The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-03-21
GENERAL MENTION.

Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
Look for the union label.
The union laSel-that's all.
If it Is not labeled, refuse 1t.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
Us & Perkins.
The textile trades of Russia show
union membership OF 37,215.
Cinnamon in Wellington, New Zea-
land, have formed union for tneir
mutual protection.
Eight hours constitute days work
for the woodcaryers in New York city.
for which they are now paid S..
Part of the coal mines in the Jellico,
Ky, district, have shut down and the
balance are working half time.
Among the hundreds of barber shops
doing business in Washington, there
are only forty-six union shops.
Boston has secured the next BIZ
ennial convention of the Bricklayers
and Masons' International union.
The next annual convention of the
Custom Cutters association will ne
held at Ontario in January, 1909.
Gasfitters are among the best paid
mechanics in New South Wales. They
receive higher wages than the plumb
ers.
apolis, Ind, has increased the per
capita tax to cents instead of l cent
month.
The Bay and River Steamboatmers
union has been admitted to represen
tation in the San Francisco Labor
council.
The wages Of composers in the gov
eminent printing Office have been in-
creased from $4.24 to $40 day
Of eight hours
The German government is prepar
ing to enact laws to reduce the hours
OF labor of women workers and abolish
Right work completely.
The New South Wales labor con-
ference rejected resolution in favor
Of socalizing all means of production,
distribution and exchange,
Not withstanding the arrest of the
rnionists of New Orleans, the labor
movement of that city is doing bust
ness in the same old hustling way.
The Pittsburg Labor Tribune asks
the question, when is a guilty trust
not guilty." That's easy, brother, if
you know the name of the judge.
A band of $50 musicians, the largest
land ever assembled in this country,
played at the annual concert of the
Boston Musicians Protective union.
The ten-hour day has been resumed
at the Pere Marquette shops at St.
Thomas, Canada. The eight-hour day
existed under the recent receivership
The Central Labor Union, of Nor
folk. Va, has gone on re cord as OPP
posed to foreign immigration, includ-
ing both skilled and unskilled work
men.
According to the Missouri Trades
Unionist, there are more than one
Thousand miners idle in the Dies
Lodges and Fall River districts OF
Missouri.
The Trades and Labor council of
Oklahoma City. Okla, has adopted
resolutions declaring against Secre
tary Taft for the nomination for the
presidency.
A strong voice, threatening atti-
tuie. and bellyful of booze is a
mighty poor combination to use to
convince the other fellow you are
right. Smoke up!
At the instance of the bosses, the
Mineral Water and Bottlers' Union of
New York has been enjoined from in
any way interfering with or organic
ing their employees
Organizer J. T. Laycock, of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees IN
ternational Alliance, IS at Brockton
Mass. seeking to organize the old;n.
AIRY workers of ;ha. city
All the electricians employed by
the Nevada-California Power company
in Goldfeld, New, went on strike re
Gently, refusing to accept the new
wage scale of Sc day.
Charles w. Bernhard, well known
member OF Atlanta, Ga, Typographical