The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-01-18
NEWS OF The LABOR WORLD
Items of General Interest for the Busy Work.
ingman and His Friends.

Salem, Nassau increase of five
per cent in wages was announced in
the mills of the Naumkeag Steam Cot
ton Company, of this city, going into
effect on December 81 and applies to
about 1900 employees.
Louisville, Ky-A peaceful boy
colt" has been declared legal by Judge
Kirby in the chancery division of the
circuit court. The case came up on
complaint of an employing butcher
who sought to have the members of
the butchers union restrained from
circulating notices that his plant was
hostile to the interests OF organized
labor.
Washington.-The undue prevalence
of tuberculosis among workingmen,
which has led pretty nearly every ma
tional union in the American Fedora
ton of Labor to consider plans for the
establishment of homes for their con-
sumptive members similar to that
maintained by the printers, is illus
trated in the quarterly report of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees just
issued. The mortality record for the
past three months showed that one
| third of the entire so deaths was due
| to the great while. plague.
hington-Conditions through
out the country in the trades unions
are generally good, according to re.
! ports received at the headquarters of
| the American Federation of Labor
! Among the national organizations
| sending in reports are the asbestos
| workers, billposters, brushmakers,
| carriage workers, cigarmakers, horse
shoers and hotel employees. In the
| last named nine new unions have re-
Gently been organized and $1,000 paid
| out in death benefits. Lace curtain
| operatives in Philadelphia have Sc
cured 43-hour week for shift work
ers and SO hours for day workers af-
ter four weeks strike
| Chicago.-Announcem was made
to $4,000 employees of the Illinois Steel
company that they would receive 10
per cent wage increase. The same
rates of advance are to apply at the
plants of the company on the North
Side and at Joliet and Milwaukee. 1t
is expected also that the increase will
be extended to all the plants of the
United States Steel corporation.
| shington.-Reports of the state
labor bureaus show that capital and
labor in many important industries are
working in closer harmony and that
| trade agreements have in numerous
instances supplanted the strike and
lockout methods of settling industrial
disputes.
| Chicago-President Roosevelt anti
race suicide theories are to receive the
hearty Endorsement of Chicagos union
| labor. An organization is being per-
fected which will place premium on
child birth. One hundred dollars is to
be paid to the wife of each member
of the association at the birth of
child. Should the stork leave twins
at the home of the union man the pre-
MUM will be raised to $3.50. and $500
will be paid cheerfully in the event OF
triplets. There is twofold purpose
in the object of the proposed bene-
ficiary organization, one of which is
to insure the father and mother of a
stated sum at the time when it is
greatly needed, and the other is one
which has back of it purely union
| principles-to remove women from the
field of labor and place her where
she rightfully belongs, in the home.
Boston-President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor has
received an appeal from the working
men of Porto Rico asking aid in stop
ping the abuses suffered by them. It
is stated that while the invasion of
the American Federation of Labor into
that country has secured for the work
ingmen many improvements in labor
conditions it is necessary for the Amer
lean authorities to take a hand. The
employers in that island, according to
the statement, hold the laborers in
little esteem. There is a contempt
for their work and thereby the econOm-
ic and political power of the working
men is extremely limited. The en-
ployers, it is charged, maintain a be-
nevolent despotism over the laborers.
New York.-The Bookbinders' Inter-
national union, is arranging for the es-
tablishment of the eight-hour day. The
employers, however. are combining to
contest the move. International Presi-
dent Robert Checking has sent warn
ing letters to all local unions inform.
ing them to be on their guard.
General Labor News.
International Lathers' union has 201
, locals in the United States and Cam
ada.
The wages of San Francisco (CS1.)
, marine painters has been increased SO
cents daily.
/ Cornelius Ford, president of the
, New Jersey State Federation of La.
Dor, recently charged that wholesale