The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-10-26
ing miners, fatty refused to go to work


and proposed to prosecute the COM
pany for having misled them.
Don't fail to see the auburn haired
beauty at the Bijou next week.
The Square Deal, the Citizens ALI
ance organ of New York, denounces
Samuel Gompers as 1.-THE Labor Trust
Anarchist" because he advised the
San Francisco workmen to stick to
their unions!
The first annual convention of the
new Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuild-
ers' International Union will be held
in Boston, Mass, next April. The
selection was made on a referendum
vote just completed.
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.
The United Railways and Electric
company of Baltimore, Md, has shown
it's interest in the welfare of it's en-
it's army of men can find rest and rec
reation when off duty.
Over 400 non-union men, women and
children are on strike in the Kimball
piano factory. of Chicago, against an
increase in working hours. Just think
of non-unionists baking on the beau
ties of the open" shop!
Mayor Buckingham, of Terre Haute,
Ind, has refused the request of the
Central Labor union to remove Presi-
dent Reading, of the police board,
which was made on the ground that
he is fighting union labor.
The Marine Review, published by
the Penton Publishing Co., a labor.
| hating concern of Cleveland, has
pulled down its open shop flag, but
continues to be printed in non-union
shop. The men on the lakes should
| take notice.
On account of the inability of the
San Francisco police to suppress the
wave of lawlessness now sweeping over
that city, the Building Trades Coun-
Gil has decided to equip $50 able-bod-
led men and turn them over to the
city for police duty.
| Boston, Mass, musicians local No.
157, of the American Federation of La
Dor, the same International to which
the big Boston Musicians Protective
Union, No. 9, belongs, was officially or
ganized last week. 1t is composed eX-
clusively of colored men.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers has been roundly crit
icized by some of the union leaders
because he dined with a number OF
bankers and financiars at Columbus
Ohio, on Labor day, and did not call
upon the local officers of the organi
cation.
Every trade is organized in Streator
ILL.,, even the Ladies' Federal Union
women, who are compelled to wash
and scrub for livelihood, have three
delegates in the Trades Council. There
is no open" shop in Streator, and
there has not been a strike there foI
several years.
There is strike on in Portland
Oregon. of 1.500 marine men, inclu
Triggers. caulkers. liners, freight hand
lers and transfers because of the re
fusal of the employers to arbitrate the
question of an advance in wages with
the grain handlers.
London (EnglandD printers have oh
tanned a decision from the court OF
last appeals, which states that picket
ing is legal, and that no damages car
be collected by the employer. The
union had been sued by a large pub
fishing house. The firm won decisions
and awards of damages in the lower
courts.
Union musicians in San Diego, Cal.
refused to play in front of the unfair
Isis theater for political meetings, ant
) the meetings are being held elsewhere
Joseph Medill Patterson, the wealth.
and talented young Chicago socialist
will publish daily. paper in that cit.
| uCNCtSu " tHC pOilllSdi SlOSu hS ho
: recently embraced.
. The machinery of the arbitration
board which is to pass on the demand
of employees of the United Railway
| in San Francisco for improved con
! ditions, has finally been set in motion
and the arbitrators say that they will
dispose of the important work the
: have undertaken as soon as possible.
l Chicago iron manufacturers are pre-
? dieting the end of the holders strik
, as a result of the installation of ney
D type of molding machine. 1t is sal
: that this machine turns out as muc
as three skilled iron workers, and o.
ders have been sent to New York fo
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