Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-31
WORLD OF LABOR.
has five wooden mills.


Utah has five wooden mills.
Steel billiard balls gain favor.
Terra Haute has 1000 unionists.
Ice brings Maine $1,OOO00O year.
Tobacco is used by $50 100000 people.
There are 5000 union glass bottle
blowers.
Honolulu bricklayers get IS to Sc
day.
Portland, Ore, granite cutters get 81
for eight hours.
New York tent and hammock max
ers struck to prevent a cut.
Camden, N. j., printers won the
nine-hour day. No strike.
A Denver saloonkeeper was fined $50
for selling liquor on Sunday.
New York Catholic Benevolent Le-
gion has adopted the Printers Union
label.
New York Unionists asked the May
or to discharge non-union city en-
ployes.
Hundreds of New York cloakmakers
are on strike for a new wage scale.
The upholsterers of South Brooklyn
are making arrangements for a mass
meeting to be held on August II to ag-
itiate for shorter hours of labor.
The Brotherhood of the Kingdom of
New York, is composed of clergymen
and other active church workers who
believe in extending labor organiza-
lions.
All the members of New York Wait
ers' Union No. 1 have been ordered to
submit their citizenship papers to the
secretary by the end of this month.
Omaha packing house employees won
a strike. Unskilled laborers now earn
171a cents a day; meat pliers get 81 a
day, and rubbers and car storers $1.75
per day.
District Assembly No. Sc, of the
Knights of Labor, of the District of
Columbia, has issued a circular de-
handing the removal of John W.
Hayes, General Secretary and Treas
urer of the order.
In making out a requisition on the
civil service commission for thirty
four ward superintendent, Commits
sioner of Public Works McGann, of
Chicago, specified that only men would
Uc dCCcplSu lHS pOSlllOH.
Roughers in an iron mill at Pitts
burg have been conceded the eight
hour day and an advance of five per
cent in wages No strike. Last year
they were defeated in a strike for the
eight hour day.
A number of business men of Des
Moines are preparing to take up the
work of cleaning the streets in front
Of their places of business in the event
the city fails to find means with which
to carry on the work.
At the great demonstration held in
Dundalk, Ireland, in commemoration
of the men of '9S and laying the foun-
dation stone of a monument to the
United 1rishmen, the trades and lab
orers' organizations turned out in full
force.
The dispute in the Limerick, Ireland.
tailoring trade has assumed large pro-
portions. All the men employed-and
who heretofore were not affected by
the strike, which has been in progress
for some time-have now left work.
and demand an increase of one half
penny per hour.
The protest at San Francisco against
IhC uullOIUlS mas taken
another turn. This time it's Uncle
Sans volunteers who are doing the
kicking. A board of survey. appointed
by Brigadier General King, at San
Francisco. to examine the clothing of
the Tennessee volunteers, condemned
it all.
The effect of a recent decision at At
lanta, Ga, will be to stop creditors
from garnisheeing the wages of street
car conductors, as the court in effect
decides that Judge Lumpkin was
right when he made his first decision
holding that Toole was laborer and
that the garinsheeing proceedings be
dismissed.
The defeat of the eight-hour bill at
the last meeting of the City Council
was a disappointment to the workers
Of Seattle. II the toilers desire toAbe