The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-10-19

Seats on the municipal bodies will in
| future be contested by representatives
of the" Labor Council.
Mass meeting of worllingmen, c. L.
| U. hall, 1884 o street, next Thursday
night. Be there!
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
| men has appropriated $1,000 for the
benefit of the Western Federation of
| Miners.
| strenuously opposing the introduction
of coolie labor, on the ground that the
climatic conditions are such that
heavy death rate is sure to follow.
The barge Charles Spademan, which
| arrived in Milwaukee last Thursday
with a crew of non-unionists, had union
men on its return trip. Longshoremen
refused to unload the boat, and that
settled it.
| A half dozen unclean members have
| framed a so-called American Cigar
| makers Union in Cleveland, and i'm
mediately proceeded to iusse a bogus
label They will be fought in the
courts to the limit.
The Machinists' Union and the Iron
holders Union of Toledo have pub
licly challenged the Metal Trades
Association to an open debate regard
| ing the strikes in that city and prom
| Use to pay all expenses
The Melbourne (Victoria) Trades
Hall Council has resolved to protest
against Premier Bent's proposal to
start the manufacture of wire netting
| with prison labor; also to ask the Par
liamentary Labor party to take &C
| siol.
1t is reported that the Brisbane
(Queensland) Waterside Employers
Association will probably grant the
Waterside Workers Unions claim fol
rs. per hour instead of Is Cd now paid,
for work performed after 1 p. m. on
| Saturdays.
The Bricklayers' Union, the largest
organization in point of membership
| not affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor outside of the rail-
way unions, is again taking a refer
endum vote on the question of affilia-
ton with that body.
| German-American Typographical I'm
ion No of Philadelphia succeeded in
having agreements for the eight-hour
day, with general increase in wages
and price and one-half for overtime
with every employer in that branch OF
the trade in Philadelphia.
| Accepting contracts from the gov
eminent with the word rush" stamped
en- them, the William Cramp Shipbuild-
ing Co. and the New York Shipbuild-
ing Co. are now engaged in a friendly
warfare as to which will finish a
16,O0O-ton battleship in the shortest
time.
Special provision was made at the
recent convention OF the International
Typographical Union for members who
through old age are unable to do the
work prescribed by the union scale.
The conditions under which they may
work is left to the respective local
unions of which they are members.
Chicago, ILL.,, Undertakers' Associa-
ton this week prevented for an hour
the burial of union man by the under
taking establishment. 1t was claimed
that the deceased was indebted to a
member of the association. Union Of
ficials deny this and claim the affair
was one of many attempts to drive
them out of business.
A correspondent in Cincinnati
writes: The metal polishers are
steadily going to the front We
: have signed agreements with five
! shops for a nine-hour workday and
A minimum scale of $3.50 per day
IN one case the wages have been in
creased to S275, and in the stove shop
it is $3.50. There is a strike here in