The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-12-29
GENERAL MENTION.
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News Notes Dug Out and swiped for
Consumption in Lincoln.
Rogers & Perkins carry large line
os union made shoes.
The largest line of union made shoes
IN Lincoln at Rogers & Perkins.
An increase of 25 cents day has
been granted Boston plumbers.
Cereal Mill Employees at Benton, ILL.,,
have organized and secured charter
Employing printers in Galesburg
with but one exception signed for the
elght-hour day.
Smoke Blue Ribbon" cigars and be
happy. Union made in Lincoln by
Neville & Gartner. All dealers.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made. Fine smoke. All dealers. Ne
vile & Gartner, manufacturers
Get ready for the next. opening Of
the c. L. U. 1t will be "corker.''
Dorothy Maupin was quite ill several
days last week, but is now all right
again.
The international convention of
Bricklayers and Masons is in session
at Minneapolis.
Minneapolis labor men are already
making preparations for the question
ing of candidates.
Another counterfeit of the United
Hatters union label has been I'M
earthed in Providence, R. I.
Moulders at Glens Falls, N. Y, Sc
cured the nine hour day at former
wages They had been working ten
hours.
Peoria Street Railway Employees
union, comprising 300 members, sub
scribed in body for their local labor
paper.
Four hundred and fifty delegates are
in attendance at the Bricklayers' and
Masons' International convention at
Minneapolis.
W. H. Williams. state labor com
missioner of Minnesota, favors PAW
making eight hours the limit for chill
dren who work.
Fur, sewers and workers on ladies'
garments in Montreal are preparing to
O. ganize. They will join the United
Garment Workers.
Work in the building line is slower
now than at any time during the past
| ten months But the spring prospects
are unusually good.
Ten thousand five hundred union
carpenters of Chicago have asked for
| So cents an hour on April 1, an in
crease of 5 cents an hour.
Milwaukee printers did not go out
| for the eight hour day, being under
| contract until June 20, 1907, and union
rnen will not break contracts.
| Cloth Hat and Cap Cutters Union
OF Boston voted to pay an assessment
of $40 a week to assist the locked out
members of the craft in Detroit.
Boston Elevator Constructors Union
i, fighting the open shop, and has
| enough applications for men to provide
| jobs for all the men who strike.
| Thomas ]. O'Keefe, editor of the Al
lance Herald, and good friend of
unionism, was welcome caller at The
| Wageworker headquarters last Thurs
day.
| The Waukegan, ILL.,, Trades Council
| has entered a protest against the en-
/ pioyment of Dowies non-unionists at
the plant of the American Steel and
| Wire company
An association of ministers at Min
| neapolis recently proposed labor
temple for that city. The central body
| dorsed the movement.
The law committee of the Cincinnati
| Trades Council is watching violators
OF the child labor law. All violations
are reported to the factory inspector
| and the latter enforces the law.
Forty lasters are on strike at the
| shoe factory of A. F. Smith at Lynn,
| Mass, for an increase of from to
| 7h cents a pair for ideal machine OPP
| orators on patent leather goods.
A Newark, O., dispatch says: All
Newark rejoices oyer the settlement OF
the stove rike at the
Werhle founl pmpany de-
clines to tell the settle