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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1907)
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Mats. 2:30 Tues.. Thurs., Sal. all Seats 15c GREEN GABLES The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska T For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. RED SEALm SHIRTS Here's One of a Hundred Varieties! T T T California, all wool, 5 oz. Blue Flannel liberally cut interlined collar, cuffs, plait neckband and yoke lined with heavy sateen good quality pearl buttons hand made silk stays at corners of pocket double rows of ex quisite stitching better designed, more thoroughly constructed, cleaner finished than any similar shirt made. Vnlon Label Red Seat and Unicorn shirts for all kinds of Service. Sold in Lincoln by Speier & Simon i Subscribe Now, $ 1 Labor. Toll swings the ax, and forests bow. The seeds break out in radiant bloom. Rich harvests smile beneath the plow, And cities cluster round the loom; Where towering domes and tapering spires Adorn the vale and crown the hill. Stout Labor lights its beacon fires And plumes with smoke the forge and mill. Jamestown, N. Y. The outside sheet metal workers have organized a union. Toronto, Canada. Union men assert that plumbers are being-brought from England to take the place of the strikers. New York. As a result of the long shoremen's strike the exports from this port dropped $6,944,980 in one week. Harrisburg, 111. In this city there are eight mills using the union label of the Flour and Cereal Mill Workers' union. Fargo, N. D. A recent ruling makes unions of this city eligible to mem bership in the Minnesota State Fed eration. Ottawa, Canada. Repeated warn ings are being sent to England, stat ing that the labor market is over stocked. Omaha, Neb. All the road roller en gineers are now in the hoisting and portable engineers' union by an inter national decision. Chicago. Eight hundred union bar bers have been granted a new sched ule of wages and working conditions by their employers. Chicago. A new organization of ve hicle painters has been organized. It is known as the Chicago Carriage, Wagon and Auto Painters' union. Denver, Col. The Western Federa tion of Miners, by a vote of 345 to 25, adopted a resolution prohibiting local unions from making contracts with operators. Chicago. The Provision Trades' council, of this city and vicinity, rep resents more than 15,000 individuals employed producing or handling pro visions. Melbourne. The premier of South Australia has received an offer from influential Jewish sources in Great Britain to settle 50,000 Russian Jews in the northern territory. x Milwaukee. Union molders have appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals against the decree issued by Judge Sanborn of the United States district court, preventing pick eting. Detroit, Mich. As 'a climax to the numerous acts of violence which have resulted from the strike which has been in progress for the last month of a thousand molders, machinists and metal polishers in 14 manufactories of the city a blanket injunction was is sued by Circuit Judges Hosmer, Man- dell and Brooke restraining the Metal Polishers' union and 200 specified Indi viduals from interfering with workers at any of the plants. Berlin. Among the large labor unions in Germany are the clothing industry, with 242,000 workers; re ceiving 80 cents a day; the Saxon tex tile industry with 225,000 workers, averaging 75 cents; North German Textile union, with 124,000 workers, wages 65 cents; South German Tex tile union, with 124,000 workers, wages 55 cents, and the tobacco in dustry, with 153,000, wages 40 cents. The lowest rate of all is paid to the textile union of Silesia, 42 cents. Pittsburg, Pa. Locals of the Broth erhood of Painters, Decorators and Pa perhangers of America have been no tified that the general vote of that body defeats the proposition to elect the national officers at the annual con vention instead of by referendum. The members of the- organization in this city and vicinity voted almost unanimously in favor of the proposi tion. New York. The International As sociation of Printing Pressmen at its convention at Brighton Beach repudi ated by a vote of 102 to 93 a five years' agreement with the United Typothetae of America. The agree ment, which had been entered into January 16 last, affects 19,000 press men in book and job offices throughout the United States. The United Typothetae of America will be asked to consent to amendments striking out the open shop clause and provid ing for an eigtit-hour day. Should these amendments be rejected, a ref erendum on the question of a general eight-hour day will be taken. Should the referendum be in favor of an eight hour day a general strike .is likely to result. Minneapolis. The labor unions are to conduct a crusade against all con cerns which do a Sunday business in this city. This is against all concerns where labor is employed seven days in the week. Omaha, Neb. Plumbers have re turned to work in the closed shop and at an increase of 50 cents a day in wages. The plumbers won by the un divided support of organized labor. There was no arbitration agreement to the settlement, the master plumb ers agreeing to the demands of the union, and the victory was a complete one. Boston. The union painters have accepted the proposition offered by the master painters for a minimum scale of 39 cents an hour and 42 cents an hour for decorators. Davenport, la. Songs of labor and of freedom were sung in the huge coli seum here by the chorus of 1,200 voices assembled for the working man's saengerfest of the northwest. London. Since the workmen's com pensation act came into force in Great Britain, the membfs of the Dockers' union have received by way of legal awards for accidents $185,-371.26. Trenton, N. J. The agitation against child labor is showing its effect in this state. According to the annual report recently issued by the state commissioner of labor the. per centage of children under the legal age employed in New Jersey factories is less than it has been for many years. New York. The National Women's Trade Union league, the promoters of which claim to have over 100,000 workers enrolled in membership, held a convention in this city recently and elected officers. The' delegate's also mapped out work for the coming year and formulated plans for a na tional convention. Indianapolis, Ind. The Typograph ical union suppresses all extremism. Forty-seven thousand men working to gether for the good of their craft, and working under shrewd leadership and keeping always within the law, and never striking save upon duly deliber ated just cause, is an impressive spec tacle. It .should and doubtless does impress the employing classes. It should more impress labor itself. If all labor had the wisdom, the restraint, the provident and prudent organiza tion of the printers all labor would get a fairer proportion of the profit upon the cooperation of labor and cap ital. SAMUEL J. SMALL, HEAD OF TEL EGRAPHERS' UNION. Samuel J. Small, head of the Com mercial Telegraphers' Union of Amer ica, is an operator- who has worked all over the country. He is especially well known on the Pacific coast, and was employed by the Associated Press at Seattle for eight years. Mr. Small is married and makes his home in Chicago. About three years ago he was elected president of the union which he helped to organize. Washington. Growing by leaps and bounds the American Federation of Labor is soon to receive another acces sion of strength unless all signs fail. The Bricklayers' and Masons' Interna tional union, one of the largest and most powerful bodies of organized la bor organized in the country, will vote on the question of affiliation, and judg ing from the sentiment of local mem bers the proposition will carry. Pittsburg, Pa. Wages will not be advanced in the sheet and tin mills of the country this year and no strike will follow the refusal of the manufac turers to concede an increase of six to 16 per cent, demanded at the an nual convention of the Amalgamated association at Toledo last month. After discussing the demands thor oughly. President C. W. Bray, of the company, informed the workers' com mittee that the condition 'of the tin market would not justify an advance and that if they insisted upon it the plants would close or be operated by nonunion men. The decision affects all the sheet and tin workers in the country about 15,000 men as the other manufacturers accept the set tlement made at this conference. San Francisco. When it comes to works of charity the union painters are in the front rank. Sixty-two of them worked gratis on the building of the Little Sisters of the Poor in this city. The job was completed. Chicago. Railway clerks, who are affiliated with the Freight Handlers' union, have made a move to get a wage increase of 15 per cent. They have been holding conferences with the various freight agents and expect they will get an adv.ince without much trouble. There are between 1,500 and 2,000 clerks organized and their wages average about $65 a month. wcerwiTER ummumb tHECULATIKG VALVE gyfaZ&ui ""mtli? The water heater is . a most important thing at any season of the fyear. - You can use our Gas Wa ter Heater independently, and - have hot water in stantaneously, or you can attach it to a tank and heat a supply sufficient for a week's washing. You can heat 8 Gallons for I Gent which means a bath for about 4 cents. Besides, you don't have to wait for the water to get . hot- It is on Deck in Thirty Seconds. If you have not a Gas Range you . need one for the hot days. The kitch en is almost the living room to many a house' wife, and if she can elim inate two hours of time, the labor of carrying coal, building fires, carrying ashes and cleaning up the litter, it goes far to make life worth living- TRY IT. ' Call Day or Evening, Phone Bell 75 ' or Auto 2575 Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Company. Bl uwoNjUsmfp radorygq Reciprocity! Buy Union Stamp Shoes The Best Made Boy shoes mad with the Union Stamp. A Knar ante ot good wage oondltlana and well treated ahoe worker. No higher ia cost than ahoea with out the Union (tamp, INSIST upon having; Union Stamp ahoea. H your dealer cannot supply you, write , BOOT AND SHO WORKERS' UNION 44 SUMMER STREET BOSTON, MASS, Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. ?FHOSaFoFOS TTninn-mnriA flio-nrs. umati(llillllU ' m-.i-ni muttt utu Jw tyt mum . ' CMIU.f. etAirr It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . aoo oeoe The Lincoln Wallpaper & Paint Co. , A Strictly Union Shop '2SB8 Modern Decorators, Wall Paper, Mouldings, Etc. KC.K Auto Phone 1975 Single-Comb White Leghorns My hens lay as high aa 800 eggs a year. I have a few fine cockrells ' left. They are beauties. EGGS SI, $2 and S3, SETTING OF 15. Won more first prizes at Nebraska State Poultry Show last February than all competitors combined. Also at Omaha, winning two sweep stakes and a loving cup for best display. Eggs are union laid, and sold by a man who behoves in trades unionism. Phone f 92Qo. Send for Catalogue. H. H. 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