The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-28
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting .tcne Mostly Swiped from
R.i3,a. Labor Papers.


Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union iaLel-that's al.
COX for the union Label.
IL il is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
crs e Perkins
Woman coos of New York are
;"sming a union.
''ile layers have secured % per
ct.nt increase in Boston, Mass.
The German Metal Workers Union
l. ihe styoages. union in the world.
al:l workers Of Mascouta, H., are
iheson!y uaorpanized workmen in that
c;ag..
Powder workers of Marion, H., re
sisted q cut in wages and are working
81; last years scale.
An injunction issued against the
meat cutters Of Louisville, KY, was
d,amissed in court.
blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
Wages of union men in Burnside,
Ky.. have increased about y per cent
over those OF last year.
Employees on the city light WORKS
and water works of Cumberland. Md.
have been granted the eight-hour day.
unionists of Logansport, Ind, are
lighting the attempt to dispose OF the
city light plant to a private corpora
lion.
The Northumberland (England
Coal Cancellation Board has decided
to raise the miners wages by By per
cent
The Foster Artists Association is
reported to. have been granted char
ter by the American Federation of
Labor.
The machinists have won clean
closed shop victory in Philadelphia in
five printing and binding machinery
factories.
Electrical workers of Grand Rapids,
Mich, with the exception Of three
shops, have been granted the eight
hour day.
The labor organizations of America
gained 1,204 new unions last year. en-
TRACING a membership of 100000 In
d;yiduals. ,.
Press reports stating laboring men
are needed in Topeka, Kan, are I'M
true. Plenty of workmen to supply
the demand.
Seventeen new local unions have
been formed by the Amalgamated
sheet Metal Workers Alliance i'll the
hast quarter.
All building contractors of St Au-
sustine, Fla, have signed agreements
with the carpenters for closed shops
and eight hour day.
During the first six months of 1906
a;ty-three divisions of street railway
employees effected written agreements
with employing companies.
Seventy-five molders at the Penn
sy,vania Engineering company's works
~ New Cast;e, Pa, are on strike fof
aa increase i.cm SO to $3.50 per day.
The. Label Bureau of DanviHe. ILL.,.
is publishing list of union goods to
be had in that city, and otherwise
prosecuting vigorous label cam
eaign.
The agitation for an advance in the
wages of sheeting weavers employed
ut Oldham, England, has resulted in
an increase of per cent being con-
ceded.
Quite an increase of wages was Sc
cured by the tobacco shippers of New
Haven, Conn.-10 to 100 per cent and
about nine hours decrease in time per
week.
Even at the increased rate of wages
it is not easy to get spinners and weav-
ears enough to allow the New England
cotton mills TO fill all the orders they
night get.
The gross earnings of all the rail-
roads of the United States for June
up to July LIST show an increase of 10
per cent over the corresponding tina
year ago.
NJ. j. Mulvaney, Pittsburg iron
Moulder, now residing at Vandegrift,
has. after experimenting twenty years,
discovered process for the tempering
OF pure copper.
Although the federal government of
Australia is favorable to arranging a
commercial treaty with Japan, serious
legal difficulties intervene, one being
that the treaty prepared by the Jap
anesc requires a mutual freedom of
access to each country by the people
..f the other country. But this is inl-
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