Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-24
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Chicago tailors will get together.
Uncle Sam exports paper boxes.
Chicago tile layers won a strike.
There are $4,000 union machinists.
London telegraph boys wear skates.
South Dakota has a school for mines.
Japan has 1000 union cotton opera
! tives.
England has $4,000 union railroad
employees.
Watervleit, N. Y, molders struck
| for an advance.
Brooklyn silk ribbon weavers struck
fer an advence.
/ Soddy, Tenn, miners won an adj
vance of so cents per week.
! Non-union painters have been en-
ployed on the Brooklyn City Hall.
| Kansas City unionists want Sunday
! performances at the theatres prohib-
| tied.
The trackmen of the Nashville,
| Chattanooga & st. Louis railway are to
enjoy an advance of 10 per cent in
their wages.
Six Edinburg (Scotland) employers
have conceded the photographers the
50-hour week.
New York Central Labor Union re-
/ fused to indorse Henry George for
J Mayor,
Negroes are employed in Charles
| ton, S. c., shoe factory. They replaced
white strikers.
The American Federation of Musi-
| clans now has 63 local unions in the
United States and Canada.
Cleveland bakers have decided to re-
duce the retail price of bread from 5
cents to Z cents loaf.
The A. F. of l.. has decided to APP
point committee to draft suggestions
for legislation by Congress.
Typographical Union No. 8 during
the past six months has paid out to its
unemployed members the sum of $751;
97S.
The Mayor of Marion, Ind, welcom-
ed and delivered an address at the
convention of the Indiana State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The clogmakers of Northwich and
Cheshire, England, have decided on
seeking an advance of wages equal to
Is per cent.
Renewed efforts to restore friendly
relations between the two national
unions of painters and decorators were
inaugurated in Chicago last week.
Brockton, Mass, lasters in mass
meeting assembled voted not to strike
in sympathy with the sole fasteners of
the district in their present struggle.
| The assets of a New York Trainers
Union amount to over $8,564. Eight
| hundred members of the union have
voted in favor of the weekly pay cay.
A reduction of cents in the rates
of insurance on frame dwellings was
agreed upon at the annual meeting of
| the Milwaukee Board of Fire Under
writers.
| District Assembly So, K of L., Of
Rochester, reports an increase of 1000
members since last November, when
! the General Assembly of the order met
| in convention in that city.
A committee was appointed by tae
Indianapolis Central Labor Union to
wait on the successful candidate for
Mayor, and ask that building inspec-
tor be appointed from organized labor
1.-The International Union of Cigar
Makers said Delegate Brown to the
| officers of the Cuban Junta in New
| York, has subscribed $1,000 to the
| Cuban cause. In the face of this is it
right that these twenty-five Cuban
! workmen should take the places Of our
men on striker"
| An anti-convict labor bill prepared
| for the Chicago Federation of Labor
| provides that convicts shall be en-
| ployed only in manufacturing articles
| for State institutions, and is for the
| purpose of stopping the manufacture
of boots and shoes in the penitentiary
At meeting of the Detroit Trades
Council Delegate Murtagh reported
! that the Union Label League requested
the Trades Council to bar from the
1 library all newspapers not bearing the
printers label. This suggestion was
not favorably received.
Strikes have been terribly costly, to
be sure, yet the wage earning power of
the masses to-day is greater than it
would have been had there never been
labor organization or a strike
Springfield Republican.
Connecticut State Federation of La
Dor turned down motion favoring in
dependent political action The legis-
| lature will also be asked to pass a law
giving protection to lahorers and me-
ehanics in cases of accident
Hereafter when a man is placed Oh
the stoppage pay list Of the Fall River
! Spinners' Union he VIII be given six
months in which to draw his Is weeks
benefits. He will not be taken off the
list before his IS weeks have all been
| drawn.
There is no longer any element of
doubt, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat, that the South will in time
keep the bulk, if not all, of its cotton at
home and convert it into the thousand
yarities of textiles in which that staple
| enters.
new union of bakers drivers was
! organized at Washington recently, and
| an application for a charter made to
the American Federation OF Labor.
| This is the second organization of that
trade in the District. The other is
| affiliated with the Knights of labor.
Washington Typographical Union
declares that the Government, Printing
Office was placed in the classified SER
vice in violation of law and an cid de-
cision of the Supreme Court 1t was
decided that boycott can be placed
| only by two-thirls vote of the union.
4 In the State of Kansas the members
of the Labor Exchange are building
$50 miles of railroad for themselves,
/ and it will be the sprOpertv of the Ex-