Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-17


Glasgow wants the city 10 purchase
and operate its telephone system
Uncle Sam has q union printer on
each Of his hagships, who sets up and
prints the log book.
The Legal Rights of Labor" was
the theme of an address to Provision
and Grocery Clerks Union by Bos-
ton lawyer.
Boston trades organizations are boy
cotting certain provision stores for not
closing up on Wednesday afternoons
during the summer months.
The Ishpeming cooperative store
handles all necessities, exclusive of
drugs and liquors. What it has not
got in stock will be procured at mar
ket price. Toledo street railway un-
ionists will establish a similar enter
prise.
The delegates OF the Cleveland local
Of the new Stogie Makers National
Union, were refused admission to the
Central labor body in that city. This
is the outgrowth of the war between
the Cigar Makers and Stogie Makers
National bodies.
Justice Maddox in the Supreme Court
in Brooklyn, granted q peremptory
writ of mandamus yesterday to compel
the Board of Estimate and Apportion
ment to provide funds to pay the po-
lice telegraph operators their salary at
the rate of $3.50 year.
The Gas Workers and General Lab
orers' Union held their conference in
Birmingham recently. 1t was stated
that the total receipts for the year had
been $4,000 The conference voted
81 $50 per annum to secure reDresen-
taton in Parliament and on local bod
les. The salaries of officers were in
creased and scheme was proposed
for a system of voluntary provident
benefits.
Dundee, Scotland, furnituremakers
struck. the masters wishing to in
troduce the system of work
adopted by Kirkburg firm,
which was in effect that work
men were kept almost continuous
ly at one kind of employment. This,
it was stated by the men, did not give
those learning the trade practical I'M
Outstanding of the various details con-
nected with the manufacture of furni-
ture.
The British National Federation of
Enginemen have been holding their an
nual conference at Bath. The delegates
present represented about 10000 mem
bers. The chief matter engaging their
attention was the securing generally of
an eight hour day in all districts. 1t
was decided to make application for the
fixing of date when the eight-hour
day should be conceded to all men in
all districts.
AT Elizabethport, n j., only one-half
! of the machinists employed in the shops
belong to the union. The non-union
machinists first struck to enforce de-
mands which they made, and the union
men then struck in sympathy. Incl
dentally the union men make the same
demands as the non-uniOn men. The
non-union men demanded time and a
half for overtime on working days,
double pay for all overtime on Sundays
and holidays, and time and half for
work done during the Saturday half
| holiday
The much talked-of convention of the
Window Glassworkers' Association
| convened last week at Pittsburg. No
| similar meeting of the association Gre
ated so much interest among the glass
! WOI hluS lIdleluIly DIS IUlS one, OWIuS
to the fact that President Simon Burns
refused to hold it, despite the fact OF
the organization to the contrary. Mem
bers Of the Executive Board took the
matter into the court where it was de-
creed that members could call a con-
vention without the sanction of the
| President.
Hon. Evan H. Davis is taking steps
| to secure the enforcement of the laws
which he managed to get through the
Ohio State Legislature last winter in
the interest of labor. The two laws
which are of the greatest Importance,
and in which Mr.. Davis is taking the
| greatest interest, are the one relating
to child labor, and the one which pro-
vides that in all places where women
and girls are employed a seat shall be
provided by the employers for such
| employees, so that they may sit down
as much of the time as is possible
| There is more or less trouble in the
cigar factories at Tampa, Fla, over a
ruling on the new war revenue law
That law provides that every cigar
made shall be taxed. 1t also provides
| that every pound of tobacco must be
| turned into lot of stamped cigars or
| be otherwise accounted for. 1t has been
| the custom to provide the cigarmakers
with all the cigars they could smoke
while at work and from four to six
| when they left the factory in the even