The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-14

cured a nine-hour day and ten per
cent. increase in wages.
Bridge and structural iron workers !
have formed a new union in Hamilton,
Ont, and Vancouver, b. C.
The United Cloth. Hat and Cap |
Makers declared for international so. |
cialism at their recent convention.
Rumors are rife that big strike |
of engineers and firemen is brewing |
on the New York Central railroad.
A movement to organize the ma
Washington, D. c., is meeting with
success.
tive Potters, in session at Akron, O.,
recently decided to build home for
aged and INDECENT potters.
The annual convention of the Inter-
national Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees at Boston, Mass, elected
John Stuartz, of ST. Louis, president.
Labor unions of Cedar Rapids,
Mich, have candidate in the field
for state representative, and are work
ing hard to secure his election.
The International Association of
Steam. Hot Water and Power Pipe
Filters and Helpers are now affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor.
! The Amalgamated Leather Work
ers' Union of America has reaffrmed
| the idea of high dues and adopted
resolution in favor of the nine-houT
day.
i The Ohio Valley Trades Assembly
has appointed a committee to solicit
funds exclusively from organized Ia
| Dor for the erection of a suitable mon
ument to the memory of Augustus
Pollock.
| Miners of the Collie coal mines in
| West Australia have decided to ask
the government to introduce legisla-
ton providing for preference of en-
ployment in all mines to Australian
and British workers.
Mayor Buckingham, of Terre Haute,
Ind, has refused the request of the
Central Labor union to remove Pres
ident Reading, of the police board.
which was made on the ground that
he is fighting union labor
The earliest mention of strike
fund occurred in the strike of the
Partisan stocking weavers in 1924,
when a crown day was subscribed
for every striker and all blacklegs
were boycotted.
| English laborites are indignant at
the house of lords throwing out the
bill introduced by the labor party in
the house of commons to prevent the
importation of aliens under contract
during labor disputes.
An independent local of carpet me-
chanics has been organized in Pitts
burg, and are affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, by
whom they have been granted char.
ter.
Pile drivers and dock drivers of
Cleveland have affiliated with the
United Trades and Labor council.
They are asking for the nine-hour day
at present wages.
Mon
York, Boston and Chicago and Phila-
delphia, the average yearly salaries
of women teachers in elementary
schools is only 1855. In some of
the cities the average salary is less
than $500.
The Building Material Trades union
in Chicago is making determined eff
fort to organize the employees of the
National Couch company. The con-
Germ employs in the neighbcrhood OF
500 men, woodworkers and upholster-
ers, and few of them are members OF
union. M. j. Deutsch, secretary of
the council, who has the work in
charge, is a woodworker by trade. He
went to Chicago in 1897 from his ma
tive city of Racine, Wis, and worked
for two years in coffin factory. He
, was elected secretary of the Building
| Material Trades council in 1899, and
| has been reelected every term since
that time.
The coal miners of the West Vir-
. ginia Panhandle, which constitutes
, a large part of the Fifth Ohio district,
| oriYr To a.
tional miners organization on the
ground that they were badly treated
in the recent strike.
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} The Farmers union is growing at
| wonderful rate all over the south and
west Nothing can stay it, and the
; prospects are that within a year or
: such matter the organization will