The wageworker., 1909-10-09

Steam engineers and hoistermen
have organized in Joplin, Mo.
The Colored Walters Union in st.
Paul, Mimi, is gaining steadily.
The 80 catalogue of the Livingston
Seed Company in Columbus, O., will
hereafter be printed by union labor.
The Photo-engravers' Union reports
a membership of 1856, net increase
of 364 for the year. Total number
of locals, 40, gain of four.
The marine engineers now have a
total membership on the coasts, the
lakes and the rivers of the United
States of more than eleven thousand.
Thomas L. Wilson, international
vice-president of the Machinists'
Union, announces that several new
| and big lodges are to be soon formed
in the immediate vicinity of Boston.
Boston Metal Trades Council has
begun a movement for the unification
Of the forces of the metal trades for
the c:ght-hour workday in all the
trades.
Burgess Chambers of Vandergrift,
Pa, prohibited the Labor Day parade
of that place upon the ground that it
| might lead to trouble due to the ex-
! istence of a strike
Kalamazoo's Homecoming seems
| to be outgoing. Fifteen cigarmakers
left that burg within a week for
| Indianapolis, where they have secured
jobs.
A short time ago more than 200
retail grocery clerks joined the asso-
citation in Philadelphia. Within three
months every grocery clerk in that
| city is expected within the fold.
Striking coopers in Milwaukee have
secured a settlement of their difficult
ties with the breweries and are back
at work. They secured a raise OF
2A cents an hour and several other
concessions.
Chicago fathers by an overwhelm-
ing majority have voted to discon-
tinue the trust feature of their five
unions and will hereafter accept In
ternational Union travelling cards
from other cities.
a new union which has recently
been organized with members from
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and known
as the Twin City Cement Workers
Union, has begun it's career under ia.
vorable auspices
The Pen and Pocket Knife Blade
Grinders and Finishers' National
Union of America is one of the best
organized trades unions. 1t controls
over 80 per cent of the workers in
the trade.
The 18th of October next the Illi
nois Broom Company will retire from
the broom-making business at the
The company gives as a reason ac
tivity of labor unions in opposition tc
prison-made goods, and the demand
for the union label. This is the kind
of news that aggravates Post.
The striking dressmakers in New
York City are jubilant over their
victory. The conditions upon which
J the girls return to work are, thai
they shall be paid weekly, that they
shall work an hour less on Satur
Ldays, that they shall all be taken
back to work, and that all shall be
given 81 week increase in wages
By popular vote of it's member
ship, the American Flint Glass Work
ers' Union has decided to establish
and publish an official magazine.
e. J. Brais, business agent of the
Journeymen Tailors' Union in Cleve
land has his eye on the Office of gen
eral secretary of the Internationa
Joseph P. Hunter of Niagara Falls
, NY, special organizer of the Broth
: erhood of Painters and Decorators O.
America, last week presented Mrs
, Ann Goodrich of Petersburg, Ind, the
only woman painter and decorator
i, with a gold emblem voted by the
Painters Union.
The New South Wales government
proposes to find work for the unem
ployed in clearing and leveling {
. quantity of crown land near Kensing
ton. The piece-work principle of pay
ment will be adopted.
The New South Wales government
has granted 1000 pounds to the Bos
ton Hill municipal council to carr.
out relief work for the unemployed
The cooperative shop started b.
Union in Denver is proving a grea
n success.
l. GAINESVILLE, Ohio painters have bee