The wageworker., 1909-10-30
GEN ERAL MENTION.
Bits Of Labor News Picked and Pill
fered from Many Sources.


Hamilton, Ohio.
Massachusetts, unions have men,
bership of over $4,000.
Street Railway men will meet at
Bruse's hall tonight Saturday.
A vote for Louis Faulhaber. candi-
date for sheriff, is a vote for union
man.
A vote for Weisman, candidate for
register of deeds. is vote for union
man.
Note the announcement of change
in the management of The Wage
worker.
Havelock unionists should vote for
S. d. Smith, democratic candidate for
precinct assessor.
Eighty per cent of butcher shop
tenders in New York city have been
recently organized.
The Musicians will hold special
meeting at Bruse's hall tomorrow
(Sunday) morning at II o'clock.
In Oklahoma there are at present
about 325 separate unions. with an
average membership of seventy-one
per organization.
No settlement has been made with
the Bucks Stove & Range Co. The
concern continues to boycott union
labor.
The Quincy, ILL.,. Ministerial Union
has selected Rev. c. Rodman. Grace
M. f. church, as fraternal delegate to
to the Trades and Labor Assembly.
At the convention of the Railway
Carmen in Atlanta. Ca, it was decided
by a unanimous vote to affiliate with
the American Federation of Labor.
William Glockling, international
president of the Bookbinders' Union,
has been elected the head of the
Trades and Labor Council of Canada.
The professional footballers in Eng
land have formed themselves into a
Players Union and have become af-
filiated with the Federation of Trades
Unions.
The gales are beginning to blow on
the Great Lakes and as a result the
scabs are getting scarce and the kids
and cornfield sailors long for home
and mother"
Theatrical booking agents in Chi
cago will have to adopt the form of
contract prescribed by state officials
in conformity with the new law ap-
plying to employment agencies.
h4 INIT
which was ousted from the Chicago
Federation Of Labor several years ago,
when skinny" Madden was a power
in that body, was reinstated Sunday
and its delegates seated.
Switchmens Union in Chicago has
caused the arrest of J. J. Egan, who is
said to be one of gang who are So
liciting funds in the name of that or
ganization.
The demand of Manager Dippel, of
the Metropolitan Opera company, in
New York, upon the Musical Protec-
tive Union that two first horn players,
experts who have played with the
great orchestras of Europe. be per-
mitted to play with the orchestra dur
ing the coming season has been turned
down. The union rules that no musi-
clan can join it unless he has played
in this country six months.
Several weeks ago the Plasterers'
Union was disbanded In Fort Wayne,
Ind, which was followed by an enor-
nous reduction in wages. The union
has been reorganized and an endeavor
loss.
Fifty girls who struck at the plant
of the Masury Explosive company, at
Sharon, Pa, two weeks ago. have re-
turned to work after winning all the
concessions for which they struck
The San Francisco Labor Council re-
Gently voted to expel the anti-McNulty
locals Of the Electrical Workers
Union. in accordance with the request
of the American Federation of Labor
The strike of 300 Greek laborers in
the Utah Copper company's plant was
settled last week. 1t is said that the
company granted the demands of the
strikers for an increase from $1.75 to
SO per day.
The Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor has made provision for labor
organizer to work among the negroes
of the state. and a determined effort
will be made to enroll them in the
ranks of union labor.
Announcement that the glass manu-.
facturers and workmen have reached
an agreement was made at Woodbury.
n. j., recently, but there is a feeling
in some quarters that the reduction
In the wage scale is greater than was
expected.
The $4,000 or more employees of the