Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-10
WoRLD OF LABOR.

Minneapolis coopers have established
a cooperative shop. So
At the last meeting of Minneapolis
| Woodworkers' Union No. la, the III
itiation fee was reduced to 81 AND the
reinstatement fee to $3.50 until April
/. BY this action it is estimated that
| the union will add to its membership
at least 500 new members. A speclal
effort will be made to organize the
boxmakers and carriage WoodWorkers
under this di~spenSatlon.
The consumption of beer in Germany
has doubled in the past twenty years.
At Cleveland the Consumers League
will demand the wages and sanitary
conditions for women dry goods clerks.
Capital and labor will meet in joint
conference in Cleveland on "Wednesday
| March 10. to discuss and adjust the
wage scale for Il, 900 men for the COM
ing summer. The laborers which tnls
conference directly concerns are the
ore and coal handlers OF the ports on
Lake Erie.
The American Equal Wage Union
proposes to remedy present conditions
by legislation. Among the laws pro-
posed are: Prohibiting the employmnt
of girls under sixteen and boys under
twelve in any kind of mercantile or
manufacturing work. Restriction or
the employment of females in any field
of labor. Minimum wages to be paid
females to be fixed at 81 per day. While
agitating for the passage OF the above
laws the members of the union" will
endeavor to secure for women the
wages paid men in the same occupa-
tion.
At Chicago automobile drivers had
been earning 16 2-13 cents an hour
and when working a twelve-hour day
they say they made S14 per week. The
last three weeks the huge bands gOf
snow are said to have prevented the
automobiles from running full time,
and the men were paid only for the
trips they made, permitting them to
earn, they claim, only about 81 a week.
A few days ago according to the oper-
ators, they learned that beginning
March 1 all employees would be paid
on the percentage system. They were
to receive 20 per cent it is understood.
A meeting of the union vas held, at
which it was stated that If the men
were paid on the percentage plan they
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strike was then ordered.
Cooking is taught in 230 girls
schools in Germany.
Cleveland Councilmen say the book
trust and furniture combine are both
taking a part in school politics.
The J~ourneymen Bakers and Confec-
TONERS International Union, nearly
$4,000 strong, will make a general de-
mand for a ten-hour day May l, 1901.
Members are nov working twelve to
sixteen hours daily.
According to the agreement between
the Chicago striking moulders and the
Foundrymen's Association, the mould
ers return to work and practically lose
their seven months struggle. The
agreement provides that the men re-
turn at the old figure of S2.75 per day,
and declare the strike of. The foun-
drymen agree to get rid Of the men
employed inside of 40 days, and take
the old men back, as they need them.
using their own judgment as to whom
they employ. A further adjustment of
wages will be made June 8, 1901. at a
conference which will arrange for a
scale for M year thereafter.
On May l all employers who have not
granted the nine-hour work day to
their machinists will be declared I'M
fair and a strike ordered on their es-
Establishments. There are 10000 ma
chinists employed by firms who are not
members of the National Trades Asso-
citation, and 10000 employed by men,
bers of that organization. None of the
Organization" shops will be affected,
as the nine-hour day is already in oper-
alton in the latter establishments.
Of PA cities in which the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America had strikes during the year
1900, they were defeated in only six of
them. In seventeen of the said cities
compromise was effected, leaving 1e1
cities in which the strikers won their
point. The strike in 113 cities was to
enforce the eight-hour system. in eigh-
ty-fve to obtain nine hours, and in
sixteen for the enforcement Of general
trade rules.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor