The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-02
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

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.
The tailors are winning concessions
all over the country, and without much
trouble.
Railway mail clerks of the Southern
Pacific are out on strike for better
conditions.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
Brewery workers in Bay City report
everything settled up and the label
back on the kegs again.
Telegraph operators on the Iowa
Central railway have been granted an
increase in wages of from $3.50 to SIS a
month.
San Diego, Cal, labor temple trus-
tees are advertising in local papers
inviting non-union men to use the read
ing and club rooms.
officials of the Wabash are con-
fronted with demands by the newly
organized union of railway clerks for
shorter hours and higher wages.
National Organizer Burton of the
Street Car Mems Union, says that or
2anization is in flourishing condition
and gives promise of being successful
in every way.
The Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers'
International Union has changed it's
rules to enable wood fathers to accept
a lower rate of wages while learning
metal lathing.
Governor C. J. Bell of Vermont, in
his farewell message to the legislature,
declared that the most serious problem
which the state has to face at this
time is the lack of help.
The Trenton, N. J., strikers in a
local shirt factory have established the
cooperative Trenton Shirt company,
The plant is fitted up with thirty-two
machines, motor power, etc.
The shipyard blacksmiths have made
a demand on the members of the New
York and New Jersey branch of the
National Metal Trades association for
an advance in wages of 10 per cent.
The employees of White & Co.'s col
lery, at Wadesville, Pa, who struck
for an advance in wages, have been
ordered back to work by the officers
of the United Mine Workers.
The number of paupers relieved in
thirty-five selected urban districts in
Great Britain in one day in July, 1906,
corresponding to a rate of 200 per $780,
900 of the estimated population.
Every political party in California
has declared for the strict mainten-
ance of the Chinese exclusion act,
without modification of any kind, and
for the eAtention of the act so as to
exclude Japs and Koreans.
President Clarence Haighton, of the
Galveston, Texas, Musicians Union
has been delegated authority by Presi-
ident Weber of the American Fedora
tion of Musicians, to enroll the local
colored musicians.
Seventy-eight per cent of the print
ers in Austria belong to the Printers
Union. At one time the largest print
ing Office in the world was in Vienna,
and the type used had a large percent
age of silver in it.
THE big building trades strike in
Winnipeg has been settled. The union
shop is granted in all lines, except that
the bosses of other crafts refused to
interfere with the plumbers bosses
who are battling for the open shop.
The Canadian Pacific railway man.
agement, following conferences with
representatives of the Machinists' I'm
All increase of 10 per cent in the wages
of all machinists employed in the east
ern division.
IL is not the opposition to the trade
union movement that constitutes the
union burden. 1t is not the attacks
OF it's enemies. 1t is not the malicious
iibels and ISLANDERS which are heaped
wholesale upon the organization and
its officers and members.
The plasterers closed their conven-
ton at Toronto on the 4th inst. New
Orleans was chosen as the next meet
ing place. w. A. O'Keefe of st. Louis,
was appointed editor of the new jour
nal. BY unanimous vote the plas-
terers decided that membership shall