Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-28

! boycott are fined 81.
In England a slot machine furnishes
air for a bicycle tire.
A New York German house painters
union is Is years old.
Ten unions will be formed at Duluth
| before January l.
Union plumbers of Duluth are prose-
cutting unlicensed plumbers.
At Washington, D. c., ESQ press
feeders have formed a union.
All municipal printing at Science
tady, N. Y, must bear the union label
Members Of the Dublin, Ireland, Sad
dlers' Union do not work in shops
where non-unionists are employed.
Washington printers are opposed to a
proposed law to make unlawful the
business of railroad ticket brokerage.
A New York beer brewers union has
indorsed the Socialist-Labor party and
declared against the Debs Social DEM
ocracy.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union does
not propose to be absorbed by the New
York body when Greater New York is
born.
1t is said that the F. of l.. is opposed
to the proposed national organization
of building trades unions to be held at
! ST. Louis next month.
| A proposition was submitted at the
latest meeting of the Hartford printers
union to increase the dues to 81 a
month and allow rebate of rs cents
for attendance at meetings.
! Pittsburg was chosen as the place OF
meeting for the next convention, two
years hence, of the brotherhood Of
| Electrical Workers of America.
/ The Grand Rapids Business Mems
| Association has appealed to the people
to buy articles made in Grand Rapids,
| in preference to imported goods.
| A boycott having forced a Kansas
| City theatre to recognize the union,
the Trades Council has decided to use
the same weapon against an unfair
department store.
The National Union of the Granite
Cutters has decided upon a minimum
scale of wages of So day in all parts
of the country, to go into effect Janu-
airy l, 1900.
The Brooklyn Consumers Trade and
Labor League will publish directory
of stores that handle union goods ex-
clusively. A union-made shoe cannot
be secured at present in Brooklyn.
| Brooklyn Painters Union has sent a
letter to the Secretary of the Navy pro-
/ testing against the employment of sea-
men as painters on United States yes
sells at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
John Ernst, tax collector of the South
| Town, Chicago, has given orders that
hereafter the Allied Printing Trades
| label shall appear on every scrap of
| printing required by his office.
| The State Convention of Montana
unionists ignored the request Of tailors
| that the convention ask for a law COM
| polling Eastern statesmen to be licensed.
A Western league of unionists is talked
| of.
AS the result of petition signed by
| about so business men and merchants
| of Holyoke, Mass, the police depart
ment will proceed against the parties
| who are operating trading coupon"
| schemes in that city.
| Nearly all the Duluth merchants now
| carry lines of union made goods, and if
| the movement were general all over
| the country in the larger towns and
| cities there would be a noticeable diff
erence in the quantity of non-union
| goods sold.
S. Lubin, inventor of the cineograph,
the best of the moving picture machines
says that he will shortly be able to sub
| stitute acetylene gas for electricity in
| projecting the pictures. This Ameri-
can device is used in Australia, Japan,
Hawaii, France and Singapore.
The iron molders' 81 unions have
$4,000 members. Yellow fever in the
south has cost this organization over
| 81, 800, many members having died dur
| IN ha
cation has $4,000 in it's treasury, $780,
900 for a strike fund and 100000 in
| Government bonds. A national home
| for disabled molders will probably be
erected.
New York Central Labor Union de-
| MED admission to the Stamped Ceiling
Workers Union, on the ground that
there were too many organizations
They were advised to join the Tin and
Sheet Iron Workers Union. The work
| of its members consists in mailing ur
ornamental pieces of tin or sheet iron
on ceilings and side walls of Offices and
| halls, that are afterward painted, 50 as
! to give them the appearance of stuccc
work.
The English Amalgamated Society Of
| Carpenters and Joiners announce that
| DIT Oue per duNduC6
| and a code of working rules have been
| obtained, while Kilmarnock joiners are
to receive an extra half-pence per hour
At Exeter work was resumed on Octo-
Der 4, with wages increased half-pence
per hour with a further stipulation in
the rules that a similar advance shall be
conceded on March 1, 1898, bringing
their wages up to IL pence per hour.
Since 1892 nearly all the Russian rail
way systems have been placed under
! the immediate administrative control OF
the government. Enormous reductions
in passenger and freight tariffs have
been made, the number and speed oil
the trains have been greatly increased
| and on the whole the new administra-
ton is in every way an improvement
| upon those which it supersedes. Alto
gether the country is more deeply en-.
gagged in the railroad business than any
other in the world and has so far made
a success of it.
The new clause recently adopted by
Detroit Allied Printing Trades Council
is as follows: "The Allied Printins
Trades label shall not be granted tC
any employing printer who does moi
regularly employ in his establishment
at least one compositor and one press
man, both members of their respective