The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-22


threatens to spread throughout the
country. The trouble had it's origin
in the refusal of the men to accept
the terms of their employers relative
10 the payment of overtime rates and
in their objection to working extra
hours in the completion of contracts
The local Iron Masters association
decided to reduce the output OF all
their furnaces 60 per cent. in order
to coerce the men, and should this
measure not induce the riyeters to re-
turn to work, it is the intention of
the iron masters to introduce propo-
sition before the German National
Federation of Metal Workers to en-
tirely close down all their works
throughout the empire.
Cleveland, O., August 1.-The most
determined and systematic fight ever
made against organized labor on the
great lakes is now being waged under
cover of the open shop policy de-
clared by the Lake Carriers associa-
.tion last winter. The latest move in
the attempt to kill the unions, it is
alleged, is in requesting all stewards,
seamen, firemen and oilers to make an
affidavit renouncing all. allegiance to
their unions, swearing it is their in
tention not to join any, and taking
oath not to join in any strike Men
who make the affidavit are said to be
given employment. Those who refuse
find no work on the vessels on which
the afhdayits are demanded
London, England.-The relation of
the workingmen to the peace move
ment was the principal topic OF dis
cussion at the peace congress. The
general trend of the debates was in
favor of the idea that the workers of
the world should absolutely refuse to
take up arms unless the quarrel had
first been submitted to an impartial
international tribunal. A resolution
was adopted to invite representatives
of trade organizations to attend future
peace congresses on the ground that
the cause of peace lay largely in the
hands of the laboring man.
Boston, Mass.-More than 1000 men
are idle in New England as a result
of strikes and the shutting down of
several paper mills of the Interna-
tional Paper Company An order has
the company in New York to close the
mills because of low water and the
need of extensive repairs. An order
was received from President ]. F..
Carey of the International Brother
hood of Papermakers at Fort Ed
ward, N. Y, calling a strike in the
company's mills, on account of cut
of ten per cent in wages.
Scranton, Pa-The grievance board
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad switchmen appealed to
United States Commissioner of Labor
Charles P Neill and Chairman Mar
tin Knapp of the interstate commerce
commission, asking for the interven-
ton of President Roosevelt in the
controversy between the switchmen
| and the Lackawanna Company. They
say that if this appeal fails the strike
| order will be issued
London, Eng.-Cleyeland ironstone
miners have decided to press for a
| IL o'clock Saturday; that is, that
| operations shall cease at the mines at
IL o'clock Saturdays instead of one
O'Clock, but no stoppage OF work is
| likely to result if the masters refuse
to make this alteration. There has
been no general strike of the Cleve-
| land ironstone miners for more than
| 80 years.
| Scranton, Pa.-Despite the threats
| OF the Lackawanna switchmen to
strike, the company paid off and dis
charged 800 men employed about the
yards and the car shops in this city
because they believed they were try
| ing to form a union. No cause was
assigned by the company. but as the
men went for their wages they got the
| pink slip. The men allege that their
| activity has caused this wholesale dis
charge and they threaten to perfect
the organization and call out the en-
| tire shop
Niagara Falls, n. Y.-The local
| plant of the International Paper Com
pany is not open. the go men now
employed there having declared a
strike. The men say the company
has refused to renew its working
| agreement with the men unless they
accept a ten per cent. reduction in
wages. The superintendent of the
| mill says there is stock enough on
hand to tide the mill over long shut
down.
Cedar Rapids, lathe next conven
ton of the International Brotherhood
of Bookbinders will be held during the
second week in June. 1910, in this
city.
| Cheyenne, Wyo.-State Coal Mine
Inspector Young recommended to the
governor that the Hanna mine be
sealed forever as a tomb for the forty
nine miners buried there in an acct
dent last May. The inspector says
the management violated the laws gov.
erning the protection of underground
workmen.
| Pittsburg. Pa--The railway track
men are planning for the establish
| mont of home for ths,i,- in