The wageworker., 1906-02-16

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The Chinese minister at Washington
is said to have notified his govern
ment that any satisfactory legislation
on the exclusion question is improb-
able. He says that the majority OF
congressman favor greater liberality,
but that the influence of the laboring
clas sis too strong against the Chinese.
The Trades Council of Cleveland,
O., is preparing for the most compre-
hensive legislative program it has yet
undertaken. Through Representative
James Reynolds it will introduce in
the legislature six big bills. These
include bill providing initiative and
referendum voting, a child-labor law,
an amendment to the constitution pro-
viding for an eight-hour day, sweat
shop license law, employers liability
law and anti-convict labor measure
The United Garment Workers at
Paterson, N. j., have secured an order
from the court restraining Israel Hor
witz from putting their label on his
mitfis goods.
State Labor Commissioner Sherman
OF New York, in his report to the legis-
lature, recommends the abolition of
the free employment agency in New
York city, on the ground that the ser
vice rendered does not justify the ex-
penditure.
Final arrangements for amalgama-
tion of Ohio and Indiana interurban
men into the Central Electric Railway
Association were consummated in Day
ton, Ohio. The next meeting of the
consolidated association will be held in
Minneapolis in March.
Union Sheet Metal Workers and their
friends are asked to stay away from
Detroit, Kansas City, Philadelphia,
Syracuse. Cleveland, Bridgeport, Conn,
Louisville, Cedar Rapids, Ia, Milwau-
kee, Oakland, Cal, and Jacksonville,
Fla.
Representative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, offered an amendment to the bill
providing for suspension of all labor
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so as to bar both Chinese and Japan
ese labor from the work. The amend
ment was ruled out of order.
member of the Denver Painters
Union was fined for efusing to work
with non-union man on a job. The
case was appealed to higher court
and the judge reversed the decision.
Carpenters and Joiners of Youngs-
town, O., mailed printed contracts to
all the contractors in the city. They
| call for an increase of 10 per cent and
stipulate that eight hours shall con-
stitute days work
| The officers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor are preparing to protest
against the action of the house COM
mittee on appropriations in inserting
in the urgency deficiency bill a pro-
vision that the eight hour law shall
| not be effective on the Isthmus of
| Panama.
| Through the efforts of National
President Thomas A. Richert of New
| York the strike of the 600 cutters and
| tailors of the local branch of the
United Garment Workers of America
has been sett'01 If the strike had
| continued it would have involved
5000 men and women.
| 1t is charged that the Minnesota
state board of BARRIERS examiners has
been grading applicants just a little
below the mark required to pass in
order to induce them to take second
and third examination, when they are
usually given certificate. For each
| examination the board gets IS. The
Rarbe:s Union has taken the matter
up and will do things.
| The subscription of "a days pay
from every union man for the printers"
has been indorsed by Philadelphia Cen
tral Labor Union. The assessment is
payable within five months in twenty
weekly installments, but may be paid
in lump sum. The total amount of
the assessment is expected to reach
| bstween $125 900 and $150,000
The cheapest magazine in the world
| i. Wilshire's, printed in New York,
| costing only 10 cents a year, and yet
it is printed at profit. A late item
says: Our present Office force alone
is over thirty. They work seven and
one-half hours day and only four
on Saturday, making 41* hours a
week" The eight-hour day has been
in effect in that office since 1886.
| Labor Commissioner Bush got busy
a week or two ago and prevented a
| couple of 'scab" painters from getting
job putting some color on the state
house dome. But no one around the
court house equaled that record. AS a
result the statue of Abraham Lincoln
was "yellowed' by couple of timer
ant "scabs" instead of some union
painters who are taxpayers and citi-
| zens. We ought to have Bush or
two in the court house, instead of a
lot of sticks"
| A Valentine Party.
Mrs ChaS. RICHTER most delightfully."-