Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-13
WORLD OF LABOR.

Denver has a fruit peddler's union.
Ice laborers at Rondout, n Y, demand
81 day.
New York State Grange advocates a
State income tax.
New York engineers are opposed to a
bill requiring licenses.
Clevland unionists viii act play called
The Miners Strike"
Chattanooga foundry employees won an
advance of 1 per cent
Six thousand people sleep in the open
air in London every night
A Chicago ordinance requires city
horses to be shod in union shops.
All officers of the Cleveland Central La
Dor Union must furnish bonds.
The United States Grand Jury is TO act
on the local coal dealers Trust"
A Cleveland Councilman has prepared
an ordinance for four-cent car fares.
Members Of the Ohio Wholesale Gro
GERS Association who cut rates are fined
so.
Wisconsin hardware men at their State
convention decided to fight department.
stores.
Clevland unionists declare they will not
recognize new painters union organized
by ths Baltimore faction
'F'rirco has a. new tailors' union. and it
will join the national body.
The astonishing statement is made that
800 coo eco of bonds were sold in New York
during the month of January.
New York electrotypers on Tuesday last
struck against handling matter set by
non-unionists.
The Boston Cigarmakers Union contri-
buted S2Cl to the striking operatives Of
New Bedford.
IN Mexico miners get 3714 cents a day.
Mexico has yielded $4,000 600 900 worth OF
pSecious metals.
Cleveland tin, sheet iron and cornice
workers on ApriIs first Monday. want
eight hours and % cents per hour.
Washington ID. CD bakers say that ma
chimes are being introduced that will dis
place half the men employed in bakeries
Buffalo Alderman have passed an ordi-
nance imposing a license fee of $1,000 on
each department of each department
store.
Chicago master carpenters say that cut
throat competition has ruined their bust
ness. They viii have to organize and
will employ only unionists.
Chicago unionists propose to have a say
in the matters of river Improvement and
the expenditure of water taxes for pur-
poses other than those authorized by law
Residents of the District of Columbia
have no vote, and unionists will this week
hold u meeting to demand the suffrage.
Senator Tillman will speak.
Chicago sheet metal workers get 50
cents per hour and double pay for over
time. One apprentice Is permitted TO
every four sheet metal workers.
Mayor Quincys proposed scheme to
erect a building by union day labor in
stead of contract labor was unanimously
indorsed by the Boston Central Labor I'm
ion.
The question of Sunday labor in the
steel mills is the paramount problem now
confronting the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers.
The United Wood Carvers' Association,
of New York, reports that quite a nur1lser
of employers have already agreed to sub
stitute the DAY wages system for the old
system of paying the men by the hour.
South Cardinals Legislature is consd-
ering bill to provide for the taxation of
telegraph, telephone, palace car sleeping
car. drawing room car dining car, ex-
press and fast freight joint stock associ-
atoms
The first nominating convention to be
held in the United States by Social Demo-
Gratis. the followers of Eugene Y. Debs,
was held at Milwaukee last week. Candi-
dates for Mayor, Comptroller City Urea
silrer and City Attorney were nominated.
AT Boston the other day Gompers ex-
pressed his belief that the failure of the
textile workers Of New Bedford to win
the present struggle would mean CORE
spending reductions in wages in the
South. and that nothing would be gained
by the New England manufacturers.
on May next $50 members Of New
York Tvpographcal Union No. 6 (Big Six)
will commence cultivating garden produce
on the 25o-acre tract at Pelham Park.
The union has appropriated $3.50 for the
venture. and a similar amount has been
contributed by the Mayors committee.
Mavor Ransdell of Lynn, speaking be-
fore the Workingmens Political League
tl1e other evening, said it was sad COM
mentarv that in city like Lynn. com
nosed largely OF workingmen merchants
and real estate men We're largely selected
as representatives at the State House.
If is said. that 30 per cent. Of the custom
laundry work Of New York is now done
bv machinery. The shirt ironers' union
has decided to request Congressman Sui
ger to prepare bill to prohibit goods
manufactured or prepared in penal insti-
tutions Of any one State from being sold
in any other State
Chicago unionists talk of adopting the
baltimore plan" This. a delegate ex-
planned. was for fifteen or twenty men to
flc into a saloon and order beer Before
the beverage was touched one should or
der union made cigars. and if they were
not forthcoming al should file out, leav-
ing the beer on the counter untouched
Three thousand New York pantsmakers
struck on Tuesday last. They make from
1870. IL sixtaen hours a day. They saw