IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. As was expected, the employer's liability . bill is meeting with the tierce opposition of employers. The lirst hearing on the bill was held last Wednesday evening and the paid attorney of a couple of employers' associations showed up to explain how vicious the bill is. Also to tell the wage earners asking for it how bad its effects would be upon them. The legislative committee of the state federation of labor was present and urged the favorable recommendation of the measure. It is hopeless to ex pect that this biTl get past the sift ing committee this year, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of good has been accomplished by the mere introduction of the measure. It is an evidence that the workers are more thoroughly alive to their rights and determined to press them. Thi3 is the first real employers' liability bill ever, introduced into the legisla ture, and it has aroused considerable interest. It will have the effect of making a lot of people sit up and take notice of the demands of the wage earner, and that of itself is a great gain. getting their local affairs in proper shape. Now that this is fully accom- the time will come when the majority Pushed we confidently expect to see of wage earners in this state will have enough representatives of their own in the legislature to secure justice in stead of always begging for it. the new local make 'em all go some. to equal its record for aggressive action along conservative lines. O. M. Rudy's organization is getting in its work in fine style, and if the union men of Lincoln pull together they will have little trouble in mak ing him the republican nominee for water and light commissioner. Party lines are being shot all to pieces these days, and for that reason Rudy's chances look unusually bright. There are enough union voters in Lincoln to make Rudy's nomination a fact, and if they fail they need blame nobody but themselves. Lincoln unionists are considerably interested in the outsome of the Sun day base ball bill, now before the leg islature. Of course a majority of them are in favor of Sunday base ball, for all of them are base ball devotees, and a majority of them are deprived of the pleasure of seeing them if Sunday ball is prohibited. Some warm resolutions have been adopted by the various locals, and all of them in sist upon the legalizing of , Sunday base ball. union men with having dynamited his newspaper building, did he not know that he lied like a pirate? And isn't the manufacturers and merchants association a conglomera tion of four-flushing, union-'busting Annaniases? Organized labor dares, Otis and his bunch to submit all the evidence to any unpdejudiced tribunal and let it decide whether that ex plosion was due to a criminal plot on the part of union men or due to the criminal carelessness of the men who owned the wrecked building. "Gus" Hyers is still as busy as a nailer, and he is taking in all the sales and farmers' meeting in the A card from Raymond G. . Stewart, editor of Cedar Rapids' splendid labor paper, announces the arrival of "Bill," weighing in at ten pounds. 'Bill" arrived a few days ago, and if Another meeting of the labor com mittee was held Thursday evening, at which time the attorney for the legis lative committee appeared and made concise answers to the objections presented by the attorney for the employers. It is easy to be seen that the committee is divided on the bill. There would be far less trouble in getting a favorable report were it not for the. fact that a majority of the committee is made up of far mers. And your average farmer is strenuously opposed to any measure that he thinks will not give him espe cial favor. However, if the Nebraska State Federation of Labor will keep right on pushing, and the labor org anizations will get into the gam, county, shaking hands and. pushing he grows up to be as staunch his candidacy for sheriff. It is with Hyers in the county as it is with Rudy in the city there are enough union voters to give Hyers the nomi nation hands down if they'll only vote together instead of pulling apart as heretofore. unionist as his daddy he will be all right. Of course we are hoping that '"Bill" will be a far better all-around man than dad, and if he has the success in life that Uncle Bill of Lin coln is wishing for him, he will be as happy and as prosperous as it is possible for a man to be. - "Bill" is It is reported that John Mitchell a warm one and all the warmer be- is to be made editor of the United -,,,, the arrival was nostnnneH snm Mine Workers' Journal at a salary ten or twelve years. Here's look that will amply compensate him for jng at VOU) "Bill! his five thousand dollar a year job with tne National civic federation. . Tne San Francisco Labor Clarion The semi-monthly payday bill has been reported for passage by the labor commltte of the house. This is' an other one of the railroad brotherhood bill3, but it will hardly make the riffle this time. There are too many "favorite bills" ahead of it for tthe sifting committe to get that far down. Fred Warren, the almost imprisoned editor of Appeal to Reason, was an xious to have the sentence carried out because he believed that if i tne facts concerning the trial were ndade known thereby, that it would add a million votes to the Socialists in 1912, Perhaps if he was to be unjustly hung he would add five millions. Portland Labor Press. KOMO COAL $7.75 Per Ton The Best Coal in the Market For Tne Money Good for Furnace, Heating Stoves or Kitchen Ranges Give It a Trial. Satisfaction Guaranteed WHITEBREAST CO. recently celebrated another anniver- The machinists of Havelock held a sary, which reminds us that we are splendid meeting at union hall in that growing older all "the time. ? But age city Wednesday evening. It was an cannot wither nor custom- state the open meeting designed to interest infinite variety "of the Labor Clarion, - - , m I. J 1 I tne non union machinists ana at tne which Will J. French has mads into same time re-awaken the interest of one of the snappiest and "most force tne memoers. a numDer 01 rousing ful exponents of organized r labor and timely talks were made, and thj printed anywhere on the globe old-time enthusiasm seemed to be on top. since swarming Dy tnemseives Senate File 16. the building bill the Havelock machinists have been introduced by the State Federation of Labor, is on the general file of the house, now and recommended for pas sage. It might have been further along had it not been for a misun derstanding between the Federation's legislative committee and the com mittee sent down by the Building Trades Council of Omaha. But a strenuous effort will be made to have it pushed to the front by the sift ing committee. As amended the bill is practically assured of passage and approval if it can be saved from the smothering process that invariably winds up each session.- Bell 234 Auto 3228 1106 O St on 111 1 The Lathers' union has recently raised its scale of prices and taken into consideration some recent changes in the style of lathing being done. This little union perhaps the smallest in Lincoln is making a game fight against big odds, and seems to be making a winning, too,. The Iowa statute which declares that railways may not by contract with employes evade liability ? for personal injuries was this week ad judged constitutional by the supreme court of the. United States. The de cision was in the case of the Chiciago, Burlington & Quincy railroad aginit Charles L. McGuire, a brakeman, who was seriously Injured in a collision. He filed sw. for $2,000 damages. v The committee having in charge the recent Typographical union ball have let loose the gentle hint that it is going to turn into the union's strong box just a little more money than any previous ball committee has turned in. It is hinted that several candidates for city office have found their mail clogged with unlabelled cards re turned with the little sticker thereon. At any rate we know one modest printery that can put the label on that has had the pleasure of re-printing some candidatorial cards. A number of political aspirants who never gave the Labor Temple a second thought until now, are daily wending their way to that popular resort of workingmen and getting ac quainted with the boys. It does beat all how interested they are in the wage earner's welfare just about two or three weeks before an election. THANKS TO SENATOR TANNEER. Let's see, how many months has it leen since the Lbs Angeles Times explosion? And how many men have been convicted of that awful crime ? And weren't we to see a lot of union men jailed or hanged within a very few weeks for having blown up that building? When General Otis charged Organized Labor Apreciates His Friendship and Says So. At last Friday night's meeting of the Central Labor Union a resolution was unanimously adopted thanking Senator John M. Tanner of Douglas for the friendship he has so often manifested towards organized labor. It was Senator Tanner who went to the last ditch with the union label bill, making a fight for it that kept