GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Lp.bor Papers,
Demand the label.
The union label that's all.
Jiouk for the union label.
If It la not labeled, refuse it.
Clerics' union at Spokane, Wash., lias
luen revived.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog
ers & Perkins.
HIM posters of Toronto, Canada,
have been organized.
The Larklns' Soap company Is uu
iair to organized labor.
Two hundred and fifty newsboys
huve formed a union In San Francisco.
Chair pushers and tailors of Atlantic
'Cily are organizing themselvea into a
union.
Organized labor should lvmenibar
that 'Lartina Idea" soaps are on the
tmlair list.
Carpenters and stone cutters of
Kansas City, Mo., secured an Increase
v. ithout strike.
Painters of Albany, N. Y., secured
a'.i advance of from $2.50 to $r..00 a
day by striking.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are unio'i
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
Steam engineers or Toledo and
Xutiesvllle, O., and HirmiiiKham, Ala.,
were organized recently.
iJuildlng Laborers' Protective Union
of Kaa3E.3 City, Mo., lias purchased a
lot and will erect a building.
Cement workers have been organ
ised in Washington, D. C, kiltimore.
.VUI., and Richmond and Norfolk, Va.
Unorganized section men of Tam
il ra, 111., struck for an advance of 25
c nts a day. The outcome is doubtful.
The plumbers in Kansas City, Mo.,
are winning out notwithstanding tho
arrival of three hobo plumbers frjm
Chicago.
The carriage and wagon black
smiths of Pittsburg were organized
and affiliated with the Brotherhood of
Blacksmiths.
Sheet metal workers in l)es Moiues,
la., have secured a raise in their mini
mum wage scale from 30 to 35 cents
an hour until November 1, and there
at tor 37 Vi cents per hour.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners has appropriated $40,000 for
the. purchase of a building In the heart
or' Indianapolis and the remodeling of
the same.
The unsatisfactory condition in get
ting out the Iowa state printing in a
non-union concern has caused the au
thorities to give the contract to a
union office.
Philadelphia is awakening! The
painters have abolished piece work,
increased the pay of the twenty-eight
uk-ij and mada a closed shop in a
strike lasting just two hours and a
half.
The manner in which the bosses in
Wellington, New Zealand, have been
tiyiug to dodge the arbitration court's
awards has caused the president of
thai court to threaten heavier penal
ties in the future.
The Industrial Workers (?) of the
World, at their "convention" in Cht
cago repudiated Samuel Gompers.
Well, Well! Latest, information re
c('ived states that President Gompers
It still on earth.
"The Workman," the official paper
ol the A. O. U. W. In Ohio, will not.
as at first reported, be printed iu a
non-union office. More honor to tlio
brothers, and may their example be
followed by other societies.
Spokane, Wash., Chamber of Com
r.ierce donated $2,000 to secure the
national convention of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers. That's the kind of go-ahead men
(hey have out west.
The Wisconsin Association of Mas
ter Bakers have adopted a resolution
favoring a ten-hour work day. They
have seen the light. They also say:
"Sunday work is not in harmony with
Modern progress and ideal citizen
ship."
CUT-RATE DRUGS
AND PATENT MEDICINES
$1.00 Warner's K. & L... 7Sc
$1.00 Cooper's Discovery S;5c
$1.00 Llquozone 89c
$1.00 Duffy's Malt 89c
$1.00 Peruna SISc
$1.00 Plnkbam Co 8:Jc
$1.00 Pierce's Remedies 83c
$1.00 Horlick's Malted Milk 70c
$1.00 Stuart s Dyspepsia Tabs 8Hc
$1.00 Snoop's Restorative 8:!c
$1.00 Kilmer's Swamp Root 83c
$1.00 Hostetter's Bitters 79c
GOc Hoan's Kidney Pills 43c
60c Williams' Pink Pills 43c
50c California Syrup Figs 43c
35c Rocky Mountain Tea 30c
35c Fletcher's Castoria 25c
26c Latta's Pills 21c
25c Alcock's Porous Plaster luc
25c Carter's Pills 21c
25c Cuticura Soap 20c
25c Packer's Tar Soap 20c
25c Mennen's Talcum 12c
25c White Pino Cough 21c
All our Drugs'are bought 'carefully,
kept carefully, and sold carefully.
Rector's Pharmacy
RECTOR'S
12th and O Streets.
Charles Yip Tin, the Pierpont Mor
gan of China, who is in the United
States investigating the operation of
(he American railway systems, says
that the effort of the Panama Canal
Commission to secure Chinese labor
for the canal will fail, owing to the
feeling of China against the exclusion
laws.
Union men! please your wifo and
your poeketbook by purchasing a Riv
erside Base Burner. There is abso
lutely no stove on the market that
will furnish as much heat for the
amount of coal consumed as will the
Riverside. Sold exclusively by Hoppe
at 108 North Tenth street.
The threatened strike of iron mold-
eis in the engineering trade of Man
chester and Southeast Lancashire.
England, has been averted. The tnold
evs, who had demanded an immediate
advance of 50 cents per week, have
accepted an advance of 25 cents now,
wish a promise of an additional ad
vance cf 25 cents in January.
Fifty men left one barn on Hunting
ton's electric railway lines in Los An
geles, Cal., last week. Overwork and
email pay are the main reasons as
signed. This in the face of the fact
that Huntington has promised them
that they shall get 30 cents an hour
alter they have worked fourteen years.
Some men are so unreasonable, you
know!
A report of the New York Slate
pertinent of Labor shows that there
are now 8,000,000 wage workers in
labor unions, one-fourth of whom are
in the United States. Great Britain
and Germany each have nearly as
many unionists as the United States,
hut the countries in which the move
ment is comparatively new Austria,
Hungary, Italy, etc., are making rapid
progress.
OVER IN TEXAS.
Farn-.ers cf the Lone Star Str.te Hold
Convention.
Al i lie recent convention of the
Fanners' State Union, held in Dallas,
Texas, 476 delegates and as many
visitors were assembled. These rep
resented a total membership of 211,000
which is surely an indication that the
farmers of the Lone Star state are
pretty thoroughly organized.
A. feature of this convention was the
number of resolutions adopted that
affect organized labor, which leaves
no room for douot that feeling exists
among the farmers that there is a
community of interests between them
and the toilers in factories and shops.
These annual conventions bring the
farmers and the city unions inlo closer,
touch, and so strengthen the bonds
between (hem that the efforts of the
enemies of organized labor to create
distrust between town and country or-
nniiiations are of little avail.
The farmers' union has adopted a
label for the purpose of designating
their products, and a resolution adopt
ed by the convention was to the efiect
that in whatever form the label was
produced it should be accompanied by
the typographical union label. Anoth
er resolution favoring the typograph
ical union label was as follows:
Whereas, There is a printing trust
in Te.iits, and that because of 'his tha
price of printing has been increased
to an extortionate extent; and
Whoreas, We know the typograph
ical union label will not be allowed to
be used on trust-made goods; there
tore, be it
Resolved, That we urge all persons
with whom we trade to have all print
ing Ix'ir the label of the typographical
union.
The farmers' union is taking an act
ive part in union politics, and this con
vention went on record as favoring
a legal eight-hour workday and legis
lation to prohibit the importation of
strikebreakers. It also is opposed to
the employment of convict labor i':
competition with free labor, believing
that prison production should be con
fined to such articles as are used iu
state institutions. It is to be hoped
that farmers of all the states will or
gunize such unions, and affiliate and
co-operate with labor unions in urging
legislation favorable to the laborers,
the adoption of the universal eigiii
hour day, and assist in creating an de
mand for the union label. The Typo
graphical Journal.
THE BARTENDERS.
Membership and Interest Growing at
a Gratifying Rate.
The Bartenders' Union lias been
making some gains in membership of
late, six new members having been
taken in since September 1.
The union will meet at the usuai
place m;st Sunday morning, and mat
ters of vital interest to the member
ship demand the presence of every
man.
The Lincoln hotel bar continues to
enjoy the unenviable distinction of
being the only "scab" bar in the city.
The bartenders employed there gave
as their reason lor dropping out that
the bar was patronized only by trav
eling men. The explanation is a full
measure of their unionism. The union
man who patronizes the bar is merely
giving aid and comfort to non-union
men.
I , 8 g Copyright 1906
The House of Kuppenheimer
THE MODERN MOSES
Karliest of labor leaders was Moses,
the nnn who delivered from a cruel
bondage the millions of Israelites who
served the Pharoah of Egypt.
The development of a leader is al
ways a slow process. This is partic
ularly true in the industrial world. For
in the labor movement there is so
much at stake, and there are so niany
interests involved, that the raw enthu
siast cannot be entrusted with the
power of leadership.
Enthusiasm there must be, but it
must be au enthusiasm founded upon
intelligence and a genuine experience.
It required forty years of solitude
in the land of Alidian to transform the
hot-blooded Moses, the adopted son cf
Pharoah's daughter, into the modest
Moses whose name has become a syn
onym for meekness.
"Learned iu all the wisdom of the
Egyptian" nevertheless he needed the
solitary life of the shepherd on the
hillside to prepare him for the great
task of leading out into liberty the
slaves of the Egyptian ruler.
If ever Moses was a glib talker, he
foigot how to nse this weapon of the
spellbinder, for when he was called
to his work, we are told that he him
self protested, saying that he was
"slow of speech." Perhaps both his
modesty and his inability to speak flu
ently were in his favor as a labor
leader, for his task was one which de
manded not burning orations, but pa
tient endurance. When he appeared
before the oppressor of his brethren,
his symbol of power was a shepherd's
crook typical of his former occupa
tion, and witntss that he too came
from the ranks, and that his heart
beat true to that of his suffering kins
men. lie came, too, with the conscious
ness of a sure victory- because he
knew that his cause was just. But
more than that, he was confident be
cause ho came in the spirit of a strong
moiv I faith. This emancipation which
he was about to witness was more than
an economic deliverance dependent
upon brute strength, and the ability
of a mere man to exercise unusual
power. Ho had hack of him the Om
nipotent God of Abraham, of Isaac and
of Jacob, the forefathers of the af
flicted Israelites.
It was the religious element in this
movement which made it all-powerful.
The rleliveraneo was to come so that
the Israelites might worship more free
ly the God of their fathers. He was
to become their Ruler and their Lead
er. This day awaits another Hoses
aye, many such, or again the masses
nerl to be led out of bondage. Not al
ways the bondage of the ancient Is
r.telitos, although there is still a call
for such service, but the bondage
which enslaves man to his lower self.
-The qualities that were so conspicu
ous in Moses must be found in the
modern leader. He must be" of the
people, for he must understand their
needs. He must have had an experi
ence which sobered him, so that he
is familiar with the deeper, truer
things of life. He must depend not so
much upon bis speech as upon his
character. Ife must have the power
which can come alone through the con
sciousness that his cause is just, and
that back of him, too, as He was back
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of Moses, stands the God of the com
mon people, Who is saying through
him: "Let rny people go'." Rev.
Charles Stelzle.
HOW IT WORKS.
A Banquet and Much Wine Influences
Legislation in Nebraska.
A few years ago the matter of re
vising the convict contract law came
before the Nebraska legislature. It
was thought that the state was not
getting a big enough price per convict.
It was also thought by some that it
might be well to abolish the system
entirely. There was a committee ap
pointed to investigate. It began its
work, but before it got very far the
prison contractor invited the commit
tee to be his gnesta at a little banquet
at. a local hostelry. The members ac
cepted the kind invitation, and the ban
quet was a gorgeous affair. The wine
list was Quite extended, and the menu
card contained ail the delicacies of the
season and some that were out of sea
son according to law.
The banquet ended the investiga
tion. ,o more inquiries were made,
d t'.e matter was allowed to sink
into what G. Cleveland called inocuou-3
0x! uetude.
ft' course organized labor vas not
represented in that legislature. And,
of course, the honest and highminded
legislators were not influenced by the
banquet.
But with a couple of true blue work
ingnien in the legislature it would be
possible :o prevent such an outrageous
perversion of justice. Vote for Smith
and Quick and get a square deal from
the great state of Nebraska.
THE PRESSMEN.
Criticize Printers for Haste in Closing
t
With Publishers' Association.
The American Pressman, official or
gan of the International Printing Press
men and Assistants' Union has the
following to say of the action taken by
the International T3-pographical Union
convention at Colorado Springs last
August. It deserves the careful con
sideration of the printer end of the
allied trades:
"As usual, the convention signified
its willingness to sign up with the
American Publishers' association with
out first conferring with the I. P. P.
and A. IT., notwithstanding proposition
No. 9, by Delegate Heinz, of Zanes
ville, Ohio, was presented for the very
purpose of preventing entering into an
agreement after the expiration of the
one of May 1, 1!)07. Mr. Heinz's prop
osition was defeated. In its haste the
I. T. V. has simply followed its usual
program a program that has and is
costing it hundreds of thousands of
dollars, which, were better tactics em
ployed in time, would save it much of
its rapid running outlay. This act is
certainly suggestive, and that is, that
where the I. T. U. sees a chance to
close up an agreement it closes it and
lets all affiliated organizations take
care of themselves. It was ever thus;
and as a consequence, the eight-hour
day and the open shop is still an open
question for adjustment. Had the I. T.
U. conferred with the I. P. P. and A.
U., and done clean business, by form
ing a proper agreement, on the time
of fulfillment and its execution, there
would not now be a doubt of its uni
versal success. This we add in a broth
erly spirit, Time tries men's souls we
knowr."
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