Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16

sheds of the Illinois Steel Company's
plant at South Chicago. which will do
work which has heretofore required $50
men. The machine requires but six
men to operate il.
At Frisco the board of supervisors
has passed an ordinance reducing the
hours that laundries may be in opera
ton each day, which is designed 10 re-
duce the hours of labor OF the over
worked employees of these concerns
from fifteen to twelve hours.
The cigarmakers' union of Chicago is
lookin for counterfeiters of the union
label. A manufacturer on South Ches-
ter avenue was fined $l00 by Justice
Everett this week, and other prosecu-
lions will follow just as soon as the
evidence can he collected.
The locked-out laundry workers OF
Dayton have raised 81 500 of the $10,-
600 that they are going to invest in
! cooperative laundry. The cigar max
ers of the same town have collected
81 900 fer the non-unionists who are
staying out on a strike with them.
The International Typographical
Union has been recognized at the Paris
Exposition by being awarded a gold
medal or grand prize for its exhibia
in the department of social economy.
The printers OF DanbrUy, Conn, have
unionized every office but one in the
town.
The Chicago woodworkers' strike,
which was begun last week. affects
ia}ars 80
1920, Secretary Lee says that there is
more than $4,000 in the treasury that
| Is available for strike Dement'S. and IL
necessary, an assessment will be levied
Immediately to sustain the strike.
The yearly report OF Typographical
Union No. gives the gross receipts OF
the union as S185, sol .25, and places the
! total cf expenditures at $lS6,S3S.2. or
the gross receipts SIG, 40l 81 was receiv-
ed for dues and assessments, and the
expenditures include a sum approach
ing s103, 900 paid for strike benefits and
expenses.
Housesmiths an Bridgemen's Union
has been successful in obtaining an in
! creased wage scale of AZ cents an hour
and double pay for overtime and sun
day work, for its members employed
on the new East River bridge until
the LIST of May, after which date wages
are to be raised to so cents an hour,
with double pay for overtime and work
on Sundays.
The United Brotherhood of Leather
I Workers on Horse Goods announces
! that no horse can consider iCself a
| union animal unless ii wears q collar
or harness which has been made by
| members of the organization, and
which articles display the union label.
The horseshoers and horse nail work
ers both of which are, like the leather
workers, affiliated with the American
Federation of labor, call attention 10
their union stamp and union label re-
spectively, and declare that no quad
lruped can consider itself strictly union
unless it has been she'd by union men
and union nails.
Less than ten cents a day is what II
costs the Ruskinites in Georgia 70
live. Everything they consume is
bought at wholesale in large quanti-
ties. and is cooked in the community
( kitchen. In the community dining
| roam tables are set for 300 people.
/ Those who do not wish TO eat with the
/ crowd are given the privilege Of pur-
| chasing company stores and cookin 1t
| at home. When vegetables are scarce
! these people are allowed cents per
capita daily, that is, cents for each
person, big. little, old, young, sick or
well. When vegetables are plentiful
the cash allowance is only cents
The contractors are considering the
reduced scale OF the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers Union Of New
York. A demand OF wage scale Of 81
a day, which was subsequently lowered
i to s375 a day. has been made by the
union, which also asked for saturday
half holiday The union scale at pres
ent is $3.50 a day, and the increase
would benefit cornice anc skyllgnt
MAKERS. Should the contractors con
( cede the demands. the cornice and SKY
4 light makers belonging 10 the Brook
lyn union OF rcofers, coTn1ce and SKY
+ light makers and tin and sheet metal
workers will also get the increase, an
agreement having recently been signed
7 De- veen the contractors and Brooklyn
/ union to the effect that the same wages
I are TO be paid the craft in each of the
+ two big boroughs.
At Vancouver. g. C., Japanese fisher
men started union OF their own, and
SET the price Of fish for this season at
Is cents each, and notified The white
( unions OF what they had done. The
white unions fell in line, and would not
FISH under z5 cents. This lasted three
weeks. and the fishing season sliding
BIZ. the eanners saw they we're likely
10 be defeated. They then succeeded
- exe.r4~er +ho rnSIftta "a ffod afYt and
goo OF them were sent 20 Stevenson. the
i fssbing center, to scare the Japs. The
white fishermen were not 20 ne scared
50 easily, and hung out for eight days
! longer, when an agreement was signed
i with tee white fishermen. agreeing TO
pay 10 cents for the season and recog-
nizing the union. The militia was
called out when there was no trouble.