The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-07
Next I. T. U. convention at Hot

] Springs Ark.
The Printers Home was not white
washed" during the convention, but
the Citizens Alliance was. In Los
Angeles the Citizens Alliance is a
real bad thing, but in Colorado Springs
it is good thing.
At the convention of the Window
Glass Cutters and Flatteners' Associa-
ton at Pittsburg, action was taken
looking to the amalgamation of the
cutters and fatteners of the country
into one organization.
The Roberts-W icks company of
Utica, N. Y, find it impossible to sup
ply their factory with hands to take
ers and are losing thousands of dol
largs as a consequence.
The United Garment Workers of
| America have won their strike in
Legum's factory at Baltimore, Md.
The United Garment Workers Of
America will hold their international
convention at Toronto, Canada, be-
ginning August 81.
In Berlin negotiations are in pro-
gress between employers organizations
in Germany and Austria, having in
view an international union for the
protection of employers interests
against organized labor. .ne plan ap-
pears to be to give financial assistance
to companies whose employees strike.
The grain elevator business in the
suburbs of South Chicago was brought
to standstill recently when $50 en-
ployes of the elevators there went on
strike, demanding an increase of wages
to 35 cents an hour from the present
scale of 81 to 80 cents. Six firms are
affected by the strike.
twenty-five Italian laborers who
were mixed up in the recent strike of
freight handlers in Buffalo are out on
a strike at the plant Of the Lake City
Stone company, Dunkirk, because one
of their number was discharged for
alleged laziness and Manager Shelton
refused to take the man back.
Organized labor scored it's first sub
stantial victory in systematic war
fare against representatives who op-
pose legislation in it's interest by de-
feating E. Spencer Blackburns effort
to get control of tho republican ma
chine in North Carolina. Representa-
tive Blackburn voted against labor
measures in the recent session of con-
gress.
Samuel NJ. Hendricks of Los Angeles,
Cal, is no doubt the oldest young
member in the Bricklayers' union.
He is now 80 years and months of
age, and he was made a member Of
the union a few months ago. He was
contractor for twenty years, but is
now back at, the trade and member
OF the craft.
The proposed Montreal (Canada)
labor temple, which, it is estimated,
will cost in the neighborhood of $780,
600, will be made the headquarters of
the newly organized Canadian labor
party. Every city in Canada will
place labor candidates in the field in
the next general and provincial cleo
items.
The United Transfers of America,
the new rival of the International
Brotherhood of Transfers. has elected
the following officers: President, New
ton w. Evans, Bloomington, ILL.,. vice.
presidents, G. w. Prescott and Val
Hoffman of New York, and five others;
general secretary-treasurer, W. H.
Ashton, New York
Three hundred and fifty telephone
girls of Chicago struck against going
into the exchange by a rear door, to
reach which they had to traverse a
back alley and the rear of several sa
looms. The public soon awoke to the
fact that the girls were in the right
and the company now permits front
door entrance.
East Liverpool, Ohio, with a popula-
ton of $4,000, is one of the most
strongly organized cities in the United
States. True, every craft is not or
ganized, yet those that are WELD
mighty influence, and it's Trades Coun-
Gil is noted far and wide as being
nest progressive and up-to-date in its
handling of all questions dealing with
labor.