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


tria get 81 week, while in Lynn,
Mass, they get $12.
Winnipeg.-The labor unionists in
Northwest Canada are taking active
Iy to the formation of separate
political party.
London.-The annual conference of
the Miners Federation of Great Brit
ain in Swansea was one of the most
successful yet held.
HazIeton, Pa-The employees of the
HaZletOn iron works were recently
granted an unsolicited increase of Z
per cent in their wages.
Fall River-The cotton manufac-
turers granted an advance of 5 per
cent i'll the wages of their operatives,
to go into effect at once.
Winona.-H W. Libbey, FIRST vice
president OF the State Federation of
Labor, was elected member of the
state legislature at .the recent elec-
ton.
London.-No fewer than 1876 arti-
sans and laborers were employed on
the government cooperative works
(roads and railways) in New Zealand
during May.
Des Moines, 1a.-Twenty- -four hours
after the organization OF d street rail
way mems union twenty-five profess
sional strike breakers, recruited in
Chicago, arrived in that city
Denver.-The demurrer of the de-
! PENDANTS in the action for 100000
damages, brought by Charles II.
81 ~
! GRAFTON of Miners, against former Gov
/ ernor Peabody, former Adjutaht Gen
eral Sherman Bell and Adiutant Gen
| eral Buckley Wells, is sustained in an
opinion returned by Judge Robert E.
Lewis of the United States District
court. Meyer alleged wrongful i'm
prisonment by the military
Chicago.-Chicago skyscrapers dur
ing the last year exacted the heaviest
toll of human life recorded in the his
tory of building operations in the city
Figures compiled in the annual death
roll OF the bridge and structural iron
workers union show the increase in
fatalities among members Of that Graf,
to be surprisingly large. OF a total
membership in the union of 1855
men, nearly 1856 either lost their lives
were totally or partially disabled as
a result of their hazardous occupa
tionS
! Washington. = Attorney Genera
Moody issued circular letter of in
structions to United States attorneys
regarding prosecutions of violations
of the eight-hour law, in which hs
+10 i
upon a strict enforcement of thi.
statute as relating to public works o.
; the United States. All United State:
attorneys are directed diligently tt
investigate all complaints which MAY
come to them and, where suffi Gent ev
idence can be secured, submit it to
grand jury with view to securing
an indictment.
Chicago.-The sensational move
ment towards higher wages. which
has been sweeping the country durin,
! the last two weeks, received apothel
impetus when the Chicago apd Alton
railroad announced 13 per cent in
crease in pay-retroactive to Nov l.
for all it's switchboard employees Th'
Atoms action, which is in conformit,
with recent advances granted by tn,
Pennsylvania, Reading, and othe
eastern roads, is taken as an indie.
of the feeling among western railroaI
corporations, and it is believed the eS
ample will be followed by the majorit.
of the roads of the west, if not 0
the entire country.
hington.-President Gompers O
the A. F. of L. has issued an appeal t.
all unions to at once financially assis
the photographers, who have had ns
tiona1, strike for the eIght-hour work
day on since Aug. 4.
Louisville-In the southern state
; there are 16 carpenters unions of co
ored men. The brotherhood claim
jurisdiction over journeymen carper
J tiers or joiners, planning mill benc
hands, cabinetmakers or men runnin
Woodworking machinery But thei
claims to this extensive jurisdiction
have not been disputed. The Anna
gamated Society of Carpenters, a
English organization, and the Amalgs
mated Woodworkers have both cor
tested it before conventions of tn
American Federation of Labor. TIL
: enmity of the brotherhood and tn
amalgamated society was one of tn
main causes of the New York buildin
> trades strike in 1908. The America
Federation has not yet decided tn
jurisdiction dispute, but both sides ar
now working amicably under con
promise. The Amalgamated Woot
, workers dispute the authority of tn
: brotherhood over men running woot
working machinery.
; Boston.-At the last meeting {
Cigar Makers union No. 81 it wa
voted that .sany member of clga
, makers union that joins the Industris
Workers of the World organizatio
must forfeit his. membership in tn
. cigar makers union.'
Boston-About 10000 members {
the Massachusetts Boot and Sho