Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06
WORLD OF LABOR.
There is a stoneware trust.

.DcufGI las d laundry trust.
England has eleven distillerieS.
America has $4,000 acres of hops.
New York policemen wear non-union
hats.
London, Canada, street car workers
struck.
Tracey City, Tenn, miners struck for
70 and 70 cents per mine car.
Tinplate workers at Atlanta. Ind,
struck against cut in wages.
The union stamp will be imprinted
hereafter on the Douglas shoe.
Girls employed in an oatmeal mill
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, won strike.
Brockton Lasters' Union admitted
to membership Is men at a recent
meeting.
Seven dollars a thousand is the
price paid by Tacoma company for
raft of flooring logs the other day.
Under the laws of Arkansas fine of
$25 is assessed on the company per-
hitting cOlOred people to ride in the
sleepers.
Probably the cheapest railroad fares
in the world are to be found in Swift
zerland, where the government owns
the railroads.-Sacramen Bee.
Indianapolis painters were locked
out because they boycotted firm that
employed men who owed the union
money. They get % cents an hour.
London has taken up the experiment
or municipal street railroads. The
South London tramways have been
bought by the County Council for $4,-
100000
The movement for the establishment
of the ten-hour day for bakers and the
abolition Of the prevailing system of
boarding journeymen is now fairly on
foot.
The eighteenth annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
will be held at Kansas City, Mo-, De-
cember II. The X. of l.. will meet at
Chicago on November Is.
The third of the series of confer
ences arranged by the Journeymen Ba-
kers and Confectioners' international
Union for the shorter workday move
ment in 1899 was held last week.
The famous Federal Labor Union, of
Kane, Pa, has gone into politics to the
extent of getting all the labor organi-
cations in Mexican county united on
labor ticket in the State campaign.
A Cleveland ordinance provides that
the cash fares on street railways shall
be cents and that the tickets be sold
at the rate of seven for quarter. The
present rate of fare is 5 cents, with
tickets at the rate of II for so cents.
The Indiana BARRIERS Protective AS
sociation was formed last week. The
purpose of the organization is to pre-
pare and have introduced in the Leg
islature a bill licensing BARRIERS and
recurring better sanitary conditions in
barber shops.
A movement has been inaugurated
in Pittsburg by trainmen in the in
terests of better wages. The demand
has been placed in the hands of a
grievance committee, and will be pre-
scented to railroad officials. P. NJ. Ar
thur, chief of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engieers, says that his Or
ganization is not involved in the move
ment
Members of the Cleveland Retail
Clerks Association, who were looking
for evidence yesterday against VIOLA
tors Of the Sunday labor law, did not
have any trouble securing 1t. Nearly
all of the clothiers who have been IN
the habit of keeping their places OF
business open Sunday morning from
to Il o'clock did SO last Sunday.
The Gelagtes of the New York
Central Labor Union, who have looked
upon Clarendon Hall as a labor fort
ress since 1882, when they first moved
into it, have decided to move to other
quarters on January /. The Union
charges that the present manager en-
ploys non-union walters, bartenders
and musicians, the latter forming the
the orchestra in a music hall anex OF
the building.
Zone of the most effective speakers
ON the stump in this State is Hon.
Robert Bridges. Land Commissioner of
the State" says one Of the leading fu-
sion torgans. The Republicans are be-
ginning to coincide with this view, for
Mr. Bridges arguments i'll favor of the
single tax and insistence that he is an
ardent single taXer are making votes
for the Republican ticket.-Tacoma
(Wash.) Ledger (Rep.)
New York society women have sub
scribed $4,000 to start a cooperative
shop for the striking ladies tailors.
The fashionable women in New York
will be in a sense partners in this en-
terprise. The Vanderbilts, the Sloans,
the Astors, the Duers and scores Of
others whose names are synonymous
with great wealth and social prestige
will be the petronesses of this shop;
in fact, kind of silent partners. The
tailors ran against their first snag
when they went to buy cloth. Presi-
dent Schimmick, Secretary Treasurer
Topstatt and Peter Cain went to the
two principal wooden houses in New
York to see what terms they could
make. They were told that the Arms
could not sell to the cooperative shop
The reason was given frankly. The
firms said that the trade of the fash
ionable tailors having shops in and
near Fifth avenue is worth more to
them than that of the men who are
now on a strike, and they could not
have both. This does not trouble
u.s." said President Schimmick. 1--WE
can buy cloth of big retail houses who
also do a wholesale business
The Social Democracy colony, In
WASHINGTON is now an accomplished
fact. The Cooperative Brotherhood
which was organized and Incorporated
under the laws of the State of Wash
ington by national officers of the So