The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-06-10
GENERAL MENTION.
Scissored From Portland Labor Press
BY Lazy News Editor.


Dor meets June IA.
Catholic societies are prominent in
an early closing movement in Toledo,
Ohio. ..
Suburban lines around New York
City are raising rates. They need the
money
San Jose has been carried for the
third successive city election by the
Labor party.
Organized labor has defeated the
corporation candidate for sheriff In
Birmingham. Alabama.
German courts sustain the right OF
boycott to much greater extent
than in the United States.
Cooperative farmers stores are sy''-
tematically boycotted by a combine OF
wholesale dealers in Iowa.
Federal officials are to investigate
the alarming exodus of skilled Amer
lean farmers and mechanics to Can
ada.
The fifteen business agents OF the
unions in Spokane will hereafter have
an auto at their disposal. 1t saves
time.
Sugar Trust emissaries have Sc
cured 1000 Russian farmers in Sibef-
la, and practically enslaved them IN
the Philippines.
Seven of the AZ members of the
Municipal Council of Copenhagen are
women. They recently received
Roosevelt at a banquet.
u. s. paper money is to be made
smaller. The amount of necessities
smaller, too.
When you buy your new suit see
that you get the union label, and show
the world that yon are a consistent
union man.
In New York, dock laborers are
systematically robbed of credit for
time they work. They are morgan
lied. and therefore, almost helpless.
In Switzerland the people have vot-
ed in a cabinet officer known as the
Secretary of Labor. He is nominated
by the labor unions, and his appoint
ment follows as matter of course.
The executive of the labor educa-
tional association of Ontario is max
ing arrangements for the holding OF
mass meetings in various centers
throughout the dominion.
In Ohio some of the members CT
the legislature who fought the en-
ployers liability law recently passed
have been placed on the political to-
boggan slide at the direct primaries.
The United Garment Workers CT
America have been great sufferers as
a result of the prison output of shirts,
overalls, trousers and the like, used
by workingmen in their trade.
The steel Trust He'll at South Beth
leham, Pa, is to be investigated by
a Federal council of the allied Pro-
testant churches. The preachers are
a little slow, but they mean well.
Some 400 members of the Journey
men Tailors Union, at Winnipeg, ale
on strike for 10 per cent raise on
extra" work. The strike was called
as a last resort. after negotiations
failed.
The American Federation of Labor
is now busy gathering statistics re-
garding affiliated local unions, par
ticularly in regard to the wages paid
and hours worked in different sections
Of the country.
The American Federation of Labor
Is sending to the central bodies and
the various state declarations an IN
teresting book giving an account OF
the work of the special committee OF
Industrial education.
The State Federation of Labor of
Texas has decided by a large major
ity vote that hereafter all officers of
the federation are to be elected by
secret ballot and in that way all pol
itics may be eliminated.
Milwaukee city authorities propose
to build modq municipal dwelling
houses to take the place of the slums.
The money will come from the saw
ings in the hundreds of little and big
gratis being unearthed.
A newspaper man in New York re-
ports that the Y. M. c. A. free en-
ployment bureau is almost as bad
as "pluckme" employment graft
shop. One dollar down and two-thirds
the. first weeks wages is demanded.
BY vote taken recently the members
Of the Moyie Miners Union expressed
themselves as being in favor Of ANAL
gamating with the United Mine Work
ers of America. and thus becoming
affiliated with the American FEEDER