Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-09
WORLD OF LABOR.
Florida has an ostrich farm.

WORLD OF LABOR.
Florida has an ostrich farm
Mexico has 27 wooden factories.
New York has 250,000 unionists.
Coal mines employ 100000 persons.
Chicago carpenters get 421a cents an
hour.
Tacoma stevedores get 40 cents an
hour.
Carmen, Germany, has a weaving
school.
Havana cigarmakers earn from SO to
S. a day.
The highest house in Paris has eight
stories.
Dubuque broommokers' wages have
been increased.
Employees of Cleveland salt compa-
ny struck for $3.50 a day.
Milwaukee manufacturers are form
ing an anti-union label league.
Detroit stationerS and bookmen
struck for a half-holiday on Saturday.
Cleveland carpenters demand 30
cents an hour and the eight hour day.
Window cleaners in London earn
$3.50 week. They will organize.
Only one st. Paul employer of broom
makers did not sign the scale.
Roustabouts at Whitehall, Mich, get
$3.50 a week. They used to earn Sc.
Reindeer for the Alaskan postal SER
vice will be brought from East Siberia.
The iron holders international con-
vention will be held in Indianapolis in
June.
Galesburg Qll.) bricklayers now get
As cents an hour and work but s hours
daily.
Milwaukee carpenters have been con-
ceded 271a cents per hour and the eight
hour day.
Debs will be a delegate to the next
convention of the American Federation
of Labor.
The price of a butchers license in
Denver has been reduced from $40 to
$40 year.
Elizabeth On j. unionists will par
ade on Labor Day.
Brooklyn street cleaners are idle,
having refused to wear white uniforms.
They get 81 day.
Denver's Mayor vetoed the bill pro-
viding for the examining and licensing
of horseshoers of Denver.
The trunk system has been abol-
ished by new Colorado law, and
wages must be paid in cash.
A New York Polishers' Union has
voted a contribution of So weekly for
the next two months to aid the MARI
boro shoe workers.
The New York Cigarmakers' Label
Committee has recee&ed over 1896 in
damages from a firm which was re-
Gently convicted of using counterfeit
union labels.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, it is said, will
demand an advance of Is to 20 per cent
in wages when the present scale ex-
pires, on July 1.
L. P Landing, the Oldest gold miner
in the country, is in Pittsburg placing
a large order for machinery. Mr.. Lam
bling is Sc years old and mined gold
since the early 40's.
Chicago newspaper owners, having
defeated the stereotypers in a strike,
contemplate, it is said, the Punishment
of all unionists throughout their estab-
hshments.
The miners all over the Mononga-
hela Valley celebrated on April l the
first anniversary of the introduction or
the eight hour working day at Camden.
The celebration concluded with bar
becue.
Banks at Marlboro, Mass, have re-
fused to honor checks for money sent
to the striking shoe workers of that
city, so Cigarmakers' Union No. 81,
of Boston. voted to cash all checks they
may receive.
The men, women and girls employ
ed in the cigar. cigarette and general to-
bacco manufacturing trades of England
having formed sort of federation or
their unions. the manufacturers are
following suit.
The cotton operatives unions of Eng
land. which have recently formed an
amalgamation, are on the brink of a
serious wage dispute. The operatives
want an advance Of slightly over 21a
per cent. and not having received it
will strike.
The Governor of Idaho nominated
George NJ. Payne and James R. Sover-
eign, the latter being the general
master workman of the Knights of
Labor, as members of the State Board
of Arbitration. Payne was confirmed,
but Sovereign's nomination was reject
ed by vote of IL to 10.
The twenty or more department
stores of Sedalia are actively opposing
the department store bill now before
the Missouri Legislature. A memorial
to Senator Childers and Representative
Barnett, urging them to use their in
fluence and best efforts to defeat the
bill, was signed by over 1000 Sedalia
citizens.
Milwaukee masons have fixed their
scale at 40 cents an hour. the same as
last year, while hodcarriers who arr
able to put up scaffolding and make