Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-27

The INDUSTRIAL WORLD. !
LOCAL AND TgLeGRAPHIc LABOR NEWS.

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, day.
Ohio railway employees average s1S6
daily.
Marion, Ind, timers struck for 80
and nine hours.
New York union blacksmiths get IS
for ten hours.
Walters in a Cleveland restaurant
must shave or resign,
Duluth walters had their hours cut
from - TO II. No strike.
Memphis carpenters struck for an
eight hour day and $40.
ST. Louis horseshoers appealed to the
court 10 prevent the formation Of
rival union.
Bethlehem, Pa. silk weayers struck
] against a cut from nine cents yard
to four.
Labor exchange tickets will be en-
ployed in erecting a labor temple in
New York.
The Bohemian labor organizations of
New York are organizing trade and
labor assembly.
The union scale must be paid 10 all
men who shall be employed in erecting
the court house at Galveston.
The Ladies Label League of Cincin-
natl will not patrOnize stores that ham
die the output of the baking trust.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Union
of North America, which met at Boston
last week. has over $50 branches.
There are now seven central labor
councils and district labor assemblies
IN New York City, and an eighth is UNI
der way.
Chicago Electrical Workers Union
Ousted the city electrician, and have
succeeded in having their candidate APP
pointed
Shall trial by judge-made juries
supercede trial by a jury of peers?"
Will be discussed at mass meeting of
New York unionists.
The Paper Hangers Union. of Bos
ton. has succeeded in establishing a
satisfactory scale of wages without
having recourse TO a strike.
Milwaukee steam-ftters on August l
want $3.50 for eight hours. time and
half for overtime and double pay for
holidays and Sundays.
The Building Trades Council, OF
Cleveland, has decided not TO affiliate
with the proposed national organiZa-
ton of building trades councils.
The ferry at Bulls. New Zealand, is
worked strictly on the eight hour sys-
TEN.
The International miners conference
i'm London. attended by British, Ger
man. French and Belgian delegates, de-
voted the greater part of a day to the
discussion Of the eight hour question.
st. Paul vinegar and pickle manufac-
turers and wholesale LIQUOR dealers
have been asked TO buy homemade bar
rels. They promised 10 do so If the
union will see that the price is the same
rs what they pay for barrels in st.
Louis.
The fifteenth semi-annual session of
the Minnesota State Federation OF La
Dor was attended by seventy-elght dele
gates. Il decided TO recognize no must
cans not affiliated with the Federation
of Labor.
st. Paul coOpers get $14 week.
A conference of delegates represent
ing the various branches of the printing
trade in New York State was held in
Albany during the past week to con-
slider measures for preventing the de-
velOOment Of prison printing.
w. J. Henderson, an expelled mem
Der of the Frisco musicians association,
sued the union for damages. Judge
Seawell gave a verdict for the union on
the point that a member Of a labor or
ganization must first exhaust all the
laws of the organization for redress,
which Henderson had omitted.
Fall River steam fCTers struck. BY
the terms of the proposed new scale
helpers can be engaged at whatever
price the master plumbers see fit, but
after they have worked at the trade
two years they must receive not less
that S175 a day The filters them
selves are to receive not less than $3.50
day. Some of the filters now receive
as much as 1925.
New York sheet and plate glass glaZ-
ers have notified the bosses that SIS
per week shall be the minimum wage
after September /. Men employed by
the dav must be paid So per diem. In
shops the work will be 81 hours a week
and in new buildings and fine work rs
hours a week. The employment of ap
preutices is also regulated.
In one Of the factories of this city
the writer was shown recently a ma
chine on which a boy, not over 10 or 16
years old. was doing the work which
until recently required six men work
ing by hand The boy gets 81 a week
The six men, who were of necessity
capable mechanics. could not be had for
less than $50 a day. or 50 week
each That is. the company now pays
81 for work that used to cost $54.-De-
troit Journal
The convention of the National
Brotherhood of Metal Polishers, Buff
erS and Brass Workers, decided to use
its influence to discourage piece-work,
and declare for an eight hour work
day. with a minimum wage of 80 cents
per hour. A resolution, unanimously
adopted, imposes a fine of 81 upon any
member who shall purchase a commod-
ity which does not bear the union label
when such union made articles can be
obtained. The convention also endOrs-
ed the single tax theory.
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.
Piedmont W Va, June 26.-The
Eastern soft coal trade is very quiet.
with nothing of Importance to report.
There is no great effort being put forth
bv coal men to push trade. Occasion