The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-06


trict. Inquiries developed the infor-
nation that not only had some over
Jealous calamity bowler run short of
material and drawn on his magma
ton for what he lacked in facts, but
that Midvale would be compelled to
increase its force of thousands of
workmen in the course of month
or so.
Pittsburg. Pa.-Notices at the local
mills of the Spang & Chalfant COM
pany announced reducti. IL in wages
of puddlers to five dollars ton. The
mill will be temporarily closed, throw
ing 600 men out. The H. G.. Frick
company plants at Connellsville laid
off all of it's shipping clerks. Many
of the ovens have been banked. The
plant of the Interstate Steel company
at Breckenridge has closed. Two hun
dred and fifty men are affected.
South Bethlehem, Pa-Of1cials de-
MED the rumor that the Bethlehem
Steel company was about to discharge
several thousand men. The recent
completion of the new Saucon plant
necessitates the discharge of several
hundred laborers, and in some depart
ments there has been reduction of
forces for economical reasons, but the
employment bureau is still open and
any good mechanic will be given work.
Chicago. railway sys-
TENS in the west and middle west,
many of them operating from Chicago,
have made large reductions in the
number of employees in the mechani
cal, construction and maintenance of
way departments during the past few
days. Between $4,000 and 10000 have
been laid off. No great reduction in
the train service so far has been or
dered
Indianapolis.-Man of the labor
union publications of the country have
editorials in regard to John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, in which they speak
highly of the ability of Mr.. Mitchell
and express the hope that he will soon
be able to resume his position as the
head of the miners. The editorials
show the widespread popularity of the
man.
San FranciscO.-According to infor-
| nation received from New Castle,
| N. s. W., the effect of the great strike
of coal miners there is felt throughout
Australia. Miners, railroad men and
dock men are out in sympathy with
the strikers, and all vessels bound for
ports of the world which had put into
| New Castle to load coal are held up
in the harbor.
London, Eng. An International
agreement forbidding night work In
| factories by women has been signed
| by England, France, Germany, Aus
tria. Italy, Denmark, Spain, Belgium.
Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. It
will be put in practice in December,
1910.
| Boston.-Twenty-five thousand chill
dren between IA and Is years of age
in the state of Massachusetts, are not
at school, was the statement in the
caption of the charts made from the
report of the commission for the in
dustrial exhibit in Boston.
| Omaha, Neb.-Six hundred thousand
nickels in bunch were turned loose
in Omaha when the Omaha Street
Railway company disbursed $780, 900
worth of the five-cent pieces in meet
ing the monthly pay roll of the con-
Germ.
Norfolk, Va.-By vote of 1854 to 80
the American Federation Of Labor re-
fused to place itself on record as n
voring the government ownership Of
railways and mines. The opponents
| toll hn me
ownership Of mines and railways
would prevent all strikes, no matter
how peaceably they might be con-
Quoted. and that with federal govern
ment opposed to labor, 1t might prove
a death blow.
Cleveland, O-The American Ship
building com ny laid OF 1000 men
at the yards in Lorain and the plant
will be closed. In the local yards q
Il amber of men were laid of. In the
yards at Bay City, Mich, 400 men
were laid off and the yards VIII be
closed Indefinitely. The money strin-
gency is given as the cause of the
curtailment.
New York.-General Superintendent
Brooks, of the Western Union Tele.
graph company. said that there had
been no change in the standard of op-
orators wages paid by the company
and that the report from Mobile, Ala.
to the effect that a reduction of ten
per cent. was to be made was without
foundation.
} Ottawa, Can.-The experiment of re-
cruiting skilled labor in England for
Canadian factories has now been tried
for seven months, and the COMMITTEES
of the Canadian Manufacturers asso
citation, which is responsible for the
!, labor bureau in London, Is abundantly
satisfied with the experiment SO far ~
it has gone.
Easton, Pa.-The Freemansbure
plant of the American Novelty com
: pany was closed 1t will remain idle