The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-06-15

bodies be invited to join in the six
hour movement.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
International Compressed Air Union
will hold it's annual convention in
New York on June 6.
At the next meeting of your union be
sure and discuss the matter of prop
erly observing Labor Day.
The Citizens Street Railway Co. is
laying track on N street between
Twelfth and Fifteenth streets.
Miss Rowland, of the Commoner adj
vertising department, is spending a
months vacation in New York.
Two hundred new members were
initiated by the Stationary Engineers
Union of Chicago at it's last meeting.
Working men in a good many crafts
who have the eight-hour day are corr
sidering the agitation of a six-hour
day.
Bread riots are becoming more fire.
quent throughout Italy as result of
the high price of provisions due to the
strike.
The national officers Of various
unions are making an open fight
against the Industrial Workers of the
World
Railway Trainmen to the number of
100000 on every railroad line in the
United States have begun a campaign
for better wages.
Union sheet metal workers have
gone out on strike because the en-
ployers have refused to grant their
demands for an increase of 7A cents
an hour
The strike of iron moulders, ex-
tending to many cities and involving
1000 to 5000 men, continues to have
a depressing effect on the demand for
foundry iron.
Representative George H. Jackson
of Lynn, has introduced in the Massa-
chusetts legislature a bill legaliZing
picketing during strikes, lockouts and
other labor troubles
More than 100000 immigrants ar
rived at ports of the United States in
April. These are the largest returns
for a single month in the history OF
the immigrant service.
Miss Mary Hammond, a teacher ir
the Minden, Nebr., schools, is attend
ing the summer normal at University
Place and incidentally visiting witt
relatives in this city.
The Lincoln Traction Co. is giving
employment to a big force in the worl
of lowering the track on M and Six
teenth streets to bring it down tt
grade before paving is undertaken.
Justice Gaynor, of the New Yorl
superior court, recently delivered al
opinion holding employers liable t,
damages for injuries suffered by chill
dren III violation of the child labo
Jaw.
AS a consequence of the stoppag
6 OF Chinese emigration and the trou
BILE among the miners of the Rand
South Africa, an alliance is threatene'
< between the workmen and the Boo
1 organization.
# The New York court of appeals re
e Gently declared unconstitutional sec
ton No. lila of the penal code, whicl
;. forbids an employer to enter into al
agreement with an employee binding
. the latter not to join a labor organiza
ton
Plumbers in Cincinnati have accept
ed the proposition that the Saturda.
half holiday should go into effect OF
July 1, 1907, and that the existin
wage scale remain in force until Ma
81, 1908. The scale of 81 per day ha
been granted.
The success of trades unions in rails
ing wages may be shown by the fol
lowing facts: In 1850 the average fac
tory wages were $247 a year; in 1896
$446; wages in cotton factories il
1880 were A cents a day; in 1873
$1.4O.
There is nearly 100000 in the Ciga
Makers international treasury, an in
l. crease of $4,000 during the past year
During 1905 there was 1920 paid il
r death benefits, and in January of thi
year $19,2OS.O5 was expended for tn
4 same purpose.
The workingmen in Washington ar
: already manifesting much interest il
the proposed label carnival to be he'll
: there a few months hence. In tn
meantime the local trades unionist
|, are conducting an active campaign IL