Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05
WORLD OF LABOR.
couver has q labor temple.

roses are on the main part.
WORLD OF LABOR.
Vancouver has a labor temple.
Indiana has a Belgian hare farm.
Frisco has japanese newspaper.
Winnipeg bicycle workers organized.
Sweden has 40 cooperative societies.
California has a 1.000-acre lemon
grove.
London servants average $1SS a
week.
Indianapolis coremakers get $1.75 a
day.
pennsylvania has 5,532-feet-deep
oil WELL
The Iron Moulders' Union of Great
Britain has S2S0,000.
Eight hours of plain printing in New
York yields $3.50.
Washington is to have a unionlsts'
free employment bureau.
The initiation fee of the New York
Drug Clerks League is now S..
ST. Paul moulders were conceded a
minimum scale of $3.50 day.
All Illinois knights of Pythias'
printing must bear the union label.
Boycott forced a Springfield, Mass,
theatre to employ unionists.
An international congress of clerks
may be held at Paris next year.
The railway orders will establish
cooperative stores for their own use.
The Jersey City Central Labor Union
has abolished the Office of president.
Kansas City Journeymen Painters
will make the initiation fee $40 in
1900.
None but unionists are teachers at
the principal typographical school of
Paris.
The Minneapolis Woodworkers
Council donated $45 to the locked-out
cabinetmakers of Denmark.
I'm my judgment" Says Congress
man Sulzer. mo man ought to work
more than eight hours a day.
A st. Louis Rubber companys new
plant will employ between 500 and
600 men and women. The establish
ment will be union throughout.
At Buffalo Councilman j. N. Adam,
Councilman Christian Klinck and His
Honor Mayor Diehl favor the Munich
pal Printing Bureau plan.
The Social Democratic party has
nominated John Weaver Sherman, an
active member. of the Newspaper
Writer'S Union, for Mayor of Boston.
The Frisco Engineers Association
has library of 500 volumes, and a
marble switchboard with electrical in
struments for educational purposes.
The Amalgamated Society of Engi-
neers of England has only 2,073 out of
81 ,293 members on donation benefit,
representing less than 21a per cent.
At Pittsburg the gatemen employed
by the Pennsylvania Company have
presented petition to the manage
ment for reduction in their working
hours from II to 8.
The big bakeries in New York are
threatened by rival cooperative con-
Germ to be established by the members
Of the Bakers and Confectioners' In
ternational Union.
The combine of Detroit's daily papers
has not yet raised the boycott on labor
news. Not a word concerning the con-
vention of the Team Owners Interna-
tional Union has been printed.
The New York Plasterers' Union,
which has had number of strikes
during the past two years, has decided
to become its own employer and form
a joint stock company with that end
in view.
In New York hereafter all work
about the engine houses outside of fire
duty shall be. performed by regular
mechanics instead of by detailed fire.
men, who have been occasionally as
signed to such work.
At Birmingham, says the Nashville
American the knights CT Labor scored
a signal victory over the United Mine
Workers and have practically obtained
control of the Walker County coal
mines, employing $500 men.
Boston Grocery and Provision
Clerks Union make the claim that be-
cause they are opposed to the handling
of adulterated products law was
placed on the statutes making the
clerks liable for the acts Of the proprie-
tors.
Since July l charters to SO more
unions have been granted, making 109
new carpenters unions in all chartered
since July l, 1898. This report for the
fiscal year virtually shows net gain
of "a unions and 1887 in membership.
The advances granted by New
York cigar manufacturer were as fol-
lows: Machine workers, 40 cents
more a thousand; team hand workers,
$3.50; rerollers, rs cents; eheroot
workers, 81; hand cheroot workers, so
cents; packers, Is cents to 81.
The cooperative stores in Allie
gheny County, Pa, may be consolidate
ed. The idea is to purchase goods di-
rect from the manufacturers and i'm
porters. The Banksville Cooperative
Association, composed of coal miners,
is at the head of the movement
At Cleveland thirty-five of the most
persuasive members Of the union spent
the Sabbath in crusade against Sum