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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1908)
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The statement t Sam ml Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, that organised labor wonld rather endue the Sherman anti-trust taw. as ap plied by the United Stares supreme eonrt tn the hatters' case, than suh- mit to registration, as proposed oy the ameadatory hill drafted by the National Otic federation and ietro duced in the hones by Mr. Hepburn of low, was one of the features of a hearing on that bill before the sub committee of the house judiciary com mittee. President Seta Low of the National CiTic federation and Prof. J. W. Jenks of Cornell uniTersity also made arguments. Indianapolis. led. John Mitchell. ex-president of the miners of the coun try, is one of five Americans selecteu by President Roosevelt to be special guests of the big conference of state and territory governors to be held la Washington May IX This conference will last three days. The sessions win be held in the White House and will be presided over by President Roose velt. The five special guests will be Grover Cleveland, ex-presldent of the United States; William Jennings Bry an, leader of the opposition political party; James J. Hill, railroad mag nate: Andrew Carnegie, manufactur er; John Mitchell, miner. Los Angeles, CaL The general fall ing off in the building industries ' the countrv over between ISO and -1907 amounted to 13 per cent. In Los An geles, according to carefully compiled statistics, the falling off was more marked, being 56 per cent Only six cities of the United States show as great or greater loss. Twenty -seven cities show a gain. These are headed by Tacoma with SSS-per cent.;' Cam bridge. S? per cent.; Salt Lake City. S per cent.; San Antonio. 75 per cent. Spokane. 5C per cent.; and St. Joseph. 55 per cent. ! St. Louis. Representatives of 14 breweries in St. Louis and vicinity and of the brewery workers unions, signed new contracts, ending the strike of 3. S0 brewery workers which has been oa for three weeks. The strikers will be put to work, under the settlement. as soon as possible and without dis crimination, and the men who took their places during the strike will be discharged. It is planned to reinstate the strikers within a week. Washington. A bin introduced m congress provides for the establish ment of another department of the government, the head of which shall have a seat in the president's cabinet. The new department is to be known as the department of labor, and its head as secretary of labor. The head of the department will be appointive by the president, the same as other members of the cabinet, with $8,000 a year as compensation. V San Prat-raco. San Francisco Chapter. No. 3. Royal Arch Mas has notified the San Francisco Labor Council that few of Its members are at this time employing Asiatic help, and that tn the interests of the mem bers of the organization It has seat to each member a circular letter re questing each to discharge any Ori entals he may have la hia employ and substituting white men. Milwaukee. John Mitchell's new labor paper will have for Its object the promoting of Industrial ponce be tween the miners and operators.' That sounds like John Mitchell a true labor leader for the Interest of labor and the general public. More power and long Ufe to him. Sheboygan. Wis. Sheboygan 'a S3 wood working manufactories started on a new -working schedule, which means a slightly increased number of working hours for the week, a Sater- day half holiday and a longer dinner hour. The factories will operate oa a nine-hour schedule starting at seven a. m and shutting down at five p. m. Practically all of the factories have been working; on an eight hour a day schedule since January 1. Pittsburg. Pa, About 6M additional men were put to work when the open hearth furnaces and the shaping and structural miUs of the Homestead Steel works resumed. Notices i posted announcing that several de partments in the Howard axle works would resume work. Vatertown, Wfe. The reports that the building trades of this city have just signed a two-year agreement with the Contractors'' alliance, thus ef fectually doing away with the possi bility of labor troubles Cor some time. Uvermore Falls. Me. Work in the Otis paper and paip mills of the Inter national Paper company at Chisholm was almost entirely suspended be cause of a strike of the 40 firemen. Roanoke, Va. Sight hundred ' men were discharged from the Roanoke shops of the Norfolk Western rail way. The shops under normal condi tions employ 3,004 men. A notice was posted that la the futnre shops will work full time. J Washington. Orders were issued for the furlough of about 240 mechan ics at the Washington navy yard for period of 90 days. Lack of work is the explanation given. Reading. Pa. The United Traction company has announced n reduction of ten per cent, in the wages of conduc tors and motormen. Winnipeg. Man. The Canadiaa Pa cific railway has decided to break with the unions which have a mem bership in the metal trades employed in the Canadian Pacific railway shops. The company has abrogated the agree- t entered into last September. giving a month's notice to the unions from the great lakes to the Pacific coast. Whim the company no reduction la wages or Increase In hours will follow, the. unions hare called a meeting from all over the system and will appeal to the board of conciliation of the labor denart- ment at Ottawa to negotiate. Chicago. There will be no strike of milk wagon drivers. The differences between the milk dealers and the drivers were settled when the- deal ers, in a final peace conference, of fered a flat one dollar a week In crease in the basic rate of wages, in stead of their first offer of oa and wo dollars -on a commisatoa basin. The drivers, who had demaaded a fiat five dollars a week raise, accepted the compromise concession. They felt It was better to accept the additional one dollar a week than to risk losing everything through a strike, of doubt ful possibilities at best. Chicago. Local No. 1 of the Com mercial Telegraphers' union voted to strike against the Western Union com pany on June 1 and against the Postal company on July 1 unless an increase of ten per cent, in wages and an eight-hour day are granted before that time. Their purpose evidently is to at tempt to tie up the national conven tions of the Republican and Demo cratic parties. The Republican con vention win he held in Chicago la June and the Democratic convention at Den ver, OoL, In July. Hudson. Wis. Following the gen eral policy of cutting down ei which has been adopted by all the railways in the country during the past few months, the Omaha road dis charged 100 men who had been work ing in Its machine shops here. This reduces the working force there to 50. Last summer there were between S00 and 400 men employed at the shops, hot since the financial stringency last fall the road has been gradually re ducing it force. Washington. Leaders of the Society of Equity have discovered that the la bor people have been successful la bringing about much in the way of legislation that has proved beneficial to wage-earners, and they seem to he of the opinion that a combination of the two forces would bring about -unusually good results to the people at large. Washington. Reciprocal recognition is being arranged for between the) unions of the United States, England. Scotland. Germany. Denmark, Austria, Belgium. Norway. "Netherlands aad other countries whereby an Inter change of union cards between of a kindred craft will be recognised. Plat tab urg. N. T. Five hundred aad fifty miners and laborers were tem porarily thrown out of employment at Lyon Moan tain by the shutting down of the mines of the Delaware Hud son company. The shutdown is for a period of SO days, aad is due to an over-production of ore. GoMfield. Nev. Local No. XM .of the Western Federation of Miners, by a vote of 90 to 16. declared off the strike Inaugurated last fan. The min ers will return to work with nonunion men.' but will ask for the Tonopah scale of wages which Is M cents a day less than former wages St. John. N. B. The railroads oper ating la eastern Canada have Inaugu rated a policy of retrenchment t of the extensive decrease in traffic over their lines. The construction of new cars has been stopped by most of the roads aad many can tn need of repairs are laid up at the shops. The Canadiaa Pacific has mid off 300 men at the shops in Angus, Que. Helena. Moot. The American Re fining and Smelting plant at East Helena, which a few months ago sus pended nearly all operations because of depression in metal markets rein stated CO former employes and started another furnace. Reading. Pa. In the Reading Rail way company's car and locomotive shops CM employee were laid off. Less than two-thirds of the men are now at work. Similar suspensions took place at Palo Alto and Schuylkill Ha ven shops. Helens. Mont By July 1 than 500 men will be employed by the Helena Power Transmission company in building the second largest dam tn the world, to be known as the Third dam. on the Missouri, 30 miles from Helena. New Bedford. Mass. As a result of a conference between the members of the New Bedford Textile council and the Manufacturers association, toe wages of 36.000 operatives were re duced tea per cent. Adams. Mass. Notices of a reduction averaging 10 per cent, were posted at the cotton mills of the Berk shire Manufacturing company here. About 3.000 hands are affected. Pawtucket, R. L Notices have been posted tn the thread mills of J. ft P. Coatee, limited, announcing a 10 per cent, reduction of wages. About 3,500 hands are employed in He mills. (J No better flour sold on the TjncoJn market. Every sack warranted. We want the trade of Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it, II your grocer does not handle liberty Flour, 'phone us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it, ". i ' 00 Solid Gold Rings, worth up to flO, at SS.OO Solid Gold Set Rings, worth up to 16.00 $350 YotrTI Have to Harry MIZNGMZRSOH & HALE) P. 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