Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

move the accumulated impurities.
A new boiler and engine and LUMBER
have arrived at the Minor Fire Brick
Works at Empire. The capacity of the
plant will be increased and many I'M
provements will be made.
A wall paper company and a pottery
to manufacture eight different kinds OF
fine ware is projected in this city.
WORLD OF LABOR.
Milwaukee bootblacks have organ
Lathers talk of forming a national
union.
st. Paul hasn't an idle union stone
cutter.
Great Britain has 10000 union
miners.
Cincinnati clergymen want Sunday
funerals abolished.
Cincinnati u~nionists want a place on
the Democratic ticket.
Great Britain's 1,000,0 900 unionists
may form a national federation.
Cincinnati holders will strike on
May / for $2.75 a day. They now get
$3.50.
Boys employed in a Muncie, Ind,
glass works lost a strike for the dis
misSal of colored youths.
A brick trust at Milwaukee has raised
the price to 81 a thousand, an advance
of $3.50 and SO per 1000.
New York union cigar makers spent
$4,000 in prosecuting successfully a
firm that used a counterfeit label.
Some New York diamond polishers
are on strike because they a earn
only SIT a week. They used to get
$35.
There are O. workers employed,
says the American Federationist, than
at any time within the past few years.
After nearly nine years OF existence
the st. Paul Retail Clerks Union, No.
2, has decided to abandon the union
and return it's charter.
The Cleveland Central Labor Union
has ordered it's business agent to spend
a night and take breakfast at a ter
cent lodging house.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, has inaug-
urated an eight-hour scale on the po-
lice force and has extended the same
to all city public work.
Sandstone, Mimi, s~tOnecutters have
not only been conceded the eight-hour
day, but they receive SO a day. They
were paid $2.75 for nine hours.
The New York Newspaper Writer'S
Union has received a charter from the
International Typographical Union and
starts its career with 100 members.
We'll fight for Mayor Jones, To-
ledo, and we'll win this battle for
him. said Grand Organizer Stuart
Reid, of the International Association
of M%achinists.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, financial secretaries of local
unions no longer have to notify mem
bers of their unions that they are in
arrears.
Under a recently adopted rule of the
New York United Wood Carvers' AS
ISOLATION, members are allowed to
work only five and a half days a week,
so that other members out of work
can be employed.
Children cal at present start to
work in English mines at the age of
IL, and a motion to require the be-
.%inners to be IA, was not adopted at
the recent annual meeting of the Min
ers' Federation of Great Britain.
A controversy has arisen between
the Cincinnati clothing cutters and
trimmers and the journeymen tailors
to whose label should be placed on
contract uniforms of policemen and
firemen. The Central Labor Union
lodged the question.
Representatives of the Iron Mound
ers' Union, of North America, and
the National Iron Founders Associa-
ton met in New York and decided to
substitute arbitration for strikes. The
agreement has been submitted to the
20, 900 members of the moulders' union.
George Beatty, one Of the proprie-
tors of the Beatty-Brady glass fac
tory, at Dunkirk, Ind, vas arrested
six different complaints, five Of
them charging that he discharged en-
ployes in his factory for belonging to
labor organizations, and the sixth that
he coerced and threatened to discharge
employee who was a member OF a
labor union.
The Portable Hosting Engineers
Union, Of New York, is in negotiation
with employers in the trade for a new
agreement from May 1, 1899, to May l.,
1900. 1t is probable that. an increase
in the union scale of wages is looked
for. especially if the bricklayers secure
an increase Of wages Of five cents per
hour.
At a meeting of the Marlboro, Mass,
Central Union last week a resolution
was adopted favoring the purchase OF
Nantasket by the State for the benefit
and pleasure of the people of the State.
The absence of a proper summer wat
ering place for the working people was
commented upon, and it was generally
thought that the idea of the State
ownership Of this splendid beach
would be a general blessing.
Just at present we should like to
help Oh the metal polishers in their
fight for a chance to live. They tell us
that the bosses evade the law, refuse
to put in blowers, etc. We make them
this suggestion: Let the union bring
us proof of one case in which death
has resulted from the employers neg
lect. We shall at once institute pro-
ceedings, and see if it is not possible to
land that particular murderer in some
safe jail.-New York Journal.
The first impression conveyed by the
convention of the American Federation
of Labor is the stalwart physique Of
the delegates. They resemble a body
of United States regular troops in the
garb of civilians. In physiognomy and
proof of intellectual development the
convention is a superior body, as COM