The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

November, completed it's organization
at meeting at the Kaiserhof hotel,
and adjourned to meet on November
8 at Toronto at the close of the annual
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. H. B. Perham of St.
Louis, president of the Order of Rail-
way Telegraphers, was elected chair
man of the new department, and D.
w. Roderick of Chicago, business
agent of the International Association
of .Machinists, was elected secretary
and treasurer. Ten organizations have
affiliated with the new department, in
Guiding about 100000 railroad en-
ployes.
Jefferson City, Mo.-Representat
of different branches of organized la
Dor of the state are arranging to push
labor legislation before the present
session of the legislature. E. G. Whit
sett of Moberly, and five other mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen compose the
board Of that organization. At least
one of the members of this board will
remain in Jefferson City during the en-
tire session and the entire committee
will meet at the capitol from time to
time. Twenty-eight men are in JEFF
ferson City representing the Railway
Trainmen, and the trainmen will keep
at least two men at the capital.
Columbus, O.-The Independent win
dow glass manufacturers came to an
agreement, and within q few days the
Imperial Window Glass Company,
which will include in it's personnel
practically every manufacturer of
hand blown window glass, will be
launched. The capitalization. officers
and other details were not definitely
decided upon. Out of the 1900 and
more pots of the Independent window
glass factories more than 1,750 signed
the agreement, and when the remain
ing factories, which are located in
West Virginia and Pennsylvania, are
heard from final touches will be put on
the new expectation.
New York.-Hatters on strike in
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Orange and
Newark, as we'll as in Norwalk, South
Norwalk, Danbury and Bethel, Conn.,,
gathered at the various factories to
collect the wages due them up to Fri
day morning, when they walked out
There was not the slightest disorder
in any of the cities and the men said
there will be none. They are ready
to wait for results, no matter how
long settlement is deferred The
American Federation of Labor will get
behind the hatters and fund Of $780,.
600 is available for disbursement
Chicago.-The big plant of the Corn
Products Manufacturing Company at
Argo will be built by union labor.
George M. Moffett, the new superin-
tendent, has Cancelled the contract
with the Lake, Construction Company,
and awarded it to the Thompson-Star-
rett Company at a guaranteed price.
The Pattee-Truitt Commissary Com
pany, from whose system of boarding
grew the charges of peonage at that
plant. also has been Ousted. From 500
to 1000 building trades workers will
be employed at the plant during the
next few months.
Washington.-Secre Straus has
referred to special committee in the
department of commerce and labor the
ACCESSIBILITY of calling together impOr-
tant labor leaders, publicists and d.
rectors of big industries to consider
several questions of Importance
throughout the country.
Washington.-That, one-quarter of q
million Italian laborers, most of them
from Sicily and Calabria, will leave
their native land within the coming
four months, principally for the United
| States, as a result of the earthquake,
is the remarkable assertion made by
| importers of New York city in a brief
| filed with the house committee a.
ways and means. These importers &C.
| clare that the lemon raising area of
| Italy will lose nearly 100000 workers
as a result of the earthquake.
| New York.-An agreement has been
made between the International Sea-
mems union and the International As
| ISOLATION of Longshoremen and Marine
and Transport Workers. The settle
ment was on the basis of the long
shoremen striking out of their title the
words marine and transport workers,
and in the future accepting as mem
| bers only men who are employed about
shipping in duties outside of the call
ing of sailors and deckhands.
| New York.-The Order of Railroad
| Telegraphers is endeavoring to secure
some legislation to prevent the dis
patching of trains by telephone, de-
nouncing it as unsafe, unreliable and
a menace to the public.
New York.-New York State Work
ingmens Federation will ask the new
legislature to give consideration to a
number of measures in which labor is
Interested Two of them-a bill to
license steam engineers in greater
New York, and the employers liabili-
ty extension bill-will be given prefer
ence by the federation's legislative
| committee.
Boston-E. w. Leonard of Chicago,