The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-10-24

as L. Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers of America stated that the oper-
ators and miners of Montana and Wy
oming have signed an agreement as
to wages on the basis of last years
scale, and $4,000 men who have been
idle since September 1 will not return
to work. Lewis declares the report
that w. D. Ryan of Springfield, ILL.,,
secretary of the United Mine Workers,
has resigned his office is untrue. Ryan
has not resigned, said he, nor will he
resign, but in few days he will make
known officially his determination not
to be a candidate for reelection at
the end of his term.
Washington.-Viciss of the
wooden manufacturing industry in
France, obstacles which hamper its
growth and the competition it meets
on the part of energetic spinners and
weavers of other countries, are de-
scribed in report by Special Agent
w. A. G. Clark at Roubiax. He says
the English wool manufacturing in
dustry is steadily increasing. the
United States and Germany are rapid.
ly forging ahead, and Italy is begin
ming to struggle for place among the
leaders. France Is tagging behind and
it's industry as whole is stationary.
Cleveland, O.-The strike declared
on July Is by the boilermakers in the
shops of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago & st. Louis has been ended be-
cause the strikers were unable to get
boilermakers in the shops of other
in
tenn to go out on sympathetic strike
The strike was declared because the
piece-work system was adopted in the
new Beech Grove shops of the Big
Four. The Beech Grove shops were
not involved.
Geneva, Switzerland.-The canton
of Zurich has, by 49,412 votes, against
33,928, passed a general strikes acts,
prohibiting picketing and infiicting
punishment for preventing persons
from working by bodily force, threats,
Or libel. Other cantons are contem.
plating the Introduction of some
what similar measure, and all over
Switzerland this move has been re-
ceived with warm support on the part
of most of the inhabitants.
Winnipeg, Mantle Canadian i'm
migration officials at Emerson inter-
cepted party of machinists, car re-
pairers, and boilermakers at the in
ternational boundary and refused
them admittance, turning them back
to the United States. Some of the
| men had written contracts to work
with the Canadian Pacific railway,
| contrary to the Canadian alien labor
law Their tickets read from Chicago
to Winnipeg.
Ottawa, Can.-The engineers of the
Canadian Northwestern have applied
for Dominion arbitration board, and
ask for an entirely new schedule,
| which includes a revision of working
hours-a Encouragement of routes with
| respect to senior and junior employees,
| and an increase in the wage schedules
of ten to fifteen per cent. There is
said to be no possibility of any serious
| trouble between the company and the
men.
New York-At the seventeenth an
| nual convention of the United Brew
| cry Workers of America there were
delegates present representing 1913 To-
proximately 10000. The International
Union of the Brewery Workers was or
ganized in Baltimore in 1886, when
there were but eight local unions and
membership roll of barely 5000.
Minneapolis.-Jud Milton D. Pur-
| dy of the United States federal court,
sitting in Minneapolis, granted an or
| der to the receivers of the Pillsbury-
| Washburn Flour Mills Company Ltd,
allowing the issuance of $750,OO0 in
receivers certificates, which was
shown as an absolute necessity to al
low the company's mills to operate.
Through this decision the temporary
affairs of the concern are settled.
Vincennes, Ind.-The Indiana State
Federation of Labor has asked Sam
uel Gompers to settle by telegraph
the fight of the green bottle blowers
delegates against seating the CONNER
| cial glass blowers delegation at the
labor convention here. Delegate Sui
livan of Evansville was denied seat
because of his activity for James e.
Watson, the Republican gubernatorial
candidate.
! Ottawa, Canada.-Canadian textile
workers have decided that the weekly
contributions should be increased from
8 to rs cents a week, and that repre-
sentation should be made to the gov
eminent in such way that the law
| stating that women and children
should not be allowed to work over
SIS hours a week should be enforced.
Winnipeg, Mantle Canadian Pa.
| cific mechanics strike has been Of
ficially declared off. The settlement
of the strike was first announced
through the conservative government
in this province The terms are those
brought in by the board of concilia.
ton under the Lemieux act, for set.
thing labor disputes. The men return