Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-14

for the benefit of Painters Union 116,
of Galveston:
At Battle Creek day laborers secured
an advance in wages of 25 cents per
day.
At Vancouver the proprietor of one
OF the shingle weaver factories is dis
charging MS men because they dared
to walk in the Labor Day procession.
1t is said that owing to the introduce
tfon of electricity for the manufacture
of sigars, cigarettes and tobacco, sew
eral thousand of hands will soon be
thrown out of work.
Chicago United Sheet Metal Work
ers' Council will increase its Initiation
fee from 81 to S. On November 1. At
ter that the fee will be raised to S. a
month until 1t reaches SIS.
Cigarmakers' Union 81, of Boston,
has 1000 members who paid an assess
ment of S12 each in installments for
the benefit of the striking and locked
out cigarmakers of New York.
The Dominion of Canada Labor Ga
zette is issued from the Ottowa Gov
eminent Printing Bureau. 1t appears
III tu6 EHSi-Su anu ICACH uoOSS'
and will be published monthly.
At Hannibal, Mo-, carpenters and
joiners' union has succeeded in secur-
ing recognition of the union and a
scale of % cents per hour. or s15 per
week of~not more than 50 hours.
BY assessment and donations, the
trades unions of San Francisco have
raised nearly $4,000 to maintain the
striking planning mill men in their con-
test for the eight-hour day in Cali
fornia.
At Bangor, Me-, two years ago the
laborers were only receiving 60 cents
per day for II hours work. To-day,
when there is hardly a laborer in Ban
gor outside of the union, they are get
ting from s1.40 to $3.50 per day Of 10
ho-rs.
Of the 1000, 900, 900 tons of freight
handled by the American rellrood9 asst
year more than one-fourth, or 250, 00O,-
600 tons. was coal. OF this 200, 900 900
tons was bituminous and 0 1000, 900
tons anthracite.
At Chicago, when a member of the
Bridgemen's Union is killed or injured
while at work, all other members on
the same structure quit, for the day.
This is not done from any supersti-
tion, but out of respect to the dead or
injured. 1t is a rule of the union.
The Treasurer of National Union of
United Brewery WoTkmen, in his an
rual report states that the organiza-
tion has now a surplus Of s47, $50. The
expenses have been very large, too.
The union gained $3.50 membSTs during
the past year and at present the CEN
trail body has POP unions and SO
branches.
The International Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Flremen has grown to a
great extent, and at it's recent conven-
ton 300 new members were reported
to have joined in the past year. Chat
tanooga will be the scene of the next
convention in 1902. The union donated
$4,000 for the support of disabled
members.
Switzerland allows no child under IA
years to become a wage Garner, the
age at which under the English fac
tory law he ceases to be a child, and
is ranked as a young person." Eng
fish boys of II years of age may still
work in the mines for "a hours a week,
which is longer than the hours for
men in the mines Of Northumberland
and Durham, England.
The injunction secured by the Taft
Vale railway against the Amalgama-
ted Society of Railway Servants makes
the union funds liable for damages to
any amount, on account of the action
of its agents or alleged agents. All
other unions are helping the Anal
gamate- Society of Railway Servants
the Belmont mill on the South Side.
wee President Walter Larkins, of this
district, attended the meeting. John
Williams, the secretary-treasurer. was
instructed to pay all the workmen of
these two plants that are out on a
strike. -7abar-
The National Tube Company has
completed arrangements to Ship 1000
tons of steel rails this week to New
Zealand.
Only one department continues on
at the Riverside plate mill and it is
said that the difficulty between the
management and employees may soon
be settled. The efforts of the manage
ment to run the various departments in
full have proved of no avail, SO it is
understood, and the organization is as
hopeful as ever that it will win out.
1t is expected that the steel depart
ment Of the Lower Benwood iron works
will be off during the week. The plate
department may also be idle two or
three days.
All the men at work on the extensive
additions at Boggs' run for the River
side mill, excepting those engaged on
the stoves for the new blast furnace,
were laid off duty during the week.
The two plate departments OF the
Belmont mill on the South Side are run
ming double turn. A large force Of en-
ployes are now engaged in putting
down the engines for the third plate
mill and erecting the structural wood
work for the new gas producers. The
work Of reconstructing the blast fur
mace, which has been in progress for
two or three months, will soon be COM
pleted.
1t is rumored that the National Glass
Company is considering plans for an
extensive addition to it's plant in Bel
laire. Those who are well informed in
regard to industrial Improvements for
the future, report that the COMPANY
will very likely erect the addition on
the site Of the old office building, which
is south of the present factory.
both n1ota mills orl {ha ,a;t -