The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-02

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damages for injuries suffered by
children in violation of the child labor
law.
Piano and organ makers have taken
up the proposed plan of establishing
union piano factory. 1t was re-
ferred to the general executive board
which will draw up plans and sub
nit the matter to the referendum vote
vote of the 10000 members.
Not child is working in any cigar
factory in New England The New
England conference alone spent $2O,-
600 on label agitation and advertising.
The aggregate spent by the local
unions in addition is estimated at
probably 100000.
Twenty workments unions of the
town Of Bejar, Spain, have addressed
circular to the presidents of Ameri-
can republics. begging them to pro-
vide ways and means to enable their
members TO emigrate and establish
colonies wherever they may be want
ed.
1t is announced that the pension
system plan had not as yet been ac-
copied by some of the brotherhoods
| of the Boston & Maine system, but it
was also stated that there was no
great opposition to it from any source
and it was believed that it would be
approved by all The plan may go
into effect January 1, but probably
| not until July l of next year. The
| road has issued a circular to all en-
| ployes so as to ascertain just who will
u f1o -;e,s - y, ,~1o
and for other general statistical infor-
nation.
The United Hatters of America is
| one of the most remarkable labor or
| CARNATIONS in the country. Its Off
GERS state that it's success dates from
the time it adopted high dues. Every
| member pays three per cent. of his
earnings into the union treasury. Two
per cent. goes to the international
| union, while one per cent. is used for
local expenses. There are 5000 men,
bers in the union out of 10000 en-
gagged in the business in North Ameri-
ca. The straw hat makers are not or
ganized to any extent, although there
| are 10000 in the United States. At a
conference recently held in Baltimore
ters," as they are called will be Or
ganized and united with the cloth hat
makers. .-=r,- .r,,ff.
! The bureau of labor statistics has
compiled some curious figures regard
| ing the organized labor movement.
| From them it appears that there are
now upwards of 100000 wage work
ers who are active members of
unions. More than 100000 reside in
the United States. Great Britain and
| Germany each have about the same
| number. Austria, Hungary and Italy,
| the last countries to feel the effect of
| the general movement, are now max
| ing more rapid progress than the
countries wherein unionism was de-
yeloped much earlier. None of these
nations has as yet as large body of
organized workers as the state of
| New York. France has been strangely
backward in the formation of this
class of societies, and, with a popula-
ton five times as large as that of New
York, has less than one-half as many
trade unionists. In New York one in
10 of the Inhabitants is a member of
| a trade or labor union; in England,
one in %; in Denmark, one in 27; in
Germany, one in 81; in France, one in
so; in Austria, one in 80; in Italy, one
in 1875; in Hungary, one in 23O, and in
Spain, one in 325.
The Reading railway has decided to
increase the wages of it's engineers,
firemen, conductors, brakemen, yard
men and other employees of that class
on all divisions from five to ten per
cent. to take effect from October 1.
The forty-sixth annual report of the
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners, which has headquarters
in Manchester, England, and branches
throughout all English-speaking coun-
tries, shows what a drain has been
made in the funds by the depression
in trade in Great Britain during the
past year. In the II months covered
by the report the society expended in
benefits the sum of $1,O32,131, Of
which amount $464,O34 was spent for
out of-work benefit and in sending
members to localities where they
could secure employment. Sick ben
eft was responsible for an expendi-
ture of $4,000, while old age pen
sions cost the society $1S0,S14 The
amount expended for strike pay
reached but $70,964, about an average
of one dollar a member That the or
ganization believes in Cancellation and
joint trade agreements rather than in
strikes is shown by the general Sec
rotary, Francis Chandler, in his sum-
mary of the report
Mathew Vol, the new president OF
the International Photo-Engravers'
union, is secretary of the Chicago To-
cal union. He came to America from
Germany when he was IL years old,
and since that time has been connect
ed with the engraving and printing
trades in various capacities. Mr.. VOL
is a graduate of Chicago law school
and has been admitted to the bar, but
does not practice. He is q years
old. AS head of Tire International