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UNION 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. L. McCOY
1529 OStreet
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The Song of the Blouse.
Hour after hour. In the stifling heat,
She stitches in hunger and care.
In a squalid room in a squalid street,
The blouse which another will wear;
Or, with weary effort to try and keep
Body and soul together.
Will rise from sleep, at the first gray peep
Of dawn, In the wintriest weather.
The hum of the bees and the breath of
' the cows,
The hedgerows all fragrant and green
Are for others her lot is the cult of the
blouse
And the song of the sewing machine.
No time to laugh and no time to weep
With her none to trouble how fares it
For the blouse was cheap, and the stairs
too steep
To climb, says the woman who wears it.
All the day long the rattle and click
In the heat and the glare and the dust.
Till body and brain and heart are sick
(On a cud of tea and a crust);
!5"or there's rent to be earned and, you
uiay tns surf,
Little to spare when she's paid it
Oh, the difference sore 'twixt the woman
who wore
The blouse and the woman who made it!
An effort Is being made to estab
lish, closer relations between the
Canadian eastern labor' unoins and
those on the Pacific coast.
President Samuel J. Small of the In
ternational Union of Commercial
Telegraphers is in Chicago to take
charge of the trouble between the
operators and the Postal Telegraph
Cable company.
A referendum vote is being taken by
:he members of the International
Brotherhood of Shovel and Dredge
men on a proposition to increase the
death benefit to $1,000 on a yearly
premium of $20. -.
After an all day's session, the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen
changed the name of the order by a
practically unanimous vote to the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers. The reasons leading
up to this change are that fully 25
per cent, of the members of the order
are engineers.
The Columbia Typographical union,
of Washington, voted to expel 70
members who refused to continue the
payment of the assessment levied for
strike benefits, on account of the
strike against employing printers in
the District of Columbia, which has
been on since last Jaunary. The
members dismissed from the union
are all employed at the government
printing ofllce, aud it is said that
the number to be expelled may reach
250 before the matter ends.
Engineers'on the Chicago, Burling
ton & Quincy railroad, who are pro
testing against the recent order ex
cluding men who have to wear eye
glasses from running passenger en
gines, from the suburban service and
from freight locomotives at congested
terminals have refused to submit the
question to the interstate commerce
commission. Officials of the com
pany suggested ' that as the safety of
the traveling public was concerned,
the interstate commerce commission
should be allowed to pass on the rule.
About 1,600 workmen engaged in
rehabilitating the street railways of
San Francisco and changing the cable
roads into electric systems, went on a
strike-. The United railways started
the trouble by discharging workmen
because of their affiliation with the
union, and the strike was called to en
force the reinstatement of the men at
an increase in wages, and the demand
for an eight-hour day. A great num
ber of the men belonging to the union
are foreigners brought over by the
United railways.
The "one armed men's" union was
founded at Chicago. Its principlss
essentially are humanitarian, it being
devised with speciaLregard for the
1,200 maimed, legless, or armless
switohtenders, flagmen and crossing
men employed by the railroads in and
near Chicago.'
F. W. Wilson, representative of the
International Association of Machin
ists, has returned to Milwaukee from
Chicago, where he attended the con
vention of the Metal Trades associa
tion. The result of the meeting may
be the amalgamation of all the metal
trade workers in the country, an or
ganization which, if perfected, will be
one of .the strongest labor bodies in
the world, having a membership of
nearly 350,000 workmen. The crafts
represented were the pattern-makers'
association, machinists, iron molders,
blacksmiths and helpers, boiler mak
ers, iron ship builders, metal polish
ers, buffers and platers, electric work
ers, stationary firemen, and steam en
gineers. The executive boards of all
of these organizations have been peti
tioned and it is probable that a refer
endum vote will be taken on the sub
ject of amalgamation by each organ
ization. The cigarmakers of New Haven,
Conn., adopted a novel method of win
ning their fight against their em
ployers. In most instances, the things
struck against are usually boycotted
by the strikers, but not so in this
case. , Instead, they demanded nothing
but a cigar made in one of the fac
tories struck against. This was done
for the purpose of exhausting the sup
ply of stock as quickly as poss'tle,
and then to leave the manufacturers
stranded. The ruse has worked suc
cessfully and it is now extra nely hard
to get anything but outsid rlgars in
New Haven.
The Business Men's association, of
Omaha, has taken action to oHset the
effect of the labor unions' attempt to
dictate nominations and elections of
candidates for public offices. The as
sociation plans- to wage a hot fight.
As the result of overtures made by
the officials of the Vandalia Ccal com
pany to the district officials of the
miners of Indiana, the strike at the
mines of the coal company, which
involved 3,000 men, was declared off.
The coal company made its proposi
tion through General Manager John
Hewitt and grants all the demands
of the miners. The right of appeal
to the courts for a. final adjudication
of the controversy is, however, re
served by the company.
The International Woodwoi'kers'
Union of America secured an injunc
tion against two of their local organ
izations at Chicago which restrains
them from disbursing any of the
funds, amounting to $8,000, which they
have in the treasury. The two locals
against which the injunction was is
sued are locals NO. 1 and No. 78.
These two unions recently voted to
desert the International Woodworkers
and join the National Brotherhood of
Carpenters. It is to prevent them
from turning over to the carpenters
$8,000 which they have in the sick
rund and in the tt-easury that the in
junction was obtained.
One of the most extensive railroad
strikes declared in recent years went
into effect when 1,500 machinists,
blacksmiths and boilermakers, togeth
er with repair shop men. quit work
under orders from their union head
quarters and effectually tied up the
entire mechanical department of the
Wabash railroad system. The dis
pute is over wages. The machinists
induced the allied metal trades to go
out in sympathy, and the joint strike
is said to be one of the fruits of the
recent formation of the National Fed
eration of Metal Trades, which aims
to embrace every worker in the metal
industry. The machinists started the
trouble on the Wabash by demanding
an increase in pay averaging seven
cents an hour. The present scale
ranges from 28 to 30 cents an hour.
A number of conferences held be
tween officials of the road and repre
sentatives of the Machinists' union
failed to be productive of a settle
ment, and the strike order was the
result.
The anniversary and convention
number of the Carpenter, the official
journal of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America,
contains a well written history of the
organization. The brotherhood was
organized in 1881 at Chicago with 12
local unions. At that time the mem
bership was 2,042. From 1881 to 1900
the union gained 66,421 men, and in
1905 there were 1,7C9 locals with a
membership of 161,217 totals. The
brotherhood has won a large percent
age of its strikes, between 1890 and
1900, losing but a single one out of
about 40. Since that time, according
to the secretary's report, a similar
ratio has been kept up. The finances
of the organization are upon a remark
ably firm basis. The total income for
the year of 1904-05 was $403,292. The
expenditures for the same period were
1444,095. This excess was easily
cared for by the large previous bal
ance. The brotherhood has . seven
delegates to the American Federation
of Labor. It has also been successful
in obtaining a normal day, and at the
time of the last report, 481 cities were
working on the eight-hour scale.
At a conference in Philadelphia be
tween the officials of the Pennsylvania
railroad lines east of Pittsburg and
Erie and delegates representing the
telegraph operators , the company
Sranted 'an advance in wages to af
"ect all telegraphers on the lines men
tioned, beginning September 1. The
increase will involve an additional ex
penditure of $70,000 a month by the
company.
At the regular quarterly meeting
of the executive council of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor at Wash
ington the following members were
p resent: President Gompers, Vice
Presidents Duncan, O'Connell, Mor
rison, Hayes, Keefe and Valentine;
Treasurer Lennon and Secretary Mor
rison. The financial report showed
the federation had on hand September
1 a balance of $100,425. President
Gompers reported on the question
of universal labor for all of the in
ternational organizations, or for the
use of the seal of the American Fed
eration of Labor as a universal de
sign. A number of organizations op
rosed the surrender of their label.
The report will be submitted to the
federation convention at Minneapolis
in November.
The management of the New York
City Railway company, which operates
r radically all the surface lines in
Manhattan borough, has advanced the
wages of its employes on a graded
scale, the total amount involved being
more than $250,000.
With the limbs of trees as banners,
striking laborers in the quarry of the
Western Stone company, at Joliet,
111., marched from quarry to quarry
ro get their fellow workmen to lay
down their tools. The men have been
getting $1.75 per day, and. demsnd
an advance of 25 cents. Nearly every
quarrv 1 ,'no
Extraordinary Vals. in Blankets
GOOD COTTON
BLANKETS AT
GOOD WOOL
BLANKETS AT
See Bargains Offered
75c
October Sale
Women's Fleeced Vests and
Pants, ecru and gray QC.
35c values at. . ."
Children's Fleeced Union Suits,
sizes up to 8 years,
35c values, 25c
Buy Your Winter Goat Jou
Hand Tailored, of Fine Im
ported Kersey, a charming
model with that loose,,
swinging back, richly
trimmed with silk velvet
and silk braid, lined thru
out with fine satin, worth
s saun, wui in
$20.00
$25.00, here
only - -
Other Coats Especially Priced for the Oct.
Sale, $6,50 to S30;
Handsome Ooats For Ghiidron
bought at a tremendous price sacrifice; manufactur
ers' samples, finest materials, latest style; coats
a.a1?:.$1...:.$3.50toS6.50
Children's Bearskin Coats, all colors, same as those
sold elsewhere at $5.00
here only.
VERY SPECIAL SALE OF
the celebrated "W. B."
and "G. D.' ' corsets in
all sizes reduced to
79c
goghsiets
GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES
$2.25 for Women's $3.00 Shoes
These are broken lots from the best lines of $3.00
Shoes in Lincoln; Not all sizes in each style, but
all sizes in some of the numbers.
$2.69 for Men's $3-50 Shoes
Patent Leather, Velour ' and Box Calf Leathers.
Some of these shoes are feather
lined. Choice of one big lot at ..... .
$1.39 for Girls' $1.79 Shoes
Of Box Calf aud Fine Kid, with the best of soles.
Many pretty styles and all sizes; the best school
shoes at anywhere near the price.
19c a Pair for Infants' 35c Shoes '
Soft-sole Shoes and Moccasins, all colors, both plain
and fancy leathers; the best Infants' shoes you
ever saw for the money.
Men's and Women's House Slippers
An unusual large variety of the best fl? KJCS
. kinds, 39c, 69c, 98c and & mmV-i
Outing Gowns
and Petticoats
50c values Children's P
Outing Gowns 05C
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75c values in Women's FA J
Outing Gowns OUV
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Ladies' Outing , Flannel Knee-
length Petticoats, E-
Splendid values f 00
at
45c to $2.25
$2.75 to $6.50
this week in Comforters
Up;
of Underwear
Women's Perfect Fitting Union
Suits, sizes 4 to 9, C
69c values, at . OlC '
Infant's Cashmere Stockings,
line quality, all colors, ,
, extra value, 3 pairs , 25c
Several handsome new
models to choose from at
this price; the fabrics are
light and dark toned Scotch
mixtures, velvet and strap
trimmings perfectly tail
ored, anv other ' Lincoln
store would ask at least
$16, here
only - - - -
$11.00
- : . 6? 9 Cfl
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New
Gloves
Berlin Lisle Gloves, silk lined,
extra values at. . . .. . 50c
Imported Kid Gloves, all
shades; worth $1.50; , .
only ........ ...... $1.00
Ladies' and Children's Golf
Gloves; beauties; t 50c
and. . 25c
Men's Furnish'gs
Men's 50o Ribbed A - A
Underwear '
at ,
Men's $ 1.00 Wool Qfi-r
Underwear ljfC
at .... .....I...........
Men's $1.30 Wool J P
Underwear . JS
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Men's $1.00 Negligee '' , m C
Shirts TJ
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