Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-10


we're tried in 1853, and proved fail
ure
J Carpenters in nine cities were con-
ceded their demand in March. This
spring a shorter work-day- will be re-
ouested in nearly sixty towns.
L. d. Lewelling, State Senator and
Ex-Governor OF Kansas, is in favor Of
/ George NJ. Munger's scheme for STATE
ownership Of stock yards.
An Atlanta ordinance preventing the
use Of trading stamps has been de-
clared unconstitutional. The Wilm-
ington Oel) takes them for advertis-
ing and JOB work.
New York printers did not indorse
the resolution submitted by the Min
neapolis Union that the international
Union withdraw from the Federation
of Labor.
Detroit Trades Council refused to ac-
/ cept the proposition Of Mrs. Martha
Moore Avery, the Boston Socialist, to
affiliate Itself with a socialist trade
and labor alliance.
Galveston street railway conductors
and motormen get Is cents an hour
carpenters and painters 20 cents, track
men ) cents, boiler washers and oil
ers 1874 cents, firemen 50 cents.
Virginia's foremost newspaper the
4 Richmond Times, says: Government
I ownership of public utilities is I'M
doubtedIy becoming more and more
popular, and it is useless to deny the
fact"
4. Judge r. f. Rombauer, attorney Of
the st. Louis Board Of Public Schools,
declares that franchises are property
and must be taxed. The City Coun-
selor however, says they are not tax
able.
Ohio's House Of Representatives Tax
alton Committee recommended the
passage Of law to tax mortgages and
one 10 prevent the voting Of proxies at
annual meetings Of building associa-
lions.
The seYenty-third annual report Of
the steam Engine Makers Society, Of
England, shows that it has 10S unions
and S,5G5members. The treasury con-
tains $751;, eco, although S50,000'was ex-
pended during the year.
Baltimore laundry workers struck
against a cut. The hand ironers earn
cd from $40 to SIS per week, and the
yoke settlers from SIS to So The price
piece to the hand ironers
The new scale Of the indianapolis
! Carpenters Union binds every union
carpenter in the city to work for not
less than % cents an hour while skill
cd carpenters are to obtain as much
| more as they can get and are entitled
! 10.
At Buffalo the wholesale price of
! 81 I'D IOof 1rrhi lc
the pound and a-Lalf has been reQuc-
cd from sin to three cents per loaf.
The reduction permits retail sale Of
the loaf at four cents instead Of seven
as heretofore.
In che of the Paris hCspitals-a free
neutrality-suspicious. are to be placed
at the pillows Of patients. These I'M
fortunates will be able to talk TO
friends in the outer world, or by a spe-
cial arrangement to enjoy telephone
reports Of concerts, operas, etc.
Suits for damages in behalf OF
Butte Mont, Chinese Will be lnstltut-
ed agafnst merchants and others who
contributed money to the labor union
fund to prosecute the boycott and also
against all persons who discharged
their Chinese employees under threats
| OIL labor uHlCUS.
| Milwaukee brewers struck. They
want the nine-h0ur day for inside men
MASTERS demand a siX-day week and
! ten@h0ur day. MASTERS, received '$$a7 30
4 par 7Wteest. bit 'Wafft $lS7 Theythipd de-
mand was that the teamsters Day BE-
gin when they reach the stable III the
morning.
The labor organizations, as pre-
dicted in this column when SheIll[
Martin was acquitted CT murder, are
far from being patriotically aroused II
the present crisis. The attempts now
being put forth to awaken them INTO
enthusiasm are diseouragmgly chIh-
ed off.-Bost0n Traveller.
Planks Of Portland (Ore) Social
/ Democracy platform: mat the Guy
establish and maintain public lodging
houses. and an orphans and founding
home. a home for abandoned women
and hospitals, with all modern i'm
movements The city shall furnlsn
school books, meals and clothing 70
children Of school age, where the par
! erts through sickness or lack OF en-
nlcyment are unable to provide Tor
mem. Municipal employment OF ldle
citizens.
SAYS Secretary Foster, Of the Detroit
'IOngshoremen' Union: I'VE Shall
send Senator Thompson to Paris TO
renpesent our organization at the
worlds conference Of seamen- and
'longshoremen, which is to be held
there in May, and which will be at
tended by representatives from nearly
every country in the world. II Senator
Savidge wants to sc with him he can
4 do so by organizing the 'longshoremen
Of South Haven, and if he doesn't or
ganize them he will be expelled from
the association.
Houston, Tex, street car strike was
compromised. Forty-nine new men
who worked during the strike will be
retained Tho pay per hour will range
from IS cents up to II cents, according
to the length of time the employees
have been in the service. All those
who wish to do SO will be allowed 10
work nine hours per day, conditions
permitting, at the established rates per
hour. The company will not discrimi-
Il nate against union men in selecting
employees. The strike lasted fifteen
DAYS and four militia organizations
u we're under arms for four days.
The proposition submitted by the
Rochester Knights of Labor provides
!, for raising the wages Of employees in
:. the wash room from $40 to Sl2 per