Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
WORLD OF LABOR.

California has Portuguese union.
| Japan labor unions are multiplying
| Victoria, Col, IL to have labor tenn
pie.
| Germany has three women gunsmiths.
| Ruskin CTenn.) cooperative colony is
| thriving.
One who counterfeits union label in IL
| linois is fined 500.
| Three-fourths of the workers of Austria
liza enjoy the S-hour day.
| man in the London slums makes a
| living by selling hot water at a halfpen-
ny per quart.
| The laws of the Coopers' International
[ Union prohibit the taking of an appren-
| tice under fifteen years.
| Trade unionism, says the National La
Dor Tribune, stands at a strong guard be-
| tween all kinds of Social extremes.
There are several new trades in Paris.
You find dog doctors, dog dentists, dog
BARRIERS and dog dressmakers advertised
in the newspapers. and they seem to be
| well patronized.
New York gold heaters union is going
| to try a new method to induce the en-
ployes to restore the old higher wages.
| There are only 500 gold heaters in the
|
J York city.
| The new church to be built by the Cath
Ole Church of St. Marys, in Troy, will
be built entirely by union labor. Father
Lowre provided for the employment of
union labor by inserting a clause to that
| effect in each contract.
| The Brewers National Union in six
months spent $1,000 in fighting a non-un-
|
bers are now in prison awaiting trial for
| boycotting and other charges as a result
| Of that trouble.
| The BROOKLYN Heights Railroad Com
pany. it is said, has employed twenty wo-
| men to count passengers on the cars on
| their lines and keep tab of the conduc-
| tors registers. All of the women en-
ployed are young and comedy.
A strike of 1000 shirtmakers is various
| shops against reduction of wages recently
| occurred in New York. These shirtmak-
ers make shirts worn by workingmen and
| say they earned only SC to s. per week.
| They want the price SO arragned that
they can make from $40 to s12 working fif-
| ty-nine hours a week.
| William Martin, the travelling organizer
| of the General Assembly of the knights
| of Labor, says: Our organization is grow
| ing rapidly all over the country. We are
| establishing new assemblies almost every
| day. and the membership of the old as
| semblies is increasing with healthy
| growth. The American Federation of La
| Dor is weaker now than it was three
months ago. through the withdrawal of
the Western Federation of Miners.
| The label is now taking the place of the
boycott, says the New York World Un-
| ION men are instructed to look for it eve-
| rywhere-on hats, boots printed matter,
| cigar boxes, clothing, and even on loaves
| Of bread. Union label committees are be-
| ing formed in every city in the United
| States, and movement is in progress for
q national label committee, so as to have
the union label in any one city recognized
| I'll over the country.
| A dispute recently arose between the
| proprietors of the London Star" and the
| Printing Machine Mems Society as to
whether a custom which had been grow
Ing up in the Star" printing office of APP
| prenticing adult laborers at the full
| iourneymen's wages of two guineas
weekly. SO that they might become ulti-
| mately skilled machine men should be
| continued. 1t was agreed by the disput-
| ants to refer the question to Mr.. Burt, NJ
| P, Mr.. HAZEL. NJ. P, and Mr.. Steadman,
NJ p, who have decided in favor of the
employees.
| In Hawaii wages on the plantations, in
| Guiding house and firewood, or room and
board, range from s125 to s175 for engi-
neers and sugar boilers, $50 to 500 per
month for blacksmiths and carpenters,
| tn for I-i,,
ers, 800 to $l75 per month for bookkeepers
| and $50 to $40 per month for teamsters In
| Honolulu the rates are $ to Sc per day for
bricklayers and masons. 81 20 to s. per day
| for carpenters and painters and 50 to s.
| per day for machnists. Cooks receive
| from SO to Sc per week: nurses, house ser
| wants and gardeners, SIS to Sl2 per month.
Retail prices of provisions are as follows:
| Hams, 16 to 20 cents: -four $3.50 to s. per
100 pounds; butter, 25 to so cents per
! ice, IL cents per pound
Three hundred and thirty hands, most
| of them young girls. employed in the
| Clifton Silk Mills, in Union HILL went on
strike because they We're fined 80 cents
| if they were one minute late for work in
| the morning.
| In reply TO the application logged SIX
| weeks ago by the officials of the National
! Amalgamated Union of Labor of Great
| Britain. for an all-round advance to ms m
bers of their body employed in ship-build-
| ing yards, on the northeast coast the En-
| ployers Association offered the following
| concessions, and these after consultation
| with the men, it has now been decided TO
| accept: Five per cent. advance to men
| working on piece, Is. per week advance to
! men working on time rates at 24s per
| week and over. and Cd. per week advance
| to men receiving under 24s. The men af-
| fected include strikers, engnemen crane
| men, boilermen, firemen, etc, working in
| ship yards, and the advance takes effect
| from the first full pay in August. 1t has
| also been decided TO accept the following
| advances for members OF the union en-
| ployed in the engineers trade on the
| northeast coast: One shilling per week for
| men receiving 25s. per week and over Cd.
| per week for men receiving less than 25s.,
| and two and a half per cent advance on
| piece rates. These advances also take eff
| feet from the first full pay in August
| The General Executive Board of he Ma