Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
WORLD OF LABOR.

One wolen mill in Wyoming.
Japan has a bamboo lighthouse.
Irnionism is spreading in Japan.
Even Alaska. makes artificial ice.
BROOKLYN bridge employees 7I3 men.
Electrical blowing proceeds apace.
Philadelphia has 162 knitting mills.
Albany blacksmiths won strike.
Electricity runs a Swiss cotton mill
California has a woman sign painter
Duluth hasn't an idle union barber
Philadelphia has $4,000 unemployed.
Alabama is to have a Swedish colony.
Milwaukee garment makers organized.
The X. of L. is going TO demand repre-
sentation on the New York municipal
ticket. -
New Haven girls won strike for N'25
a day. .,.
Every cigar factory in Ishpeming'
Mich. is a union shop.
Dundee ship joiners won an advance 10
16 cents per hour.
Dundee Scotland furniture workers
demand "A cents per hour.
The initiation fee Of the Cincinnati Bar
tenders Union is now s..
Rochester shOemakers won oFrs sb{7s lions 5n
.
will probably amalgamate.
Political advertising will find no place
in the Boston Labor day parade.
Grand Rapids mouders. who averaged
$2.25 a day struck against a cut.
Galveston Clerks Union will prosecute
merchants who do business on Sunday
Members of the Melbourne Chinese
Cabinet Makers Union struck for $1.S7
per day.
The Scottish Railway Union has in
creased its annual income $1,000 a year by
raising dues.
Virginia wood shippers will sell only to
commission merchants who are members
of the association.
Dundee (Scotland) laborers who de-
manded an increase of one cent per hour
were offered ope-half cent.
Millionaire Seigel. of Seigel, Cooper &
Co. thirty years ago received $3.50 a week
in Washington, d. c.
The Savannah retail merchants are en-
gagged in an effort to free themselves of
the coupon premium system.
Atlanta Socialists. whose platform was
given in this column last week, were not
permitted TO hold a mass meeting
New York Board of Walking Delegates
has asked Bishop Potter: Should union
men go to a non-union built church,"
The question Of immigration is being
considered by all the central bodies fill
lated with the American Federation OF
Labor
Cleveland Central Labor Union will pro-
badly levy upon members a regular week
ly assessment for the support of the strik-
ing miners.
Rev J. B. Rearden,. Of westheld, Mass.
advocated from his pulpit last Sunday
Government control of railroads, tele-
graphs. mines etc
Business men of Crawfordsvile. Ind,
through their union, have secured a law
which prohibits peddling under penalty
of working on the stone pile.
Minneapolis boss BARRIERS want the jour
neymen to work on Sundays because men
learn to shave themselves on the Sabbath.
and their patronage is lost forever.
London boilermakers refused TO join the
strike of engineers because the former I'M
ion had $4,000 invested with a firm by
which its members were employed.
A Watsessing On. j. firm cut the wages
Of its machinists, and they asked the En-
gineers' Union. Of London. England. to
endeavor TO have the city cancel a con-
tract secured by the firm for work In Lon
don.
The German. French, Italian and Eng
members of the United Silk
of Hudson county. n. j., con-
tributed over 1886 for the men and wo-
men who were on, strike recently in the
Compi Mills.
There has been great improvement
in the condition of labor in England dur
ing the last few years, which is the re-
suit of humane and broad-minded benev- |
olence on the part of certain progressive |
employers and statesmen and logged per-
sistence on the part Of labor leaders and |
reformers."-w ?. Curtis in Chicago Re
cord.
A series of congresses dealing with |
questions concerning the laboring classes |
will be held IN Brussels from July to the |
end Of September. The first. held at the |
OF the month. was on Sunday |
Rest" 1t is TO be followed by others on |
Cheap Dwellings" on the Accidents OF
Labor" and on the International protec- |
lion Of workers in mines and factories.
Colored BARRIERS who have hitherto be-
onged Go the union in Toledo have with
drawn, Members OF the union explain
hat n seceders demanded that they be
assure employment in any union shop
IN With there was vacancy. As the |
80 of man rested with the employer
ssurance asked could not be given.
Retail Butchers National Protec-
Association hes 1000 members. The