GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.
The union label that's all.
Look for the union label.
It it Is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold b Rog
ers & Perkins.
Harnessmakers organized in Mani
towoc, Wis.
The tin mills in Anderson, Ind., are
being dismantled.
Cloth hat and cap workers have or
ganized in Seattle, Wash.
There are but seven lathers in Bos
ton that are not in the union.
Stonemasons in St. Paul report ev
erybody working and there's work for
more.
The Bricklayers' Union of Boston
has a membership of 1,400 In good
standing.
Olassblowers at the Hoosler bottle
works, Petersburg, Ind., are on strike
for higher wages. ,
Trades Unionists of Kansas have
formed a state branch of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
" The twelfth biennial convention of
the International Machinists Union
opens in St. Louis on September 9.
Industrial Insurance employes are
organizing throughout the United
States, union No. 1 being In Boston.
The Plasterer's union now has con
trol of all the works In Jackson, Mich.,
only two contractors being outside the
union lines.
' The Standard Sewing Machine com
pany of Cleveland, O., is discriminat
ing against union labor, especially the
metal polishers.
The flint bottle factory that has
been closed down for three years in
Anderson, Ind., Is making prepara
tions to resume.
The Illinois Retail Clerks' associa
tion has elected Arthur Paterson, of
Calesburg, president, and fixed $9 as
it he minimum weekly wage.
The machinists of Cleveland have
buckled on their armor and are again
taking up the organization feature,
fifteen being added at the last meet
ing. .
The United Association of Plumbers
in Birmingham report that all the em
ploying plumbers in that city who
work Journeymen have signed the
scale.
The establishment of a minimum
wage in New Zealand doesn't prevent
the best workers from getting a
higher rate, according to a member of
the employers' association there.
It Is believed that if all the labor
unions of San Francisco were to join
, in a common cause a great hospital
could be erected and maintained at a
comparatively small cost per capita.
Over 175 iron moulders went on
strike at Evansville, Ind., because of
an order issued at the five stove foun
dries preventing the drinking of beer
on the premises during the noon hour.
Forty Bteamfltters went on strike in
Milwaukee last week, walking out
frail ten different shops to enforce
a demand for an increase of 50 cents
a day. They have been getting a
wage of $3.50.
The fight started by the Missouri
Federation of Labor against the
present vicious system of leasing con
victs in that state is being taken up
by manufacturers not only of Missou
rl but of many other states.
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor, reports that for
the five months since the close of the
Federation's fiscal year an increase is
shown of more than 50,000 members
as compared with the corresponding
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Solution of Chlorides, bottle, . .50c
Formalhdehyde, per pint 85c
Sulfur, per lb 10c
Sulfur and Formaldehyde Can
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Sulfur Candles 5c
Formaldehyde Fumigators . . . 15c
Hydranapthal Pastillis, box.. 25c
Carbolic Crystals, per lb 45c
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RECTOR'S
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TWELFTH AND O ST.
months of last year. He reported
that, exclusive of the funds of the af
filiated national unions, that have ex
clusive control over their own funds,
there is $116,114 in the Federation
reasury.
Concrete telegraph poles are the lat
est, and will be experimented with on
an electric power line between Mar
seilles and Penn, via Joliet.
The Oklahoma State Federation of
Labor at its recent meeting adopted
a resolution in favor of woman suf
frage and proposes to make this a
test question in supporting candi
dates.
Machinists and boilermakers in the
Great Western shops at Des Moines
and Oelwein, la., will work nine hours
instead of ten hours hereafter. The
men will also receive time and one
half for overtime and Sunday work.
Employes at the headquarters of the
Missouri Pacific and St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway com
panies in St. Louis have been given
an increase of 10 per cent. The num
ber of men affected is some 700.
The American Tobacco company
has suddenly closed down the New
Jersey Machine company, manufac
turers of cigar cutting and stripping
machines at Newark, N. J., by throw
ing 200 employes out of work.
If the plans of some of the leading
union men in Milwaukee are carried
out a new labor organization will be
formed. It is to be composed of bell
boys, porters, chambermaids, kitchen
workers and various other help
around hotels.
The srike at the plant of the Bruns-
wlck-Balke-Collender company, Chica
go, has been settled, tne nrm agree
ing to hire only members of the Car
penters' union. The woodworkers
will have to join the Carpenters' un
ion. Over 600 men have returned to
work.
Women have started a novel ogran-
ization in Jersey City, N. J. To estab
lish a school to instruct women how
and where to spend their nnney most
beneficially for union labor will be
one of the features of the body, besides
boosting union labels and encouraging
men to organize.
Trade unionists must be educated in
the objects and aims of their union
and the labor movement in general;
they must be taught why and where
fore they are organized, in order to
be in a postion to think for them
selves and explain Miese objects and
aims to non-unionists.
Arrangements are being completed
between the American Federation of
Labor and national trade unionists of
England, Scotland, Germany, Den
mark, Austria, Belgium, Norway,
Netherlands and other foreign coun
tries to interchange union cards be
tween unions of kindred crafts and
callings.
In an address before the Postal
Clerks' convention at Peoria, Con
gressman Overstreet said that if the
business of the postoffice department
could be as well conducted as is the
business of the Standard Oil company,
one-cent postage would be in force
and employes of the department would
be better paid.
God hates a coward." So does ev
ery honest man. There is no greater
coward in the wide world than the
man who will "knock" another behind
his back and offer him the glad hand
to his face. He is like the dog who
wags his tail and shows his teeth
you can't believe either end. Balti
more Labor Leader.
Articles of incorporation on the Na
tional Co-operative Mercantile com
pany have been filed with the secre
tary of state of Minnesota. The com
pany has an authorized capital stock
of $100,000 and . its headquarters are
to be in Duluth. One of the incor
porators is Morris Kapten, of Duluth,
v.ho has been prominently identified
v.ith the striking miners of the iron
range. The new company is to be
operated in behalf of the miners, it is
said.
Boston Cigarmakers' Union's finan
cial report for the first six months of
this year shows that in that time it
paid for the advertising of the blue
label of the organization $6,687.59.
During the strike of the cigar factory
strippers nearly the entire member
ship of the uuion was Idle, and $8,925.-5-1
was paid for out-of-work benefits.
The donations voted to organizations
amounted to $2,232.50. Of that sum
$475 was given to the Moyer-Haywood
defense fund, $400 to the cigarmakers
of York, Pa., who were out on strike,
$450 to striking team drivers of Bos
ton, $400 to Belgium's cigarmakers and
$200 to Boston Ladies' Garment Work
ers, on strike.
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The lines of Clothing: for men and young men which we are
showing for fall and winter are the most comprehensive ever seen in
Lincoln. The best products from the foremost makers of men's gar
ments in America are represented here, and every garment that's
here is right in style, quality, fabric, work-
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manship and price.
The class and character of our line of Suits
for fall and winter wear far surpass anything
ever shown in ready-to-wear garments and is
the equal of custom tailoring costing double the
money we ask for these garments. It will be
to our mutual advantage that you see our line
of Suits and Top Coats before you buy your fall
outfit. . ..
Fall and Winter Suits starting at
$7.50 and advancing
by easy stages up to $40-00
No matter what price you pay here you get
your money's worth or we give you your money
back. '
Our Boys' and Children's department is
overflowing with the good things for the little
fellows.
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
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nto advertising in that publication.
Post made this charge through the
medium of his Postum advertising
contracts, the particular advertise
ment being the recent one headed the
Yell-o Man."
For several months past Colliers
Weekly has been waging warfare
against "fake" patent medicine nos
trums, and -with telling effect. Post
tried to secure the insertion of ad
vertisements of Postum and Grape
Nuts, claiming that they cured cer
tain designated ailments. These came
under Colliers' ban and they were
refused. Colliers' stated plainly and
without frills in its editorial columns
that it would not accept the adver
tisements, and called Post down for
making ridiculous claims for his con
coctions. Then Post wrote his ad
vertisement charging that Colliers'
v.as trying to blackmail him into ad
vertising. This, too, after he had
vainly sought Colliers' to take his ad
vertising.
As a result of his libelous charges
he has been sued by Colliers' and
the suit3 will be legion. The publica
tion of : the advertisement of Post in
each and every distinct newspaper
constitutes a separate offense and
piovides a separate cause for action.
As the advertisement appeared in
piobably a thousand or two papers it
will readily be seen that Colliers' will
keep Mr. Post so busy for the next
few months that he will scarcely find
time to abuse the trades unions:
SUES POST FOR LI8EL.
The Gripe Nuts Man Talked Too Much
With His Abusive Mouth.
Charles Wallopus Post, the "gripo
raits" man, has been sued for libel by
Colliers' Weekly. The suit is the out-
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT come of Post's charge that Colliers'
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O)K)KD!K)K)KWsK0 was trying to blackmail him
tective agency, and was caught red
handed trying to bribe a Street Car
Men's union official in the Briggs
House, Chicago.
Barry handed the worker $5,000 to
agree to the company's selection of
a third arbitrator.
Nice business for "friends." Toledo
Union Leader.
HELP THE TELEGRAPHERS.
ANOTHER TRAITOR.
Pretended Friend of Labor Caught
in a Dirty Deal.
A short time ago Sheriff Barry of
Cleveland was the whole thing with
many trades unionists. Barry had
'em hypnotized and nothing would do
but elect him Mayor. Later, however,
this "friend of labor" organized a de-
Blanche Walsh and Louis Mann Ten
der Big Benefit.
Two thousand dollars was raised
a the benefit of the striking telegra
phers at the Garrick theatre in Chi
ago on September 14. Miss Blanche
Vv'alsh in "The Straight Road," and
Louis Mann playing "The White Hen,"
conceived .the idea and tendered the
benefit to the .belligerent keyman.
About $2,400 was realized.
A movement is now under headway
with the telegraphers to give Miss
Walsh and Mr. Mann an ovation in
tvery city in which, they appear in
the future.
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SECURING BETTER PLACES.
Forty telegraph operators, who
walked out of the commercial and
newspaper offices in Spokane, have
taken positions in other lines for the
time and several have joined the rail
road service. They are prepared for
a long seige. They gave a benefit ball
in Elks' temple shortly after the
strike was declared and netted more
than $500, not a penny of which has
yet been drawn upon. The local un
ions have also decided upon weekly
assessments, the funds being turned
over to . the telegraphers.
A GOOD STARTER.
R. M. McCullough of Seattle drew
$348.10 from the I. T. U. treasury for
going to the Hot Springs convention
as a member of the pension commit
tee. The young man does well for a
beginner. Western Laborer.
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