Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-25

overtime.
The annual May Day demonstration
will not take place in Dublin (IrelanO
this year
The fifth annual workingmen's con-
gress conveneS in Stockholm, Sweden,
in July next.
Milwaukee and Keokuk business men
have organized to prevent railroad dis
elimination.
England'S gasworkers' union has OBJ
tanned higher pay for 1900 men the past
four months.
New York Socialist clothing workers
are rejOniug the United Garment Work
ers' Uu;oC.
St. Paul bakers have wiped out Of ex
iS-enCa q lakery that intended TO kill
their union
Toled)g street railway company on
May I will restore the cut of ten per
cent made on February 1.
Chic,gO p'4StTrers labOrers want 80
cents per hour and building iabOrers
25 cents on May T.
Nashville BARRIERS declare that dele
gates % the Trades Council don't pat
rCHize union BARRIERS.
Duluth Trades Assembly kicks
against the action Of the city fathers in
cutting down the force of firemel.
Butler Pa, plate glass works hes cut
wages of layers 90 50 day; plasterers
$165, ana grinders 1925.
Detroit negro lougshoremen (union-
is,s) wO2 q str.E" for S25 as the rate
for nm 2odina a cargo of limestone.
The Ge'ulI W0Ihngman's Singing
Society Will sins at the Erie Pa,
mass-mo2JIg. to be held ON Nav l.
An effort is being made 70 organize
the union carpenters of st. Louis and
vicinity as a cooperative company.
Birmingham. (Alal, u9iOnists will
test the cOnstiJutiOnality of the law per
hitting the leasing of convictS
Chicago Federation of Labor wants
the Mayor 20 appoint three union en-
giueers as members Of the Examining
Board
Two union cooks at Minneapolis were
fined Slg0 each for working with nom
mioniSts. This union has established
an employment bureau.
*. OF l.. carpenters az Washington,
D. c.. rejected the proposition that the
four unions of carpenters desert nation
al bodies and act Independently.
Cleveland has branch of the Co.
operative Commonwealth, an organiza-
tion that has $4,000 TO invest in land
for colonization purposes.
Beer Drivers Union No. q. of Brook
lyn, report that of seven union brew
cries in that town, six have renewed
their agreements with the organization.
Ihe Industrial World, the organ Of
the Welsh tin plate workers. strongly
f.vors some kind of a working agree
meut between the Welsh and American
unions.
AZ the recent New South Wales politi-
cal Labor League convention in Sydney
a proposal for The establishment of
State wooden and clothing mills was car
ried unanimously.
In New York on the night Of May /,
there viii be speaking in Union Square
from the cottage az that place and from
TWO trucks Speeches will be made in
English. German, Italian and Hebrew.
Washington printers are b0yC0ttug a
theatre that did not pay mechanics who
AAAlANAN pan my " AAA Al Ns9NA ti~E
rumCr 20 the effect that a brewery in
tends 70 have It's printing done in Eu-
rope.
Cleveland painters who were granted
the new scale ($2.4O a day., are paying
the 80 cents increase TO those still on
. strike. \ cooperative scheme vii be
. launched
A Visalia (Cal) physician refused to
testify in a case on trial in the Superior
Court unless he was paid s26, the fee
agreed upon by Nisalia physicians for
giving expert testimony.
Sir Henry Cokley. of the Great North
ern Railway England has agreed to
reduce the hours of good guards TO 81
per week The lowest grade of pay is to
be abolished and the scale viii now be-
gin no 24s. per week.
Newt0nards (Ireland), carpenters
struck for 7d per hour Employers OBJ
i5ct 70 q rule preventing them from fill
ing the places of apprentices when they
+ do not serve out their term. Journey
men insist that the place shall he vacant
tl The expiration Of the boys inden-
Ure
BloOmingdale Brothers, a New York
department house. in granting bids for
alterations, rejected a contractor whose
bid would have saved $4,000 for the
firm The house decided to give the
work 90 a local concern, the best bid
having been furnished by a firm in an
other city.
Delegate Whites anti-department
+ store resolution was not adopted by the
Kansas City Industrial Council. La
Dor unions are opposed to department
stores. said a delegate, but the great
majority Of the smaller merchants
when they have any work to do about
their establishments by a mechanic or
artisan. will not hire union work
men,
The workingmen of the District OF
Columbia are making ARRANGEMENTS foI
a monument 20 he erected to the mem
orv of the late Z. J. Bea. The monu-
ment. when completed it is said, viii
Do The first ever raised in this country
~ perp2,uate The memory Of q unionist
Tho only near approach 60 this was IN
tho case of Trilh Stephens. the father
of The order Of Knights Of Labor. who
owe his whole life to the uplifting OF
Lis feIlow-worlmcu After his deatt
the order. Of which for many years he
was the leader and moving spirit
bougbt ~ cost Of 100000 handsome
residence i'm Philadelphia, which it pre-
scented 10 his family.
rATRNONT INDUSTRIAL
r,1RNrONT w. VA. April 2t-Thert