The wageworker., 1908-08-15

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plications from the various parts of the
country by the Bureau of immigration
and Naturalization. The employment
secured was principally farm work.
San Francisco (Cal) Lodge No. 6S,
International Association of Machin-
lists, which has under it care Golden
West lodge of Machinists' Apprentices,
has adopted a plan by which the
youngsters are to be instructed by lee
lures on the different branches of the
trade.
The Baltimore & Ohio has posted an
order prohibiting employees from as
signing their wages, under penalty of
immediate suspension or discharge.
Employees have been victims of loan
sharks 1t is said that the Pennsylvan-
ia and the Reading will post similar
notices..
1t has already been decided by the
leather workers that they will make a
universal demand for the eight-hour
day within the next two years, but no
definite time has been set. The object
of their meeting at Kansas City, Mo-,
in September is to determine the date
1t is said that in the past six months
all of the contentious of the Black
smiths International with employers
against a reduction in wages and the
introduction of the piece or bonus sys-
| tenn have been successful, with the ex-
ception of the strike on the Rio Grande
which is still on.
The government laborers are trying
to force the British government to fix
minimum wage of thirty shillings
per week for all unskilled labor. The
officials of the Labor Protection Lea
que headed a deputation to the Chief
Superintendent of Ordnance Factories
regarding the matter.
| Six hundred boiler makers and ap-
prentices on the Big Four have quit
because the management wanted to
enforce the piecework system at the
Beach Grove shops, near Indianapolis
Ind. All the shops are closed, it is
said. There is talk of the roadmen
quitting in sympathy.
Freight handlers of the Grand Trunk
at Toronto, Canada, are on strike for
an advance of wages from 13 1-2 cents
for shed work and Is cents for loading
boats to the prices paid last year. IL
and 20 cents. The company has
brought men from other points to take
the places of the strikers.
Serious mining catastrophes record
have resulted in an increase in the
death rate from 1.29 in 1906 to 1872 ir
1907, but freedom from accidents is
greater in the collieries of the United
Kingdom than in those of other coun
tries except Austria and Belgium.
No further move is reported as re
CARDS the engineers strike on the
northeast coast of England. The an
ticipated new ballot of the men has no
come off, and the executives of the
unions involved do not appear to SEE
! their way clear for further action
The deadlock is complete.
A reorganization of the building
5 trades unions has been brought abou
: in Buffalo, N. Y, after many years O
/, warfare The new organization is
, branch of the building trades depart
] ment of the American Federation o
Labor. The Buffalo branch has
| membership of about 10000.
: New Bedford (Mass) Weavers
t Union has laid over the propose,
: amendment making it obligatory TO
/ members to have their families en-
e rolled in their respective craft organ
cations before becoming eligible t
0 hold any Office in the union or to reI
v resent the union in any labor CONVEX
= ton or central labor body.
:. The last of the Clyde shipbuildin
t strikes only came to an end recent
d when the tinsmiths resumed work o
the employers terms of reduced wage!
o The men had been on strike since tn
S commencement of the year. The wage
, dispute is therefore at an end in Gla