Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-20
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

PittSburg has $4,000 un4On-StS.
Canada sends eggs to England.
Frisco has a Chinese detective.
Chicago gas-fitters won a strike.
Milwaukee hotel keepers organized.
A luminous cat eXterminates rats.
There are paper telegraph wires.
Topeka has a cooperative daily pa
per.
Chattanooga hasn't an idle moulder.
Toronto has no Sunday street cars.
There are 5000 union bicycle work.
ers.
Brooklyn druggists want shorter
hours.
National laundrymen met at Chicago.
Debs A. r. U. has 249, 900 members.
Delaware Single Takers held a State
convention.
Ohio brewers convention fixed the
baerrl rate for beer at IS.
Cleveland unions talk of securing a
labor temple.
Les Angeles has only one non-union
paper.
Canton printers run a cooperative
daily.
No new underground bakeries can be
constructed in Ohio.
OhiO's State Liquor League met last
week.
There are $4,000 Brotherhood Fire
men.
Tennessee is to have a State Fedora
ton.
Washington, D. c., has but four nom
union photographers.
Salvation Army. of Oakland, Cal, will
furnish farms for the unemployed.
The business Of the New York Union
of the Marble Mosaic Workers is con-
ductel in Italian.
Wages of garment workers in a s..
Paul factory were cut 10 per cent. last
Monday
Los Angeles negroes, at a recent
meeting denounced trades unions.
Ohio miners wages during the past
year averaged S1S.4S q month.
The American Typographical
Union. which IS a branch of the Inter-
national Typographical Union, has now
1115 members belonging to % local
unions.
Two PAiladelphians walked 10 Hobo
ken-10o miles-in quest of work. They
were macAin.sts, but failed to secure
employment.
The Masons' and Builders Association
Of Chicago has agreed 10 recognize the
Hold Carriers and Building Laborers'
Union.
In 1873 there was no such thing as q
telephone; there was no such thing as an
electric light; there was no such thing
as an electric motor.
Il is said that there is a body of nom
union strike breakers. They are brought
In when q strike occurs, and receive
higher pay than the men on strike.
Southern Pacific labOrers at Algiers.
La. successfully resisted a cut from 80
cents 70 % cents an hour. They get 40
cents an hour for overtime.
Members of the Chicago Fire Depart
ment viii not be permitted hereafter 10
manufacture bicycles for sale TO the gen.
eral public.
Blacksmi,hs Union No. S, New York,
recently engaged in a tug-ofwar with
the Liberty Dawn Association of Coach
Drivers. The cOachmen won.
The cooperative movement in Great
Britain has assumed such proportions
tina. merchants an manufacturers are
making war on it. Many emjoyes have
been ordered TO sever connection under
pain Of dismissal
Mr.. GOmpers says that he has sent an
invitation to the Canadian Dominion
Federation OF Labor to elect fraternal
delegates 10 the next meeting of the
American Federation of Labor, which
viii occur in December IN Cincinnati.
II look forward" says GOmpers, "to
the time when the five railroad organi-
tons will be federated in one organiza-
ton. perhaps. 10 be known as the
Brotherhood of Railroad Employees and
in the course of time, perhaps, fedora
ton will give way to amalgamatlon."
The total value of goods produced or
work done in the United States for the
various States and Territories in all the
State prisons and penitentiaries for 1895
was $19042,472.
A recent order Of the Commissioner Of
Police OF Savannah forbds both long
boards and long moustaches, and re
quires that these appendices, when
worn, shall be neatly ;rimed.
One of the cardinal planks Of the pro
gramme of the new International Union
of Seamen and Riverside Workers will
be a demand that the wages OF casual
l2borers at the docks shall be increased
from 81 to "a per hour.
ne Dublin Trades Council recently
adopted a resolution expressing their
warmest thanks 10 Archbishop Walsh
for The manner in which ne has brought
TO a happy termination the unfortunate
dispute which so long existed IN the
Dublin building trade"
During the year the plasterers Of De
trOit added 60 cents per day 10 their wa
geS. Norfolk. Va. 90 cents, without
strike; Indianapolis. 10 cents, after
three DAYS strike; Dss M0ines, Ia. 40
cents. The most remarkable advance
was in Minneapolis, where the rate was
increased 81 per day.
A proposition will be submitted to the
International Typographical Union
when il meets next month at Colorado
Springs to remove the headquarters Of
the union from indianapolis 10 Wash
ington. and 10 buy the building the local
union Of printers erected in the latter
city four years ago.
New York carpet workers struck
AGAINST a cut of 10 per cent. The strike
is the result of the action of the II men
employed as card cleaners at S1.35.
They we're followed out OF the mills by
the printers. color mixers and color
bows. The printers get about sic a
week. the color mixers S1.S5 day and
the color boys $3.50 wsk.
An Ottowa dispatch says; A large dep
ut9t.on Of railway men waited on the
government this morning and asked for