The wageworker., 1906-10-05

their demands and had all discharged
men reinstated.
The increase in salaries of telegraph
operators by the Pennsylvania lines
will cost that corporation about $70,-
00D per month.
During the first six months of this
year the Amaigamated Association of
Street Railway Employees has paid
$6,40o in death and disability benefits
| Hod carriers of Evanston. ILL.,, re-
ceived an advance of five cents an
hour without strike. Cement workers
also received an advance of five cents
per hour
A four days strike of ice handlers
and drivers of Toledo, O., brought
about complete victory. They Sc
cured an increase of 81 per week and
signed agreements.
Workmen in the building trades are
hocking to Norfolk, Va, on account OF
the jamestown exposition, which will
not need more men than that vicinity
can furnish for several months.
In Seattle. Wash. building laborers,
plumbers, painters and sheet metal
workers have secured increased wages
while painters and sign writer's OBJ
tanned the Saturday half holiday.
Several strikes and riots have taken
place among unorganized Greeks and
other cheap foreign labor in Ogden,
Utah, because OF the long hours and
labor
Word comes from Hawaii that there
lis a well-defined scheme on foot by
the plantation owners to get laborers
from Europe. Already thousand Por
tuguese families are being imported
by the Sugar Planters association.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Inter
national Union, from January, 1904, to
March, 1906, paid out 100000 in sick
and death benefits and $4,000 in aid
of strikes There was at time of re-
port balance of 100000 in the treas
ury.
The Indiana Supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the act requir
! liG COll-
panies and firms to pay their employees
semi-monthly in lawful money.
The Clerks are organizing in Fort
Smith, Ark.
Employment in the British building
trades shows general improvement
as compared with year ago.
The Musicians have chartered new
unions in Tifin, O.; Park City, Utah;
Sisterville, w. Va; Riverton, Wash
and Hot Springs, Ark.
: Practically all the large cotton mills
in New England are paying increased
wages to their employees In most
instances advances were voluntary
Glass Workers of Chicago are on
strike to maintain union shop. A
: new union has been formed in Toledo,
Ohio
Chicago molders are asking why it
is that those molding machines which
the foundry men say are SO successful
were not introduced before the strike
The men doubt that the bosses were
so much in love with workingmen that
they kept them employed when they
could get machinery to do the work.
half dozen unclean members have
framed so-called American Cigar
makers Union in Cleveland, and i'm
mediately proceeded to issue bogus
label. They will be fought in the
A courts to the limit.
M1nhiniStS NO lie how
gained all but two shops, and in Will
Transport, Pa, their demands have
been granted.
: The Machinists' Union and the Iron
Molders' Union of Toledo have pub
licly challenged the Metal Trades AS.
sociaticn to an open debate regarding
the strikes in that city and promise
y to pay all expenses.
= The printing press machinists OF
: Philadelphia won recognition for their
union and improved conditions in a
: hot fight which lasted only five days
The newest label out is one OH shoe
laces. Ask for the label on all your
wearing apparel. The label is labors
guarantee.
The Flint Glass Workers Union is
conducting vigorous campaign
against the Macbeth-Evans company
n manufacturers of lamp chimneys and
l. gas globes.
The difficulty between the boiler
makers and the Teachout company al
e Cleveland has been adjusted.
The tobacco trust has worked out
l. an insurance system for it's employees
Instead of paying them decent wages
equal to the wages paid during the
last year of his or her life not exceed
y iEg $500, when they die. A big-heartet
z corporation, truly.