Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-27

employment bureau to provide work for
its members.
Cleveland Building Trades Council
wants a labor lyceum of its own. The
Central Labor Union also desires labor
lyceum of it's own.
Toledo unionists complain that very
few OF the pupils of the Manual Training
School in that city are the sons ana
daughters Of workingmen.
The experience of the New York State
Labor Bureau is that the ordinary farm
laborer has passed his period of useful-
ness when he reaches the age of a.
1t is said that there will be about 100
candidates for each office in the fourth
coming referendum vote for officers OF the
International Typographical Union.
A New York bakers union has ordered
all members who are eligible for citizen
ship to procure their papers of naturaE-
cation and produce them at the next
meeting
AT Cincinnati Judge Murphy held on
demurrers that promoters of commercial
enterprises are liable to stockholders
who invest by reason or any damages
caused by Misrepresentation.
The event of the season in Duluth was
the fair given by the unionists. Twenty
six unions had booths and the business
men were also represented. Speeches,
concerts, etc. were extra attractions.
Chicago X. OF L. passed resolutions
condemning the practice of public officials
giving banquats costing 500 a plate.
when thousands of American citizens
are the verge of starvation"
The Secretary of State of Washington
threatens to enforce that provision of the
law requiring commission men to keep an
extra set of books for the benefit of the
farmers and others who ship produce TO
them.
A complaint has been made by Bartend-
ers Union No. /, of New York, that the
Workingmens Educational Association
employs non-union bartenders at its club
rooms. The latter say its own members
actc as bartenders.
ingenberg-am-M Main in Franconia as
result of the municipality engaging in
business has no taxes to pay and dis
tributes profits to the individual citizens.
The town runs terra Gotta works, the
profits of which last year after the town
expenses had been paid were 10000 marks.
The Hercules Labor Club, composed of
has joined the New York Central Labor
Union. 1t is a Knight of Labor organiZa-
ton, and in selecting a name followed an
old custom of the Knights that originated
at a time when it was held to be desir-
able to conceal the identity of Knights
of Labor locals.
Ohio X. of l.. wants laws to require
contractors to lay counter floors during
Ia
TO prevent the employment of convicts in
the bicycle industry; to provide law
compelling the weighing of al coal mined
in Ohio before it is screened; to prohibit
the carrying of passengers and freight on
the front platforms of street cars.
Ohio House of Representatives passed
a bill providing that no boy under the age
of 16 shall be employed in factories, work
shops, mercantile or other establishments
when school is in session. The bill pro-
vides further that no minor under the
age mentioned above shall be employed
after seven o'clock in the evening, nor
earlier than in the morning, and that
each minor shall be given at least 80
minutes for dinner.
Jay Gould is as dead as the deadest
brakeman ever crushed by his railroad.
Homely Peter Cooper lives IN the thou-
sands of warm homes in every good
heart. If with all your money and your
power you dread the dampness and lone
liness under ground remember that you
can easily avoid both. Make an ever
lasting, cheerful abode for yourself in
homes that you will have made happier.
Then your body will be buried, but you
will not.-New York Journal.
A Newark, n. j., firm discharged all
its moulders last week. The moulders of
our shop, as a body, decided said the
manager, that no man should be allowed
to increase his work, even with the COM
pensation of a proportionate increase in,
pay, and we further learned that they
fined one man $25 who shortened the time
in which a. mould was made" The mould
ers say that on February they asked the
company for $50 per day, the union wag-
es for turning out six moulds. AT that
time they were getting $3.50 per day. Or
dinarily they made six moulds in ten
hours, and were willing to make nine in
fifteen hours with time and a quarter
rates.