The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-02-21

antitrust act awarding to the com
plainant three times the amount of
| damage sustained by combination in
| restraint of interstate trade can be
| invoked to prevent boycott by or
ganiZed labor was held in decision
by the supreme court in the case OF
LoeWe & Co.. hat manufacturers OF
Danbury, Conn.,, against Martin Law
lor and 200 other members of the
United Hatters' union OF that city.
The decision reversed the holding OF
| the United States circuit court of ap-
peals. Loewe & Co., alleging damages
| by boycott to the extent of $4,000,
asked for judgment for $4,000. Not
only the hatters' union, but the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, of which
the union is subordinate organiza-
ton, was included in the bill.
Pittsburg, Pa-The glass workers
| in the Pittsburg district, who former.
| ly were members of the defunct
Amalgamated Window Glass Workers
of America, dissolved by decision OF
Judge Phillips in Cleveland, recently.
| decided to become members of the
| National Window Glass Workers, the
new organization which supersedes
the dissolved union. In so doing the
Pittsburg preceptory thus ratifies the
four-trade membership, which is the
basis of the new organization, taking
in the blowers, gatherers, cutters an6
fatteners.
| Cincinnati.-Efforts of the United
TypOthetae of America to force the
International Printing Pressmen's anl
| Assistants Union of North America t6
live up to an alleged agreement whereby
the eight-hour workday would not be
| instituted until after January 1, 1909
met with defeat in the United States
| court when Judge Thompson handed
down decision in which he says the
| union committee did not have the
power to bind the union by the agree
ment it entered into with the commit
| tee from the Typothetae.
London, Eng.-The minister for
mines in New Zealand, in his lately
published annual statement, refers
to the fact that the two state-owned
collieries of that dominion, during the
financial year ended March 81, 1907, re-
turned total profit. The operations
| of the mines, it is also stated, have
been extended. and in connection with
one of them-the Seddonville colliery
la bri1uette mandatory has been es
tablished at Westport.
London, Eng.-At the annual con
ference of the Miners Federation 81
Great Britain, labor member Enoch
Edwards, in his presidential address.
pointed out that there was no quarrel
with capital, the trouble arose over the
way in which it was used, and the
workmen, he declared, must have
some say as to what was to be their
share for producing it. S. - p !. Il II II
Cleveland, O.-All of the false work
and part of the iron work on city
bridge being constructed by nonunion
men was wrecked by dynamite. Much
damage also was done to factory walls
and windows in the immediate vicin-
fly. This is the fifth attempt that has
been made here since January / to
wreck bridges being constructed by
nonunion men.
Montgomery, Ala.-The Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company has an
nounced a general reduction of forces
in the machine shops along its lines.
Many men were dropped from the
shops at Mobile, Pensacola, Montgom
cry, Birmingham and Decatur. OF
ficials of the company say that the
reduction is due to marked falling
of in business.
Berlin, Germany.-German trades
unions have already been compelled to
cut in half their doles to the unem-
ployed. Similar conditions prevail in
Austria, to which country more Ameri-
can emigrants have returned in q
fortnight than departed.
Dhilade1phia-The Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company will further reduce
it's expenses by withdrawing its Black
Diamond express. Retrenchment on
a basis of ten per cent. is being made
in the operating department.
Neutrality-suspicious., Canada, was
the place and January of next year the
time selected for holding the next an.
nual convention of the Custom Cut
ters' association of America at the SEES
sion of that organization.
Chicago.-A careful canvass of the
labor situation in Chicago recently
showed that there are in the city 1885,
$50 idle working people. Normally
there are $4,000 men out of work at
this season of the year.
Amesbury, Mass.-Notices posted at
the Hamilton mills announced that a
weeks shutdown would go into effect
in all departments. The mills turn out
cotton print cloth and employ 700
hands.
i Pottsville, Pa.-Two more big open
hearth furnaces have resumed work,
while the 19-inch and 28-inch rolling
mill departments of the Eastern Steel
Company's mills also started up full
handed. Thirty eight collieries Of the
Reading Coal and Iron Company. en-
ploying 10000 men, who have been idle
| since January %, have resumed.