The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-07-20

President McSOrley OF the LatherS
has just finished a successful organiz-
ing trip.
Four hundred miners will return to
work at the Kettle Creek coal mines,
Bitumen, Mich.
The master plumbers association of
New York has agreed to pay the jour-
neymen plumbers S5.25 day begin
ming July 1.
The Electrical Workers of Grand
Rapids, Mich, with the exception of
three shops, have been granted the
eight-hour day.
BARRIERS of Buffalo, N. Y, have been
granted an increase of $3.50 per week.
They have also been granted an after
noon and evening off each week.
The block coal field of Indiana and
Ohio have entered into agreement
with the unions to pay the 1908 scale
for two years.
Typographical Union No. (German)
of Cleveland, O., has succeeded in
establishing a new rate of wages in
which the minimum is SIS per week.
No trouble was experienced in getting
the rate.
The factories of Detroit, Mich, that
employ girls are considerably handi-
capped by the marriage epidemic. In
the American Lady Corset company
factory twenty-five girls have recently
married The Hamilton Carhart over
all factories have also suffered.
Hardwood Finishers and Marble
Workers of Kansas City, Mo-, have
organized. Upholsters and Mattress
Makers are forming unions.
Outside of eastern Ohio and parts
of central Pennsylvania the suspen-
sion of work inaugurated by the United
Mine Workers is thing of the past.
| Pickets from the Structural Iron
Workers in Cleveland are handling
strike breakers as fast as they arrive.
The trust is badly handicapped, while
| nearly all the union men are en-
played on fair jobs.
A committee of the National Civic
Federation of America has arrived at
Queenstown, England, for the purpose
of studying the question of municipal
ownership and its effect on labor con-
ditions.
The Office of the board of appeals of
the International Union of Carriage
and Wagon Workers will be located
at Boston, Mass. for the ensuing year.
There are at present fifty-six differ
ent union labels and ten shop cards.
Carpenters of Hot Springs, Colo,
will ask for an increase in wages on
August 1.
Puritan crackers are union made.
But no other. They are made only
by Thomas & Clark, Peoria, Ill.
The Anheuser-Busch and the Pabst
Brewing companies have signed agree
ments with the Drivers and Stableman
of Washington, D. c.
The Bell Telephone companys con-
struction force. at Trenton, N. j., are
on strike and the system is completely
tied up.
Labor unions of Cedar Rapids, Mich,
have candidate in the field for state
representative, and are working hard
to secure his election.
Great things are expected to develop
at the fall election in Detroit, Mich.
The labor unions have entered poll
tics.
Woodmen have formed a new local
at Blaine, Wash. The organization is
now working on uniform wage scale.
Carriage Workers have won their
strikes in Boston, Mass, and Mem
phis, Tenn.
The unionists of Roanoke, Va, have
declared their local baseball team as
unfair because they use scab printing.
The Horseshoers of Cleveland are
to be granted Saturday half holiday
and so cents an hour for overtime.
Metal Polishers and Brass Workers
against the Standard Sewing Machine
company. There are other machines
on the market.
An amendment to the constitution
of the International Union of Car
riage and Wagon Workers, providing
a uniform dues system, was defeated
by referendum vote.
Molders object to the appointment
of ex-senator Quarles of Wisconsin as
United States judge. Quarles runs q
law shop in Milwaukee and is of the
Post-Parry ilk.
The work of organizing the machin-
lists of Cleveland is progressing nicely
The question of jurisdiction over the
cutters and flatteners of the United
States occupied the attention of the
convention of the Glass Cutters and
Flatteners' Association at its sessions
in Pittsburg.