The wageworker., 1910-02-05

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n New York City and it was decided
o organize the Italian workers into
lnions.
There will be no strike of telegraph
operators on the Big Four railroad, a
having been reached on
he wage question.
The dual organization of plasterers
formed in Indianapolis has thrown up
The sponge and become members Of
the Operative Plasterers' union.
All but three Italian workmen i'm
ported from New York to work in
Printz & Biederman's cloak shop in
Cleveland have deserted and gone
home.
The Cigarmakers' strike against the
firm of B. Pfeifer in New York city |
has been settled and the 400 employees |
returned to work. The six discharged |
employees have been reinstated.
George w. Beiber of Joliet, ILL.,,
made his last run on the Michigan
Central railroad from Joliet to Lake.
Ind, Saturday, rounding out 55 years
of continuous service and retiring on
pension.
During the past year there We're 40|
prosecutions for violations of the child
labor laws in manufacturing establish
ments Of the state of New Jersey, ac
cording to the annual report of Lewis
T. Bryant. commissioner of labor
W. E. Gladstone once said: 'I pain
fully reflect that in almost every
great political controversy of the last
so years the leisure classes, the edu-
Gated classes, the wealthy classes the
titled classes, have been in the wrong"
Leather Workers Union in Ottawa,
Ont, has entered an appeal against
the decision of Magistrate O'Keefe in
dismissing the charge against the
Hugh Carson company Of importing
alien labor. The appeal will be heard
January 26.
The packages handed on New Years
by the Santa Fe railroad in Kansas to
the section men consisted of reduc-
ton in wages from $115 to $1.O3 per
day The Santa Fe is one Of the
greatest "scab" concerns in America.
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation in San Francisco will publish
an official organ, The Longshoreman
1t is stated that the union is increas-
ing rapidly in membership and that
it's financial standing is beyond expec-
tation.
Officials of the Bryant Paper COM
pany in Kalamazoo, Mich, announce
that before the end of another year a
new three-machine paper mill will be
erected near the site of the present
mill, the addition making the Bryant
paper properties the largest book pa
per plant in the world.
The contest between the Building
Trades Council and the Builders Ex-
change in San Jose, Cal, which opened
on June IA, 1909, on account of the re-
fusal of the exchange to accept the
new wage schedule is a tfing of the
past. Union rules now prevail
Vaudeville actors in Chicago again
are on the warpath. Following their
success few months ago in raising
salaries to $25 week for singles and
$50 a week for doubles, they are now
planning to put the Chicago Vaudeville
Managers Association and the book
ing agency of Frank O. Doyle out of
business.
Within the last two months the fol
lowing new unions have been organ
lied in Kansas: In Emporia, a typo
graphical union; in Atchison, ma
phone operators union; in Kansas
City, a plumbers union, and in Pitts
burg, a printing pressmen's union.
In a conference between represen-
tatives of the James A. Banister Shoe
company of Newark. N. j., and it's
striking lasters, an amicable agree
ment was reached. and the strike,
which affected about $50 lasters, in
Guiding those in the Boyden Shoe COM
pany and the Johnston & Murphy COM
pany. was settled.
Three thousand Cook county Ull.)
brickmakers have given notice to the
manufacturers that they intend to in
sist on. a wage increase of Is per cent
on the expiration of their present
agreement. The manufacturers re-
Gently have installed new patented ma
chimes which do away with almost one
half the labor and as a result large
number of men have been thrown out
OF employment