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GENERAL MENTION.
Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere,.
Demand the label.
The union label that's all.
1.00k for the union label.
If It Is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoed are sold by Rog
ers & Perkins.
Pretty near time to begin planning
for Labor Day.
Central Labor Union meets next
Tuesday evening.
The Commoner force will hold its
annual picnic on May 25.
Twelve hundred boilermakers arj
on strike in Boston for higher wages
Members of Stone Planer Men's Un
ion in Chicago now receive 47 V6 cents
an hour.
"Bltfe Ribbon" clgara are union
made, Lincoln made and well made.
Sold by all dealers.
New boot and shoe workers' unions
have been organibed In London, Ont.,
'ni4 Vnahii5 V H. '
. Woodworkers obtained an increase
from $1.20 to $1.30 a week in the
factories In Grand Rapids.
Car workers, machinists, clerks,
clgarmakers,' boilermakers and bar
bers nave organized in lonia.
Some radical changes and improve
ments have, been made by Manage1
Quick of the Royal hotel bar.
Plumbers in Lewiston, Idaho, have
een granted an Increase in wages ir
(A cents a day, making a rate of $5.
The theatrical workers have organ
ised a union in Streator, 111. It starts
off with some forty charter members.
At a recent meeting of the Indian
apolis Bookbinders' Union, No. 103, fe
male bindery workers were admitted.
Striking Salt Lake City street rail
way men won practically every con
tention after being out forty-eight
hours.
The retail clerks of St. Louis have
made a request for a 6 o'clock closing
hour on Saturday during July and Au
gust. Street railway men are again talk
ing of organizing. Somebody must
nave been squirting starch up a lot of
spines.
Lamplighters in five boroughs of
Greater New York struck for higher
wage on May 1 and recognition of their
union.
William C. Gilbert, a union clerk in
a shoe store, was elected mayor of
Danbury, Conn., on a union labor
ticket.
The Freie Presse's new Merg
anthaler arrived 'last Monday, and on
Wednesday it was set up and is now
running smoothly.
' Schenectady, N. Y., labor unions
have organized a "Labor Temple Asso
ciation," elected trustees and filed ar
ticles of Incorporation.
Union men in Rockford, 111., got to
gether and elected a union labor may-,
r last week. They also elected three
members of the council.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, was operated on for
strangulated hernia at his home in
Spring Valley, III., on May 1. .
Some 300 telegraphers on the 'Cin
cinnati, Hamilton & Day ton railway
have received an Increase in salary
ranging from 5 to 20 per cent.
' Cincinnati Electrotype company has
none out of business, and the two
new union foundries are rushed with
ork. Beware of the buzz saw.
In Grand Rapids the street car men
received a raise In wages without
seeking for it. This Is one of the
good results of the strike on the M.
U. R.
By granting their 3,000 employes a
wage advance averaging 8 per cent
the big brick companies of Chicago
prevented a tie-up of the yards re
cently. Tho Wageworker has it on the au
thority of the chairman and secretary
of the democratic committee of the
city of Lincoln that the Benton non
union printery represented Itself to
the committee as being a union office,
and on the strength of this secured a
job .of printing letterheads and envel
BRIGHTEN
UP THE
HOME
It is cheering to know how easily
and cheaply old things may be
P made to look like new with our
j STAINS,
POLISHES,
ENAMELS. J
W have the Ageaejr for
JapalaC
RECTOR'S
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opes. The Benton printery is unfair.
The Marine Firemen, Oilers and
Water Tenders' Union of the Great
Lakes is now a duly charted local oi
the InternationMl Seamen's Union of
America.
The Erectors' Association, which
employs only non-union iron work-its,
met in Chicago and decided to reduce
the wages of '"their independents" 10
per cent.
Charleston, W. Va carpenters stuck
on May 1 for the eight hour day, and
contractors employing 80 per cent of
the men signed up in less than twenty
four hours.
The Standard Railway Equipment
company of East St. Louis have locked
out the machinists because they asked
or the same rate of pay in effect in
all other shorjs.
A lot of Lincoln mechanics are
yearning for some capitalist to build
a lot of neat five and six room cot
tages that will rent for from $15 to
to $18 a month.
The Illinois legislature passed, the
Canaday bill raising the maximum
amount of damages recoverable for
death by accident in coal mines from
$5,000 to $10,000.
Col. Joseph Shively, deputy com
missioner of public lands and build
ings, sends $2 to The Wageworker and
says, "Shove my subscription ahead as
far as you can with this."
Tho pressmen got into the Labor
Temple game this week. Practically
every union pressman in the city has
pledged a day's work. There is room
for every other union man in the city.
Common laborers in the Armour
packing house at South Omaha struck
for higher wages last Monday. Their
demands were granted after a day's
Idleness. They now draw 19 cents an
hour.
A contract for five years har; been
signed between the Chattanooga,
Tenn., Typographical Union and the
newspapers. With one exception the
eight-hour day was, agreed to by the
job offices.
The strike of the metal polishers
employed by William Hall & Co., of
Wollaston, Mass., because of the re
fusal to grant a minimum' wage of
$3 has been settled to the satisfaction
( f the union.
The Bartenders' International Un
ion issued charters to six new locals
in January, including Schenectady, L03
Angeles Union has 260 members, and
the average wage scale is $2 a weel-r.
with a ten-hour day.
Unless unexpected developments oc
cur more than 30,000 cotton mill op
eratives inFall River, Mass., will have
their wages increased about 10 per
cent on May 2", when the working
agreement in force expires.
San Francisco is again in the throes
of a labor war. Workingmen out there
actually seem to think that they are
entitled to some share of the wonder
ful prosperity now being enjoyed along
the Pacific coast.
Six sterotypers in the Minneapolis
Tribune office walked out because one
of their number was ordered to work
In the press room. The matter was
soon settled, and the sterotypers will
not do press work.
The master and journeymen barbers
of Duluth, Minn., have agreed upon
a wage scale of $16 and up to $26 aud
In excess one-half. The arrangement
places in the union ranks every barber
shop in that city with one exception.
' The display of penitentiary-made
brooms was taken from the Rudge &
Guenzel show window on Eleventh '
street two days after The Wageworker
called attention to It. The Wage
worker is a great advertising medium.
After many unsuccessful attempts
which have been made within the last
seventeen years the roll turners ol
the Pittsburg district have organized
and applied for a charter from the
International Association of Machin
ists. At Detroit, Mich., the engineers who
are employed in the different brewer
ies presented a schedule asking $30
per week for chief and $22 for sec
ond men. The employers offered as
a compromise $28 per week for chief
and $20 per week for second engin
eers, which was accepted. The new
agreements take effect May 1 and
run for two years.
COWARDS AND COWARDS.
There Are Two Kinds, Each Much
Worse Than the Other.
President Roosevelt's square deal
policy may occasionally wobble a
little, but the labor agitators and
trades uuions will have some difficulty
In convincing the public that he is a
coward. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
(rep.).
There are two kinds of cowards-
the moral coward and the physical
coward. To perpetrate an "Irish bull'
each of these cowards is worse than
the other .
No one ever thought of charging
Theodore Roosevelt with physical cow
ardice. Indeed, he may be termed a
foolishly brave man, physically. He is
brave to foolhardlness when it comes
to a matter of exposing himself to
physical dangers, whether it be on the
NEW BARGAINS FOB THIS WEEK,
Winter has retired from the lap of spring and summer is here. You'll need
that warm weather outfit before you know it. Better make the purchase this
toeek. We offer a fete specials that should be oeru attractive to uou.
14 pieces of Princess Cloth, same fabric as the Dannish cloth, only
has small polkadot of self color; 20c value; this week 15c
15 pieces new Waterproof Suitings in grey checks and plaids;, 25c
values . . 19c
Choice of any of our Worested Suitings and Plaids in choice gray
and tan mixtures; 50c values; this week . ..'.39o
20 pieces of Imported Mohair Suitings in plain colors; also small
check and stripes in colors on white ground; 50c values 39c
38-inch all wool Panama in all the popular shades; 65c value. .... .50c '
2 pieces of navy blue; 1 piece a 50-lnch granite, and 1 piece 52-inch .
etamlne, in all-wool; regular 90c and $1 cloths; to close out 65c
2 pieces of -new .gray and tan. Plaid Suiting; suitable for coats, suits
and skirts; 52 inches wide; $1.00 values. 85c
44-Inch Imported Silk Mohair, in all colors, including black and
cream white; $1.00 value........ , 79c
Go through our Shoe stock and
pick out Shoes to your liking. The
new ideas are here. Shoes for bus
iness, for street, for dress, for wet
weather or dry, for hot weather,
for vacation, for summer sports
Shoes for every purpose for which
Shoes are wanted.
Shoes and Oxfords for Men,
Women, Boys. Misses. Children
and Infants. Shoes for you! If we
were to name a string of Shoe
prices a yard long, what would it
prove to you unless 'ou matched
up the Shoes to theprices? Come
see our Shoes ghat's our slogan.
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range, on the hunting course, or on
the battlefield.
But . is Theodore Rooosevelt . as
brave morally as he is physically?
That is the real question involved in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's para
graph. It takes a brave man to admit
an error. It requires moral courage
to admit a mistake. And when Presi
dent Roosevelt made the mistake of
throwing the weight of his official in
fluence against Moyer and Haywood,
on trial for their lives and entitled to
a. "square deal," did he have the moral
courage 'o admit his mistake and the
moral courage to rectify it? Or did he
exhibit his physical bravery by "stand
ing pat?' '
It required physical courage to
charge up San Juan Hill, and Theodore
Roosevelt had it. It required moral
courage to admit the mistake of throw
ing the weight of his official influence
against Moyer and Haywood, and
Theodore Roosevelt did not measure
up to the occasion.
These are the plain facts, and the
Globe-Democrat can not deny them.
THE CARPENTERS
Have Amended Their Fair List, Which
Is Published Elsewhere.
The Carpenters and .Joiners have
amended their fair list, and the new
list appears elsewhere in this issue.
It .will be noted that one or two names
have been stricken from the list,
while several changes are made in
firm names. The list as It now ap
pears is correct up to date.
One contractor is under inyestiga
tion, it being charged that be has a
habit of taking contracts and then let
ting another do the . work with non
union men.
Special called meeting next Tues
day evening. ' -
The meeting last. Tuesday night was
well attended and several new mem
bers were added to the rolls. Work
continues good and the prospects for
a busy season were never better.
Racine, Wis., carpenters secured
their demands and the threatened
strike on May 1 did not bake place. -
Paterson, N. J., carpenters struck
on May 1 for a raise from $3.50 to $4
a day. A thousand men are out.
At Newark,' N. J., 1,300 carpenters
struck on May 1 for an increase of
2 cents an hour, making the mini
mum 50 cents.
At Denver on May 1 union millmen
and woodworkers went on strike to
enforce the closed shop. A sympa
thetic strike in the building trades is
threatened.
About a hundred Milwaukee car
penters are on strike for an increase
of 2Va cents an hour.
Two hundred carpenters at Wilm-
F Days of Great
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We cary an exclusive assortment
of Ladies' and . Mises' ready-to-wear
Skirts, in a variety of hand
some new styles, made of this sea
son's choicest materials, imported
or domestic all-wool woresteds and
mixtures; they show tBe distinction
of men tailoring, and perfect fit.
Compare our prices with whal
you ordinarily pay.
ington,- Del., are on strike for an in
crease from 40 to 45 cents An hour.
Philadelphia - dally newspapers,
speaking of the great May day labor
parade in that city, unanimously give
the carpenters credit for the largest
turnout and the . finest appearance
while on the march. .. ...
VERY MUCH "WAHOO.'
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Railway Brotherhood Officials Throw
"Bull Con" at, Members.
If the daily newspapers of Lii3oln
know what they are talking about and
tell the truth, three or four railroad
brotherhoods ought to get together and
gently but firmly whisper a few words
into the ears of some of the bro;:her
hood officials. According to the daily
paper G. W. Balton, chairman of the
brotherhood of locomotive engineers
of Ottuinwa, la.; B. Strickler. .: chair-i
man of the brotherhood of railway
trainmen of Illinois and M. C. Allen,
chairman of the brotherhood of . loco
motive firemen, were in Lincln last
rfnnday and addressed a joint meeting
of their brotherhoods at A. O. U. W.j
hall. According to the Journal these
eminent visitors
"urged railroad men to make an ef
fort to earn the increased pay granted
by the roads; to repay the company
for the effort it has made in behalf of
the men, and to do their duty in every
other way toward their employers."
"Wahoo!" Which is Injun ' for some
thing else.,
Make -an effort to earn the increased
pay!" Wouldn't that jar you? Are
Messrs. Balton,, Strickler and . Allen
representing the managers or are they
representing the v brotherhoods? If
they have been quoted correctly one
would imagine that their salaries were
paid by the railroad managers, and
that their duties consisted In seeing
to it that the railroads were held up
as model employers. :
"Make- an ' effort to earn the in
creased ' pay granted by the rail
roads!?, .-
O, "Bi S." Which is an abbrevia
tion for "butter scotch."
AVhy -are not these officers, who are
paid by 'the men in the overalls, vis
iting the railroad managers and urging
them to" ; pay the increased ' wage
earned by the men? , Would they
have the . men In the overalls believe
that railroads are elemosynary. insti
tutions and the railroad officials
philanthrophlsts who are in business
merely to give people a chance to earn
wages? It is right and plroper that
these brotherhood officials should urge
the members to "do their duty In
every way toward their employers."
That is what every honest emplye will
do. But the men were earning that
increased pay long before they got
Six Day Dress Goods Sale 1
This is the week to buy dress goods
and save on every yard. Below you
will find quoted a few of the many
prices: . V '
56-inch black and white shepherd check Suiting; 85c value; Hah "
wcek ............. 73c
20 Per Cent Discount on All Fancy Plaid Suitings.
Sale of Black Dress Goods r
45-inch Imported Wool Batiste; 90s" value ..... . .............. .70c
42-inch all-wool Prunella; $1.90 value; to close . ....... .75c
44-inch all-wool Roxana; $1.00 value; to close... 75c
40-inch Imported Voile; 85c value; at. ....... ......... ...... .68c
42-inch Imported Voile; $1.00 value; at. .....79c
42-inch Imported Voile. $1;10 value; at... .........;..'.... ,88c
42-inch Imported Voile; $1.25 value; at. ................ . . . . ;. v:.8c ';
44-inoh all-wool Taffeta; $1.25 value; at , . ....".,. .98cv
44tach Silk and Wool nrpoVted Begaline; $1.40 Value. ........ . . vj$as
42-inch Imported Wool Poplin; $1.50 value.......... il2o'
20 pieces of 27-inch Silk Batiste in Jacquard effects;, sel-eotored
cnecksami plaids; a very sheer
weeks
Skirts
Fine Voile, Chiffon, Panama and
Taffeta Silk; low priced at $13.50
and $12.50: 5-day soenial. .$10.95
Fine Voile, Chiffon, Panama; low
priced, at $9.00 u $y.So; o-aay
. special .$7.95
Have your choice of Voile and
Panama, $5.95, $6.50 Skirt3. for
5 days at. ..$4.95
Black Serge, full satin-lined, close
fitting; 5 day special $7.95
Wool Check Novelty - Box' Coats;
velvet-trimmed; 5 day spe
cial ... $4.95
the increase, and they are earning
more than they' get, or are likely to
get for a long time to come.
Said a member of one of the best
of the organized mechanical trades
when he read of Sunday's meeting:
"I don't know anything about the
railroad organizations, but I do know
union' care around and shot off J
that if one of the head officials of my
such rot as that at our meeting, he
would retire with his ears burning so
badly the fire department would ' be
called out. The railroad organizations
must be in a heavenly situation if the
members have to make a special ef
fort to earn the increased pay granted
by the employers. All otber laboring
men have to make a spedlal effort to
get some where near whal they earn."
The railroad managers certainly ars
under obligations to Messrs.' Balton,
Strickler and Allen. .
EXCEEDING HIS AUTHORITY.
Will This Be Known as Age of "The-
odore, the Meddler?.'
In a letter to Honore Jaxon, chair
man of the Cook County Moyer-Hay-wood
conference, the president at
tempts to explain his recent character-,
Ization of Debs, Moyer and Haywood
as "undesirable" citizens, at the same
time reiterating that they are such. To
the charge that his utterance was cal
culated to influence public opinion, he.
seeks to evade the issue by casting
the same charge back at labor in the
rerson of the Moyer-Haywood corifei
tnce itself. -
The reply is weals, and can not ob
scure the real issue. - ) '
Let us get down to the facts in the
case. We need not consider Debs.
The fact that he differs from the presl
ccnt politically is sufficient explana
tion, and Debs has a right to his op' 11
ion just as the president haa a rifc'u
to his. It is not merely that Moyer
and Haywood are on trial at Boise. A
great labor organization is on trial.
If Moyer and Haywood are found guil
ty, if it is shown that the Western
Federation of Miners did conspire to
assassinate a state governor who was
unfriendly to lahpr, then organized
labor will receive it bitterest blow, '..
But who is this man who under
takes to say out of his personal knowl
edge, unsupported by anything except
hearsay, that you are "undesirable"
citizens? What man is this who as
sumes the right to put his stamp of ap
proval upon you and deny it to us?
What the President says is naturally
of vast importance. He is our first cit
izen. We have chosen him as a model
and to perform certain functions in our
system of government, -
With the great forces of state at his
washable fabric; 50c value; this
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full satin-lined, close-flttlng;
5 day special. ........ s ... ...$4.95
XJrto, r, -. ,i IT 1 f 1 .
6 day special., ; . . . . . .$7.9S q
Vnii are Wlrom O
To -look over our complete line of
Jap Silk Waists, Brussels Net
Waists, and White . and Colored
Lawn Waists. The quality, the
style, the fit and the exceedingly
low prices will meet with! yoxir ap
proval; prices ranging from $6.95
way down to 39c each. "
917-921 0 STREET
Lincoln, Neb.
command, his words are official and
have unmeasured influence upon all
classes of eitizens. It it reasonable to
suppose that , what President
Roosevelt has said of Moyer and Hay
wood has sunk- in to the public mind
and will remain among many people
as a . lasting conviction of these ac
cused men. What a frightful risk the
President has taken. '- i
Even now it does not occur to hint
that by his casual remark, he may
have planted a seed of prejudice In the
mind of one or all of the 12 -men who
will sit in final,, judgement of Moyer
ana uaywooa at tsoise. air. KooseveiE
aoes not seem to realize tnat ne may
be the instrument of false judgemen
in this vital issue.
The President has exceeded his au
thority. The American people, under
their constitution and their system of
law, maintain ' their right -to submit
this matter to unprejudiced men, un
influenced men, men who will hot 'be
swayed or biased according to private
belief, or political, influence, religious
scruple, who will,, in a word, find ac
cording to fact and. justice. J:
As for the Moyer-Haywood -conference,
what if it does seek to Influence
public opinion? . It is .organized, for
that purpose. : But the- President is
for the whole people. He has neither
legal nor moral right to declare In ad
vance of the courts as to anything, nor
to say . words calculated to influence
the courts, because we have a great
system of justice, the accumulated jus
tice of ages, whose function It is alone
to separate between' "desirable" and
'"undesirable" citizens. . -
Today we say to the President: kTou
have made a mistake. You have ex
ceeded the authority, for which we elec
ted you. It is doubtless true that by
taking an active part in every phase of
the national life, whether It concerns
you or not, you are adding a little
personal popularity here and there.
But history will not concern itself with
popularity. Consider the whole people
Mr. President, and use a little wise
restraint, , so that, as men designate
ages, this age may not be known as
that of Theodore the Meddler.-Buf-f
alo Progress.
BLACKSMITHS ORGANIZE.
The Blacksmiths and Helpers ' in
railroad employ in this vicinity nave
organized and secured a. charter from
the international. The organization
was perfected two weeks, ago, and at
the meeting last . Saturday night
twelve or fifteen additional names
were added to the roll. The new
union starts off with every prospect of
success, and The Wageworker con
gratulates the members upon .their
goocl sense in getting together.
