Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21

constitute ! union d tie Moderation
Of Labor.
The initiation fee 81 the Brooklyn
Boilerraakerss Union - 81.
at indianapolis the price OF q hair
cut ranges from Is to Is cents.
The Antitrust convention at Chi
cago is to open on Lincoln's birthday.
No baker unionist Of Dumferline,
Eng, is paid less than 81 a week.
Unionists exclusively will erect the
Pan-American Exposition Building at
Buffalo.
The treasurer of the English Min
ers' Federation was recently elected
Mayor Of Burslem.
At Auburn. N. Y, the building
trades are going to make a fight for
the S-hour day on April l.
New York Policemen want the s.
hour day, and the Legislature has
been asked to legalize the demand.
Union stair builders in Brooklyn
obtained a Saturday half holiday
without reduction in their wages.
The Frisco District Council of Car
penters and Joiners has decided to In
crease the initiation fee to $40 on Feb
ruary /.
The municipal council Of Brussels.
Belgium, voted $1,000 70 pay the ex-
penses of workmen delegates to the
Paris Exposition.
A New York Carpenter Union, 51s.
has voted down a motion to demand 81
a day and eight hours in all shops
Inside work..
Brooklyn bricklayers earn 55 cents
an hour, eight hours constitute a DAYS
work. They also work only till noon
On Saturday.
The British unionist is now inter-
ested chiefly in the compulsory S-hour
law, the workmen's compensation and
the old age pension act, and the hous-
ing of workmen,
more than $500. GOO, 900 bushels of
wheat every II hours to supply its
table with bread.
The Lake Seamen's Union has de-
cided that members who served in the
Spanish-American war are exempt
from payment OF dues for the period
of their service In the a
Plasterers' Union No. l, of Brook
Ign, will shortly enter on the thirty
seventh year OF It's existence. II has a
membership of about 1000, and reserve
funds exceeding 5000.
When ladies go to buy a dress in
Japan they tell the shopkeeper their
age, and if they are married on not,
because there are special designs for
the single and double relations Of life,
as we'll as for ages.
In Germany the number OF sitting
and standing places in the street cars
is plainly marked. II a car is designed
to carry 80 persons no more than 30
persons will be permitted to ride on
that car at the same time.
In Great Britain the General FEEDER
alton of Trade Unions now embraces
20 trade unions with an aggregate
membership of 367,S77, which is an
increase since July of five unions and
nearly twenty-three thousand mem
bers.
The American Federation of Labor
is now composed of 70 national and in-
ternational unions. sos local trade
unions and 102 Federal labor unions, II
State declarations of labor, and 11S city
central labor unions and trades as
somblies.
Those interested in cooperation hs
a solution of the labor problem" are
wishing that the striking coopers Will
accept the offer of Fred Brandt. the
employing cooper and owner of one lof
the shops in which trouble exists, TO
purchase the material he has on hand
and take charge of the place on a CO.
operative basis.
Three old New York trades unions.
electrical workers, plumbers and tile
layers, which have been working in
dependently of national a~fflliation,
complain of rivalry from local branch
es of general unions that have been
formed in this city and have received
recognition from the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, because they are parts
of national unions connected with the