The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-08
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hLabOr'S Realm
Matters of Especial Interest To and Con- !
cernini Those Who Do the
Work of the World
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mated society branches attached to
the greater Boston carpenters, dis
Irict council. are voting by referendum
on the wage and hour rules desired for
the year beginning June 1. 1909. The
present rate of wages is 4Ss4 cents an
hour. which makes the weekly wage
Tor full time or a work week of As
hours. S2l- The carpenters have the
Saturday half holiday for the four
summer months. One proposition sub
mitted TO the referendum vote calls
for an increase of wages TO AIS.
cents an hour and the Saturday half
holiday all the year round. which
would make the weekly wage for a Al
hour week SCI, or the same as for the
present work week. The alternate
proposition is that wages and hours
REMAIN as they are at present.
+. napolis--Figures compiled at
the national headquarters. in this city,
of the United Mine Workers. show
that the national organization had
larger paid-up membership last month
than at any previous time in its
history. The total paid-up member
ship last month was 500, 900. The fig
follows: March. 1908, the member
ship was PSI. 600: 1907. it was 26e, 900.
1906, it was 29S.o00: 1905. it was 29S,-
900, and in 1904 it was 100000
Washington.-After laying before
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor detailed report
of his proposed trip to Europe to
study and report upon the industrial
sociological and economic conditions
of the laboring people in those coun-
tries President Gompers announced
that he may sail from New York on
| the Baltic on June %. The council
| authorized an expenditure to meet the
expenses of the trip. Mr. Gompers
will visit England. Germany. France,
Sweden and Italy.
Chicago-At the close of one of the
| stormiest meetings in the history of
| the Chicago Federation of Labor all
| the locals of the Amalgamated Wood
workers union We're expelled from
| membership in the central labor body.
| The drastic action was the outcome of
a bitter fight for jurisdiction between
the woodworkers and the carpenters
in which helatter charged that union
woodworkers had taken the places of
carpenters on strike. z
! New York.-Reports received from
| the national eight-hour committee of
| the machinists' union are most graft
| flying. The agitation for eight hours
is spreading all over the country, it
| is stated, and large numbers of ma
chinists' districts of sections of the
/ country where the shorter workday
had not previously been established
are reporting its introduction
Boston.-Boston cigar-makers' union
/ has decided = take census of its
$500 memb s TO ascertain if any are
not citizens and to endeayor to have
any who are not Immediately to be
come citizens, if eligible. and to take
the first steps to..the end that all will
be voters. CiEenship and voting
are an honor and duty to all men
the union declares.
Vienna. Austria.-The government
has brought forward bill in the
chamber of deputies making insurance
against illness and old age compulsory
on all workmen and domestics and
those employees whose annual income
does not exceed $500.
Chicago.-Mrs. Raymond Robins has
been reelected president of the Nation
al Women's Trade Union league, with
headquarters in Chicago.
II Boston-Edward F. McGrady, Bos-
ton man, now International organizer
of the International Printing Press
mems union, has established headquar
tiers in this city for New England
campaign. He has recently organized
a new union in Providence. and also
the newspaper pressmen of New Bed
n ford, Fall River and Taunton The
II Taunton men received a ten per cent
wage increase.
II Boston. and after Monday
April II, the wage scale and working
rules for the transatlantic steamship
and deep-water longshoremen of the
port of Boston, Mass, include the
wage increases and working rules
which were recently presented to the
transatlantic steamship agents con
ference of the stevedores by the Long
shoremen's Trade council.
He Chicago.-The Chicago bureau Of
statistics has furnished some figure:
for 46 trades unions, showing that il
81 of these the highest wages in five
cities-Chicago. New York. Philadel
phia, Pittsburg and ST. Louis-ars
paid in Chicago.
Winnipeg, Man.-Manitoba's attor
ney general has introduced a bill t.
prohibit usurious money lending on as
signments of salary
Washington. President Gomper:
announces that he will sail for Europt
ON June % to Investigate the condi
lions of labor and workingmen ant
women in England, Germany. France
Sweden and Italy in accordance witt
the orders of the last A. F. of L. con
vention-
Victoria, B. ca state law require.
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