The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-01
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits Of Labor News Picked and Pill
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fered for WageworlEer Readers.
The Illinois miners have over three
quarters Of million in their treasury.
| ers have signed the new contract, pro-
viding a nine hour night shift.
The Canadian Northern has signed
the schedule asked by the blacksmiths,
molders and pattern makers.
In Haverhill, Mass, it required six
guards to keep four strikebreakers at
work in a shoe factory recently.
The IS business agents Of the unions
in Spokane will hereafter have an auto
at their disposal. It saves time.
One Of the first ACES of the new So
cialist council of Milwaukee was to
order that all city printing should bear
the union label.
T. L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, has issued statement
in which he declares that the men
have $5,O0O,OOO for strike fund.
The Bakers Of Denver won their
strike very quickly after putting solicit
tors and delivery wagons in the field
to secure orders for labeled bread.
Three hundred girl shoemakers in
Cleveland struck when they found that
a. time clock had been installed. They
were out five minutes; now the clock
is out.
Rochester fathers demand an in
crease of from $40 to $3.75 for day
work; from $3.50 to sara per 1000 for
hard laths, and $2.25 per 1000 for or
binary piece work.
Upon being asked his religion in
blank application for a job, man in
New York wrote the sign of the dol
lar. This frank admission obtained
him the position.
English workmen have discovered
that the way to secure contracts for
public buildings with the union labor
clause is to elect union men to the
Offices having the final disposition of
contracts.
Members of the Steamftters' union
at Minneapolis, Mimi, want an in
crease of so cents day. The change
to the higher rate will be effective July
l. Workmen are now paid at the rate
of 81 for eight hours. 2
In Australia a Seamen' g COmpensa-
ton Act is in force. which provides
liability ON the par. o. employers, re-
CARELESS of negligence on the part Of
the injured, and gives damages for
nearly every. kind of injury.
According to decision by the board
of park commissioner all band con-
CeTLS III NlIWduhcc POI hS Ihlo ouAlAuOA
will be furnished by union musicians.
The union will be held responsible for
the carrying out of the schedule after
it hes Zee, accented by the board.
The Everett, Wash, laundry strike
lasted one week. The girls promised
to start a union !auEd-y Of their own
and began soliciting. The "Open'
shop bosses became panic stricken They
capitulated without demanding any
thing. The increase went, so did the
recognition of the union.
The records of the International
Typographical Union show decrease
in deaths from the white plague. In
1892 the number Of deaths from that
cause were 48 per cent; seven years
later the number had been reduced to
A per cent and in 1907 there was
still further reduction to SO per cent.
OF the 100000 900 paid out by the
employers of labor IN the United
States only $4,000, 900 reaches the
workmen, and they in turn pay fully
one-half Of this sum in attorneys, fees.
The remaining $56,00O,00O go to habh-
ity companies and lawyers.
| After a strike lasting but two days,
| the brewery workers Of Davenport,
Iowa, were successful in signing up.
new agreement whereby the mend rs
all receive substantial increases in
wages as follows: Brewers and NAL
sters, So per week; bottlers, So and SO;
drivers, So; engineers, $3.50; all men
in boiler and ice departments, So; route
drivers, So; telephone drivers, 81 and
bottlers, So per week.
The Boston Ladies' TailOrs and
Dressmakers' union recently estab-
lished a rule that no member could
work overtime while there were mem
bers unemployed. Several members
violated the rule. Recently they made
their peace with the union by paying
to the men and women unemployed at
the time of the violation the full
amounts they had received for all over
time work.