The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-09-30
GENERAL MENTION.
A Little Bit of Everything From Pretty
Near Everywhere.

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| The Harbor Boatman s Union of
New York city has a membership of
5000.
| In Mexico it is found cheaper to feed
sick convicts to sharks than to keep
hospitals.
Union printers in Hagerstown, Ind,
have secured an increase in wages of
S1.5o per week.
In the railroad office in Winnipeg,
Canada, a large force of clerks work
| a continuous six-hour day only.
Walla Walla union labor men are
ing union label store.
Theree cities are now in the hands
of union labor men politically, Milwau
kee, San Francisco and San Jose.
The Central railroad of New Jersey
has raised the wages of its employees
on it's ferry boats per cent.
After ten weeks strike, Suitcase
| Makers in New York have compelled
number of large manufacturers to
sign up.
The employing bakers in New Or
leans demand the "open' shop with
its usual accompaniment of low wages
and long hours.
The actual construction of the San
Francisco municipal railroad is delayed
by the lawyers No dirt fies-but the
ink and iniunctions
Buffalo, n. Y. Plasterers have been
granted a substantial increase in wages
and are now receiving So cents per
! hour. - .
/ The Monon, Ind, Railway Trainmen
will receive an increase in wages. The
increase is gradual from 10 to so per
cent.
All workingmen in the Federation Of
1 Trades of the Seaboard Air Line. rail.
way system are to receive wage in
crease of 3 1-2 cents per hour. ~
An industry that seems peculiar is
fo1lowedia, New York City BY several
people. That is as, spies to-. Hatch Rus
sian revolutionists and yagitators. -
/ An organization of the Sheet Metal
/ Workers has been formed in Madison,
Wisconsin, which includes fully 90 per.
cent of all the men employed in that
line.
In South Africa the British fought
the Beers. partly because they abused
the native Inhabitants. Now they unite
with the Beers to treat the natives
worse. than ever.
The "open shop advocates say they
are opposed. to unions because they
want industrial peace, yet 40 per cent
more strikes occur in open shops than
/ in.union shopss. -
r. In Boston 1,soo Painters have been
tsacc o2aed an increase of $1:96 week,
making a wage of $40 per week for
Painters, and s22,5o for Decorators -for-
:. fourty-four hours work. -.
Detroit, Mich, Iron Molders have es-
! tabished a Aat in I'M Scale Of 1926
per day. which san increase. Of Is
cents per day for f;7 moISierss and. 50 cents
|EpeR tiayA fesseeresn% 81. NE. ;. zas.':
: .sAthol. Mass. Machinists Union re
Gently signed new agreements with all
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arg benefited by Jan SING resse Of 25
cents per day in the wage SCALE.
| 4,arpe4terrs IN West point. Ky, have
succeeded in negotiating a. pew scale
whereby the men get an advence of
2 l2 cents per hour. The new scale was
signed without any trouble whatever.
Court injunction in Los Angeles
have .forbfadeh the1 men to- hofa ttneet
[ ings or to talk over their strike They
threaten tolfwithdraw from the city
and form tpwn Of their own. ?: :: .
In. Boston. .,139, men have formed "a
company. to publish the Boston Com
mon as paper devoid Of any influence
Of special interests. 1t is ISSUED weekly
and has prospects Of becoming daily.
A Seamen s Church Institute is VIC
latig every human and divine law in
dealing with sailors in New York, and
has become a crimping agency that rs
a disgrace to humanity.
The Iron Molders' Union Of Little
Rock. Ark. has signed minimum scale
i'of $3.50 for moldcrs and S3.15 for
eore-makers, this being an advance Of
; 25 cents per day for molders and 40
cents per day for core-makers.
The order of Railway Photographers
has just purchased the property at the
corner of Walnut and Eighth streets,
ST. Louis, and will, in the near future,
erect a fifteen story office building
there.
A large majority of the contractors
of Milwaukee who are employers of
l union labor have signed the new wage
{ scale of the Carpenters, which provides
: for an advance in wages from 1925 to