The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-27
himself declared bankrupt to avoid
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himself declared bankrupt to avoid
payment of his debts.
By vote of 100 to 20 the Massa-
chusetts house passed bill to be en-
crossed which makes eight hours the
working day for all employees on state.
county or city work.
| Twelve hundred members of Elec-
trical Workers Union, No. 134, of Chi
cago, stood in line from noon until
dark for the purpose of paying dues
and an additional 81 each, which was
voted to the widow of a member who
died as the result of injuries received
| twenty-five hundred men are idle at
Newark, O., because of the shutdown
of Wehrle Company's stove foundry.
President Wehrle, when asked to ex-
plain the action, pointed to the crowd
ed warehouses, thus tntimating that
this might be the cause Of the shut
down.
An effort to form dual union of
|ironworkers in New York has been
abandoned. The men who have been
arrested for dynamiting and other law
less conduct, were, 1t is alleged, placed
in the union by the bosses to do this
dirty work, in order to turn sympathy
against the union.
| There are four troops, so men in
each troop. stationed in the hard coal
region of Pennsylvania as so-called
agents of the state, but really strike
breakers, as was recently shown dur
ing the small strike at Lebanon iron
mines. The miners have dubbed them
Pennsylvania Cossacks." 80
The singular fact that thousands Of
children Of school age have residences
on coal barges in the East or North
Rivers has been brought to the atten-
ton of the New York Board Of Educa-
ton. By an investigation of the facts
it is learned that from 1000 to 1000
children of school age have residences
on the coal barges alone, and simply
from the transitory condition Of their
residence have not had the least OPP
portunity to acquire even the rudi-
ments of an education
Frank johnson has deserted the
printing business and has taken up the
life of tiller of the soil. He is man
aging ranch of forty acres southwest
lof town, and says he planted his pota-
toes on the point system. He will cut
his wheat when 1t is forty pleas high.
A The Cincinnati Trades Union Ath-
lletic association, which has placed the
Labor Baseball League of twelve clubs
in line, intends to unionize bowling,
boxing, football, track and field ath-
letics. The purchase of large park,
in which to hold athletic meets and
: contests, is also planned.
The National Child Labor Commit
tee has issued bulletin in which it is
requested that all those friendly to
: the movement to abolish child labor
: should Immediately request senators
l end representatives from their states
to vote in favor of Senate Bill No. 446z
> with the amendments proposed by thu
Child Labor Committee.
Announcement was made recently
by F. H. Harzbecker, general secretary
of the Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers' International Union, that 1906 !.
the organizations jubilee year and ar
rangements are being made by mum
Der of local unions for its celebration
The formation of the union was mad
at a convention in Pittsburg in 1886.
B. Roselli, merchant in the Lo
Angeles, Cal, market, who was tn
first person to be convicted under tn
:. state child labor law in that city, wa
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-, prison as a penalty. Roselli was con
= victed of working his twelve year-ol
boy. Other cases Of a similar natur
n are now on trial in the city's courts
4, and one or two well-known bushes
70 men are involved.
i "The coming convention of the Irol
/. and Steel Workers of Cincinnati prom
\. ises to bring to light some interesting
70 history in the affairs of the once pow
It erful organization. It is said that Ger
n tain men high in the organization will
detail the inside history of the last few
Q years for the benefit of the representa-
n DO put in a different position from
# what they are in at the present time. ,
n Pittsburg Dispatch.