Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-06
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.


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GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
Denver has 30 unions
Vienna boasts cork paYeuents.
America has 500 street railroads.
Pianos are made of paper.
Indiana has Il woOlen mills.
Brewers have 12O unions.
S3NOny has weaving schools.
SaXouy has 40 commercial schools.
Racine mas cooperative paper.
Boston has negro saiOOnkeepers.
The Dublin GralanD Trades Council
represents 1900 men.
Boston street cleaners have a union.
1nliana Socialists have q State ticket
in the field.
Plymouth CEng) enjoys 2-ceut car
fares and the employees S-hOur day.
Wellington. n, T., hasn't a non-union
printer.
Spanish car drivers get SO per week.
Buffalo gives employment TO over So
600 men.
Detroit has over 1000 union carper-
ters.
Advertising costs London firms $1O,-
0000, 900 a week.
Al Wallace Ida, wages range from
$3.50 20 81 per day.
Negroes who own shops in Boston EN-
ploy while clerks exclusively.
All Grand Rapid barber shops will be
closed all day on Labor Day.
Milwaukee Photographers will organ
lie.
New Zealand X. Of L. want a 5-day
week
Prince Of Wales pays S12 for trousers.
Des Moines policemen sc, $50
month
Chicago Engineers Un.cn has in
creased It's initiation fee 10 s..
Maine textile workers want law fix
ing a weeks work u. a hours
Frisco saloon men wish to abolish the
free lunch.
Trunk and bag makers are endeavOr-
ing Go form a national union.
Fan River street car lines mus, water
the streets.
Frisco Single-taxers are arranging
for series Of Delaware" meetings 10
De held in various parts of the State
Los Angeles brickmakers have organ
lied and viii attempt TO have Chinese
w0rkuen discharged
Wood in the mountains above Day
ton, Wash, is considered 10 be worth
only 70 cents per cord, says the Cou-
r.er.
Tn every school in Paris there is
res 8urant where free meals are served
~ AZ "a r.n
for them.
In Austria cigarmakers are govern
m6nt employees, and receive from $3.50
10 s. a week.
In Bohemia textile workers get 50
cents a week. Some agricultural work.
ers earn from Z to 20 cents a day
The South Australian Labor party
rega.ued all the seats in Parliament pre-
v,Ousiy held by them, and in addition
captured two others.
At q meeting of the Washington. d.
c., Federation of Labor resolution was
passed requesting each union TO sub
scribe the sum of 81 for the purpose Of |
obtaining the standard magazines for
the use of the library.
The National Union of United Brew
cry Employees will hold its annual con-
vention IN Cincinnati on September 20.
4 law against unfair competition in
trade" has come into force in Germany.
It is aimed against false descriptions
and other forms OF swinIling by adver-
gsements. Nct only The advertisers
but the newspaper publishing the ad-
yerts5meL. may be prosecuted.
ST. Paul BARRIERS Union has decided
% levy a fine OF 81 on any member pur
chasing barber coats without the label
Of the Garment Workers Union being
attached.
The New York Architectural Iron
Workers Union fined one member $50
for remaining at work in shop while
the other members employed there Went
on strike.
The National Convention of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Track Focemen
will convene az ST. Louis, Mo. Monday,
October ..
The secretary Of the Woodworkers'
Union says: THE wages paid thousands
of w00l-wOrkers are about 80 per cent.
less than the same class OF mechanics
receive I'm some European countries.
Last YEAR there were l75 strikes in
Austria. involving $4,000 workers. The
most Important were among textile, /
MEAL and brick workers. These were !
successful in raising wages and obtain
ing better c0uditious.-Graud Rapids
Workman
He who fails TO symp3,h!ze with the /
movements OF labor; he who comp,a- /
Gently or ndnsrenCly c0n,emp,a,es the |
awful results Of present economic and |
S]1.-l conditions is not only the uppo- |
ueo- ot the best interests of the human /
family, hut is pardceps crim.nis TO all !
wrongs inflicted upon the men and wo- !
men OF eur time the children of to-day,
-le manhood and the wOm1nh0od OF the |
future Gcmp5rs.
The Wase-eayuers of the country who /
have united in organizations for self /
protection owe is 20 themselves and
t1tE good cause 20 follow wise and tenn /
perate counsel. 20 choose as their lead /
ers men OF character. intelligence and |
Understandable shy of schemes and
policies into which self-Seeking dema- /
gCgucS would lead them By right and |
jUjicioUS exercise of their united |
strength they can accomplish much
good for themselves and q, the same /
time be perfectly jus. 20 othe~S-At- |