Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23
LOCAL AND TELEGRAPnic LABOR NEWS.

APiilC LABOR NEWS.
Hawaii Is only happy hunting-ground
for trusts.-Mexican Herald.
The New York Post Office Clerks
Association has decided to form plans
tor pushing the German Salary bill In
the next session of Congress. The bill
grades the wages SO that those who
/ start at $500 a year get an annual In
crease of 500 until 81, 400 is reached.
Delegate Mccormick, who was Sec
retary of the Citizens Committee
which was looking after the employ
ment of returned District OF Columbia
voluteers. has made report TO the
Central Labor Union, giving long list
of merchants who had given work to
those who were referred to them.
AT the instance Of the Hamilton
County (Ohio) Carpenters District
Council the Building Trades Council
appointed a committee to interest cap
italists in modern tenement houses.
The Tin, Metal and Slateworkers'
Union submitted a protest against
work on Engine house No. being done
by members of the department. The
Fire Commissioners will be appealed
to.
The National Industrial Commission
has been appointed for two years, but
there are many who think its work
will not be completed within four or
five years. 1t is charged with the duty
of examining into the labor question in
this country, OF considering all laws
that have been enacted for the ad-
vancement OF laboring interests, and
its duty will be to make recommended
tons for the Improvement OF labor
conditions.
The fight which has been waging for
SO long between the Lafayette and Bal
tiM0re factions of the Painters and
Decorators Union has at last been
brclghr into the Springfield (Mass)
Court A bill! CT complaint filed in the
clerk of courts Office yesterday, asks
for an injunction III favor OF the La
fayette men against the Beltimoreans,
that the latter may be restrained from
alleged illegal interference with the
business of the plaintiffs.
Il don't know why you're talking all
the time about Van Wyck and ROose-
Veit,' said Delegate Frank Jolly, Of the
Brewers Union, Socialist, at the New
York Central Labor Union meeting
IF you have the candidate of the So
cialist party here I'll guarantee that
he'll promise twice as much as the
others put together" A roar of laugh
ter followed and the delegate looked be-
wildered. Then he frightened up and
said, "And he'll keep them all"
In nine years the sum of $270, 876.15,
or an average Of $30, 097. 50 yearly, has
been charged against the defense fund
of the International Typographical IN
io1, $55,752.56 being the expenditures
on account Of strikes and lockouts dur
ing the past two years. Of the sum last
named, S45, 262 90 went direct to local
unions, S12 ,202.1S was expended in de-
frayipg the expense Of officers and or
ganizers called in by local unions to
settle disputes which gave promise of
resulting in an open rupture, while
S2S7S3 was used in the discharge of
duties entrusted to the Executive Coun-
Gil by the convention Of 1896.
One of the successful men in a limited
way, who sought fortune on the Yukon,
is Arthur Pippin, for long time proprie-
tor of the Butler Hotel barber shop,
Seattle Pippin left June 10 for st. Mich
aels, with less than $500 worth of wares,
such as linens razors. soaps, etc, and re-
turned two days ago with better than
IS, eco profit. For % days he conducted a
barber shop at the Hotel Fort Get There,
at St. Michaels. His lowest days re-
ceipts were $5S and they ran from that to
S125. Even these big wages did not sat-
isfy him. for he threw the cover over his
chair and went on a trading junket up
the Yukon as far as Forty Mile with
still better financial returns.
The ninety-eighth annual report of the
above association has been issued The
number of members has even increased by
1871, and now stands at IA, CO., Though
there has been no serious dispute with
employees during the period covered by
the report, a number of comparatively
small conflicts have taken place, and this
has caused an increase in the sum paid
on strike account, which amounts to
f55S. It is chiefly due 10 this cause that
there is a loss on the general fund Of
G434. On the other hand, the special fund
set apart for approximation purposes
has been augmented by G722, and now
stands al $50 52S. The total value of the
association now stands at G22 800, los. 3D.
in the general fund which. added to the
$50, 52S in the approximation fund, gives
an aggregate of G43,743 odd a net gain Of
the half year of over e2d. The levy to
assist the men in the late engineering
dispute realized over 1914.