Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-25

!. London, England, plasterers demand
~ cents per hour.
Baltimore may establish home
products exposition.
Cleveland saloons must close at mid
night after October 5. s4
The P6stmen's Federation OF Great
Britain has 22,822 members.
New York union PAYERS get $3.50 a
day e hours); hammers, $3.50.
knights of Labor convention will be
held in Chicago in November.
Canada's Labor Congress advocated
poll tax of $500 upon Chinese.
A st. Louis judge has legalized the
boycott, following an English preced-
ent.
Washington Central Labor Union
discussed ways and means to aid the
unemployed.
The two English unions of shop as
sistants (clerks) are in process OF
amalgamation.
Miners in the West of Scotland have
been conceded an advance OF IL cents
per day.
New York unionists will boycott
Maine lime manufacturers that are
fighting unionism.
Organization effected higher WAGES
for over half a million British work
ingmen last year.
The Lithographic Press Feeders AS
ISOLATION has withdrawn its delegates
from the Central Labor Union.
Clothing stores, groceries, ETC., were
open on Sunday last at Cleveland.
Clerks threaten to invoke the blue
laws.
Washington unionists will give
practical sympathy (money for de-
fence to unionists charged with con-
spiracy.
New York Tin and Sheet Iron Work
ers' Union and the Cornice and Sky
light Makers Union will probably
consolidate
Chicago Federation of Labor will
boycott a firm that has dispensed with
union printers, and moved its plant
to Indiana.
Dundee masters are paying imported
men from IS to 10 cents per hour, a
rate of pay which was more than the
strikers asked for
The National Mule Spinners' Union
paid out $500 stoppage pay to the men
and boys laid off last week in one OF
the Fall River mills.
A lockout among the men employ
ed in the furniture trade in Scotland
commenced last May and is still as far
off a settlement as ever.
The Democratic and Republican
State conventions of California declar-
ed in favor of the use by the State of
the Printers Union label.
The Scotch iron and steel manufac-
turers haye formed federation for
the purpose Of dealing with the de-
mands of employees in the futIJe.
Evenly factory in Syracuse uses" me
Garn>ent Workers Union label, and
the national organization has issued
100000 labels the past year.
The New York Central Labor Union
directed the secretary to write to the
city authorities demanding AN investi-
cation of the insane asylums.
State Factory Inspector O'Leary. of
New York, has warned all his depu-
ties throughout the State that children
under IA years Of age must not be en-
ployed in factories.
There were LOIS separate fatal ac-
cidents last year in and about the
mines and quarries (more than 20
feet deep in Great Britain and Ire
land, and they caused the loss of 1,1O2
lives
English Trade Unionists now favor
legal eight-hour day, the nationaliza-
ton of the land and means of produc-
ton, and they sanction the support OF.
Socialist candidates for Parliamentary
and municipal positions.
The long strike Of carpenters and
other workmen en- a building at Chi
cago ended by the owner revoking the
contract of one contractor and giving
it to another. The strikers immedi-
ately returned to work.
B. F. Keith, the king of vaudeville,
gave 81 600 to the city of Boston when
he learned that the city was unable to
maintain free baths throughout the
winter. Half of this sum will be eX-
pended for free concerts.
About the Great Lakes are 10000
union longshoremen. The men take
the contract for unloading the vessels
their agent deal with the owner or
master and see that the men do their
work promptly and in good shape.
There is no friction.
New York's biggest blue label cigar
factory has locked out It's 400 en-
ployes. Delegate Harris blamed or
ganized labor for the lockout. He said
union men were Indifferent about the
cigars they smoked, it being imma-
terial to them whether they were I'M
ion or non-ulion cigars.
After a struggle of nearly seven
months the Bullock Electric Company
of Cincinnati, and the striking ma
chinists have compromised. They will
work under the premium system, the
introduction of which caused the diff
ficulty The company abandoned the
piece system, hence the concession on
the part of the machinists.
The joiners, etc, employed in the
ship building yards of the Clyde, have
received an advance of Ad. per hour,
together with a working agreement
for Il months. The engineers on the
Clyde and others received an advance
of Is. per week on time wages and of
double that amount on piece rates.
This all-round advance on the Clyde is
significant.
IF you workingmen were not so
stupid, not apparently blind to your
interests and your powers, the griev-
ances you cite might be easily cor
rected. OF course, you must first clear
ly understand your own case and then
hO ,rlr IN,