The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-18
val this year to captain the losing
baseball team

val this year to captain the losing
baseball team.
Pennsylvania State Federation of
Labor wants the Office of chief factory
inspector made elective.
After three weeks strike the Boiler
Makers of Duluth, Mimi, secured an
increase from 331k to SO cents an hour.
F. E. Smith, a custom tailor of
Quincy, ILL.,, was fined 500 for using
the union label on non-union clothing
Union will meet in annual session in
New York city on May FL.
The largest line of union made shoes
in Lincoln may be found at the store
OF Rogers & Perkins.
Two hundred new members were
initiated by the Stationary Engineers
Union of Chicago at its last meeting.
The eight-hour law of Michigan has
been declared valid in recent deci-
sion by the supreme court of that
state.
Cleveland machinists are building
up their organization with view OF
making a demand for 20 per cent
increase.
Eighty-five new members were ad-
mitted at one meeting of the Street
Garments Union of New Orleans re-
Gently.
Fifteen new unions have been added
to the Amalgamated Sheet Metal
Workers International Alliance since
the first of the year.
United Garment Workers have in
stituted a new local in Philadelphia
composed of Italian tailors with
membership of 200.
A bill has been introduced in the
New Jersey legislature requiring en-
ployers of women to furnish them with
seats on which to rest when tired.
Union employees of the Chicago City
Railway demand an increase of four
cents an hour for electric trainmen
and a ten-hour day for all other en-
ployes.
A union intended to include every
negro railway employee in the Pullman
car service in the United States has
been organized by the porters, cafe
and dining car men running into New
York city.
Chicago painters have won an nm
portant victory. They recently OBJ
tanned an increase of cents an hour
in wages, which in the aggregate
means about $4,000 day to the mem
bers of the craft.
Organized labor is charged with in
juring industry, but in the past ten
years the United States has come to
lead the world in the expectation of
manufactured products.
An organization that makes up it's
mind never to do any striking may
rest assured that the employers will
do all the striking necessary In the
form of low wages and long hours.
Nearly 1000 new members were ad-
mitted into the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers the past year. During
that time the order arranged new or
revised schedules with thirty-four rail-
road companies.
Having sold the Eleventh Street
lunch counter, I opened table res
taurant on South Twelfth street. I
have now removed the tables and put
il a lunch counter; open at a. m. and
dinner from II a. m. till p m.
Quick service. Don Cameron, ITO So.
18th st.
The differences heretofore existing
between H. c. Sessions & Sons of
Sioux Falls, Iowa, publishers of the
A. o. U. w. Bulletin, and Typographi-
cal Union No. 217, have been amicably
adjusted.
After strong anti-strike speech be-
fore the convention of miners at Scran-
ton, Pa, President Mitchell succeeded
in securing the adoption of the report
presented by the scale committee, and
that there will be no strike in the an
thracite fields is assured.
The arbitration board of Chicago
Carpenters and Builders Association
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Amalgamated Association OF Car
penters have signed an agreement
which provides for an increase of five
cents per hour for the carpenters for
the first year. and for six and one
fourth cents an hour during the two
years following. The present scale is
fifty cents per hour.