Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-21


The initiation fee of the Minneapolis
Plasterers' Union is s25.
In Newark the capital invested in
manufactures exceeds 500, 600 900.
Boston Milk Peddlers' Union have re-
quested the contractors to sell no milk
to be sold again at less than seven
cents per quart.
Toledo bookbinders have had their
demands for an increase granted and
the agreement signed by every firm in
the city except one.
Common laborers in Spain get from
35 to 40 cents per day in the larger
towns, and from 20 to 80 cents III thu
rural districts.
New York Machine Woodworkers and
Turner'S Union No. 476 has instructed
its machine woodcarvers to make a de-
mand On their employers for $40 a
week.
Milwaukee's great crane, operated by
electric power, cost $40, 900, and can lift
200 tons. 1t has a IS foot span and will
be operated On a track Sc feet from the
floor.
Never put a dozen spiders, big and
little, into a glass bottle. 1t is a very
cruel thing to do. This writer onca
saw a dozen spiders thus treated, in
spite of all humane protests.
The BARRIERS union of Toledo have is
sued $1,000 circulars containing the
names and addresses of all proprietors
of union barber shops. The circulars
will be distributed throughout the city.
Perry made the first steel pens at
Birmingham in 1924, selling them at 80
cents apiece. The weekly output of
that city Just now is 10000, 900. and
some are sold for five cents a gross.
At Minneapolis, organized labor is
interested in the candidacy of several
men because, they are active members
of labor organizations and have to a
certain extent been brought out for the
peoples SURFACES by organized labor.
The courts have sustained as legal
the action of a trade union which re-
fused to pay the accident benefit of
an injured member, ON the ground
that the claimant was working below
the union scale of wages without per-
mission.
Members of the New York Amalga-
mated Painters and Decorators
Union will open a trade school during
the winter months for their members
and apprentices. Experts will teach
drawing, decorative painting, grain
ing, etc.
One Of the Chicago building contrac-
tors engaged in the fight against or
ganized labor in that city has lost
twelve jobs in st. Louis; the men re-
fusing to work IN the buildings so
long as he is in any way connected
with the work.
The members of the Minneapolis
woodworkers union are delighted over
the resurrection by the city council Of
the resolution requiring that all FAC
tory products in the way of sash, doors,
mouldings, ETC., should bear the label
of the ~woodworkers union.
Typographical Union No. 6. of New
York, was asked by Comptroller Coler
recently to submit to him an estimate
OF the cost of a municipal printing
plant. The union announced yesterday
that the plant would cost $205, 600, and
the building for the plant about $780,
600, or $780, 900 for building and plant
together.
h New York garment workers and
waist makers have agreed to separate
national union Jurisdictions. The for
mer will control work on mems boys
and children's clothing. overalls and
jumpers. Tne latter will conhne its
members to shirts, shirt waists, collars.
cuffs, underclothing and washable white
goods.
One of the greatest essentials with
regard to the recommendation OF a
London foOtman is not only his height
but the size and form of his legs. Some
excellent servants in their class Of
business whose shanks do not come up
to the requirement of fashion have
them finely padded and thus equipped
generally pass muster.
The New York Central Federated
Union owing to the complaint Of the
Bill Posters Union, will protest to the
Board OF Aldermen against Alderman
Matthew's ordinance proposing to
the so-called Union Advertising Com
pany" the privilege of distributing $500
ash cans about the city, and then COW
ering the cans with posters and
"snipes."
Birmingham, Ala, typographical
UNION mas DeSuH preparations fOr en-
tertaining the delegates to the forty
seventh annual session of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, which
meets there next year. The jurisdic-
ton Of the Birmingham union extends
over twelve miles in every direction
from that city, and there is not to be
found in all that area a single non
union printing establishment.
Samuel Gompers has issued the cali
for the twentieth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor. 1t
will be held in Louisville, beginning
Wednesday, December 5. President
Gompers says in the call that ia the
history of the labor movement the
workers were never required to deal
with more momentous questions than
those which confront us now. Upon
the organized workers depends the sue
cess of our humane battles, the victory
OF our noble cause now and for all
time"
At Chicago Judge Grosscup has de
cided an interesting case as arbiter for
the Bricklayers' Union and Mason and
Builders Association. When the lock-
out was declared Feb. -, an appren-
tice indentured by the union had only
served four years term. The boy was
thrown out of work and his employer
refused to pay him wages, although
he was under obligations TO furnish