Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-17

cies secured work for 1876 people in 20
weeks.
Only unionists are now employed on
] the Pan-American Exposition buildings
at Buffalo.
Louisville plasterers' wages have been
increased 50 cents per day: painters Is
cents.
Portland, Me-, granite cutters were
conceded the eight-hour day and IS cents
per hour.
Kansas City bakers pay journeymen
$l3 a week; foremen, SIS; sixty hours
constitute a week.
The railroad time between New York
and Boston has been reduced to four
hours and 80 minutes.
indianapolis union printers get SIG. so
per week and work nine hours per day;
%non-union 10 hours, $40 to s12 per week.
1t is predicted that all of the brick
makers employed along the Hudson river
will soon be associated in one huge labor
organization.
New York international Machintsts on
July l will raise the reinstatement fee
for ex-members to SIS.
AT Brazil, Ind, a strike of clay work
ers was caused by the company refusing
to take back all the old employees when
the plant resumed operations after a
months idleness.
Chicago building trades wages range
from "a a day, the pay of bricklayers,
steamhtters, gasitters, plumbers and
other tradesmen. down to $3.50 a day. the
sum that is received by plain building
laborers.
Soma inIfrnnx-~oe - L1I-A- L.
England. threatened to strike because
their employers made it a custom to hold
prayers on Sunday night before prepar-
ing the dough for Mondays bread, and
refuse to pay for the time thus spent.
The French official publication en-
titled the Bulletin de rOffce du Travail
reports that in the $50 trade unions of
wage workers making returns to the de-
partment of labor, with an aggregate
membership of 109. $50. seven per cent
were reported as unemployed on March
Is.
The Cigar-makers' Union Of Nc
Sherrystown. Pa. now has a membership
of nearly 800, having initiated 107 mem
bers at its last meeting. One manufac-
turer who opposed the union bitterly for
five years has given up the fight and
unionized his factory from top to bot
tom.
Action is being taken by the Anal
gamated Society of Painters and Decor
ators, of New York, and the Amalga-
mated Society of Painters and Decor
ators of Brooklyn borough, to settle the
long fight which has been the cause of
so much trouble in the building trades
OF Brooklyn.
The British official publication entitled
the Labor Gazette reports that in the
1877 trade unions making returns to the
labor department. with an aggregate
membership OF 525. SIS. thirteen thousand
and seventy-fve Cor 25 per cent? were
reported as unemployed at the end of
April.
The Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court has decided that the
city must pay employees h prevailing
(~union) rate of wages. This decision,
unless reversed by the Court Of Appeals,
Will compel the city TO pay claims ag-
~gregating about 100000. which have
been filed by city employees, who worked
at rates established by the city.
Samuel C. Hartman was awarded $50
damages against the Kansas City Coal
Dealers Club BY a jury in III United
States Circuit Court and his attorneys
were given judgment against the club
for $500 as their fees in conducting Hart
mans case. The effect of the verdict Is
that the coal club Is declared a trust or
combination existing in violation of the
law commonly known as the Sherman
antitrust act