Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-20

compelled 20 reduce its rates under GER
tain conditions.
At a meeting Of negroes at Washington
resolutions were adopted against grant
ing eating-house licenses where the color
line is drawn.
The Woodworkers Union Of Duluth.
has succeeded in getting the union label
on all work put out by the Woodworking
shops of that city.
The Journeymen BARRIERS International
Z Union has decided that no women BARRIERS
may join the union. ST. Pauls union
asked If it could admit them.
Boston seamen have struck. declining 10
ship lass than the minimum rate Of So
per month south Of Cape Hatteras and SIS
per month for COastwise vessels.
An Illinois Court ordered a railroad TO
paw discharged conductor $50. The
conductor was not given a reason for dis
missal aud he was unable 10 secure work
on any other road.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union did not
agree 70 take par, in a reception 70 Alt
geld because the cigarmakers declared
he had vetoed am auu-convict cigar bill.
Fifty imported Mogolian laborers have
taken the places of white men In Watson
wire CCall beet fields. one thousand
Japanese have been employed for some
time at Chino.
Grand Rapids business men have re-
solved that they shall not be further
worked" I'm the way OF advertising in
programmes gotten up by clubs churches
societies. etc.
A ha- factory az Orange, y. J.. has just
been unionized. Non-Union men We're
6red and the company is paying union
men - per cent. more than il paid nom
a1ionists.
A communication from Duluth involv-
.ug an endless chain of postal cards. in
urging the establishment of postofice
savings banks was approved by the United
Labor League of Philadelphia.
The Building Trades Council of Boston
has instructed IT'S business agent not TO
permit paperhangers who do not carry
the card Of The council to work upon any
building under control Of organized labor
one of the plans adopted in Duluth TO
ccu attention TO boycotJed goods, says
,he NewS-Trbuue. is to have banner
painted with the desired information on
% and hire o. boy 10 carry il about the
streets.
-. Louis junk dealers objected strenu-
Dusty To- being compelled Uuder a propos-
cd law 10 make "a report TO the police
every day of all purchases made and hav-
irg To- Keep goods ten days before dispos-
iuS of them.
New York Carpenters Union. 40. has
member who is almost too Old TO work.
ever. end therefore the organization has
agreed TO allow him TO work below the
union scale ~ wages.
The Detroit street Railway Company
has consented 20 pay H0 cents am hour for
extra work. No single trip is 10 be less
than au hour. Providing the service Is
not crippled the empIoye may put in his
nine hours within To-
= Severty-dve London firms. employing
over 200 workmen. have acceded to the
mems request and in some cases the
eight hours q day has been granted TO
carpenters. brickl3yers and lahorerS as
Wen as TO the engineers in the employ of
the FIRMS.
The signing Of the bin prohibiting en-
p'oyas from preventing their hands join
ing unions recalls the fact that the United
States Court at Philadelphia several years
ago sustained the Philadelphia. & Reading
Railroad ia making an employees agree
that they would join no labor organiza-
tion
For the purpose OF extending needed
aid 10 the thousands OF destitute and idle
men Of Chicago. the Civil Service Com
mission will Doe asked 20 temporarily sus-
pend It's rules and permit the Mayor 10
give them work. The plan is 10 extend
the list Of slgibles for laborers only.
from 1900 TO 5000 and to give 10 every
applicant ten days work a month in ro-
tation.
A suit for damages has been brought
agains, the city by young woman for
mer,y employed i'm @ Kansas City store.
on the ground that her health was injured
because Of the failure Of the authorities
. 90 enforce the law which requires msr-
camille establishments TO provide stools
for their women clerks
Members Of Leicester England branch
of the Amalgam3ted Engineers have Sc
cured two advances within a yeap The
turner's and filters recently demanded "a
shiIures and the smiths and pattern
makers insisted on So shilings. An ad-
vance OF shilling per week was given
and a similar increase promised in Sep
TENDER.
An Illinois operator says: Probably
the American miner will never again
earn good wages. Prosperous times
would help him of course but there are
far too many miners for all to find work,
even iu good times II some would leave
the mines it would help matters for those
who remained.
Th, Scotch butchers are making a de-
termined stand against the cooperative
/ societies i'm the meat trade. The butchers
boycot,ed the Glasgow statesmen until
the latter were forced 10 decline bids from
/ the co-operators. The cooperative buy
srs have been compelled TO go 10 Eng
land for their cattle and sheep. with the
result that prices have been raised in the
northern counties centres.
A resolution has been passed by the
/ Chicago Brjcklayers' and Stone Masons'
/ Unions that a member of The union who
Laws dry brick laying brick without &C.
m.nu I'm the construction Of tunnel or
sewer work. lays himself liable 10 a fine
OF SIS The union considers that when
workman does dishonest work. although
ordered 20 DO so by his employer. he is
party TO the fraud practiced on the city.
STECBENVILLE INDUSTRIAL.
Steubenville. O.. June 19.-The large
furnace at the Acme glass works closed
down to-day. and will not be lighted
again this fire. This fire closes one Of
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