Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-23

an UNFAIR, EOn-unlOn once, etc.
Chicago Building Trades Council
may ask the city to use concrete in
stead Of brick in order to injure a
union Of brieklayers whose members
worked on building where carpen-
| tiers had struck
Kansas City Industrial Council ap-
| pointed a committee to visit the mer-
chants Of Kansas City and request
| that none but union labor be employ
| ed in making repairs.
The Young Mems Business League,
of Chattanooga, declined to adopt the
| resolution calling for constitutional
| amendment TO exempt manufactures
from taxation for a certain time.
Every strike, won or lost, ties the
| workingmen closer together, and adds
| to their chances of victory in the next
| strike. Workmen in the end are go
ing to get what they produce.-New
York Journal.
Considerable indignation is felt by
White carpenters and mechanics in
Honolulu at the employment of Chin
csc and Japanese mechanics alone on
the construction Of their costly resi-
dences by several government officials.
The Slate and Metal Roofers Union
OF New York, is at war with the Cor
nice and Skylight Makers Union.
which it accuses of invading its field
of work. A slate and metal roofer
said his organization would retaliate
by sending rOofers to do cornice work
Typographical Union, No 49, at one
time one of the strongest unions in
Milwaukee, is on the verge of disso-
luton because of it's greatly dimin-
no. h IN, orIo
after to be secured from the interna-
tional union. Charter is to be sur
rendered. Typesetting machines kill
ed the body.
Many OF the radical delegates Sc
varely criticised the election Of Sam
ucl Gompers to the presidency Of the
American Federation of Labor. They
suggested as remedy that all the Of
ficers should be elected by a referen-
DUN vote or all the members Of af-
Illiated unions.
Newark unionists want a constitu-
tlonal convention, so that laws of New
Jersey may be revised The system
of Senatorial representation, as now
existing, is stamped as unfair. in Civ
ing one-third the people power to rule
the State. They declare that every
labor bill introduced in the Legisla-
ture has been amended by corporation
attorneys to make it OF no use or in
operative
The war between the department
stores and the newspapers of Denver
lasted week. The newspapers won
the victory, but the injury to the
stores may never be remedied. Never
were these stores so roundly abused
W. h inc H,{
exploited. Even the Board of Health S
guns were turned upon them. Ali
small stores were permitted to air
their grievances, secret societies &c
cided to boycott the big houses and
members Of labor unions were fined
for patronizing them.
Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraph
ers' Union won it's demands without
strike. Hereafter the telegraphers viii
not have to shovel snow from then
platforms; they will receive extra al
lowance for attending switch lamps.
and also extra compensation for being
called upon to work extra hours.
Hereaftear, too, if a station agency be
vacant, not calling for the services OF
a telegrapher, telegrapher shall have
the first right Of a promotion to the
position. A station heretofore was in
charge Of two operators. These
worked twelve hours per day for $50 q
month Hereafter three men will do
the work, and the salaries paid will
range from $50 to S55 per month
At meeting of the New York Cen
trail Labor Union the Labor EA-
change Committee made a report III
which it criticised the cigarmakers for
not embracing an offer to provide work
for unemployed cigarmakers by iilling
a small order the Exchange had for
cigars. Eve never went into this bus
iness,'' said the cigarmakers' delegate,
and don't propose to be schemers. 1T
you sell articles, as you say, some
times so per cent less than regular
prices, you are competing with legiti-
mate trade and cheapening wages.
Warner retorted by charging that
Brown was not considering the thou
sands of cigarmakers who were out of
work and those who were receiving
starvation wages in tenements He
said that this was a sample order, and
would lead to orders. and would lead
to orders Of 100, 600 cigars week; fur
INcI, ludC IlC uhSilipiOySu AASAA "oN-1
be paid in scrip, at union rates CT
wages.
Measures recommended at the New
York Knights of Labor convention, in
Guiding an act to stop Sunday funerals
except in cases where persons have
died of contagious diseases an act pro-
viding for the enclosing OF eleyatlng
machines during construction; an act
TO interdict the assignment and sub
letting of contracts; bill urging the
establishment of a State printing de-
partment; bill making 81 per day the
least compensation for unskelled labor
in the general government service;
bill for further appropriation for the
improvement Of canals, such improve
ments to be made directly under the
supervision Of the Superintendent of
Public Works without being let out
by contract: an act to make the hours
of pharmacists and druggists ten hours
a day; bill providing that no person
shall hereafter be appointed a foreman,
inspector or supervisor by the State to
inspect any public work unless quail
fled by practical experience; an act
placing unions upon a legal footing so
that they may enter into contracts as
to wages with employers.
ORDERED IN AMERICA.