Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-14
WORLD OF LABOR.

ished.
Fall Rivers Central Union consists Of
twenty-four organizations.
Troy, N. Y, municipal printing mus
| carry the Union label.
About 400 cloakmakers struck in New
York last week.
Saginaw, Mich, has adopted the eight
hour day for city employees.
Chicago woodworkers have been con-
coded 81 for nine-hour day by thirty
firms.
Paris omnibus fare is three cents, and
no one may enter after the seats are &C.
cupied.
New York's 5000 mason's laborers get
thirty cents per hour and enjoy the eight
hour day.
All road men who shall go out with the
| union on a strike will be allowed one
half of their regular wages.
Oil City, Pa, Central Labor Union sent
to Pittsburg for union musicians. Result:
| A local union of musicians.
Detroit daily papers have boycotted the
labor unions and refuse to insert even a
paid Observation-Disclosures KY, IN
ion Agent.
North Adams, Mass, Typographical
Union 316 has levied an assessment of 70
cents per month on its members for
shorter workday purposes.
! The Brewers Union, of Hartford,
| Conn, transacts all business in German.
permits no English Interpretation and
fines the English-speaking member for
being absent.
| The Twentieth Annual Congress of the
| New Jersey Federation of Trades and La
Dor Unions will be held in the City Hall
| Chamber of Paterson on Monday, August
| 10.
| A settlement satisfactory to both par
ties has been effected of the differences
which have existed between Rochester
Cooper's Union and the American Brew
| ing Company. A similar settlement has
been made between the union and the
Beer Brewers Association.
Members of the New York Building
| Trades Council, formed by seceders from
! the Board of Walking Delegates have an
nounced that they will be the first to be-
gin the building war which will involve
more than 100000 building workmen in
Greater New York. The purpose of the
war will be to abolish sympathetic
| strikes.
| The New York Pattern Makers Associ-
alton pays $40 a week in case of strikes
and lockouts, and from $25 to $3.50 for loss
| of tools. Six dollars a week is paid for
! thirteen weeks in case of sickness. The
graded funeral benefit runs up to $500. A
free employment bureau is maintained.
Syracuse street car employees won their
! strike The Rapid Transit Company re-
! sends its order that every employe shall
| deposit $25 with the company, and it
| agrees to settle all future difficulties with
a committee from the men. This is
! equivalent to recognizing the union,
| though the contract does not so stipulate.
, The New York Bill Posters Union an
nounces that the managers of five thea
! tres or places of amusement have grant
| ed the new demands of the union. The
| demands of the union are a minimum
wage rate of $40 a week, payment for
overtime and not less than $12 a week for
| bill posters, when acting as ushers.
| The name of National Alliance of The
atrical Stage Employees has been chang
ed to National Alliance of Stage En-
ployes of the United States and Canada,
and the subject of making the associa-
ton an international alliance has been
! dropped. The offices of secretary and
treasurer have been made one, with one
man to act for both.
| The only tea plantation in the United
! States is located near Summerville, S. c.
! 1t is the property of DR.. Charles U. Shop
ard, who has undertaken to prove that
| tea, one of the greatest staple articles
used by Americans to-day, can be raised
| by our farmers profitable. Last year DR..
| Shepard sent to market upwards of l 100
pounds of the finest tea obtainable, and
| this years crop, he states, will amount
to more than 1900 pounds.
! The indications are exceedingly favora-
| BILE that Tacoma may secure a co-opera-
tive plant for the manufacture of win
dow glass. The new industry will furnish
| work for $50 men at the start John NJ.
| St. Peter, Isaac b. Highfield and O. H.
! Perman, a committee sent out by the
| Window Glass Workers Association of
| North America, whose headquarters are
| in Pittsburg, have been for some time in
vestigating the merits of the various
cities on the Pacific coast.
| At Chicago the Building Laborers' I'm
| ion and the Masons and Builders Associ-
alton have made an agreement covering
L
| the next year. The agreement calls for
an eight-hour day, % cents per hour,
| price and one-half for overtime, and dou-
! BILE price for Sundays and holidays. All
| grievances are to be submitted to the
! presidents of both organizations, and in
| the event of their failure to adjust them
| they will be referred to an arbitration
| committee.
| 1T is true we had $500 900 in the reserve
| fund in 1898. 1t is equally true that since
| that time We have had five years of I'M
| precedented industrial and commercial
| stagnation, and part of the reserve fund
| went to pay $,94S, Sl947 benefits, made ne
| cessary by the very hard times. In pro-
| tecting the sick, the unemployed, bury
| ing the dead and upholding the bill of
| prices, cigarmakers are proud. With the
approach of normal times all this has
changed, and the general fund has grown
! in volume. international Cigarmakers'
| Journal
| Banquet, a race horse who in his time
| was star figure on the American turf,
and in four years racing won nearly $500 =
| 900 in stakes for his owner, is now a cab
| horse in London. Cockneys and vulgari-
| ans who a few years ago cheered him TO
I the echo and would have Frustrated
| themselves to make a pavement for his
| ariStocratic hoofs. now hire him for a