Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-08
WORLD OF LABOR.


There are 100000 coal miners.
Chicago has mattress union label.
There are $4,000 union shoemakers.
Olalla, Wash, is a cooperative town.
Denver has horseshoers' union
label.
There are 3o,74S Brotherhood fire.
men.
Detroit landlords will keep black
list.
There are counterfeit union hat
labels
Scotland has a National Laborers'
Union.
Brooklyn hasn't an idle union plas-
The pulpit employs 800 American
women
A New York walking delegate uses q
bicycle.
Cleveland street railway strikers run
an automobile.
Detroit drug stores will probably
close on Sunday.
In Hibbing, Mimi, railroad laborers
get 1920 day.
There are three organizations of tail
ors in New York.
Dundee, Scotland, railroad laborers
demand the eight hour day.
Dundee plasterers' laborers struck for
II cents per hour.
New York Socialists have sent 1910 to
Denmark locked-out men.
At Milwaukee anthracite will cost
$7.25 ton after October Is.
New York cabinet makers wages
Milwaukee woodworkers request the
nine hour day and 20 cents an hour.
Toronto boot and shoe makers want
higher wages. Some earn $4 a week.
New York woodcarvers have been
conceded 10 per cent. increase in wages.
Detroit tailors strike effected recog-
milton of union and 10 per cent. adj
vance in wages.
The Brooklyn Cigarmakers' Label
Committee last week issued 211, 500
union labels.
Rev. Father Cummins, of Roslindale,
Mass, advises his congregation to buy
only union-labeled things.
Cleveland telephone linemen's sym
pathy strike Ito aid the street rail
way mem, has been declared off.
Dock employees at North Tonawanda,
N. Y, may strike to exterminate the
saloon boss system.
Racine, Wis. street car passengers
refuse to drop their nickels in the box.
Willing to give it to motorman.
Springfield (Mass) unionists want
the S-hour day for municipal employees,
and are boycotting unfair theatres.
By recent referendum vote the
London Typographical Society granted
500 per week to the Danish unionlsts.
The first case brought in Seattle
against labor unions under the law
passed by the last Legislature to pro-
hibit blacklisting ended in victory for
the union.
The Italian American Laborers' I'm
ion of Brooklyn reports that every
member is working and receiving union
wages.
Boston unionists have asked every
candidate for the Legislature: Are you
in favor of an S-hour day for city en-
ployes?''
An independent union composed of
unionists), has been organized at Mil
waukee to battle with the tailors who
want to strike.
During the year ending July the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners Of America paid $51 ,229.58 in
funeral and disability benefits.
There are two associations in New
York of postal clerks, each with sep
arate bill before Congress providing for
improved condition of service.
The Cincinnati Street Railway Com
panys statement" as to the trouble
with it's men was printed by the Cincin-
natl Post, but it was marked "adver-
tisement"
There is" says Gompers, mo posi-
ton on earth that l hold with as much
sacredness, reverence and high honor as
l do that of the president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The new Independent Labor party, of
New York, is greatly strengthened by
the addition of the Amalgamated Paint
ers and Decorators of New York an or
ganization of 5000 members.
Two dollars per day for all motor
men and conductors having regular
runs, without regard to the number of
hours they are employed, is said to have
been the rate of compensation agreed
upon by the st. Louis company.
The National Flint Glass Makers So
ciety of Great Britain has just cele-
brated its jubilee 1t has not had a
strike for forty years. 1t has 1900
members and funds in hand to the
amount of nearly $6S.000.
The Pibtsburg Knights of Labor or
lganization has rendered the United
Mine Workers its support in preventing
coal miners from going to the Western
States to take the places Of strikers.
The action of some of the national or
ganizers is repudiated by the local Off
GERS.
Representatives from Belfast, Coler-
aine Cork, Limerick Nenagh, Kilkin-
ny, Waterford Guardianship, Tip
perary, Tralee, Kildare and other GEN.
tiers attended the tenth annual confer
ence of the Cooperative Boxers, Of the
Irish National Federal Union, which
was held at Sligo
The Amalgamated Painers and Dec
orators, of Brooklyn, have employed
counsel to begin suit under the prevail
ing rate of wages law against all hose
contractors on Brooklyn school build
ings who did not pay union wages TO
the members in their employ.
At a meeting of the Indianapolis Central
Union a resolution. introduced by the del
egates from the Machinists' Union de-
nouncing the action Of the international
Typographical Union, forcing machinists
employed in newspaper printing offices to