The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-01-30


year at a meeting of the business
agents of the various trades unions. !
Based on an eight-hour work day, the
wages were fixed as follows: Boiler
makers and iron ship builders, IS;
carpenters and trainers, IS; cabinet
makers, 81; cement and concrete ma
sons, IS; electrical workers, $3.50;
housesmiths, bridgemen, ironworkers,
$3.50; metallic and wood fathers,
$3.50; marble cutters and settlers, IS;
machinists of all description, $3.50;
plasterers, plain and ornamental
$3.50; plumbers and gasftters, IS;
painters, 81; decorators and gilders,
$3.50; sheet metal workers, copper
smiths, tinsmiths, metal roofers, $3.50;
stonecutters, So; steam and hot water
filters, hydraulic, pneumatic tube, IS.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.-The grand jury
made its REPORT to the court and said:
I'VE discovered that miners certifi-
cate was granted to one who had been
in the country about one year and
who had never appeared before the
examining board. We cannot too Sc
verely condemn such action on the
part of the mining examining boards
in prOmiscuously issuing certificates Of
competency in this manner, and we
recommend that an investigation be
made into the conduct of the differ
ent examining boards throughout the
county, and direct that the district at
torney institute criminal proceedings
against such members of the examin-
ing board who are responsible for the
outrageous practice"
Madison, Wis-After three months
consideration of the co-employ law as
raised in the case of Michael Kiley vs..
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway, the supreme court handed
down a decision sustaining the law
and recognizing the power of the leg
islature by statute to prescribe rule
of comparative negligence. Hereto
fore If the complainant was himself
at all negligent, under the contribu-
tory negligence act, the case was dis.
missed.
Terre Haute, Ind.-The legislative
committee and the officials Of the In.
diana Mine Workers at a conference
decided to ask the legislature to pass
a measure similar to the law in Illinois
which requires two years apprentice
ship, followed by an examination by a
board composed of practical miners.
The Indiana miners asked for the law.
two years ago, when it was strenr-
ously opposed by the operators, as 1t
will be now.
New York.-National labor union
war against local option was planned
at a meeting of the Central Federated
| union in New York recently. An APP
peal to all central and national labor
bodies in the United States to fight
the movement was agreed upon, on
the ground that local option had al
ready thrown many thousands out of
employment, and is menace to pros
perity, while it does not decrease
drunkenness.
London, Eng.-Leicester is a center
for the manufacture of boots and
shoes in England. Many women are
| employed. The wage scale is based
upon piece work; women filters and
machine workers earn, usually, from
$2.75 to $4.75 a week, but recently,
because of short time in the factories,
compensation has ranged from $1.75
to $3.50 a week.
New York.-A committee has been
appointed by the International Associ-
alton of Plumbers, Gas Filters, Steam
Filters and Steam Filters Helpers to
visit sites for proposed home for
aged members of the craft. The COM
mittee will examine sites in Pasadena,
CAL; Hot Springs, Ark; Colorado
Springs and Deliver, Col.
| New York-The Bricklayers' and
Masons' International union has noti-
fed Boston (Mass.) Bricklayers
union No. 3 that it will finance an ap-
peal to the United States supreme
court of the recent decision of the
Massachusetts supreme court, which
enjoined the union from filming several
members for refusing to strike, de-
claring the union had no such right.
| Indianapolis, Ind.-Under the new
pension law of the International
Typographical union Alb members are
drawing four dollars a week. It is es-
| timated that there are some 600 en-
titled to this pension, and when these
are all properly registered it will
mean an outlay of about $124,80O a
year.
New York.-Times are hard in the
| world of actors and actresses just
| now. One prominent theatrical man
declares that there are 10000 idle ar
fists of this profession in New York
to-day, and more than fifty per cent.
of these are women.
Harrisburg, Pa.-No. 2 furnace of
the Pennsylvania Steel works has
been started after years idleness.
Another furnace, No. Paxton, in this
city, will be put into operation shortly.
Paris, France-In Paris there is a
special school for walters. Students
are taught four languages, geography,
artistic decoration and dancing, as
we'll as minor accomplishments.