The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

sist them to get better wages, and tho
unions have agreed to do SO.
New York.-In 1900 the occupation
of the textile worker, or the needle
trades, exploited 5000 children be-
tween ten and Is years of age, of
whom 5.136 were boys and 29,934 were
girls.
Budapest.-Each year thousands OF
Hungarians leave home for other coun-
tries expecting to earn the living their
own country refuses them. This year
the farm laborers have refused to sign
the indentures for the harvest of 1907.
Boston.-The Machinists', associa-
ton journal makes the statement that
big New England firm is making
thousands of idols for the heather of
various chimes, and that each one
bears the union label of the machin-
lists, as the shop is union one.
New York.-The Lithographers' as
sociation, whose members are on
strike for an eight-hour day, are en-
deavoring to secure the cooperation
of merchants and manufacturers in
their attempt to unionize the litho-
graphic establishments in the United
States and Canada
Sydney, N. S. W.-The Boilermak-
ers' Union has protested against New
South Wales government bringing men
from Great Britain to work at the
Lithgow iron works, at time when
there are plenty of men already availa-
bic and waiting for employment at
that and other establishments.
st. Louis.-Eleven hundred boiler
makers and bciler-makers' helpers,
blacksmiths and blacksmiths' helpers,
employed on the Missouri Pacific &
Iron Mountain system, have quit work.
The management offered an increase
of approximately two cents per hour
to blacksmiths and helpers, but the
mer. insisted on having three cents.
Chicago. - Telegraphers employed
by the Western Union company claim
great victory in that the company
has not only granted a ten per cent.
increase in wages but has reinstated
the II men recently discharged be-
cause of their activity in forming
union. The leaders claim that the
victory lies in the recognition of the
uIlOu, WHICH Is VI uuCH luOluSul
in their eyes than the increase.
Washington.-By a strict party vote
the house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce ordered a favorable
report on the Esch bill limiting the
hours of labor on railroads as sub
stitute for the La Toilette bill passed
by the senate. The main differences
between the two propositions are that
the Esch bill limits the continuous
hours of service of telegraph operators
and train despatchers in towers and
offices that remain open throughout
the day and night to nine hours in
each period of "a hours; that opera
tors and train despatchers and all per-
sons having to do with the movements
of trains in offices that remain open
throughout the daytime only are linn
tied to 10 hours of employment in. each
period of "a hours; that prosecutions
under the law of railroad companies
for its violation must be begun with
in three years after each violation;
that the Attorney General of the Unit
ed States is charged with the prose
cution of each violation, and that the
furnished with inspectors to see that
the railroad companies adhere to the
requirements of the law. The penalty
for violations remains as it is in the
La Toilette bill, fine of $500 for each
Offense.
Pittsburg, Pa.-The Blast Furnace
Workers union is endeavOring to
bring about an eight-hour day for it's
members, who are workers in the pig
iron furnaces. 1t is expected that the
final decision in the matter of the ad-
visibility of striking to enforce the
demand for the shorter workday will
be made within the next two weeks.
Denver, Col.-That the labor organ
izations of the country are united and
earnest in their support of the accused
officials of the Western Federation of
Miners is shown not only in the ex-
preston of sentiments, but in prac-
tical and substantial way. The unions
have not rested with the passage of
resolutions; they have given freely of
their funds. Late reports from the
headquarters of the miners organiza-
ton are to the effect that about $780,
900 is now on deposit to the credit of
the defense fund, and that the money
is pouring in at the rate of thousands
daily. The federation expects to ex-
pend between 100000 and $500, 900 in
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this greatest legal battle ever waged
by organized labor, and it has suffi-
Gent funds pledged to see the case
through to the finish
Mare Island, Cal.-The clerks at the
navy yards have received word from
the navy department stating that it
cannot do anything toward increasing
wages at this time, owing to the fact
that the appropriation would be ex-
ceeded If the increases were granted.
Washington.-The Perkins subcom-
mittee of the house committee on for
eign affairs has agreed upon bill for