The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-01

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wrights and Joiners on the Wear was
recently amicably settled by mutua!
agreement at conference held at
Sunderland, reduction of Is per
week instead of Is Cd being agreed
to- The fear of a lockout in the |
district is thus averted
The Louisville & Nashville Rail |
road company has announced a gen.
eral reduction of forces in the ma
chine shops along its lines. Many !
men were dropped from the shops at |
Mobile, Pensacola, Montgomery, Bir-
mingham and Decatur. Officials of the |
company say that the reduction is
due to a marked falling off in bust
ness.
Another move to use the convicts
al the penitertiary in the making of
d system of good roads has been
started in Chicago. At present in
the neighborhood of 200 convicts are
used at the penitentiary at Joliet
preparing road materials for use in
the state The promoters of the new
movement want the scope extended
When completed Kansas City's
! labor temple will cost nearly 100000,
and the union men of Kansas City
| ture. The building will be four
stories high, and already to the third
| floor has been completed. The labor
| people are furnishing the funds for
the temple, and are raising the
| money among the local unions
| Illinois has new law, which
| went into effect recently that will
| virtually prevent the importation OF
that state are on strike ! The law
requires all coal miners to pass an
examination. The examiners are
practical miners and union men, and
they can prevent the importation of
strikebreakers.
Railroad employees throughout Mex
| leo are planning organization of
union which will have for its sole
aim the exclusion of Americans from
connection in any capacity with the
various roads. 1t is said that 80 per
| cent of tn men of the railroads are
S.exicans, the cher 10 per cert of-
| the positions being held principally
| by Americans.
Because of the activity of orga-
nized labor in Toledo, the board of
| education recently gave West Vir-
| einia non-union coal the go by. The
laborites asked the board not to
recognize a standard of living based
! on 17-cent rate of mining against
that of SO cents ton prevailing in
Ohio, and the moral side of the ques-
| ton won the day.
| Mine Inspector P. C. Fenton of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania district, com
rrising II col1ieries, employing TO-
men and boys, in his report for June
has a clear record, save one non-fatal
accident. This is the first time since
the formation of the Twelfth district
/
! port did not show at least one fatal
accident.
To solve the problem of a normal
living wage in a city like Chicago
or New York an investigation was
recently conducted by a committee
CT charity workers, sociologists and
college professors. 1t showed that
1856 a year was the normal minimum
wage for fair standard of living
for the average family of husband.
wife and three children.
The International Brotherhood OF
Leather Workers does not hold CON
| ventions as is the case with other in
terntaional unions. All it's business is
transacted at the annual sessions of
the executive board, composed of the
president, secretary-treasurer and
four vice-presidents. Proposed changes
are submitted to a referendum vote
Of the local unions
The International Brotherhood of
Leather Workers has declared for a
universal eight-hour day, and a eau
Gus of all the local unions within
the jurisdiction of the international
union will be held in September to
decide upon the date when the
shorter workday will be put into
effect. The meeting will be held in
Kansas City, where the international
union has it's headquarters.
The arbitration law adopted by
Australia for the purpose of settling
labor disputes worked well for a
time and it was supposed by the