Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29

hitherto accomplished.
/ There will be no cooperative tailor
| shop in New York. The Social Reform
Club, which included society people
who were to invest $4,000 in the en-
terprise, and the Unionists disagreed.
| The Bishop of Hereford has been adj
vocating in The Times of London, the
creation of a Court of Arbitration be-
tween employers and employees with
! power to compel both to accept its
award in all disputes.
"The candy business in this coun-
| try is assuming constantly increasing
/ proportions" Mr. Lowney said" Taken
all in all, about 500, 100000 capital is
invested in this branch of manufacture
alone, and it has been said that Ameri-
cans spend more money each year on
candies and other sweets than on beer,
wines and liquors combined"
The New York Mutual Musical Pro-
tective Union, which for over ten years
/ refused to affiliate with trade unions
en- the ground that its members were
artists and had nothing in common
! with mechanics, has decided in favor of
! joining the American Federation of La
! Dor The Union has recently left the
National League of Musicians, which
had been fighting against the trades
union idea.
Chinese laundries are again made the
| subject of legislation by bill intro
I duced by Assemblyman Egan, of New
York. His measure provides that every
| laundryman shall furnish receipt TO
patrons which shall specify in English
the kind and number of goods deliv-
cred. Violation is punishable by $40
| fine for the first offense, $40 by the sec
ond, and 500 for each subsequent viola
ton. The bill applies only to cities OF
| the first class.
The New York Police Board has de-
| cided to abolish the Merchants Squad.
| The policemen on this squad are car
! penters, painters, plumbers and tin
smiths, and they have been employed
chiefly making repairs to station
houses. Charles Brewer, patrolman,
is in charge of the carpenter shop at
headquarters. According to new rule
adopted by the board, "No officer or
patrolman other than doorman shall be
detailed or assigned to perform any re-
pairs or mechanical work" Outside
workmen will be employed hereafter.
A bill aimed at railroads and IN IA
vor of workingmen was put in the bill
box of the New York Assembly last
week. 1t provides that "every railroad
corporation organized or doing business
in this State shall be liable for all
damages sustained by any person, in
Guiding employees of such corporations,
in consequence of any negligence of
any of its agents or any mismanage-
ment of it's engineers or other employ
es, when such negligence or wrongs are
in any manner connected with the use
and operation of any road on which
they shall be employed; and no con-
tract which restricts such liability shah
be legal or binding" Mr.. Redington
introduced the bill.
1 informed you last week, says the Lon
don correspondent of the New York
Times, of the creation of a federation of
employees, including the greatest firms in
all branches of industry, with the inten-
ton to fight the intolerable and growing
demands of the trade unions. The confir-
nation of this news has not been long in
coming. Two of the strongest and most
aggressive unions are the boiler makers
and the plasterers'. The latter has appa-
rently decided to bring a conflict upon it
self. During the past year the building
trade enjoyed remarkable prosperity,
every man connected with it being in full
employ at high wages. This state of af-
fairs has led the plasterers step by step to
in crease their demands to the point which
finally compels the employers to fight. 1t
may interest both the employers and the
employed in America to learn the causes
which, unless the men retract their de-
4 mands, will have brought another great
| industrial struggle upon this country. l
will give a few examples. Recently an en-
ployer decided to construct certain parti-
tons of plaster blocks. Both the plas-
| terer and bricklayers claimed that this
work rightly belonged to them. Both their
unions informed the employer that which
| ever men be employed the others would
| strike. He offered to arbitrate, but the Of
| fer was refused Thereupon he closed his
! works while the unions settled the matter.
| AS they failed to do SO, he gave the job to
| the plasterers. Whereupon the bricklay-
| ers struck, and for nine months he could
| not get a brick laid. Again the brick
| layers struck because one good workman
| was laying more bricks than the union
| permitted. Union rules now allow a man
| to lay only 100 bricks daily, whereas the
| employers state that ten years ago 1000
! daily was the rate. The union publishes
regularly blacklist OF employers for
| whom all their men are forbidden to work
If unionist assists to procure work for a
non-unionist he is fined 5s. for the first of
| Tense and les. afterwards. In one instance
| the council of a union issued instructions
| that on no account must the men accept
| the introduction of words skilled" "su-
perior," inferior" or "non-unionist'' into
the rules agreed upon withdtheir employ
| ers. So powerful has the PiaSterers' IN
! ion become that it positively fines employ
ers who infringe the trade union rules
| For example, the Coventry branch report
| ed: eve have withdrawn our members
from the firm of C. Gray Hall, owing to
| the bricklayers doing the plastering and
| had the firm fined 95 The plasterers' I'M
! ion, moreover, limits the number of zap
prent:ces to one apprentice to seven work
men. The immediate cause of the pending
struggle is that on the premises of a firm
of London builders named Higgs & He'll
| delegate of the union called and gave no.
tice to the foremen that unless they Joined
the union by a certain date all the en-
ployes of that firm would be called out
/ The foremen, I must explain, were pre-