The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-22

n. Bogart, commissioner of licenses.
declares that labor conditions in the
city have not improved since the panic
of 1907, and that the books of the en-
p,oyment agencies of the city show a
decided falling OF in the amount of
unskilled labor employed in the CITY
since that time. Speaking of the fs4st
ing of in the demand for men in the
technical and clerical occupations who
are paid a higher salary than $12 and
SIS weekly, Mr.. Bogart says the
agencies explain the situation by say
ing that during the financial depres
sion of last year the lower salaried
men were dismissed and the slight Inn
provement in business has caused
some of the employers now to begin
the experiment of filling their places
Reading, Pa--The Reading Com
pany's shops in this city and on the
system are to work longer hours. The
men at the locomotive shop, who have
been working SO hours a week for a
long time, will go on As hours. The
car-shop men, who have been making
As hours a week, will work so hours
The officials have issued orders to hire
800 additional men at the various re-
pair shops on the system. OF this
number, Reading will employ at least
so. The increased hours of work are
due to a general improvement in the
condition of trade and the assurance
of peace in the anthracite coal fields
for at least three years. The increased
hours at the shops in this city will be
good news to the $500 people en-
ployed there.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.-The miners
employed at the Canada West Coal
Company's collieries at Taber, Al
berta, are on strike. The coal opera
tors met a deputation of the miners
to draw up a new agreement, Presi-
dent Sherman of the district being
present. As the men demanded a
closed shop, the operators declined.
and the men quit work Ashewift' S
mine at Lethbridge closed. the owner
refusing to sign a closed-shop agree
ment- Dozens of steam-plow outfits
are being held up in southern Alberta.
not being able to procure coal The
city of Lethbridge is also hard pressed
for fuel. The only mines working are
at Fernie and in the district owned by
the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company.
Paris. France.-No disorders oc-
CURED in Paris May 1 nor were any
disorders reported from the provinces.
Dispatches received from Bordeaux,
Marseilles, Rochelle and other places
report that the strike is nowhere gen
eral. but that there were professions
of the usual May day character. At
Meru and Noeux-les-M Mines the strike
is complete, and at Calais a large ma
jority of the workmen are out. Pos
sibly of a total of 5000 workmen in
| the various trades abstained from
work to attend the big meetings that
were called in the populous quarter OF
Paris.
Albany, N. Y.-One hundred and
twenty-five freight handlers employed
| by the New York Central railroad al
| West Albany and 40 at the Montgomery
street freight house in this city, went
| ON strike. The men demand an in
| crease of wages from 10 to Is cents
| an hour. They say that other freight
| handlers along the railroad between
| Albany and Syracuse are dissatisfied
and may join the strike.
| San Francisco, Cal.-For the frs
| time in many years a woman has beer
! elected on the executive committee o.
the Labor Council
Pottsville. Pa.-Orders were issued
| to put on $50 additional hands at the
Palo Alto, Schuylkill Haven and
Cressona car shops of the Philadelphia
| & Reading Company The full capac
| ity of the shops will be rushed, il
| order that there shall be cars ade
| Quate to ship the coal output from the
| collieries during the next six or eigh
weeks.
| New York.-James W. Van Cleave
for many years president of the Cit
| zens' Industrial association of Amer
lea. the leading union busting or
| ganization, has resigned from thai
place because his personal affairs de
mand all his attention.
/ London, Eng.-The Industrial dealt
roll in England in 1908 is thus giveI
by the home secretary: In mines, 1,
343; in quarries, 92; and in factorie:
and workshops, 1,042. These figure.
do not include the loss of life in tn,
mercantile, marine, or on railways.
Chicago strike of union baker
at five o'clock, which was PRACTICAL,
settled in a few minutes. After tn,
big wholesale bakers heard that tn,
strike had been ordered they called
meeting and decided to pay the ad
vanced scale.
Indianapolis, Indy a referendum
vote, complete returns of which ar
now at hand, the members of the In
ternational Leather Workers uniol
have decided not to hold convention
this year.
Boston, Mass-Oficers of the Bos
ton Metal Trades council report tina
they are meeting with success in thei
efforts to have the blower law in po
ishing shops and the sanitary law il
foundries enforced.
Oakland, Cal.-Inducements are be