Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-22
WE WORLD OF LABOR.

Austria has 1000 unlOnlStS.
Buffalo hotel men organized.
Montana leads In wool growing.
Ohio boasts a girl matchmaker.
There are pumice-stone lifeboats.
Pitsburg is TO have a shoe mill.
Paris police carry dark lanterns.
Negroes own all houses at Sardis. Ga.
American horses draw London buses.
England has 10000 men making explo-
slves.
Americans use 100000 tons of sugar
annually.
The south's yearly coal output: SOOOO
o0o tons.
A 0Ianistee, Mich. pressrOom boasts a
fcrewoman.
Minneapolis is to have Building
Trades Council
Boston BARRIERS want uniform pay after
January 1.
Wages have been cut by the Minnea-
apolis street railway.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel
phia. cut wages.
Washington. D. c., butchers now dis
play a union card.
Federation of Labor has gained $500
members IN "a year
Detroit carpenters will work eight
hours on and after January 1.
Tho Metal Federation of America will
shortly Dee organized.
Engineers and bicycle workers will
form national unions.
Frisco Building Trades Council will
act a play Labor and Capital"
Washington printers will probably es-
tabNsh an out-of-work fund.
Minnesota teachers will probably be
pensioued after 20 years service.
The Printers Home at Colorado Springs
will have a hospital annex.
The American Federation Of Labor has
q native organizer at work in Japan.
Boston stationary engineers organized.
Los Angeles is to have Home Prod
ucts Exhibition"
Forty-Gve unions were represented at
tuesdays meeting at the Central Labor
Union Of Brooklyn
The Hebrew Hatters' Union. OF New
ark. has applied to the Socialists Alliance
for a charter.
Adrian. Mich. grocers will hereafter
close at $3.50 every evening except Satur-
day.
Boston Merchants Association de-
mauds uniform freight rates from the
Eeet
Frisco master bakers will not permit
dealers 10 sell a loaf for less than five
cents.
The knitting workers and the embroid-
erers Of Brooklyn have amalgamated and
adopted a SOcialistic Platform.
"The Guuotine of the Compositor" is
tho apt term which Australian printers
apply 20 the linotype machines.
The biggest department store in San
Francisco has been forced by boycott
TO agre 20 employ unionists.
New Bedford weavers struck against
the introduction Of the piece system in
place of $40 a week.
The wood carvers' union. OF New York.
forced the police to stop Sunday work in
a factory.
A half dozen cities have recently organ
lied Credit Mems Associations. War is
10 be waced on fraudulent bankrupts.
New York City pays Es policemen 81
400 q year. firemen $3.50. street sweepers
500 and it's school teachers 1904.
Conductors on Philadelphia L. S. mail
cars get S125 a day; street railway labor
ers have been cut TO ST.
Walters Union No. 1. Of New York. has
instructed its secretary TO submit list
of the members who have failed TO get
their final naturalization papers.
C.veland plumbers claim that some of
their craft are unjustly refused certid-
i Gates by the City Examining Board.
A Grimma. SaNony, paper firm not only
shares profits. but furnishes square meals
for five cents. and sell at a light profit all
goods except liquors.
The Brooklyn Labor Lyceum will cele-
brata It's dfteenth anniversary at the Ly-
ceum grounds on Thanksgiving day.
California State Miners Association
wants an additional Cabinet officer whose
duties Ii will be 10 look after mines and
miners claims and rights.
Illinois State Federation Of Labor wants
convict labor confined 10 manufacturing
articles for consumption in State institu-
lions and I'm breaking stone 20 be used In
making good roads through the State
The now rule adopted by Chicago
Plumbers Union. requiring all employers
who work at the trade 10 join the organi-
zauon. has created a sensation among
members q the Master Plumbers Asso-
citation. A rule of the bosses union eX-
pressly prohibits this.
At scala. Fla. in January will be form
"a national association OF tobacco
growers. manufacturers and handlers
This move has become necessary since
the present troubulous condition Of Cuba
win not admit of this country looking
longer 20 that source for her supply Of
tobacco.
Never IN the history of the United
States has such q wave Of organization
as 40 present exists been known, says the
Midland Mechanic But in all this boom
there IS one drawback-the small town.
by small 20 IS not meant towns where
there are 500 or more workingmen of the
various trades. but the places where but
three or four WORKINGS Of any one trade
find employment
Buffalo plumbers are at war with
hardware men. The latter claim that the
plumbers instigated an order prohibiting
hardware men from making water con-
uections. For revenge they propose to
organize central hardware dealers
plumbing shop. 1t viii be capitalized at
$4,000. and most OF the hardware men of
the city VIII take stock in IT. They say
they will reduce prices over one-half,
Legislation urged by Governor-elect
Pincree. Of Michigan: Two-cent fare on
am the roads Of the lower peninsula, at
least Taxation Of railroad property the
same as other property. The application
of the principles Of the Interstate Com
morce act 20 commerce within the State.
A vote of the people upon public fran
ch.ses. such as street railway charters.
The suppression Of trusts and monopoiies