Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-26

vent men from being forced to take
less than the union rate in dull times.
At q meeting Of the New York City
Peddlers' Association, it was ANNOUNCE
ed that Of the 1000 members one-third
had obtained naturalization papers
within nine months. 1t also was said
that the humble peddlers intended to
open organization headquarters and
employ lawyers to defend the menu
berS whenever they fell into the
clutches of the law for violating city
ordinances. Secretary Grabaud warm
ed his hearers to cheers in a speech
telling how he had risen from push
cart vender by degrees until he had oc-
cupied the position of a keeper IN
Ludlow street
The New York Wood Carvers' Union
wants to make five and a half days the
limit of a week. work. The union
reported yesterday that majority OF
the employers had agreed to the propo-
sition, and no strikes will be resorted
to to enforce it. The wood carvers
say that the movement by shortening
the working week, will afford employ
ment to number of the unemployed
men in the trade. If no union man is
allowed to work more than five and a
half days, the unemployed will have
to be called in to fill out the other hals
day. A similar rule is now in force
among the printers.
Governors of the New York Con-
sumers' League voted at their last
meeting to enlarge their work, which
hitherto has been confined to the in
vestigation of mercantile establish
ments, by beginning the investigation
of the ladies' tailor shops in the city.
This step was taken on account OF the
public interest that has been mani
tested in the cause of the locked out
tailors, who, in June, 1898, were turned
adrift by their employers, and in con-
sideration of the fact that much OF
the expensive custom work Is done
under "sweatshop" conditions, which
are the greatest injustice to the work
ers, and a menace to the health of the
wearers. There ~M be published a
white list" of the tailors which will
contain the names of those tailors
whose treatment of their employees
complies with the standard" set by
the League. This standard requires
also that the work be done under prop
er conditions.
Among the BARRIERS of New York State
there is great interest in Assembly bill
No. 1896, to regulate the trade and to
provide for the sanitary inspection OF
barber shops. This bill Is the result OF
joint conference OF the Master Bar
bers' Association and representatives
of the New York State local unions of
the Journeymen BARRIERS international
Union. The measure is now in the
hands of the Committee on General
Laws. 1t is provided that no person
shall follow the trade unless he has re-
ceiVed a certificate of qualification
from a board of examiners, who are to
be appointed by the Governor, and who
are to be paid S. for each days SER
vice. Members of the Examining
Board will meet at least once year.
Every applicant for the trade must pay
S. to the treasurer of the Board upon
filing his application. The money will
be returned if he fails to pass his ex-
animation. 1t is asserted that seven
ty thousand BARRIERS in the State would
give fund of $4,000. The New York
BARRIERS Union complains that it is
shut out from representation on the
Examining Board. This is because the
New York Union is not in the State
BARRIERS Association, two members Of
which, under the provisions of the bill,
in conjunction with two members Of
the Master BARRIERS Association of the
State and one physician, will form the
board The New York BARRIERS Union
is also out of the Worikingmen's State
Federation.