The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-07-10

Buffalo, n. Y.-Freder1ck Amy, sec
retry of the Charity Organization so
ciety of Buffalo, in his annual report,
declared that organized labor has done
more than any other agency to raise
the standard of living through higher
wages and shorter hours. The report
says: The expense of this has COM
PEELED better methods by the employer
and the better fed and better rested
workmen have also done better work,
so that there has been enough profit
for all on the higher wage. Social
workers have not allied themselves
sufficiently with the trade unions for
these ends. Better living and work
ing conditions, through tenement and
tuberculosis work. through better san
itation and safety appliances in fac
tories. through child labor laws, play
grounds and baths. also help raise the
standard of living: it calls for a gen.
eral social reconstruction The fight
is on toward this end Prudence re-
quires it, for. as has been said, the
disease of poverty is communicable in
the human family. Charity requires
it: and Christianity requires it. if the
brotherhood of man is to be anything
more than joke
St Petersburg.-A general strike of
the electric street car employees OF St
Petersburg began The men demand
increased pay and different arrange
ment of the shifts The authorities
declared they will not concede either
point Although the demands are
purely economic. the strike has a po-
litical basis, and was arranged by the
social-democrats to test their organiza-
ton and the moral effect on work
men generally. The cabmen of the
capital have taken advantage of the
situation to collect double fares No
disorders have occurred.
Breslau. Prussia.-The city of Land
shut. a wealthy town, advertises for
clerks for the municipal administra-
ton, promising the following wages:
To young men, college-bred, the city
offers 10 marks ($2.50) per month for
the first year of their service In the
second year the remuneration is 90
marks and in the third year 80 marks.
Beginning with the fourth year clerks
will receive coo marks per annum.
with increase of 100 marks per year
until the maximum wage of 1000
marks is reached
New York-The national employ
ment bureau, New York. recently in
corporated, proposes to extend its use
fulness to other cities-Chicago, Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Cincinnati and San
Francisco. The purpose of the bureau
is to find work for the unemployed.
No fee is to be charged the employer
or employee until after the individual
is engaged and proves satisfactory.
Then a small fee will be charged,
just sufficient to keep the bureau in
running condition
San Francisco--This city, according
to the Argonaut, has larger percen-
tage of people employed than any of
the fourteen other largest cities in
the United States-56.7 per cent, the
nearest to which is Boston, with 55-3
rer cent The wage-earners in San
Francisco and Les Angeles also earn
other cities in the United States
and $3.50 excepting Den
yer. with 1894.
Denver, Colt is a fraudulent use
OF the mails for any one in the inter
est of strikers to communicate by let
ter with strikebreakers Offering them
positions in other towns when such
positions do not really exist This
was the decision of the federal court
Chicago Chicago carpenters, union
has adopted a plan whereby all ap-
prentices in the trade are sent to the
trades schools in that city for a period
of three months in each year It is
said this move is doing much to check
the tendency previously developed in
the trade schools by which those who
studied were induced to take the
places of union carpenters at less than
the prevailing union scale
Copenhagen, Denmark--An agricul-
tural laborers' union in Denmark now
has a membership of about 900. in 60
branches. As there are about PSI, 900
agricultural laborers in Denmark. the
union has not been able to exercise
any great influence on the rate of
wages and working conditions
Washington.-In view of the declin-
alton of Bishop Gambler of Georgia to
act as arbitrator in the strike of the
Georgia Railroad firemen, the arbi-
traitors agreed upon David C. Barrow,
chancellor of the University of Geor-
gia. as the third arbitrator
Augusta, Me--In Maine the work
ing hours of women and children EN-
ployed in manufacturing industries
have been reduced by legislative en-.
actment recently from so hours to IS
hours a week
Bost0n.-This city will be the next
place of meeting Of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees International
Alliance and Bartenders' International
League of America Boston received
157 votes to 1854 for Spokane
Lynn. Mass.-Central Labor union
recently decided that it was time fol-
the organization to go into politics