The wageworker., 1910-04-15
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits Of Labor News Picked and
Pilfered From Manywkere.

Pilfered From Manywhere.
Newsboys in Manitoba must wear
badges.
U. S. Steel Corporation paid $780,
100000 in wages in 1909
Cigarmakers' International Union
! was established in 1864.
A new union of plasterers was in
stituted recently in Modesto, Cal.
On May II, at Cincinnati Ameri-
can Federation of Musicians will con-
vene
Steps have been taken to organize
woman's union label league in Val
ejo, Cal.
Farmers in many counties of Cali
fornia are organizing against the en-
ployment of Japanese.
In Chicago hammermen get from
SO to 60 cents an hour, blacksmiths
from 40 to 60 cents, and helpers from
23 to 40 cents.
Carpenters of Stockton, CAL. have
decided to consider the submission
! of demand for $3.50 for an eight
hour day.
Trades unions have accomplished
more in one-half century than the
political dreamers will accomplish in
one thousand years.
Union plumbers in all parts of, the
country are voting upon a proposition
to establish home ror aged and dis
abled members.
Andrew Furuseth, secretary of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific, will
shortly leave for the east to secure
legislation for sailors generally.
A recent meeting of the Memphis,
Tenn, trades and labor council took
up and discussed the question of :
local labor temple and a building
committee to go fully into the ques-
tion was named
Baltimore & Ohio telegraphers have
secured an increase in wages of 8
: per cent and satisfactory change
in working conditions, thereby avert
ing threatened strike.
The labor temple committee of Var
ejo, Cal, which proposes to erect a
first-class home for the labor unions of
to issue stock in the temple associa-
ton.
4 The American Federation of Labor
, is sending to the central labor bodies
and Static Federations an interesting
book giving an account of the work
of the special committee on indus
trial education.
The American Federation of Labor
executive council will hold it's next
quarterly session in Seattle, Wash !,
this month. The members will ad-
dress mass meetings of unionists 60.
ing to and returning from the coast
The new work scale Of the leath-
er workers on horse goods all over
the United States, Canada and Mex
leo next Monday is a declaration of
the eight-hour work-day.
San Francisco, CAL, retail clerks
union has decided to send 1000 cir
! culars a month to the homes of work
ingmen. These will bear fac simile
of the union clerks card and re-
quest that all who make purchases
ask the clerk for his card before do
ing business.
Ballet girls in European cities are
taken at a tender age and held like
4 apprentices for several years, under
: the severest discipline. They are
housed and fed by the master and
mistress, their teacher.
An agreement reached at Louis
Vile between a committee from the
Louisville & Nashville division of the
4 Order of Railway Conductors and the
company for the next two years, Sc
cures for the trainmen substantial
increase in wages.
President Andrew G. Hughes, of the
Isternational Coopers' Union, has Sc
cured a general union arbitration
: agreement from the Cooperage EN-
/ ployers' Association, and the Interna-
tional Union has won it's contention
| for an increase in wages for every
shop CONTROLLED by the association.
. Inc new agreement cAu "o60 IL
crease will go into effect June l.
The International Printing Press
men and Assistants Union is COM
posed of craftsmen who produce
about 80 per cent of the magazines
1 newspapers and others forms o.
printing throughout this country, the
West Indies and Canada, and has a
membership around $4,000.
Local bricklayers' unions have re-
ceived notice from international head
: quarters that after July 1 an inter-
national mortuary benefit of 5000 will