The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-14
Give Strike Figures.


the strike assessment, some interest
ing figures are given. The circular in
part says:
"On the first day of April this year
over 100000 miners laid down their
tools in order to secure restoration
of the reduction in wages forced upon
us in 1904-in other words, the restora-
ton of the scale of 1903. The greater
part of this number were on strike for
over two months, and some OF them
have not yet secured settlement.
"At the time the strike commenced
we had in the international treasury
approximately 100000, or just about
one dollar per capita for those on
strike. In the various district, sub
district and local union treasures, SO
far as we were able to secure reports,
there was $2,3O0.00O. Under these cir
cumstances it became necessary for
the international organization to in
sist that the various local, subdistrict
and district unions should exhaust all
of their own funds before calling upon
the international for assistance, in or
der that the money in the general
treasury might be reserved for the
support and protection of those mem
bers of our organization who were I'M
able to secure settlements as soon as
the others.
when the funds in the information
al treasury were nearly exhausted,
and large number of oIr members
still on strike, the board, acting under
instructions received from the inter
national convention, levied an assess
ment of so cents per week per mem
Der upon those who had secured settle
ments, beginning with the 18th of June
upon those who had been at work prior
to that time. and with the first week
of the second pay received by those
who resumed work after that time.
Nearly all those who came out on
strike have secured settlements on the
| basis of the 1903 scale, but we still
have about 10000 men in various parts
of the country for whom settlements
have not been secured 1t will not,
however, be necessary to continue the
assessment of so cents per week per
member, and you are hereby notified
that it will be discontinued after July
81, 1906"
LABOR NOTES.
The glass blowers now number
$4,000.
Three thousand Montana smelters
are on strike.
Japanese day laborers earn only 20
cents per day.
Five thousand workmen are on
strike in Alabama.
Cement workers are on strike in
New York city.
Hardwood finishers and marble
workers of Kansas City have organ.
| lied.
The German Metal Workers union
is the strongest union in the world
|
Carriage workers have won their
strike in Boston, Mass, and Mem.
phis, Tenn.
The Conductors and Motormen's
union gained 1000 members the past
IL months.
The iron molders of Manchester
Eng, have informed their employers in
the engineering trade of Manchester
and southeast Lancashire of their de
cision to strike unless their de
mands for an immediate advance OF
SO cents per week is conceded. The
molders number only 1000 men, but
the strike would affect 10000 skilled
workmen and 60 firms. The men
claim that the trade is enjoying great
prosperity, while wages have not been
advanced for ten years, during which
the conditions of living have greatly
altered rents and the prices of food
having risen.
A general strike of the pressers
branch of the Brotherhood of Tailors
has been ordered by the executive
committee of the branch in New York
A uniform scale of wages and a uni
form workday are demanded and {
general protest against sweating
conditions was made at the meeting
Harris Filler, who was authorized t.
make the announcement of the strike
declared that there were between 1900
and 5000 pressers in the city, ant
that approximately 10000 men woult
be affected altogether.
A committee of the National Civic
Federation of America has arrived a
Queenstown, England. for the purpose
of studying the question of municipal
ownership and it's effect on labor con
ditions.
A bill to reduce the hours of labo
in coal mines to eight per day by thu
year 1909 recently passed its secont
reading in the British house of com
mons, on the understanding that thu
government will appoint COMMITTEES