The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-09-20


Victoria, B. C.-There were Is fatal
accidents during the past year In the
mines of Nanaimo, B. c.
Boston.-The International Union
Of Ladies' Garment Workers will hold
a convention here next year.
London-More than 100000 railway
servants in England are required to
work from IL to Is hours per day.
Ottawa, Canada.-Average wages in
Canada have increased 81 per cent. in
FIVE years, according to the census re-
port.
Minneapolis, Minn.-A new union,
the Twin City Mattressmakers, was
organized in st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
Nancy. France.-Eight hundred car
penters and pointers are out on strike
for ten.hour day and increase OF
wages.
Burlington, Vt-Vermont state
branch A. F. of L., was in convention
recently. Great gains in membership
were reported.
Charleston, s. C.-The 60-hour-a-
week schedule will be put in force in
the cotton mills of South Carolina
January l, 1908.
New York.-The secretary-treasurer
of the retail clerks international re-
ceives on an average from 5000 to 81
500 pieces of letter mail month.
Limoges, France.-Owing to labor
troubles the two big Haviland porce-
lain factories here have been closed,
and $4,000 workmen are locked out.
Beverly, N. 1.-THE Turner Birk-
head hosiery mills have closed down.
throwing 200 employees out of work,
due to the difficulty of getting yarn.
Canton, O.-The annual session of
the National Association of Letter
Carriers was held in this city. This
was the sixteenth annual conven-
ton.
New York.-A National Association
of Carpet Workers of America has
been organized. This will have juris-
diction of about 10000 persons en-
ployed in carpet mills.
Copenhagen.-The shipwrights have
struck, an increase of wages having
been refused by the employers. The
answer Vi tHe eulpiOsSio doooSiu'ioh
was to lock out the organized men.
Evansville, Ind.-Over IT'S iron
molders went on. strike here because
of an order issued at the five stove
foundries preventing the drinking of
beer on the premises during the noon
hour.
London, Eng.-The establishment of
a minimum wage in New Zealand
doesn't prevent the best workers from
getting a higher rate, according to a
member of the Employers association
there.
Seattle, Wash.-The wages of me-
chanics in Yukon territory, per day
of ten hours, is $40; common labor
ers, with board, 81 to IS; without
board. Sc; draft teams, per day 1.-TWO
horses), $25; clerks. per month, $3.50
to $500.
Denver.-At a session of the joint
conference of representatives of the
10 principal western railroads and
representatives of their employees it
was practically agreed that a two-cent
an hour advance in the wages of yard.
men will be conceded by the railroads
providing the railroad unions agree to
certain conditions regarding overtime
and the right of the roads to employ
and discharge men for what they con
slider good cause.
New York.-The girl members OF
the Shirtmakers' union, in session al
Grand Lyceum hall, Manhattan, car
ried away by enthusiasm for theil
cause and having no other available
means to float their strike, Invested
themselves of brooches, breastpins
bracelets, watches, lockets. chains
rings, ETC., and authorized the strike
leaders to sell them and add the sun
to their strike fund. The strike i.
for recognition of the union by the
Contractors association and is under
consideration by the state board o
arbitration.
London-The Evening News an
nounces that the anarchist congress,
at Amsterdam was completely mas
tered by the violent American school
led by Emma Goldman and Boginsky
The congress resulted in the founda
ton of Red International" which
is to be a federation of the anarchist
of the whole world for a more effec
tive struggle against government
and capital. The new society, accord
ing to the programme, recognizes ter
rorism as the only means of emanci
pating the producing classes. Ever
workmans duty is to destroy thos
tyrants who Immediately Cypress hin
Brussels.-The Belgian labor depart
ment publishes statistics relating t
strikes that have taken place in Be
GUM from 1901 to 1905. There wer
altogether 474 strikes, in which 147
9S7 workers with 9,276 women) wer
concerned.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS manufactu
ers of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and l
linois have formed an organization t
he called the National Association {