The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-06-07
GENERAL MENTION.
Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere.

Demand the label.
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-
prs & Perkins.
Retail clerks of Illinois have organ
ICED state association.
Molders are on strike in several
foundries at Dayton, Ohio.
All of the sign shops in Kalamazoo
are union That's a good sign"
The electrical workers have been
granted all their demands in Dallas,
Texas.
Plumbers are still on strike in Ster-
cents an hour.
Machinists on the N. Y, N. H. & H.
railroad have secured an increase of
2b cents an hour.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
The pay of the labor ers of the city
of Boston will be increased from 50
to $2.25 on July I.
Boston Journeymen BARRIERS Union
is now the second largest union in the
country, having over 900 members.
Carpenters, steamfitters, painters,
plumbers, broommakers and metal pol
ishers report trade good in Indianapo-
lis.
The steel trust, bad as it is, has
made voluntary increase in the
wages of the railroad men in it's en-
ploy at Joliet.
Patternmakers' League of North
America spent $4,000 in organization
work in the eastern coast states last
year. and since that time new men,
bers of the union have received $780,
900 in wages as a direct result of that
WORK
A compromise was reached between
the Evansville, Ind, street railway
company and the employees. The wages
hereafter will be from II to 10 cents
per hour and time and one-half for
all over eleven hours per day.
Working women in the fruit fields
OF California will henceforward work
only eight hours day instead of
working from sunrise to sunset, as
they have hitherto done. A law to
that effect was passed by the senate
of the Golden State.
The Metal Polishers, Platers and
Buffers scale has been signed by the
Toledo Stove and Range company, and
carries with it an increased wage
scale.
The painters union of Philadelphia
Is winning signal victory in it's strug
gle for a closed shop. Members of
the Master Painters Association are
individually signing the agreement.
The strike OF the cigarmakers in
Saginaw is still on. Two more shops
have signed the scale-Willis Keek's
and John Hoerner's.
holders settled the scale controversy
at Sheboygan in the three shops in
volved. The men get a minimum Of
$3.50 per day and 25-cent raise all
around
The building industry of Berlin and
vicinity Is seriously affected by the
lockout of 12O, 1000 bricklayers and ma
sons which recently went into effect
The cause of the lockout is the mems
demand for an eight-hour day. The
men, 1t is said, have funds amounting
to quarters of million dollars
and are well prepared for long fight.
Practically all of the New England
mills of the International Paper COM
pany are now operating under an
eight-hour basis. The latest to receive
the concession are the employees of
the company's mills at Berlin, N. H.,
where the new time schedule will go
Into effect July 1.
Farm help is SO scarce through the
agricultural sections of Connecticut
that farmers are uniting to pay the
expenses of advertising for and bring
ing to some central point men and
women from the .seaports where i'm
migrants are obtainable.
It is estimated that 10000 laborers
will be needed during this season in
different sections of Canada in con
STRUGGLING new railroads. New steam