The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-12-21
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

Temand the label.
The union label-thats all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins. :
Fifteen Cleveland, Ohio. firms We're
arrested for violation OF the child Ia
Dor law.
Paving cutters are preparing to IN
augurate national campaisn,'fo the
eight-hour day.
blue Ribbon cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
st. Paul painters are going to de-
niand fiat rate OF 4212 cents per
hour on April /, 1907.
Foundry laborers are making ma
tional move to enforce the nine-hour
day where it does not yet exist.
Detroit, Mich, ice wagon drivers.
after submitting their differences to
arbitration, gained the concessions
sought
Telegraph operators on the Pere
Marquette railroad have received a
New Years gift in the nature of IS
a month raise.
Unions at st. Augustine, Fla, are be-
ing sued for $4,000 damages because
they urged dealers not to sell to an
unfair contractor.
A federal labor union. consisting OF
the laborers employed in the potteries
OF East Liverpool, O., was recently or
eanized in that city.
Street railway employees of Ohio are
seeking to compel a general enforce
ment of the state law calling for all
vestibules to be heated.
1t is estimated that If the working
children of PENNSYLVANIA were placed
shoulder to shoulder they would make
a line twenty-five miles long.
The trades council of Galveston,
Texas, has declared unfair the mem-
bers of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen that filled the places of the
switchmen on strike, and unseated
their delegates in the council.
Huntington, W. Va, is now in hopes
of reviving the trades council. the
city has been without a central body
for several years and the new interest
being taken predicts thriving new
body.
Many of the men in Hopkins county,
Ky, are beginning to realize the neces-
sity of becoming a part of the United
Mine Workers organization. Discon-
tent prevails in every mining camp
in that county.
Emigration companies of Japan are
the Hawaiian islands by next June
Six thousand young men are i'll Yoko-
homa
Indianapolis plasterers union is
and ope-half hours on Saturday The
present scale is 55 cents per hour Men
are scarce.
The Cleveland Directory company
has reached an agreement with the
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be printed in union shop. <ee
New York building trsde go
murring at thessbig expense Icon
Quoting their arbitration plan NTH the
i, bosses. Some of the foeRts are desir-
Gus of withdrawing from the arrange
ment or reconstructing present meth
eds.
Just TO show how good organized
effort works out its own salvation the
the fact that there are now only four
shops on the unfair list and they have
the largest membership in their his
tory. Less than two years ago the
union members numbered less than
forty members. while the roll at pres
ent shows 140 in good standing.
John Pennewell, a member of the
Spokane carpenters union, who was
beaten by plumbers while working on
building some time ago. has sent 3
bill of S119 to the Structural Building
Trades Alliance as damages for injut
les sustained and the physicians bill
In his statement to the alliance Pen
newell alleges that he was attacked
because he had demanded the working
card of the plumbers, as he had beer
instructed to do.
The publishers of the New York Tri
bune had $1,000 copies of an eight
page folder in two colors advertising
that the Tribune Farmer and two 9th
er publications would be sent to am