The wageworker., 1906-09-14
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly swiped from
Bright Labor Pape:1.

The union label-thatS al.
Look for the union label.
IL it is not labeled, refuse it,
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
Detroit street car employees have re-
ceived an advance wage scale.
The nachinists are endeavoring to
organize a metal trades council.
The demand for bill posters in Chi
cago is greater than the supply.
A strike of 200 PAYERS in New York
city resulted in victory for the men.
An increase of per cent has been
secured for the spinners of the coun-
try.
Carriage Workers have been grant
ed nine-hour day in Toronto. Can
ada.
A movement is contemplated to es-
tablish a standard rate of wages for
PAYERS.
Cigar Makers have recently char
tered new unions in Manitoba and
Wisconsin.
The Sheet Metal Workers have won
their years strike against the open
shop at Bridgeport
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
Printers of Fort Smith, Ark, are
still out for the eight-hour day. The
clerks are organizing.
Asbestos Workers in New Orleans
have obtained an increase of so cents
day and eight hours.
Good trade conditions, eight-hour
day and fortnightly pay are being en-
joyed by paving cutters.
Glass sworkers are striking for the
maintenance of the union shop in
Chicago and intend to win.
The unions of Los Angeles, Cal, in
creased their membership Is per cent
during the past twelve months.
The Slate Cutters are making an at
tempt to organize the members of the
craft in Virginia and Maine.
Employment in the British building
trades shows general improvement
as compared with year ago.
The wage standard of last year is
being maintained by the Lathers.
Their membership is increasing.
The British Admiralty is instituting
a universal 4S-hour week for the en-
pioyes in the government dockyards.
An effort is being made to thorough
ly organize the Watch Case Engrav-
ers in the United States and Canada.
Tobacco shippers of New Haven.
Conn. have secured an increase in
wages ranging from 10 to 100 per cent.
The Foster Artists association is re-
ported to have been granted charter
Ivy the American Federation of Labor.
Asbestos Workers of Boston, Mass,
recently secured two-year agree
ment and an advance of % cents pc,
day.
The carpenters of Birmingham. Ala.
have secured the signing of their
scale and an increase of five cents an
hour.
Organized labor in France is turn
ing its attention toward enforcing the
Saturday half holiday. Many strikes
are in progress.
Chicago railroad rate clerks must
make good from their salaries all
losses to the roads cccasioned by in
correctly quoting rates.
Boston & Maine and the New York.
New Haven G Hartford railroad
freight handlers have both been grant
ed the So day wage rate.
Five thousand male wage earners
are out of work at the present time in
Melbourne, Australia, and $4,000 peo-
pie in Victoria are existing below pow
erty line.
The first national union to be en-
trenched in the government service
was recently organized among the
clerks of the postofIice department OF
Chicago
Railway employees in Ireland CON-
plain of inadequate wages. excessive
hours of labor and arbitrary and vexa-
tious treatment on the part of the
Ender-bosses.
The farmers in the vicinity of Hot
Springs, Ark, took part in the Labo;
Day parade, and at the present they
are among the staunchest in demand
ing the union label.
The Car Workers have recently woE
strikes in Ashtabula, O., and Buffalo
N. Y. The demands made were fol