Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26

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At Port Alice laborers get $18 year.
Budapest boasts an underground troll
ley.
Greater New York has four labor
! lyceumS.
Detroit is to have another labor ex-
! change.
Canadian Labor Congress Endorsed
single tax.
Chicago tile layers won strike that
lasted six weeks.
Half the strikes in Germany last year
were successful.
cents an hour.
| Cleveland machinists struck for the
reinstatement of two men.
| The Hebrew Bakers Union, of New
York, have 700 members.
| Cincinnati brewers may strike in
breweries where union-made barrels are
not used.
Several members of Parliament adj
dressed the English Trades Union
! Congress.
Alexandria, Ind, plate glass work.
ers struck against a cut from $1S5 to
SLIGO day.
The secretary of the Fall River
OldoHclS OHlOl LAS TSSl2ueu 10 JOIN
the police force.
Pittsburg flint glass workers, who
struck for sos day, have rejected
the offer of ST.
Indiana's Labor Commissioners set
| tied the strike at Elwood. The firm
will recognize the union.
Duluth's unionists talk of holding an
industrial bazaar, at which their work
would be exhibited.
Bookkeepers held a national conven-
ton at Detroit. Charles Rowett, of
Kansas City, was made president
The New Castle, Eng, branch Of the
Cooperative Wholesale Society donat-
ed $4,000 to the striking engineers.
Fall River loomfxers held shop
meeting to protest against being asked
to do more work than they can do well.
Pittsburg street railway employees
will shortly be granted 81 for 10-hour
! day. Some will be employed but nine
hours.
The 40 delegates at the 10th annual
| convention of brewery workmen in
Boston last week represented 10000
men.
Chicago's Municipal Civil Service
| Commission declined to furnish 1000
laborers to firm whose men had
struck.
The contractor awarded a contract
for boilers by the Fall River School
Board had to agree to employ union
lists exclusively.
Denver bindery girls struck because
two non-union girls were employed
The union scale calls for 81, So and SO
week.
New York electrical workers won a
strike for union wakes and the en-
| ployment of unionists exclusively
Strike lasted eight weeks.
The payments made weekly to Eng
fish strikers are as follows: Engi-
neers, 15s.; allied trades, 12s.; non-un-
| ionists, S. to los, and laborers, S.
! At Pittsburg shortly there will be
! Miners day"-a day given over to
1 the celebration of the miners success
| full struggle against starvation wages.
Washington's Typographical Union
| adopted resolutions asking that the
Government Printing Office be with
drawn from the classified Civil Ser
vice.
Fall River Central Labor Union
wants textile school established in
that town. Objection is made to the
oNtiFiIy VI " OllllASnt OulOulStS III DOI-
itics.
The unions which compose the
Washington Building Trades Council
are for the greater part or entirely af-
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor.
1t was decided at the Canadian
Trades Congress to call upon the Pro-
vincial Government to compel NUM-
hnx inn LOT.
10000 to appoint qualified plumbing in
spectors.
The last report of the United Hat
tiers of North America shows a work
ing membership of over 6,057 Journey
men and apprentices, of which over
1,126 were employed in Orange. N. 7.
A prominent Brooklyn Unionist
claims that those unions that have la
bells are more careless about asking for
union label goods than those who do
not use labels on the goods they man
ufacture.
The action of the Building Trades
Council in pressing the heads of the de-
| partments to put into force the eight
hour law relative to the employment
of mechanics and laborers on city work
is to be carried into court.
Jacksonville cigarmakers struck be-
cause all the men employed before the
shutdown were not given work when
operations were resumed. They ask
ed that the work be divided in order to
provide work for all.
The National Laundyrmen's Asso-
, citation, at its convention in Boston
took the stand that it would not rec
ognize the Chinese. This it did bv
tabling certain resolutions which
sought to establish a boycott of Chin
csc laundries.
The National Laundryman's Asso-
ciation' is the title of a new organiza-
ton of capitalists started last week in
London. This institution is to fight
trade unionism and assist in providing
non-unionists when strikes or lockouts
| occur.
The striking Cornice and SkvIieht
| makers of New York have notified the
| Masters Association that it will here
after not deal with that body as an as
ISOLATION in the settlement of its griev-
| ances. The strike must be settled nv
agreements with individual bosses.
The brewery workers of Superior
| are talking of forming a Joint union
| with the Duluth brewers. similar To
| the old interurban union of the press-
men. Under the pressmen's union the