Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

The English Railway Congress de-
cided to demand the eight-h0ur day.
Toledo bicycle workers are idle be-
cause their union is not recognized
Hamilton (Ont.) people gave bene-
fit for the London street car strikers.
Some New York piano makers have
secured an increase Of wages OF 20 per
cent.
Detroit has two factions of socialists
and they will run rival election cam
paigns.
Brooklyn boiler makers will raise the
initiation fees Of their unions to SIS
from November 5.
Boston roofers are discussing the
advisability of reducing the admission
fee from S. to So.
Public Utilities Must Belong TO the
People is in big type daily on the eoi-
torial page of the Denver News.
A demand has been made by the
Brooklyn United Wood Carvers' Asso-
citation for a minimum scale of wages
at the rate of So day.
The Springfield (Mass.) Maehinists'
Union voted to impose a fine of 81 en-
any member attending the local thea
tres.
Denver women will probably provide
a ten-eent lunch for working girls, and
something will be supplied for > or 8
cents.
Huddersfeld, England, furnishes its
residents with transportation, gas, cleo
tricity, stoves, fuel, houses and even
with beef from its own abattoirs.
One-third of the workingmen of the
United States are in the tolls of the
trust octopus. Month by month more
are being gathered iR.-Helena, Mon
tana independent.
Alison A. Button, of Cleveland was
recently apoined superintendent of the
Crescent Sheet and Tin Mill, owned BIZ
the American Tinplate Co. He is also
president of Crescent Lodge, a union
which is affiliated with the Amalgamat-
ed Association of Iron & Steel Workers.
The New York Compressed Air
Workers report that two of their mem
bers went to Chicago for employment in
the water works tunnel being con-
structed in that city, but they were dis
charged by the superintendent for being
union men. The organization brought
suit under the Illinois law and had the
superintendent indicted by the Cook
county grand jury for blacklisting.
Great Falls (Mont.) Great Northern
trainmen say they will refuse to sign
bonds and if the company deduets the
cost of the same from their October
pay-checks they will so out in a BODY.
Amalgamated Painters and Deeora-
tors of New York now issue "protec-
ton cards" to painters over sixty Yeas
OF age who do not belong to the union
on payment of "a year, iu advance.
The Massachusetts State BARRIERS AS
ISOLATION declares that the sanitary con-
ditions of large number of barber
shops, and the incompetency prevailing
in many instances, are a menace to the
public.
The molders and coremakers at the
Lorain foundry went out last week on
a second strike. They are out this time
by order of the head union in Cleye-
land, which did not approve the con,
eessions made by the local union upoA
returning to work Monday morning.
Chicago Building Trades Council
passed resolutions Friday night endors
ing the ordinance passed by the coun-
Gil October 5, which provides for
board of examiners to pass upon all
APPLICANTS for positions as elevator con-
ductors, and places the age limit at
which boys may run public elevators 1T
Is years.
Prosecuting Attorney Frazer, Of De-
troit, sent an opinion to the Building
Committee Of the Board of Supervisors
to the effect that under their agreement
Davidson Bros, contractors for the
marble and seagliola work for the new
county building. must have the same
done by union labor.
Typographical Union, No. 6, of New
York, paid out during the past fiscal
year to unemployed and retired mem
bers, $32,925. and in funeral benefits,
s1O950 Toward the maintenance OF
the printers farm at Bound Brook, n.
j.. $3,453 was expended. The New
York unions contribution 70 the
Childs- Drexel Home, at Colorado
Strings was Sc $50