The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-30

Boston.-The International Sea-
mems union will hold it's annual con-
vention in this city early in Decem
Der.
Las Angeles, Cal.-Rumors of gen
! eral increase in wages on the South
ern Pacific Sante Fe, and Salt Lake
| railroads were verified to some eX-
tent by President e. P. Ripley of the
Sante Fe. There will be some in
crease in wages on all transconti-
mental railroads. said President Rip
| ley, but the various unions will not
get all they ask for
| MISUNDERSTANDING the action
/! of the directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad company, the directors of the
/ Northern Central railway, the West
| Jersey and Seashore railroad, and the
/ Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
/ ton railroad. which are controlled by
| the Pennsylvania, authorized an in
! crease of ten per cent in the wages
/ Of all permanent employees receiving
! less than 5000 month
! Lima, GA five and ten per cent.
advance in the wages of all employees
/ of the refining branch of the Standard
! Oil company was announced here.
/ The advance affects Immediately 900
| employees of the Solar refinery in this
4 city, and the army of employees at
| Welker, Wood county, O.; in Oil City,
/ Pa; Whiting, Ind; Bayonne, N. j.;
4 Denver, Col, and Charleston. S. G. No
/ notice of like advance has been re-
ceived by the pipeline department,
but rumor has it that the voluntary
advance will extend to every branch
of the company.
Minneapois.-In his speech at the
/ ton of Labor President Gompers de-
clared the printers had won their bat
tie for an eight hour day, saying:
THE International Typographical
union has practically enforced the
| eight hour work day in that trade.
1t has been involved in a strike of its
members since Sept 1,1905. Since
that time at least 200 of our local
unions have had trouble on this &C
count. Some of them were out for
only day OF two We have had about
10000 men upon the strike roll from
the first of the year OF the
200 or more unions involved in the
eight hour difficulty at least 100 were
completely successful. We
i therefore have 5000 on strike, 1000
working under uneXpired contracts,
and over $4,000 enjoying the eight
hour day
New York-The New York, New
Haven & Hartford and the New York
Central railroads came to an agree
ment with committees representing
the firemen of the two roads affecting
the status of the men on the new
electric locomotives, and the adjust
ment committee of the Erie lOcomo-
! tive engineers announced it had
! reached an understanding with the Of
ficials of that system. The firemens
committee will confer further with the
New York Central and the New York,
New Haven & Hartford officials con-
corning the questions of increased
/ wages and shorter hours. 1t was
stated at the Erie Offices that there
will be no trouble in reaching an
agreement with the firemen, as Presi-
dent Underwood's letter to Chief Han
nahan was not refusal to grant con-
cessions but simply request to hold
off until settlements could be made
with yardmen, switchmen, brakemen
and other employees of the company.
i 1t was said that when these adjust
ments have been made the demands
| of the firemen will be taken up. Those
| considered reasonable will be grant
! ed.
| Boston.-The annual convention of
the National Metal Trades association
composed of manufacturers of the
| principal cities of the country, will be
held here beginning March 20. The
association has nearly doubled it's
| membership since the convention of
! last year.
-Switchmen on the rail
roads of the country will profit to the
amount of nearly $6OOO,OOO annually
through settlement reached. Under
the new schedule of wages which
went into effect on November Is every
yard service employee will receive an
| addition to his wages of four cents an
hour. The roads probably will put the
| new wage schedule into effect for all
of the $4,000 switchmen in the United
States. This was intimated to be the
plan by an official who attended the
conferences in Chicago. To each
switchman the increase means $2.4O
more week, or approximately 1925
more annually The advance is the
largest granted by the railroads to
any class of employees during the last
| 20 years. 1t amounts to about ~ per
cent, or two per cent. more than has
been given the employees of several
| eastern railroads recently
London.-The threatened strike of
iron molders in the engineering
trade in Lancashire, England, has
been ayerted. The strike, had it taken
| proportions.
Providence, r. loving to general