The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-10

opes. The Benton printery is unfair.
The Marine Firemen, Oilers and
Water Tenders Union of the Great
Lakes is now duly charted local OF
the International Seamen's Union c?
America.
The Erectors' Association. which
employs only non-union iron workers,
met in Chicago and decided to reduce
the wages of their Independents" 10
per cent.
Charleston, w. Va. carpenters stuck
on May L for the eight hour day, and
contractors employing so per cent of
the men signed up in less than twenty
four hours.
The Standard Railway Equipment
company of East ST. Louis have locked
out the machinists because they asked
FOR the same rate of pay i'll effect in
all other shops.
A lot of Lincoln mechanics are
yearning for some capitalist to build
lot of neat five and six room cot
tages that will rent for from SIS to
to $1s month.
The Illinois legislature passed. the
Canaday bill raising the maximum
amount of damages recoverable for
death by accident in coal mines from
5000 to $4,000.
Col. Joseph Shively, deputy COM
missioner of public lands and build
ings, sends So to The Wageworker and
says, Shove my subscription ahead as
far as you can with this
The pressmen got into the Labor
Temple game this week. Practically
every union pressman in the city has
pledged days work. There is room
for every other union man in the city.
Copmon laborers in the Armour
packing house at South Omaha struck
for higher wages last Monday. Their
demands were granted after a days
idleness. They now draw 10 cents an
hour.
A contract for five years has been
signed between the Chattanooga,
Chh., poSoA dPhASdi >hAoh anu tAO
newspapers. With one exception the
eight-hour day was agreed to by the
job offices.
The strike of the metal polishers
employed by William Hall & Co., of
Wollaston, Mass, because of the re-
fusal to grant a minimum wage of
So has been settled to the satisfaction
tf the union.
The Bartenders' International I'M
ion issued charters to six new locals
in January, including Schenectady, Los
Angeles Union has 260 members, and
the average wage scale is 81 week.
with ten-hour day.
Unless unexpected developments oc
cur more than 10000 cotton mill op-
eratives in Fall River. Mass, will have
their wages increased about 10 per
cent on May 81, when the working
agreement in force expires.
San Francisco is again in the throes
of labor war. Workingmen out there
actually seem to think that they are
entitled to some share of the wonder
full prosperity now being enjoyed along
the Pacific coast.
Six sterotypers in the Minneapolis
Tribune Office walked out because one
of their number was ordered to work
in the press room. The matter was
soon settled, and the sterotypers will
net do press work.
The master and journeymen BARRIERS
of Duluth, Mimi, have agreed upon
wage scale of SIG and up to $26 and
in excess one-half. The arrangement
places in the union ranks every barber
shop in that city with one exception.
The display of penitentiary-made
brooms was taken from the Ridge &
GuenZel show window on Eleventh
street two days after The Wageworker
called attention to 1t. The Wage.
worker is a great advertising medium.
After many unsuccessful attempts
which have been made within the last
seventeen years the roll turner's OF
the Pittsburg district have organized
and applied for a charter from the
International Association of Machin-
lists
At Detroit, Mich, the engineers who
are employed in the different brewer
les presented a schedule asking $50
per week for chief and $22 for Sec
ond men. The employers offered as
a compromise $2S per week for chief
and 500 per week for second engin-