The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-12-21
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD
Items of General Interest for the Busy Work
ngman and His Friends.

Middletown, N. Y.-Dairy farmers
recently organized a union.
East Liverpool, GA large federal
| labor union of over 400 members was
organized recently.
New York-The Garment Workers
union is the largest in the United
States, which is composed chiefly of
women.
Philadelphia.-The United Mine
Workers last month elected Is mem
bers of the next Pennsylvania 1egis-
lature.
San Francisco.-Carpente union
No. %, of this city, the largest union
of the craft in the world, has 2,S25
members on it's roll.
Boston.-The Chandelier Workers
union announces that it has estab-
lished the nine-hour work day in every
chandelier shop in the city.
New York.-Seventeen new local
unions have been formed, by the
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
Alliance in the last quarter.
/ New York.-The Newspaper and
Mail Deliverers' union local donated
i $1,000 to aid the locked out litho-
graphers apprentices of this city.
Regina.-A branch of the Journey
men Stonecutters' Association of
North America has been organized in
the new province of Saskatchewan,
Canada.
Spokane, Wash.-The local typo
graphical union has contributed lit
tie more than $4,000 to the eight
hour strike fund of the international
union since October, 1905.
Trenton, N. J.-Cornelius Ford,
president of the New Jersey state Fed
Grafton of Labor, recently charged
that wholesale violations of the child
labor law prevail throughout New
Jersey.
New York-The yard conductors
and brakeman connected with the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
having been refused an increase of
wages, voted to strike. Three thou
sand men will be affected.
London.-As a result of the nego-
tiatlons that took place between the
employers in the engineering and al
lied trades in Manchester, England,
and their work people, 10000 men will
receive an advance of 25 cents week
Vancouver-The Hindoo coolie
problem has now become of great i'm
port in western Canada. The govern
ment has sent an agent from the i'm
migration department to this city and
Victoria to investigate. Hundreds
are arriving, and it is said that 10000
are now camped at Hongkong await
ing transportation to the western
! coast of Canada.
Boston-The wages of about $4,000
operatives in cot. IN rrffffp- i.i~ sottea,aorf
@.sssvArngrand and western Massachus
etts were advanced by at least sever
and one-half per cent. Outside OF
Fall River and other print CLOTH
towns. which raised the pay of theil
$4,000 hands, the 'scaetla nj which tt
4 date have decided to advance the
wage schedule base the percentage
on that adopted by the New Bedford
millmen.
Calumet Mich-Between 1000 anf
5000 men, the greatest number o.
whom are employed in and arounG
Calumet, will participate in five pei
cent. rise in wages effective January
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the Osceola, Isle Royale, Ahmeek
North Kearsarge, Wolverine, South
2 Kearsarge and Mohawk mines. The
increase is announced to the employees
of the Lake Superior Smelling com
pany's plant at Dollar bay.
Muskegon, Mich-The Pere Mar
Quette railroad has raised the wages
of all employees in the Muskego1
shops six cents day
. Springfield, Ill.-Word has been re
ceived by the clerks of the Wabash
system, chiefly those who are EN-
ployed in the freight department, thai
their demand for an increase in sal
airy has been refused. The manage
ment holds that the business of the
company has not increased enough tt
Justify an increase at the present
Eime.
Jackson, Mich.-About 200 1aborers
employed in the Michigan Contra
shops were on strike for about two
hours for an increase of wages. The
recent general increase for switch
men and other organized employees O.
l the system did not extend to them
The trouble was quelled by state
ment by Master Mechanic Parks tha
he would present the grievance tt
, higher officials. The men are unor
gained, but stand pretty well to
gether in the demand for more
wages. They comprise helpers ant
the chain gangs and other common
laborers, and are paid in the neigh
borhood of S1.5O day
New York-The existence of tn
berculosis among workingmen has let
nearly every national union in the
American Federation of Labor to con
slider plans for the establishment o.
homes for their consumptive members
similar to that of the printers