The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-06-15

| The Star force puts up a lack pot
on all the Lincoln ball games, and the
man who guesses the total score rakes
in the money. To date gentleman
who is connected with the Star only
by reason of handling the advertising
of local firm has raked in the most
of the money.
E. R. Stackab1e, collector of customs
az Honolulu, has sailed from that port
on six months leave of absence, dur
ing which he will act as agent of the
territorial board of immigration and
visit the Azores and Italy for the pur-
pose of securing immigrants to supply
the demand for labor
The United Labor League of Ala
bama at a meeting in Birmingham
decided to put out a labor ticket for
all state and county offices at the
election this year. The league is made
uD of representatives from every labor
union in Alabama, and this is the first
effort of the organization to enter poll
tics
The text of bill which William
Crooks, labor member of parliament,
England, will try to have passed is
published. 1t proposes that railway
and steamship companies shall afford
free transportation for members of
both houses of parliament between
their usual residences, their constitu-
encies and London.
Since the successful strike Of the
grand opera chorus girls in New York
several weeks ago, their union has
been growing rapidly. The new union
is known as No. Ia of the Actors Ma
tional Protective Union, chartered by
the American Federation of Labor It's
members include Germans, French.
English and Italian singers.
Two thousand organizers for the
Chicago (Ill) Federation of Labor
have been in every factory and shop
in the city consolidating voters into
enc gigantic political movement for a
labor party that will stand for the
: rights and needs of the working class.
|
completed at a meeting of the fedora
ton.
| In all probability new political
J party will be launched in st. Paul this
fall as the result of meeting of trade
unionists held to discuss the matter.
By an overwhelming majority it was
agreed that the proper steps should
7 be taken to establish workingman's
political party in the fall compaign,
and committee was appointed to pre-
3 rare a suitable declaration of princi-
< pies.
: In thirteen years, since 1890, wages
have risen on an average 21S per cent
in Germany, 10 per cent in Great Brit
< ain, and POT per cent in the United
q States. There have been industries
in which the rise Of wages has been
: considerably higher, but figures give
r approximate the general average. The
apparent superiority of American
e wages is, however, fully counteracted
: by the higher cost of living here.
> An old labor law in England in
force in 1888 contained the following
clauses: Any tailor who Joined a
union was to be sent to jail for two
: months. Tailors must work from
: o'clock in the morning until at night.
Wages were not to be higher than 48
cents a day. Each tailor was to be
3 allowed cents for breakfast. Any
: tailor who refused to work was to be
imprisoned for not more than two
: months. If any employer paid higher
y wages he was to be fined $25 and the
workmen who took the increase were
g to be sent to Jail for two months.
There has recently been issued by
S the labor department of the British
board Of trade a report on strikes and
: lockouts in the United Kingdom in
: 1904. From a statement of strikes
: and lockouts, 1900 to 1905, it appears
. that the number Of disputes resulting
in favor Of the employees was, for each
D. of the years shown, less than the num-
Der in which the employers were sue
cessful. The number compromised
: also exceeds the number in which the
: employees succeeded, though, except in
1900, it is less the number decided in
favor of the employers. The total
numbers of disputes for the five-year
period was 2,473, 25.3 per cent of which
the employees won, while the employ
ers were successful in 49,