Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24
WORLD OF LABOR
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dog.
Newark liquor dealers will purchase
brewery.
Watervleit, N. Y, clerks demand a
Friday half-holiday.
A New York cigarmakers' union has
1866 members in good standing.
Royal Templars of Temperance have
adopted the printers union label.
Long Canyon, Cal, miners won
strike for the discharge of Chinese.
There VII be no old age pensions in
England, according to latest reports.
Kansas City non-union plumbers
were not discharged when the strike
ended.
Brooklyn tailors, earning % cents per
coat, struck when the price was fixed
at 10 cents.
Great Britain's Amalgamated Society
of Mill Sawyers, WoOd-Cutting Ma
chinists and Wood Turner's is worth
$25, 900.
Rathmines' Oreland) Trades Council
passed a resolution in opposition to
| any member of the Town Council oc-
cupying the Mayoraity for two consec-
! u.,ve years.
A movement to induce employers to
change the general pay day OF all class
es of working people from Saturday to
| Monday, or some other day of the week
was inaugurated at a meeting OF the
United Labor League of Western
Pennsylvania.
The Chicago Stereotypers have not
only learned a lesson themselves. but
| have taught one to organized labor at
| large Labor must respect the con-
tracts it helped to make or it will be
hammered to it's doom by series of
/ unenoing Unconstitutional Labor Tri-
bume.
If Mayor Humes signs an ordinance
passed by the Seattle City Council, it
will be a misdemeanor to expectorate
on the public sidewalks. The ordi-
nance introduced by Dr. Crichton some
time ago makes the penalty for expec-
torating on the sidewalk SIS for each
Offense.
The bricklayers of Boston have for
some time past complained bitterly or
their hours Of labor and low wages. 1t
is claimed that the importation into
Boston of bricks made in the country
towns has forced the wages OF the
men employed in Boston brick yards
below living point.
The Northumberland colliery owners
agreed yesterday to allow their pro-
yisional concession of seven and one
half per cent advance In wages to con-
tinue in force until the next ascer-
tainment of accounts. The FifeShire
colliery engine keepers are demanding
IN advance of II cents per day.
Six hundred machinists employed by
r. Hoe & Co., manufacturers of press
es, struck. The committee demanded
that weekly wage system be adopted.
and a minimum scale of $3.50 a day be
established for all machinists. 1t also
demanded that not more than one ma
chine be given In charge of one man.
The committee on streets voted to re-
port to the Board of Aldermen in favor
of allowing the Buffalo Traction Com
pany to collect five cent fares upon it's
lines. This concession was granted
upon the Traction Company's securing
from the Buffalo Railway Company and
the Crosstown Street Railway Compa-
ny an agreement for the exchange Of
universal transfers.
The New York Excelsior Labor Club
has forwarded letter of thanks to
Mayor Van Wyck for hN prompt action
in compelling the ferry companies to
have drinking water placed on all their
boats and in the ferry houses; also
for his action In compelling the Man
haitian Elevated railway to place new
lights in some of its cars on the Second
avenue branch.
Welsh tin plate workers struck
against a cut. The largest tin plate
l.. l. lN,,
a new company. The men are under
contract to work for three years, dur
ing which period they will not partici
pate in any strikes or labor disputes.
Their wages will be at whatever rate
happens to be current in the district,
and the works will find employment
for nearly 1900 men.
Last Sunday the New York Central
Labor Union discussed the subject of
non-union cigars and non-union beer,
and it developed that many union men
who always insisted that only union
made articles of their own trade should
be eaten and drunk and worn by every
body frequently used their own discre-
ton when making purchases, and
bought non-union goods whenever they
deemed proper.
Delegates from the Team Owners
Union explained to the Denver Assem-
bly, that their organization had been
successful during its short existence of
six weeks in having their pay increas-
ed from So to $3.50 a day. The men,
bers are engaged in hauling lumber,
bricks, sand, stone and other building
material. They own their teams, the
cost of maintaining which has increas-
ed greatly during the war The build
ers and contractors agreed upon the in
crease per diem without any objection.
For the first time in the history of
placer mining in California the miners
of the northern counties have been
compelled by the lack of water to close
down at this early date and await the
time to begin operations next spring.
1--WE struck a bad year." said Mr..
Spencer, land it was all due to the re-
markably light snowfall. In the aver
age season we get fifteen feet of snow
in PlEmas and Sierra counties. but
this year there was only fall of three
felt. AS consequence, we had hard
II got our mines in good working or
der before we had to close down for