The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-25


Association, an organization of educa-
tors, not to allow any child under
fourteen years to work in a mill,
whether or not the child had been Civ
en- a certificate emitting it to take
such employment. This new rule went
into effect on January 1.
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
at 10S North Tenth street.
This bit of cheering news comes
from Minneapolis regarding the
machinists: cat the present time we
have over 1,400 members in good
standing in District No. 4S. At the
present rate of increase we will have
this part of the country in pretty fair
shape at no distant date"
Organized labor in Los Angeles, Cal,
is planning to establish bank. 1t
will be financed and operated wholly
by trades unionists. Instead of run
ming it on cooperative principles, the
bank will be organized as a stock
company. The projectors are sanguine
of the success of the project.
A proposition is on foot to unite the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
with the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men. The firemen have membership
of upwards of $4,000, and the brother
hood musters about 10000 men. The
treasures of the two combined would
amount to nearly $2.4OO,OO0.
The newsboys and bootblacks of
Cleveland, o., are developing a plan
to raise $4,000 for the purpose OF
member who desires to take advantage
of the fund. An effort willy be made
to increase the membership to 500 in
order to make the plan IA success.
The International Association of
Machinists have recently entered into
agreements with the Great Northern
railway, Canadian Pacific railway, Otis
Elevator Go. of Yonkers, N. Y. c. B.
& Q. Cailroad, Minneapolis, st. Paul
& Sanlt Ste. Marie railway, Union
Iron Works, B. & 0. railroad, Mime
apolis & st. Louis railroad, Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Co., and Coleman Nail
Co.
A signal victory was won by the
printers, pressmen and feeders of
Cleveland, O., last week when the
Circuit court dismissed the application
of the Master Printers Association for
a permanent injunction against the
unions at the request of attorneys for
the masters. 1t was an admission of
defeat, an admission that they could
not sustain the action brought by them
by law or evidence
Every member of the Billposters
Union in America has been assessed
81 to create funds for the purpose of
finding, if possible, the body of Chas.
Littlefeld of Georgia, who was lost
when the Rock Island passenger train
plunged through the Cimarron river
bridge at Dover, Okla, several weeks
ago. Littlefeld was member of the
union and was employed at the time
of the wreck by circus.
According to a statement of Edgar
T. Davies, State Factory Inspector of
Illinois, there has been a reduction in
the employment of children in.the Chi
cago sweatshops from 14.5 per cent
to 8 per cent. The percentage of chill
dren employed in Illinois has been
reduced from 80 per cent in 1898 to
1.5 per cent. Within the last three
years there has been a decrease in
child labor in Illinois of 80 per cent
Spokane Walters Alliance, through
H. McAlpine, has secured a warrant
for the arrest Of VIM. A. Smith, bust
ness agent, accused of misappropriat-
ing $500. The alliance offers a reward
of $50 for the apprehension of the
man, dead or alive" The police of
the surrounding cities have been noti-
fed of his disappearance. Smith is
of medium height, with blue eyes and
curly hair and weighed about $50
pounds. He is an affable talker and