The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-29
GENERAL MENTION.
Little Items Of Interest to the Workers
Of Lincoln.

cessfully in Vellejo, Cal.
h Jewelry factories are running short
time in New England states.
For violating unjust injunctions two
union carpenters are in jail in Chicago
Eight police of Fort Worth, Tex,
resigned rather than herd strike
breakers.
In San Francisco the Women s Union
Label League is awakening great in
terest.
Wala Walla is reaching out for free
advertising by arresting and imprison-
ing 1. w. w. speakers on it's streets.
Springfield, o., Employers Associa-
ton is getting ready for trouble, of it's
own manufacture, with organized labor.
Edmundton, Canada has no tax on
improvements and has increased in FIVE
years from 5000 to $4,000 people
Three times as many accidents occur
to children under 16 as to employers
over that age in the Pennsylvania coal
mines.
The city pound of Spokane is an in
stitution run by the humane society and
not at all like the old form of city
pounds.
Hamilton, (Ontodio) bridge and struc-
tural iron workers have been granted
an advance in wages of 21a cents per
hour.
Hired thugs have been following
union leaders around Los Angeles
threatening violence and unmolested by
the police.
Spokane is to have main employed
this summer to exterminate rats. Not
rat printers, but the genuine rodents,
of course.
In spite of the opposition of the
chief, Milwaukee, Wis, police have Sc
cured one entire "a hours off every fif-
teen days.
The New York publishers demand
piece work for printers and the matter
is being arbitrated. Piece work is bit
terly opposed.
Meat packing in Chicago is said to
be as dirty and unsanitary as ever, in
spite of inspectors and various bluffs
and pretenses.
Members of the Iron Molders' union
in Chicago have succeeded in getting
an advance in wages amounting to IS
cents per day.
Regardless of the fact that we are
at peace with the world, over half the
! appropriations of Congress are for war
purposes.
state printer is to be elected in
: Oklahoma, and the qualifications mean
a printer with at least eight years
practical experience.
The Steel Trust is to establish another
"heN-fare' town near Birmingham,
Ala, somewhat Oh the lines of Pull
man and Geary.
Aberdeen, WASH, has municipal
water system it is proud of, and rates
to small consumers have been recently
reduced 25 per cent.
The employees of the state of Wash
ington, whether working by the day,
week or year, have assured to them
the eight hour day.
The federal authorities are to investi-
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Chances are the journeymen plumbers
will catch the ticks.
. North Dakota has nominated re-
; publican ticket by the direct primary,
i and large number of machine candi-
! dates fell off the band wagon.
In indianapolis in some ways the gas
companies are giving 6O-cent gas. The
attention of many other cities is be-
ing called to the fact.
Twentysix coal operators out of 81
in the Pittsburg district have signed
the wage scale demanded by the min
ers, according to the union officials.
An unusual number of "Pinks,'' as
the Pinkerton detectives are called, are
on the Pacific Coast, and most of them
engaged in labor troubles.
Ministers of the gospel have extended
almost enough energy in fighting the
Johnson-J effries fake to have put
stop to child labor the country over
Mobile, Ala, is making united
move to secure from the legislature the
exemption of all manufacturing plants
from taxation for period of ten years
s Seattle enjoyed its last insane Fourth.
A number of MANNED and crippled chill
dren were created to help out the mer-
chants who had supplied the fireworks.
The recent developments in airships
and allied inventions of various names
indicate that, except for scrap iron, a
modern warship is a useless bit of prop
erty.
One of the queerest strikes recorded
in New York yet is that of the "sec-
ond hand tailors.' The New York
Cali says 200 are on strike for better