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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1907)
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TXXXXXXXXXXX1XXXXXXXX ' U Henry Pfeiff DEALER IN . Fresh and Salt Meats Savsatfc, Povllry, Etc Staple and Fancy Groceries. Telephones 888-477. 314 Se. Ills Street SRF OFFICE OF Or. R.L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. Offlve 2118 O St. Both Phonte LINCOLN. NEBRASKA YageYorkers, Attention tVe have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmoat secrecy. KELLY A INORRIS 70-ft BftOWNBLL SUE. MYDEN'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O Pins wtrk a Specialty. Auto 3336 Lincoln Dental College CLINIC Open for Patients Every Afternoon I A til and O 8t. r. M. BoUdtBK Phones: M . John II. Graham, D. 0- S. Llnooln, Mibraska DEMTAL OEFICES Hjln & Hj3naU " PHtsbnrg, Pa. The new miners are i machines. One of the most notable features presented by ths statistics of bituminous coal production during the past year or two is the increase in the use of machines and in the quan tity of machine mined coal. In 1889 the percentage of machine mined tonnage was 23; in 1906, 35.1. In the number of machines in use and in the amount of machine tonnage as in the total production of coal, Pennsylvania stands far in the lead with 45 per cent, of the number of machines and 45.6 per cent, of the machine mined coal. West Virginia stands second. Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana rank next. These states contribute over 90 per cent, of the total machine mined coal. Escanaba, Mich. Following the an nouncement of a further cut in wages 25 experienced machinists employed in the Northwestern shops here struck. Northwestern officials re duced the working time of all the shop men from ten hours to eight hours and' orders were issued reducing the working time of shop employes to four days a week. The first reduction was accepted without question, but the second resulted in a walkout. It Is claimed that orders have been issued to reduce the company's pay roll in the peninsula division 35 per cent. New York. On behalf of the Build ing Trades Employers' association an official statement was made of present conditions in this city and the Inten tions of the employers. Not for many years have there been so many men idle in the building industry as now, says the statement. The prevailing sentiment among the members of the association is not for reducing wages in the trades whose agreements expire at the end of December, but to exercise the privilege of selecting the best me chanic for any work they have in hand. Reading, Pa. Employes at the loco motive shop of the Reading company, who have been working 50 hours a week, will work 45 hours, or five days of nine hours. A suspension of at least five per cent, of the force of em ployes will be made in the different departments. The employes at the car shops will work 47 hours, with a half holiday on Saturdays. Seven nun dred men in the roadway department of the Reading system were laid off. The remainder of the force will be put on nine hours a day. New York. Returns made to the state bureau of labor statistics for Sep tember show that the conditions of employment during the first half of the year were not so favorable as those of 1906, but better than those of 1905. There were more disputes between employers and employes up to the end of the second quarter of the year than for the last five years. Lexington, Ky. The suspension of light work on Thomas F. Ryan's South & Western railroad, the great new trunk line from the southwestern Ken tucky coal fields to the Atlantic coast, has left 3,000 men' Idle. A telephone message received here states that the contractors are reducing wages, and fully a thousand more men have quit on that account. Harrisburg, Pa. It was announced by the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany that ail shop forces here will be put on an eight-hour day. There will also be a large reduction of freight crews shortly, and a number of yard crews have been laid off. Norfolk, Va. The American Fed eration of Labor, with but few dis senting votes, placed itself on record as favoring a system of government postal savings banks and unanimously Indorsed an appeal by the Porto Rican delegates to President Roosevelt and congress for reforms In that insular possession, with but one amendment. accepted by the Porto Hi cans, calling for an Immediate territorial form of government for Porto Rico. Washington. Of the 303 occupations followed by male bread winners all but nine have been adopted by one or more women. No women are reported as United States soldiers, sailors ' or marines, as members of city fire de partments, as telegraph or telephone linemen, as apprentices or helpers to roofers and slaters, or as helpers to steam boiler makers or to brass work ers. New York. A canvass of the situ ation reveals that 30,000 skilled work men in the building trades are Idle in New York. In 1903 and 1901, 60.000 men in these lines were working over time, and work was accumulated ahead, waiting for men. To-day less than half of these have regular work. St. Louis. An effort is being made In Missouri to obtain an appropriation of $50,000 for the establishment of a steel plant at Jefferson City, to be op erated by prison labor. It is designed that this plant shall turn out shapes demanded by the counties for bridge building and other improvements. London, Eng. Trouble has been brewing in the boot and shoe trade of England over the question of a mini mum wage. The men demand 32 shil lings a week, and for the females 21 shillings a week. The employers, it is said, are inclined to favor the former, but not the latter. Philadelphia. An unfounded rumor that the Midvale Steel company would shut down its extensive plant was go ing the rounds of the financial dis trict. Inquiries developed the infor mation that not only had some over zealous calamity howler run short of material and drawn on his imagina tion for what he lacked In facts, but that Midvale would be compelled to increase its force of thousands of workmen in the course of a month or so. Pittsburg, Pa. Notices at the local mills of the Spang & Chalfant com pany announced a reductku in wages of pnddlers to five dollars a ton. The mill will be temporarily closed, throw ing 600 men out. The H. C. Frlck company plants at Connellsville laid off all of Its shipping clerks. Many of the ovens have been banked. The plant of the Interstate Steel company at Breckenridge has closed. Two hun dred and fifty men are affected. South Bethlehem, Pa. Officials de nied the rumor that the Bethlehem Steel company was about to discharge several thousand men. The recent completion of the new Saucon plant necessitates the discharge of several hundred laborers, and in some depart ments there has been a reduction of forces for economical reasons, but the employment bureau is still open and any good mechanic will be given work. Chicago. Forty-nine railway sys tems in the west and middle west, many of them operating from Chicago, have made large reductions in the number of employes in the mechani cal, construction and maintenance of way departments during the past few days. Between 25,000 and 30,000 have been laid off. No great reduction in the train service so far has been ordered. Indianapolis. Many of the labor union publications of the country have editorials in regard to John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Work ers of America, in .which they speak highly of the ability of Mr. Mitchell and express the hope that he will soon be able to resume his position as the head of the miners. The editorials show the widespread popularity of the man. San Francisco. According to Infor mation received from New Castle, N. S. W., the effect of the great strike of coal miners there is felt throughout Australia. Miners, railroad men and dock men are out in sympathy with the strikers, and all vessels bound for ports of the world which had put into New Castle to load coal are held up in the harbor. London, Eng. An international agreement forbidding night work la factories by women has been signed by England, France, Germany, Aus tria, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. It will be put in practice in December, 1910. Boston. Twenty-five thousand chil dren between 14 and 16 years of age in the state of Massachusetts are not at school, was the statement in the caption of the charts made from the report of the commission for the in dustrial exhibit in Boston. Omaha, Neb. Six hundred thousand nickels in a bunch were turned loose in Omaha when the Omaha Street Railway company disbursed $30,000 worth of the five-cent pieces in meet ing the monthly pay roll of the con cern. Norfolk, Va. By a vote of 154 to SO the American Federation of Labor re fused to place itself on record as fa voring the government ownership of railways and mines. The opponents took the grounds that government ownership of mines and railways would prevent all strikes, no matter how peaceably they might be eon ducted, and that with a federal govern ment opposed to labor, it might prove a death blow. Cleveland, O. The American Ship building com ny laid off 1,000 men at the yards iu Lorain and the plant wilt be closed. In the local yards a n jmber of men were laid off. In the yards at Bay City, Mich., 400 men were laid off and the yards w'U be closed indefinitely. The money strin gency is given as the cause of the curtailment. New York. General Superintendent Brooks, of the Western Union Tele graph company, said that there had been no change in the standard of op erators' wages paid by the company and that the report from Mobile, Ala., to the effect that a reduction of ten per cent, was to be made was without foundation. Ottawa, Can. The experiment of re cruiting skilled labor in England for Canadian factories has now been tried for seven months, and the committee of the Canadian Manufacturers' asso ciation, which is responsible for the labor bureau in London, is abundantly satisfied with the experiment so far as it has gone. Easton, - Pa. The Freemansburg plant of the American Novelty com pany was closed. It will remain Idle until after the first of next year. . The company owns 32 plants throughout the United States. All will be af fected by the suspension there. DO YOl BELIEVE IN POSTERING HOME INSTITUTIONS? 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