The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-01-17

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this city that, as a result of the agita-
ton started some time ago in the San
Francisco labor council in regard to
first-class mechanics being rated as
second-class and paid second-rate
wages for first-class work at the
Mare Island navy yard, has resulted in
the wage board making an investiga-
ton and sending special committee
to this city to obtain facts and figures
as to the wages paid to mechanics
along certain lines. 1t said that the
board will make a recommendation
to increase the wages of certain
trades.
Indianapolis.-Unde the supervi-
sion of James NJ. Lynch, president of
the International Typographical union,
book is being prepared at cost of
$4,000 for the first edition of 10000,
relating to the Union Printers home
at Colorado Springs, Colo. 1t will con-
tain an exhaustive description of the
home, it's management and plans for
the future. 1t is to be profusely il
Illustrated and the star picture will be
a reproduction, reduced size, of wa
ter color of the home, five by six
feet, by Eugene Ford, an artist of note
of Minneapolis, MINI.
New York.-Wigmakers of New
York have organized the Human
Hair Workers union and threaten a
strike. 1t is said that as soon as the
organization is completed a demand
will be made for shorter hours and
higher wages. The wigmakers say
there are hundreds of wig wearers in
the city whom they know and who will
be asked to help the strike along.
Newcastle, Pa-Ten of the 80 hot
mills of the Shenango tin mills here
resumed operations. Ten additional
mills will resume shortly after, and it
is expected that the entire plant will
be running full force before the end
largest tin plant in the world, has
been idle since July 81. Fully a thou
sand men are affected.
Racine, Wis.-Managers of indus
tries which laid OF men during the
recent financial stringency now state
| that the conditions are rapidly chang
ing for the better, and that the shops
| will be operating full time and with
| the usual number of hands. Another
indication of returning confidence is
the fact that local banks are cashing
all checks offered.
New York.-Following the lead of
| the Erie railroad the New York Cen
| trail announced a reduction of 10 per
cent in the wages of it's $4,000 en-
| ployes. The cut will be made January
| 1, 1908. An official of the Central has
made the statement that the reduction
might be Offset in part by the dis
| charge of the newer employees of the
| company.
CentralianIll. = One thousand min
ers. employees of the four mines op-
Grated by the Centralia Coal company,
went on a strike because the com
pany failed to pay entry yardage
which the joint state committee of
| operators and, miners decided the com.
pany should pay.
Salt Lake City, Utah-The Utah
Consolidated Shelter company sus-
pended operations on January 1. The
working force at the mine will also be
cut down to a development basis. In
all about 5000 men are thrown out OF
work.
Milwaukee.-The Wisconsin Engine
company's plant at Corliss resumed
operations, full time, giving employ.
ment to 500 men, and SO many orders
have been received that preparations
for enlarging the plant are under way
Fall River, Mass.-Cash dividends
of $2,701,875 were paid to stockhold
ers by Fall River cotton mill corpor
ations for 1907. On a capital of $25,
475,000 this dividend is about 1897 pei
cent. Stock dividends amount to 81,
| 100000 in addition. Operatives have
been and still are receiving the high
est wages ever paid here.
London.-The great economic sub
ject of the day in all England is that
of old-age pensions. The chancellor OF
the exchequer, H. H. Asquith, has
promised to introduce government
scheme next session, and says he will
appropriate two million sterling, ($10,
O00.OOO) for the purpose.
Binghamton, N Y.-John L. Sulli
van, a switchman employed on the
Erie at Susquehanna, was shot and
killed by an unknown strikebreaker
The ball passed completely through
Sullivan's skull and he lived less than
an hour.
Philadelphia.-State officers OF
Pennsylvania have begun an investi
cation into the claim that between
1000 and 5000 miners and breakers
now employed in mines are under the
legal age required by the child labor
| laws.
Johnstown, Pa.-Every department
of the Cambria Steel company's plant
here has resumed operations, with Il
per cent. of the men laid off during
the financial stringency returning to
work.
Cumberland, Md.-Nearly 500 men
of the shop and yard force of the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad here were laid