Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-03


London has 100000 dwellingi
Fish are sold alive in Japan.
Detroit has 40 idle machinists.
There are 5000 species of plants.
A paper telegraph wire is announced.
New York varnishers have won a
strike for So day.
Detroit clerks invited employers to
attend their meetings.
| Brooklyn and New York cornice ma
| kers struck for SO day.
Cleveland bakers want the State to
fix the weight of loaf of bread.
Cleveland Central Labor Union in
sists that the steet car fare be 3 cents.
! The eight-hour day has prevailed at
the Stafford (Eng) Iron works, since
| 1883.
The Laborers' Union Protective So
ciety, of New York, has now nearly
| $4,000 members.
OF 131 local unions Of the Custom
Tailors' National Union IS favor a fur
Their restriction of immigration.
Bay City, Wis, is to become an ex-
pertinent in cooperative manufac-
turing and agricultural community.
| Washington planning mill owners
have notified the Central Labor Union
that their men may become unionists.
Detroit peddlers have organized.
| They will test the constitutionality OF
taxing them $25 year.
Washington unionists say that non
union bricklayers have recently been
employed at the Treasury building
There are now % local associations
of hat makers and finishers connected
with the United Hatters of North
America.
Harry Barter, of the Detroit Long
shoremen's Union, will be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
| City Treasurer.
The united garment makers of De-
troit are now working full time, six
days in the week, with overtime three
nights per week.
The Brewers national convention at
Boston voted that every member Of
i the organization shall contribute one
days earnings for the miners relief
fund.
The Federation of Labor has been
condemned by the Pittsburg United
Labor League for declaring the brew
cries of that town mot fair" They
employ knights of Labor
An organization of members of La
Dor unions for the purpose of promot-
ing the interests of members of labor
unions who may be candidates for Of
flee at the municipal election has been
formed at Rochester.
The United Association of Plumbers,
Steamfitters and Steamfitters' Helpers
nf Chipa fhaf ,,a IF
the organization in every State in the
Union shall urge the Legislatures to
pass laws making eight hours a legal
days employment for all who work for
wages.
Canadian unionists want the Domin-
ion Government either to establish
Government factory for the making of
uniforms for the soldiers or to have
inserted in the contracts the claus that
the clothing must be manufactured
only in union factories.
The Fishermen's Union of Cleveland
has presented a scale for the accept
ance of the houses, which the latter
considered quite fair 1t provided for
wage of 50, a working day of eleven
hours, and 25 cents an hour for over
time, and specifies that the crew shall
contain not less than five men.
The Knights of Labor of Rochester
and vicinity have for the second time
hohored one of their women members.
Mrs. Lulu E. Ford, with an election as
their representative to the general as
sembly of the order.
Local unions of the Nation Union of
Metal Polishers, Buffers and Brass
Workers using stationery minus the
printers union label are subject to
fine Of 50 for each offense The fine is
imposed by the National Union.
AT a recent meeting of the Boston
Typographical Union a committee was
appointed to wait upon both of the DO
litical parties to urge the admission to
their platforms of plank advocating
the Government control of the tele-
graph and telephone system.
Hereafter all plumbers in Milwaukee
will have to pass an examination be-
fore they will be permitted to engage
in their trade. Master plumbers must
pay license of So and journeymen so
cents. These licenses are to be renew
ed annually, at an expense of so cents.
member of a New York Union who
had been suspended for nonpayment of
dues, was readmitted to the society
when he became sick. A day later he
died, and the union refused to pay the
funeral benefit of SIS. 1t was sued and
the court decided in favor Of the union.
At the National Brewery Workers
convention there were two chairmen,
representing both languages. When a
motion was made in German it was
translated into English by one chair
man, and when it was amended. in
English, it was translated into German
by the other chairman, and singular to
relate there was no Objectionable fric-
ton.
The directors of the Furness (Eng.)
Railway Company nave decided 10
grant three days annual holiday with
pay to those belonging to the following
grades who are seven-day men and
have been in the service of the compa
ny for period of not less than five
years-viz., passengers and goods por-
tiers, ticket collectors, checkers, goods
and parcels carriers.
Journeymen Custom Horseshoers'
Union l, of New York. has been in ex-
lstence nearly so years The union has
over $50 members in good standing.
The initiation fee is now S25, and the
dues are 81 Al roar