The wageworker., 1910-05-20
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits Of Labor News Deity Pill
fered From Portland Labor Press.

Gently 1924 women voted.
Colorado teachers are considering
affilliation with the A. F. of l..
Samuel Gompers will shortly speak
in many places in Oklahoma.
The Molders have voted to increase
the salary of the International secre-
tary.
Walla Walla labor unions are try
ing to boost the LABEL in that enter
prising town.
Public school teachers of Massa-
chusetts expect to organize as part
of the A. F.. of l..
At Duluth, Minnesota, the Leather
workers are about to start co-opera-
tive establishment.
The Pressmen will give one days
pay toward the home for aged and
tuberculosis members.
Chicago union men have protested
against a convict municipal printing
shop.
Strikebreaking switchmen in Kan
plant being established.
Everett has plenty of labor of all
kinds. The Labor Journal publishes
a statement to this effect.
During the census-taking in New
York the very rich were found to de-
fy the law more than the poor.
Women can hereafter vote on bond
to- IN, ha nitiaC
and towns Of New York state.
Organized labor should get after
the schools. One good man on a
school board has steadying effect.
Hindu towns are being formed in
California cities. Beside them the
Chink towns are palatial suburbs.
Placing of all the Missouri convicts
in blue uniforms and abolishing the
stripes has had distinct uplifting
effect.
Governor Patterson has pardoned
152 murders in the past three years
and half that he has been execu-
tive of Tennessee,
Systematic strikes in Marseilles,
France, have made trouble for the
authorities, The naval reserves
want better treatment.
Mayor Gaynor has ordered the
signs, keep off the grass replaced
with, come on the grass. in the pub
lie parks of New York.
The new rule of eight hours on all
the new warships will give over
eight thousand men from two to four
hours day less toll.
Several of the contributors to the
National Manufacturers fund, started
last year, with which to destroy labor
unions have gone broke.
The Walla Walla, Washington, Mon
itor says the number of buildings pro-
jected there indicate lively times in
the building trades this summer.
OF eight cases of injured railway
workmen in Indiana last year every
one was reversed by the supreme
court in favor of the corporations.
Sailors of the Grea' Lakes speak
of the employers welfare Plan" as
the "Hellfare Plan 1t is short, but
descriptive alliterative defination,
Internal dissentions in the ranks
of organized labor in Denver prevent
ed needed increase in pay of many
trades. 1t costs money to pull hair.
At the recent city election in Ho-
quiam, Washington seven out of nine
councilmen elected were union men,
and two of tie seven Shingle Weay-
ers.
The Premier of Victoria, Australia,
will ask sanction of the State Parlia-
ment to own, operate and sell at
wholesale and retail all the coal in
the state.
An enormous and very valuable
deposit of platinum and tin has
been found near Merlin, in Josephine
county. The indications are, that the
field is extensive.
The work of pushing the union lab
Ell is being vigorously prosecuted in
Spokane. Some 500 dinner buckets
with an ad. of union tobacco will
be distributed.
The Leatherworkers have secured
accession of their demands from nine
of the largest manufacturers in the
country, and a great many small
establishments.
Prizefighting is vigorously de-
nounced by the Methodists ministers
of California, but on all the U. s
battleships and cruisers it is a
fiourishing art and science.
Strikebreakers in some Illinois
coal mines struck and did more dam
age in less time to pumps and pipes