Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-06-26
WORLD OF LABOR.

WORLD OF LABOR.
Tailors have 300 unions.
Duluth hackmen organized.
There are glass monuments.
Texas has 100000 acre ranch.
Frisco boasts a Chinese telephone
girl.
A word cabled to Manila costs $2.35.
f. OF L. embraces 81 national unions
At Chicago 1000 woodworkers
struck.
Denver cooks struck for a six-day
week.
The blacklist cost an Ohio railroad
S. ,0OO
Minneapolis coopers demand an adj
vance.
Iowa druggists will hold State con-
yention.
Frisco Chinese are making soldiers
uniforms.
Every Utica publication carries the
union label.
Fines have been abolished by Du-
luth restaurants.
Kansas City iron molders struck for
the 1894 scale.
A parade will be held at Kansas
City on Labor Day.
Troy dry goods clerks demand the
Saturday half holiday.
Utica firms have accepted the paper
! makers union label.
Chicago Building Trades oppose a
parade on Labor Day.
Denver unionists want eight street
car tickets for a quarter.
Grand Rapids. Union carpenters are
distinguished by ribbon.
The New York Typographical So
I ciety was established in 1909.
Hebrew-American Bakers Union
163 now controls every shop in Brook
| Ign.
New York egg Gamblers formerly
earned SIS to $25 week; now they get
| S. to Sc.
The German Typographical Fedora
| ton has $4,000 members and fund
of 100000.
There are now in New York four
| knights of Labor assemblies of city
| employees.
The municipality of Des Moines las
| practically secured possession of the
water plant.
A Chicago Alderman favors law
WHICH, Will MAKE IudIIlcu WOluSA LIZ
eligible as school teachers.
| The Mayor of Watertown, N. Y,
vetoed an ordinance which required
the union label on city printing.
The Baltimore F. Of L. will send no
member who does not work at his
| trade as z delegate to convention.
Washington Unonists declare that
machine made bread, contracted by
| Uncle Sam, is unfit for our soldiers.
| ST. Louis working girls will this sum-
mer be given an opportunity to enjoy
| two weeks in the country for $l.5O a
week.
| Members of the New York Ladies
| Garment Workers Union were fined
| 500 for divulging secret business OF
| the union.
The iron molders of Toledo will cele-
! brate the Goth anniversary of the Or
| ganization of their international union
on July 4.
New York Central Labor Union
adopted a resolution praising the bra
very of the n-combatants-the men
| below-on our warships.
| Cleveland clergymen have been re-
quested to aid the clerks in forcing
| the closing of clothing, grocery, shoe,
| ETC., stores on Sunday.
| Representatives of 80 Western rail-
| roads who met at Manitou Springs,
| Col, did not raise rates. Protests of
| manufacturers and shippers were eff
| fective.
A boycott circular concerning an In
dianapolis firm that employees butch
ers is to be sent to every union labor
body in the United States, Canada,
England, France and Belgium.
A boycott on Oshkosh sash and
doors is said to be in process of insti-
tuition by the National Carpenters
Union, while the manufacturers threat
en- to retaliate by putting a ban on all
| union labor.
1t is the intention of the government
of South Australia to take up the
construction of locomotives at the gov
eminent workshops on the grounds Of
greater economy and quality of work.
manShip.
President Rockwell, of the Toledo di-
vision of street railway employees, will
investigate the system on which the
miners conduct the cooperation store
at Ishpening, with the view OF fol-
lowing their example in Toledo.
Boston unionists are opposed to the
| apparent policy of President McKin-
ley in the acquisition of any more ter
ritory, and especially against the an
nexaton of Hawaii. They are also
| opposed to an alliance with Great Bri-
| tain.
The Laborers' Union Protective So
ciety of Greater New York has re-
newed it's agreement with the Mason
D,;ldorc, Accociation for tho war 1905
49, Wages are to be 80 cents an hour,
eight hours day and six days a
week.
Judge Seaman, of Milwaukee, decided
that the street railroad could not be
run on less than scent fares, and the
city appealed to the higher courts.