The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-04-26
A Sono Of Toll,

Iung, anVllS, Win your Changer!
Burn, FORCES, fierce and far!
The night shall bring-the world Of
home,
Where love and goodness are.
l lean to little lips she lifts to my rough
lips OF love.
l read the mother hope that shines in
eyes that CLEAN above:
I hear the roaring city call. and unto 1t
/ go
Light hearted for the stress. because
child heart loves me so.
SWING hammers. with your clattcr!
Whirl, wheels. and shaft and beam!
The light Of love shall guide me home
From out this shroud of steam!
I take the little rose she holds and pin it
on my breast.
take the tender memory of her word
that cheered and blest;
| feel the urgent purpose Of the labor
that Is mine.
Filled with her trust and patience, her
youth and faith divine
Plunge. cities. with your thunder
OF traffic. shout and roar!
take the task and do the deed,
While she waits at the door.
take the task. face the toll. deem it
sweet to be
Bound to the labor that is love for loves
fine liberty;
ing her go
Under the bending wheel that glides for
ever to and fro.
Sing. mills, your Gathering chorus,
Down where the millions sweat.
i bare my arms and give my strength
And Joy in what get.
= give and take. and give again, and unto
dark am bent
Beneath the burden of the task for which
sweet life Is spent;
But ali! the wage Is dear to have, the lit
tie lips that wait,
The hearts that ring. the arms that cling.
when l unlatch the gate!
Clang with your mighty revel!
Roar. cities. with your strife!
And God be praised for strenth to toll
For wage Of love and life!
-Folger Mckinsey, in Baltimore News
Kansas City.-The Labor Temple
association has decided to commence
work on It's building.
Brooklyn. The silver workers
strike for the nine-hour day resulted
in a complete victory for the men.
st. Augustine. Fla.-All contractors
have signed the carpenters closed
shop, eight-hOur day agreement.
Boston.-Chief Statistician Pidgin
Of the Massachusetts bureau OF labor
made public bulletin recently which
shows that living costs for 1906 out
ran wage increases.
New York.-During the 81 years of
the existence of the United Hatters of
North America they have used 27O.-
0O0.0 labels. Last year the union
hatters made nearly 10000, 900 hats.
Cleveland. O-The machinists have
decided that the ten-hOur work-day
will be a relic of the past after June l.
They do not anticipate any serious
trouble, but will be prepared for any
thing.
Columbus, O.-The Columbus Rail-
way & Light company voluntarily in
creased the wages of all conductors
and motormen. numbering nearly 600,
one-half cent per hour. The higher
cost Of living is given as the reason
for the cOmpany's action.
New York.-Five thousand push
cart peddlers, members of the United
Citizens Peddlers' association, are to
enter into a cooperative house on the
lower east side. The building will
cost $4,000, 900 and will occupy an en-
tire city block 60Ox2OO feet
Boston.-Thc first journal ever pub
lished in America by labor union
was The Anvil. which was gotten out
by shoemakers. and was really the
grandfather of the present Shoe Work
ers' Journal. The Anvil was published
by the shoemakers of Lynn, during
the years 1874 and 1916. In lS45 it's
name was changed to The True Work
man.
Glens Falls, N. Y.-All the paper
makers employed at the International
Paper companys plant at Fort Ed
ward went out on a strike. The strike
is the result of trouble between the
Paper Makers union and the pulp,
sulphite and paper mill workers The
paper makers demand the dismissal
of members who deserted their union
and joined the mill workers.
Winnipeg, Man.--Conditions in the
cigarmaking industry have been I'M
settled for some time, owing to
differences between the employers
and the union. The local in this city
has been unable to come to any salts
factory understanding with the bosses,
SO the international union was APP
pealed to to send representative to
Winnipeg to make an effort to effect
settlement
London.--Exclusive of seamen, the
number Of British work-people report
ed as killed in the course of their en-
ployment during December, 1906. was
26O, an increase of four as COM
shA
of 13 as compared with December,
1906
New York.-Eight hours are to here
after constitute a days work in the
diamond cutting and polishing indus.
try, under an agreement recently
reached by committees representing
the Diamond Workers Protective
Union of America and the Diamond