The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
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granted on petition of the Manila
Street Railway Company. 1t directs
that certain union mass meetings,
scheduled to take place, be prohibited.
The injunctive writ proceedings fol-
low the calling off of the recent
stake of the street car employees
which led to a fractional split in the
car mems union The dominant fac
ton, headed by President Obrera of
the Manila Labor council, decided
after much discussion to renew the
strike and boycott against the COM
pany. A manifesto was issued de-
claring the company unfair and a
series of meetings had been an
nounced
San Francisco.-The printers of this
city have been advised by the Interna-
t1onal Typographical union that Presi-
dent James NJ Lynch has started
campaign to increase the general
membership of the organization by 60
ing into the smaller towns with the
educational plan to seek as members
all such as can prove themselves COM
| petent- 1t is said that while the
membership is very large there are
still many competent printers who
have not yet Joined. 1t is the inten-
ton of the international body to have
| every printer in the United States and
Canada in the union. then to educate
| those who are not fully competent by
the correspondence system. and, when
they become proficient, to take them
| into the union.
| Boston-The shorter work-week
special committee of the Carpenters
District council of greater Boston met
to receive reports from the officers of
the various affiliated unions regarding
notification by employers as to
whether or not they would pay, begin
ming Tuesday, June 1, wage scale of
41A cents an hour, which is an in
crease of four cents an hour over the
old rate. and also agree to the Satur-
day halfholiday all the year round
Practically every big firm in Boston
and vicinity has notified its men that
it would agree to the new conditions
or has officially notified Secretary Ar
thur NJ Watson of the council that
the scale would be established at once
Washington. - President Samuel
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor will sail from New York on
the steamer Baltic, on June %, to
study the sociological, economic and
industrial conditions of European Ia
Dor at short range. The executive
council of the federation has author
lied the expenditure for the trip. Mr..
Gompers has accepted an invitation
from the Italian commissioner general
of immigration to visit Rome, and
from there he will go to Germany,
France. Sweden and England, remain
ing in London, his birthplace, for a
some~hat longer visit.
Charleston, w. Va.-Following a
conference between Kanawha coal
! operators and District President Ben
jamin Davis of the United Mine
Workers and Kanawha operators, it
was said on good authority that the
strike in the Kanawha coal field will
end next week All parties in inter
est. however. refuse to make a
t definite statement.
: New York-New York Typograph
: ical union No. is developing plan
' to erect building to be known as
the Typographical Temple, at cost
1
: be used as headquarters for that and
other organizations in the metropolis
: San Francisco.-The secretary-treas
urer of the International Protective
/ Union of Retail Clerks and fourth
vice-president of the American Fedora
, ton of Labor, Max Morris of Denver
: Col. will attend the International Fed
? Grafton of Employees to be held il
4 Geneva, Switzerland, next August
: This will be the first reunion of the
I retail clerks organizations of the two
5 continents.
i Honolulu.-More than 5000 Japan
4 csc plantation laborers are now ou
: on strike One thousand on Kahuks
D plantation struck, demanding that the
| Japanese foremen be discharged a.
: they were spies. On an Oahu planta
:, ton $4,000 was paid out. Striker!
: agreed to leave peaceably. Ths
planters have hired LOO strike
y breakers and declare they won't yield
o to the demands of the japanese
e Providence, r. I.-At the recent con
/ vention of the Consumers league, hell
n here. 20 states being represented, 1
= was decided to make more careful
: study of the piece work system in the
manufacture of undergarments to b.
: worn by women, and to devise plaI
II to establish wage boards to adjus
s working conditions between employs
and employe.
s Brussels. Belgium--The Belgian
d chamber of deputies has accepted
l. with 20 against 80 votes, bill for tn,
It reduction of the working hours in tn,
5 mines to nine hours; the chambe
favors further reductions in case
Il where excessive heat and damp act in
It juricusIy to the health of the miners.
y London, Eng. - The nottingham
n lacemakers' strike ended recently tn
men agreeing to resume work. Tn
< employers conceded the terms de
n manded, under protest, stipulatini