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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1906)
GENERAL MENTION. Interesting Item Mostly Swiped from Bright Labor Papers. Pemancl the label. The union label that's aK. Look for the union label. If it la not labeled, refuse It. Union made shoes are sold by Rog ers & Perkins. The tailors are winning concessions all over the country, and without much trouble. Railway mail clerks of the Southern Pacific are out on strike for better conditions. "Blue Ribbon" cigars are union, made, Lincoln made and well made Sold by all dealers. rtrewery workers In Hay City report everything settled up and the label b.ock on the kegs again. Telegraph operators on the Iowa Central railway have been granted an Increase in wages of from $2.50 to $5 a month. San Diego, Cal., labor temple trus tees are advertising in local papers Inviting non-union men to use the read' ing and club rooms. Officials of the Wabash are con fronted with demands by the newly organized union of railway clerks for shorter hours and higher wages. Rational Organizer Burton of the Street. Car Men's Union, says that or ganization is in a flourishing condition on,d gives promise of being successful In every way. .The Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers' International Union has changed Its rules to enable wood lathers to accept a lower rate of wages while learning metal lathing. Governor C. J. Bell of Vermont, in tils farewell message to the legislature, declared that the most serious problem which the state has to face at this time Is the lack of help. Th Trenton, N. J., strikers In a local shirt factory have established the Co-operative Trenton Shirt "company, The plant is fitted up with thirty-two machines, motor power, etc. The shipyard blacksmiths have made a'de'mand on the members of the New ork and New Jersey branch of the" National Metal Trades association for an advance In wages of 10 per cent. -.The employes of White & Co.,'s col lery, at WadesvJUe, Pa., who struck for an advance in wages, have been ordered back to work by the officers of the United Mine Workers. The number of paupers relieved in thirty-five selected urban districts in Great Britain in one day in July, 1906, corresponding to a rate of 200 per $10, 000 of the estimated population. Every political party in California lias declared for the strict mainten ance of the Chinese exclusion act, without modification of any kind, and for the extent ion of the act so as to exclude Japs and Koreans. President Clarence Hatghton, of the Calveston, Texas, Musicians' Union, has. been delegated authority by Presi ident Weber of the American Federa tion of Musicians, to enroll the local colored musicians. .Seventy-eight per cent of the print ers in Austria belong to the Printers' Union. At one time the largest print ing office in the world was in Vienna, iid the type used had a large percent age of silver in it. ;The big building trades strike in Winnipeg has been settled. The union shop is granted in all lines, except that the bosses of other crafts refused to interfere with the plumbers' bosses who are battling for the open shop. .The Canadian Pacific railway man agement, following conferences with representatives of the Machinists' Un ion, announces that they have granted an increase of 10 per cent in the wages of all machinists employed In the east ern division. It is not the opposition to the trade union movement that constitutes the union burden. It is not the attacks of its enemies. It is not the malicious libels and slanders which are heaped wholesale upon the organization and its officers and members. The plasterers closed their conven tion at Toronto on the 4th inst. New Orleans was chosen as the next meet ing place. W. A. O'Keefe of St. Louis, was appointed editor of the new jour nal. By a unanimous vote the plas terers decided that a membership shall 20 Per Cent Discount on All RUBBER GOODS All guaranteed high-grade, fresh rubber stock at the following bar gains: $1.25 Hot Water Bottles $1.00 $1.15 Hot Water Bottles 92 $1.00 Hot Water Bottles 80 $2.00 Comb. Bottle and Syr 1.60 $1.75 Comb. Bottle and Syr 1.40 $1.50 Comb. Bottle and Syr 1.20 $l.'25 Fountain Syr. 1.00 $1.00 Fountain Syr 80 $2.50 Whirling Spray 2.00 $1.00 Bulb Syringe 60 $2.5 Air Cushion 2.00 $.1.25 Rubber Gloves 83 $1.00 Jce Caps . 75 One-fifth off on all Rubber Sundries. RECTOR'S PIIARUACY 12th and O Sts. ' by referendum declare whether or not the O. P. I. A. will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. The question has been fought for eight years. The N. Y., N. H. & H. railroad has suggested the introduction of the bonus or piece system of work at its Readville car shops. The organiza tion of the men has voted against ac cepting any such plan. Conferences are now being held on the subject in an effort at adjustment. The girls on strike for the last fif teen weeks against the dictorial ac tions of the firm of Vine & Lavine of Trenton, N. J., are working in the co operative plant which has been started by their friends and themselves. They have proved true to unionism. They deserve success in their new venture. The Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union of New York donated the mag nificent sum of $1,000 to aid the locked cut Lithographers' apprentices of that city. President Coakley of the Na tional Union of Lithographers' Appren tices and Feeders addressed a large meeting of newspaper and mail deliv erers. The importance of trades unions in their work for general good is recog nized by the French government to such an extent that it subsidizes those having an out-of-work benefit. The government pays 16 per cent of such benefits paid by local unions and 24 per cent if the union is national in its scope. A thousand men will be kept busy at the Superior shipyards, Cleveland, thir. winter. They will construct a 600-foot steamer for the Pittsburg Steamship company a 552-foot boat for the Haw good fleet and one of equal length for the Acme Steamship company. The latter will be a duplicate of the James Wallace. Twelve hours In wiuter and fourteen in summer was a fair average day's work in the sixteenth century. ' In Lyons in J.571 the printers worked from 2 o'clock in the morning till 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening. In other trades the working hours were often from 4 o'clock in the morning till 9 o'clock at night or from 5 to 10. After a strike of two months the workers in the shipyards at Terni, Italy, have won their demands, Includ ing a shorter workday. They fought a band of armor plate thieves, who have long robbed the country as well as the corrupt politicians in control of the government, who, as might be expect ed, were hostile toward the strikers. The charge is made by union label boomers in the Canadian northwest that women's shoes which bear the name of W. L. Douglas, but are not made at the Douglas factory are being placed on the market. They are made by a non-union firm at Lynn, Mass., shipped to the Douglas company and sent out by them as Douglas shoes. Reports submitted to the Central Labor Union of Spokane at its last meeting show that the wages of boiler makers on railroads have been in creased from 37c to 39 cents an hour the scale of helpers being raised fioin $2.12 to $2.25 a day. The national convention of the In dustrial Workers of the World held at Chicago, has split on the rock of socialism and the delegates from the Western ' Federation of Miners, repre senting 25,000 miners, have bolted. The seceders will organize under an other name. All demands made by the Coopers' International Union, representatives of which have been in conference with the Coopers' Employers' association at Indianapolis, Ind., have been granted and a contract for one year wa3 signed. The most important conces sion is an increase from 27c a nhour to 3 Ocents for New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville. Mass meetings of jewelry employes were held in Chicago at which com mittees were appointed to visit the fifty-seven jewelry manufacturing con cerns and demand an eight-hour day at once, with the alternative of a strike. The manufacturers have form ed an association and plan for resist ing the union. The principal jewelry industry in Chicago is the manufacture of wedding rings. The Building Trades Council of San Francisco has had plans made for a new labor temple to be erected in that city, which will be one of the hand somest and best equipped structures of its kind in the United States. The cost of the building is estimated at $75,000, and P. H. M. McCarthy, presi dent of the Building Trades Council, states that it will be finished and ready for occupancy in four months. THE NORTH DIRECTORY. The new city directory under way In the North prlntery is approaching completion and promises to be the best ever gotton out in Lincoln. After "playing horse" with Lincoln people, and especially with the Typographical Union, the Polk-McEvoy people are now putting up a loud talk. It will de ceive no one. The North directory will be published by a Lincoln concern, and all the money will remain in Lincoln. othes of Are to be Obtained with Every THIS GREAT CLOTHING HOUSE HAS BUILT WHAT NEBRASKA LABOR WANTS. (Continued from papre 1.) THE CORPORATIONS ALL THESE YEARS. The election of Smith and Quick will demonstrate that the sneered-at LABOR VOTE is worth reckoning with, and when future conventions meet workingmen. will not have to beg for recognition like hungry dogs beg for a bone. The political managers will be asking us to state our wants and then falling all over themselves to give us what we ask for. There'll be no more ignoring of our just claims for recognition. Instead of being ignored by the political bosse we'll have the whole bunch trailing behind us like they should have been trailing for years and would have been had we been possessed of the nerve and common sense to act in our own interests. THAT'T WORTH VOTING FOR, EVEN IF WE DON'T ELECT SMITH AND QUICK. Now, fellow workingmen; a last word. Make up your mind to cast your own ballot in your own way for your own candidates candidates who, like yourselves, are workingmen. Then put in your spare time impressing upon your fellow work ers the necessity of standing together. O, if we could only vote just once as solidly and as enthusiastically as workingmen march on Labor- Day ! The politicians stand on the curbstones and cheer us when we march on Labor Day. The same politi cians will creep into their holes and tremble if we'll vote as we march. All together now for ''Mollie and the Babies!" Register Saturday, November 3. VOTE FOR SMITH AND QUICK FOR THE LEGISLA TURE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. And then go home at night and take comfort in the thought that you voted for your own interests and the interests of those near and dear to you. THE LEATHERWORKERS. A Bunch Comes to the Front With Wageworker Subscriptions. The Wageworker list is growing, thank you. This week a goodly bunch of thirty-two members of the local union of Leatherworkers on Horse Goods sent in their money to help boost the thing along. This is an in dication that the leatherworkers are prospering and that they are becoming more and more interested in the union game. There are several other unions that should fall in line. Secretary Stone of the Leatherwork ers says he will have some more sub scriptions just as soon as he can get around to it. He also says that busi ness is pretty good and that the boys are standing behind the labor candi dates for the legislature. A LITTLE CHANGE. There has been a change in the Free Press stereotyping department- Henry Bruenine. who has been at the head of the department for a long time, has quit and will engage in the oil busi ness. Cal Femarest, his assistant, be comes head of the department. THE SHAME OF IT. There Are No Child Labor Laws In the State of Nebraska. There is not a child labor law on the statute books of Nebraska. The shame of it! Nebraska, the progressive, the Christian, the enterprising and noth ing to prevent the virtual enslavement of the little ones. Just think of Nebraska being classed with Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana! In those states thons ands of dwarfed, overworked, starv ing children are forced into factories before they are six years of age. In dustrialism is becoming a bloodthirsty machine. Sooner or later it will seek its childish vicitims in Nebraska. And if it is prevented it must be by the votes of God-fearing, home-loving, child-guarding unionists. And they must elect men to the legislature who will work and vote for laws to pre Merit that OF GIVING THE BEST MERCHANDISE FOR THE MONEY INVESTED We stake our reputation on the quality of our goods and fair prices. We have hundreds of worthy Suits, Overcoats and Cravenette Rain Coat at $10, $15, $20, $24 and $30. The strono-est line of Fur Overrnjif n nil chvoni r..i c o ' uuvvp'uiivu uukiv vuais ever shown in the State, at special low prices. In our Boys' and Children's Department we offer 300 servicable Wool Suits, in ages 8 to 16 years, at about one-half price while they last. The price range is from $2.50 to $5.00. They are unequaled in value and quality. FURNISHINGS A complete line of Men's and Boys' Furnishings Hats, Caps, Gloves, Mit tens, Underwear, Shirts, etc., etc. JUST WHAT YOU WANT FOR THE PRICE YOU WANT TO PAY. vent the curse of child labor. Now is the time. Vote for Smith and Quick, labor candidates for the legislature. Lay aside your partisanship this once and vote for your homes and your little ones. UNION OR NON-UNION. A Sample of What Label Agitation Is Doing Today. One day this week The Wageworker was called up by a Lincoln house wife, who asked: "Where can I get a union made broom?" The editor told her the most likely place, and then asked: "Who is this talking, please?"' "O, it doesn't make any difference who it is," was the reply. "You don't know me. My husband is not a un ionist, because he is not working at any trade. I am interested because a friend of mine, whose husband is a unionist, saw me sweeping with a Lee broom and called me down for it. I didn't know anything about it, so she told me what she knew. I saw the force of her argument right away, and if I can't get a union made broom hereafter I'll let the house go unswept. And I'm going to interest my husband in the label, too." That was the result of one union woman's little talk. She made a con vert to the label cause. There are lots of men and women who are unionists at heart if they only knew it. They are the people we must get after. ? And the Label League and the members of the Capital Auxiliary are the ones to do the work. Good woman, talk to your non-union neighbor about the label, and tell her of the horrors of the "sweat shop" and the unfairness of convict labor competition. STARVATION WAGES. Women and girls in New York sweat shops work from before dawn till after night for 18 cents a day. The law lim iting women's work to 60 hours a week is violated constantly. 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