Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-05-23

VIZ mus OhNA A4A4ANs
Frisco Labor Council is opposed TO
the annexation of Hawaii.
Washington hucksters want the priv
ilege of crying their wares.
An eight-hOur demonstration will be
held at Duluth on July 4.
Duluth uniOnists denOunce city fire
men for wearing non-uniOn garments.
An Oshkosh, Wis, company has vol
UNFAIRLY increased wages 1212 per cent.
New York cornice and skylight max
ers will demand $500 for eight hours
I'm September.
Bryan will probably be the guest Of
the New York Central Labor Union on
Labor day.
Colorado uniOnists will met on July
4 and decide whether or not to enter
politics as a body.
SIX ST. Paul cigar manufacturers last
week applied for the right TO use the
union label
ST. Paul cOopers are on strike for ad-
vance of 81 a week. A cooperative
plant was talked of.
Duluth uniOnists complain that pub
lie school books misrepresent the aims
of organized labor.
A mass netting of Drogheda, Ireland,
wOrkiuemen pledged itself TO discour-
age the use of imported foreign manu-
featured goods.
There has not been a time in twenty
years when so many walters and bar
tenders i'm New York have been out or
work.
New York marble polishers won an
advance of - cents a day. Judge Dugro
was the umpire in the dispute. Polish
ers now get $325 and their helpers
$3.50.
Chicago plumbers union induced
men at indianapolis to strike because
their employer was one of the bosses
whose men are on strike in Chicago.
Colorado unionists will test the con-
stitutjOnality of the boycott law, ana
provide for he establishment OF home
industry clubs
Washington. D. c.. Central Labor
Union adopted resolutions recommend
ing the recognition of the belligerency
of Cuba
Over $1,000 uniOnists were represent
cd at the convention of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers at Detroit last week.
The president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners at the recent con-
vution i'm Salt Lake City advocated the
formation of rife clubs. Debs attended
the convention.
Alderman Browns ordinance, prohlb-
itug the sale Of bread, weighing less
than one pound to the loaf, passed
the upper house last night.-kansas
City Times
AT Detroit all operators on type
setting machines who hereafter work
beyond so hours in any one week VIII
surrender their excess earnings to the
treasury of the typographical union
tt is reported that there is a move
men. on foot at San Francisco to boy
colt all manufacturers that sell to de-
partment stores.
When two st. Louis papers fixed the
wholesale price at so cents per 100. the
uewsbovs refused to sell the papers for
less than cents.
New York's Governor has signed a
law which provides that If a corpora
ton violates the law requiring weekly
PAYMENT it, shall forfeit TO each en-
p'Oye the sum of S25.
Rochester Central Labor Union will
begin mandamus proceedings against
/ the Common Council for its failure TO
carry out the law in relation to public
/ baths
The Chicago Mattress Makers AS
/ sembly of the Knights of Labor has
I surrendered its charter and will affili-
ate with the American Federation Of
/ Labor.
The San Francisco Association of I'M
! movement Clubs has declared that the
/ CITY must in the near future own its
own water, gas and electric light
| plants.
Alabama furnace operators, on the
plea that they could not meet Northern
/ competition. secured a reduction in
/ freight rates. Their miners also &c
\ cepted a cut.
] With the American LOngshoremen's
Union the English trade unions have
. four organizations in the United States.
The others are the Amalgamated Car
penters and Machinists and the Sea-
men.
The International Union Of Bicycle
Workers will pay to A. F. of L. organ
fzers the sum of s. for each local union
of bicycle workers organized in any
city or town where no local union eX-
lists.
A resolution was adopted by the
I Merchants Association of san Fran
cisco requesting the Board of Super
visors 20 transfer the $4,000 usually
spent for the Fourth of July celebra-
/ ton to the unemployed fund this year.
Electrical workers say that thous-
] ands of electrical workers will be
thrown out of work as a result of the
\ recent decision on the Berliner patent.
The Detroit Telephone Company has
already discharged 200 men engaged IN
+ constructing its lines.
The long fight between the various
F p9inters' unions in New York and Pro
/ gressive Varnishers' Union No. l has
+ Drqcticalv resulted in a most decisive
victory for the varnishers. The paint
T ers set ND a claim for jurisdiction over
The same work claimed by the varnish-
erS.
The Labor Day demonstration in
Leds England, which is held annually
on the first Sunday in May, adopted
I resolution in favor of a working day of
eight hours and old age pensions, the
government being called upon TO fulfill
. its pledge as regards the latter. \ third
resolution pledged members of the
trade unions to take part in political
elections.
President Mahon. Of the Street Rail
wav Employees Association, says the
defense fund will amount to SS50,000
within two years. 1t SENS to me, he
said chat when the fund reaches