Tliis Seasons Suits
$5 and $10 Eacl)
For $10.00, Women's Suits worth $20.00 to
$30.00, of good Cheviots, Broadcloths, etc., in
plain black and colors, checks and fancy mix
tures; trimmed with pleats, silk pipings, and
buttons, and well lined very neat styles. Just
seventeen of them.
For $5.00 each, seventy-five Womens' and
Misses' Suits, reduced from $10.00 and $20.00;
Cheviots, Mohairs, Fancy Mixtures and Pana
mas. With a very few exceptions this season's
goods.
(We do not make alterations in these Bnits
without extra charge.)
Miller & '"Paine.
ASK SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS
About the use of the Union Label, and you wont have to make
apologies for the aypearan.f of your next order of printing.
THE SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS
aad can famish this Label are listed below
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MADE SHOES
I carry nothing but union made
shoes, and have a full line of
them. I manufacture shoes and
shoe uppers. A share of union
patronage is respectfully solicited.
S.LMcCOY
1529 0 St., Lincoln
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port set" an exclusive little "400" into which the common masses
can not enter. They might as well sail half-way to Europe, jump
overboard and say: "Here we shall make an island for ourselves."
The trade union movement has a much broader purpose ' than to
build up a few little pay envelope aristocracies. And no matter how
high may be a man's wages, he is not safe as long as there is a half
organized mob beneath him. The man who thinks only of his own
pocket ought to have enough rational selfishness to see this fact.
The Indians were split tip into separate trabes. Every tribe
claimed to be the first and only original race in the world. Their
chiefs flattered their conceit and fed their prejudices with lies. When
the white man arrived there wasn't much trouble wiping out the
Indians. THE INDIANS WIPED ONE ANOTHER OUT. W hen
ever the white man said, "Sic 'em !" the Iroquois fought the Algon
quins, and the Dakotas fought the Pawnees, and when the battle was
over, the white men had gobbled up more land. That was how the
Indians lost this country, and that is how the working people will
lose it again, unless they learn the lesson of federation. This new
tribalism of trade unions will destroy the whole labor movement if
it is not stopped by the common sense of the rank and file.
Our industrial system is today a vast federation of trades and
professions. It is practically one big machine of production and dis
tribution. A college professor with his head full of Adam Smith
might not be able to see this great fact. But an engineer, a brick
layer, a brakeman or any worker who does real work in the real
world, ought to see it at a glance. No industry can cut itself loose
from the others. No city can build a wall around its houses and fac
tories and shut out the other cities. Any city that did this would
be a junk heap in a j-ear.
Don't you know that it takes pretty near the whole United
States and part of several other countries to make that stub of a
lead pencil that you have in your pocket? First, there were the
lumbermen in Michigan who cut the trees down, from which the
wood of the pencil came. Then the men in the saw mill. Then the
miners who mined the lead. Then the printers who put the maker's
name on the pencil. Then the men who made the type and ink.
Then the millers who made the flour for the paste that pasted the box
the people who made the paper box in which the pencil was packed.
Tim the millrs who made te flour for the paste tat pasted the box
'ogether. Then the farmer who sowed the wheat to make the flour
to make the paste to make the box for the lead pencils. And so forth,
and so forth. Every man who is civilized enough to use a pencil is
civilized enough to understand that this is an organized and fed
erated world. Whatever is not federated is out of date.
In this article I am dealing only with general principles. The
man whose brain is geared low, who can not understand a general
principle, will not be convinced. He will still want to be a lonely
clam on a lonely rock. He will still say, "What will I get out of it?"
The fact remains that every argument in favor of a local union ap
plies also to the federation of all unions. The fact still remains
that American workingmen are up against the omnipotence of or
ganized and federated BILLIONS, and that it is as crazy to face
the future with an isolated union as it would be to paddle toward
France in a birch bark canoe.
DON'T BE A CLAM
THE TEAMSTERS OF LINCOLN.
Recruiting New Members Right Along and Work Keeps up With
Gratifying Regularity.
Teamsters Union No. 441 of Lincoln has a new business agent in
the person of J. F. Kennedy, who is doing some lively hustling in
the interests of the organization. As a result initiations and ap
plications are a regular feature of the weekly meetings, and a new
enthusiasm has been aroused in the ranks. Without making any
undue fuss about it the union is strengthening its lines in some places
heretofore weak, and as a result the membership is being benefitted
more and more every day.
Work keeps up in a gratifying degree, and most of the union
teams find steady employment. While the scale proposed by the
union in the spring has not yet been signed up. the minimum is
rarely offered and better than the scale is generally the rule. The
bulk of the work offered now is in street work and hauling building
supplies. Before the coal season opens up it is believed that an
agreement will have been reached with the. employers. As it is there
is very little difference, and the difference seems to have been the re
sult of a little oversight right at the start. The Teamsters' Union is
deserving of the hearty support of every unionist in the city. When
you order coal, or any other old thing that must be delivered by a
teamster, insist that it be delivered by one who can show a current
month'? card and button. If the firm can not guarantee to do this,
merely go somewhere else where it can be done. This is a simple
matter, but if attended to by all unionists in the city it will be a big
boost for the Teamsters' Union.
MAKE THE BENEFIT A SUCCESS.
Let Every Unionist Take an Interest in the Central Labor Union's
Great Benefit.
Next Wednesday evening at the Oliver Theatre the Central
Labor Union's benefit performance of "Lost Paradise" will be given,
and on that occasion the theatre should be crowded to the doors.
The play will be presented by the Fulton Stock company, one of the
very best companies in the country, and the presentation will be with
a wealth of scenery and detail that will make it equal to the original
production several years ago..
There seems to be some misunderstanding concerning the divi
sion of the proceeds. The Central Labor Union will get one-third of
the gross receipts not one-third of the tickets sold by the' Central
Labor Union.
"Lost Paradise" is a labor play that will enthuse every unionist
who sees it, and will be interesting to all who are trying to secure
some information on the great industrial problem. Both on account
cf the merits of the play and the object of its repetition the Oliver
should be crowded to suffocation next Wednesdav evening.
ADVERTISING UNDER FALSE PRETENSES.
A Lincoln "Rat" Printery Advertising for Men and Claiming to Be
"Open Shop."
The Nebraska Printing company, located on Twelfth street, be
tween L and M streets, Lincoln, is advertising for printers and claim
ing to be an "open shop." The claim is a downright lie, for the simple
reason that there are no "open" printing offices in Lincoln. There
are just two classes of printeries in Lincoln union and "rat." The
Nebraska Printing company is a "rat" shop from cellar to garret.
Union men are not allowed to -work in it and wouldn't if they
could.
Labor exchanges are requested to make note of this "rat" print
ery's advertisement and warn union men against it. There are no
"open shops" in the printing industry in Lincoln. There are two
"rat" plants, and this joint is one of them.
BROOM MAKERS REORGANIZE.
Lincoln Local Again in Shape and Will Make Union Brooms for
Union Housewives.
Mr. Gaft'ney, a representative of the International Broom Mak
ers' Union, was in Lincoln last week and reorganized the local Broom
Makers' Union. This union was allowed to flicker out some time
ago, more on account of inattention to details than anything else
but partly because of the competition of convict labor at the Ne
braska Penitentiary, where the Lee Broom and Duster company has
its wares. made.
Mr. Gaffney has put the union in shape again, and in a very
short time union brooms made in Lincoln will be on the market.
This will be good news to the union housewives of Lincoln. For a
long time they have been compelled to use "fair" brooms because
it was impossible to secure union-made brooms. Just as soon as the
local union is ready to supply the market the Central Labor Union
should get busy and make an effort to put the convict wares of the
Lee company off watch in this. city. ... .-.
If It is Union Made It Will Bear
the Label
A Journal man was standing In a
wellknown Paducah clothing store a
few evenings ago and noticed a labor
er trying on a suit of clother. Pres
ently the prospective purchaser asked
of the clerk, "Has this suit got the
union label on It?"
"No," answered the obliging clerk
in the most assuring tones, "it don't
bear the label but it is made by a
fair house. I'll guarantee that, and
if you don't find it so, bring the
clothes back and I'll refund your
money."
And the simple-minded laborer took
the smooth clerk's word for it and
bought the clothes.
We don't blame the clerk. He was
just the ordinary every day business
man, bound to sell goods and get the
mazuma.
The fault in this case was the un
ion man who, while wanting to do the
square thing by the garment workers,
was fool enough to allow a mellow
voiced Willie boy to shove off a scab
suit on him and make the sale be
cause he pays hard money to support
a laughing stock among clerks and
clothiers.
"Mr. Union Man, if a clothing manu
facturer has a right to the label you
may bet your full dinner pail and all
the fullness it will contain for all
time to come, that he will use it. All
'fair' clothes have the label, and if
it's not there the clothes are scab."
Read that sentence twice.
Use the horse sense you employ
dealing with the member of your or
ganization. You make a stranger who
claims to be "union" shows his card.
do you not? Well, then make your
dealer show his. You're from Mis
souri, you know.
The case of this easy mark whom
the gentlemanly clerk hoodwinked is
not an isolated one. That sort of
thing is going on all the while and
it's up to you to 'put a stop to it.
Paducah Labor Journal.
with the contractor, the bricklayers
set the stone.
"SHYLOCKING"
There was a strike of eighteen en
gineers belonging to Hoisting Engin
eers' Local, No. 104, this week at the
operation in Frankfort conducted by
Kerbaugh & Co. The men had asked
for a semi-monthly pay day and were
given an advance of money in the
middle of the month.. For this money
they were required to submit to a dis
count of 10 per cent. A strike was
the result. Philadelphia Trades Un
ion News. i
EASILY SETTLED.
A little trouble arose on a state fair
job one day this week, but it was
soon settled. It arose over whether
a non-union man should set artificial
stone. The bricklayers asserted their
claim to the work, and pending a de
cision laid off work. After a couple
of session and a conference or two
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MODERATE PRICES. FIRST
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EXXX
FOOLISHLY INCONSISTENT
Chicagp Employers Discredit Them
selves by Their Actions
The employers of Chicago insist
that the striking teamsters treat with
the employers as individuals, claim
ing that the "open shop" must prevail
and collective bargaining be done
away with. But the employers refuse
to treat individually with the strikers
and insist that the strikers treat with.'
a committee representing the em
ployers.
In other words, the Chicago employ
ers Insist on maintaining a "closed
shop among themselves while In
sisting that the "open shop" shall pre
vail amohg'-the teamsters. While de
nouncing the "closed shop" and collec
tive bargaining when used by labor
unions, the employers insist on us
ing both, when they are interested.
It will not take a discerning public
long to see through the shallow pre
tenses of these eminent advocates of
"individual bargaining."
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ANY SUIT IN Till: HOUSE
(EXCEPT BLACKS)
I We Clean Carpets. We
I also maKe rugs out o!
1 old carpets . . . -. .
Capital Carpet Cleaning
- and Rug Works
T. H. McGatiey, Prop. Both -Phones
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And you do not h aye to reach
long to find the UnionLabel on
most of them. Men's suits from
$4.50 to $9.95. Children's suits
in like proportion.
Union Made Shoes
at our discount are going at
$1.80, $2.25 and $3.15. These
are rare bargains.
Union Made Hats
Stiff and soft hats in the latest
styles. Fall styles now in. Rare'
bargains offered. -
Our July Bargain Sale
Is still on and will continue until Saturday
night. You should availyourself, of the rare
bargains offered. f . v ;
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1 lb. 50c Tea and $2.00 worth of Green Trading Stamps. .50c
3 cans N. O. Molasses : 25c
1 lb. Raisins....". Jj
6 lbs. Steel Cut Oats.: : ...25c
4 cans Corn 25c v '
3 1-lb. cans Red Salmon. . 25c
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