The wageworker., 1909-08-07
GENERAL MENTION.
ke~sy Notes Picked Up From Just
About EVERYWHERE

So far organised labor has sent
si0s,00o 10 Messrs Gompers. Mitchell
and Morrison to be used as defense
fund,
The joarneymen horseshosrs of Ba-
tavis, Went out on a strike Saturday
afternoon at i:00 O'Clock
Boston Cigarmakers' Union has pc
titio0ed congress to pass law max
ing it criminal offense TO speculate
in wheat.
An educational session once month
with professional expert as instrue-
tor will De held henceforth by Boston
Coal HoisSing Engineers union. No, "a.
The Indianapolis labor organizations
have recently leased farm of thirty
acres which they intend TO improve
and use for picnicS and outings,
Garment Workers union in Erie.
Pa, received increase in wages rang
ing nom Is TO 10 per cent and the
eighs,ho0r day without a strike.
About $50 nogs-anion machiniStS who
struck at the Standard Roller Bearing
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ning two machines. have won.
Plumbers of Wisconsin are follow
ing the example of their Ohio breth-
rsn and will organize state branch
in Milwaukee, August 1,
RoslsrmaSers, in conjunction with
nsschsnists, have signed articles of
agreement with all but two breweries
in Cincinnati and vicinity.
Plumbers tinsmiths and steamfit-
tiers in Springfield, Mass. work IA
hours a week at the same wages as
heretofore against the old schedule
OF IS hours
The Labor Herald of Kansas City
has been turned into a daily. This is
quite an undertaking, and it is to be
hoped success will attend the efforts
of the responsible parties,
The plumbers controversy in Des
Noines, Ia. ended in compromise

40 and <4.eS per day for one year
and s4,so and si>ss per day for the
two succeeding years
The Rockmen and ENcavators' union
of Greater New York wishes an in
creass-She roekmen from s. to ss.50
and the excayaters ask for a raise
from sl.so to sl,So.
A bill prohibiting anyone from wear
ing the button of labor union or
carrying = union card who is not en-
titled TO has passed both houses of
the California legislature.
wrec&ing truck drivers of Browns
vile. n Y, have organized.
Steam engineers and hoistermen
have organized in Joplin. Mo.
The Colored Walters Union in St
Paul. Mimi. is gaining steadily,
The next convention of the Retail
Clerks Protective Association will be
held in Columbus. Ohio.
The Marine Engineers have a total
membership ON the coasts, lakes and
rivers of the United States of II. 900.
The Wholesale Dry Goods Clerks
in New York City have applied for
Trades
The bunch makers and rollers en-
pioyei in the cigar industry in Chi
caso are now organizing TO protect
their interests,
A movement is at last under way
TO organize the underpaid and over
worked conductors and motormen of
Greater New York
The Janitors' Union in Greater New
York has just published the first
number OF its monthly magazine. the
Janitors' Journal
II is believed that within short
time the cap makers in Brooklyn. n,
". will have one of the strongest or
ganiEations in the country.
The trouble between the miners and
their employers in northern Wyoming
has been settled and 14.oo0 men have
returned to work
Fieischmann. Ffeldman. and other
big bakery owners in New York City
have agreed to meet the Bakers
Unions officers before an arbitration
board.
The Band Roma. under direction oi
Giuseppe Sivignamo. which had some
difiiculty with the American Fedora
ton of Musicians. has been unionized
The Erie railroad has restored the
salaries of its officers and the wages
of its employees. which had been cut
on an average of per cent in Janu
ary 1905.
The woman's Trade Union league
in Greater New York is running q
union label department where hosiery
collars. gloves and ladies' shirt waists
can be obtained.
Bricklayers have returned to worl
in Des Noines. Iowa. and will be pail