Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-21
WORLD OF LABOR.
ffalo painters get SO a day.

Buffalo painters get So day.
Pittsburg carpenters won strike.
Toxic, Japan, has 70 soap factories.
Dover IN. H) weavers won strike.
Mobile has negro BARRIERS union.
Iowa unionists held a State conven-
ton.
Ohio State Takers held State con-
Vention.
Michigan miners unions will form a
State body.
Pittsburg section hands struck for
| $1.35 a day.
Cleveland iron molders won 10 per
cent advance.
Pittsburg laborers struck for Sl.5O
and nine hours.
Boston pattern makers struck LOT
| the nine hour day.
Toronto bricklayers won a strike for
| 371s cents an hour.
In Hawaii $3O,OO0,O0O are invested
in sugar plantations.
| Ishpeming (Mich) tailors were con-
ceded the 10-hour day.
Sunderland bricklayers' laborers
struck for I'd per hour.
| Employees of Calcutta Jute mills
work 1872 hours per day.
Bloomingdale, H., painters gained
25 cents per day advance.
Brooklyn carpenters were conceded
1925 a day and eight hours.
All Saginaw Mich, municipal print
ing must carry the union label
When Havana stevedores struck for
SO a day Chinese took their places.
Dublin boiler makers have been con-
ceded an advance of 81 per week.
All Concord (Vt) drug stores are
henceforth to be closed on Sundays.
At Baltimore so street railway men
who formed a union were discharged.
Tennessee's Supreme Court has de-
clared valid the law prohibiting Sunday
work by BARRIERS.
Porters employed on railroad at
Waterford, Ireland, receive Is shllllngs
pence per week.
Blacksmiths employed at Paterson
locomotive works struck for an in
crease in wages of 10 per cent.
Grand Rapids unionists are opposed
to the proposed ordinance which Will
prohibit theatrical performances on
Sunday.
The business agents of Kansas City
building trades union fined the Pain
ters' Union $500 for not striking to aid
the carpenters.
| The union green bottle blowers Of
the country propose to demand an ad-
vance of IA per cent, or the met list,
for the next fire.
Carpenters and joiners in Glasgow
are paid at the rate of 20 cents an hour,
whereas in Belfast they only receive
II cents an hour.
AS an illustration of the good labor
organization can do the Brotherhood
TO Locomotive Engineers stands I'M
rivaled.-Louisville Courier-Journal,
The franchise which the city of De-
troit granted Tom Johnson for little or
| nothing will now cost about Sill ,00,-
900 if it is bought back. Queer how
things work sometimes-Yale Hustler.
At a representative meeting of the
railway workers held recently in Liver
pool the men decided to demand a
minimum wage of Cd per hour, an
eight-hour day and a six-day week.
The Boston Water Workers Union
No. 1856, A. F. of L., adopted a reso-
luton protesting against the further
granting of privileges to corporations
in the opening of our public STREETS, IN
less union citizen labor shall be en-
ployed.
The painters in Omaha have won a
strike for 35 cents per hour. The
unions have succeeded in passing a
child labor law, and law limiting the
hours of working for railrGsI men, and
of women in factories to 60 hours per
week.
The Glasgow gas workers demand
an increase of cd per day in the rate
of wages, weeks holiday, with full
pay, in summer; payment at the rate
of time and a half for overtime and
Sunday labor, and the abolition of the
system of signing an agreement for six
months.
An interesting sign of the times is
the statement of Mr.. Maslin, of the
firm of E. C. Stearns & Co., that the
work of his concern is being retarded
by lack Of skilled labor One hun
dred more expert workmen could be
employed, Mr.. Maslin says, if they
could be. had.-Syracuse Post.
The union bricklayers of New York
began last Monday to work under new
conditions, the Mason Builders ASso-
citation having conceded the demands
of their local organization for So cents
an hour and the Saturday half-holiday,
thus establishing A hours as a week S
work and $40 as a days pay, except
on Saturdays, when only half wages
will be paid.
The Pharmaceutical Clerks Associa-
ton was formed last week by $50 drug
clerks from the five boroughs of New
York City. The new association is in
opposition TO the Drug Clerks Short
Horus League, which was organized
several years ago, and which had a bill
shortening the working hours of drug
clerks passed by the last Legislature.
Under an act which has Just been
brought into operation in New Zealand
no man or woman who has attained the
age of 65 years and been resident Of
1t for five-and-twenty can possibly be-
come a beggar or be subject to arrest
under the vagrancy laws. By this piece
of experimental legislation a sum of
$50 year out of State funds, payable
by monthly installments, is assured to
every male and female who possesses
the age and residential qualifications.
The labor department of the Greater
Board of Trade state that the i'm
provement in the state of employment.
reported as having been taken place in
February has been we'll maintained
during March. and there have haen