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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1906)
THE PRESSMEN. Clothes Men Respect 1 Elect a Delegate to the International at Pittsburg, Pa. The Pressmen's and Assistants' Union met in regular session last Fri day night and elected Isaac Dean dele gate to the International convention at Pittsburg next month. Billy King was elected alternate delegate. Consider able routine business was transacted. Delegate-elect Dean is foreman of the Western Newspaper Union press room and has held several offices in the union. Finest Suits Start at $18.00 LOCAL ITEMS. If It hasn't got the union label it Isn't union- made. The union painters have to dodge work these days in order to get a little sleep. George Bush has a new ad In this Issue. He is running the only union harness repair shop in the city. There are several aew ads In this issue. You'd better look ihem up. It pays to stand by your friends. C. B. Righter is farming a patch of strawoenies. and it has been keeping him busy frightening the frost away. The Royal Hotel bar, with eGorge Quick in charge, will open up May 12. M. P. Heffley of Nebraska City will be chief lieutenant. ' E. A. Torbett of Beatrice has pur chased the Rock Island restaurant at 1951 O street. The former proprietor, M. P. Rooney, has accepted a position as patrolman. George A. Byrne of Mead, editor of the Advocate, rode into Lincoln in an automobile Monday. But it was Q. B. Tegelberg's auto, and Mr., Tegelberg came along to manage it. THE BOOKBINDERS. The Bookbinders' Union in Lincoln is . small in point of numbers, but is j always alive to the interests of the 'c craft. , Of late the Allied Printing Trades Council has not been doing much to excuse Its existence. But at every meeting the delegates from the Bookbinders' Union is presents and Bookbinders' Union are present and ready for business. The rest of the allied crafts ought to get wise and do like the Bookbinders. QUESTION THE CANDIDATE. If you wish to merely honor a man, give him a loving cup or an address on parchment, or a chromo. Don't vote to elect a man to office merely to honor him. Vote for the men who stand openly for the things you want, chief of which is the right of the peo ple to attend to their own business. Sioux City Advocate. Here's to "Dickey." "Born, on Sunday, March 25, to Mr. and Mrs. Will M. Maupin, a son. The youngster has been christened Richard Metcalfe Maupin." The above is from the "Lincoln (Neb.) Wageworker," and we raise our voice to say to "Dickey": "May you live and prosper and be imbued with the same spirit of 'kickiveness' for unionism that has made your daddy so prominent." Easton, Pa., Journal. EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL. This bill, the enactment of which labor has so forcibly demanded for four years, was at last passed by the house of representatives. The bill provides that interstate railroads shall be held responsible for the injury or death of an employe even if such in jury be brought about through the negligence of a fellow-servant As stated in our April Issue, the fate of this bill since first it was presented, has been full of vicissitudes, for natur ally it encountered the opposition of powerful corporate interests. That It now will become a law is chiefly owing to the recent demonstration made by the American Federation of Labor as well as the workingmen of the coun try. Undoubtedly congress feels that If workingmen as such are going to take a more active interest in politics it is time (to occasionally conciliate them by favorably considering a meas ure that does not grant, as most of the legislation enacted in Washington and the state capitals, greater privileges only to a number of trusts and cor porations. The lesson this points out to the worklngman is obvious. Brick layer and Mason. Milan Exhibition Coins. Milan during the next two months will have a couple of distinctive fea tures which at feast interest philatel ists and numismatists. It will have, if not a coinage, yet one coin all to Itself, , which will circulate and be legal ten der in the exhibition grounds and no where else. The value is two pence. There is also a special exhibition stamp, which, during . the exhibition period, will be used at all postofftces in Milan. As a work of art, there is not much to be said for the stamp, but to all who see it, at home or abroad, is clearly brought the knowledge that a great world's show may be seen at Milan. The exhibition coin is rather handsome. "I haven't much time for studying," wrote the college sprinter to the old folks at home, "but I am doing well on the cinders." And the next day he re ceived a telegram as follows: "Come home at once. When they put one of my boys to sifting ashes It's time for him to leave. DADDY." 1 frx ft'W testes 1 f & S 1 fjfc&'-fi'' K& 111 V fv V, if -ii' SIS, l . 1 J ' From the best looms of Europe come the plain and fancy Worsteds, Thibcts, Cheviots, Unfinished Worsteds and Serges that the best American tailor ing has fashioned into garments faultless in style, fit and finish.. Coats are shaped at the waist with flare over hips and side seams pressed flat; broad, low folding lapels, either centre or side vents, and trousers with quarter inch welt seams. Every new shade and effect Still finer lines at ' i $20.00, $22.50, $25.00, $2f.50 and $30.00 Overcoats id Raincoats Compare our overgarments, Louis XV coats, top coats and rain coats with any other line in town and note the difference all in our favor. 1 French form fitting coats here with deep centre vents and creased side seams, in the new grey herring bone and aristocratie striped effects with collars of same or velvet. They start at $15 and stop at $25. j Top coats and rain coats $5.00 to $30.00. Great $10. $12.50, and $30.00 Lines of Men's Suits ; The man who will forego imported wool ens but insists upon everything else gets all ' he seeks in our spring and summer suits at $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00, Absolutely correct styles, finest Amerioan weaves, in the grey and blue novelty effects that are first in fashion's favor the best 'custom tailoring finish that good wages can command shapes that soaking rairi cannot impair and inci dentally a straight saving of from $2.50 to $5.00. ARMSTRONG CL GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS INVITING TROUBLE. Colorado Labor News Will Get Itself Disliked. The last issue of the Colorado Springs Labor News contained the following invitation for trouble: S. J. Stern, union label promoter of the United Garment Workers of America, made this office a pleasant call Wednesday.' Bro. Stern will stop in Denver for a few days on his way to Omaha, Nebraska. When asked his idea of advancing the interests of or ganized crafts through the system employed In Denver and else where by means of The Union Label Bulletin, he said, no better or surer way of obtaining results could be found and when the or ganized crafts of Colorado Springs would devote a column or two of their labor paper for the same, purpose they would realize the great good being done. Try it, brothers. What, start a label agitation in Colo rado Springs' and Invite trouble with the Citizens' Alliance? Shades of Charley Deacon! Is the editor of the Labor News looking for trouble? Does he want to be expelled from his union for lese majeste? Wouldn't such a campaign be looked upon as a slap at the eminent gentlemen who have been purchasing goods for the Union Print ers' Home from merchants who openly declare their antagonism to union la bor, but put up a little money for the entertainment of the printers' conven tion merely as an investment? The Labor News should bear in mind that one woman was expelled from the Auxiliary at Colorado Springs for insisting on having union money spent with the friends of organized labor, while her husband's card as a printer was threatened because his wife was one of the three who signed the Woman's Label League protest. Start a label agitation in Colorado Springs? Treason! suit that the central body .determined to increase the label committee and get busy boosting the label in Lincoln. Mr. Steam urged more active work in the matter of organization and prom ised to use his influence to secure the presence of a regular organizer in the near future. ' ' Several other matters of interest to unionists -cre brought up tor consid eration, but just at present there is nothing for publication. All trades re ported work good with the exception of the clgarmakers, who reported busi ness dull. This would indicate that it Is up to the Commercial Club to get sensible on its "build up Lincoln in dustries" war cry. CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Determines to Start Something Along Label Boosting Lines. The Central Labor Union held an interesting meeting Tuesday evening. Mr. Steam of the United. Garment Workers' Union was present and made a talk along label lines, with the re- OUR SOULLESS CORPORATIONS. To one who has never heard aught save condemnation of our great rail road corporations, the sight presented this week and last, must have occa sioned some deep thinking. Every railroad running west offered free transportation of all merchandise to San Francisco, and train after, train passed through Omaha laden solely with supplies for the California suf ferers. For over a week the strange spectacle has been seen of a great railroad system like the Union Pacific almost entirely turned over to the work of charity. Not only has that grand road transported material and provisions of all kinds free, but it has given such trains the right of way over its regular trains. The same may be said of all western lines, and not satisfied with that, the railroads have furnished free transportation for everybody wishing to leave California for the east. The Union Pacific, it is said, furnished over ten thousand tick ets to people who were fleeing from San Francisco, and here they were transferred to the Northwestern and other lines on the same basis of free LUr. ILcoiilrartlt 1726 N STREET LINCOLN, NEB. Heart Specialist transportation to eastern points. All honor to these grand corporations which have come to the front so nobly in .this great calamity. Church and Home, Omaha, Neb., April 28, 1906. DO YOU KNOW HIM? The foreman thinks. The foreman wants. "The foreman told me. Better ask the foreman. Does the foreman know it? Some one told the foreman. The foreman wants to know." The foreman is a fine man. On an errand for the foreman. What would the foreman say? Named the kid after the foreman. The foreman thinks the world of me. I'm afraid the foreman wouldn't like it. I go to the same church as the fore man. When my wife was over to the fore man's house. The foreman says the chairman is a crank. The foreman says the union is going too far. ; The foreman says the executive com mittee is ruining the union. The foreman said I was a fool to vote as I did. The foreman never goes to a meet ing, and I think he is about right. The foreman's family and mine are intimate. The foreman thought that the story of mine a rich one. The foreman can see in an instant all through a piece of work. Reprint in The Labor Leader. 8 OOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXJOOCOOO Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. tlraiityoi the Cigar Makers' International Union of America. Tlnmn-mflrifi dierars. Shi Efltif irt. Tntt tdt Capri eO"nd mthtt boa KM ) mad ty laKsaxngr imiKtHKtiQ'iMlLKWiiuMiuiiiusiai an orunuaiiMOCvoiBi raintao- kM Cktftrs to ail MMlutrv tVosasliaul Ml if b wMhtd acwrlwf tolwr. tbnident. ctriv,t It is insurance against sweat shop tenement gocxis," and against disease. cxcoooccoocoocoococx fTttfiM adrift O STAMP fjjj Q and 8 8 Take a Trip to Union College on the Open Cars Sunday-Delight-rui, Refreshing, Invigorating 1 UNIOM 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 solic St. McCOY 1529 OStrest M'CLURE'S UNFAIR. McClure's Magazine is printed in a non-union shop and is, therefore, an unfair publication, and should not be bought by trade unionists. The busi ness of the owner of this magazine was built up largely through the patronage of wnrkfn? riAnnta anrl nnw tha, - . competence is at the command of the owner, he would deny working men the improved conditions that they ask and which is entirely within, reason and his ability to grant. - V