The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-01

uaVe started movement to secure
state printing plant for Minnesota.
elphia-Textile workers have
begun a movement in Kensington and
other sections of the city to obtain
higher wages.
London.-Keir Hardie is organizing
British Agricultural Labor League
on the lines of the union founded by
Joseph Arch in 1872
New York.-The police have
formed an organization to secure the
eight-hour day. They are asking the
assistance of the union men.
Boston.-A national union of wire
workers is suggested by the Boston
local of that craft, and it has elected
a committee to work to that end.
st. Louis.-The st. Louis, Rocky
Mountain & Pacific Coal company has
increased the wages of it's miners and
other employees in New Mexico 16 per
cent.
Philadelphia. = Pennsylvania will
have a child labor law which will be
effective, if the bill presented to the
legislature of that state is enacted
into a law.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Organized labor
is planning to establish bank. 1t
will be financed and operated wholly
by trades unionists. 1t is proposed to
place the institution in the new labor
temple.
Charleroi, Belgium.-The coal min
ers' strike is extending as result of
a meeting held in the darkness in
order to prevent the identification of
the orators who urged the audience
to kill strike breakers.
Los Angeles, Cal.-The Upholsterers'
union has obtained an increase in
wages in every furniture house in this
city. The union is very strong and is
doing good work for organized labor
in the southern part of the state.
Boston.-The street car mems state
convention, held in this city, decided
to make the request for a nine-hour
law. Patrick J. Sheehan, of Brockton,
was elected state president, and Will
liam J. Walsh, of Quincy, was reflect.
ed state secretary.
Berlin.-A bill has been introduced
in the Reichstag which proposes to
alter the law with regard to trade
unions. 1t is permissive bill to en-
able trade societies to register them
selves and thereby acquire the status
of corporations, to be able ito sue and
to be sued" The chief purpose is to
get legal ground for attaching the
trade union funds.
Chicago.-During the panic of 1893
and 1894 three trade unions of this
city gave more aid to their members
than all the charitable institutions in
the city combined gave to the home
less poor. According to the officers of
the charities, few, if any, trade union
lists asked for aid. This was because
the union man learned independence
and would not beg. He would only ac-
cept money from his union, money
paid in by the members and given
with the understanding that the recip-
lent was entitled to it.
Boston.-An agreement has been
reached between the executive com
mittee of the United Typothetae OF
America and the executive council of
the International Freshmen and AS
sistants' union, renewing the present
contract for term of five years. Up
on the leading question at issue, the
eight-hour day, compromise was
reached, by which the typothetae
agrees to grant the eight-hour day, be-
ginning January l, 1909. A slight in
crease in wages for some lines of
work goes into effect this year.
Pittsburg, Pa.-By a referendum
vote the Brotherhood of Painters To-
Gals have accepted the employers pro-
posal of 40 cents an hour for an eight
hour day and car fare for 1907. This
is the old scale, but some of the union
lists favored As cents an hour, while
still others voted for so cents.
London.-The action instituted by
the Miners Federation of Great Brit
ain to recover damages from the Unit
ed National collieries, Wallstown, on
behalf of the victims in the recent ex-
plosion, has been amicably settled, the
company agreeing to pay $4,000, in
Guiding costs, in excess of the amounts
recoverable under compensation This
guarantees to each widow $4,000.
Washington.-The third report on
Hawaii, printed in the Bulletin of
Labor" No. &C, contains information
which may prove interesting to the
seamen of the United States. Inter
island traffic is almost entirely in the
hands of single shipping combine,
which was formed by the union of two
companies, but not comparatively, until
June, 1905. In this combine the Amer
lean seaman has no place whatever,
and the Hawaiian seamen have been
almost wholly replaced by Japanese.
Washington.-The department of
justice has decided that railroad
workers are in the unskilled labor
class, and cannot be imported into the
United States under the alien con-
tract law.
London.-The Amalgamated Soci-
ETY. of Railway Servants, representa-
t:ves of all the railroad trade unions