The wageworker., 1907-08-16

Stockton, Cal.-Wages of carpenters
were increased so per cent. recently.
The scale is now $3.50 a day.
San sco.-Announcement has
been made that all Italian barber
shops in the city have been unionized.
New York-Drug clerks throughout
the Atlantic states are forming unions
and joining the retail clerks interna-
tiOnal union.
| Des Moines, lathe proposition to
! establish an old age home for miners
was defeated by the Iowa mine work
ers on a referendum vote.
| Glasgow.-The Scottish Cooperative
society was organized in 1868 with a
capital of less than $4,000. Now it has
| capital of more than 81, 100000.
| London, England.-There is consid-
cradle unrest in Lancashire by rea-
son of the demand of the cotton spin
ners for an advance of five per cent.
Toronto, Canada-The structural
iron workers have been granted an
| increase in wages of 21a cents per
hour and a threatened serious strike
! averted.
Bath, Me-John G. Longley, of this
city, recently rounded out 40 years
continuous service as an iron and
brass molder. He is probably the old
est molder in the state.
Chicago.-The United Brotherhood
of Carpenters during 1906 paid bene-
fits amounting to 100000. and the
death and disability claims during
that period amounted to $218,202.
Philadelphia.-More than 1000 per-
sons were killed last year in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, according to
the annual report of James Roderick,
chief of the department of mines.
Chicago-Cigarmake Internation-
al union is now combating lockout
in Georgia and a strike at Mobile, Ala,
the latter for an increase of wages.
There is also strike at Havana,
Cuba.
New York.-An expert who has been
compiling data on strikes declares that
the greatest number of strikes occur
in the building trades, and that the
second greatest number is in the tex
tile trades.
London, England.-The highest acci-
dent death rate among industrial work
| ers in Great Britain is among Seamen
| (53 per 100000, and the death rate of
| seamen in sailing vessels is three
| times as great as even this ratio.
Chicago.-NOn-union pipe men EN-
ployed by the Wabash caused dis
cord among the union men in other
departments and the road ended the
strike by permitting the union men
to return at an increase in pay from
2S to 81 cents per hour. The strike
lasted about two months.
Washington.-Arrange are be-
ing completed between the American
Federation of Labor and national trade
unions of England, Scotland, Germany
Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Norway,
Netherlands and other foreign coun-
tries to interchange union cards be-
tween unions of kindred crafts and
callings. In addition to this worldwide
movement between the organized
wage workers of the world, the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the Amer
lean Society of Equity (the farmers
unions of the United States) have
formed an alliance. The organized
wage workers of the world represent
more than $4,000, 900 people. The more
advanced leaders propose an interna-
tional convention of all craft unions.
Duluth. Minn.-The strike of the
ore dock workers is at an end, and the
men returned to work. Nothing has
been gained by the men who went out,
nor have they lost anything except
their time. Their status is the same
as it was the day they voted to strike.
All of the employees of the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern road were taken
back by the company without preju-
dice, and the pay they have been re-
ceiving under verbal agreement with
the company, which would not have
expired until October 81, next, will
continue.
New York-lnternational Associa-
ton of Machinists made demand on
behalf of the machinists of New York
and vicinity for an increase in wages
of 25 cents a day, affecting $4,000
men. The Amalgamated Society of
Engineers has made a similar demand
for about 1000 machinists in that or
ganization, which takes in about 30
of the metal shop trades. This is the
first time the International Association
of Machinists and the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers, which has its
headquarters in England, and is an
international body, have united in a
demand.
st. Petersburg-A big strike of agri-
cultural laborers is being prepared in
Kiev, Russia. The governor threatens
to have recourse to military force, If
necessary, to meet the situation.
New York.-The last New York La
Dor Bulletin, just issued by the depart
ment of labor, gives the number OF
organized men and women in the EN-.
pire state as 39S,494
San Francisco.-The telephone oper.
ators. who have been out on strike