The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

Trades uniOniSm is growing at a
rapid rate in Japan.
Insist that the driver who delivers
your coal has union card.
There is possibility of a Labor
Temple being erected in Ottawa. Ont.
The strike of the photo engravars
in Albany and Troy, N. Y, has been
settled.
Chaffeurs are organizing in various
cities. coming under the wings of the
machinists.
The New York State Federation of
Labor has come out fat-footed' in ia
vor of equal suffrage.
! Electrical workers in St. Louis, Mo-,
have reorganized and are now recog-
nized by the A. F. of l..
The Majestic theater in Springfield,
Ill.,, has settled with the Stage EN-
ployes after two months fight.
Great Britain now has close to 200,-
600 organized working women, and the
number is steadily growing each year.
A strike of strike-breakers against
the scab Cayahoga Telephone COM
pany took place in Cleveland last
week.
| The Leather Workers in Ottawa,
Ont, ask for raise in wages, some
of them getting as low as Sc per
week.
| The Illinois Baptist convention
pledged that great church to assist in
upholding the ten-hour law for women
workers.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
the Master Carpenters association in
Greater New York have reached an
agreement.
Printers are OH strike in some of
the open shops" in Savannah. Ca,
on account of the filthy condition of
the work rooms.
The Oklahoma State Federation of
organizer to work among the negroes
of the state.
| Wisconsin supreme court upholds
the law passed by the last legislature
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shops on Sunday.
James Kirby of Chicago has been
reelected president of the building
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor.
The Typographical Union in Milan,
Italy, has 1.400 members and there
are not more than twenty non-union
men in the city. 1t has a nine-hour
day.
| The dry gods clerks in Greater
New York are winning their strike
for better wages and shorter hours.
The wives of the strikers are doing
picket duty.
| There is no humanitarian law on
the statute books of any state in the
nation that is of interest to the whole
people but that did not find it's incep-
ton in the meeting hall of some labor
organization.
Michael H. Murphy, president of the
Chicago Painters District Council,
dropped dead of heart disease in the
union headquarters Monday Mr.. Muir
ply was an old-timer in the labor
movement.
How would you like to try and sup
port family on SO per week? And
yet that is just what the cigarmakers
in a non-union factory in Perth Am
boy, N. J., are trying to do. 1t is need
less to say they are very ''independ
ent'
The American Federation of Labor
has authorized the preparation of g
bill which will be introduced in con
gress soon after it convenes to estab
lish department of labor with sec
rotary co-equal with the secretaries
of other departments.
Claiming that too many Austrian.
were killed in the steel works an(
smelters at Pueblo, Colo, and in the
mines of the state, the Austria-Hun
garian government has appointed {
consul to look into the cases. Head
quarters will be maintained in Denver
An effort is being made in Cleve
land to thoroughly organize the ladies
garment making industry. Men will
families are compelled to work for a!
low as 81 per week, and there is nj
way in the world except by organiza
ton that their conditions can be i'm
proved.
If the industrial employees welfar,
committee of the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON has it's way, cloak models il
factories and show rooms in New
York city will have to seek othe
means of livelihood The committe,
! has decided that the employment o
girls is demoralizing.