The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-06
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.

Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union laSel-that's all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
srs & Perkins.
Photo-engravers now have "A union
in Topeka. Kan.
Boiler Makers Helpers have
launched union in Cincinnati.
Theatrical Stage Employees recent
ly formed a union in La Crosse. Wis.
A branch of the Structural Building
Trades Alliance has been formed in
Fufalo.
Iron molders have granted charters
SC Gallon. O.. Monoca. Pa. 1niepenc-
ence Mo-, and Douglas. Ariz.
The Snow Steam Pump Works at
Buffalo has placed it's force of 1000
men back to work on full time.
After a three months fight the
Scotland Wooden Mills at Winnipeg,
Man. has made terms with the U. G.
W. of A.
The +. and 7, Fairbanks Scale COM
nany, St Johnsburg. Vt. employing
1900 men, resumed operations AT eight
hours a day.
chester, n. Y. to be overrun with car
penters. The plan is to thus reduce
wages. Keep away.
The postal clerks of New York city
ere organizing and will appeal to
congress for reduction OF the work
ing hours to As week.
Over 900 fur workers in Montreal
threaten to go on strike if they are
lot guaranteed a Is per cent raise iii
pay by tter employers.
All the knitting mills around New
York have resumed operations. ana
several have been forced by heavy
orders to work day and night
The working hours in the Chicago
& Alton shops at Bloomington. ILL.,.
have been reduced from nine to eight
hours day, affecting LOO men.
The Syracuse. N. Y, branch of the
National Tube company has resumed
operations after two weeks of idle
r.ss. giving employment to 800 men.
After struggle of six months the
Marble Cutters and Settlers Union at
Sioux City, Ia. have gained their con-
lention with their employers for a
c,osed shop.
According to law all sta e, county
and city work in Kansas must be
done on the eight-hour basis and the
contractors who violate this law are
liable to heavy fine.
A coroners physician stated at an
inquest in London, England, recently
o.. sisi telegraphist, that her mind
lad been wrecked by the nervous
strain OF continually operating a tele-
graph key. The continual tick. tick
OF the instrument had caused it,
The San Francisco Clarion says:
The differences that led to the seces-
sioHN iuCsSAicut III 'llt RANKS Oh l>IeC-
trical Workers No. ISL, have been
finally adjusted. and once more the
outside electrical workers are gathered
together in one of the strongest labor
unions of San Francisco, known as
E!oc trical Workers Nc. 537
Eleven members of Newark, N. J.,
local No. 1909. United 81 otnerhood o.
Carpenters. have received checks for
500 eacn, representing the amount
they were fined for failing to go on
strike when the carpenters were or
dered out last spring. When the fines
were imposed the men paid under
protest. and appealed to the national
body and were sustained.
Word comes from Pittsburg that
The Westinghouse companies have
booked orders for $4,000, 900 worth of
materials since going into the hands
of receivers. Il is thought that the
receiverships will be ended in a short
time. Steel mills there are rapidly
taEing back the men recently laid off,
and in few days most of them will
be operating on a normal basis.