Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-18

notice Of motion IN the City Council
that II cents an hour be the minimum
wage not only for direct employees,
but that such q condition be made q
clause in all civic contracts.
The privileges of erecting bootblack-
ing stands in the large downtown Of
fee buildings of New York is valua-
BILE, and even the right to go from Of
fee to Office with a bootblacking box
is assessed in some OF these buildings.
The carpenters unions of Brooklyn
are taking a referendum vote upon a
demand for a wage scale OF As cents
an hour, and a Saturday half holiday.
to go into effect on May |. Their
present wage scale is 1925 for days
work of eight hours, or $3.50 a week.
At a meeting of the San francisco
Council of Painters and Decorators OF
America a resolution was passed set
ting April next as the instant to en-
force the $3.50 minimum rate for pa
per-hangers and fresco painters ,or
an eight-hour day.
The first of Thomas Lipton's dining
rooms was opened last week. Meals
are furnished for from a halfpenny TO
four-and-a-half pence, and they consist
of oatmeal, soup, steak, pudding, Vege-
tables aid tea, coffee or cocoa There
are facilities for sending meals costing
only halfpenny to schools within
radius of three miles, and also to sick
and bedridden persons. The dining
rooms can accommodate 1900 persons
at one time, and from ten to twelve
thousand persons can be served each
day.
Since the ordering of the New Eng
land granite cutters strike, on March
/, for an eight-hour day and a mini
mum wage of So day, fully 1000 OF
the men who struck have returned to
work While the men in every IN
stance have not obtained the minimum
rate of So day, yet they have secured
the eight hours, and have also obtained
a substantial advance in wages in every
case. Most of the settlements have
been upon the basis of 35 cents an hour
as minimum.
Painters wages and working hours
vary considerably in the boroughs that
make up the city of New York. In
Brooklyn the union scale is So a cay;
in Manhattan, $780, In both boroughs
eight hours constitute days work.
The union painters in the Borough of
Richmond demand an increase in their
wages to $3.50 day and workday of
eight hours, to begin on Monday, April
Is. In the Bronx Borough painters
wages range from 81 to $3.50 Gay,
but the last mentioned money is paid
in very few cases.
The st. Louis street car cOmpro-
mise: We will fairly inquire into
every case, and any man discharged
solely on the ground that he belonged
to the union will be re-employed.
Second proposition, 10-hour workday
completed within II consecutive hours,
when possible, and uniform rate OF
20 cents per hour. Uniform rate may
be established at once if the men wish.
Men ordered to report for duty at a
specified hour shall be paid from that
hour until relieved. If not put on
duty to receive half pay until relieved.
Firemen, greaserS, motor inspectors,
car washers and shed men to be paid
for overtime. We will meet any indi-
vidual employe or any committee OF
employees in relation to any grievance.
The Rev. Mr.. McNutt was for long
time pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian
church, Indianapolis. Several months
ago with a desire to learn from per-
sonal observation and experience the
facts as to the real environments and
condition of the workingmen-the toll
ing wage arners of this and other
States-he voluntarily laid aside the
cloth for the smock-frock and overalls,
withdrew from the pulpit and with
his wife and two children in covered
wagon made his way into the gas belt
of Indiana in order to earn his living
as a common laborer among the men
of that class, associate with them and
the BOSSES" take up burdens such as
laborers might bear, mix with them
and be one of them in everything that
such an experience might involve.
He carried out his determination to
the letter and in all the principal
manufacturing and mining towns of
Indiana has worked at day wages
whenever he coud find work, has at
times lacked work and consequently
lacked at times, like many other la
boring people, some of the comforts of
life.