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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1905)
CARPENTERS' UNION. SOCIALISTS GET BUSY. J GREDIT YOU Yes, We Credit You; For Any Amount CLOTHE yourself and fam ily in stylish, well made, comfortable clothing. We charge you nothing extra, because your credit is good here. You can buy any amount on terms that best suit your convenience. Establish a credit for yourself that is elevating in its character, which ' might be of some use to you at a time when you least expect it. . . . An exceptional bargain snch as is not offered at other credit stores, yon will find in onr ladies' department. Coats that formerly sold for as hiph an $lS.nO now $2.98 We do not offer this exceptional bargain because these coats are out of style, but we have more coats than we can dispose of to an advantage, except inasfar as we benefit onr friends and customers. Men's Suits, $7.50 to $21.50. : Men's Overcoats, $9 to $19. Boys' Suits, $1.98 to $12. Ladies' Skirts, $4.98 to $10.50. Ladies' Suits, $5 to $22. Ladies' Empire Coats, $7.75 to $22.50 Ladies' Furs, $2.48 to $15.50. Ladies' Hats, $2 to $8. Our shoes for men and women are made to ; wear, and the same guarantees go with them as with all other articles that we sell. .... OPEN EVERY EVENING .... Ridgley Mdsc. Co. 1406 O Street, J. T. Brillhart - - Mgr. GILSON'S Sore Throat Cure Ths remedy is absolutely guaran teed. If it does not cure your money is refunded. It is a Nebraska remedy and recommended by thousands of N'e braskans. If your druggist does not keep it, send 60 cents to the maker. If it fails to cure, your money back. Read this Lincoln endorsement: Lincoln, Neb., June 8, 1899. Mrs. J. 8. Utlson, Aurora, Neb. Dear Madam : After some time of suffering from a very painful throat trouble under a physician's care, I bought one bottle ' of Qllson's Throat Cure and was en tirely cured. I sincerely hope that every person afflicted with similar trouble will try a bottle of this tested remedy. Yours respectfully, Joseph Marsh. AODRE8S ALL ORDERS TO Mrs. J.S. Gilson, - Aurora, Neb. Henry Pfeiff DEALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats Sausage, Poultry, Etc Staple and Fancy Groceries. Telephones 388-477. 314 So. Illh Street One hundred structural iron workers employed on the new elevated railroad in Philadelphia stopped work when they learned that the American Bridge Co. was constructing it. Because he sent a 15-year-old boy to drive a wagon during the- teamsters' strike in Chicago last summer, John Jerky was fined $5 and costs. The case came u? on complaint of the boy's mother. Columbia National Bank General Banking Business. Interest on time deposits LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA 0000000000000 0000000000000 12 n 3 LIGHT--HEAT-POWER u 1 Nominations for Next Term's Officers Made at Last Meeting. As per sec. 141 of the constitution of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, last Tuesday evening was the time set for nomination of officers for the ensuing term. The following nominations were made, and the regu lar election will occur next Tuesday, the 12th, at which time all members are requested to be present. For president G. F. Quick, John Pirn, J. N. Emberson, William Dul lenty, J. M. Schuler. For vice president H. B. Atterbury, J. M. Schuler. For recording secretary C. H. Chase. For financial secretary T. F. Ran dolph, Ross Shepard, J. M. Schuler. For treasurer Ross Shepard. For conductor E. M. Heywood. ' For warden A. L. Ilgen. For trustees J. M. Schuler, A. D. Rice, Ed Dullenty. For auditor L. A. Jenkins, C. F. Brabham. Nominations for delegates to the C. L. U. were laid over until next meet ing. The sick committee reported Bro. Fredericks improving. They also re ported that Bro. Hawkins, tb.e finan cial secretary, was unable to work on account of blood poison in one of his hands. Bro. J. M. Harris has also been laid up for some three weeks with a boil on his right hand, and he, too, has been unable to work. The committee appointed several weeks ago to install an illuminated sign in front of the hall reported that they would have the sign ready by next meeting. The committee on open meetings and the committee on steward's reports were given until next meeting to make a final report. A committee on hall will be ap pointed at the next meeting. If any of the members want to call up the business agent, remember the phones are Auto 3824, and Bell L1154. Make a note of this. ' The business agent is at the hall from 8 to 9 on Saturday evenings to receive dues. The revised trade rules on by-laws governing sick and accident benefits are now ready. Call for a copy. Brother Brabham has finished his new residence in Elm Park, and Bro. Scarce has his new home comnleted at Thirtieth and Starr Streets. Bro. Randolph is also building a new residence on his farm at Fortieth and B. & M. and Rock Island tracks. The late cold spell tied up quite a few jobs, and for the first time in months we had .a few idle men'. We .have quite a number of the November issues of the official journal on hand. It contains some very in teresting reading. Every member is entitled to a copy free. Call and get them. The late business agent of the Team sters' Union, Bro. Rufus Morris, is now operating a union dray. If any of our members want their tools hauled or want hauling done, phone Bro. Morris at Auto 3076 or call up Bro. Kent. We hope our members will give Bro. Mor ris their patronage and help a good union man. TURN THEM DOWN. W FSELL all threelight, heat and power. We sell two kinds of ugmgas ana electric, we sell two kinds ot heatgas and coke. We sell two kinds of power gas and electric The Lighting -Rr-otolem F TIME and convenience are worth anvthino to vou we ran soon show you that it is true economy to discord the unhandy and uncleanly oil . lamp, and light your house with eras or electricity. We will pipe or wire your house at cost. . . . , . . . Heating Fr-ofclem 1IRSTLY, gas is cheaper and cleaner than coal for cooking purposes. I A A. 1 A. J t ft . 1 r s waicr-ncaicr uucs in uve minutes ana at a cost or two cents J what it takes an hour or two to do with a coal ram. A ora radiator saves on the finance bill. And coke is cheaper, cleaner, and easier than etther hard or soft coal. Let us demonstrate all this to vour satisfaction. The F o aj & t F r oble m IHERE'S nothino cheaosr. hunAipr or rvr tUn I - B r -H-.w.va WW WAWWL.LJ.ko LJlXWCI, No matter how large or how small your plant, it will pay you to let us supply the power . . . . ' , . Bell Phone 75 Lincoln Automatic 2575 las and E lectric Light C Time to Drop Hayes and Berger From the List. At the convention of the American Federation ; of Labor at Pittsburg last week, Victor L. Berger, a representa tive of the International Typographical Union, asked to be recorded as voting in the negative on the unanimous re-election of President Gompers. Thi3 is the second time Mr. Berger has done this. He "went on record" at San Francisco last year, and if the. I. T. U. should re-elect him next May he would do so again, for Mr. Berger is consistent in bis love for socialism and his hate for anyone who has the courage to combat the theory that a number of very able men endeavor to foist each year before the A. F. of L. convention. If there was a time when the I. T. U. should feel grateful to the A. F. of L. it is the present, while the struggle for the eight-hour day is on. And a con vention . that has extended aicl and moral support deserves. ; nothing but well wishes from the I. T...U,. But what cares Berger for all .this. ' He gets in the limelight, and if the cause of socialism is allowed a brief spell during the discussion of the questions coming before the convention he is satisfied. He have had enough of the Berger and Max Hayes type of repre sentatives. Let us weigh our social istic .trade union friends next May and find how much they assay social ism with pure trades unionism, and grade them accordingly. Washington Trades Unionist. ''. n Lincoln Comrades Preparing to Hold Some Interesting Meetings. The socialists of Lincoln are pre paring to begin an active campaign in the interests of socialism, and to that end have secured the services of D. Burgess, of Seattle, Washington, who will make three addreses in this city. On Friday evening he apoke in A. O. U. W. hall, ana Saturday evening and Sunday evening, December 9 and 10, he will speak in Richard's hall, 1034 O street. These meetings are free and the general public is cordially invited to attend. . Mr. Burgess is prominent in the so cialist propaganda and is said to be a speaker of unusual ability. BEATING INJUNCTIONS. , UNFAIR. The Butterick Publishing Co., of New York, with agents in several large cities, has voluntarily broken an agreement .with -Tyographical .Union No. 6, and discharged their printers, etereotypers and electrotypers, photo engravers, etc., and engaged non-union men in their places. The agreemet did not expire until January 1, 1906, and this breach of faith on the part of the Butterick company' is absolutely without justification, and is being brought to the attention of the 2, OCO.OOO members of the A. F. of L. The Delineator, the Designer, the New Ideal Magazine, the Butterick, the Standard and the New Idea Patterns, etc., are all produced by scab labor. Omaha Labor Advocate. A Smooth Scheme to Defeat the Cor poration Judges. The Machinists' strike in Chicago, which involved more than 1,200 men, has been brought to a close. During the eighteen months of the strike only tventy-flve men deserted. Four hun dred men were arrested for various causes. Ten injunctions were issued, 162 men arrested and only one man convicted. . The other 161 were dis charged absolutely. The machinists adopted the most novel step so far in troduced into labor circles for defeat ing injunctions. After they were re strained from picketing the laboring men sent out "solicitors," under con tract, with authorization to Induce men to join the union. These "solicitors" were paid $7 per week, the amount of the strike benefit. These men report ed to a "superintendent," who was the walking delegate, and this ''superin tendent," in turn, reported to a "gen eral superintendent," who was the captain of the picket line. The con tracts with the men were printed and defeated the prosecutions in the courts in the injunction contests. The men declare that the main objects for which the strike was declared have been secured, as none of the employers are attempting to, enforce the rule! to have one man run two or more ma chines. Thus ends another one of the hardest fought battles in American in dustrial history. Machinists' Journal. MINERS VERY INSISTENT. Four Definite Demands Likely to Be Made in April. It is feared in United Mine Workers' circles in the anthracite field that President John Mitchell's nervous breakdown may prevent his attendance at the tri-district convention which opens at Shamokin on December 14 to formulate demands on the operators at the expiration of the present agree ment next April. - i . The majority of the 700 delegates who will compose the convention have been chosen without instructions as to how they shall vote, but there is an overwhelming sentiment among them for recognition of the union, an eight-hour work day, adoption of the check-off system and a joint contract, such as exists' in the principal bitumi nous region, for one year. To enforce these demands in the event of their adoption by the conven tion the union has a $1,000,000 treas ury fund and a stronger organization than in the 1902 strike. EXAMPLE OF LITTLENESS. What a Labor Exchange Thinks of a Lincoln Employer. ' An example of corporation littleness comes from Lincoln, Nebr. . Recently The Wageworker of that city exposed the methods of a shirt and overall fac tory which was pompously opened with prayer, but which pays disgracefully low wages to the women in its employ. The Wageworker published the facsim ile of a check for $2.43 which had been paid to a young lady for a week's work. The check was obtained from a third party who had cashed it and the young lady in whose favor it was drawn had' nothing to do with its pub lication, but the superintendent, learn ing from the pay roll who had drawn the princely sum of $2.42 ton a week's work, promptly discharged her,. This man belongs to the class who denounce organized labor as brutal, vicious and violent. Streator Trades and Labor Gazette. ' - THE STRIKEBREAKER. An Estimate That Deserves the Con . sideration of All. , ; The serious results of the importa tion of negro strike breakers during the recent strike of teamsters has al ready begun to manifest itself, as pre dicted at the time. Crime on the part of the colored men has increased at a startling rate, and to such an extent that the officers of the law are serious ly alarmed. Never in the history of the Cook county jail have so many negroes been confined there at one time as at the present period, and if they continue to arrive at the present rate the jail" will be filled to its ca pacity with colored prisoners. A ma jority of the negroes are illiterate and were imported from the South. .. When the' strike was declared off they were unable to get other employment. ' As a ' result they turned to crime, and most of the prisoners are charged with robbery, burglary, assault and some of them with murder. The. entire 'sec ond tier of the jail has to be set apart for the use of the negroes, and every cell is occupied with two prisoners. The negroes have been arriving at the jail on an average of five a day of late. The situation is certain to become more serious with the approach of cold weather, as hundreds of the negroes are still in Chicago without perma nent homes, and with little or no hope o employment. Chicago American. PHELPS-DURRESS CO. GOAL MONARCH $6.5Q Best Stove, Range or Furnace 1 coal for the money. ... . Other grades of coal at lowest market prices. FROTVVF'r DELIVERY 206 FRATERNITY 8LDG. Auto 2321. Bell 129 Hoppe Handles Howard's Hot-Draft Heaters . , See our goods, get our prices before you buy that bill of hardware. Remem ber the-place.- A large display of the best Stoves, Ranges and Heaters, in Lincoln is what we have to show you. Hoppe's, 108 North 10th St. i Protected by Block Signals The first railway in America to adopt the absolute Block System in the operation ! all trains was the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway It to-day has more mpes of road operated under block signal rule than any other railway company. The St. Paul Road was the first railway to light its trains by electricity, and it cow has more than 400 electric-lighted passenger cars in daily service. -; Three trains from Union Station, Omaha, to Union Station, Chicago, everyday. '..: . 1 . For time table, special rate write , F.A.NASH, General Western Agent, 1584 Fmrnam Street, OMAHA, 1KB. , OOOOCXDOCXDCOCKXX ADAM SCHAUPP COAL CO. COKE AND WOOD Rock Springs, Hanrta, Maitland CENTERV ILLE BLOCK 05.50 Spadla, Pittsburg nut, Washed Egg. Best Grades. Scranton -and Lehigh Anthracite. Best and quickest service. Deliver ed by Union Teamsters only. CITY OFFICE 1234 0 STREET BELL 182. ALTO 3812 E 3C )(t 3)C 3C lC 3tC 3)C )C 3)1 1Hfj 1)C ItHfE ' 1 The Handsomest Neckwear I . . f : For Early Christmas Shoppers Turnover Collar and Cuff Sets, every thread linen with genuine band-made embroidery. The cults are wide, some of them 7 inches, none less than two. The embroidery is exquisite, dainty and fine -on sheer linens, or heavy and-' effective on thicker qualities. . 1 Prices, $1.25,' $1.75, $3.50, $5.00, $6.00, and $6.50. , Lace Sets, consisting of a well-shaped stock and deep .cuffs, straight, pointed or ruffled. The patterns are the handsome, showy pompadour and Irish point effects of Venise and Batiste : laces or the fine,' dainty oriental and point gaze laces. v- . V; 60c, 75c, $1.00, $1.25, .$1.50, $1.75, $2.50, $3.75 to $12. The sets described above began to sell the moment they were placed in stock. ;' ''' '''.. ' ',. Heavy Linen -Embroiderei Stock Collars, $1.00 and $1.50. A Beautiful Line of Fancy Stocks, combinations of chiffon, silk embroidery, braid, ribbon, pearls etc. Some with tabs that reach' to the waist;", black, white and colors. ' ". $1.00 to $4.50 each. Silk Scarfs the range of prices quoted shows the great variety we carry in exquisite patterns and colorings. 90c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $6.50, $7.00, $7.50, $B.00, $8.50, $9.00. ' MILLER & PAINE mmmm: