The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-12-08
GENERAL MENTION.
Items Of Interest, Original and Boz
rowed From Wide Sources.

roWed From Wide Sources.
Smoke Blue Ribbon Cigars" and be
happy.
Central Labor Union meets next
Tuesday evening.
Kankakee union men are holding
monthly mass meetings.
Plumbers are striking in Hartford,
Conn, and Springfield, Mass
The largest line of union made shoes
in Lincoln at Rogers & Perkins.
Rogers & Perkins carry complete
line of union made shoes.
Virginia State Federation of Labor
has put state organizer in the field.
The carpenters are preparing for an
other open meeting, and it will be a
success.
One druggist has been cinched for
violating the excise laws. There are
others.
The painters in the New York fire
department had their wages raised SO
cents day.
Boston garment workers gained 300
members as the result of an organic
ing campaign.
Bookbinders of Washington, D. c.,
have been successful in establishing
Hat scale of $1s week there.
Hon. Edgar Howard, who has just
purchased the Fremont Daily Tribune,
Is an old-t me union printer.
Woman's Union Label League holds
it's regular meeting Monday evening.
All members should be present.
A prominent manufacturer of Detroit
declares that d. M. Parry Is injuring
the business interests of the country.
Eighty moulders are on strike at
Meadville. Pa, because of refusal to
curtail the number of apprentices.
BLUE Ribbon" cigars, made by Ne
Vile & Gartner, are union made. well
made and Lincoln made. All dealers.
The next annual convention of the
Seamen's Industrial Union will be held
in Cleveland. commencing December 5.
Central Labor Union of Buffalo, N.
", will impose fine of 500 upon any
union withdrawing from the central
body.
One hundred moulders walked out of
plant at Cleveland because of the open
shop
The Street Railway Employees Asso-
citation is the first labor organization
In, A ,os.sn 10 d ~, old ctnv,
system.
The park commission has not yet
provided that public skating rink it
was talking about during the warm
weather.
All the electricians and hnemen OF
the four telephone companies center
ing at La Crosse, Wis, struck for rec
ognition of the union.
Efforts are being made to adjust the
differences which have recently been
agitating the dual organizations of
carpenters in Milwaukee.
Six hundred men and 800 girls en-
ployes of shirt factory on strike in
Philadelphia won an increase in wages
and the piece work system.
Fisherman's Protective Union of the
Pacific coast is trying to obtain from
the federal government hospital in
the Bristol bay region, Alaska.
Chicago printers, besides paying lib
eral strike benefits to all members
out for the eight-hour day, are raising
a local defense fund of $4,000.
Fifty girls employed as coremakers
in McNab & Harlin's machine shop at
Paterson, N, j., went on strike be-
cause the foreman was discharged.
The Union Pacific is going to do an
immense lot of building in Nebraska
next year, and this Will furnish en-
ployment to many hundreds OF men.
The journeymen carpenters of South
ern Massachusetts will early in the
spring make a general demand for a
wage of SO a day and the union shop.
II your union is not represented in
the columns of The Wageworker the
fault is probably your own. The Wage
worker wants all the labor news 1t can
get
There are thine loval divisions of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees in Chicago district,
with membership of approximately
5000.
The Cigarmakers' International I'm
ion won the gold metal at the Lewis
and Clark exposition at Portland, Ore,
for making the best and most sanitary
cigars.
After a strike of five months against
the open shop. machinists of East
Rutherford, NJ j., were victorious, and
hereafter the works will be considered
union shops.
Glass Workers International has OBJ
tanned recognition of the fiat wage
scale in a little over half Of the fac
tories represented in the Manufac-
turerx' Association.
1t Is salad there are but two mines
~ Illinois working under non-union
conditions, ard. that the operators of