The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, December 16, 1910, Image 37

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BUNCH OF BRIEFS.
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Some Little Notes of Labor Deft
ly Picked and Pilfered.
The Progressive Society of
Carpenters in Brisbane, Australia,
has voted 10 pounds to the labor
daily paper.
The Seaboard Air Line railway
on December 3 announced an in-
The .grand jury investigating
the explosion of the Times build
ing in Los Angeles, Cal., has ex
amined nearly two hundred wit
nesses. It is believed that a num
ber of indictments will shortly be
returned.
In conformity with time-honored
custom the San Francisco
Typographical Union at its last
meeting sent $10 to each of the
six members, inmates of the
Printers Home in Colorado
Springs, as a Christmas gift.
The Sydney (Australia) -Wharf
Laborers' Union has written to
the Labor Council asking that
body to arrange a fitting welcome
demonstration to Peter Bowling,
the imprisoned miners leader,
whe released from jail
Two hundred sympathizers
with the Chicago garment work
ers' strike were charged upon by
police on November 30. A num
ber of the more stubborn men in
the gathering were clubbed.
Three leaders, two of them girls,
were arrested.
Following a conference be
tween Mayor GajTior of New
York and General Organizer Wil
liam H. Ashton of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,
on November 29 it was announced
that the taxicab strike had been
practically settled.
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor
adjourned at St. Louis on No
vember 2S to meet in Washington
on January 1. At that .time the
Western Federation of Miners'
application ofr a charter prob
ably will be disposed of.
Exclusive of seamen the num
ber of. British workpeople report
ed as killed in the course of their
employment during October was
"2-55 an increase of 40 as compared
with September and a decrease of
15 as compared with a year ago.
The changes in hours of British
labor reported as taking effect in
October affected 1,492 workpeo
ple whose working time was re
duced by 2.2T3 hours per week.
The total number of workpeople
affected by changes in . hours of
labor during the ten months ended
October 31, was 13.417.
The report of Secretary Leo
Michelson of the San Francisco
Typographical Union shows that
the union has over 1,000 members,
and is the fifth largest union of
the craft in the United States.
The record of he last month
shows that the membership is still
increasing.
In the criminal court at Tampa.
Fla., on November 28, sentence c
one 3-ear's imprisonment each
was passed on Jose de la Cam pa.
Brit Russell and J. F. Bartlum,
strike leaders recently convicted
of conspiracy to prevent by force
cigarmakers from going to work
in the local factories.
Sentences of imprisonment im
posed on W. S. Harlan, Robert
Gallagher, C. C. Hilton and F. E.
Huggins of Alabama on peonage
conspiracy charges, were con
firmed by the supreme court of
the United States- on November
28. These were the first convic
tions under the recent crusade of
he federal government against
peonage.
STUDY THIS FACT.
A Machine-Exhausted Mother
hood the Republic's Menace.
We have fought for our relig
ious liberty, but industrial liberty
is still a thing of the future. There
are 6,000,000 working girls in this
country, and what are the condi
tionsfi the environment under
which they perform their daily
labors? Thousands of these girls
operate dangerous laundry ma
chinery and receive only $5 a
week. The greatest thing we
have to contend with in our in
dustrial life is the speeding up. as
it were, of the machinery. The
work which was formerly per
formed ih the home by the women
is now done in the factories. The
great difficulty between yester
day and today is the introduction
of machinery which makes of the
factory worker a mere machine
tender and under conditions in
most cases detrimental to health.
We are simply becoming a part
of a machine. Mrs. Raymond
Robins.
LIBELS ON LAWMAKERS.
By Rolla Myer.
I.
"Public opinion is the one thine
which legislators regard." Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison.
"They have rights who dare
maintain them"." James Russel
Lowell.
II.
"Law follows civilization, but
never leads it." Judge Orrin Car
ter, June, 1909.
"The Avork of the legislator is
always behind the science of his
time." Enrico Ferri.
III.
"The greater or less happiness
of a people depends on the degree
of promptitude with which the
gulf (between legal enactments
and society-s needs) is narrowed.
Sir Henrv Maine.
IV.
"The low of the land is to give
wealth to idleness and to fleece
industry." Thomas Hodgskin.
"The corporations do not sap
port parties for nothing." Du
luth Evening Herald, September,
1908.
V.
"Lilly was a congressman from
Connecticut. One day he said to
me : "Great heavens, what will the
people do with this crowd if they
ever get onto us !' " Victor Mur
dock, August, 1910.
VI.
"The more one sees of govern
ment, the less opinion is he likely
to have of statesmen, or, rather,
of the men who call themselve?
statemen, and pass for such."
Henry Watterson, Democrat.