Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-07
WORLD OF LABOR.


Manchester, Eng, coremakerS get 70
shillings a week.
Toledo carpenters demand the nine
hour day, and rs cents per hour.
New York pipe caulkers won strike
for the recognition of their union.
Minnesota State Federation of La
Dor will hold its annual convention
on June II.
The wages of Pittsburg street rail-
way employees have been advanced 10
per cent.
Milwaukee coal beavers struck for Z
and 8 cents a ton for unloading soft
and hard coal.
The Lowell Trades and Labor Coun-
Oil has voted to send S25 every week
to the Marlboro shoe-workers.
Carlinsville, H., miners won a strike
for $40 a month, the eighI-hour day
and 80 cents an hour for all overtime.
Frisco Newsboys' Union has decided
that no member shall sell or give away
any paper sold for less than cents.
While one section of Socialists was
discussing what should be municipal
lied and nationalized, another section,
meeting in the same toWn-Leeds-Wa
engaged in the discussion OF plans for
increasing the number of Parliament
airy representatives at the next gem
eral election. The Independent Labor
Party, with an income of about 6 400
a year, has formulated plan for con-
testing twenty-five seats
The growth of Cancellation and arbi-
tration boards in Great Britain is one
of the features of the industrial life
of the end of the century No fewer
than 1,465 disputes were brought be-
fore various of these boards in 1897,
the latest date for which collected fig
ures are available, and of tnese 500
were settled by the boards without the
necessity of a conflict These boards
object to an increase in the number
increases every year.
On Monday last a big strike was or
dered at Toronto, and a thousand
workmen are now idle as a result of
an unsatisied demand for higher
wages. They include brickIayers,
moulders, cigarmakers, cloakmakers,
stonecutters and builders laborers.
There is more building in progress in
Toronto to-day than for ten years and
the strike is regretted. The bricklay-
ers demand 40 cents per hour, the
cloakmakers want to 10 per cent in
creases per garment, the moulders want
% cents an hour and the stonecutters
43 cents an hour. The cigarmakers
object to an increase in their number
of apprentices
An agitation is gradually rising and
swelling out among the iron and steel
JNnTlyppc of Gpoat Mi in
crease in wages. 1t will be remember
ed that their great dispute in 1878
was over. a question of hours. Now,
on the northeast coast and on
the Clyde they are putting in claims for
usually a five per cent increase in
wages. The engineering trade employ
ers have refused to grant this, owing
to the excessively high price of ma
terial, which. they declare, is making
the trade very Improbable. A confer
ence of representatives of employers
and workmen is to be held in London
soon to discuss the question in all its
bearings.
Secretary Deller, of the London
Plasterers' Union, expresses himself as
immensely satisfied with the way
things have gone in the dispute in the
building trades. In the place of intim-
idating the men, it has given them a
new idea of their power Of the up
ward of 1000 plasterers who We're lock-
ed out, large numbers have obtained
work elsewhere. Attempt after at
tempt on the part of the employers in
the building trades to import labor
from the continent has failed, the
immigrants being met at the railway
stations and persuaded into going
back to their own countries by the
picketing officials of the National AS
ISOLATION of Plasterers. Secessions
from the Master Builders Association
are of frequent occurrence, and the
whole dispute looks suspiciously like
petering out.
Members of the Executive Board of
the Federation of Trades and Labor
Unions visited Lincoln, n. j., on Sat
urday for the purpose of inspecting the
proposed site for the location of a
home for aged and infirm union work
ingmen. The plan had been under con-
slderatlon for some time, and consider
able correspondence has passed be-
tween Silas Dewey Drake, Mayor of
Lincoln, and H. J. Gottlob, chairman
of the Executive Board of the Fedora
tom. The committee appointed to in
spect the site has made a favorable re-
port. The home will be modelled af-
ter the Childs-Drexel Home for Union
Printers, at Colorado Springs, Col,
and will be three stories high, with all
the latest sanitary arrangements and
an electric light plant. 1t will be of
brick and will cost not less than s2O.-
600.
The Welsh tin plate industry has
been for a considerable time past in a
bad way. In this respect it has only
followed the example of others of our
standard industries in the last decade.
Industry after industry has, as it were,
got strung up to such pitch of in
tensity, owing to the competition of
trade rivals, that profits are reduced to
the vanishing point and wages shrink
to the starvation level The Birming-
ham brass trade was most notable
case in point. Not so many years ago
the men weres working sixty hours
week for about $3.50 as their weekly
stipend. The brass trade masters were
scarcely better off Acute cutting had
brought down profits to IL per cent,
and in some cases l per cent The
alliance between employers and en-
ployed. which was at last evolved from
the minds of a few brainy men, has
paved the way out OF this slough of