Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-16

Out next May the movement VIII We gen
eral for eight hours.
Last Sunday the topic for discussion
at tbs meeting of the Los Angeles, Cal,
Educational Labor Association was:
Resolved, that the United States Sen
ate is absolutely useless and should be
abolished"
The Cooperative Labor Exchange at
Santa Paula, Cal, will establish de-
pository for the storage and handling
Of all the products of the valley. A
creamery, millinery shop and steam
laundry will be established.
Brooklyn women union garment
workers are raising a fund for the pur-
pose of eXhuming the body Of the young
man who in 1914 attempted the life Of
King Frederick William ". of Prussia.
1t will be cremated.
AT Cleveland, O., Rev. William H.
Guy proposes 10 start labor exchange.
He proposes to give out checks for la
Dor performed or for property, and
when a sufficient number of city eX-
changes have been organized to estab-
lish a general clearing house for the
United States, through which all the
checks will pass.
In Detroit shops using typesetting
machines fifty hours constitute a weeks
work, whereas in shops not using ma
chimes the employees are obliged TO work
fifty-siX hours a week. The machine
men are paid 40 cents an hour for day
work and 80 cents an hour for night
work, all other employees receiving the
uniform scale of $15 a week for hand
work.
The anti-rent movement was dis
cuss0d recently by ConfectiOners' and
Cake Bakers Union Of New York. It
is proposed to start a movement similar
TO that proposed in the Central Labor
Union in 1856. The plan was TO COM
pei landlords to reduce rents by q gen.
eral refusal Of tenants to pay the pre-
vailing rates. Ii is claimed then that
there would not be a sufficient number
OF marshals to evict the army Of ten
ants.
amy person who comes in to take
the place of a striker is the worse off
because of that strike" says Professor
George GuntOn. He was out of work
before, and he would not have had this
opportunity but for the effort % the
others to improve their position Then.
I say. that Job does not exist for him.
Between the claims of these two. all
the interests of the community are in
favor of the man who is willing to sac
rifice something to improve his situa-
ton"
The bill of the National Society of
Factory Inspectors will make the manu-
facture of clothing in tenement houses
practically impossible. Congressman
Sulzer has the bill in charge. BY its
provisions every manufacturer will
have TO pay a license of $500 a year for
every contractor he EMPLOYS each con-
tractor will have to pay $500 a year for
every sub-contractor. and each sub
contractor will have to pay a like
amount for every man he employs out
side of his shop. Contractors will be
required to pay $500 each for shop
licenses.
Omaha is to have a cooperation
laundry. Oakland, Cal. has a similr
institution. and workers average s. .
week The workers every Saturday
night. after deductions for expenses
and 10 per cent. for a contingent fund,
will divide among them the receipts
pro rata according to the time nut in
q labor. No one will be paid at
higher rate than another. the manager
receiving the same ner hour as those in
the wash rooms. The laborers will be
worked in Shifts. one company a few
days or q week. then another and so
on. the aim being constantly to relieve
those most in need Of relief.