Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-17


Dundee, Scotland drillers struck for
! SO cents per dozen rivets.
Frisco Sailors Union demand $40
per month as minimum pay.
Several Frisco firms conceded the
nine hour day to job printers.
! Montreal Central Labor Union IN
! dorsed the single tax.
| Duluth street railway uniforms this
spring will bear the union label.
I Covington, KY, Ladies Union Labor
! League has 500 members.
Al Cleveland public improvements
will furnish work for 1000 men.
| London has 40, 100 union glasswork-
| ers, an increase Of 10000 in year
Montreal unionists want the city TO
pay laborers 1212 cents an hour.
After May / Cleveland carpenters
will not work with non-unlonlsts.
Troy unionists protest against the
employment of girls in founderles
New York stereotypers are on strlhe
for a nine and half hour day.
The congress OF miners at Salt Lake
will be attended by 500 delegates.
Bailermakers and iron snipbuilders
| on the CLYDE want per cent. increase
Detroit grocers and butchers kick
AGAINST wholesalers who sell goods at
retail.
The Personal Liberty League, com
nosed of the majority of the saloon
keeners of Kansas City, held meet
inc and protested against the ice trust
The independent companies charged
171h cents per 100 pounds. Now they
must pay 80 cents.
Remarks President Mulcahy, of the
Woodworkers' National Union; I pc
lieve the report of the American FED
Grafton Of Labor at the next conVen-
ZION will show five times, and perhaps
zen times, the gain in membership OF
the previous year.
The new city repairs department. OF
! Rostcn is working eight hours per day
and seven on Saturday. for from $40
"a 81 a day. The city is now putting
m it's own mill machinery fer the con
struction Of doors, posts, "lnoo"
frames, and sashes.
There is 100000 invested in the
largest brewery in Cleveland, says
Rev. ]. w. Alien. About the same
amount is invested in the largest snip
ward business in the city. About 300
men are employed in the brewery ana
! about 2. 500 men in the shipyard-
The Swiss election was held on sun
day, February 20, and at $50 O'Clock
/ t5at evening the general result was
! known in every town and city in the
| Rennblic. The news was given to the
/ neonle by the government free OF
/ charge through an extensive telephone
system. owned by the government
Mrs Micah Dyer, Jr., says; IL the
vomen's clubs of Boston, numbering
more than 200. 600 women, would unite
! and bovcott those stores that 90 not
/ nav their working women living wages
I there would be such a revolution III
| Position that the Revolution OF 100
wouid pale into shadow in compaTl-
! son.
| Galveston Cooks and Walters Union
| demands that ten hours constitute
| DAVIS work and the following scale:
4 Chief cooks SIS, second cooks $50, night
I cooks $50. pastry cooks sou, thlrd
| cooks S40 vegetable cooks $35, coun-
! termen $40, dining room walters 94o'
oystermen $40 dining room helpers
| $50, yardmen S25, dish washers SzO-
| The horseshoers national conVen-
! ton will be held at Detroit May To-
| The greatest victory OF the horseshoefs
! for the year is the success OF the Dig
/ strike in st. Louis for nlne-houf
work day. Fifteen cooperative shops
! were opened by the strikers, and THESE
| have practically captured all corpora
| ton work previously controlled by the
! Master Horseshoers' Association.
| Tom Mann Workers Union, OF
England. will be composed principally
| of unskilled men. The features dis
! tingnishing the new body will be its
action in political elections. The
minimum programme to be placed be-
fore the candidates demands the eight
/ hour day, the raising OF age to four
/ teen before allowing children to go to
work, State pensions for all, the provis-
| ion of work for all unemployed and
| adult suffrage.
One of the largest and most prosper
GUS glass factories in the country is the
COOPERATIVE Glass Company, of Beaver
| Balls. Pa. THE organization, says
! the National Labor Tribune, was the
result of a strike made for an advance
in wages The men who quit work,
instead Of wasting money in idleness,
! or in vicious interference with the men
y VINO lOOh lu6lI pldtSS, SCI Cebi hOStiS "
work in organizing cooperative
glass company. They put their own
money into the business
Miners earned per cent the past
quarter year on cooperative store
at Banksville, Pa.
Detroit book and job printers that
work at night exclusively will hereaf-
ter be entitled to SIT instead of SIG per
week Of fifty-siX hours, between 7 p.
m. and a. m, except in offices where
machines are employed, where the
weeks work for both machine opera
tors and compositors will consist of not
more than fifty hours. Operators will
have the privilege Of naming their own
substitutes without consulting the fore
man of the office Amendments to re-
duce the price of hand composition on
weekly and Sunday newspapers from
| 35 cents to % cents, and like re-
| duction on hand book and job SCALE
were defeated. A resolution was adop-
ted to levy an assessment of l per cent
on the earnings Of all members for the
| purpose of creating a shorter work-day
| fund.