Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-29
WORLD OF LABOR.

Texas exports beer.
Iceland has one policeman.
There is a soap union label
st. Louis has Is 900 unionists.
London has 100 women police.
Milwaukee claims 30 milionaires.
Idiana boasts four rabbit farms
Egypt has one German newspaper.
Electrical workers have 81 unions
Greater New York has 6, 432 saloons.
St. Louis has 500 union stonemasons.
England has 1900 union shipwrights.
Iowa City bricklayers get $3.50 a day.
Beer Lozenges gain favor in Germany.
Shoes cost Chicagoans $3.50 900 year.
F. OIL. has issued 1862 charters this year.
Ohio State f. of L. is to meet on Deem
Der s.
A Manila cigar company has 10000 en-
ployes.
Only uniomsts are employed on Toledo's
sewers.
Negro oyster shuckers at Norfolk have
organized.
oregon's hop crop is failure; Washing
toms ditto
Pittsburg carpenters want more money
after February.
Toledo stationery engineers will have a
course of lectures.
Every house in Jetmore, Kan, is &C.
cupied by its owner
Binghamton CKy.) formers organized and
adopted union label.
Birmingham Jewish tailers struck rather
than disrupt their union.
The matters pay their national advertis-
ing agent $40 per month.
Toronto pressmen struck for S14 a week
ga hours). Compromised.
Dublin unionists kick against clergymen
who buy organs in England.
Fifty Cincinnati painters struck be-
cause two non-unionists were employed.
Big Four telegraphers at Indianapolis,
want 80 cents an hour for over time.
Pittsburg, Pa, mine foremen and fire
bosses are to form an organization.
Boston unionists killed a resolution that
would have precipitated political action.
Cleveland Job printers will demand the
nfne-hour day. 1t has been conceded in
Connecticut.
Buffalo has a Municipal Ownership
League, and it has a bunch of questions
for candidates.
Paris municipality erected Frances
chief labor temple. 1t cost S4OO, 900, and is
used by 50 organizations.
raised its initiation fee to $50. Previously
the initiation fee was SIS.
Organized labor is one factor which has
been able through all the years to keep
wages where they are to-day.-Labor Ad-
vocate.
AT Grand Rapids the Dean-Hicks Print
ing Company will not only concede the
nine-hour day, but retain the old scale of
SIS per week.
The BARRIERS union of Superior offers to
shave members of the longshoremen's I'M
ion that are out in strike free of cost on
presentation of credentials.
The New York United Journeymen Tai
lors report having organized the men in
Rocks shop and secured for them an in
crease in wages of 10 per cent.
Bridgeport, Conn, Central Labor Union
is boycotting priest because he employed
non-union musicians. They Will not at
tend fairs and other entertainments.
Because the Chicago School Board had
given the contract for the boilers of the
addition to the Prescott School to non
union firm. general strike has been called
on the building.
During the past two years New Castle
Pa. street railway workers have had their
wages raised from 121a cents an hour to IT
cents. while the day, which formerly con-
sisted Of II hours, is now nine.
The premier of France arbitratsd a re-
cent strike. He decided that the wages
should be increased. but turned down the
appeal of the men that the union be recog-
nized Decision satisfied both sides.
At Frisco the ship America sailed with
non-union seamen. but they received the
union rate of wages. Conditions in the
steamer are fair and improving. The
zealandia paid SIS month to Manila.
After stubborn fight the operative ba-
kers Of Dunfermline have succeeded in OBJ
tanning some very importaue concessions,