The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-12-07


ers.. electrical workers, pattern max
ers. metal polishers, engineers and
firemen.
The United Mine Workers have
elected fifteen members of the next
Pennsylvania legislature.
About 400 manufacturers are now
using the union stamp of the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union.
Molders report progress with their
fight at Springfield. Mo, and the
plants at standstill.
Denver cigarmakers have asked foi'
an increase CT 81 a thousand, and will
start cooperative factory if it is not
| granted.
Printers employed OH Springfield,
| Mo, newspapers have secured an adj
vance in wages of from $3.50 to
$3.50 per week.
Harnessmakers in New York City
nessmaking in prisons, reformatories
and such institutions.
| All the common" laborers employ
ed by the United States Steel corpor-
alton will receive an advance OF 10
cents a day on New Years day.
Five hundred employees of the Penn
sylvania railroad employed in the re-
pair shops at Altoona, Pa, have been
laid off on account of scarcity of
| work
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
| tiers and Joiners last month issued
charters to twenty-three new subord-
mate unions, two of them in Porto
Rico
The National India Rubber Co., Of
Bristol, r. l., has increased the wages;
of it's employees. The half cent OH
a pair which it granted was brough,
forth by strike of 400 employees.
All but one of the building contrac-
tors of Mobile, Ala. have put their
establishments on the ''open-shop"
basis. AS result, about 500 men in
the building trades have struck.
The Pennsylvania railroad has or
dered an advance of 10 per cent in
the wages of all employees receiving
goes into effect December /. 1t affects
about $4,000 mon.
Union men. please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv
lutely no stove ON the market tina,
will furnish as much heat for the
amount of coal consumed as will the
riverside. Sold exclusively by Hoppe
az los North Tenth street
The miners locked out at the Heb
burn colliery in New South Wales
have decided to appeal to all indus
trial unions in the commonwealth fol
financial support.
Emigration companies of Japan arg
: prepared to send 10000 laborers to the
Hawaiian Islands by next June. 81,
thousand young men are in Yokohoms
ready to embark
The clerical force of the Mare Is
, land navy yard sent a signed petition
to Secretary Bonapart recently re
3 questing an increase of 25 per cent il
salaries.
!. Las Vegas, N. NJ, sheep and Gov
, herders have organized a union. TIL,
1 scale of pay is $40 per month AM
= board. Sheep herders have secure,
!. eight-hour shifts and two out of tire
Sundays Off
g Vallejo, Cal, was treated last wee
Il to the spectacle of three carloads Q
strikebreakers deserving their employ
r ers. The men claim they were lure
= under false representations
Krutaleff, who was president of tn
!. executive committee of the Russia
II Workmen's Council, and fourtee
IS leaders of the council have been Sc,
s. fenced to exile in Siberia and the los
IS of all civil rights.
The Southern Pacific Railroad con
% pany has announced raise of p
e cents an hour to its employees in tn
f. Sacramento, CAL, blacksmith shop
n. The men had threatened to go O
"a strike.
10 At meeting of the firemen of til
Le Erie railroad at Cleveland, Ohio, Q
II November IA, it was unanimousl
voted to strike to enforce their d
d mands for increase of pay and shorts
10 hours.
soI At a conference between the repr
Of sentatives of the Switchmen's Unio
Of and the Chicago railroad manager
III the men agreed to accept the advant
le OF cents an hour offered by the roat
til and to submit the question of
s, further 3 cent to arbitration.
- The coroner's jury at Ottawa, O