Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-12
inst the employment. Of outside labor in

inst the employment of outside labor in
local work
Chicago structural irOnwOrkers de-
mand an increase OF ~ cents an hour.
BrCOkiyn's Municipal ownership ana
Economic League held a mass meeting.
Beverly. Mass. shOeWOrkers struck
against a cut of from 20 TO 80 per cent.
Detroit striking cigarmakers have
recently received $4,000 from out-oI-
town bodies.
Ii is said that there are 10000 gar
ment workers on strike throughout the
country.
san Francisco iron moulders protest
against non-union and prison-made
stoves and ranges.
Knights of Labor are pushing the bill
20 have money order offices receive
money on deposit.
The Illinois Bureau of Labor declares
that all personal property should be eX-
emp, from taxation.
The southern States Settlers con
ventiCn c0nyeneS at Southern Pines, y.
c.. on the 5th of May.
Chicago reports 500 new union paint
ers, thanks TO the agreement between
Che unions Of bosses and men.
Cleveland vessel-Owners say no yes
sells Will be unl0aded by union men II
no vessel is unloaded this summer.
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, or
California. will prosecute contractors
who owe $4,000 in wages to employees.
Chattanooga fruit growers assocla-
ti0ns recently met and received bids for
transportation from the various rail
roads
Boycott on an Anderson Ind) the
a-re has brought about begGariy ar
ray of empty benches for even Leading
attractions.
The Utah Constitution prohibits the
| exchange of bl3cklists by railroad
companies or Other interpretations, as
sociaions or persons.
On and after May the Union carpen-
/ ters viii enforce the So per day mini
mum wage on all work done in the city
and county of San Francisco.
Chicago stOnecuurers won a strike
. The agreement provides tina all stone
cutting machines shall be manned 10y
Daner man and q stCnecutter.
Cleveland blacksmilhs and boiler
makers helpers have organized under
/ X. of L. charter. The average $l.oO
q day and will probably demand 10 per
cent advance.
Detroit striking printers rejected the
proposition Of employers 20 settle the
strike by admitting non-union men 20
the union. They drew the line nj for
mer members of yhe union.
/ The Architectural Iron Workers In
| ion. of New York, has fined a member
/ S25 for running a small iron foundry in
/ his home and doing work there at
nights for his employer.
/ The G.. A. r. colony at Fitzgerald ia.
/ has 900 Inhabitants and 500 buildings
| have been erected in six months They
/ have q bank. and nail planning SASH and
/ door factories.
Union painters az SAN francisco de-
clare that men ON a city job get but 81
a day. despite rbe order of the Board OF
| Ci,v Hall Commissioners that no scab
workers nor Chinese be employed on
work under its Jurisdiction.
10 is said that the average number
1 Of working days I'm year in various
/ countries is as follows: I'm Russia,
T! 267: i'm Britain. 27S, i'm Spain, 290 in
Austria, 295; i'm Italy, 29S; in Bavaria
I and Bel GUM 800; I'm S3XOny and France
! 500: In Denmark, Norway and Switzer-
/ land 303; in Prussia, 300; i'm Holland
and North America, sos, and in Hun
| gary. 312.
Los Angeles unions will take an ac-
/ tive part i'm politics and the commit
/ tee On platform has declared for the
free and unlimited coinage of bobh gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of
/ 16 TO T." The committee turned down
/ Socialists and declared for the passage
. OF a law increasing the powers of the
/ Commissioners of Labor and appoint a
salaried deputy in each city of the State
/ having q population of over 10000.
When the street car working agree
ment at Detroit goes into effect May
the old trouble of two scales Of wages
\ will pssibly be bviated At present
/ men receive 19 cents an hour for the
/ first 10 months and then The amount is
raised 20 q cents per hour. The agree
ment committee who now have the
work i'm charge will ask the Citizens
/ Company to pay 81 cents to an men,.
/ The Detroit Railway ia bound by an
/ agreement to meet every advance Of
+ tho Citizens Company.