Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16

of diSmiSSlng the latter, has ALREADY
borne good fruit Several cases have
been settled in England on the same
terms
In the Dublin Qre.) street cleaning
department the wages commence at
S412 for sweepers, while carriers ard
nightmen, drivers Of sweeping ma
chimes, etc, receive S525, and $3.50 per
week
The Minnesota State Board of Bar
bers has under consideration rules,
which, if adopted, will make it neces-
sary for the so-called schools for turn
ing out BARRIERS to give their students
two years course at the hands OF
competent instructors.
In Ohio it is a punishable offense to
sell Intoxicating liquor to any person
whose name las been entered upon
list kept by the City Clerk as an inc
briate. The liquor dealers want the
burden of this law lightened. Change
will also be asked OF the law forbid
ding the sale Of intoxieants within two
miles of a fair. Petition will also be
made for modification Of the pure
food law 1t now provides that no
whisky shall be sold less than 100
proof.
Nashville cigarmakers want the Leg
islature to repeal the cigar dealers tax.
Washington Y. M. c. A. asked the
Central Labor Union to aid it's project
for new building.
There are 2S2 labor exchanges.
The object of the union of Seattle,
(Wash.) BARRIERS is to get all the 10
cent shops to join with the 15-centers
and maintain the price of shaving at
10 cents and % cents for hair cutting.
The Bricklayers' and Masons' Inter-
national Union met at Peoria H., on
Monday last. 1t consists of sol local
unions, with $4,000 members. The
eight hour day has been secured in 4S
cities. and nine hours constitute day
IN other towns covered by the union.
The initiation fee in New York in s25.
NO strike the past three years.
The % unions Of journeymen BARRIERS
in New York State held a convention
at Syracuse last week. They want a
law requiring examinations. but are
opposed to the bill prepared by the en-
ployers. Three-cent shops were de-
nounced, as were barber colleges. a
Chicago man owns 81 colleges.
To create fund to be used in secur-
ing the nine-hour day, printers are
asked to contribute one per cent of
their earnings.
President Hicks. at the Now York
Congress of the Knights of Labor on
Tuesday last, said "A combination is
forming with large capital TO be used
for the purpose OF getting the govern
ment to turn over to private capital
our Postofjice department"
New York has 10000 Hebrew union
lists.
Chile boasts lady car conductors.
California uses Chinese coal
Finland has women carpenters
At Rhodesia milk is S3.75 quart.
North Carolina has II wooden mills.
In China ships are launched side
ways.
cars.
James e. Scripps, of Detroit, repre-
senting the Mayors Business Mems
Committee, says: Let US obtain from
the Legislature an act permi:&ing De-
troit to raise her taxes in her own way.
I am told that such an act would be
constitutional. Let us tax nothing but
the bare soil. Then factory building,
improvements on the land, bank stock.
money, all personal, will be exempt. 1t
facilities that they will flock here"
The committee of Cleveland boot
blacks appointed to ask the retail shoe
dealers to discontinue the free shine
stands have secured the consent Of
every retail dealer in the city except
one.
Chicago unionists will ask mer-
chants to boycott an Albany, n. Y,
hat oa riofc
to make shirts.
Cleveland Central Labor Union was
offered $500 by a Syracuse house for
it's endorsement of q history of the la
Dor movement in Cleveland. When
the unionists learned that the mer
chants who were asked to advertise
understood that the entire proceeds
were for the union, the Central Labor
Urion rescinded i.a agreement with
the publishers.
The Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany requires conductors to carry not
less than S. Of their own money while
on duty.
Montreal Ttradesmen's Labor Coun
Gil wants an ordinance that will pre-
vent boys under IS from being drivers
of vehicles.
Byron w. Holt, of the New York
Reform Club, says there are 500 trusts
in the United States with capital OF
$4,000, 100000.
Wayne (Mich.) Councils passed an
ordinance prohibiting slot machines,
pool and card playing in saloons The
saloonkeepers are now boycottlng
Ccuncilmen who are merchants, and
the ordinance may be repealed.
President Simon Burns, of the Ma
tional Window Glass Workers Asso-
citation. l.. A. goo, has prepared new
plan for the amalgamation of the four
trades. and voting sheets have been
sent out to window glass workers
throughout the United States for an
expression on the proposition to have
the time-honored apprenticeship sys-
TEN abrogated and allow the manu-
facturers to put in an apprentice for
each fiattener and cutter.
Louisville letter carriers must not
hereafter ride bicycles as an aid to de-
livery. They prefer to ride in street
cars after three years trial OF the
wheel.
Fourteen of the principal depart
ment stores of Denver organized, and
ordered the Denver Post to reduce its
advertising rates The Post refused,
and the advertisers union is not
IL,