The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-11

Der of Japanese being admitted to the
United States; to citizenship being
conferred upon Japanese, and to the
admission of Japanese into the public
schools in any part Of the United
States.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers will continue fighting for a
mileage basis and eight hours. A
general strike is not contemplated at
this time, but the fight will be carried
TO Il finish.
An unknown donor has given $4,000
coo for the erection of homes in the
East End of London for aged and dis,
tressed women connected with match
box making after a life of arduous and
ill-paid work.
Resolutions carried at the British
Trade Union Congress recently includ-
ed one affirming that no trade disputes
bill would be satisfactory unless it
secured the complete immunity of
union funds from litigation.
Patrick H. Scullin, secretary of the
national peace league, who has been
working in California, will return to
Washington shortly with view of es-
tablishing an arbitration system for
the settlement of labor disputes.
Glass manufacturers and the Anal
gamated Window Glass Workers I'm
ion have entered into an agreement
Do To FOR
closed for months if necessary, to
maintain the present selling price.
The opinion is gaining ground every
day that the Bricklayers and Masons'
International Union will decide to af-
fliate with the American Federation
of Labor. A referendum vote is soon
to be taken on the question of aff1lia-
ton.
The 900 engineers employed on the
Delaware, Lackawana & Western will
hereafter work but ten instead of
increased 5 per cent, increasing the
payroll of the engineers between $780,
900 and $4,000 per annum.
With net surplus of 0,O00,0 900 for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1906
and treasury reserve of $72,000,O00
the Mexican government has decided
that the time is ripe for reduction
in taxes and an increase in the sal.
aries of it's minor employees.
James M. James, of New York, who
is studying trade unionism in Russia,
was arrested at ST. Petersburg recent
ly during police raid on trade I'M
ion bureau, and was held in a police
station for five hours. He was re-
leased upon threatening appeal to the
American consul.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv-
elside 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
AZ 10S North Teath street.
The campaign against child labor is
at last making itself felt among the
cotton mills of South Carolina. More
than two-thirds of the spindles' of the
state have agreed to reduce the work
ing hours of employees from sixty-six
to sixty-four hours a week and to six
ty-two hours in 1908 and sixty hours
in 1910, wages to remain as now
The Austrian law compels mine
owners to build rescue chambers"
underground. The room must be large
enough to hold at least twenty-four
people, and must be provided with
timed food, medicine chest, first aid
materials. inhalation apparatus, and
compressed oxygen in cylinders sufflc-
lent to last at least three days.
San Francisco, Cali, proposes to
have worlds fair in 1913. Fifteen
citizen have formed a corporation to
be known as the Pacific Ocean Expo
sition company, which plans to give a
mammoth fair to commemorate the
400th anniversary of the discovery Of
the Pacific ocean by Balboa and the
completion Of the Panama canal.
Electrical operation of trains in the
New York Central railroad tunnel
leading to the Grand Central station
became fact recently. All trains for
Yonkers were hauled by electric mo-
tors to Highbridge. 1t was stated that
hereafter all the YOnkers locals will
be operated by electricity, and that
the service will be extended to other
trains.
The two sections Of the tunnel un-
DER the East river, New York, which
were started simultaneously in New
York and Brooklyn, were some days
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