Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-18
GENERAL LABOR NEWS.

Vienna has a. l ,500-roOm hotel.
Siberia has 10000 gold miners.
Osaka, Japan, has 20 ship yards.
Philadelphia coppersmiths struck.
The South boasts 491 cotton mills.
America contains 5,464 drug stores.
Austria made 10000 bicycles in 1891.
I,ockport, n. Y, coremakers organ
lied.
Washington's hop pickers include In
dians.
New York has 10000 self supporting
women.
Ironworkers' helpers at Cleveland get
from $3.50 TO $1.75 a day.
Poughkeepsie Star will concede the
nine hour day to its printers.
Springfield (Mass.) carpenters struck
for the discharge of a non-union fore
man.
Cleveland cylinders have estab-
lished shorter workday fund. Each
man contributes three per cent. OF his
wages.
The International Association of Fac
tory Inspectors declares that national
law should be passed in regard to the
employment of children.
New York is to have ten story hotel
for women exclusively. Music rooms,
reading and sewing rooms will be scat
tered throughout the floors. Elevators
and electric plant and every concelV-
able provision for health and comfort
have been included in the complete ar
rangements. Single rooms at So and
81, double rooms at So, with other ex-
penses in proportion, will keep the
rates within moderate limits.
No man living is fit to run trolley
car more than 10 hours in "a. Apart
from the inhumanity of cruelty over
working men, this thing ought to be
stopped in the interest of the public
safety-New York World.
Twenty States were represented at
the Convention of American Mechanics
at Cleveland.
An Indignation meeting OF Boston
city employees was held relative to the
introduction of uniforms, reported to
have been inaugurated in the park de-
partment The system was condemned
in unmild terms as being an English
importation and a pauper-like badge of
servility.
Boston Central Labor Union advo-
Gates the election Of judges to the
United States Supreme Court by popu-
lar vote.
Newsdealers held a national conven-
ton at New York. They object to dry
goods stores selling books and period
icals at cut rates.
Carpenters will parade in New York
on Tuesday next. The national con-
yention of the Brotherhood is being
held there.
New York Board of Walking Dele
gates may abolish sympathetic strikes.
Unions affiliated with the Amalga-
mated Association of Clothing Cutters
and Trimmers are discussing the Ques-
tion of raising the dues from so cents
to 81 month.
Cleveland's Mayor addressed the
plumbers convention. Among the
matters discussed was the question of
iourneymen plumbers without capital
starting in business for themselves.
These men, having no store and lit
tie or no shop rent to pay, compete
seriously with the larger establish
ments where a number of journeymen
are employed, and are said to hurt the
interests of the trade.
The first step Of a movement which
Will pfOUdpiS iSsuil III uiflulHS tHe
American Federation of Labor into
geographical sections was taken at a
meeting in Milwaukee, Of the represen-
tatives of seven State declarations of la
Dor of the Northwest. The meeting
was for the purpose of forming closer
union of State declarations. In the
words Of f. J. Weber, State Organizer
for Wisconsin, It was Ito establish 4
quick system Of boycott" Many dele