The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-20


Pittsburg, Pa.-Without previous an
nouncement the Westinghouse Elec-
trio & Manufacturing Company has
restored to it's 5000 employees about
100000 which was taken from their
annual pay roll last March when the
policy of retrenchment was being
pushed so hard. The only announce
ment was a slip in pay envelopes is
sued from London to San Francisco,
including Pittsburg, Newark and
Cleveland 1t was, in effect, that
wages cut last March had been re
stored on January 1 and that the old
rate of pay would be found in the
envelopes. This was done by George
| Westinghouse personally and is in
conformity with the idea he always
| followed that his men were the best
workmen in the world and the highest,
paid.
Indianapolis, Ind-Thomas L. LeL;s
and William D. Ryan, president and
secretary-treasurer respectively If
the United Mine Workers of AHer;ca
were made defendants in a ,s1O ooo
damage suit brought in the i Marion
| circuit court, by Samuel NJ SEXTON
formerly editor of the Ming workers
Journal. Sexton alleges conspiracy
on the part of the two Qfficials of the
organization to cause him to lose
money and to injure his good name
sexton alleges that 5e entered into a
contract on January IA of this year
with an lnd1anapolAs newspaper to re-
port the proceedings of the Mine
l
workers convention and that Lewis
and Ryan, through various wavs
caused the contract to be abrogated.
San Francisco, GAIA uacision ~
the state supreme court of Canfornia
in the Parkinson case, definitely cot.
ties the legal rights and duties of the
trade unions, the central bodies and
their affiliated members as far as the
state of California is concerned. They
have right to organize for the i'm
provement of their material welfare;
! they have right to improve their con-
ditions by striking, they have right
to declare employers unfair when they
refuse to comply with the laws, rules
and regulations of the organization
that have been adopted for the protec-
| ton of it's members, and it is their
duty to notify other contractors and
employers of such declaration of un-
! fairness.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Work for 5000 men
will be provided during the next two
weeks by the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany and the Standard Steel Car Com
pany. The former concern will place
at least 5000 men at work in its Nc
KEGS Rocks plant, while the Standard
| will require the services of about
5000 men. In addition to this came
the statement from a high official of
the Carnegie Steel Company that the
plants at Homestead, Braddock and
Duquesne were working nearer to ca
pacity now than since last year, and
that orders were in sight to warrant
operating additional mills.
Toronto, Canada-Local members
| of the trade unions will shortly pre-
sent the government with figures as to
the number of unemployed men in
| Toronto, union and nonunion. Similar
figures are being collected in otha
| towns in Canada, and will be preset
| ed at Ottawa by deputation with
view to stopping immigration.
| Wheeling, Va.-Under the pl
visions of a child labor bill formulate
| it will be unlawful in the event of rs
adoption by the legislature, to employ
| a child during the school period under
| any circumstances. The age limit is
fixed at Is years.
| Neutrality-suspicious. Beveridge in
troduced bill to amend the employ
ers' liability act to meet objections
raised against it by labor organiza-
| tons 1t is understood the measure
in large part meets the approval of
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft 1t is not the intention Of
Mr.. Beveridge to press the bill for
passage at the present session, but 1t
is understood that labor organizations
will ask Mr.. Taft to indorse the bill in
his first presidential message
Indianapolis, Ind.-After ten-year
struggle the socialists in the United
Mine Workers of America have OBJ
tanned the balance Of power in the an
nual convention now in session. A
resolution for the public ownership
| of public utilities was adopted by the
convention without dissenting vote
In the past the leaders have been able
to prevent the national organization
committing itself to such socialistic
| doctrines.
| Minneapolis, Minn.-Minnesota rail-
way men are particularly interested In
the proposed semi-monthly pay day
| bill and an employers liability bill,
| and the union workingmen the state
over are also anxious to secure both.
| New York.-On account of the al
legged practice of several garment man.
ufacturers of placing false labels In
their product the Garment Workers
| union is contemplating prosecuting the
| manufacturers. They claim that their
label is being infringed upon, and
think that the courts will uphold them