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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1907)
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Thurs., Sal. all Seats 15c The Dr. Ben J. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, moat beautifully furnished. RED SEAL m SHIRTS Here's One of a Hundred Varieties! Q O AH soft attached collars and cuffs interlined, (can be k7k7 laundered stiff if desired). French finished Blue Cham bray fine enough for dress, strong enough for work. Roomy in cut beautifully made with double stitching washes per fectly, an exceedingly handsome, serviceable and comfortable shirt at a popular price. Mad to fit all Hap-C?non LafrtMlluetrataxl booKlts. Sold in Lincoln by Speier & Simon Subscribe Now, $1 EHSKSSmtKi 1 Jill WOlfflP T Boston. All danger of a strike ol the hatters fs over. Philadelphia. The United Mine Workers organized 38 new local unions In June. Stockton, Cal. Wages of carpenters were increased 50 per cent, recently. The scale Is now $4.50 a day. San Francisco. Announcement has been made that all Italian barber shops in the city have been unionized. New York. Drug clerks throughout the Atlantic states are forming unions and joining the retail clerks' interna tional union. Des Moines, la. The proposition to establish an old age home for miners was defeated by the Iowa mine work ers on a referendum vote. Glasgow. The Scottish Cooperative society was organized in 1868 with a capital of less than $9,000. Now it has a capital of more than $1,500,000. London, England. There is consid erable unrest In Lancashire by rea son of the demand of the cotton spin ners for an advance of five per cent. Toronto, 1 Canada. The structural iron workers have been granted an increase in wages of 2V4 cents per hour and a threatened serious strike averted. Bath, Me. John G. Longley, of this city, recently rounded out 40 years' continuous service as an iron and brass molder. He is probably the old est molder In the state. Chicago. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters during 1906 paid bene fits amounting to $107,000, and the death and disability claims during that period amounted to $218,202. Philadelphia. More than 1,000 per sons were killed last year in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, according to the annual report of James Roderick, chief of the department of mines. Chicago. Cigarmakers' Internation al union is now combating a lockout in Georgia and a strike at Mobile, Ala., the latter for an increase of wages. There is also a strike" at Havana, Cuba. New York. An expert who has been compiling data on strikes declares that the greatest number of strikes occur in the building trades, and that the second greatest number is in the tex tile trades. London, England. The highest acci dent death rate among industrial work ers In Great Britain is among seamen (53 per 10,000), and the death rate of seamen In sailing vessels is three times as great as even this ratio. Chicago. Non-union pipe men em ployed by the Wabash caused a dis cord among the union men in other departments and the road ended the strike by permitting the union men to return at an increase in pay from 28 to 31 cents per hour. The strike lasted about two months. Washington. Arrangements are be ing completed between the American Federation of Labor and national trade unions of England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands and other foreign coun tries to interchange union cards be tween unions of kindred crafts and callings. In addition to this worldwide movement between the organized wage workers of the world, the Ameri can Federation of Labor and the Amer ican Society of Equity (the farmers' unions of the United States) have formed an alliance. The organized wage workers of the world represent more than 50,000,000 people. The more advanced leaders propose an interna tional convention of all craft unions. Duluth, Minn. The strike of the ore dock workers is at an end, and the men returned to work. Nothing has been gained by the men who went out, nor have they lost anything except their time. Their status is the same as it was the day they voted to strike. All of the employes of the Duluth, Mis- sabe & Northern road were taken back by the company' without preju dice, and the pay they have been re ceiving under a verbal agreement with the company, .which would not have expired until October 31, next, will continue. New York. International Associa tion of Machinists made a demand on behalf of the machinists of New York and vicinity for an increase in wages of 25 cents a day, affecting 15,000 men. The Amalgamated ..Society of Engineers has made a similar demand for about 2,000 machinists in that or ganization, which takes in about 30 of the metal shop trades. This is the first time the International Association of Machinists and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, which has its headquarters In England, and is an international body, have united in a demand. St Petersburg. A big strike of agri cultural laborers is being prepared in Kiev, Russia. The governor threatens to have recourse to military force, if necessary, to meet the situation. New York. The last New York La bor Bulletin, just issued by the depart ment of labor, gives the number of organized men and women in the Em pire state as 398,494. San Francisco. The telephone oper ators, who have been out on strike since May 2, returned to work under the same conditions prevailing when they walked out. The strike was de clared off. f Buffalo, N. Y. The members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America have de feated the proposition to elect national officers at the annual convention, in stead of by referendum. The Buffalo members were against the proposition. Lowell, Mass. This year Lowell broke all records for August vacations. For the first time in the city's history, the big mills, with one exception, closed their gates during a period of great business activity, and about 15, 000 operatives enjoyed a vacation of ten days. The clatter of the loom ceased on August 23, and will not be heard again until the Tuesday after Labor day. The Lawrence Manufac turing company, operating the world's largest hosiery, will not shut down. La Crosse, Wis. A pastors' union, composed of all the Protestant clergy men of this city, is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Mem bers of the other trades look upon, the preachers as brother workers, admit their delegate to the meetings of the Trades and Labor council and have a representative of that body at the meeting of the clergymen. On last Labor day the preachers marched with the printers, the cigarmakers, the bricklayers and other unions in the Labor day parade, while at a recent meeting of the pastors they were ad dressed by a delegate from the boot and shoe makers' union in advocacy of insisting on the union label when making purchases of shoes. Helena, Mont. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company has filed suit in the federal court against the Mon tana Federation of Labor, the Livings ton Trade and Labor council, Tele phone Operators' union No. 42, Alex ander Fairgrieves, H. O. Smith, L. W. Thorpe, Almodose Grenier and Effie Le Fevre to obtain an order restrain ing the respondents from interfering with or molesting in any way the bus iness of the company, and to shut off the boycott which the complainant al leges has been in force since March 14, last. The trouble is the outgrowth of the strike of the linemen in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the Montana federation having ordered the Rocky Mountain company declared unfair in all Montana cities and or dered tout all switchboard operators. Chicago. Following is a list of dates of international conventions and places of meeting to the close of the year: August 21, Cincinnati, O., metal polishers; September 2, St. Louis, ma chinists; September 2, Indianapolis, post office clerks; September 3, Eu reka, Cal., woodsmen and sawmill workers; September 9, Indianapolis, brick, tile and terra cotta workers; September 2, Boston, cottonmill spin ners; September 10, Memphis, Tenn., cement workers; September 16, New Orleans, bridge and structural iron workers; September 16, New York city, wood carvers; September 27, Waldon, N. Y., pocket knife blade grinders and- finishers ; October 3, Chi cago, wood, wire and metal lathers; October 6, Milwaukee, blacksmiths and helpers; October 7, Chicago, photo engravers' union; October 8, New Or leans, street and electric railway em ployes; October 7, Bay City, Mich., shipwrights, joiners and calkers; Oc tober 15, Rochester, N. Y., interna tional car workers' association; Octo ber 15, Providence, R. I., united textile workers; November 11, Norfolk, Va., American federation of labor; Decem ber 2, Chicago, bill posters and billers; December 2, Chicago, seamen's union. San Francisco. The laundry work ers have all returned to their respec tive posts and the statement is made that for three years all will be quiet In the laundries of San Francisco. Boston. The building mechanics of the Boston & Maine railroad have re ceived a wage increase. The commit tee which conferred with General Su perintendent Lee and the trades repre sented are: John L. Dorney for the plumbers and steamfitters, general chairman; Frank H. Barrett for the carpenters, Timothy Johnson for the roofers, A. Leighton for the painters, Justin Belleview for the gatemen, Al vin Stark for the tinsmiths and Charles Ford for the masons and bricklayers. New York. In an editorial in the Engineering News concerning wealth and wage earners, protests against the unequal distribution of the former and the oppression of the latter are an swered with this statement: "Capi tal is now receiving about SI, where labor is receiving $3, or to put it in another way, if the annual product of the country (the money earned by cap ital and labor), is divided into four equal heaps capital is getting one of these heaps and labor the other three." London, England. The total mem bership of the Women's Trade Union league in Great Britain is in excess of 135,000. Atlanta, Ga. The Farmers' union, of Georgia, with a membership of 30, 000, has gone on record as being bit terly opposed to bringing foreign Im migrants into the south. Washington. Inquiry Into the need of various states and territories for Immigrant labor has been instituted by T. V. Powderly, chief of the divi sion of information, recently estab lished In connection with the bureau of immigration. COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE INLET WCTER PMM BEGULW 'VE The water heater is a most important thing at any season of the lyear. You can use our das 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 foiill Cent 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. i --( ..' rf :.r..-- . ;olfli:H;:.!,.;AljiJ, Call Day or Evening, Phone Bell 75 or Auto 2575 Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Company. UNIONfMSIUfP IS 'Ha Reciprocity! Buy Union Stamp Shoes THe Best Made Bu afcoas mads with the Vaioa Stamps A guar ante of good wag ooradltiona and wall traatod hoe worker. Ne higher in oost than ahoea with out aha Union stamp, INSIST upon having Unlaa Stamp ahoaa. H your dealer caanot aupaty jraaj, write 4 SUMMER STREET BOSTON, MASS. 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