The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-21

See that the union stamp is on every
pair of shoes.
In Augusta, Ga, organized workers
have secured shorter hours, better pay
and conditions than the unorganized.
Spinners are scarce in Little Falls,
n y, not enough workmen being on
hand to operate the factories in full.
Employees on the city light works
and waterworks OF Cumberland, Md,
have been granted the eight-hour day.
Iron molders, printers, plumbers.
bricklayers, timers, plasterers and hod
carriers are on strike in Bridgeport,
Conn.
Machinists of Williamsport have
won their strike for nine-hour day
and now have control of the appre-
tees.
The Round Oak stove works of
Dowagic, Mich, has instituted a lock-
out again all employees who join the
union.
Press reports stating laboring men
are needed in Topeka, Kan, are I'M
true. Plenty of workmen to supply
the demand.
Unionists of Louisville, KY, are
striving for an eight-hour day for en-
ployes on municipal work and $175
per day wages.
| After a short strike, street railway
employees of Allentown, Pa, secured
| their demands and had all discharged
men reinstated.
The increase in salaries of telegra
pliers by the Pennsylvania Lines will
cost that corporation about $4,000 per
,ucnth.
The Label Bureau CT Danville, ILL.,,
| is publishing a list Of union goods to
be had in that city, and otherwise
prosecuting vigorous label campaign
During the first six months of this
year the Amalgamated Association OF
Street Railway Employees has paid
$6,400 in death and disability benefits.
The open shop ice at Gary, Ind,
was broken by the Composition Roof
ers' union, who secured a closed shop
agreement. Gary is a new industrial
city.
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
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 colored unions of Jacksonville,
Fla, paraded on Labor day and made
a good showing. The parade was more
than half mile long and orderly
throughout.
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.
The Russian washwomen of Lincoln
have organized, thus showing that they
Workers, the Laundry Workers and
the Retail Clerks.
The non-union garment workers in
several of the notorious sweatshops of
New York have struck for better con-
ditiors. Many of them are applying
for membership in the unions
The Boston Store advertises that it
keeps open until 8 o'clock every even
ing. Union men and women who be-
lieve in the shorter work day should
take due note of this fact.
The molders employed at the Patch
foundry, at Streator, Ill.,, quit work
because of work being sent there from
struck shops in Milwaukee. No settle
nlent has yet been reached.
The Citizens Street Railway Co is
getting its line completed to Eleventh
and o and expects to be running cars
in few years. 1t will get it's power
from the Lincoln Gas and Electric
Light Co.
The garment workers have appealed
to President Roosevelt to prevent hun
dreds of children who ought to be in
kindergartens from working in fac
tories making uniforms for the United
States army.
A bill to reduce the hours of labor
in coal mines to eight hours per day
by the year 1909 recently passed it's
second reading in the British House
of Commons, on the understanding that
the government will appoint a COM
mittee to inquire into the economic
effects of the proposal
GOOD ADVICE.