The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-10-19

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city subscription of $4,000 has been
raised to start daily labor paper.
The British government has appoint
ed committee of scientists to inquire
into the probable economic effect of an
eight-hour working day in the mines.
The printing press machinists or
Philadelphia won recognition for theii
union and improved conditions in a
hot fight, which lasted only five days.
The Flint Glass Workers Union is
conducting vigorous campaign
against the Macbeth-Evans Co., manu-
facturers of lamp chimneys and gas
globes.
Il believe in good wages for good
work. The American laborer furnishes
the good work, let the American en-
ployer furnish the good wages. w. R.
Hearst.
The manager of the Dallas, Tex,
Opera House has signed with the In
ternational Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees for the season of
| 19O6-O7.
| The New South Wales Topographic
al Association. at the fifty-second half
yearly meeting, donated Ell IS. to the
organizing fund of the Political Labor
League.
| Non-union garment workers in many
of the shops of New York State have
struck for better conditions, and are
asking to be allowed to affiliate with
the union.
| A strike which has lasted five
months in the big shirt making factory
of Tutelman Bros & Faggen, Philadel-
phia, has been settled. Two members
of the firm resigned.
| The employees of White & Co.'S col
liery, at Vaudeville, Pa, who struck
for an advance in wages, have been
ordered back to work by the officers of
the United Mine Workers.
The Trenton, N. j., strikers in a
local shirt factory have established the
| COOPERATIVE Trenton Shirt Company.
The plant is fitted up with thirty-two
machines, motor power, etc.
Paul o. Stensland, the Chicago bank
convict, has been assigned to making
brooms in the Joliet prison. Demand
the union label on your brooms and
avoid the prison product.
The number of paupers relieved in
thirty-five selected urban districts in
Great Britain in one day in July, 1906,
correspond to rate of 209 per 10000
if the estimated population.
Property owners of San Francisco
have appointed a committee to confer
with local trades unionists and ma
terial men to arrange a scale of wages
and prices for the next two years.
The Cigarmakers' International I'm
ion has 495 locals throughout the coun-
try, with about 100000 in the treas
ury. The establishment of co-opera-
tive factories is being canvassed.
| John F. Tobin, for several years gen
eral president of the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union has been defeated TO"
reelection by Thomas B. Hickey, bust
ness agent of the Brockton Lasters'
Union.
| Captain Fraser, of the Japanese
steamer Humane Maru, was fined 6 100
in the Brisbane (Queensland) courts
anese crews to enter the Common
wealth.
| Thanks to the Union Label, there
is not a non-union broommaker in Gin
cinnati, and in some instances mem
bers of the union are working over
time to supply the demand for union
brooms.
a metal trades confederation has
been recently formed in England of
the men who work in the metal trades.
from iron plate work to silversmithing.
1t starts out with a membership Of
about 100000. ..-.
Robert Checking, superintendent of
the Ontario, (Can.) Labor Bureau, has
resigned that position in order to de-
vote his entire time to his duties as
national president of the Brotherhood
of Bookbinders.
Every political party in California has
declared for the strict maintenance of
the Chinese Exclusion Act, without
modification of any kind. and for the
extension of the act so as to exclude
Japs and Koreans.
The indianapolis Metal Trades AS
sociation hired the Adams detective
agency to break up the machinists
union in that city. This the Adams
. police failed to do, and they are now
; whistling for more pay.
The number of fatal accidents to
. British seamen reported in July, 1906
, was SO. The number reported for July
in the years 19O1-1905 ranged from 81
,, in 1904 to 126 in 1905, the mean fol-
the five years being IS.
India is having her share of indus