The wageworker., 1910-03-12
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Picked and Pill
fered From Many Sources.

kaid ranch" the first of the week, to
see if it had come out properly from
its blanket of snow.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
will soon pass some new labels
around among the print shops.
w. M. Maupin was in Des Moines
Monday and Tuesday, looking after
some matters tending to further the
work of the Nebraska Bureau of La
Dor.
The front of the Labor Temple has
been painted and it now looks
thousand per cent better than neigh
boring buildings. Let them be treated
likewise.
Business must be picking up with
the cigarmakers; a request for four
strirpers was posted on the Temple
! bulletin board the first of the week.
William H. Gilmore, the Burlington
engineer killed in wreck just east of
Nebraska City last Sunday is credited
in the daily papers with having, the
'honor" of pulling the first passenger
train out of Lincoln after the inaug-
uration Of the big strike in '86.
Next week The Wageworker will
publish an interesting communication
civic matters. 1t should be read by
every union man who is taxpayer.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor
meets at Waterloo in June.
Manager Jim Sullivan of the "An-
telopes" has arrived, and already the
boys are cvaorting around in their old
baseball uniforms. The season can't
open any too soon for lot of us, and
here's hoping that rag" will fly
from pole at the ball park when the
season closes.
Carpenters in Utica, N. Y, have
been granted Saturday half holiday.
Cloakmakers in Montreal, Canada,
have struck for better conditions.
All flour mills in Evansville and
Boonville, Ind, will use union cooper
age hereafter.
Machine men empoyed in planning
mills in Springfield, ILL.,, hae been
granted an increase.
Sheet Metal Workers union in In
dianapolis, Ind, has decided to estab
lish a night school fer apprentices.
Increase OF 10 per cent in salaries
has been granted by the Western
Maryland railroad to it's more than
300 telegraphers.
Chicago & Alton officials have grant
ed passenger attaches 81 monthly in
crease and freight men many changes
in conditions.
An increase in membership of 800
per cent inside of month. That's
the record of the Carpenters union in
| Lincoln, Neb.
I The Seaboard Air Line railway has
granted skilled shop men an increase
| of 1-2 cents an hour. Three thous-
and men are affected by the increase.
Will the Hatters union, with it's
quarter of a million fine for violating
the antitrust law, get off as easily as
did the Standard Oil trust with it's
| $29,OOO,O00 fine?
| The Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing
Trades, the United Garment Workers
| official organ, has come out in favor of
organizing a labor party along British
lines.
| Trouble at the Greenhut Cloak COM
pany, Cleveland, has been adjusted.
The concern conceded an increase of
| Is per cent in wages and recognizes
the union. aeras
The wage dispute between the
Switchmen's Union of North America
and eight railroad companies will be-
| gin next Friday in Chicago. More than
5000 men are involved.
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing asso-
citation in st. Louis, Mo-, announces
that funds for the benefit of the 5000
employees, which will represent year.
ly outlay of $4,000. has been estab-
lished
workers. bricklayers, paper hangers,
Ipinters, clerks, musicians, railway
trainmen and pressmen in Evansville,
Ind, report outlook encouraging for
1910.
Boston branch of the Amalgamated
Society Of Engineers has given notice
that it will cooperate with Boston
lodge of machinists in it's organizing
work and its demand for a 20 per
cent increase in wages on May 1.
Five members of the Coopers' union
in East Liverpool, o., who belonged
to the Holy Rollers, declined to pay
dues to the union, claiming that their
religion would not permit of their be-
longing to any other organization. are