Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
WORLD OF LABOR.

Frisco painters have organized.
Toledo is to have labor temple.
Cleveland shovelers get s1.50 a day.
Bedford, Ind, stonecutters demand
81 a day.
Milwaukee coal beavers will join the
+. Of l..
Calumet, Mich, miners struck for 10
per cent increase.
The Journeymen Tailors' Union of
America has surplus Of $12500.
Racine, Wis, bicycle makers struck
against the employment OF non-union
men.
A United States District Judge at
Frisco decided that sailors wages may
be seized for debt.
No union musician will play at the
Cincinnati Saenserfest. Non-union car
penters erected the building.
Gompers has asked President Nc
Kinley to discharge the Chief OF the
Bureau OF Engraving and Printing.
Alexandria plate glass workers, now
on strike, will be fined heavily by the
union for even approaching the works.
A New York Cigarmakers' Union de-
lied the report that members OF the
union accept employment at night as
BARRIERS.
New York drug clerks are not per-
mitted to work more than 10 hours
day. Some of the drug clerks opposed
the bill.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, says COM
mon laborers on city work should en-
10y the eight-hour day and no less than
s1.50 day
The Hamilton, Ont, street railway
company has decided to follow out the
intention OF the bylaw and to work
the men no more than 60 hours week
and pay them not less than Is cents an
hour.
The difference existing between the
retail clerks of Bloomington, ILL.,, and
clothing company of that city mas
been settled by the firm paying into
the union treasury $25 for violating its
agreement with the union.
Eugene V. Debs has occurred the APP
pointment of a committee from the
Terra Haute City Council to look into
the municipal ownership of the city
lighting plant. The investigation. 1t
is said, will not stop with the question
of the municipal lighting.
Oshkosh, Wis, wood workers de-
mand a general advance in wages OF
% per cent; that children under Il
years of age be discharged and their
places filled with those who are IA
years or over; that wages be paid
weekly and that no more than three
days wages be held back on pay day.
The New York Mason Builders AS
ISOLATION has notified the bricklayers'
unions that their demand for an in
crease in wages of cents an hour will
be granted, beginning August l next.
The unions are now voting whether
to accept this offer or stick to their
demand for an immediate increase.
The Illinois Senate passed the Drew
Labor bill. The bill is intended to pre-
vent the bringing of laborers under
arms or armed guards into this State
in case of a strike or a lockout. 1t
also prohibits the moving of such Ia
orers under arms from one place to
another in the State. 1t was drawn
by Representative Drew and cham
pioned by David Ross, Chief of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the
coal miners.
The New York Letter Carriers AS
ISOLATION has Cancelled its contracts for
its new uniforms with certain cloth
ing house because it discovered aftef it
had signed the same that the firm en-
plcyed non-union men. The Associa-
ton had also Cancelled its contract with
a certain park because the proprietor
also employs non-union men.
The Examiners policy of the acuui-
sition of railroads, telegraphs and 9th
er public utilities by the community
is approved in theory by many who do
not see how it can be carried out in
practice. They are appalled, by such
staggering facts as that the capitaliza-
ton OF American railroads is over
eleven thousand million dollars-ten
times the entire bonded debt of the
United States-San Francisco Exam
liner.
At Pittsburg the new set of rules
which are to govern both the members
of the brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners Of America and the employers
Tor the ensuing year among other
things specify that nine hours shall
constitute a days work the first five
days of the week. and four and half
hours on Saturday, and all overtime
shall be price and half time except
ing Sunday and Labor Day, for which
double price shall be paid The COM
pensation shall not be less than 80
cents per hour. All members working
in the district acting at any time as
foreman must not work for less than