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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1907)
V GENERAL MENTION. Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln and Elsewhere. Demand the label. The union label that's all. Look for the union label. If it is not labeled, refuse it. Union made shoes are sold by Rog ers & Perkins. Retail clerks of Illinois have organ ized a state association. Molders are on strike in several foundries a't Dayton, Ohio. All of the sign shops in Kalamazoo re: union. That's a good "sign.1' The electrical workers have been granted all their demands in Dallas, Texas. Plumbers are still on strike in Ster ling and Rock Falls, 111., for a raise of 5 cents an hour. Machinists, on the N. Y., N. H. & H. railroad have secured an increase of 2V4 cents an hour. "Blue Ribbon" cigars are union made, Lincoln made and well made Sold by all dealers. The pay of the laborers of the city of Boston will be increased from S2 to $2.25 on July 1. Boston Journeymen Barbers' Union is now the second largest union in the country, having over 600 members. Carpenters, steamfitters, painters, plumbers, broommakers and metal pol ishers report trade good in Indianapo lis. The steel trust, bad as it is, has made a voluntary increase in the wages of the railroad men in its' em ploy at Jolie't. Patternmakers' League of North America spent $9,300 in organization work In the eastern coast states last year, and since that tline new mem bers of the union have received $200, IO0 in wages as a direct result of that wori. compromise was reached between the Evansville, Ind., street railway company and the employes. The wages hereafter tfill be from 17 to 19 cents jer hour and time and one-half for all over eleven hours per day. Working women in the, fruit fields of California will henceforward work only eight hours a day instead of working from sunrise to sunset, as Ihey have hitherto done., A law to (hat effect was passed by the senate of the Golden State. . - " The Metal Polishers, Platers and Buffers scale has been signed by the Toledo Stove and Range company, and carries with it an increased wage scale. - The painters' union of Philadelphia is winning a signal victory in its strug gle for a closed shop. Members of the Master Painters' Association are individually signing the agreement. The strike of the clgarmakers in Saginaw is still on. Two more shops have signed the scale Willis Keek's and John Hoerner's. Molders settled the scale controversy at Sheboygan in the three shops in volved. The men get a minimum of $2.50 per day and a 25-cent raise all around. The building industry of Berlin and vicinity is seriously affected by the lockout of 120,000 bricklayers and ma sons which recently went into effect. ' The cause, of 'the lockout Is the men's demand for an eight-hour day. The men, it Is Bald, have funds amounting to three-quarters of a million dollars and are well prepared for a long fight. Practically all of the New England mills of the International Paper com pany are now operating under an eight-hour basis. The latest to receive the concession are the employes of the company's mills at Berlin, N. H., where the new time schedule will go Into effect July 1. Farm help Is so scarce through the agricultural sections of Connecticut that farmers are uniting to pay the expenses of advertising for and bring ing to some central point men and women from the -seaports where 1m migrants are obtainable. It Is estimated that 60,000 laborers will be needed during this season in different sections of Canada in con structing new railroads. New steam 000000000$000 Roaches, Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, Ear Wigs, Ants ana all the other household insects and vermin easily and sure ly destroyed . . . Z Instantaneous Bed Bug Killer 25e Roach Food 25c Ant Food 25c Ratmouse 15c Liquid Discovery. 25c doctor's Pharmacy 00000030000062 ers 1 are going into commission, and all available ones will be chartered for the new immigrants that are now booked in Great Britain for the Dominion. Employing lithographers have de clined the overtures made by the Na tional Civic Federation to arrange a mee'ting with President Samuel Gom- pers of the American Federation of abor in reference to settling the dif ferences with the striking lithographers. The workingmen of Manitoba are forming a labor party. They hope 'to be able to form a coalition of all factions and go into the coming cam paign with the expectation of accom plishing some practical results. The Western Federation of Miners, hich has been brought into great prominence by the Haywood trial at Boise, held its first convention on May 15, 1893, in Butte, Mont., with forty-two delegates present from fif teen local unions. To prevent a further increase in the cost of houses in San Francisco, ten ants have been quietly organizing a union to combat the demands of the landlords. The new organization will have many trades unionists among its members. In the near future more attention is to be given southern states by the American Federation of Labor, which Is planning to build up a stronger la bor movement in that section of the country. Women compositors of Christiana and Bergen, Norway, are to be paid the some wages as men, after five ears' apprenticeship and the passing of a test as to being, fully qualified.. It is the intention of the Interna tional Photo-Engravers' union to es tablish a fund to aid consumptive members. This is in keeping with the policy outlined at the Pittsburg con vention of the American Federation of Labor, but the photo-engravers are the first to take active steps in the matter. An estimate furnished by a statis tician gives the number of men killed in the dally pursuit of their callings, largely skilled and unskilled laborers, The A. B. C. Elevator company, of New ork, has signed the new In creased wage agreement of Boston Elevator Constructors' Union. The scale calls for an ncrease of wages to $3.90 a day Immediately, and a fur ther increase of 10 cents on May 1, 1909. The journeymen scale up to May 1 of this year was $3.60 a day. The helpers also get . a corresponding increase. The agreement is for three ears. E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, declares that there was no foundation for the report that the plant of the Illinois Steel company is to be removed from South Chicago to Gary, Ind., or that the South Chicago plant is to be abandoned. Union men refused to work with non-unionists structural ironworkers who were employed by the American Bridge company in erecting a building in Kansas City, Mo. The man who was having the building erected set tled the matter in short order when he said that he didn't want any non- unionists to do his work. PULVERIZING POST. 'Bread Crumb" Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., says the Garment Wot-k- ers' Bulletin, who for a time succeeded in inducing the people to buy his cof fee, which is made of bread crumbs, is going backward. His business has fallen off one-third within the last six months. This is due partly to the boycott placed upon him by organized labor because of his leadership in the Citizens' Industrial association, and his crazy advertisements in the daily newspapers and partly through the boycott laid on him by the bour geoise for his divorcing his wife and marrying his stenographer. LUMBERMEN CRY FOR HELP. Emit by Brock Boosted by Buyers Plain Talk About the Matter of Union Made Clothes This is a statement of facts: No better line of Union Made Clothing' can be found than the line we carry. There are few as good. , We brought from Brock of Buffalo, and only after we had scoured the market for the best. When we found Brock we quit looking. " Eureka! " we cried. That means, "We have found it." Only good words can be said of this line of Union Made Clothing. We have Suits from $10 to $25, and every Suit well worth the money. You pay for the Suit, not the label. The label is thrown in to guarantee the wearer against poorly paid workman, poor ly made goods, unsanitary working condi tions and long hours of labor. We are proud when we sell a Union Man Union Made Clothing from Brock's big establish ment. Nobbiest line of spring and sum mer stuff you ever saw. CiotMini Good Mhos Merchants ilies the members of our association, cutting more than 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber a year, will pay better wages than are offered In any other part of the United States and Canada for sim ilar work. There has never been a time when labor was so scarce as it is this summer, and unless we can get men some of the mills will have to close." BIG BIRMINGHAM STRIKE. Must Have More Men or Shut Down Their Mills Spokane, Wash., June 5 Twenty thousand men are needed by the lum ber mills operating in eastern Wash ington and Oregon, northern Idaho and British Columbia. The situation has become so acute that unless men can be secured at once some of the mills will be forced to close, sending their laborers Into the woods. The West ern Pine Shippers' association had delegated James P. McGoldrick Lum ber company; E. F. Cartier Van Dis- sel, manager of the Phoenix Lumber company, and John C. Barline, treas urer of the Washington Mill company, to devise ways of securing men for this summer's work, and agents will be sent out to engage men. W. C Ullford, president of the association, gave out this statement: "It will require 60,000 men to keep 20,000 men at work, and we will give steady employment at good wages to every man we can find. We want skilled labor and men of capability and stability, who will not quit their Jobs every few days. To men with, fam- Move In Sympathy With .Locked-out Street Railway Men. Birmingham, Ala., June 1 In ac cordance with ' resolutions adopted at a mass meeting held by labor union members Wednesday night, J. E. Ja cobs, president . of the Birmingham trades council, today issued a call or dering a general strike of all unions in the Birmingham district to start Monday at noon, out of sympathy to the locked-out street railway men. . President Robert Jemison of the Birmingham Railway, Light & Power company, declined to recognize the union among the street railway's em ployes, and discharged a number who joined the union. Efforts made to get him to change hia position by the mayor and board or trade were oi no avail. There are no less than 15,000 union men in the district. Several unions have already announced that national organizations must first say whether a sympathetic strike can be conducted. shop.' It is being prosecuted without regard to expense, and some of the best brains in the service of the cor porations are directing the fight. The rather attractive battle cry is 'Labor must be free." We are told that it is a protest against the tyranny of the unions. "The open shop plan means the in troduction into- our - population of a poorly fed, poorly paid, ignorant, an archistic element. It means the em ployment in the mines of thousands of thousands of men whose only weapons against oppression are the shotgun and the bomb. It means the reduction of wages and the degradation of labor. It means overtaxing the wonderful power of assimilation which this coun try has. Gentlemen, I am against the 'open shop,' and I am for the labor unions, because it seems to -me, as an American citizen, that the labor unions are true, progressive organizations." LYRIC THEATRE TEN WEEK'S ENGAGEMENT OF THE MARTIN STOCK CO. Box Office Open at 10 a. m. Every Day Evening Prices, 8:30 15c, 25c. Mats. 2:30 Tues., Thurs., Sat. all Seats 15c ',. AT THE LYRIC. OPEN SHOP EXPLAINED. Prominent New York Attorney Tells What Results Will Follow. The Hon. Bird S. Coler, of New York, in a recent address at Yale Uni versity, had this much to say on the open shop : "There is an organized effort just now to break up all labor unions. The corporations have entered into an al liance to prevent their extension and destroy their influence. " The campaign is on for what is known as the '-open Martin Stock Company Making a Hit With the Public. Manager Millers experiment with a stock company at the Lyric seems to be a big winner.Judging by the large audiences and the favorable comment heard on all sides. The Martin Stock Company is presenting the bes't ob tainable dramas in a way that brings forth enconiums from all who attend. The company is strong and well bal anced, and the. pretty little play house is always filled. Mr. Morrison, the new leading man with the company, has already estab lished himself in the favor of the Lyrics patrons, and the other mem bers of the company are making new friends every day. The moving pic tures between acts is a restful diver sion during the waits. GOOD GOODS The proper time to buy summer clothing is now. By so doing you have five months of solid wear. We Can Fix You Out at any price, if you do not care to go too high. A local of the Boot and Shoe Work ers' Union was recently organized at Lynchburg, ;Va., and. almost immedi ately the' men secured an increase' of 20 per cent. ' . Lincoln Clothing Co. Tenth and P Streets GREEN GABLES The Dr. Benj. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska '-. T For non-contagious chronic diseases. - Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished.
