The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-10-04
GENERAL MENTION.


Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union laSel-that's all.
Look for the union Label.
II it is not labeled, refuse it.
Steamitters in Hamilton. Ohio, have
organized.
Union made shoes are sold By Rog-
srs & Perkins.
Machinists on strike in the Falls
Machine Company. Sheboygan Falls,
Wis.
The bricklayers have again defeated
the proposition to affiliate with the
American Federation OF Labor.
The bricklayers are now following
up the structural iron workers on the
Little block. corner Eleventh and 0.
Industrial insurance employees are
organizing throughout the United
States, Union No l being in Boston.
The Vine street line of the Citizens
Street Railway company is now open
for traffic and is being well patron
lied.
The Massachusetts Liquor League,
at a meeting held at Fall River. unani-
mcusly voted to buy only union-made
cigars.
The Illinois Retail Clerks associa-
ton has elected Arthur Paterson, OF
Galesburg. president, and fixed So as
the minimum weekly wage.
The International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
have decided to continue the national
headquarters at Indianapolis.
The American Tobacco Company
has suddenly closed down the New
Jersey Machine Company, .manufac-
turers of cigar cutting and stripping
machines at Newark. n. j., throwing
200 employees out of work.
The New South Wales labor party
is fighting to retain the arbitration
court in preference to wage boards.
There is less danger of the sweating
evil being hidden when a wage case
is brought before the court.
International Vice President Stokes
OF the Metal Polishers union settled
the strike between the men and the
Locomotive Company in Dunkirk, N.
Y. the men going back under the day
work system and with an increase in
wages.
The fight started by the Missouri
Federation OF Labor against the pres
ent vicious system of leasing con-
victs in that state is being taken up
by manufacturers not only of Missouri
but of many other states
The Queensland Typographical AS
sociation at a recent meeting. besides
voting sum of money from its funds
for the West Australian Timber-get-
tiers. also sent round subscription
lists to its members in order to sup
plement the donation.
The Melbourne Trades Hall Council
is circularizing all affiliated unions to
know If they are willing to alter the
date of the Eight-Hour Day tApril 2D
to May l, so that eventually Australia
may have not only Federal. but also
an International Labor Day.
The engineers, firemen. woodwork
ers, metal polishers and metal work
ers. are on strike against the Theo.
A. Koch Barber Supply Company, of
Chicago, and while the fight has lasted
two months, there have been no de-
sprtiouc in tho ranks
The strikers on the Mesaba iron
range in Minnesota have taken up the
project of cooperative stores. 1t was
the cooperative stores that made bad
feeling against the miners in Colorado.
and 1t will probably prove an unpar-
donable sin in Minnesota. too.
The Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association in Greater New York has
demanded of the owners OF every
Transatlantic and Southern Steamship
flying the American flag for their en-
gineers a 5 and 10 per cent increase
In wages and reorganization of work
ing hours, to take effect October I.