Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-13


the establishment of the municipal
printing plant.
England and Ireland contain 2lOOO
union railroad employees. A member
of Parliament presided at a recent
meeting.
Toledo retail clerks in retail stores
have decided upon a window display
card for their employers, to show the
employment Of union clerks.
There are u labor men in the British
Parliament who receive their salaries
from the organized masses there be-
ing no governmental salary.
The Australia Hungarian Government
has submitted 10 the Reichsrath its bill
providing for the State control OF rings
and trusts.
birmingham. Ala. clerks have relin-
ouished them right 10 the national con-
vention. and members throughout the
country will decide the matter by vote
I Cincinnati or Toledo may secure the
meeting.
Frisco peddlers who solicit custom
from any house on which no peddlers'
is displayed are fined 500. or in lieu there
/ Of compelled 20 serve six months in jail
a j
mi,tee was instructed 10 cooperate with
I the Knights Of Labor 10 call mass meet
ing TO agitate on behalf of municipal ow-
nership of surface railroad franchises.
The annual report of the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners shows
that IL has rs branches. with member
ship of 5000, of which there are IS
I branches and /, 436 members in the United
States.
New York stonecutters refused 10 work
with a man. who. after having been sec
rotary. refused TO give up his books. IN
able TO secure employment. he sued the
union and was awarded $4O6 damages.
The fine for non-attendance at regular
meetings has been abolished by the st.
Paul Pressfeeders' and Job Freshmen
Union. and the monthly dues are raised
/ from 80 10 10 cents p cents being reoated
I i'm case of attendance at meeting.
The use of cheap substitutes for orna-
mental wood work has aroused the United
Wood Carvers' Association TO a sense OF
its loss from this cause and it has CO.
operated with the Brooklyn Wood Car
vers' Union 10 begin a crusade this spur
ious work.
increase demanded they were forced 10
strike again in order to force the employ
ers 20 grant the scale TO the other l4Vo
men. They want IS. Cd. for tirsmen ana
IS. for doormen.
Minneapolis retail merchants have or
/ the exorbitant express charges in line
with those adopted by the st. Paul asso-
/ citation and relative TO the abuse Of the re-
tail business by jobbers and wholesalers
were adopted.
| "In 1855" says General Organizer Good
man. "there We're s., 10000 worth Of shoes
/ made in the New York State prisons, but
/ through the efforts of organized labor
in the State the products have been so
materially restricted that in 1895 but Sl75.-
600 worth have been turned out from all
the penal institutions there
| Indianapolis carpenters" says con-
/ tractor get % 10 % cents an hour;
. bricklayers 40 10 10 cents; stonemasons 40
! TO As cents: teamsters $3.50 per day; labor
! ers s1.25 per day. Most of the mechanics
/ are now working on the eight-hours-a-day
| basis. unless IL be the stonemasons, some
| Of whom work ten hours
/ Augusta (Ga) druggists kick against
! houses that cut rates and will organize.
| The New York Central Labor Union
/ intends 10 build a labor temple similar to
/ the Bourse du Travail of Paris. the great
! labor exchange established by the French
! government at the request Of the labor
| organizations.
/ Mrs. Matt A. Kraus has sued for di-
vorce from her husband. a leading member
/ of the Detroit Machinery Members Union.
] . he TT do
/ Council. In her bill she states that Kraus
\ is unable to secure employment on ac-
| count of having made himself obnoxious to
| manufacturers through his unionism.
| At the annual conference Of the New
/ South Wales Political Labor League it
| was resolved TO add old age pensions to the
/ fighting platform, and include nationalist
/ ton Of the land and the whole question
/ OF the means of production, distribution
| and exchange as a plank of the general
/ platform.
| The convention Of Scotland trades union
| lists unanimously passed resolution de-
/ claring That. in the opinion Of this con-
/ gress. the workers can not get the full
! value of their labor and strikes be avoided
until the land, mines, railways, machinery
and industrial capital are owned and con-
/ troued by the state for the people
/ A railroad detective who travels almost
| constantly between Chicago and Cleveland
reports that the number of tramps now on
! the road exceeds anything he has ever
/ seem He says that il is not fair TO call
\ them trampS, for they appear 10 be me-
/ chanics and laborsrs out Of employment.
/ The detective in question makes the al
most incredible statement that he counted
| 1s7 tramps on one freight train as 1t left
Grand Crossing last Tuesday night.
/ A joint committee of representatives
from the Amalgamated Society of Engi-
neers the Boiler and Steam Engine Max
/ ers. the Smiths and Hmmermen, the Lon
/ don Society of Coppersmiths. the United
| Society Of Drillers and the National As
ISOLATION of Machine Workers has been
/ formed in London TO obtain an eight
1 hour day. without deduction in wages,
/ for the workmen engaged in these trades
/ I'm the metropolitan area. The number Of
men involved is 15.2o0. Several firms hive
already conceded the terms asked for,
/ and their men are working eight hours at
/ the old rate of wages.
I The Compressed Air Workers of Amer
/ lea is a new union that has been brought
F into existence by the work on the new
4 east River Bridge. New York. The long
5 est time that the men say they can work
/ i'm a day is eight hours. and that at a
I moderate depth. At great depth. where
/ the atmospheric pressure is very great.
they say they cannot work over three
hours. with intervals of rest between.