The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-15
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting ltems Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

Interesting Items Mostly swiped from
Bright Labor Papers. A..
Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union label
II it is not labeled, refuse it.
Bartenders of st. Joseph, Mo-, have
reorganized.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
The trade union membership OF
Austria is said to be 2S5,651.
The Chicago Hold Carriers Union
has it's own labor temple, which cost
$4,000.
Cincinnati, O., railroad boiler max
ers have secured an increase of 20
cents a day. "
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by All dealers.
Pennsylvania ranks first and Mass
achusetts second in the employment
Of children in manufactures.
Trenton, N. j., striking shirtmakers
have decided to start a shirt factory
with a capital stock of $4,000.
Efforts are being made to have a
bill passed in Nevada making the first
Monday in September Labor day.
Three ministers were recently seat
ed as fraternal delegates to the To
ledo (Ohio) Central Labor Union.
The membership Of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America has reached the 10000 mark.
The United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners last month issued
charters to twenty-three new subord'
mate unions, two of them in Porto
Rico.
The committee on postoffices Is said
to have agreed to recommend an In
crease for carriers and clerks serving
over one year of Sc to $40 month.
The Patternmakers' League of North
America has decided to follow the ex-
ample of several other organizations
and move its headquarters from New
York.
Evansville. Ind, organized working
men and organized farmers of the vi
cinity. on January II. held meeting
to perfect plans for direct cooperation
between the two bodies.
Stratfprd, Kan, entire city council
and mayor were recently threatened
with Imprisonment by the State Labor
commissioner because they refused to
comply with the eight-hour law.
Porto Rico has a number of flourish
ing Boot and Shoe Workers Unions.
The union stamp is a globe trotter.
and shoes with the stamp may be
found in all parts of the world.
Three firms at Baltimore, Md,
against-whom papers Of Injunction
we're flled for illegal use Of the United
Garment workers of America label are
unionizing their factories.
1t is estimated that advances in
wages have been received by $4,000
machinists throughout the country
during the past year without strikes,
which will aggregate $S,000,O00 year
in wage advances.
Union plumbers of Detroit, hearing
that former member of the union
but hailing from another city, had died
college, claimed the body and gave it
Christian burial
The Connecticut Federation of La
Dor has just adopted a resolution in
dorsing woman suffrage. Other State
Federations which have recently TAX
en- similar action are California, Colo
RADIO, Iowa, Indiana, Maine, Massachu-
sets, New Hampshire, Oregon, Ohio
and West Virginia
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
company announces an advance of 2
per cent in wages to all hot mill ton
mage employees in tin mills. 1t is said
that sheet-tin mill men will received
an advance Of 2.6 per cent on March
1. Seven thousand mill and 5000 sheet
men will be affected.
Approximately seven out of every
eight children reported as mine and
quarry workers were employed as coal
miners. The occupation of the textile
worker or the needle trades furnished
employment to 5000 children between
10 and 1b years of age, of which 5,136
were boys and 29.934 were girls.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv-
eiside 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
as 108 North Tenth street.