The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-20
DOiNGS IN THE WORLD OF
LABOR.

Eau Claire, Wis, is now said to be
practically a closed-shop town for
carpenters.
The cloakmakers in Baltimore,
Md. have won their strike after long
contest.
Seventy thousand people are en-
nloyed in the linen industry in Ire
land.
International Longshoremen have
Increased their membership in eleven
years from 5000 to $4,000.
The Illinois State Federation of La
Dor has taken Il decisive stand in OPP
position to local option.
The French railway men are taking
the first steps in a movement for an
all round increase of wages.
Steam-engine Makers Society OF
Great Britain has $4,000 members,
with bank balance OF $425,000.
The long-standing differences be-
tween the New York local and the In
ternational Theatrical Stage EN-
plcyes' Union have been adjusted to
their mutual benefit.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
is doing good work in undertaking to
limit women's working time to ten
hours day.
The Wages Board, of the Cleveland
district England. at its meeting re-
Gently advanced the wages of blast
furnacemen l per cent for the current
three months.
Photo Engravers' Union reports a
membership OF 1886, a net increase of
364 for the present year The total
number of locals is forty-nine, a gain
of four
December 18th is the date set for
the election of a treasurer and secre-
tary for the Journeymen Tailors'
Union of America. the election to be
by referendum vote.
Bricklayers in Paris who struck re-
Gently. chiefly against the piece-work
system, have been successful. the ar
bitrators deciding in favor of the
mems claims.
ne ANdllOhdl TtdSioNiOi VI NOttoh
Weavers at it's recent annual conven-
ton, adopted resolution to change
the name of their organization to Ma
tional Federation OF Cloth Weavers.
At the request of the California
State Federation of Labor the San
Francisco labor council named COM
mittee of four to meet with the feder-
alton in the matter of organizing
migratory labor.
A noticeable feature in recent child
labor legislation in this country has
been in the increased emphasis
placed upon the proof OF age require
ments of children who desire to go to
work.
f-The plumbers employed on the
Fitchburg division of the Boston &
Maine railroad system have been
granted an increase of 10 cents a day
in wages, which will make the new
minimum wage $3.50 day.
A strike of coal miners in various
parts of Galicia austrian Poland) /,
involving about 5000 men, and of L.
900 men employed in the tin mines of
the same districts. broke out recently.
The Federation of Labor of the
state of New York has declared its
belief in woman's suffrage as a neces-
sary step toward the better protec-
ton Of the industrial interests. not of
women wage workers only, but of men
as well.
The national executive board of the
Metal Polishers' and Buffers Inter-
national Union has announced that it
will start a fight in every state in the
Union for the eight-hour day. and that
it has set aside a large fund TO carry
on this campaign.
Plans for a new insurance scheme
to be enacted in England have been
received here. The plan involves the
payment of a weekly sum for GER
tain period to all mechanics and Ia
borers unemployed. The proposed
legislation will be compulsory. con-
tributory and specialized as to differ
ent groups of trade.
Unions from Seattle to San Diego
were represented at the recent con
vention of representatives of brewery
workers, bottlers and drivers OF brew.
cry wagons in session in San Fran
cisco. The principal matter before
the body was proposition to estab
fish uniform wage scale in all places
on the coast.
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