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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
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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
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