Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-23


ers' Union label.
Some Detroit teamsters struck for
an advance of so cents per week.
Not one union electrical worker IN
San Francisco is unemployed.
Kansas City sEnemasons want
hours and 1920 on March l.
The Building Trades Council OF San
Francisco, was recently formed.
Fall River weavers struck against
the introduction of the fines system.
No sub-contracting and union wages
is a late order Of the British Admir-
atty.
st. Joseph carpenters will demand
on April l eight hours and S2.40 a DAY.
The San Francisco Labor Council
sent a delegate to the good roads con-
yention.
Mahon will try to re-organize New
York and Brooklyn street railway
workers.
1t is said that Cleveland has only
fifty nOn-union boilermakers and iron
ship builders.
Professor Carly and Rev. F. w.
Belts were among the speakers at Sy-
racuse Labor Lyceum last Sunday.
Atlanta unions will hold mass
meeting to protest against the pro
posed location of a Pinkerton agency.
Each member of a New York bakers
union is taxed 10 cents a week Tor I'M
employed members Of the craft.
Chicago brewers in order to force
man into their association nay Q cut the
scale at Racine TO SO DaTrel.
Kansas City Ministers Alliance hes
decided that each member shall devote
one sermon in March to labor.
Cleveland bridge workers won
strike caused by the discharge OF two
men. Men were Teinstated and union
recognized.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union ex-
PEELED a musical union that refused to
amalgamate with the five other must
clans unions.
The Ohio Legislature will pass upon
a bill which will require journeyman
horseshoer to pass an examination
previous to being permitted to work at
the trade.
Buffalo housesmiths demand 1925
and nine hours NeN York house
smiths get s2.75 for eight hours and
Pittsburgers are paid $3.50 for nine
hours.
The Utah Legislature killed the bill
to guarantee to employees the right to
belong to labor organizations and for
bidding employers to discharge them
because of their membership in such
unions.
Dairy farming, market gardening,
raising of small fruits, poultry keep
ing, cheese and butter making, cam
ing of fruits and vegetables, etc, will
be the first industries started by the
Toronto Industrial Colony.
A bill to establish free employment
bureaus is before the New York Legis-
lature. Another proposed statute
regulates the pay of gripmen, motor
men, drivers and conductors OF cable,
electric and horse cars.
AT Biddeford, Me. 1000 textile work
ers struck for the reinstatement of one
of their men. Protest had been made
because a cut was fixed at 4915 yards,
with an increase of As cents. A
committee of six Americans and a half
dozen Frenchmen was appointed by
the strikers.
A bill before the New York Lcgis-
lature provides that no person shall
practice horseshOeing as a master or
iouTneyman hor-Gshoer in any city Of
the State having q population Of So,
coo or more unless he has passed an
examination as to his fitness. Each
applicant has to serve four years as
an apprentice
Detroit structural iron workers may
decide to ask for an advance this sea-
son from s175 to $3.50 a day.
The Cigar Makers International
Union is credited with having raised
wages from 90 to 100 per cent and
shortened the hours of labor from 16
to per day.
San Francisco tailors are organizing.
Helena Trades Council wants home
industries patronized.
There are 100 unions OF tin, sheet
iron and cornice workers.
Wooden workers at Markham, Can,
have been cut liz per cent.
Bishop Foley recently addressed 900
union newsboys at Detroit.
A New York Cigarmakers' Union
fines members who work during a
strike S25.
Only union horseshoers are now en-
Dloyed in Kansas City municipal work.
Ontario Cam retail hardware men
and stove and tinware makers have or
gained
The Central Labor Union Of Omaha
has taken steps to insure work for the
workingmen of Omaha, and has Sc
cured work for thirty men on the
streets The men will all be union men
and sets will be arranged to do the
work so that by change of the force
once or twice a week large number Of
workmen will receive work for one
half time