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GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissor.
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 & PerkinB.
No. St. Paul carpenters are Idle and
out-of-town calls can't be filled from
there.
State branches of the A. F. of L.
will be organized in Nebraska and
South Carolina.
Station agents and telegraph oper
ators on the Long Island railroad have
been granted an Increase in wages.
One hundred stone wagon drivers
at Buffalo have organized. They are
the men who drive for the quarries.
The Woodworkers' Union has passed
out of existence in Toledo and the
men have formed a new Carpenters'
Union.
Miss Hazel Armstead has returned
to her home in North Bend after a
week's visit with her sister, Mrs. W.
M. Maupln.
Woodmen of the World and all of
the union labor organizations held a
Joint reunion September 13 in Ottum
wa, Iowa.
Fifte3n new members were added
to the Bricklayers' Union in Jackson,
Mich., during the past month and ev
ery member is now at work.
Steamfitters Union in Hartford,
Conn., has received a wage increase
from $3.50 to $4 for an eight-hour
day and Saturday half-holiday.
Representatives of the mill men it
Fall River, Mass., and the Weavers'
Association. have reached an agree
ment and peace is now assured.
Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco,
has appointed Michael Casey, presi
dent of the Teamsters Union, presi
dent of the board of public works.
Painters and decorators in Roches
ter, N. Y., have, organized four of
the largest non-union firms in the last
six months and secured an increase in
wages from $2.75 to $3 without any
trouble or strike.
About forty electrical workers in
the employ of the Bell Telephone com
pany in Cleveland have succeeded in
securing an increase of 25 cents a day,
making the minimum $3 per day of
nine hours.
The HIckey-Tobin controversy over
the general presidency of the Boot
and Shoe Workers' Union will be set
tled at a special election Thursday,
September 12, at the same time the
regular election takes place.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
hfs been found guilty at ChiUicothe,
Mo , of violating the eight-hour law
as applied to telegraphers. A fine of
$200 was imposed. This represents the
first conviction under the new Mis
souri statute.
Carr, Ryder & Adams Co. and the
Farley, Loetscher Manufacturing Co.,
of Dubuque, Iowa, the two largest sash,
blind and door milling companies in
the world, pleaded guilty of Wring
child labor when hauled into court,
and were fined.
The American Society of Equity hat
net on foot a movement to have laws
passed by the legislature of Kentucky.
Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia
compelling tobacco companies to label
their wares, showing the percentage
of licorice and other ingredients.
During the past few months a corps
of organizers has instituted over forty
locals of the International Brother
hood of Malntenance-of-Way Employes
on the. Vanderbilt system. These men
receive the princely sum of $1.50 per
day.
United Housesmiths and Structural
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Iron Workers' Union of Boston an
nounces that all members of the union
are at work and that the demands
being made on the union craftsmen
from Worcester, Springfield, Lowell,
Bridgewater, and other cities of the
state cannot be supplied.
The strike of tinsmiths and plpe-
men on the Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain railroad systems has been
declared off. The men will receive
an increase of 1 cents per hour, and
the company has consented to sign
to agreement for a year, covering all
the technical points in the trade. .
The organization of the Amalga
mated Association of Street and Elec
tric Railway Employes In Waterbury,
Conn., marks the principal step toward
unionizing this division of the trolley
men, the last of the entire division
of - the Connecticut railway Jine In
control of the New Haven road.
Steve Poyle, the miner who was
Indicted at Washington, Pa., for em
ploying a woman to work in a mine,
pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and
sent ' to jail for thirty days. Poyle
employed bis wife as his helper in
the Creedmore mine at Cecil, in male
attire, for three days before her iden
tity was disclosed.
Division No. 85. Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Street and Electric Railway
Employes, has started an active cam
paign to organize all the men on lines
in the Allegheny valley. Executive
Board Member McMorrow will make
his headquarters in Pittsburg for some
time, and has already instituted a new
lodge at Tarentum.
In Albany, N. Y., a vegetable ven
dors' "union has existed for several
years. The cards of the union are
displayed on the wagons prominently,
and the claim is that the members
guarantee to purchasers full weight
and measure on all vegetables bought
of them. Also, that purchasers may
rely on a uniform price being charged.
THAT HUGE "WAR FUND."
It Make Trade Unionist Laugh Al
most Fit to KIM.
The "$1,500,000 war fund" that Sec
retary VanCleave of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers purposes
raising to "educate the public to a
realization of the tyranny of trades
unionism," is still unralsed. He wants
to raise it at the rate of $500,000 a
year, but up to date he has not made
much of a start.. If VanCleave, or any
of the rest of the union-hating bunch,
imagines for a minute that talk of a
million and a half war fund" is
frightening the trades unionists, they
ought to take something for the
imagination. A little matter of $500,
000 a year Is only pocket change for
the trades unionists of America. The
Typographical Union alone raised
three times that much in twelve
months, and eight times that much
in less than two years. The money
that trades unions expend in fraternal
work so far exceeds the amount asked
for by VanCleave, and educates the
people, so rapidly along trades union
lines, that the VanCleave "war fund"
looks like an old-fashioned musket cap
alongside a 12-inch gun on the battle
ship Nebraska.
During the year preceding the con
vention of the American. Federation of
Labor, held at Minneapolis, Minn., No
vember 12-24, 1906
Three international unions
paid out in tool insur
ance $5,771.09
The American Federation
of Labor paid out to lo
cal unions directly affil
iated as strike benefits. 14,732.00
Six internationals paid
benefits on account of
death of members'
wives
Eight internationals paid
on account of traveling
members
Seven internationals paid
out of work benefits to
their members
Forty-five internationals
donated to other unions 147,208.43
The American Federation
of Labor's expenses for
that fiscal year were... 218,540.04
Twenty-three Internation
als paid out in sick ben
efits 663,436.61
Sixty internationals paid
out in death benefits... 994,974.79
Sixty-four internationals
ipald out in strike bene
fits 3,968,133.66
37,900.00
57,340.93
79,582.70
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Making a total of $ 6,187,620.25
for ten items for one fis
cal year.
Now don't that make VanCleave's
paltry $500,000 a year look like coun
terfeit money?
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Your Friends May Know and Appreciate
Your Many Good Qualities
But strangers must judge from your general appear
ance. No matter whether you are at or away from
home, your clothes should argue for rather than
against you. There are plenty of the right sort of
clothes to be had, so there is no real excuse for a man
not appearing as well as he should. We sell fine
clothes; they are all wool to the last fibre, tailored
right and full, of. good looks and. style. They -are- the
kind of clothes that will help yod to make the right sort
of impresion among strangers; besides, pleasing your
friends. What these clothes cost is less than what they are worth.
High-Grade Suits and Overcoats
$15.00, $18.00, $20.00, $22.50, $25.00 and vp to $40.00
This Week We are Featuringf-Some -Special Values in Men's Suits and
Overcoats Strictly First-Class and High-Grade, at
$7.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00
No Such Values Were Ever Offered the Men of Nebraska Before
Armstrong Clothing Company
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SHIRTS AND OVERALLS.
Stand By the Manufacturers Who
Stand By Organized Labor.
For some time The.Wageworker has
carried an advertisement for the R.
L. McDonald Co. St. Joseph, Mo., ad
vertising "Red Seal" overalls and
shirts union made. Whether or not
this advertising will be continued at
some future time depends upon
whether the unionists of Lincoln have
stood by a firm that has always stood
squarely for organized labor. This the
R. L. McDonald Co. has always done.
Its two huge factories in St. Joseph
are union' throughout, and the scale
paid is fully in keeping with the sani
tary conditions of the splendid factory
buildings.
The Wageworker is not asking its
readers to buy "Red Seal" overalls
and shirts solely because they bear
the label. It asks them to buy "Red
Seal" overalls and shirts because
they are equal to the best made, and
the price asked is only fair consider
ing the material and workmanship. It
also asks its readers to buy "red Seal"
overalls and shirts because they are
labelled and are made by a firm that
is as "square as a die" towards or
ganized labor.
When all these things are taken into
consideration it Is only , fair that or
ganized labor should show its appre
ciation of fair treatment by patron
izing a firm that is not only "square,"
but which is so near home that it is
almost entitled to rank as a "home
institution." St. Joseph is not so aw
fully far away from Lincoln.
parade and was roughly handled for
the contemptible insult the Express
has nothing but condemnation for the
"unwhipped mob." Of course, the
scab was entirely within his province
iu running through a line of marching
union men. Buffalo Progress.
A PALPABLE HIT.
Suggestion That It Might Be Well to
Follow Up a Bit.
A Lincoln minister who is heading
the movement to stop Sunday base
ball there says that $10,000 could be
readily raised from among the
churches to employ legal measures
against the Sunday athletes. If the
churches are so flush, they would do
well to raise the jackpot proposed and
spend it among the widows and or
phans, where it will do some good.
That would sound a little more like
Christianity. Fremont Daily Tribune.
THE UNWHIPPED MOB.
Because a strike-breaking motorman
iu San Francisco ran his car through
the line of marchers in the Labor Day
HERE IS THE REASON. -
With the example of the union shop
continually before them, no set of
men will contentedly work long hours
for low wages without strenuous pro
test. That protest naturally takes
shape in strikes and boycotts. Hence,
the union shop must go, according to
Van Cleave and his school. Washing
ton Trades Unionist.
THIS IS ONLY FAIR.
"The labor union is judged by its
worst. All other branches of industry
are judged by their best. I ask not
that we be judged by our best, but by
vhat we have done and what we
aspire to do." Samuel Gompers.
SOLOMON A GOOD BOSS.
Old King Solomon was a wise em
ployer. He not only organized his em
ployes into a labor union, but he gave
them an eight-hour day and establish
ed a warden at the west gate of the
temple to see that all men received
their wages and that none went away
dissatisfied. The teachings of this
wisest of grand masters are in strik
ing contrast with the practice of some
of his latter day followers who pretend
to believe in and obey his teachings.
Potters' Herald.
The Western Union and Postal Tele
graph companies are "open shops"
now, so they claim. We'll admit that
the wires that are not "grounded" are
"cpen" most of the time by "scabs"
who have to keep "breaking."
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