The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-04-18

England cotton-miil operatives which
was recently decided upon became eff
tective in mills employing 1900 per
sons The reduction is due to the de-
preston of the cotton-goods market.
The city Or Fan River.
Lawrence and Berkshire county are
not included in the general reduction.
but may be affected later on The
is general throughout
New England. The average curtail-
ment is placed At from 30 to IS per
cent Of the production The cotton
mills of New England have about 15,-
000. 900 spindles- In Fail River, pro-
duction of print cloths was lessened
by about 155.00o pieces, the largest
amount held from the market this
year. 1t is probable that most of the
FAN River mills win adopt NJ. c. d.
Borden's policy and run On half-time.
closing every other week.
Washington.-In the next 50 days
the railroads of the United States will
have to find between go, 900 and 3o0.-
900 men to mend their tracks and
road beds and another large army to
go into their shops and repair their
cars and their locomotives. The rail-
roads centering in Chicago alone will
require more than 100000 laborers.
who viii be employed in remedying
which. with their frosts and their
SHOWS. have made many miles of
shaky track and as many more of
softened roadbed. The arrangements
of all Chicago roads have decided to
engage in repair and renewal work
this spring and early summer ON as
extensive a scale as ever. owing to
the fact that labor will be plentiful.
and possibly cheaper, and also owing
to the fact that there are signs of bust
ness renewal everywhere,
Chicago-Employes of the Chicago.
Milwaukee 4 St Paul road. by coop
Grating With the management to oh
tain the most rigid economy in opera
ton. have saved the necessity of 4
reduction in the rate of pay During
January $160.000 was thus saved. OF
which $4,000 was ON coal This is.
perhaps. the one item in which the
greatest economy is possible, As care
less firing of locomotives is one of the
most productive fields for extrava-
gance TO be found
Reading. pat the close of work
in the Beading Railway companys car
and locomotive shops March 81 coo
employees were laid on This is in
addition TO $50 who were Indefinitely
suspended last week The force had
been previously reduced. 50 that less
than two-thirds of the men are now n
work. Foremen have been placed in
the ranks and the plants are working
four days of eight hours each Sim
liar suspensions took place at Paio
L Washington.-TheE Employers asso
citation has rown down the gauge o.
battle-She LATHE for the open shoI
and it is said similar organization:
of employers in the large cities
backed by the Manufacturers asSocia
ton. viii make united and determined
efforts to maintain open-shop condi
tons. and that the contest in the com
ing spring will be general
Springfield. m-Illinois operator:
and miners were unable to reach Al
agreement on the differential between
machine and hand mining The oper
ators want the price for machine min
| ing ten cents per ton less than fol
hand mining. the same rs it is in Indi
ana The miners want the difference
now existing of seven cents per tol
retained
Pittsburg. Pa-From the year 1Se
Il
death in the coal mines of the Unite
States Not since 1897 has the an
nual list numbered less than LOCO. an
each year the number has grow
larger In 1906 the fatalities wer
s.o6I, and 1907. when the figures ar
all in and compiled, will number NOR
than that
Paris. France-Statisticss show tina
| in 1906 there occurred in France n
fewer than ]. 300 strikes. in which ass
466 persons We're concerned Thi
number included SSS.4s5 men, 81. 80
women and 1910 young persons {
both sexes Most of these strike
were successful in securing shorte
hours for the wage earners-
Springfield. Hl--William Seattle fo
IL years employed in the ONCE of tn
secretary of the Illinois state burea
of labor. has been appointed editor {
the United Mineworkers Journal pull
lished at Indianapolis. Ind
Sedalia- Mo--A notice was poste
AT the Missouri. Kansas & Texas raj
way shops announcing that the shop
which employ 5ao men. would be shl
down ON April L No explanation wa
given
New York--Controller Metz receive
three letters threatening him Wit
death unless work ON proposed SUI
ways is begun at once The writer
declared themselves 10 be neiths
black hand operators nor anarchist
but labOrers out of employment wi
must either work or s1arve-
New Haven. Conn--As an outcon