Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-05

department stores to abolish "free
| Shines"
Married striking laborers at Dundee
| (Scotland) are paid by the union S. per
week; single men, 81.
Members of the New York Board of
! Walking Delegates who fail to attend it's
meetings are fined.
The Federation of Labor has issued
charters to the national unions OF
J plumbers, blacksmiths and gold beaters.
1t is rumored that the headquarters
! of the K. of L. will be removed from
! Washington. D. c., to New York
! Westfield, Mass, barber shops that
were open on Thanksgiving day have
been deprived of their union cards.
Metal polishers union IL. of Brook
| lyn, has decided to raise $25 per capita
for every member of the union in good
standing.
| The only legitimate cure for the dis
tress of the unemployed, says the Typo
graphical Journal, is shortening Of the
hours of labor.
To protect hotelkeepers from the
! deadbeats that prey upon them bill
will be prepared for the next session of
the Ontario Legislature.
All minors employed in the Frisco
Fire Department were discharged last
week. Substitutes" in this branch of
city employment are paid $40 month.
NJ. P. Carrick. president Of the
Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators
refused to speak at a painters meeting
in Chicago, because there were police
| officers present.
1t is said that thirty-five per cent OF
the employees in the brewing industry in
the United States are organized in the
National Union of United Brewery
Wirkmen.
Messrs Dolllard, Wellington quay.
have voluntarily advanced the wages OF
their bookbinders two shillings per
week, baking the minimum 34s. per
week.-Dublin (re.) Independent.
The Structural Iron Workers. says
the Boston Traveller. bid fair in the near
future to have charge Of all public
buildings to the exclusion of every 9TH
er craft, save plumbers, steamfitters
and GLACIERS.
Chief Arthur and other representa-
tives of unions of railroad employees
are in Washington. They want Con-
gress to appoint national labor COM
mission, and will insist that a compul-
sorry arbitration law be passed
At 6Ol0cn bid1tU VI LuE CAittu
| Brotherhood CT Cloakmakers, Of New
York, has no permanent presiding Of
ficer, but at each meeting a president
and vice president are chosen. The
Brooklyn Central Labor Union also has
no permanent president.
The Chicago Building Trades Coun-
Gil at a recent meeting severely criti-
cised a communication from the Wash
ington, D. c., Building Trades Council,
concerning the cutting of stone for the
new Chicago postoftice The Eastern
organization pritested against the ac-
tin OF NatiinaI Secretary Hughes, OF
the Stonemason's Union. in demanding
that the stone becut in the State of H.
inois
A brussels correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle states that the action OF
the English trade unions in boycotting
the Pirt of Antwerp since the expulsion
of Mr.. Tillet has, it appears, seriously
affected the prosperity of the retail
traders in the shipping quarters in that
city. The loss of trade has reached
such proportions that a petition is
about to be addressed to the Belgian
Government praying that steps may be
taken to remedy that evil.
Tie Ama1e1mated Sheet Metal
Workers Union, of Chicago. has adopt-
ga wAxs ncn1e for pexk year. ne
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