The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-06-28
GENERAL MENTION.
Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere.

Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere.
Demand the label. y
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.
BLUE Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
During the last ten monthe of 1906
no less than S32 miners were either
killed or injured in the mines of West
Australia.
Recently sixty or seventy girls en-
ployed in a Sydney New South
Wales) jam factory went on strike
to maintain their rights and won.
1t is reported that the Victorian EN-
ployer's Union will spend $4,000 to
try and destroy the Union Label law.
either by fighting it in the courts or
betting Doodle members of parliament
to repeal it.
The entire working force of all the
packing houses in South Omaha, Neb.,
comprising about 5000 men, were re-
Gently notified that an advance in
wages of from 5 to Is per cent had
been granted them.
A Trade-Union Secretaries asocia-
ton Is proposed in Melbourne. Aus
tralia, the object being to bring the
secretaries into closer touch with each
other in order to facilitate the dis
patch of union business in general.
When the Electrical Workers Union
was organized in st. Louis in 1891
wages ranged from 1925 to 81 day
from sun-up to shutdown. Today the
union has $4,000 members who re-
ceive from SO to SIS day for eight
hours.
The latest and most up-to-date form
of government sick insurance is be-
ing considered by Holland, and is now
before the second chamber of the
states general. The proposed insur-
ance is obligatory and extends to all
laborers employed regularly.
Kensington, Pa. lace members, 400
in number. who went on strike sew
eral days ago for advance in the rate
of pay, have decided to stand by their
original demand of an increase of one
quarter of a cent for ordinary work
and one-half cent for fine work.
A report just compiled by the cham
Der of commerce of Pittsburg shows
that $3.50, 100000 is paid annually to
the wage earners of the Pittsburg dis
trict, a majority of whom are in
cluded in the 250,00O workmen' EN-.
ployed in the 3,059 manufacturing
plants of the district.
Labor legislation is frightening the
employers of England, and the employ
ers' preliminary council has begun an
energetic campaign to defeat the bills
proposed to regulate coal mines, a
shorter workday for miners, regulating
sweating industries, providing for rep
resentation for injured persons at cor
orners' inquests on railroad accidents.
and other measures.
After a short conference Bennett
Brown. president of the Southwestern
Coal Operators Union, and President
Jones, of the miners union, reached
an agreement as to the trouble which
has recently been existing at fhe
Greenwood, Jenny Lind and other
mines in the vicinity of Hot Springs,
Ark.
Seventy five members of the Pitts
burg lodge of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists quit work at the
McKees Rocks plant of the Pressed
Steel Car Co., owing to the failure OF
the company to deal with the organi
zation A number of men employed
at the Allegheny plant, Wood Run
have been out for several weeks.
The failure of contractor at vi
emma, Austria, with liabilities of $500,
900, Is announced This Is an indica
ton of the paralysis prevailing in the
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