Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-24
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

A conservative estimate puts at ST.
O0O,O00,0O0 the amount Of capital now
. represented in monOpOlistic cOmbina-
lions formed in violation of the prin-
ciple of the antitrust law.
Omaha peddIers' license is $50.
Buffalo carpenters struck Tor eight
hours.
The Hosting Engineers Union, OF
Chicago. has declared war against
twelve Of the twenty-s-ven members Of
the Cut Stone Contractors Association.
because Of their refusal TO sign the
union agreement. which provides that
none but union hosting engineers shall
be emp,Oyed in the stone yards.
Chicago Building Trades Council
wants a representative of organized la
Dor upon the School Board.
Minneapolis walters struck for ten
hours.
Cleveland boilermakers have organ
lied.
WiuOna, Mimi. taiiOTs will organize.
Almost all the trades in Winons,
Mimi, have organized within the past
six or eight months.
The effort of the California Manufac-
turers' and Producers Association and
state Labor Commissioner +. l.. FitZ-
gerald 10 devise ways and means Of
ending the unfair competition of East
ern prisons with local manufacturers
is likely 30 be productive Of good re-
sul5s. There is now before Congress
what is known as the SOuthwick con-
vict labor bill, which prohibits the sale
in one STATE of the goods made by con-
victs in another State. New Jersey has
instructed its representatives. in Con-
gress TO fight for the bill. and reSoiu-
ions OF a similar order were recently
sent TO the Pacific Coast delegation
from the Manufacturers Association.
Several other States whose manufac-
turers are being injured by this unfair
competition hav5 taken the same stand.
California has long been a dumping
ground for goods made by convicts in
Eastern prisons.
w. NJ. Mohcu. Of the Street Railway
Workers Union. recently addressed a
large audience at the Sherman Street
milwaukee, NJ. z. Church.
salt Lake saloons now close on Sun
day.
Adrian. Mich. tailors struck for high
er wages.
BuffalO's LsbOrerS' Union is thriving.
Buffalo freight handlers held a mass
me ting at which 400 joined the union.
one employer declared that he was
perfectly willing TO pay % cents an
hour
Greater New York has 100 hotels.
Biddeford textile workers had their
wages reduced. and the Board of Trade
held a meeting at which the action Of
the EMPLOYERS was not endorsed.
Chicago blacklisted garment workers
will establish cooperative shop.
The Washington. D. c.. Federation of
Labor expelled from membership the
Galvanized Iron and Cornice Workers
for having taken a contract for work
which. under trade rules. belonged to
the timers.
Indiana master plumbers organized.
The receivers OF 4 New Haven firm
cut wages ten per cent. and the en-
moves say that they had no authority
for such action without an order from
court
National JCurneymen Eorseshoers
convened at Buffalo last week with 100
delegates.
Plasterers are deserving Buffalo.
Washington Cd. c. steamf,ters won
eight hours.
Washington %. c. trades unions
have petiticned the Commissioners to
give union men q Place on municipal
work.
The bakers and confectioaers of
Washington reported TO the Central La
Dor Union that all bread sold in the
District for less than FIVE cents a loaf
was q non-union product, and should
nc, be purchased by those belonging to
organized labor. Il was stated that
the bakers ard confsctioners will prob
ably publish a list of all the fair dealers
in the near future.
Labor Day preparations are on.
All the biuestone dealers ald cutters
il Saugerties and Kingston, n. Y, have