The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-03


joining the Retail Clerks union.
Boston.-Several more shops have
granted the bookunders the eight
hour day.
San Francisco.-A movement is on
foot in California to form state
council of carpenters.
San Francisco.-The Sailors Union
Oh the Pacific celebrated its twenty
second birthday recently.
Montreal Canada.-The telephone
girls have organized in affiliation with
the Electric Workers union.
Chicago = Foundry laborers are
making a national move to enforce
the nine-hour day where it does not
exist
Rome.-The pope has decided to
send special missionary to Panama
to study the character of the laborers
employed on the canal.
London.-The British parliamentary
labor party is endeavoring to bring
about closer unity of the miners
and other trade unions.
New York.-lt is the intention of
the International Photo Engravers'
union to establish fund for aid of
consumptive members.
Washington.-Pers are not al
lowed to enter the Transvaal, South
Africa, unless they possess ego. or
have secured employment.
Cape Town, South Africa-In prac-
tically all parts of Cape Colony the
supply of labor in the building, en-
gineering and other trades, especially
that of carpenters, painters and brick
layers, is equal to or exceeds the de-
mand.
Ell Paso. Textile Western FEEDER
alton of Miners has organized a union
at Bisbee, Ariz., and issued an ulti
matum to the companies that strike
would take place unless the union is
recognized. Three thousand men are
affected.
Milford. Mass.-All the stonecutters
employed by three granite companies
went on strike recently because of
the refusal of the companies to grant
them an increase of three cents an
hour in wages and a Saturday half
holiday throughout the year.
New York.-The average union
scale of the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes is 231a cents an hour, the
average service day fraction less
than ten hours, and the average num-
Der of days worked year 800.
Portland Ore.-The Cigarmakers'
Union initiated movement some
time ago TO fix a uniform wage scale
or bill OF prices for the states of Ore
gon and Washington. AT present
each union fixes it's own scale of
wages. and the action contemplated
is somewhat of an innovation
Chicago.-Butcher worlmen who
tied up the meat packing industry
throughout the country in 1904. and
vino finally suffered defeat in the
struggle, have been organizing for
several months and, it is said, are
shout to present new demands to the
packers.
Salt Lake City.-Plumbers are on
strike for a wage of five dollars a
day The pay heretofore was $3.50.
The Master Plumbers association
leaders say that if they must pay five
dollars day they will pay it to non
such. The union plumbers have the
situation well in hand and the non
union men as yet have failed to ma
terialize.
Boston. Mass.-The Cigarmakers
Union has added local sum to three
doiiar-a-weekout- ofwork benefit paid
by the international to all unemploy-
Cd members.
Chicago.-Railway clerks who are
affiliated with the Freight Handlers
union have made move TO get a
wage increase of Is per cent. They
are now holding conferences with the
various freight agents and expect
they win get an advance without
much trouble. There are between
500 and 1000 of the clerks organ
lied aad their wages average about
SIS month.
Great Falls, Mont-The machnists'
the electrical workers and the black
smiths unions, whose strike tied up
the smeters of the Boston and Mon
tana. as well as the mine of that sub
sidiary of the Amalgamated Copper
company in Butte, signed five-year
sliding scale contract and all have re-
sumed work. The settlement was on
the same basis as that reached at
Butte between the employers and the
miners and smelter men. This as
sures industrial peace in the Montana
mining world for five years at least,
every union having signed the scale.
Chicago-None but American citi-
zens will be permitted to work as sec
ton hands on railroads if a new labor
union, embracing all section hands
employed on railroads west and
southwest succeeds in getting its de-
mands granted by the general man.
ayers committee.
New York. According to the
American Federationist, 947 labor
unions, with a membership of 102 $40,