Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-04
WORLD OF LABOR.

4ulauQ Has WOmcu VIlckldyeIS.
Chicago has ], 400 letter carriers.
/ New York jewellers have organized.
Tennessee has seventy-six coal
mines.
| In Manila servants get $18 month.
| Chattanooga bricklayers are to or
ganize.
Women clerks have joined the Super
| ior Union.
Klondike has bogus nugget factories.
Coffee wields Brazil $140,000,O00 a
year.
| At Duluth carpenters, plumbers and
gas filters quit work because of alleged
employment of non-union painters on
the job.
Carpenters Union 375 has notified
all foremen that the eight-hour rule
| applies to them as we'll as the men I'M
der them
| Milwaukee bakers want to work only
twelve hours day and want Sunday
to themselves.
Thirty-six members of the Walters,
Cooks and Bartenders' Unions of New
York have formed Socialist Agitation
| Society.
| District Alliance No. 40 has instruct
ed Walters Alliance No. 10 to demand
| that union-made bread be sold in all
places under its Jurisdiction.
Rochester plumbers want an eight
hour day, nine hours pay, time and
one-half for overtime, and double time
for Sundays and legal holidays.
New York Carpenters Union, No.
| 800, has allowed all but one of the
| members employed in Bierschenck's
| shop $40 to buy new sets of tools to re-
] place those destroyed recently by fire.
| The Executive Board of the Wiscon-
sin State Federation of Labor is devils
ing plans to assist the State factory
| inspectors in enforcing the labor laws
| passed at the last session of the Legis-
| lature
Ireland has 357 cooperative socie-
| ties.
| The Italian Laborers' Union, of
Brooklyn, has notified the Central La
Dor Union of that borough that it will
| have the constitution of that body
| translated into Italian at it's own ex-
pense.
| DebS believes that Trusts have come
| of necessity in the modern methods
| of doing business. While he did not
| positively advocate the trust SYSTEM
| at the same time he believed some
| good will come from the combination
| of industries. He declared that the
country is entering upon a period of
| transition from trusts to socialism,,
/ and that the trusts, by their size and
power, are Fastening the transition.
Debs also stated that he would favor
neither Bryan nor Mckinley, although
he believed both would be candidates
| in 1900. He said he would advocate a
| Socialist ticket, which was sure to be
in the field.
Grand Rapids union men, working
on scrap cigars, moulded at IS per
thousand ($7 under the new bill of
prices), have been making about $40
per week while working, to which
about $3.50 will be added by the new
scale. Only rs non-unfon cigarmakers
are in that town.
One hundred dollars has been voted
by the Denver City Fathers toward
| the expense of entertaining the dele
gates of the convention of the State
Federation of Labor, which meets there
Monday, June 5.
Charles A Tayler, who is Is years
DID, and has been letter carrier in
New York for 81 years, recently lost a
day from work on account of not feel
ing we'll, and yet for even this one day
off he was "docked,' according to the
| rules of the department
Brooklyn plasterers want 81 day.
At the Concrete mine, Central City,
Col, the eight-hour day was inaugural
ed and wages are the same as hither-
to- Working hours will be as follows,
to wit: Day shift, begin at 80 a. m,
stop at 1870 a. M; lunch time, IL: 80
to 1915 p. M; resume II: 10 p. M;
stop at AIS p. m. Night shift begin
| p. M. stop p. M, lunch time, 9 to
9:45 D. m; resume, GAS p. M; stop
| 1:45 a. m.
For single passage to America a
big liner, with SAT cabin passengers
and crew of 1884, carries 1880 pounds
of fresh beef, 760 pounds of corned
beef, $500 pounds of mutton, $50
pounds lamb, $50 pounds veal, $50
pounds pork. 1000 pounds fresh fish,
| 600 fowls, 300 chickens, 100 ducks, so
geese, so turkeys, 200 brave grouse. 10
tons potatoes, so hampers of vege-
tables, 220 quarts ice cream, 1000
quarts of milk and 800 eggs.
The selling and buying agreement
between the wholesale grocers of
Canada and the Canadian sugar refin-
ers has been broken by two of the
| largest houses in Montreal. This
agreement went into effect last Octo-
Der. After many sessions it was finally
agreed that the wholesale grocers
should not purchase sugars Of other
than Canadian refiners, and the re-
finers upon their side agred to sell only
| those who were members CT the guild
at advantageous figures. This simply
meant that if a wholesale man pre-
ferred to remain out in the cold it re-
| solved itself down to purchasing
sugars from the United States or from
Europe.
The Piano and Organ Workers In
| ternational Union of America charges
the Amalgamated Woodworkers' Inter-
national Union with encroaching on its
territory. 1t also alleges that the wood
workers claim jurisdiction over the fol-
| lowing: All woodworkers, kindling
woodworkers excepted; furniture
workers, boxmakers, coffinmakers, car
vers. piano makers, organ makers, vio-
| lin makers, upholsterers, all finishers
and all makers of small instruments
| Supreme Court Justice Maddox, OF
Kings county New York, has just rem
| dcrod daciSion which ic of proof in