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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1910)
Little i The G. A. WALKER Lathers' Union LABOR BRIEFLETS. Some Little Items About the Toilers in All Sections. Plumbers' International has in creased its membership from 4,000 to 16,000. Canadian industrial acciQents in January totaled 271 and 87 were fatal. As early as 1897 a law was passed in New Hampshire making ten hours a legal day's work. On April 4. at St, Paul. Minn.. In ternational -Association of Fur Work ers will convene. Chas. H. Miller, a barber, has been chosen as united labor candidate for mayor at Seattle, Wash. Many unions have declared in favor of the formation of an allied print ing trades section of the American Federation of Labor. The United States-Bureau of Labor states that the fatal accidents to wage earners in the United" States are between 30,000 and 35,000 a year. A miner who had not extinguished a safety lamp which had become un safe was fined $4.80 and costs at Rotherham, England. It is expected that by the time the next meeting of the California State Federation is held in Los Angeles, more than SO new unions will be en . rolled. Frank H. McCarthy, TJew England, organizer for the American Federa tion of Labor, will aid in organizing a new Central Labor Union in Wal tham, Mass. The Pennsylvania Railroad com pany's revised rules for employes, just promulgated, has caused consterna tion, because one of them prohibits the use of tobacco in any form on passen ger trains. An Increase in wages is expected by the members o Boston Operative Plasterers' Union, No. 10. The new scale calls for 65 cents an hour, which is said to be an increase of 2 cents per hour. James Whitehead, secretary-treasurer of the National Fe&eration of ' Cotton Wet vers -has .been projpinenfly yi" FOR OOODNE WiJber and DeWitt Mills connected with the labor movement ! in Fall River, Mass., for more than twenty years. The Trades and Labor Council of Guelph, Canada, is asking the Domin ion government to amend the immi gration act, by which strike breakers coming into Canada under contract, would be regarded as undersirable cit izens. Morris Biller, secretary of the Ger man Workers' District Council of Bos ton, states'that the high cost of livinp has driven the men to a point where they must seek an increase in wages. He says that the wages paid now are lower than Ave years ago. The exhibit which the International Typographical Union had at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition has been turned over to the Washington State Board of Health, and will be shown in the larger cities of the state dur ing the remainder of this winter and next. N. A. OTIS Barbers' Union DIRECT OVERTURE FOR PEACE. Mine Workers' Union Is Wiling to Go Half Way. Cincinnati, O. A direct overture for peaceful solution of the difficulty be tween the operators and union miners of the bituminous mines of the coun try was made by the special conven tion of the United Mine Workers of North America here on March 19. At the request of President Lewis, the gathering adopted a resolution giving its representatives on the joint scale committee of the central competitive field,; authority to do anything neces ! ."II ..Wll-Wipil WM MatcM Cor. 9th audi N Sts. sary to reach an agreement with the operators, the resolution, however, be ing predicated upon the promise of the miners' leaders that the demand for increased wages shall not be elim inated entirely. The action paves the way for a compromise. There can be no final determina tion of the controversy between the mine owners and mine workers of the United States until some day next week. The joint conference of oper ators and miners of the central com petitive field has placed the entire matter back into the hands of the joint scale committee. That com: mittee- has referred it to its own sub committee, adjourning until Monday to await the report. WHAT UNIONISM DOES. Benefits Paid by Labor Organizations for 1908. A sufficient reply to all the villifica tion and abuse of the Po3ts and Parrys is . to quote the following summary from the twenty-third annual report of the. Federal Commission of Labor, 1908: The following is a brief summary of the expenditures of the national union benefits fund for one year, as far as reported: Temporary disability $ '832,760.69 Death or members 5,164,385.06 Death of members wives. 55,020.00 Death of widowed mothers 1,240.00 Permanent disability 684,775.00 Superannuation 198,618.65 Other benefits 892,321.63 Total for all benefits. . .$7,829,121.03 This is the record for one year of those organizations making reports to the bureau. It does not include the hundreds of thousands donated by the same nd other similar organizations to the relief of those made widows and orphans, as at Marianna, Monon gah, Cherry and other like catastro phes. Can the brow-beating, bull-dozing, falsifying, niud-slinging Manufactur ers' Association show a single cent contributed by their strike breaking .organization to anyone for charitable purposes? We defy them. The labor movement uplifts", t'ue Manufacturers' Association crushes out all hopes and aspirations that soar above the peon, the serf and the vas sal. We spend at least $10,1500,000 yearly for the relief of those in need. We thugs, bums, jail-birds and assasisns raise the mcney that the Parrys and I Posts would rob us of to prevent the : good work, if they could. Not by stealing it, but by denying ourselves of some of the necessaries of life to make preparation for a rainy day. Contrast the noble, charitable work of the labor unions with' the starvation of its employes under the open shop of the scab Manufacturers' Associa tion, and then say. Who is doing the work of God and man? Certainly not Kirby et al. United Mine Workers' Journal. wmmm PRESIDENT FRANK M. COFFEY State Federation of Labor VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS. Injunction Against Them at Platts burg Modified. Plattsburg, N. Y. The temporary injunction recently obtained restrain ing the striking paperhangers from in terfering in any way with non-union employes at the mills of the Interna tional Paper comany, has been modi fied by Justice Kellogg so as to allow the men to picket, carry banners, dis tribute literature and otherwise try in peaceable and lawabiding manner to keep strike breakers from taking their places. The court's decision Is considered a victory for the strikers. Not Charley! Mr. Charles Post, of Battle Creek, has not yet convincingly accounted for the two carloads of peanut shells tliat he says were not used in HIS break fast food. Doesn't he eat the prod ucts of his own factory? Indianapolis Union. I 11 X M t XML JK SAK Tr.n r, . .. FRED EISLER Carpenters' Union GENERAL MENTION. Bits cf Labor News Deftly Picked and Boldly Pilfered. The Printers' Union is a member of the Ft. Worth, Texas, board of trade. Book and job printers in Springfield, Ohio, have been granted $18 per week. Every contractor in Ft. Wayne, Ind., has signed the plasterers' yearly agreement. Trainmen and officials of the B. &, O. compromised their differences. The men will not receive the western scale, but will get a "satisfactory in crease." The government will Investigate the strike of the employes of the Bethle ham Steel company's plant. Charles Schwab has consented o allow the investigation ! John W. Hayes, of the used-to-te K. of L., Has become the tool of the Na tional "Labor" Alliance, an organiza tion formed to further the: interests of the-employes. A bill has been introduced in 'the Nova Scotia House of Assembly at the instance of organized labor in the , coal mines having for its aim compul sory recognition of organized labor. Out in Seattle an open shop printer named Montgomery knocked the union label and then used it secretly. He was caught at the dirty game, ar rested, convicted and Sped $100 and costs. Next! It appears that the interests behind the United Cigars Stores Co., the American Tobacco . Co., are plan ning to establish richly furnished bar ber shops, cut prices on tonsorial E work, baths, etc., and push the sale of its cigars and tobacco in these estab lishments. ... Nothing definite in the way of a compromise was forthcoming from tho second meeting of the sub-scale com mittee of miners and operators from tke central competitive field in Cin cinnati this week. . Matthias Kramer of Fort Wayne, Ind., has won his second suit against a correspondence school which con tracted to teach him boilermaking by mail. Teaching trades by mail can be set down as a fake every time. The Montpelier, Vt., Journal , has signed with the Typographical Union and now carries the union label. This is the first of the nine daily newspa pers, six of which are strictly union, in that state to hoist the emblem of good "workmanship. STEAM ENGINEERS BUSY. Organization Under Way and Great Interest Is Manifest. The steam engineers of this vicinity perhaps you would recognize them easier under the title of stationary en gineers are getting together for the purpose of forming a local of that craft A meeting was held at the Lin coln hotel last Sunday afternoon and fourteen names placed upon an appli cation for a charter. A number of engineers who were unable to be pres ent have expressed a desire to be en rolled as charter members. The ap plication for a charter will be held open for a few days, and early next week another meeting will be held and temporary organization effected. There are in' the neighborhood of fifty men in Lincoln and Haveloek who' are eligible to membership, and 'it is ' Re lieved that 95 per ceri'ti 'of them Will get in the game. ; ' : :. :! -; nou . The stationary i: engineers'nad'1 a local in Lincoln several years-ago, but through carelessness or indifference it was allowed to die of dry: rot. ;The need of thorough organization is now more fully realized than ever before, and the indications are that inside of thirty days there will be a live local of that craft in Lincoln. What's the Difference? How can the people ever expect to get very much relief from the demo cratic party-nationally? The same , bunch of crooks are in control of .both the national machines of the two old parties, and it makes but little dif ference to the great mass of Ameri can people .which- one wins!. Okla homa Labor Unit. :