Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-02

Retail Clerks Union for the $50
O'Clock closing hour.
A Cleveland member of the Ohio
Legislature will introduce a bill COM
polling children to attend school fntil
they are 15 years of age.
In a letter to the Detroit Retail
Clerks Union the w. C. T. U. felici-
tates the union on having barred from
membership all engaged in the liquor
trade.
Louisville horseshoers want a law
requiring examinations as to fitness of
those engaged in the business. APP
prcntices should, it is urged, serve
four years.
Buffalo unionists want three-cent
fares. They claim that labor laws are
not enforced, and ask that a committee
be appointed by the District Attorney
for their enforcement.
1t is tie intention of the BARRIERS of
Cincinnati to work for the passage of a
Dill requiring the examination of all
BARRIERS, before they can secure a Ger
tlficate. The plumbers must now SUBJ
init to an examination.
In order to settle dispute with the
metal polishers, members of the Bicy-
Gle Workers Union in Toledo bicycle
factories where roughing is done by
them agree that they shall use no en-
cry higher than So
Toledo printers have agreed not to
interfere with machinists who are in
charge OF linotype machines. The ma
cnlnlsts agree not to interfere with
combination men (printer machinists)
IN charge OF plants in small Offices.
Detroit has 100 union cigar factories
and the eight hour day prevails. In
1883 they received $25 a week, but to-
day owing to the number of women in
troduced, skilled man only makes a
fair living
Anent the cotton manufacturing
boom in the south the Alexandria
Wa.) Gazette says: "The South sup
plies the material and the labor but, as
usual, the North reaps the larger part
of the profit
This has been the most prosperous
| season among the merchants in San
Francisco which they have experienced
since the days Of the Argonaut. The
merchants have had the finest fall
| trade ever known in the history of the
State.
The general strike of the New York
electrical workers programmed for
January 3 will not take place. A COM
promise has been effected by which the
demand for an increase of wages from
| SO to 81 a. day of eight hours has been
| INST half way-namely, $3.50 a Gay.
Members of the Dublin Gre.) Gro
GERS Assistants Association, who
worked on Christmas day, have been
expelled from the union. Honorary
members, whose places were open,
were also dropped.
Complaints are made that the law re-
| Gently passed by the Ontario Govern
ment regulating the hours Of workmen
in bakeries is being violated by differ
ent concerns in Toronto. 1t is stated
that boxers are still working their men
from 70 to rs hours week; and that
many of the shops are in an unsanitary
condition. The mortality among ba-
kers is admi, .edly the largest of all
| traGesmen.
| Cleveland retail butchers will organ
| ize to stop the selling of meat at retail
| by wholesale butchers. The retailers
will boycott the wholesalers who keep
| up the practice.
St. Louis delegates to the Federation
Of Labor convention, Phil. Homer, de-
clared to the Central Union last Sun
| day that the Federation will go to
pieces because of its conservatism.
| Armour &c Co.'S fight against the
| boycott Of the Marion Qnd) Central
! Trades Council was pushed again to-
| day with unrelaxed vigor. In one re-
! tail market Friday the sales Of Armour
| meat, at less than half price, amounted
| to more than 1000. A fine Of $40 was
assessed against each union man buy
| ing Armour meat.
| At a meeting of the New York Cen
trail Labor Union George Wagner, del
egate Of the International Association
of Machinists, reported that the associ-
| alton meant to begin its fight against
the linotype engineers in Boston. The
machinists hold that the places Of the
| linotype engineers belong to men Of
! their craft.
In Chicago. on and after Moy 1, 1888,
all marble wainscoting of every de-
scription, thing, treads, risers and all
| other marble work, whether polished,
rubbed or otherwise, going into or for
! a building, will not be handled, set or
laid in place unless bearing ri-jrk-
laid in place unless having stamped on
the back a union label. To receive the
right of union label all marble deal
ers. contractors and manufacturers
must not work any of their shop hands