The wageworker., 1906-12-21
GENERAL MENTION.

Interesting Items Mostly swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union label.
II it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog
ers & Perkins.
''Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
The Trenton IN. j. strikers in
local shirt factory have established
cooperative shirt factory.
South Bend Ond) Central Labor
Union has voted to maintain Sunday
reading room for members.
The eleventh annual convention of
the International Seamen's Union
meets in Boston on December Sd.
The labor organizations of America
gained 1904 new unions this year,
embracing membership of 100000 in
dividuals.
The International Cigarmakers'
Union has 100000 in the treasury.
The members pay the highest dues OF
any union in the country.
After strike of two months the
workers in the shipyards at Terni.
Italy, have won their demands, in
cluding shorter workday.
A labor party has been formed in
Toxic, Japan, and a strong manifesto
has been issued declaring that the
existing labor conditions are deplor
able.
One of the early records in the
United States of a protest against con-
vict labor occurred at a mechanics
convention held in Utica, N. Y, in
1884.
The International Brewery Workers
are going to strive to prevent the en-
ployment OF children in the bottling
works of breweries in Milwaukee and
st. Louis.
William B. Wilson, international
secretary, and Thomas d. Nichols.
pISSiuSht VI thC ChitCu ANAAAS
Workers of America, have been elect
ed to Congress in Pennsylvania.
Three firms at Baltimore, Nd,
against whom papers of Injunction
were filed for the illegal use of the
United Garment Workers of America
label are unionizing their factories.
The Reading Railway has granted
the increase in wages to it's engineers,
firemen, conductors, brakemen, yard
men and other employees of that class
on all divisions from to 10 per cent.
Smokers are agitated by the an
nouncement of strike among the pipe
makers of St. Cloud, in the Jura,
France Out of a total population of
1000, no fewer than $500 of the in
habitants are employed in pipe max
ing.
committe from the Butte Miners
Union has waited on the Amalgamated
Copper Company and laid before it an
increase of wages for all underground
men from 1915 to $500 day of eight
hours.
BY direction of President Roose-
welt, Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster has been
detailed by the Department of Com
merce and Labor to investigate the
condition of woman and child work
ers throughout the country.
A machine that will hurl coal into
the firebox of a locomotive at the rate
of 220 shovelfuls minute, If neces-
sary, will dispense with the labor of
firemen on many of the engines of the
Chicago & Northwestern road.
A metal trades confederation has
the men who work in the metal
trades from iron plate work to sill
versmiths 1t starts out with a mem
bership OF about 100000.
Chicago, H., may soon have milli
ners' union. A movement has been
begun in that direction and is meet
ing with fair support among the trim
mers. The plan contemplates the
union label in women's hats.
The recent action of the Postoffice
Department in fining two railway mail
clerks in Spokane, Wash, for public
criticism OF railway is resulting in
an organized effort among the clerks
to secure the right of freedom of
speech,
The campaign against child labor is
at last making itself felt among the
cotton mills of South Carolina. More
than two-thirds of the spinners of the
state have agreed to reduce the work
ing hours of employees from sixty-six
to sixty-four hours week and tc
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