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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1911)
Trade Union Notes. There arc 2,411,000 trade unionists in th German empire. In liilO the Boston Cigarmakers' un ion spout $11,155 to advertising the union l.i bel. Chinese labor will longer he em-, ployed at the canne- of the Central California Cannery a.?riHtion. The Laundry Workers' union has voted to 'purchase $5,000 worth of, stock in the proposed new labor temple in San Francisco. An expense of $500,000 per annum has been put upon Washington rail roads by reason of the enactment of the "full crew" bill, signed by Gov ernor M. B. Hay. , Men who employ others to work for them Invariably give the preference' to men of temperate habits. "The" drinking man" is not so .efficient as the temperate man. Richmond Times Dispatch. In Hamilton, Ont., all the supplies needed by the city are union made and have the unfeu label upon them. The police and firemen wear union made suits, all the city priuting boars the union label, and even the shoes of the horses used by the fire department are union stamped. The American Federation of Labor will be represented in the world's con gress of labor to be held this year In Budapest, Hungary. An effort is to be made at that session to establish a worldwide organization of all the labor bodies with a system of international interchangeable working furds. Named for Lincoln Made in Lincoln ijseri H.O.BARBER 8c SONS Test of the Oven Test of the Taste Test of Digestion Test of Quality Test of Quantity Test of Time Measured by Every Test it Proves Best Demand Liberty Flour and take no other. If your grocer does not handle it, phone us about it. H. O. BARBER & SON Green Gables The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium LINCOLN, NEBRASKA jfor non-contagious cbronio diseases. Largest, beat equipped, most beautifully furnished. Once Tried Always Used Little Hatchet Flour Made from Select Nebraska Hard Wheat WILBER AND DeWITT MILLS HYE FLOUR A SPECIALTY 145 So. 9th St., LINCOLN, NEB. TELEPHONE US Bell Phone 200; Auto. 1459 ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ' '? t ft DOMINION OF JUSTICE. ... ... Why not invite Christ to unite with your labor union? Ask him to sit upon the platform of your meetings. Take . your place be hind him and permit him to speak for you. Quote him as yQur authority. No man has ever spoken stronger, words of con demnation to those who are mis treating the people. Others have attempted to serve as champions of workingmen, -but they have not been listened to by those who most needed their mes sage. Here is a man who wili compel attention. You need never again quote the political economist. Quote Christ. He will unhinge the doors of : the oppressor's kingdom and open the way for his own dominion. And that dominion will be one of truth, of justice and of right eousness. Rev. Charles Stelzle. ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft MINE RESCUE WORK. Plan of Organization Proposed For British Collieries. The subject of rescue work in mines is receiving at this time serious atten tion in England. The departmental committee appointed by the British home secretary in October, 1910. has submitted the draft of an order ap plicable to . all coal mines, providing, however, that the secretary of state may, if he thinks fit, exempt from the order in certain eases auy mine at which the total number of underground employees is less than 100, if the mine is so situated that in the opinion of the secretary of state the organiza tion of a central rescue station from which it could be served is impracti-i cable. The order provides : for the or ganization In every mine of competent rescue brigades of not less than five persons employed at the mine, who should be selected with the utmost care with reference to their under ground knowledge, coolness and pow ers of endurance. The order stipulates that there should be one such brigade where the number of underground employees is less than 250, two brigades where it is more than 250 and less than 500, three brigades where the employees exceed 500 and are less than 800 and four brigades where more than 800 are employed. These brigades are to be provided with sets of portable breathing apparatus in the proportion of two sets to each brigade. The apparatus must be ca pable of permitting the wearer to re main for at least one hour in an ir respirable atmosphere and must be kept in such condition that it will al ways be ready for immediate use. ing under the International RrotBer hood of Bookbinders, took up the mat ter with the employers. When Nov. 1 arrived no agreement had been reach ed. It was agreed that the workers should continue at their posts and not strike and when an agreement . was reached it should date from Nor. 1. The agreement reached provides for an average increase of 15 per cent. As the average wage is about $20 per week, each employee received an dver of $3 per week for every week since Nov. 1, which enriched each worker to the extent of about $40. making the aggregate total about $40,000. The Alton Lockout Still On. . Negotiations to settle a lockout in the building trades at Alton. III., in effect the last nine months, have failed The Builders' Exchange, the contract ors' organization, offered to recognize the union card, to submit to a contin uance of the walking delegate and also consented that only one member of a firm of partners should work, but in sisted that journeymen should refrain from contracting and when they take a contract should take out a witb dra wal card from . the union for at least a year. Victory For Brewery Workers. By the terms of the agreement signed by committees representing the Syracuse Brewers Exchange and thr unions directly and indirectly interest ed in the strike all the strike breakers are to be discharged and all the men who went out are to be reinstated in their former positions. The brewers unreservedly granted the wage In crease of $2 a week demanded by the strikers. v Garment Workers Active. A strike involving nearly a million garment workers In ail parts of the United States will, it is said, be called in August if garment manufacturers do not nccede to the demand for bet tered conditions for employees, whlrh will be made at that time. BOOKBINDERS' WINDFALL, Members of Four St. Louis Unions Get $40,000 Back Pay. Members of the four unions allied with the bookbinding industry in St. Louis on April 1 received $40,000 In addition to their regular weekly pay. This sum was divided among 1,000 union men and women members of the Bookbinders' union, the Paper Rulers' union, the Finishers' union and the Bindery Women's union. It represents an. increase of 15. per cent in the salary they, should have re ceived for the five months dating from November. On Sept. 1. 1910, the union asked for an increase in wages and made a de mand that it be effective Nov. 1, 1010. when the contract between the unions and the employers expired. A general committee from the four unions, act- Women Demand the Label. The women of Pittsburg and vicinity have bravely and forcibly met the se rious proposition which, recently con fronted the organized broom makers by being instrumental and helping to create one of the greatest demand ever, known for the union labeled broom. So great has been the demand that union shops have been forced to temporarily remove then salesmen from the road on account f being un able to fill all the orders rapidly coming in. POINTS TO PONDER. Resolve to be a better trade unionist than you have been. The union member who per forms bis whole duty to his un ion will be too busy . to spend much time in criticising others. The good union man will not furnish employment to nonun ionists or business to unfair em ployees, but will demand union label articles in return for his wages as they are spent to pro-, vide for the needs of himself and family. The true union man will try to persist in the attempt to in duce all nonmembers to become unionists, both in his own trade and others, being content with nothing less than that his Influ ence for the upbuilding of .un ionism shall radiate from him self to every person within his reach.