Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-18

The Canadian government has purchas-
ed the Bale des Chaleurs Railroad.
Illinois Legislature may pass a bill pre-
venting FIRE" and bankrupt" sales.
At a meeting of garment workers in
Montreal a Wednesday half-holiday was
advocated.
In Germany wooden weavers are here
after to run two looms. instead of one.
as heretofore.
Brooklyn union laborers will work eight
hours. at % cents per hour, after May l.
Windsor (Ont) union longshoremen' 8
new scale calls for less pay than is now
received.
Philadelphia carpenters want piecework
abolished. They get now $2.25 to $3.50 for
nine hours.
Penryn, England, quarrymen, who have
been on a strike eight months, refuse to
compromise.
The department stores of Montreal are
being prosecuted for selling drugs with
out license.
The Warden of the Pennsylvania Yves
tern Penitentiary addressed Pittsburg I'M
ionists on convict labor.
Milwaukee shoe dealers viii cooperate
with bootblacks in the crusade against
free shines in department stores.
Bell telephone linemen, at Augusta, Ca
/ struck rather than work with negroes.
The latter were discharged.
birmingham, Ala, printers denounced
the Mayor and Aldermen for leasing city
prisoners to an iron and steel company.
United States Court at Cleveland has
ordered striking unionists to not even
speak TO those who have taken their jobs.
ENGINEERS on the Northwest tern eng
land) Railway demand the eight hour
day and time and a quarter for over
/ time.
! 4 Pittsburg reporter was discharged
! for refusing TO desert union of writers.
The printers union threatens to boycott
the paper.
| The English Trade and Union Congress
and the Cooperative Congress have de-
cided TO abandon the movement to have
union label on things made by their mem
bers
cleveland painters demand eight hours
with minimum of 80 cents per hour. EN-
p,oyers say that they won't pay more
than D cents. the days length to be fixed
/ by the men.
Boston Building Trades Council insists
| that the fund left by Benjamin Franklin
for the benefit Of merchants be employed
in establishing n labor forum Ihe lu"o
/ now amounts to 100000.
Michigan horseshoers held a State con-
ve2tion. They have IS local branches
with 900 members. a bill before the Leg
is,ature makes q horseshoers claim for
debt lien on the animal shod.
As the result of the audit in the West
Of Scotland iron trade the workmen will
receive an increase Of wages Of two and
a half per cent, dating from March lst
] last
Mr. Middleton. of Hamilton, has intro
duced a bill into the Ontario Legislature
comforting on municipalities Of 10000 in
bebitants or over power to impose a spe-
cial tax upon stores carrying on more
than three distinct kinds Of business.
New York unionlsys do not favor the
proposed appointmen, Of Powderly as
/ commissioner of Immigration. Powder
w last Sunday wrote three-column aFu'
Gle for a Scranton paper on mad dogs.
Wisconsin Legislature will probably
pass a bill which makes the Milwaukee
street railawy pay the city per cent
upon the first $4,000 of gross receipts
and per cent. upon the earnings in ex'
cess Of that amount or total of about
100000 for the current year. as the earn
ings are estimated.