Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05

day selling in the clothing stores. The
thirtyxfive workers OF the union were
divided into parties Of three or four
and stationed in front OF open clothing
stores on the West Side and in Brook
lyn
Pittsburg fire men are receiving $3.50
a day and they want an increase to $3
day. In addition to this they want
$40 year clothing allowance and want
the city to pay 81 per month that each
fireman pays the janitress at the diff
ferent engine houses for keeping their
sleeping apartments in order.
Topographic No. 8 German print
ers), of Chicago, is completing ar
rangements to give its members In
struction in English as we'll as in other
necessary requirements OF the art. The
! Germans find many establishments
equipped with combined facilities for
doing English and German printing,
and they desire that their members be
in position to take advantage OF
them.
The Frisco Cigarmakers' Union
thanked the labor organizations OF the
city for their assistance in behalf on
home manufactured blue label cigars,
as their efforts in cooperating with
the Cigarmakers' Union had resulted in
giving employment to about 120 union
cigarmakers. If the good work con-
tinues it will soon be necessary to bring
out more union men from the East
Business Agent Martin Conroy, OF
the Boilermakers' Union, who submit
ted to the Board of Education the testi-
mony Of two boilermakers that defec-
tive material was used in the boilers OF
the Prescott school, is in receipt OF
letter from Chief Engineer Waters, in
which the latter states that upon expert
| examination two tubes We're condemned
and replaced The boilers were made
by a non-union firm. Chicago journal.
A New York confectioner, who closes
every Tuesday throughout the year,
says: "In Nottingham, England, the
bakers, confectioners and grocer5 Sc
lect Thursday, their dullest day, and DO
no business on it. | have chosen Tues
day, my dullest day, and neither here in
the store nor at my factory do We ever
work on that day. To offset this, how
ever, we keep open all day Saturday
throughout the entire year saturdays,
even in summer, are my hest days, and
| grant none of my employees the two
weeks summer vacation which | used
to allow"
The Berkshire (Mass.) Glass Works,
whose window glass has been made al
most uninterruptedly since 1858, is now
running as a co-opcrative company. The
skilled laborers' organization in this
branch of manufacture is very strong
one. 1t is also just now very antagon-
istic to the Window Glass Trust, with
which it has been in accord for the past
two years. The policy of the Trust is
to run short blasts from six to seven
months annually, when formerly 10
months we're run. This is to prevent
overproduction. The result has been
the organizing of eight cooperative
companies Four of these were in OPP
Grafton last blast, and were successful.
The Berkshire works have never been
in the manufacturers trust. Several
of the skilled workmen have organized
| the new cooperative company and ex-
| pect to increase the stockholders from
men from other places to the number
of %. The men composing the new
company are superior workmen, and
will maintain the reputation OF the
past as to quality. The company Is
financed by strong concern in New
York, who are also financing four other
cooperative glass companies. Tenn
porary officers have been elected.