Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-10
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

ganize.
Saginaw has a Woman's Union La
bel League.
Omaha X. Of L. and Federation are
at war.
Lynn painters and decorators are or
St. Paul garment workers held leap
year party.
Virginia now enjoys legal Saturday
half-holiday.
have consolidated.
Indianapolis has only five non-uhioh
upholsterers.
New York Italian marble workers
will get together.
Brooklyn knitters and worsted work
erS are organizing.
indianapolis reports another union
! furniture factory.
A big Detroit shoe factory has adopt
| ed the union label.
'Frisco's three barber unions Will
| probably amalgamate.
International hoTseshoers meet at
| Buffalo this week.
Jacksonville, Ky, car makers struck
! against extra work.
Indianapolis timers union galned oo
| members in a month.
! Duluth unionists have formed a mu-
| tual insurance company.
Chicago bCiler-makers want an ad-
vance of % cents a day.
! Superior CWis.) saloons must close at
midnight and all day Sunday
Members CT a Kansas City, Kan,
union acted "The Long Strike
Louisville unionists are endeavcring
10 exterminate nickel barber shops.
An Indiana law fines employers who
prevent men from joining unions.
TOledo unions are giving financial aid
| to Detroit's striking cigarmakers.
Washingtonians talk of establishing
a manual training school for negroes.
CigarmakerS at Chicago are prose-
cutting firms counterfeiting the union
| label.
San Francisco now has an Italian
and French union of carpenters and
joiers.
Indianapolis unicnists will boycott
| drug stores that handle non-union CT
gars.
Milwaukee retail union clerks are
| prosecuting merchants who sell on Sun
day.
The National Christian Citizenship
! League demands the abolition OF child
labor.
! Louisville contract labor unions turn
/ ed down a proposition for a daily labor
paper.
San Francisco BARRIERS want law
| to cOmpel the closing of shops at noon
| on Sunday
A four-year boycott forced New
York firm to employ union men ex-
clusively.
Attention is being called to the many
| unemployed clergymen, many Of them
! veterans.
A big baking company at Indianapol-
is has given its employees permission to
join labor unions.
The Chicago bridge and structural
iron workers scale was signed by a
| leading contractor last week.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union has
decided TO boycott the street railways
controlled by an unfair" employee.
The AmaIgamated Association of
Street Car Workers claims to be thriv-
ing in Canada and Mexico as we'll as in
the States.
Philadelphia negroes want TO be en-
ployed on street railways, but neither
the company nor the union has given
| them encoura cement.
Only two Clevelad contractors re-
fused to grant eight hours. Then their
employees were engaged by other con-
tractors at higher wages.
! Union, whose membership was about
5000, organized in about 90 local I'M
ions, has given up the ghcst,
Brooklyn's Board of Walking Dele
gates demands that only citizens shall
be employed on municipal work, and
| that union" wages be paid.
Ex-Burgess McLuckie, of Homestead
fame, is making speeches in which he
claims that the Carnegie Company is
defrauding the Government.
The Amalgamated Association is
| credited with killing the bill before the
| Ohio Legislature intended to increase
the percentage of prison made goods.
The Brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners will make a determined effort
to thoroughly organize every city and
town in the United States during the
| the ensuing year.
The Great Northern Line ordered all
employees. under pain of dismissal, to
| not join the A. r. U. and then $50 dock
hands at Duluth joined the union in a
week.
German-American Typographical
| Union No. celebrated the tenth ami
versary of the introduction of the eight
! hour workday at the Brooklyn Labor
| Lyceum.
Il is said that more than 100000 OF
! the 400 900 railroad men of England re-
ceive less than 9 cents day for long
] days work, and the bsSt of them re-
ce.ve less than 81 day.
At Chicago the proposition to ANAL
| gamate the Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, and Labor Congress has been wrec-
ked on the same old political rocks that
caused ths secession movement over a
year ago.
John Boil. secretary of the Cigar
! Makers International Union. said re-
Gently that he believed the project OF