Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-10
WORLD OF LABOR.

Glasgow Exposition will open in
May.
Ottawa bricklayers demand s hours
on April l.
Belfast printers have received an in
crease of Is. Sd. per week.
Kansas City -four mills are working
overtime. Thanks to foreign demand.
| The painters of Richmond, Va, are
demanding $3.50 per day and nine
! hours.
In 200 cities throughout the United
States bricklayers are working under
the eight-hour law
Columbia University has adopted the
eight-hcur system in the boiler and
| electrical departments.
Legislators in Wisconsin will intro
| duce bills to license BARRIERS and re-
| quire sanitary barber shops.
| Only union help will be employed
| on the electrical work at the Pan Am
| erican Exposition to be held at Buff
! falo.
The Trade and Labor Assembly of
Springfield, H., gave the truant Off
Ger in that city 500 to buy shoes for
poor children.
| 1t is rumored that bill is now being
drafted compelling boss butchers to
keep their shops closed on Sundays,
and that it will be offered in Albany
in few weeks.
There are two painters unions in
Worcester Mass. Union AZ is com
posed of English speaking members,
while the other is composed of Swedish
speaking members.
The Toledo Team Owners Union
has notified its membership that any
one who employs non-unian drivers
and helpers will be fined S. and stand
suspended until it is paid.
The printers of Vancouver B. c.,
backed up by the rest of the trades
unions, are trying to have all school
books printed in the government print
ing Office and issued to the children
free.
The Granite Cutters National Union
has not held a convention for twenty
years. 1t is one of the most success
full labor organizations and conducts
all the business by the referendum
| system.
James Brady, who superintendent the
erection of the steel work on the new
palace for the tMikado of Japan, is on
| his way home. He is a member of the
| Chicago Bridge and Structural Iron
workers Union.
A bill has been introduced in the
| New York Legislature creating the Of
| flee of commissioner of labor and abol-
! ishing the offices of commissioner of
! labor statistics, factory Inspector and
| state board of mediation and arbitra-
| ton.
three hundred persons in London
earn living-and several of them are
growing rich-by providing meals for
Tie cats of the metropolis, which they
deliver regularly once, twice and thrice
a Gay, as may suit the owners Of feline
! pets.
| The Chicago Local of the Lake Sea-
| mems union is greatly agitated over
the formation of the association known
as the Lake Seamen's Federation" 1t
is said that vessel owners are very
favorable to this organization, and will
give preference to it's members.
Prior to the disaster of the " inter
Quarters (Utah) mine on May LIST OF
| last year, most of the miners were Nor
mons. Their difference with the COM
| pany were always settled by the Bish-
op Since then outsiders nave come in
and the result is that the walking dele
gate and not the Bishop is the one who
figures
In London, swearing is a luxury be-
yond the reach of the cockney cab
man. An unfeeling statute provides
a SIS penalty for using abusive Ian
guage or other rude behavior More
over, if the swearing is INDUCED in by
the proprietor of the cab he is likely
to have his license revoked. and the
license costs $40.
The candy makers Of Illinois, Iowa,