The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-28
possible under the existing alien immi
grafton laws of Australia.

possible under the existing alien immi-
grafton laws of Australia.
Street car employees of Chicago de-
mand the discharge of an expelled
member who insists upon working at
one of the car barns of the Union
Traction company.
A project is under discussion in Ger
many for the holding of q worlds fair
in Berlin in 1912. There is a fair pros
pect that provision will be made for
such an exposition.
The union bakers of Chicago sue
ceeded in establishing a new wage
scale in every shop but one in that
city. They received fiat increase of
81 per week over the old scale.
When the census of 1900 was taken
the total number of child laborers in
the country was 100000. 1t is esti-
mated by competent authority that the
number today is close to 100000.
The anti-sweating committee, APP
pointed by the Sydney On. S. W. la
Dor council promises to make astound-
ing revelations regarding the sweat
ing tactics of some Sydney employers.
The Patternmakers' Association of
San Francisco has returned to out
side associations that contributed to
| their aid after the earthquake As per
cent of the fund sent in. 1t was not
needed.
The earliest mention of strike
in StIilS of @
Partisan stocking weavers, in 1924,
when crown day was subscribed
for every striker, and all blacklegs
were boycotted
The Retail Clerks International AS
ISOLATION will begin the payment Of
sick benefits to members who have
been in continuous good standing upon
| the books for a period of twelve
months or more.
In Bombay Undia) cotton mills an
| average worker, laboring thirteen
| hours a day, earns about 80 cents
! day, that IS in mills equipped with the
best modern machinery and built in
! the most approved style.
The other day the gold beaters quit
work at every Boston shop in response
| to the national decision to establish
| an increase in wages from to 8 cents
| per book for piece work and from SIS
to $21 per week for week workers, also
| to eliminate what is called the out
side shop"
The Commercial Photographers
Union of America has decided to estab-
| lish mutual benefit department. This
| will begin business October LIST. A
mortuary fund will be maintained sim
| liar to those of the railroad brother
! hoods, from which death claims will
| be paid.
The remittances to China made by
| coolies or laborers at work in other
countries are now estimated to reach
$50, 100000 annually. including $4,000
600 said to be sent home by the in
dentured coolies in the Transvaal
| mines. This is one way China meets
| her adverse balance of trade.
The first plea for union labor that
w
| vention of the Federation of Women's
Clubs was voiced at st. Paul by 4
speaker who called upon her hearers
to aid the working girl by buying those
goods only which are manufactured
under good working conditions.
BY unanimous opinion the Colorado
state supreme court has upheld the
! constitutionality of the employers liza
| bility act passed by the legislature in
| 1901. Under this act an employer is
responsible for the death of an en-
p!oye by accident, even if it is caused
| by the negligence of a co-employe.
You don't hear any union men belly
| aching because of the rate bill. Very
few union men will lose telegraph
| franks" or annual railroad passes
next year. Indeed, few union men
know what a telegraph frank" is.
However, more Omaha union men
know what the union label looks like
this year.-Western Laborer.
The lace mill operatives are cred
tied with the first strike that has ever
occurred at Zion City, near Chicago,
recently. when they left their ma
chimes and demanded Is cents rack,
the same as was being paid the same
class of operatives in Philadelphia, in
stead of the ruling price of 10 cents
a rack that was being paid the Zionist
operatives.