The wageworker., 1907-01-18
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Pape-s.

Interesting Items Mostly Swped from
Bright Labor Pape-s.
Demand the label.
The union label-that's ak.
Look for the union label.
IL it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers C Perkins.
blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
A press dispatch says that the
strike of the seamen at Odessa, Rus
sia. which began about month ago,
has collapsed.
Keir Hardie is organizing British
Agricultural Labor League on the
lines of the union founded by Joseph
Arch in 1872.
The New Zealand house Of represen-
tatives has carried the second reading
of the Advance Workers bill, which
provides for loans up to $50 pounds 70
workers to build their own dwellings.
The agricultural chamber of West
Prussia has adopted a resolution en-
powering it's executive committee to
prepare to import Chinese as farm la
borers in order to relieve the present
scarcity of such labor.
Hindoo laborers driven out of Brit
ish Columbia have begun to flock into
Washington seeking for work. The
immigration officers, face to face with
probable influx OF clannish foreign
ers who are not wanted, are helpless
to prevent their coming for the Hin
docs have money enough to guarantee
their pre- sent needs.
Owing to a threatened strike OF
farm laborers in the county of Bekes,
Hungary, the agricultural society OF
that district has decided unanimously
to hire 10000 Chinese coolies to
replace them. 1t is extremely doubt
ful, however, that the government will
permit such a step.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv-
ei side Base Burner. There is abso.
lutely no stove on the market that
will furnish as much heat for the
amount of coal consumed as will the
Riverside. Sold exclusively by Hoppe
at 108 North Tenth street.
An important conference of dele
gates representative of all grades Of
employees Of every railroad in Eng
land and Wales began at Birmingham.
Eng. en- Nov. 26, with the object of
formulating national program look
ing to the betterment of the condition
of all grades of railroad men. Scottish
and Irish railroad employees already
have drawn up demands.
The interstate conference of trade
union representatives, held at Sydney,
New South Wales, during the eight
hour celebration, unanimously resolved
to recommend a uniform trade-union
label, to be placed on all articles pro-
duced under union conditions of labor
in the commonwealth. The interstate
delegates are hopeful that the state
labor organization will use expedition
in indorsing the recommended label,
and that it will be In general use
throughout the commonwealth within
the next month or six weeks.
A mass meeting of employees at the
Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New
South Wales, decided to demand an
increase of 80 per cent in wages for
mine work in dangerous and hot
places, and 20 per cent for all other
work, and 46-hour week, also time
and a half for overtime, Sundays and
union holidays. 1t was also decided
to ignore all proposals from the bosses
regarding increase of wages unless
they are made through the A. NJ. A. A
conference OF representatives from the
mine managers and employees unions
is being arranged to discuss the mat
ter.