The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-02-14
GENERAL MENTION.

Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union laSel-that's all.
Look for the union label.
II. it Is not labeled, refuse it.
The recent telegraph strike cost
500 1000 900
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
Srs & Perkins.
In New York City electrical work
ers receive IS a day. of eight hours.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters will
hold its annual convention in Salt
Lake City.
One hundred and fifty firemen are
employed on some of the great Amer
ican liners.
Among the organized women work
ers in. Germany, 1872 belong to the
metal trades.
Twenty-fifth annual ball, Lincoln Ty-
biographical Union. Fraternity Hall,
February rs.
In Italy the membership of trade
unions decreased from 240,689 in 1902
to 204.271 in 1907.
There are 1888 BARRIERS and hair
dressers in the United States: 1866
$50 walters and S3,S75 barkeepers.
Germany has altogether SO labor
colonies where the unemployed can
obtain work ms right.
The immigration to Canada for the
first ten months of this year totalled
254.O77. an increase of SO, 1O3.
Unions in England are endeavoring
to municipalize the milk supplies for
the protection of the health of the
public, and especially of the children.
Colonial Secretary Smutz, of the
Transvaal, has declared that if the
Chinese are retained they will eventu-
ally drive the whites out of that coun-
try.
The municipalization of the AIDE
laide, Australia, tram service has re-
suited in shortening the hours of la
Dor, and an increase of wages of en-
ployes.
The French government has issued
statistics showing that 100000
working men and women make regu-
lar deposits in the postal savings
bank. The savings aggregate $685.,
100000.
A careful canvass of the labor stu
alton in Chicago recently showed that
there are in the city 1889 idle work
ing people. Normally there are $4,000
men out of work at this season of the
year.
It was stated at a meeting of the
Municipal Council of Schoeneberg. a
suburb of Berlin, recently, that there
were 10000 skilled and $4,000 un-
skilled workmen idle in Berlin alone.
A proportionate number are idle in
other industrial centers and in the
farming regions
rough count of the census of
Cuba cabled to the war department
by Governor Magoon shows the total
population of the island to be $685.
282. In looking for outside trade just
now American piano manufacturers
ought to find in Cuba some pretty
good piano territory.
Russia, anxious to develop the col
onization of Manchuria and Trans
baikalia, has sent emissaries to Buko-
wilma to divert part of the America
bound emigration to Russian Asia.
The inducements offered include
grants of land. lumber and other
building material. 300 rcubles ($150),
farm implements and free transporta.
ton.
Alexander Hume Ford, the maya
zine writer, writing to Honolulu from
Fill. says that the Hindoo coolies, in.
troduced there as laborers for the
sugar plantations, are fast driving
the white population out of Fiji, and
are even driving the native Fijian tC
the wall, and will eventually not only
he the laborers. but the owners of the
sugar industry.
The discovery of bed of white
coal at Wrightsburg, Mclean county
Illinois, has been reported. Speci
mems of the coal will be analysed by
experts for the purpose of determin
ing the composition and value of the
deposit for commercial purposes. The
coal is of grayish white with con