has two hat factories.
A labor demonstration at Muncie,
Ind. last Sunday attracted thousands
from nearby towns. Addresses were
made by the County Prosecutor, Mayor
and priest. Judge George II. Rooms,
of the Circuit Court. occupied a position
on the stand in the face OF a protest card
published denouncing such demCnstra-
tions on Sunday.
Detroit and Toledo street car workers
Will be ass Ssed 81 each a week for the
Milwaukee strikers.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union turn
ed down a man who offered TO address
ii on the money question.
Only citizens are permitted on Brook
Ign municipal work.
The United Labor League Of Ale
gheny county, Pa. wants TO begin a cru
SADIE against Sunday work
A watch trust is threatened.
The New York Central Labor Union
is bankrupt.
French walters divide tips among
their associates.
Newark has an early closing associa-
ton.
Newark street 1aborers get SIPS a
day.
India has 10000 cotton operatives.
Saginaw has a Ladies' Union Labor
League
The New York United Hebrew Trades
have declined to join in the parade of
the Socialist Labor Party July H. to
ratify the national and State nominal
tons Of the party.
A NV York sheet and plate glass gla-
tiers assembly has raised its initiation
fee TO SO
England has 100000 trade union
ISIS.
John Turner president Of the United
Shop Assistants Union (retail clerks.
Of London, England, lecured at Buff
falo.
Buffalo scooperS won their strike.
Buffalo fathers union is thriving.
Cincinnati unionists suggest the en-
ployment Of American cOnvicts in the
building Of the Nicarauga canal.
In Vienna laundry women work II
hours a day for $3.50 a week and their
meals.
Lynn. Mass. has a labor temple.
London has 10000 building trades
uIionists
The determination of the distillers O.
Kentucky to suspend operations for the
period Ofeighteen months-frOm July l
1896, to January I. 1S9S-is meeting
with the entire approval of the whole
sale dealers.
New York bakers run an employment
bureau.
Newark is to have new brotherhood
Of tailCrS.
Bere3. O.. quarrymen struck for the
discharge of nOn-uniOnists.
A community in which the working
people are vastly in the majority sell
dom selects wOrkingman 10 I'LL polit-
ical position. says the Cincinnati Com
mercal Should a man who has spent
years az his trade aspire to occupy a rep
resentative position his ambition is gem
orally crushed by sneers of contempt Of
others OF hs calling. His associates, as
q rule. prefer TO be represented by man
who has not sunk so low as to perform
manual labor. or who at least has risen
10 what they consider above the work
ingman's sphere in life. What pity
that workingmen should not consider
theirs the peer of any calling.
Sacramento plasterers organized.
A National Building Trades Council
is proposed.
The Steamfitters' National Conven-
ton adopted law requiring eXamina-
tons a. members when they go from