The wageworker., 1910-05-06
Printing Trades and organized labol

| Printing Trades ana organized laDOl /.
The returns from that investment IN
rat printing did not amount to sixty
cents. The next advertisement
scheme of the Chamber of Commerce
invested in had the union label, and
the returns were very satisfactory.
The Philadelphia street car COM
bine is nearly broke, and must issue
bonds The strike wiped out it's sur
plus funds.
Spanish Liberals and Radicals are
likely to follow England in levying
provements.
Bakery Statesmen have been sue
cessfully organized in Oakland and
surrounding towns throughout Ala
media County. California.
By recent enactment women IN
Germany are forbidden to work in
factories at night, also their hours
shall not exceed ten.
The province of Quebec will pro-
hibit the expectation of wood pulp
cut on the Crown lands of the pro-
vince to the United States.
Hogs have all the diseases that
man is heir to; and some men claim
that man is half hog at his best. and
all hog at his worst.
It is said that eight more battle
ships would have prevented the Span
ish war The reply is that eight less
would have also prevented it.
At Honolulu 800 Russian laborers
have been turned loose destitute af.
ter being inveigled to come there
t. work on sugar plantations.
In Maine the organizers of paper
and pulp workers have been refused
halls and compelled to hold meetings
on leased vacant lots.
Vast concourses of people in Ber-
lin have been perfectly peaceab1e, but
the demands for extension of fran
chise rights very determined.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters will celebrate it's twenty-ninth
anniversary in August. Local cele-
brations will be held everywhere.
With SO avowed Socialists in the
Spanish parliament, it would seem
as if there should be something do.
ing in that wornout old country.
Conductors and brakemen on the
lines of the Pacific Lumber Company
at Eureka, California, have demanded
better pay and treatment.
The ex-secretary of the Federal La
Dor Union of Spokane, Ed Lane, is
said to be wanted for absconding with
5000 of the unions money.
An employment agent for the Phil
adelphia street car combine recently
received sixty days on the rockpile al
Rochester, N. Y. He carried gun.
At Butte, Montana, the miners
have joined the A. F. of L. The strife
between the Western Federation o1
Miners and the A. F. of l.. is at an
end.
Jewish strikes against the meat
shops in New York have put mum
Der of them out of business. The
high prices are bitterly resented and
the local dealers blamed.
In Milwaukee the Allied Printing
Trades Council has been awarded the
right to have it's label returned from
an unfair firm that used it after II
was demanded.
Three cent street railway fares OF
the Cleveland traction system have
not only proved paying venture, but
promise to give a handsome surplus
to the railway company.
In Oakland the newspaper printers
are endeavoring to secure a new
scale increasing rate about seven an(
half per cent. Over half the mel
employed now receive it.
In Germany the Christian Trades
Unions were established to Offset thu
Socialist Trades Unions. Now the twt
have joined a demand for better con
ditions in the building trades.
Cincinnatis city council has re