Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25

days-a-week practice.
Fall River SlaSher Tenders Union
asked man who is a slasher tender
during the day and barber at night
to Join the union. He declined and was
expelled BY the BARRIERS union.
Over 5000 new members have been
added to the knights Of Labor. The
vote on a reafhliation Of the window
glass organization with the knights
has been taken and not less than 200
votes were cast against the PROPOSE
ton.
The American Agents Association
claims that its war on one OF the In
dustrial insurance companies last year
cost that company S1O00,000. The COM
pany has refused to employ canvassers
and collectors who belong to the asso-
citation. These agents handle union
made goods exclusively,
The union label will receive great
impetus on Labor Day at Chicago. Not
only will every horse in line be COM
PEELED to wear a shoe bearing the la
bel. but every man who walks in the
parade is expected to wear boot or
shoe upon which the stamp OF the
Boot and Shoe-workers' international
Union appears.
Fishermen at Vancouver, B. c.,
struck. The men, including several
hundred cheap workers, demanded 10
cents a fish, and the Gamers are reso-
Lutte to give no more than ten cents,
though last year for time 20 cents
was the rate.
The Minnesota Union Label League
has asked merchants in Minneapolis
to include in their contracts with
newspapers a clause that they can can
eel their contracts providing there is
any labor trouble with the paper If
they see fit to do so.
J. P. Morgan has gained control Of
nearly all the great railroad systems,
and intends to equip them all with the
third rail and use electricity as the mo-
tive power. When this is done what
will become Of the skilled trade of the
I locomotive engineers ?-Journal of the
K. of L.
The Socialists demand that tbs city
of Atlanta take possession Of and OPP
! crate all the street railways in the city;
that it operate its own gas works, cleo
/ trio light plant, water supply; that Ii
/ establish free public bath houses, and
/ that it will engage in any other bust
ness which will benefit the people
/ The boycott on the product Of the
I Overman Wheel Company, Of Chicopee
/ Falls, Mass, has been removed by the
metal pOlishers, buffers, platers and
{ brass pOlishers' union Of North Ameri-
ca. The company on its part will
cease discriminating against union
men, ending the lockout, which has
been in force since the strike eighteen
months ago.
Away back in the fifties, an old res
identer named Maltby. who lived in
| Cleveland, o., attempted to unite all
labor organizations in such a body as
the Knights Of Labor He met with
resistance from several, and among
others Z. NJ Arthur, Of the Locomotive
Z engineers, wrsain common with many
f the members of his order, thought
che skilled nature of their work freed
them from all danger Of competition
The history OF the labor movement
in the United States is strewn with the
wrecks OF born n. lsa esg g6uRR 20 Ft sf
o0llVion' Perhaps the most strikine
ease OF this sort was that of Martin
IRONS. He was invited to come East
70 confer with Jay Gould and the othe,
oLnclals or the Missouri Pacific. and
tney treated him with the considera.
tlon his seeming Importance warrant
ed Irons found it impossible to So.
cure employment anywhere. in splta NJ
/ the TACT that he was an expert me-
ehanlc. The men for whom he had
sacrificed everything. wi.I manv oi
Mnom ne was decidedly unpopular, be-
cauSe ne had at first opposed the
suiKe' turned from him unanimously
III MS hour OF need. He finally settled
uoWn 10 the occupation of selling pea
nuts and candy.-New York Press