The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-25
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union Label.
IL it is not labeled, refuse it.
Bartenders OF ST. Joseph, Mo-, have
reorganized.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers C Perkins.
blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
Buttee, Mont, miners have been
granted an unsolicited increase from
So 80 to 1918 per day.
st. Paul painters have asked for
Az 1-2 cents an hour beginning April
1st
Practically all the building trades in
Spokane, Wash, are going to seek
general advance in wages.
Russell Jones, street car conductor
at Kenosha, Wis, has been elected
county clerk.
The Methodist Book Concern is still
on the unfair list. But-well, the lamp
yet holds out to burn.
The Piano and Organ Worker"
says "Shun the Kimball.' 1t is scab
and therefore unfair to organized Ia
Dor.
Woodworkers' Local No. 1853, Gin
cinnati, were successful In getting an
increase Of 10 per cent, also strictly
union shops.
The Won Boeckman Printing Co., a
Typothetae shop in Austin, Tex, has
signed two-year agreement with the
Typographical MON.
The 1000 employees in the Aurora,
ILL.,, shops of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy have been granted a 10
per cent increase in wages.
Practically all the large cotton mills
in New England are paying increased
wages to their employees. In most in
stances advances were voluntary.
Spokane, Wash, chamber OF COM
merce has donated $4,000 to secure
the next convention of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers.
The Piano Worker" for December
says: THE working children of Penn
sylvania would, If put shoulder to
shoulder form line twenty-five miles
long"
Master House Painters and Decorat-
ors' Association of Reading. Pa, de-
cided to advance wages of iourneymen
painters 2 IL cents an hour after
April l.
Chicago nyachinists are enjoined
from intimiaating strikers, but barring
this, in tne language of the Judge.
they may talk their heads off," if
: tLexYish.
has shown it's sympathy for organized
labor by conceding to it's employees an
eight-hour day for the first five days
in the week.
II. w. Libbey, of Winona, first vice.
president of the Minnesota State Fed.
Grafton of Labor. was elected mem
bcrs of the state legislature at the
recent election.
Over in Montreal nearly 100 ma
chinists joined the union in one night.
1t created so much talk that at the
next meeting 200 got in line. And
they are still a-coming.
Three firms at Baltimore, Nd,
against whom papers of injunctions
were fled for the illegal use of the
United Garment Workers of America
label are unionizins their factories.
The district over which the Chi
cago Carpenters Union extends con-
tains about $4,000 men, exclusive of
about 1000 woodworkers in the mills
who have lately Joined the carpenters.
U. S. Judge Kahlsaat, acting as ar
bitrator in the demand of 1000 steam
filters and their helpers in the Pitts
burg district, rendered a decision that
an advance OF % cents day be grant
ed.
The annual convention of the Struc-
tural Building Trades Alliance of
America will take place in New York
City February 9. The organization has
membership of 100000 workers out
side of New York.
Adult women in the hosiery mills in
Pennsylvania earn an average of $5.10
per week; under the age OF 16 the
weekly wage Is $2.S2. The cost of
keeping a boy in the Huntingdon (Pa.)
Reformatory Is 81. 70 a week.-Buffalo
Press.
An agreement has been arrived at
by the Rhode Island Superintendent
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