Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-26
WORLD OF LABOR.
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.
One horse car line in Toxic.

One horse car line in Toxic
Germany has 413,000 unionists.
No furniture factory in Paraguay.
Glasgow Unionists will enter politics.
Female bootblacks are numerous in
Paris.
A New York laborers' union has
5000 members.
Washington printers want all State
printing to carry the union label.
Chicago cigarmakers have organized
twenty-four ward clubs to boom the
blue label.
New York upholsterers struck for
an increase of wages and to have their
union recognized.
New York contractors are having
shirts made in the Raleigh IN. c. PEN
itentiary at Is cents a dozen.
More than two hundred municipal
tiles now own the municipal gas works.
The prison commissioners of Frank
fort, KY, have leased the labor of $50
convicts for 40 cents per day per man.
The British trade unionists have
started a war against firms that print
the Bible and refuse to pay union
wages.
Detroit's Republican aldermen in
dorsed the Beamer bill for municipal
ownership and operation of street rail-
ways.
The eight-hour day has been adopt
ed by the City Council Of Memphis,
Tenn, for all laborers and mechanics
working for the municipality.
The Chicago Building Trades Coun-
Gil has begun an agitation for a Satur-
day half holiday for all the members
of it's twenty-seven affiliated trades.
The Brooklyn Central Labor Union
passed strong resolutions at it's last
meeting against the bill to make the
sessions of the State Legislature bien-
NAL.
The speaker of the PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature is a member of the Inter-
national Typographical Union. There
ale ten members of unions in that State
Legislature.
The Central Labor Union and Cen
trail Labor Federation, of Brooklyn.
have decided to follow the example of
the two central bodies of the same
name in Manhattan and amalgamate.
The American Federation of Labor
Issued twenty-four charters during jan
uary-three to National unions. one to
city central, six to Federal unions,
and fourteen to local trades unions.
Although the Klondike is new field
labor troubles have already taken
place, principally because mine owners
have made two attempts to bring in
Indian miners and longshoremen. So
far the whites have kept the Indians
out.
Winnipeg Town Council has fixed
wages for its employees (including those
hired by contractors) at 21a cents an
hour higher than the prevailing rate
in private employment, on the ground
that this will keep up the standard of
health, vigor and intelligence of its
wage-earning citizens, and thus les
sen the public expense of hospitals,
work houses and jails.
The United Mine Workers Asocia-
ton, aided by Taylorville, H., capt.
talists, is negotiating for the purchase
of the Pena mines, with the intention
of putting an end to the strike and
labor war there. The Pana operators
will sell the Penwill and Spingside
mines for 100000. Secretary Ryan,
of the United Mine Workers, says the
union will put up $4,000. ]. w. Kit
chell, of Pana, will put in $4,000, and
Taylorville men will contribute the
rest. White miners will be put to work
at a Accent scale.
Five painters and decorators unions
of New York have notified the employ
ers that in April they would ask So for
work-day of eight hours, which is so
cents les than the union wages hither-
to demanded. In Brooklyn the union
wages had been IS a day and $3.50 in
New York for the past two years, but
the painters found it hard to keep up
this union scale and were glad to work
for So day with the consent of their
respective unions. The new move is
intended to eoualize wages and pre-