The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21


and Trinidad.
GLASGOW, Scotland.-A dispute hav-
ing arisen in the plumbing trade, the
master plumber decided to issue no.
tees of a lockout.
New York.-For strike benefits,
$11S,332.70 was paid out by the United
Brewery Workmen of America for the
two years ending August Is.
Edinburgh, Scotland.-Coopers, who
are on strike are to ask trade union
lists the world over to boycott the beer
of the brewers who will not agree to
the demands OF strikers.
London, Eng.--In several London
printing establishments women are
employed as compositors, folders, nu-
merical printers. perforators, wire
stitchers and book sewers.
Sedalia, Mo.-Effeetive November q
all section men employed on the Mis-
souri,, Pacific. Iron Mountain system,
will receive an increase in wages Of
from $1.25 to $1.35 a day.
Memphis, Tenn. - An industrial
school for this city and Shelby county
is the probable outcome of a move
ment which has been set ON foot by
the builders exchange. of Memphis.
San Francisco. - American and
French laundries of Oakland, Berke-
ley and Alameda are organizing anti
Japanese leagues. Stockton laundries
! liar lines.
London, Eng.-After being out on
strike Cor some weeks, the Kilton,
north of England, ironstonc miners
have resumed work on the terms that
were offered to them before they
ceased work. The whole matter is to
| be submitted to arbitration.
| Fort Wayne, Ind.-The big Pennsyl-
vania shops began to work Is hours a
week to get ready for the rush Of traf-
fic that is expected to make a car
shortage before another month. In
addition over 100 men were added to
the payroll. The force had been
working only IS hours a week. Or
ders were also issued increasing the
hours in the Wabash shops to IS a
| week.
| Washington So per cent. .of
| the employees of the cotton mills in
Japan are women and girls, and they
receive, on an average, 1917 cents a
day. for IL hours work. The men av-
| erage double what the women get.
| While there are no labor unions in
| this industry. there. is a chance that
before very long unions will be formed,
as they now exist in other branches
of industry.
! Boston, Mass.-The 1890 machin-
lists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, steam
| filters, and their helpers and the men
of the other crafts at the big locomo-
| tive shops of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad at Read
vile started on full-time schedule.
The men have been working on a
five-day basis for two months and
during the early summer were en-
| ployed but four days a week.
| New York - During the three
months from June. the Bureau of Me-
diation and Arbitration of New York
| received copies of "a formal trade
| agreements between organized wage
| workers and employers, either indi-
vidually or in association, entered into
since the first of last January, and
not heretofore listed. 1t is a notable
|
whole number contain some provision
for the settlement Of any disputes that
may arise during the life of the agree
ment.
London, Eng.-Changes in the hours
! of labor in the United Kingdom in
| 1907 were almost all in favor of the
work-people They affected a total of
| $4,000 operatives, of whom 35, 400 had
their hours reduced. OF the latter,
IA, 400 were in .he building trades and
IL, 100 in the textile industries. The net
effect of the changes was an aggre-
gate reduction of working hours of 49,.
900 hours week of all the persons af-
fected. The preceding figures do not
relate to agricultural laborers, rail
way servants or seamen.
Washington. - Notwithstanding ef-
forts Of labor leaders to have the
question decided before the general
elections, Justice Wright, in the dis
trict supreme court, postponed until
November 10 consideration of the case
of Samuel GOmpers, president; John
Mitchell, vice-president, and Frank
Morrison, secretary, of the American
1 Federation of Labor, who were
charged with contempt of court. The
case grew out of suit for injunction
instituted against the labor off cials by
the Bucks Stove and Range Company
of st. Louis.
Madrid.-It is reported that the cop
per miners in the Rio Tinto district
will go on strike. Detahments of cav.
airy and infantry and gendarmes have
left Huelva for the district to maintain
order.
london, Eng.-The General Fedora
tioa of Trades Unions has issued a
manifesto declaring that there are
1 ,5JO,00O unemployed in the United
Kingdom, with 100000 suffering de.
pendents. The federation recommends
the creation of a minister of labor
and a nermanent ..unemnloYment''