The wageworker., 1910-02-26
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits of Labor News Picked and
Piifered from Manywhere.

Piifered from Manywhere.
Polishers' Union No Ill, in Quincy,
H., has lately made agreements with
most of the foundries.
The $50 girl strippers who were on
strike in the Pollack stogie factories
in Wheeling, w. Va, have won a vic
tory.
Missouri supreme court knocked out
the law which prohibited the working
of employees in bakeries more than six
days, of ten hour each, week.
Patternmakers are organized in
Lorain, Ohio, which embraces Elvira
as well. About Is per cent Of the me-
chanics in that district are in the new
union.
| The legislative committee of the I
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is
| taking steps to fight for the passage
through the New Jersey legislature of
bi-weekly pay day.
! A famine in Easter bonnets is now |
threatened. Word comes from New |
York City that the 5000 members of !
the Millinery Workers Union are or
ganizing for a general strike.
After two strenuous nights of nego-
| tiating, the Niles, Ohio, Typographical
Union had it's scale boosted SO per
week for job and ad journeymen and
Sc week for foremen, or 20 and 40
per cent.
The strike of union building trades
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in Omaha, Neb., has been settled, and
the "scab'' sheet metal workers
brought from Chicago are getting
home the best way they can.
No organization, either in the rail
road industry or outside of it, has
grown as rapidly as has the Railway
Trainmen in the past two years, the
average increase being in the neigh
borhood of 1000 members month
A Boston firm of building wreckers
has brought out circular saw that
will cut through nails and bolts as
well as through wood, enabling them
to cut into regular sizes of second
hand lumber that otherwise would be
vaIueless.
Accused of being a spy and "spot-
ter" Robert Sewell of Akron, O., who
Joined the Auto Tire Builders Union a
few weeks ago, during the present
strike at the Hartford, Conn, Rubber
Works. was elected from a trades
union meeting Sunday.
The Oil Exchange cafe and Bartend-
ers' Association in Toledo has settled
all differences. President Thos. J.
Smith of the joint executive board re-
ports 81 reinstatements and II appli-
cations last week, and three applica-
: tions this week
Six thousand members of the House
: smiths and Bridgemen's Union in
Greater New York have been granted
4 an increase from $3.50 to $500 day
Thirty cents day will be added at
once, while the additional 20 cents
will be come effective on July /.
n The Union Pacific compels it's day
watchmen to work thirteen hours per
3 day, for which they pay the magnif-
q cent sum of $1.5O. The night watch
q men are more fortunate, as they only
q work ten hours and draw $1.6O for
same. Just how the company manages
Z to ''stem the tide with such a draw
3 on its treasury is a mathema tical
4 problem.
q The American Brotherhood of Ce
ment workers, writes international
Secretary Henry Uilner, contemplates
& the issuing of an official paper at al
4 early date. The headquarters of the
cement workers is at San Francisco
and has functioned as an internationa
d union for seven years. It has issuet
1872 charters and has a membership o
$1,000 It's territory covers Canada, tn,
United States and Mexico