Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

list.
New York painters want the eight nour
day on April 4.
Philadelphia United Labor League =
opposed to war with SPAN
A big Boston grocery has promised 70
handle union cigars exclusively.
Chicago Gasfittter's Union initiation fee
has been $50 since March l.
A Milwaukee hardware company shares
its profits with employees.
Trades union are the bulwarks OF mod
ern craceS.-GladStone.
Several Frisco druggists were nned wv
for selling bogus liver pills.
Denver union1Sts who attended tuner
band
The nine-hour day has already been es-
tablished in several Boston printing
New York machine stone workers, rub
bers and helpers want the eight-hour day
on June l.
The three wire drawers and die makers
unions of Cleveland held a joint open
meeting.
Montreal lasters who struck for an in
crease have been told that machines Will
A bill before the Maryland Legislature
will increase the cost Of retail liquor u
cenSe to $500
About three-fourths of the New York
cloak manufacturers have now granted
the new wage scale.
Chicago painters want So cents an hour
till March ], 1899, and S11a cents for the
year following.
'F'riscos Mayor declares that his town
pays p per cent. of the entire taxes OF the
State Government
Tacoma Mill Mems Union won a strike
q week after the association was formed
Yardmen get $l.50 q day.
The 100 employees Of Detroit furniture
mandatory will be undonized in BODY
by order of the firm.
At Sunderland, England. union carpen-
ters struck when they were requested 70
hurry up and work faster.
The editor and manager of the Los An
geles Herald advocates Government con-
troll of all public utilities.
The National Union Glass Workers and
General Laborers of Great Britain has AZ,
042 members and Is worth $4,000.
Washington Building Trades Council
says neither of the two plasters union
will be recognized until they shall have
amalgamated
Carroll d. Wright, United States Com
missioner OF Labor. has been elected an
honorary member of the Imperial Acade-
my of Science Of Russia.
All the products Of the Cleveland brick
yard are to be sold through an agency
The price of brick is now $5.25 for building
and $50 for sewer brick
An Ontario, Canada, law provides that
any agreement. expressed or implied, by
which an employee relinquishes rights I'M
der labor legislation is void.
New York is to have a Henry George
monument and q library is TO be eStab-
lished in the house in Philadelphia IN
WllCh the single tdNer was porn.
Illinois unionistS want the garnishment
law repealed. The new law reduces the
amount exempt from garnishment from
$50 on any one pay day TO IS a week
Thank God! We have a system of labor
where there can be a strike. Whatever
the pressure there is a point where the
workmn may stop.-Abraham Lincoln.
Detroit Central Labor Union will peti-
ton the Park Board to insert in the Belle
Isle Casino contract a clause requiring
the employment of union walters and bar
tenders only.
Des Moines spends Sunday afternoons
in the discussion of municipal matters, its
people getting together in the court house
to listen to volunteer orations upon sub
JectS OF city administration and policy.
We cannot increase the hours of labor
and lessen the pay of labor without in
flicting an injury upon a large class OF
citizens which would be- also an injury to
the Commonwealth itself.~Buston. Post,
ID. Douglass WILSON, editor Of the Off
cial journal of the Information Associa-
ton Of Machinists. says: I'VE are now
advising our members to enter the politi-
cal arena and fight their battles for bet
tier conditions in that way"
The Toronto Retailers Association has
decided that department stores are not
the only grievance which must be RENE
died. Among the things which the asso-
citation proposes to take up are a change
in the postal regulations, legislation to
and a change in the Adulteration Act
Clement II. Congdon. proprietor of Del
aware foremost newspaper, the VIII
mington Sun, is probably the youngest
newspaper publisher in America Cong
don, who is not yet thirty years of age,
was a newsboy 20 years ago He is one Of
the finest telegraphers in the country and
was for years one of the star men on the
Philadelphia. Record.
The following demands by the glaciers
were endorsed by the New York Building
Trade Section: That on and after Au-
gust l, 1898. will be demanded for GLACIERS
(sheet or plato $l5 per week, or 50 per day
u employed for less time than one
week: cuttrs. $1S per week; glass hand
lers; $2.25 per day: overtime TO be paid for
at the double rate of wages"
on February 26, when Ball Brothers.
big fruit jar factory at Muncie. Ind.
closed closed down for the week fifty
four blowers and more than an equal
number of helpers were shocked with the
Information that their services would no
longer be needed, The places of the men
Will be flled with the patent machine
blowers, which promise to wipe out that
trade within a short time.
The seven-years, struggle between the
Brunswick-l2a lke-Collender Company, OF
Chicago, and the Woodworkers' Union
ended on Monday last by the former sign
ing an agreement to hereafter employ un-
ion men only and pay the esta blished
scale OF wages. The company has about
700 woodworkers in it's employ at the pre-
sent time. Five years ago il had 900 This
union employs lawyer.
II look upon war" says Debs "as ma
ton murder. II is singular that the ap-
palling fact that about the same number
Of American workingmen as lost their
lives IN the catastrophe in the harbor OF
Havana are slaughtered every month i'll
America for want OF life and imb-saying
appliances. And this is in defiance of Il
law enacted by the National Congress re-
curing railroad companies TO provide
such requirements as may be necessary
for the protection of their pmpIOVfe -.