The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-02

question has been fought for eight
years.
The N. Y, n H. & H. railroad has
suggested the introduction of the
bonus or piece system of work at it's
Readville car shops. The organiza-
ton of the men has voted against &C.
cepting any such plan. Conferences
are now being held ON the subject in
an effort at adjustment.
The girls on strike for the last fif-
teen weeks against the pictorial &C
tons of the firm of Vine & Lavine of
Trenton, n. j., are working in the CO.
operative plant which has been started
by their friends and themselves. They
have proved true to unionism. They
deserve success in their new venture.
The Newspaper and Mail DELIVERIES
Union of New York donated the mag
nificent sum of $1,000 to aid the locked
cut photographers apprentices of that
city. President Coakley of the Ma
tional Union of Lithographers' Appren-
tees and Feeders addressed a large
meeting of newspaper and mail deliv-
erers.
The Importance of trades unions in
their work for general good is recog-
nized by the French government to
such an extent that it subsidies those
having an out-of-work benefit. The
government pays 16 per cent of such
benefits paid by local unions and "a
per cent if the union is national in it's
scope.
A thousand men will be kept busy at
winter. They will construct a 6OO-foot
steamer for the Pittsburg Steamship
company a 552-foot boat for the Haw-
good fleet and one of equal length for
the Acme Steamship company. The
latter will be duplicate of the James
Wallace
Twelve hours in winter and fourteen
in summer was a fair average days
work in the sixteenth century In
Lyons in s1571 the printers worked
from o'clock in the morning till or
8 o'clock in the evening. In other
trades the working hours were often
from 4 O'Clock in the morning till 9
O'Clock at night or from to 10.
After a strike of two months the
workers in the shipyards at TERM,
Italy, have won their demands, includ-
ing shorter workday. They fought Il
band of armor plate thieves, who have
long robbed the country as well as the
corrupt politicians in control of the
government, who, as might be expect
ed, were hostile toward the strikers.
The charge is made by union label
boomers in the Canadian northwest
that women's shoes which bear the
name of w. l.. Douglas. but are not
made at the Douglas factory are being
placed on the market. They are made
by non-union firm at Lynn, Mass,
shipped to the Douglas company and
sent out by them as Douglas shoes.
Reports submitted to the Central
Labor Union of Spokane at it's last
meeting show that the wages of boiler
makers on railroads have been in
creased from 371ac to SO cents an
hour the scale of helpers being raised
from s2.12 to 1925 day.
The national convention of the In
dustrial Workers of the World held
at Chicago, has split on the rock of
socialism and the delegates from the
Western Federation of Miners, repre-
senting $4,000 miners, have bolted
The seceders will organize under an
other name.
All demands made by the Coopers'
International Union, representatives
of which have been in conference with
the Coopers' Employers association at
Indianapolis, Ind, have been granted
and contract for one year was
signed. The most important conces
sion is an increase from 271sc nhour
to 3 Ocents for New York. st. Louis,
Cincinnati and Louisville.
Mass meetings of jewelry employees
were held in Chicago at which COM
mittees were appointed to visit the
fifty-seven jewelry manufacturing con-
Germs and demand an eight-hour day
at once, with the alternative of a
strike. The manufacturers have form
ed an association and plan for resist
ing the union. The principal jewelry
industry in Chicago is the manufacture
of wedding rings.
The Building Trades Council of San
Francisco has had plans made for Il
new labor temple to be erected in that
city, which will be one of the hand
soonest and best equipped structures of