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

i-nISSUGIl, IAaLSG5, NGDiaEEl, ana
South Dakota entered into an agree
ment affecting more than 10000 girls
employed in score Of cities They
decided not to introduce a chocolate
drop manufacturing machine which
can do the WORK Of lcur girls The
makers have all agreed to stick to the
hand process.
Wooster bTic5layers have notices in
the hands of contractors and other en-
ployers that the price of a union brick
layers time in the spring will be forty
five cents an hour Carpenters are
comforting with a view to making a
demand for an eight hour day in the
spring They are working nine hours
five days a week. Steamftters will
ask for an eight-hour day. Plasterecs
have asked for forty-five cents an hour.
The Women's Union Label League
he'd its third annual session at Nun
Gle, Indiana, last week. In some local
tiles the efforts OF the women have
been so noticeable that merchants han
die nothing but union-made goods.
They have also succeeded in closing
stores at an early hour in many local
tiles Any union working woman is
eligible to membership, as is the wife,
daughter or sister of a union man.
1--WE are gradually" said w. D.
Mahon, making a rate for the street.
car men of the whole country, ranging
somewhere around 20 cents per hour,
Beginners get less, and then the rate
is gradually raised as the men become
more valuable 10 the company. This
is big advance on what the wage was
a few years ago, when men were work
ing at from 10 to IA cents per hour and
from ten TO sixteen hours day.
At Minneapolis the carpenters, who
have been receiving 3115 cents per
hour for eight hours work. want a
raise Of 1 cent per hour; the bricklay-
ers are demanding so cents per hour,
$3.50 per day in place of their schedule
of last year. which specified only As
cents per hour, and the plasterers have
come TO the front with a demand of a
raise from 431a cents per hour to so
| cents per hour. The demand of the
painters, decorators and paper-hangers
for an 8-hour day at So cents per hour
has stirred up opposition among the
contractors.
Canada is preparing to attach her
entire telegraph system to the Post
Office. We cannot even make our tele-
graph monopoly pay for the revenue
| stamps it sticks On its Blanks. Wood
stock, Ontario, has bought out the COM
| pany that has been running the cleo
trio light works, and intends to handle
the business itself. kingston, Ontario
| has given legal notice of it's intention
| to acquire the entire plant of the
| Kingston Light, Heat and Power Com
| pany. Winnipeg, Montreal, has been
| running a municipal electric street
lighting plant successfully for over a
year
General Secretary w. J. Gilthorpe
| OF the Brotherhood of Boilgrmakers
and Iron Ship Builders, reports fifty
| one new unions, six unions lapsed, and
one charter revoked; gain in member
ship, 2.212; won 40 strikes. compromis-
eu ?, and lost 4; number OF persons in
volved in strikes, 2,642; benefited
$3.50: injured, LIS; gain in wages, l(
per cent. in thirty-one cities and ) pel
cent in eight cities; gains in reduction
of hours, one hour in sixteen cities
four cities gained time and one-haii
! for overtime; cost Of strikes. SIS. 003. so
In seven cities 10 per cent. in wages and
| one hour less was given voluntarily.
| No movement of organized labor II
| recent years has attracted more at
| tention than has tAe establishment o
a factory owned and controlled BY tn,
American Flint Glass Workers UnioI
of Summitville, Ind. This factory il
given over to the manufacture b
TASKS and was erected with the avow
ed intention of either compelling thu
non-uIion flask houses in the Indian;
gas belt to employ union labor and OBJ
serve union conditions, or putin.
them out Of business. I'VE started,
said General Organizer Rowe, ito un
dersen the combine. We have alread.
made four reductions in prices, ant
TASKS are now selling for 40 per cent
less than wnen we began business
Each time we have reduced prices, tn,
non-union houses have followed suit
We are now operating our factory a
a loss of 49, per week. That sum 1
equal to what we pay six men whel
they are on strike. so you see we ar,
not losing anything when compared t
the ordinary cost Of a strike.