Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09

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ated With the Central Labor Union
There are COO employing druggists in
Greater New York and $500 clerks. Av-
erage hours OF clerks from IA to 16 per
day; salaries less than $14 Prescription
mistakes are happening every day, de-
clares the Druggists League for Shorter
Hours.
TN Scotland" says an English paper.
| "a modification of the Gothenburg system
seems to be making Roadway. A little vii
lage near DunfermIine. named Hill. of
| Beath, has municipalize6 its public house,
and installed the electric light out Of the
profits.
The right of the representatives OF or
ganized labor to act as pickets was clear
ly established last week by Chief of Po-
| lice Devery, of New York, who will hold
any policeman strictly to account for ar.
rests of pickets who are quietly perform
| ing the duties assigned to them.
| Boston Central Union voted 10 urge the
| appointment of practical baker upon the
Board of Health, in order that the bake
! shop inspection laws may be better en-
| forced The letting of State contracts for
steamboats, to non-residentS Of Massachu-
| sets was condemned.
| The Indiana Federation of Labor in Its
State convention passed resolutions con-
demning Congress for its failure to pass
the postal savings bank bill, and calling
upon all candidates for Congress at this
| falls election to pledge themselves to vote
for the measure at the next session.
| Cleveland clothiers agree to give the
clerks all evenings off. from 6 O'Clock on,
| for six months of each year. During the
same six months the clerks will have to
work Sundays. The other six months the
clerks are to work each Sunday from
till IL a. H. and will receive a half day
| off during the week in compensation
! therefor besides the regular evenings off
as usual.
! The Paperhangers Union, of Cincinnati,
is fighting for recognition by the FeGeraf
| ton of Labor and. the Central Labor
Council. Some time ago the paperhangers
broke away from the painters and decora-
tors because they thought they got no
| benefits from the alliance commensurate
with the expense. Their efforts to get into
| the A. F. of l.. have been opposed by the
| painters and decorators.
The experiment of having street car
| lines owned by the municipality is to be
tried in Christiania, Norway. Electric
! lines are to be built in the near future by
I the city They are to run toward the
eastern limits of the town, the purpose of
| the city fathers being to encourage the
| building of homes In that quarter. Now
| the growth of the city is toward the west
and the rents are high Soft appears that
| the local government even seeks to help
! the humber citizens to secure cheaper
habitations. Paternalisn IS assuredly
| having a fair test in Christiania.
Printer farmers were sent to Pelham
Bay Park the other day by Typographical
| Union No. G. of New York, to dig the po-
! tato crop on the union farm there. It is
thought that the sixty-four printer farm
ers will have about S.. 600 to divide among
them in proportion to the crops raised on
their respective plots. This revenue will
not interfere with the regular out-of-
work benefit of the union The expert
ment of truck farming, however, is ex-
pected to make the unemployed, or a
number of them, selfsupporting for at
! least a part of the year. This will lessen
| the expenses of providing for the unem-
ployed, on whom from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year has hitherto been expended.
| Frisco municipal Democratic platform
planks follow: In granting franchises we
pledge our nominees for Mayor and Super
| visors to stipulate conditions for white
labor and California material, the free
! transportation, while on official duty, of
members of the police, fire and health de-
partments, and postmen in the employ of
| the Government. We further pledge our
| nominees to vote for the renewal of no
franchises at a cate earlier than one year
| before the expiration of the original fran
chise. In all contracts let by the Board of
| Supervisors and other boards, and on all
public work, We pledge our nominees for
| all officers, having discretion in such mat
| ters, to stipulate for a daily wage of not
| less than 81 for eight hours work We
demand that some law be passed. and so
pledge our nominees, by which the people
can identify by mark the goods made in
! Chinese sweat shops so that our patriotic
people may be enabled to discriminate be-
| tween the labor of their own kind and
| that of those who live like parasites upon
| the community and, in an economical
sense, drain it of its substance. We call
on all citizents to purchase no other goods
| than those of home production and manu-
| facture, and thereby revive our industries
| and enHLN~-Ilr De0r1e