The wageworker., 1906-02-16
GENERAL NEWS
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of a lot of bricklayers.
Electrical Workers of Henderson.
Ky, will apply for a charter
s. j. Kent Is in Laramie, Wyo., look
ing after some business interests.
Rogers & Perkins carry the largest
line of union made shoes in the city.
Peoria Painters have increased the
wage scale from 80 to 40 cents an hour.
Trouble Is brewing between New
York coal teamsters and their employ
ers.
The largest line of union made shoes
in Lincoln is carried by Rogers & Per-
kins.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are made In
Lincoln by union men. Neville &
Gartner.
Eyerybody's Magazine has declared
itself in opposition to the Typograph-
ical Union.
Two hundred boilegsnakeYs are on
strike at Superior, Wis. for an IN
crease of wages.
Smoke Blue Ribbon" cigars. Union
made. Sold by all dealers Made by
Neville & Gartner.
Hod Carriers and Building Laborers
in Peoria have increased the wage
scale to So day.
Typographical Union Ball, Thurs
day evening, February %. Tickets 81,
including refreshments.
Col C. B. Edgar, manager OF the
we're attack OF tonsilitis.
Boston labor leaders are insisting on
the union label being used on the
schools books of that city.
The death roll of union printers pub
lished in the Typographical Journal
for February numbers 61
Union engravers have been locked
out of the Hammersmith Engraving
company's shops in Milwaukee.
Decatur has six union men who are
aspirants for political Office. TWO OF
them are candidates for sherif.
There are 124 manufacturers using
IN the United States and Canada.
Colorado State Federation of Labor
has taken up the questioning of can
didates on the referendum proposition.
The cold snap made work for lot
of ice cutters and haulers, and also
gave little comfort to the coal deal
ers.
Chicago Steamfitters have signed a
new agreement for three years from
April /, when the present contract ex-
pires.
Ieatherworkers of Wichita, Kan
have signed a scale of prices with
better agreement for 1906 than ever
before.
San Francisco Pressmens Union do
mated $4,000 to the pressmen of Los
Angeles wSo are out for the eight
hour day.
The strike of Boilermakers in Buffa
10 is looking more favorable, the EN-
ployers not being able to get compe
tent help.
Brewery Workers of Henderson
KY, who have been jurisdiction men,
bers, will have charter of their own
this year,
The sheriff of Pine Bluffs, Ark, was
asked by planters of Wabaselka to pre-
vent negroes from forming trades
unions.
The Woodruff Collins Co. again has
the contract for printing THE Com
moner Condensed" This means lot
Of work for printers, pressmen and
bookbinders.
The strike OF the Boilermakers in
the shops of the Buffalo. Rochester &
Pittsburg Railroad at Du Bois, Minn.,
has been settled,
The International Brotherhood OF
Steam Shovel and Dredgemen is a
new organization lately affiliated with
the A. F. Of L.
The San Francisco Labor Council
has issued Union Labor Calendar
containing fac-similes OF thirty-three
labels, buttons, shop cards, etc.
Maryland legislature has reported
favorably bill providing that none
but registered voters shall be en-
ployed on city work in that state.
The Munsey publications, including
the Argosy, Munsey's Magazine and
the All-Story Magazine, have granted
the eight-hour day to the printers.
San Francisco Building Trades
Council has announced that it's mem
bers will not work on buildings con-
tracted for by unfair New York firms
The Retail Clerks Union in Calves
ton, Texas, is one Of the most progress
sive unions in that state. Every store
OF any consequence employs union.
Onicers in San Francisco have dis.
covered an illegal cigar factory, of large
dimensions operated and owned BY
Cinnamon. in violation of the fedora
law As
The National Association of Plumb
ing inspectors is a new organization
which will endeavor to secure uniform
plumbing regulations in every city anf
state.
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