The wageworker., 1910-01-29
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits of News Picked and PiIfered
From ManyWhere.

Brief Bits Of News Picked and PiIfered
From Manywhere.
Plumbers in Charleston, W. Va,
have organized. Prospects bright.
The old age pension fund of the In
ternational Typographical Union has
risen to $21s,OOO
Popular Mechanics" that cater to
the iron industry, is printed under non-
union conditions.
| Every employe of the Citizens Tel
ephone company at Havana, ILL.,, struck
for higher wages.
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
have purchased a $6,5OO lot in East
Liverpool, Ohio, on which to erect
building for the brotherhood officials.
Shirtwaist makers and pressers in
Cleveland are getting organized as
they never were before, despite the
efforts of the manufacturers to pre-
vent it.
The Cleaners, farmers organiza-
ton, at their convention held in Sag
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voring parcels post and postal savings
banks.
| Gertrude E. Curtis of Bradford, Pa
is the first colored woman dentist. She
passed the final examinations in the
College of Dental Surgery in Philadel-
phia
The laborers on the railroads in and
about Spokane are paid in time checks
that are not payable for as long as
sixty days. This creates horde of
grafters who shave the checks.
A telegraphers' strike on the Big
Four has been averted by an agree
ment to arbitrate their differences Ar
bitration makes it way slowly, but it
saves heap of trouble wherever tried
In Denver girls are worked in the
non-union laundries IL to 16 hours a
day for ten cents an hour In Port
land all the laundries are non-union
and probably the girls are getting rich
the same way.
Four hundred men are out on strike
at the Standard Steel Car Works in
Hammond, Ind, because of the dis
satisfaction with the wage scale Riyr
eters and machinists are the trades
figuring in the strike.
Taxicab chauffeurs and those of
the sight seeing automobiles, business
houses and private families have per-
fected union in Washington and will
work under a charter of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters
The struggle between the Western
Federation of Miners and mine owners
which started with the lockout at the
Homestake mine near Lead, now in
cludes 13 of the largest mining proper
ties in the Black Hills
Eight hundred of the f,20O quarry
men who struck in Amherst, Ohio, two
weeks ago, because of winter wage
cut, returned to work Monday, saying
that the necessities of their families
forced them to give in.
The Keystone Coal & Coke Com
pany, Irwin. Pa, says that because OF
the increased cost of living, etc., the
1000 employees will receive 10 per
cent increase. 1t is expected other
mining companies will take similar ac-
tion.
The proposition recently submitted
to the Sailors Union of the Pacific
to extend further aid to the striking
comrades on the Great Lakes was
voted upon on the 10th inst, and
adopted by practically unanimous
vote. Let the good work go on.
1t is understood in Washington that
an omnibus claims bill will be passed
at this session of congress containing
claims amounting to $4,000 which will
go to the employees of the Brooklyn
navy yard for overtime work per-
formed many years ago.
Railway mail clerks waited on Sir
Wilfred Laurier in Ottawa, Canada,
and asked that the maximum be in
creased from 81 200 to $1,000, and that
a fiat increase of $3.50 be granted all
round as was given to the inside ser,
vice last year. They claimed that
the mileage they received in addition
to salary is all taken up in expenses
on the road. The premier's reply was
regarded as encouraging. A similar
request was made last year
RAILWAY CARMEN PROsPERING.
The report of the Brotherhood of
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