Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-28
Day for a decade, but unionists are


eight hours for laborers, teamsters,
carpenters and mechanics being raised
to correspond. The present wages of
laborers is $3.50 for nine hours work.
The city engineer is raised from $1,000
to $1,700 per annum, and the salary of
the draughtsman is made s75 per
month. Assistant dNughtsmen are
rated at $3.50 day. Heretofore a sal
airy of 50 per day has been allowed.
The New York Wood Carvers' Asso-
citation has instructed Business Agent
John S. Henry to effect the reinstate-
ment of member in shop from
which he had been discharged on de-
mand of the Modeler's League, because
he would not pay an initiation fee of
$40 to join that organization.
The contract for printing the official
souvenir of the Cincinnati Saengerfest,
which had been awarded to a non
union concern, has been cancelled, and
all printing will be done by union
labor.
Under the contract system, for the
five years ending in 1887 the Canadian
government spent $685., 149.S4 in print
ing, as well as $223, 65384 for work not
specified in the contract. The govern
ment established an Office, and for the
five years ending in 1897 paid but
S541 ,628.04 for much more work than
was ever done previously
During the month of April the Jour
neymen Tailors' Union of America paid
1920 in strike benefits.
Gompers will attend the convention
of the Colorado State Federation of
Labor
Governor Thomas, of Colorado, We
toed the anti-boycott bill.
Cincinnati steam-ftterS will organ
ize
Some Cleveland carriage makers
struck for the recognition of their
union.
In New York all PAYERS working
after o'clock on Saturdays and on
Sundays must now be paid overtime
rates at the rate of 81 an hour, while
rammermen receive rs cents an hour
for all overtime. Bluestone workers
also demand 81 an hour for all over
time. Employers now discharging men
must pay them off without delay or
run the risk OF being held liable for all
time lost while kept waiting for their
money.
The Richmond IN. " borough lodge
of the United Association of Plumbers,
Gasftters, Steamftters and Steam
filters Helpers has won it's strike for
the eight-hour work-day and So day.
They had been working ten hours and
receiving $2.75.
Bakers Union No /, of New York,
has reprimanded a foreman in union
shop because he neglected to take home
with him one night ago all the union
labels appropriated for that shop. The
rule of the union requires all foremen
in the shops entitled to and using the
union label to take home with them
all unused labels and not to leave them
lying around in the shop. The fore
mans defense was that his pockets
were full and that he had several pack
ages in his hands.
Electrical Workers Union No 3, of
New York, has secured agreements
with 81 of the principal electrical con-
tractors in the trade by which they
pledge themselves to employ only UNI
ion men at $3.50 for eight hours work.
The initiation fee Of a New York
walters union is S.
Mai lOll, lIlu, ICl pCLbNl ~ uOh AOi u
minimum scale of Is cents an hour
and the ninehour day.
Bricklayers in Denver are paid so
cents an hour for work O buildings
and 621a cents for sewer work.
|. Milwaukee carpenters demand 271a
cents an hour.
Canadian Pacific trackmen are paid
Duluth unionists will boycott local
! beer if the brewers shall not form a
union.
Fall River Central aLbor Union is
making an effort to have the reading
room of the public library opened on
Sundays.
/ Some time ago the city of Liverpool
purchased the street railways from
private corporations at what the public
was inclined to think was an exorbi-
tant sum- Since that time the street
railways, or tramways, as they are
called there. have been operated by
{ men who are under strict civil service
rule. The public, as a result, is de-
| lighted. In two weeks, on one line, the
rolling stock was changed from horse
car to electric car, and the fare re-
duced from two pence to a penny. De-
! spite the decrease in the fare the earn
| ings in the line increased in a COM
paratively shore time to 20 per cent
more than they had been. This was
due to the fact that thousands of poor
people who had hitherto been unable
to ride were able to take advantage
of the reduced fare. In addition to the
| improvements cited the number of cars
was increased so as to enable cars to
run every four minutes. where, under
| the old order of things, they had been
run on minute time. 1t is interest
ing to note that he copper wire for he
| line came from Massachusetts, andthat
| the street cars are also American.
The Iron Molders' Union of North
America will hold its twenty-first gen.
eral convention in indianapolis On
Monday, July 10. The last general
convention held by the iron molders
in this country was in 1895; conse-
Quently great interest is being mani
tested in the next, which will be at
tended, it is said, by 400 delegates. who
will represent over 10000 union men
The machine molders, making castings
! by machinery. threaten to infringe
upon the work of the iron molders to
a considerable extent This is a mat
ter which will undoubtedly receive the
most attention at the convention.
The employer who is fair and square
| in his dealings with his workingmen
and has nothing in his methods to pro-