GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union label that's all.
Look for the union label.
If it la not labeled, refuse it.
Central Labor Union meets Tuesday
night.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog
ers & Perkins.
The gloveinakers of Lincoln should
oiganize without further loss of time.
K it hasn't got the label it isn't
''just as good" for the union man or
woman.
"Blue Ribbon" cigara are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
"The Kilties" band, which appeared
at the auditorium Wednesday night, is
made up of union musicians.
"Billy" Emberson, as square as they
make 'em, has the contract for put
ting the new front in the "Senate."
Boost the union labor fair. Tell
your merchant what a good chance It
afTrds him to reach the unionists of
the citjv
Bill posters have recently granted
a charter to a union at Providence,
R. I. The membership is steadily In
ci easing.
The Volkszeitung job office, at St.
Paul, Minn., has signed the eight
hour agreement, thereby securing
some printers.
There are enough candymakers in
Lincoln outside of the Greeks and
Italians, to organize a union, and they
ought to get busy.
Newark, N. J., trades unionists are
to have a labor temple. In the same
city a subscription of $30,000 has been
raised to start a dally labor paper.
The George E. Howard Publishing
company, the most important Typothe
tae shop in Washington, signed au
eight hour contract. All rats were
discharged.
Thirty non-union printers Btruck in
the non-union print shop of John P.
Morton & Co., of Louisville, Ky. It
must, indeed, be a sorrowful state of
affairs when non-uniouists desert their
jobs.
At the last meeting of the Pittsburg
Association of Patternmakers' League
of North America twelve new mem
bers were initiated and applications
from over a dozen more were re
ceived.
"Mitchell day," October 29, was gen
erally celebrated throughout the min
ing regions in Pennsylvania. Presi
dent Mitchell addressed a mass meet
ing of the miners of the Panther
Creek valley.
The strike goes merrily on for the
plumbers in Kansas City. For the
other fellow it is quite another story.
One by one the employers have been
falling into line, until 140 journeymen
are now at work.
Three firms at Baltimore, Md.,
against whom papers for injunction
were filed for the illegal use of the
United Garment Workers' of America
label have "caved in" and are union
izing their factories.
Machine printers and color mixers
have a movement on foot for the short
ei work day, which is gradually com
ing without sacrifice on the part of
the members of our organization.
Trade conditions excellent.
Wod carvers have secured an
agreement giving a 50 cent a day in
crease to the men in New York city.
They have won a strike for increased
wages in all shops but two in the city
of Boston. Their membership is In
creasing. The International Cigarmarkers' un
ion has $700,000 In the treasury. The
members pay the highest dues of any
union in the country, which may ex
plain why their union is so strong and
prosperous and its members bo enthus
iastic and loyal.
The teamsters of Chicago have re
organized and are now said to num
ber 6,000 members. They are prepar
ing a wage agreement calling for a
scale of $15 a week for drivers of
single wagons, $16 for teams, $17 for
three-horse wagons and $18 for four
horses.
Though conducting themselves in
a law-abiding, peaceable manner, the
forty Bell telephone linemen on strike
in Sedalia, Mo., were served with In
junction papers, restraining them
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
$1.25 Fountain Syr 1.00
$1.00 Fountain Syr 80
$2.50 Whirling Spray 2.00
$1.00 Bulb Syringe 60
$2.50 Air Cushion 2.00
$1.25 Rubber Gloves 83
$1.00 Ice Caps 75
One-fifth off on all Rubber Sundries.
RECTOR'S PHARMACY
12th and O Sts.
from talking with men brought there
to take their places. Notwithstanding
the injunction the company has been
unable to secure men to take their
places.
San Francisco Planing Mill Own
ers' association has signed an agree
ment with the building trades' council,
Wages will range from $3.25 to $5 a
day. The agreement remains in force
for two years and all differences which
may arise will be settled by arbitra
tion.
The Chicago Tribune says: "Since
the defeat of the Garment Workers
sweatshops have enormously increased
in number. Only a cent apiece is paid
for coats and underv-ests. By working
seven days some can make as much,
as a dollar." This comes from the
"open" shop.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing a Riv
ei side Base . Burner. There is abso
lutely no stove on the market that
will furnish as much heat fKf the
amount of coal consumed as will the
Riverside. Soldxcjusively by Hoppe
ac 108 North Tenth street.'
Tom Watson's Magazine, another
of the brood of non-union sheets pub
lished in New York typothetae offices,
appears to have gone to the wall, a
judgment of $60,936 having been is
sued against It. Tom quit because he
could not collect his salary. The idea
of being long oh glory and short on
cash did not appeal particularly to
him.
Independent Telephone company of
Omaha has signed a scale of wages
with the Electrical Workers' union.
All journeymen linemen, "trouble
men," instalers and switchboard men
will receive $3 per day, while the
cable splicers will get $4 for eight
hours. Time and a half will be paid
for overtime; double time will be paid
for Sundays and all legal holidays.
A LIVING BOOK.
The Greatest Ever Written, and Will
Always Lead Men Right.
A century ago France was spending
millions of dollars each year in print
ing and distributing infidel literature.
Tae Bible was suppressed. God was
denied. What was the result? Hell
broke loose. Half the children born
in Faris were illegitimate, to say
no'.iting of other frightful facts in
France's history.
In classic Athens, when . Demon
tl idles was pronouncing his eloquent
(.rations, you could buy a man for $30;
lit 11 the price of an ordinary horse.
Plato was exposed for sale in the
slave market. Aesop, whose fables
you read and study, was a slave. In
Rome, when Christianity dawned upon
earth, a slave was worth about $90.
That was the price that Rome, with
all her wealth and her civilization, put
upon a man. You can not buy a man
in Rome for that" price now, and the
change in this custom is not due to
the advance in her so-called civiliziM
tion.
Fifty years ago an ordinary man
brought seven dollars in the Fiji mar
kets Today you can not buy a man
there for seven million dollars. Why
not? A thousand Christian churches
tell why not. -
A story is told of an old Fijian chief
and an English earl an lnfldejj who
visited the Fiji Islatids. The English
man said to the chief: "You are a
great chief, and it is really a pity
that you have been so foolish as to
listen to the missionaries, who only
want to get rich among you. No one
nowadays would believe any more in
that old book which is called the Bi
ble; neither do men listen to that
story about Jesus Christ; people know
better now, and I am sorry for you
that you are so foolish." When he
said that, the old chief's eyes flashed
as he answered: "Do you see that
great stone over there? On that stone
we smashed the heads of our victims
to death. Do you see that native oven
over yonder? In that oven we roasted
the human bodies for our feasts. If
it. had not been fcr these good mis
sionaries, for that old book, and the
great love of Jesus Christ, which has
changed us from savages into God's
children, you would never leave this
pot! You have to thank God for
the Gospel, as otherwise you would
be killed and roasted in yonder oven,
and we would feast on your body." "
Every one knows that where this
book has influence it makes things
safe. Why is this? If it were a bad
book, we should expect to find it in
the hands of the worst men. In New
York there is a "rouges' museum"
a place where they have all kinds of
skeleton keys, jimmies, brass knuck
les, dirks, pistols, and implements of
mischief, which they have taken away
from roughs and criminals. Do you
suppose there is a single New Testa
ment in the whole kit? If it were
a bad book you would expect a rouge
to have a revolver in.one pocket, and
a New Testament tucked away in an
other. There was a row the other
uight, and a man broke his wife's
head with a Bible? No. It was a
bottle! Rev. Charles Stelzle.
The Oldest Music House
That Deals
cansell you on easy terms of
payments anjd at the lowest margin
of profit.
WeLsell Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise, as
Violins, Omitars, Mandolins.
Strings for all instruments,
If you anticipate buying an Instrument, be sure
and see us before you buy.
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
Capital auxiliary will meet Friday,
November 16, with Mrs. Wells Comp
ton, 1316 T street, 2:30 sharp.
Mis. E. A. King and daughter are
home again after a visit of several
weeks with relatives- and friends in
Missouri.
The meeting of November 2, held
with Mrs. Abe Compton and Mrs.
Morris Crissman, was reasonably
well attended, and a great deal of
business was attended to, amongst
other things it was decided that No.
11 have charge of the oyster room
at the labor fair. We will serve every
afternoon and hope the union men
and women will not forget our corner.
The ladies will also hold a bazaar dur
ing the fair. They are hard at work
making such things as every house
wife needs. It will be a good place
to buy Christmas gifts.
The committee in charge of the soc
ial for November has selected Tues
day evening, the 20th, as the date for
the box social to be held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Walthan, 1744 .1 street.
The ladies are preparing to haye a
irae irre
Miui5c Co
The Prescott Music
138-142 South lath St,, LINCOLN, NEB.
real good time on that evening, and
the boys are expected to arrange to
come. Further particulars will be
given next week.
Members are requested to bring
their thimbles and needles to the
next meeting, as there is still plenty
of sewing to be done for the bazaar.
PRESSMAN MARRIED.
T. Bridges, foreman of the Woodruff-Collins
press room, and Miss Bar
ras of this city, were married at the
home of the bride's parents on Wed
nesday, October 31. Mr. and Mrs.
Bridges went to Oskaloosa, la., for
a few days' visit with relatives and
friends, returning on November 7.
PIANOS MADE BY UNION MEN.
Union men take notice:
The Prescott Music company handle
two makes of pianos made by union
men exclusively and have the union
labor label on . every piano. Union
men know what this means and will
want to buy only such instruments.
These pianos are The Bush & Gertz,
made in Chicago, and The Hazelton
scott
in the tate, and
Upon Honor
The only Music House in
Lincoln that sells
2 Pianos mado by Union
Labor, with tho Union
Label on Every Piano
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These Pianos are the
ElozQlton Bros.
and the
Bush 3
Union Men want Pianns
' Made by Union Men
7'
r,
Bros., made in New York. The Pres
cott Music company's place of busi
ness is 138-142 South Twelfth street,
Lincoln. "
- One of the principal features of
next week's program at the Bijou will
be Mr. and Mrs. Danny Mann, who
will present a beautiful one-act rural
comedy entitled "Mandy Hawkins."
DEATH OF J. N. GAFFIN.
Ex-Speaker and Populist Leader
Passes Away.
J. N. Gaffin of Valley died November
3 at the Fremont, Neb., hospital, from
paralysis. He was fifty-one years of
age. Mr. Gaffin in 1893 and 1897 was
speaker of the house, -being a repre
sentative from Saunders county. He
was deputy oil inspector under the
fusion administration. The body was
taken to his former home at Colon
for interment, the funeral being held
there November 5.
Mr. Gaffin was one of the promin
ent figures in the history of the pop
ulist party. He was a member of the
house of representatives in the ses
sions of 1891, when S. MT. Elder was
speaker; and in 1893, ; when he was
made speaker himself, also in 1897,
a House
orts
Co
when he was again speaker. He pre
sided during some stormy scenes, the
Hmost sensational being those that oc
curred during the recount of the bal
lots; cast on the constitutional amend
ment relating to the supreme court.
Mr. Gaffln was a diplomatic man,
yet a thorough partisan and his combi
nation of the two characteristics made
him a popular leader.
He had been in ill health for a num
ber of years previous to his death.
Death of Mrs. E. W. Nye.
- Mrs. Edgar W. Nye, widow of the
late "Bill" Nye, the famous humorist,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
E. W. Pharr, at Avoca plantation, near
Morgan City, La. Mrs. Nye was fifty-
six years of age, and was formerly a
resident of North Carolina. Her body''
will be interred at New Iberia.
Missionaries report a most severe
famine in the northern part of Kiang
su province, central China. It is esti
mated that ten million people face
starvation. Local magistrates are pre
venting people from leaving the reg
ion, but are taking no steps to pro
vide them with food supplies. Serious
disorders are feared.
The average woman has a pretty
good opinion of her own figure.
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