The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-07-03
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits of News Picked Up Here
and There.

Brief Bits of News Picked Up Here
and There.
Junk wagon drivers. stenographers,
bookkeepers and assistants have or
ganized at Kansas City, NO.
The 1ongshoremen of the Great
Lakes of Detroit have voted against
a strike by a majority of less than
two hundred.
Nina Berger, wife of Victor Berger,
Wisconsin's leading socialist, has
been elected to the board of educa-
ton in Milwaukee.
Press Huddleston, a member of the
Typographical Union, has been elect
ed president of the city council and
mayor protein in Atlanta, Ga.
Lew Dockstader's minstrels re-
Gently gave a special performance
at the Union Printers Home at Colo
RADIO Springs, which was much en-
joyed by the $50 Home residents.
At Silverton, Colo, the union
miners maintain a hospital that cost
the membership $4,000 exclusive of
Furnishings and necessary equipment
for the care of the sick and injured
Reports of the officers to the ninth
biennial convention of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, just held
at Columbus, O., show an increase
of 1000 in membership since the last
convention. The total membership
| is now 1O1, 900.
Uncle Sam Gompers is of for
Europe. It's enough to make Jim
Van Cleave throw a fit to see a COM
mon workingman taking a trip to
Europe. Why didn't he get out an
Injunction restraining Uncle Sam
from going?
James Farley, the notorious strike
breaker, is out with a public inter-
view in which he says he declined to
assist in breaking the Philadelphia
street car strike. The unionists
laugh at these professions of moral
ity, and hint that Farley is smart
enough to keep out of losing fgh:
The first restraining order ever OBJ
tanned from the Philippine courts
with the purpose of enjoining the
action of a labor union was granted
! on May % on petition of the Manila
Street Railway company. 1t directs
that certain union mass meetings ad-
vertised to take place be not held
i Samuel Gompers, president, and
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, had
a conference with President Taft on
June regarding the various matters
affecting organized labor. which were
presented to the president by the
executive council of the Federation
several weeks ago.
/ President Tole of New York Typo
graphical Union No. reports the
signing up of a large Typothetae
office and the transferring of Smart
Set, Town Topics. Nautical Gazette,
lPsychotherapy, Young's Magazine,
and other publications from non
union printing houses to those con
troued by tbs union.
H S. Levin. general organizer of the
Jewish bakers in New York, after the
successful strike in that city, is now
in Montreal, and has applied for a
charter to the headquarters of the
International Bakers Union.
Editor John O'Nein, of the Miners
Magazine at Denver, organ of the
Western Federation of Miners, is ar
ranging to make a stamping tour
eastward to discuss labor questions
Plumbers, tinsmiths and steamfit
tiers in Springfield. Mass, work A
hours a week at the same wages as
heretofore against the old schedule
of 4S hours.
Boilermakers, in conjunction witt
machinists. have signed articles o
agreement with all but two brew
cries in Cincinnati and vicinity.
III About $50 non-union machinist:
I who struck at the Standard Role
Bearing company in Philadelphi;