The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-04-17
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits Borrowed ard Run Down
for Waqeworker Readers

at Danyllle, Ills
All the Butterick Cos publications
are the product of 'scabv labor
The Kansas City Labor Herald is
sued a handsome Easter number
The weavers OF Fall River. Mass.
recently paid off the $4,000 mortgage
on their building
/ 1t has been officially announced that
Samuel B. Donnelley is to retain his
job as public printer.
The United Cloth Hat and Cap Max
ers Will meet in convention in New
York City on May list
The painters and paperhangers OF
Gaiesburg. Ills. are on strike to en-
force a demand for an increased wage
The Ladies' Home Journal and the
Saturday Evening Post are unfair pub
LEGATIONS. all reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding
R A Caples, a member of Port
land. Ore. Typographical Union. has
been appointed secretary to Senator
Chamberlain of that state
Statistics prove that as the hours
of labor have been shortened and
wages increased. drunkenness has de-
creased among the toilers-
The union painters OF Rochester
\. Y, TO the number of 500 are on
strike, having been unable to adjust
differences with the employers
The unionists of Melbourne, Austria
liza, have launched daily paper 1t
is called TRUTH. and it started off
with big cash fund to back it.
The Woodbine Hat Company. Wood
i! bine, y J.. has made peace with the
Hatters' Union and the factory is
again in full blast and using the label
ii Organizations of employees on eIev-
en- American railroads are at present
! affiliated with the railroad depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor.
A bill designed TO prevent union
labor organizers from the United
States entering Canada was killed in
the Senate on March 18th by a vote
of II to 21-
During January the International
. Typographical Union paid 80 death
benefits 1t has 1926 $50 50 in its treas
ury and s116.46l.19 in the old age
pension fund
The Cigarmakers- International
! Union has voted 10 assess its mem
Ders for the purpose of maintaining a
blue LABEL exhibit at the Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacif1c exposition
The relief station maintained by the
Toledo. Ohio. Central Labor Union
during the winter has been discon-
, tinued- II performed a magnificent
! work while it was in operation
Labor union circles in Sacramento
CAL are stirred up over the announce
I ment that the state is to maintain
open shop in its work of erecting
the building on the state fair grounds
The BARRIERS of Wisconsin have a
| ing a bill to abolish the Sunday shops
They are being loyalty supported by
the Federation of Churches and Chris
/ tan Workers.
The hundred employees of the Law
ton cotton mills. Plainfield. Conn
went out on strike last Friday be
cause the female employees objected te
] cleaning machinery. claiming the worE
is dangerous.
There will be no strike of coal min
ers of Southern Alberta and Southern
British Columbia. Miners and oper
ators have reached an agreement al
Mcleod. Alberta The miners get bet
ter wages and hours.
Miss Hazel Smith OF Oklahoma City
is visiting with friends in Lincoln ant
w Smith, for many years a member
of Lincoln Typographical Union. bu
now editing the Labor Unit in Okla
homa City
The only firm handling the BucE
stoves in San Antonio, Texas, has NO
titled VanCleave 10 come and get the
stock. as it has lost all the trade i
cares TO lose by reason of the III
friendly attitude of organized labor
The Buck stoves are still handled ii
Lincoln
A proposition 10 establish deatl
benefit fund of $50 in the Coopers
International Union. recently sub
mitted to the subordinate unions fol
referendum vote. has been carried by
vote of lisp to 1.041 The genera
executive board is now preparing rules
for the distribution of such benefits.
After losing a wagonload of money
and killing a hundred or more mel
in trying to run mine operated by
free and independent miners, Jos