Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-30

declare that no negro shall drive in
procession with them.
The Caledonian (Scot.) tailors have
notified employers that S1.75 must be
paid hereafter for police patrol jack
cts.
The Griswold Manufacturing Com
pany, CT Erie, Pa, has received large
order from Japan for the Erie alum
mum hollowware
The Coopers' Union, of Evansville
Ind. refused a cooperage firm the LABEL
on the ground that its kegs are being
made by machines.
Toledo Central Labor Union has
adopted resolution in favor OF limit
ing the age Of girls employed in fac
tories to IS years and of boys to l6
years.
In New York City there are 5,o91
clothing shops and &c, 500 workers, Is
per cent. of whom are Jews. Some are
paid seven cents for making a pair OF
trousers.
At Duluth the Populists and the Re
publicdns have botn declared III favor
Of the eight-hour work day on city
work and in favor of municipal owner
ship of the principal franchises.
4 measure will be introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature urging the city
buyer to award the contract for the
city hoTseshoeing to the members OF
the HoTseshoers' Union.
Give no more franchises away, is
the title OF an editorial in Maryland S
foremost newspaper, the Baltimore
Herald. It wants a railway franchise.
mir 3p ha iri, bidder
Secretary E. G. henry, Of the Cleve-
land Bicycle Mechanics Union, said
the mount Of labor needed in the pro-
duction OF a bicycle has been reduced
by machines nearly Cpe-thlrd in the
last three years.
Cleveland Retail Grocers' Union de-
nounced tne trading stamp, and mef-
chants At Erie, Pa, are being rlose-
cuted for using them. Inc retail
merchants of New Jersey want 1t ca
terminated by law.
An ordinance submitted to Baltimore
City Council prohibits milk Wagons
using the streets on Sundays betH ecu
a. m. and 4 D. NJ, ana tofblddlng
them using their gongs or bells at all
on the Sabbath.
Canadian Pacific railway telegraph
ers work now twelve hours, and are
to be exempt from Sunday work when
ever possible. From Cartier to Fort
William-agent and operator, with
dwelling, fuel and light, $47.50 per
month; do. without dwelling, fuel and
light, $50; relieving agent, $50 a
month and so cents a day expenses.
Whenever the Governing Board OF
the New York Consumers League finds
that a retail store is dealing justly
in every way by it's employees, that
store is put on the white list" and
is recommended to general favor.
There are now about thirty-seven New
York firms on the Leagues white
list Mrs. Nathan called attention to
the fact that members Of the League
are refrained from shopping after 5
o'clock p. NJ and on Saturday after
moons. They are also expected to re-
fuse to receive packages of goods
bought during the day after 6 O'Clock
p. m.
The girl weavers in Wilson's mills
at Trenton, N, j., have achieved by
mere womanly persuasion-coaxina e,
in a word-that which wan sisters in
New Bedford are starving for. Good
Mr.. Wilson," Dear Mr.. Wilson,
kind Mr.. Wilson" we're some Of the
calculations with which the plea OF
the committee was punctuated from
the main body. A look OF mock con-
sternation overspread the face of the
manufacturer as he gazed into the
eyes, some roguish and some wlstful,
of his DEFENDANTS He saw that many
of them were pale and thin, and that
made him serious again. Then he adj
vanced their pay 10 per cent.
A woman of New Bedford. who has
worked patiently for sixty years here and
in England, is working patiently still.
With the admirable fighting spirit that
unites working men and women all over
the world, she has gone out on strike
against a 10 per cent reduction in wages.
1t really does not matter much to her.
She must die pretty soon and the 50 cents
of her wages that the employers want
to take each week would make little diff
ference. Perhaps she would take tea
without sugar, perhaps she would use up
part of the money that is saved to graf
ify q morbid desire for a decent burial.
She has saved nothing for her old age ex-
cept the grave money. She is rather old
to fight against a combination Of mil
lions and starvation But out she walks.
withe the other strikers. and she will not
go back until all the strikers go back.
Rather a fine spirit is shown there.-New
York Journal.