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


can Window Glass Company, Presi-
dent Faulkner, newly reelected head
of the National Window Glass Work
ers, declared that an enormous in
crease in wages would be received by
the union men in the making of the
next wage agreement, next month.
The American company announced an
increase of 20 per cent on single
strength glass and 33 Is per cent. on
double-strength glass, to go into eff
feet at once. Mr.. Faulkner said that
means an increase of 40 per cent. in
wages for single-strength workmen
and of 66 % per cent for double
strength workmen.
Little Rock, Ark.-Severa1 promi-
nent members of the Arkansas Farm
ers' union met recently to discuss
plans of interest to the union ware
houses and gins of Arkansas. 1t was
suggested that Memphis be made a
clearing house for union cotton of
Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, and
that Little Rock be made a sub-clear-
ing house for Arkansas alone, and
that the union cotton be handled from
the local warehouses throughout the
state to the central warehouse in Lit
tie Rock, from the warehouse to Mem
phis, and from that point to the Eng.
lish spinners or other purchasers
Paris, France.-The "a hours gen.
eral strike in Paris, which was called
by the General Federation of Labor
as protest against the killing of
strikers at Vigneux, was failure, ex-
cept in the case of typesetters. The
electricians did not strike and a great
| majority of the men engaged in all
the other trades and even the labor
ers, who were largely responsible for
the Vigneux riot, reported for work.
The failure of the strike is generally
interpreted here as mortal blow to
| the General Labor Federation.
Minneapolis, Minn.-Through its po-
| Gtical organization the Minnesota
State Federation of Labor is working
| to secure the adoption, by the state
and municipalities, of the eight-hour
day, municipal ownership of public
service utilities, payment of wages
weekly, the initiative and referendum,
| securing better sanitary conditions,
| abolition of contract labor in state
prisons, compulsory education and
| employers liability act.
Denver, Colo.-Charles H. Meyer
was reelected president of the West
ern Federation of Miners. Ernest
Mills of Greenwood, B. c.. was elect
ed secretary-treasurer. A resolution
| was adopted extending aid to George
| A. Pettibone, one of the three men
taken to Idaho under the charge of
conspiracy to murder Gov Steunen-
burg, and who is dangerously ill at his
home in this city.
| Chicago.-Raises in pay were given
to 1906 post Office employees. All the
raises in salary were 800 on the
year, excepting in the case of promo
tons from the first to second grade.
In these cases the raises were from
$500 to $500 a year, the 500 grade
having been eliminated a year ago.
OF the men promoted LAP were
| clerks and 1854 were carriers.
| Pittsburg, Pa-After being idle for
about nine months the Leechburg
plant of the American Sheet and Tin
| plate Company resumed operations.
| About 40 men returned TO work. 1t
also is announced that the company's
mines in the vicinity of West Leecf-
burg, which have not been running
for some time, will be started up
again.
Chicago.-The strike declared by
| the employees of the Elgin-Belyidere
| Electric Company was settled and the
| regular schedule resumed. The COM
pany has agreed to recognize the
union and to pay the car operatives
% cents per hour. The substation en-
ployers are raised from $45 per month
to $3.50. All persons who were en-
! ployes of the company at the time the
walk-out was declared are to be rein
stated. All other differences are to be
settled by arbitration.
Steubenville, O.-Good news came
to the people of Mingo Junction when
official notice came to start up the
Carnegie Company mills at that place
four-fifths full This mill has been
idle nine months, repairs have been
made and two OF the four furnaces,
the blooming and sheet bar mills and
Bessemer plant, will be put in opera
ton. Fully 100 men will be given
employment
Scranton, Pa.-John Mitchell, re-
Gently appointed mediator of the civic
federation, may be asked to act as
mediator in an effort to settle the
troubles which threaten a strike of
the switchmen of the Lackawanna
road
Jefferson City, Mo.-The IA cases
brought in the circuit court here last
+ spring against the Missouri Pacific
railway by J. G. Slate, prosecuting
attorney, for violation of the eight
hour telegraphers' law were dismissed
by the prosecutors because the SUI
preme court, in a recent decision in
case from johnson county, declared
the law unconstitutional
Reading, Pa.-That the anthracite