The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-08-05
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits of Labor News Deity
Picked and Pilfered


San Jose is to have municipal free
employment bureau.
The anti-Jap forces in San Francisco
continue to put up good fight.
A uaion dollar for union goods means
more work for the union man.
Manitoba is to have government stock
yards and abbatoirs in operation this
fall
After a bitter strike for two months
the building trades of Milan, Italy,
have won out.
The non union shop means porter
house and buzz-wagons for the boss and
soup bones for the men.
The National Brotherhood of Potters
have unanimously forbidden it's mem
bers to join the militia.
Convicts working on the road near
Bellingham, Washington, have won
their strike for an eight hour day.
Carpenters in Washington, D. c.,
through organization and arbitration
have secured better pay and conditions.
Organized carpenters in Great Britain
will exchange membership cards with
the Brotherhood in America
A strong effort is to be made to or
ganize telephone girls as part of the
general telegraphers' organization.
One IF the humors of the day is the
Forthcoming lecture of T. Roosevelt
against Socialism in Milwaukee, Wis.
After weeks of strike the structural
iron workers have resumed operations
in Chicago, with increased pay.
A Pennsylvania judge has issued an
injunction forbidding any miners union
marching along the public highways.
Carpenters working in ST. Louis brew
cries have won out for their contentious
of recognition and reasonable condi-
tions.
Under an injunction in an Illinois
court nine engineers who quit their jobs
without permission must go to Jail for
contempt.
The Democratic platform and the
Democratic governor of Arkansas in
dorse the initiative and referendum
HOW UtlOlS Gu0 pCOplo.
Many unions in California are con-
tributing a dollar month to the Los
Angeles fight against the Employers
association lockout.
Men engaged in constructing a bridge
at Spokane struck because asked to
take unusual risks in cutting away the
false work of the span.
The Australian state of Victoria will
hereafter mine most OF its own coal
III It's own mines, with an eight hour
day for the workers.
About the only men who are heard
of in connection with the so-called
nominating assembly are the ones who
can be benefited by it.
i The Chicago Federation of Labor has
recently unanimously Endorsed the
Daily Socialist for it's support of or
ganized labor in that city.
A Massachusetts judge has issued ar
injunction against union receiving
donations. No injunctions issued
against the G. O. P. receiving any.
Diaz was not reelected president OF
Mexico. No! He was re-appointed
Don't misuse the English language by
saying he was reelected.
Owing to the increased cost of liv
ing large number of the members OF
the European Sovereigns and Princes
Union have demanded more pay.
Fighting increased freights is intense
ly amusing to the railroad magnates
Some of them have gone to Europe te
laugh about it.
In Manitoba improvements on farm
lands are not taxed, nor are machinery
or live stock, grain, stored agricultu
raj products or household furniture.
Organized laundry owners met or
gained laundy workers in San Fran
cisco in friendly conference. The re
suit is that 1000 employees retain the
eight-hour day.
In Alaska the U. S. government owns
the telegraphs, and it is going to lower
it's charges, which are already lower
than the trust charges in the rest of
the country.
Land Spectators have stolen GENE
terry in Mobile, Alabama. They seem
to have assimilated it without a qualm
of conscience or a kick from the living
or the dead.
The agricultural appropriation bill
slips in afew words which will prob
ably prevent prosecutions Of adultera-
lions in food products. Trust good
lobby for tricks of that kind.
In some greater or less degree all
the states of the Union except M1ssls-
sippi and South Carolina have passed
laws within the last two years regulat-
ing childr and women labor.
Organized boot and shoe workers OF