The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-13

creased it's membership from 5000 to
10000 in ten years.
Tennessee Federation of Labor will
meet in Chattanooga in January.
Organized labor at Chicago. ILL.,. will
appeal to the churches to help secure
shorter working hours for women.
A decrease has been remarked in
the coal output of South Wales col
lieries since the eight-hour act came
into force.
Massachusetts State Council of Car
penters' annual state convention will
be held at Holyoke, January 10.
The strike of the members of Bos-
ton, Mass, Ladies' Tailors' and Dress
makers Union for the "closed shop"
still continues. The strike is now in
it's sixth month.
Metal Polishers' and Buffers Inter
national Union will start a fight for an
eight-hour day in every state in the
union. A big defense fund will be
raised.
Retail Clerks Union in Evansville,
Ind, is rapidly growing by appealing
to the other unionists to insist upon
union clerks waiting on them.
Governor Draper of Massachusetts
has declared his willingness and pur-
pose to veto the much-discussed eight
hour bill whenever and however it
comes up to him.
The United Government Workers
Federation of Great Britain is again
to the front agitating for minimum
wage of $3.50 a week within the Lon
don area.
Thirty-four thousand members of
the Boilermakers' Union will donate
each year days pay. which will
total $4,000 annually, for strike
benefit fund.
There are more children employed
in Massachusetts than in any state of
the south, with the exception of North
Carolina.
There are thirty-four new labor
members in the House of Commons,
but there will probably be sixty-five
to seventy-five in the next House of
Commons.
During the month of September
nine unions Joined the Hebrew Trades
Council of Manhattan, five of which
were newly organized. The trades
will celebrate it's twenty-first anniver
sary on November A.
The total number of wage workers
eligible to become members of trades
unions is about 100000 in Great
Britain and Ireland, and out Of that
number some 100000 belong to trade
unions.
Recently the San Francisco Labor
Council appointed special commit
tee to inquire into the technical
schools and report as to their effect
upon the various trades which are
taught.
A resolution has been adopted COM
mending to all local unions of textile
workers the payment of accident ben
efits to their members and recon-
mending that permanent beneficial
features be created.
Machinists have decided to accept
transfer cards of members of the craft
providing such show the holder to be
in good standing at the time of pre-
sentation.
Over million worll-people in the
b,d
duced during the first six months of
this year, and last year nearly half "a
million had their wages decreased.
The northumberland (EngD Min
ers' Cancellation Board advanced the
wages of the workers IA per cent.
making the rates 80 per cent above
the basis. This is the first advance in
two years.
Marine engineers from Astoria, Sc
attic and Portland are considering a
proposition to affiliate with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
Russian and Polish printers of Man
haitian. having observed the success of
the Yiddish printers, who receive a
minimum wage of $24 per week for a
fourhour day, have started move
ment to organize union of their own
The proposed Railway Federation
the railway auxiliary to the American
Federation of Labor, will send repre-
sentatives to the convention to be held
in st. Paul, Mimi, in November All