The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-03-13
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Saul Ste. Marie, Mich.-The open (
hearth furnaces of the Angola Steel |
Company at the Canada 500 are to be |
extended this year, according to an
nouncement made by Manager Franz |
of the Lake Superior corporation. 9th |
err improvements are to follow. A |
semi-official report says that new blast
furnaces will be erected and also a |
structural steel plant as the result OF
an investment by English capitalists,
who intend to make the 500 plant the
biggest in Canada. 1t is also learned
that the so-called bridge trust will in
wade the Canadian field on a large
scale and erect plant as soon as 1t
can get structural steel From this
plant it intends all the Canadian bust
ness shall be handled.
Peoria, Ill.-Indorsing the clause in
Secretary Hayes report recommend
ing that the strike fund" be re-estab-
lished and regretting that surety COM
panies were made to stand losses due
to laxity in conducting affairs by Of
ficers of local unions were the prin-
cipal features of the report of the
committee on officers reports sub
mitted before the United Mine Work
ers of Illinois in convention here. 1t
was recommended that surety com
panies hereafter will not be asked to
go bond for secretaries and treasurers
of local unions, but that these officers
should be required to give bonds
signed by persons in good standing in
the near neighborhood where office
holders reside
Cleveland, o. = Forty organizers
| have been appointed by President
Lewis of the Ohio Federation of Labor
to take the field in the near future to
bring the working people within the
| pale of unionism. According to Secre-
tary Harry D. Thomas there will be
more organizers selected and an ag-
gressive campaign of education and Or
ganization will be waged. I'VE are
receiving information daily" said Mr.
Thomas, that leads us to believe that
the year 1909 will be one of the great
est in the country's history in the mat
ter of organizing the working people"
| Boston, Mass.-B. G. M. r. r. sys-
tenn board of adjustment of the lodges
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks
decided to request the B. & NJ. road
officials to enter into an agreement
nth the clerks on lines similar to
the arbitration and adjustment agree
ments existing with other big rail-
road organizations. The clerks broth
erhood is comparatively new one
and it never has asked for or had an
agreement with the road. The clerks
are now almost as well organized on
every section of the system as are the
men of the train service branches.
Hazleton, Pa.-The organizers OF
the United Mine Workers arranged for
meetings in every town of the Lehigh
field to stir up sentiment among the
men. The same activity will be con
tinued and it is expected that by
the time the agreement between the
operators and miners expires the ma
jority of the workers will have become
reunited to the union.
New York; H. Gary, chairman OF
the United States Steel Corporation
when asked for confirmation or de
MIA of the published announcement
that there would be reduction in the
wages of steel and iron workers before
May 1, said: The statements are in
accurate. The United States Stee
Corporation has never considered sucf
thing"
Washington.-The National Civic
Federation announces that George w
Perkins had accepted the chairman
ship of commission now being or
ganized by that body to make thor
Ough study of industrial insurance, in
Guiding compensation for wage-earn
ers in the form of sick, accident, ole
age and death benefits
New York.-The establishment o
a colony for aged, infirm, sick or dis
abled members of the Brotherhood o
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang
ers of America is the novel plal
which has been started by member
of that organization all over the coun
try. A thousand acres of land ha
been obtained in Moore county. N
c., for the establishment of the home
and it is now proposed to establish
colony there with light manufacturing
industries, which will make the HON
self-sustaining.
St. Paul. Minn.-Arrangement ar
being made by the organization con
mittee of the ST. Paul Trades Assem-
bly, for the formation of a buildin
trades council in that city. The pre-
posed new organization will be forme
along the lines laid down by the built
ing trades department of the Amer
can Federation Of Labor, under who's
banner the new central body will Ell
list.
Boston, NASSAU the Boston steal
engineers unions last week reiterate
their opposition to the efforts to hav
the present state boiler rules an
laws changed. They are mot half sti
enough now" the engineers say.
London, Eng.-Ten thousand SEQ
fish Golfers and workmen have a