The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-10-04

Toronto-An increase of two cents
an hour has been granted to the
street car men.
Madrid-Unionism in Spain COM
prises 56,9O5 members, distributed
through 373 local unions.
Providence, r. by refusing the
demand for an increase of 31R per
cent in wages the Pawtucket Mfg.
company lost 300 of its employees.
Canton, O.-Nonunion bands were
not Disseminated against at the dedi.
cation exercises of the Mckinley
monument at Canton. September 80.
London-The Amalgamated Society
of British Engineers will, after this
year, cease attending the trades union
congress, absenting itself for at least
four years.
Copenhagen-This city is also af-
fected by strike of telegraphers. The
women operators have struck for an
advance in pay. The government
agreed, providing the women would do
work similar to that being done by
men. Some of those who accepted
Clayton-The general condition of
the glass trade in South Jersey is sat
isfactory and in some branches Of the
industry it is difficult matter to sup
ply enough skilled men to meet the re-
quests of the manufacturers. The
business outlook is bright, and COM
paratively few who want work are
now out of employment.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Ten thousand mill
workers in the Pittsburg district will
get more pay under the new scale of
prices just announced by the wage
committee of the wOrkmen and en-
ployers. the change being based on
the selling price of iron for the pre-
vious three months. The average in
crease will be about ten per cent.
New Haven, Conn.-Frank A. Nc
Gee, of Worcester, Mass, organizer of
the International holders union, and
John A. Dunn, secretary of the local
union of the craft, were arrested,
charged with intimidation of nom
union men who are at work in McLa-
CONS foundry, where a strike of 40
men has been in force for some time.
Mahanoy City, Pa.-To terminate a
strike of motormen and conductors,
which has tied up the line for three
months, business men and retired citi-
Zens in the affected district bought
the Shamokin- Mount Carmel electric
railway, which runs 20 miles through
a populous territory. The men quit
work when the officials refused the
to CT af
their work, custom generally Ill
vogue through this region.
Washington.-The annual investiga-
ton of the bureau of labor into wages
and the retail prices of food shows
that in the principal manufacturing
and mechanical industries of the coun-
try the average wages per hour in
1906 were As per cent. higher than in
1905; the regular hours of labor per
week We're O.5 per cent. lower, and the
number of employees in the establish
ments investigated was seven per cent.
greater. The average full-time week
ly earnings per employe in 1906 were
39 per cent. greater than in 1905.
Chicago.-Woman strikers among
the telegraphers carried on a syste>
matte campaign to raise funds for
strike benefits. Lillian Sullivan, IS
years old, formerly a check girl at the
office of the Western Union company.
headed delegation of 25 young wom-
en- who canvassed the city for
money. They sold pencil portraits of
themselves and also spoke before the
meetings of local labor unions and
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Coffeyville, Kan.-The ministers Of
this place have adopted union scale
OF prices for conducting funerals, and
they propose extending their organiza-
ton to all portions of the state. Re
Gently one ~ the ministers was called
To attend funeral at a neighbOring
Lo.nt He paid his own car fare,
Tired a livcrs- team and bought his
own dinner after the funeral. The
result was u meeting of the Minis
tie. ial association and the adoption OF
five-dollar fee funeral or no secv-
ice.
City of Mexico.-Owing to the re-
cent numerous strikes on the part of
mill hands and railroad operatives
throughout the Mexican republic, the
government has decided to take dras-
tic action against the leaders and agi
tators in all cases where the men are
advised to walk out for trivial causes
as has been alleged in the late strikes
If, after investigation, the government
is convinced that the calling of strike
is mere pretext to attain ascend
ancy over the employer, the striking
workmen and the leaders will be eX
lied to prison to the island of Las Tres
Marias, in the Pacific ocean, 100 miles
off the coast of the Topic territory.
Pittsburg, Pa.-State officers began
an investigation into the claim thai
between 1000 and 5000 miners an6
breakers now employed in mines are
under the legal age required by the
child labor laws