Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-12

II, 1887 women, an increase Of 80 per
cent, and only 8. 40 children, decrease
of so per cent.
Carpenters Union. 80, OF Brooklyn,
has ordered that where three members
are employed together they must make
report at least once in two weeks.
Where five members are employed, a
regular shop delegate must be elected,
who will be fined so cents each time he
fails to max a regular report.
Colored carpenters Of Nashville,
Tenn, have organized union. At
1anta, Ca, now has two colored Organi-
cations of this craft.
The following increased initiation
fees by Frisco unions are announced:
Plasterers' $40; Paperhangers and
Fresco Painters, IS; Painters, $40.
Chicago Typographical Union, No. 16,
voted in the different Offices on the
proposition to make the job scale OF
wages SIS a week for the 9-hour day,
to go into effect on November q. The
proposition was carried by vote OF
704 to 81. This was almost exclusively
job printers vote.
Contractor Andrews, of Oak Park,
has been forced to sign the carpenters
scale by the action of the woodworkers,
who refused to turn out the mill work
for his contracts until be made terms
with the union. For nine days the
workmen in the mill of Bedard & Mo-
rency had held back the doors, sash
and other mill work.-Chicago Journal.
In order to settle the existing diff
Guilty between the Lozier Company fof
Toledo, and the Grinders Union, the
company agrees to reinstate IN their
regular turn all it's old employees prior
to the annual shutdown of 1899, and
will in no way discriminate against
them. The union scale of wages shall
be paid for the season Of 1900, piece
work abolished and day work substi-
tuted
Minneapolis has Hackman's union.
Toledo sign writers are organized.
There are $500 union patternmakers
in the United States.
Frisco has Latin Carpenters union.
Press Assistants Union at Cincin-
natl, now has an enrolment of $50
members. The officers report it is i'm
possible to supply the local demand for
union men.
Grand Rapids has Ladies' Union
Label League.
Syracuse has a municipal lodging
house.
At Bridgeport, Conn, delegates will
make house-to-house canvass to in
duce housewives to buy only bread
with the union label on it.
Adopted by the Chicago Federation
of Labor, which will ask the City Coun-
ell to enact into law: Resolved, by
the Federation of Labor of Chicago,
That the chief of police of the city of
Chicago be directed not to furnish
policemen for the purpose of patroline
any Office, shop or factory where a
strike is in progress; and be it further
resolved, That police officers shall not
modest or disturb any citizen when en-
gagged in expressing their constitutional
rights at any place within the city OF
Chicago; and further, that the chief
of police be instructed not to furnish
policemen as escorts to individuals to
and from their homes or places OF
abode to the places where they are
working when a strike Is in progress at
the latter place"
The Piano and Organ Workers I'm
ion received the Endorsement OF the
Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday.
A total of $500 piano and organ MAX
ers are idle. The wages paid in the
piano and organ factories have been 80
per cent lower during the past five
years than ever before in the history
uf the piano business. The proposed
scale of the union is from Is per cent.
to 25 per cent. below the scale of wages
prior to 1898.
The general railway agitation for bet
ter condition of employment is to be re-
newed and pursued in a vigorous fash
ion if the Executive Committee of the
A. S. R. S. can succeed in rousing the
men, A manifesto has been issued by
Mr.. Bell, the general secretary, in the
course of which he says: 1T is now
nearly two years since the Board OF
Trade requested the men to make direct
appeals to their respective companies,
which recommendation was acted upon
with but meagre results, excepting that
nearly 100 men who acted as repre-
Sentatives were in various ways victim
lied. A united movement is essential
to establish for all grades the principles
of each day standing by itself, time and
a quarter for all time worked over
each days standard hours, time and a
half for Sunday duty between II mid
night Saturday and II midnight Sun
day, and a guaranteed week. Hours
Engine-drivers, firemen, goods mineral
and passenger guards and brakesmen,
10 hours per day between 6 p. m. and 6
a. m. Shunters eight hours per day;
scignalmen, eight hours per day in all
busy cabins, and 10 hours per day as a
maximum in all other cabins. Goods
workers, draymen, passenger staff, and
all at present rated above 10 hours per
day to be rated 10 hours. Plate-layers,
81 hours per week, with an all-around
advance of Is per week.-Dundee
(Scot.) Courier.
At Boston the Central Labor Union,
at its special meeting, tabled circular
from the Parnell Memorial Committee,
conveying a vote of thanks, because 1t
did not bear the printers label
At Boston the present enforcement of
the Sunday law by the police is due to
the agitation in progress by the bar
bers and grocery clerks.
The BARRIERS Union is waging war
upon the alleged BARRIERS schools or
Boston, against which serious charges
are being made.
The members of the State Board of