The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-02-21
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly

Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union laOel--that's all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
The recent telegraph strike cost
$40, 0O6, 00s.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
srs & Perkins
A Motion Picture Operators I'M
ion has been organized in ST. Louis.
Mo.
Twenty-fift annual ball, Lincoln Ty-
biographical Union. Fraternity Hall.
February 26.
Eleven laundries at Cincinnati were
fined $50 each for organizing COM
bine to raise prices.
The United Mine Workers will
hold their national convention in
st. Louis, Mo-, in 1909.
The first of the week $500 people
resumed work in the wooden and cot
ton mills at Putnam, Conn.
The tube plant of the Mark Manu-
featuring company, employing 700,
resumed work at GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
The Dominion Trades and Labor
congress has asked the government
to raise the pay of letter carriers.
The Wood, Wire and Metal Lath-
ers' union of Boston has established
a local sick and death benefit system.
Between 5000 and 5000 men re-
turned to work at the Lorain plant OF
the National Tube company, at Cleve-
land.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany will soon put back its entire
force of about 10000 men on full
time.
Judge Tracy, of St. Louis. declares
invalid the ordinance which defines
plumbing and requires all plumbers
to register
On February II the Kansas City
Bolt and Nut works resumed after a
shut down of seven weeks. Five hun
dred men are employed.
Two thousand men returned to
work Wednesday when the plate, slab
and structural mills of the Illinois
Steel company in South Chicago
were re-opened:
The largest engine ever built in
the world is about to be installed in
the Sharon (Pa.) plant of the Car
negie Steel company. 1t will have a
capacity of 25,OOO-horse power.
The house committee on labor has
submitted favorable report on the
Bartholdt resolution providing fed
eral investigation of the mine disas
tiers. The senate has already passed
a similar resolution.
Unemployed laborers from the
United States are pouring over the
Niagara frontier into Canada, drawn
there by the tales of great Canadian
prosperity and of demand for labor
The $4,000 men, women and chill
dren employed in Massachusetts, cot
ton mills are threatened with a re
duction of from Is to 25 per cent IL
wages. The bosses will go to Europ'
next summer just the same.
Strikers are accused of firing TIVE
buildings belonging to the Sextol
Building Material Co.. at Joliet. III
The cotton mills at Biddleford ant
Saco. Me, resumed work last Mon
day, employing 5000 hands.
Tailors' unions throughout tn
country have received word that al
assessment of SO cents has beef
levied against the members. Thi
fund will be used to further the in
terest of organized labor in Lo
Angeles.
The total membership of the Amer
lean Federation of Musicians now al
proximate about 10000 and the OIL
ganization is more than holding it
own. New unions have been forme
In Wallace. Idaho; Ell Paso, Texas
and Mt. Vernon, Ill.
The International Union of VI
holsterers and Diapers has electe
James H. Hatch national presiden
The headquarters of the union hav
been moved from Chicago to Ne,
York and are now established at IA
East Flfty-third street.
National officials of the BrOthe
hood of Bookbinders report that tn
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