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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1907)
GENERAL MENTION. Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly With the Scissors. I The union label that's all. Look for the union label. If It la not labeled, refuse It. Steauiflttera In Hamilton, Ohio, have organized. Union made shoes are sold by Kog rs & Perkins. Clothing Cutters' Union of Detroit secured an injunction against a dealer wrongfully using the label. The Industries of the United States suffered less from strikes during 1905 than in any year since 1892. The Boston Cigarmakers' Union paid out $6,687 for advertising the blue label from January 1 to June 20. A plan Is on foot to flood Los An geles with negro labor for the purpose of reducing wages of the workingmen there. The New York Labor Bulletin, just Issued 'by the Department of Labor, gives the number of organized men and women in the 'Empire state as 398,494. The Structural Iron Workers of To ronto, Canada, have been granted an increase in wages of 2V6 cents per . hour and a threatened serious strike averted. The National Association of Carpet Workers of America has been organ ized. The union will 'haver Jurisdic tion of about 20,000 persons employed In carpet mills. The Amalgamated Society of Engi neers commenced the present year with 106,000 members, and a credit balance im its funds for a quarter of million pounds. State Federation of 'Labor of Min nesota and the Farmers' Union have entered Into a compact to extend mu tual aid. The farmers are boycotting certain uafair concerns. " Palaters and Deocrators in Roches ter, N. Y., have organized four of the largest non-union Arms In the last six months and secured an increase in wages from $2.75 to $3.00 without any trouble or strike. For the first time in the history of the labor movement in New Orleans, I .a., the Central Trades and Labor Council will recognize the "colored brother" to the extent of meeting him on terms of equality. The members of the Marble Cutters' and Setters' Union No. SO and Marble Cutters' Helpers and Bed Rubbers' Union No. 66. In Boston, nearly 300 in number, have gained their conten tion with their employers for a "closed shop." The temperance question was dis cussed at the Social Democratic con vention In Essen, Germany. Only one vote was cast against a resolution whose main feature was an expression of opposition to the use of alcohol in any form during working hours. Denmark is the country with, the relatively highest proportion of trade unionists, no less than 49 per cent of the people actually engaged in in dustry being organized. In England the corresponding figure is 26 per cent. In Oermany 24 per cent, and In Belgium 9.5 per cent. The strike of the cabinet makers and hardwood finishers in St. Louis ,, lias been adjusted. Men have re turned to work Iq all shops except three, the St. Louts Bank Fixture company, the Century Woodworking company and the Iehnbeuter & Deichman Manufacturing company. The railway telegraphers' eight- EuOcior's A DRUG STORE WITH THE GOODS AT THE RIGHT PRICES. $1.00 Peruna 83c $1.00 Llsterine 83c 00c Pond's Extract 45c $1.00 Pinkham'B Remedies. .83c $1.00 Pierce's Remedies 83c 35c Castorla 25c GOo Doan's Kidney Pills 45c 25c Alcock's Porous Plaster. 15c 25c Chamberlain's cough 8yr 22c COc Horlick's Malted Milk.. 45c 10c Glycerin Soap 04c 15c Klderflower Soap 08c 23c Daiulerine 22c 50c Llthla Tabs 40c 25c Mtinnen's Talcum 12c $1.00 Hyomel 89c 25c Kearns' Kidney Tea 22c 50c Durand's Dysesla Tab.. 45c Write for rubber discount sheet. TWELFTH . O STREETS. hour law passed by the Missouri leg islature was declared unconstitutional by Judge Bradley of the circuit court, at Harrisonville, Mo. The railway at' torney argued that the law favored one class of workingmen more than other classes. An agitation Is on foot among the flint glass workers of Pittsburg to recognize the union card of the for eign workmen coming to this country It Is proposed to allow these men to go to work on presentation of a card under the jurisdiction of the Amer ican Flint Glass Workers' Union. After a several days' conference the new scale of the American Flint Giass Workers' Union has been sign ed by the manufacturers. The prin cipal feature of the conference was the advance of 5 per cent given the gatherers in the pressed ware depart ment. The only exception to this was concerning the shade gatherers and gatherers of articles worked on th? sliding scale. Some of the British trade unions are are taking very great interest In the higher education of the workman. For the past three years 100,000 mem bt-rs of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, hare made lvies of a penny each to help out the work of Ruskin College at Oxford. This levy produced over $1,500 a year, and by means of it six "mals" are maintain ed for a year's course of study at the college. Labor Commissioner Stafford of California, in a recent published re port, shows that nearly 10 per cent of the restaurants in San' Francisco are Japanese and Chinese. Employes of the oriental restaurants generally work twelve hours a day, while 70 Ier cent of the white employes of the Caucassian restaurants . work but ten hours a day. Nine per cent of the Japanese work fourteen to fifteen hours a day. The joint board of the parliament ary committee of the Trade Union Congress, the general Federation of Trade Unions and the labor party of Great Britian have issued a report on unemployment, in which it is recom mended that trade unions be urged to abolish overtime, and that where this is not wholly possible, it be re stricted to the narrowest limits, and that when worked, it be penalized to the fullest extent. ' DRESS PATTERNS. New York Typographical Union, No. 6, states that the following patterns are fair: McCall's. Independent Peerless. Pictorial Review. Union Dime. Paris Modes. Economy. Home Pattern Company. All the Butterick patterns and pub lications are way up on the list of scabs, and should not be allowed in any workingman's home, especially If he is a union man. COMING CONVENTIONS. Dates of Meeting of International Union Conventions for 1907. November 11 Norfolk, Va.; Ameri can Federation of Labor. December 2 Chicago; Bill Posters and Billers. December 2 Chicago; Seamen's Union. The Platform of Unionism. The Eight Hour Printer, under the caption "What They Teach," says: "Unions teach men to live upright, clean lives, to protect the home and family, to respect and revere the com mandment, Honor thy father and thy mother,' to champion the cause of the weak, to urge the abolition of child labor and seek fair remuneration for a fair day's labor. Can the opponents of unionism find any flaw in that plat form?" I , BRYAN ON CHILD LABOR. Hews Right to the Line, Does Noted Nebraskan? the Hon. W. J. Bryan spoke at the fair grounds in Richmon, Va., one day re cently the the usual crowd of thous ands. Before starting for the fair grounds, in talking upon the subject of child labor with some newspaper men, the noted Nebraskan said: "On the question of child labor and my approval of the Beveiidge bill I have this toisay: I notice that the people who are interested in coining mm Advanced Vaudeville POPULAR PRICES Balcony 10 Cents. Entire Lower Floor 15 Cents Boxes 25c. Nothing Higher. THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY Men's Fall and Winter Styles That Excel and Why THE DESIGNERS who plan Armstrong Clothes are the highest priced men in the trade They earn their salaries because they excel in artistic skill and have the genius to originate; and because they possess these talents they are chosen to design our Men's Clothing. Every Suit coming here must have smartness, originality and that indefinable something which gives our Clothing an . air so much different from' the great mass of men's attire to be SFound elsewhere. tlOll'S SuitS and 0'CoatS Many aothicrs no Ioner attempt to sell at this figure, having been " . forced to raise to $12 and $15. We are content with a small profit and C5n 11 (R fHn continue the same old Quality at the same old price that's why we sell ' JjJ VyBVyVy so manr $0 Suits and Overcoats Hod's SuitS and 0'GoafS A wtT? PPuIar Price and onc that guarantees $18 to$20values. Buy ing in such enormous quantities we buy for less and buying for less we $1 Yfi'ftl sell for less. Best of American Woolens possessing every new and ap- USaVUSw propriate weave and excellent tailoring. ' Don'S SuitS and 0'CoatS ' NoveI aoths admitting of varied, pretty and personal effects, together wiih the staple and quiet colors Domestic and Imported Weaves the jr(G) (Q)(0) edommatmg show thcir Quality and Skill and their making at a UNION MADE We have the finest line of UNION MADE Clothing ever brought to Lincoln. BROCK'S that's the guarantee. If made by Brock it is Union Made and Well made. None better for the money. We are proud of this line. .- , 1 . 1 Armstrong Clothing Co. GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS i money out of children's work are very eager to plead State's Right as against any Federal control. Nobody believes more In the reserved rights of the states than I; nobody is more for local self-government. But I don't believe that a state which is willing to degrade and destroy the next genera tion of its people shall be allowed to and thereby destroy their industrial system. The trusts maintain two sets of attorneys one set at the state cap ital to protest that all state legislation is an encroachment on the Federal power; the other Is stationed at the national capital to protest that all Federal regulation of trusts Is a viola tion of the rights of the states." 0000000OOOOOOOO LYRIC THEATRE POLITE VAUDEVILLE Lincoln's Popular Playhouse. Prices Always the Same 10, 15 cts. &oooooooocooooo9o ooooooooooo Matinee 3:00 P. II. Eiening 7:45 & 9:00 I"? tTV II HARDWARE, STOVES, SP0BT- n vfillNG GOODS, RAZORS, RAZOR i J U OUII strops and cutlery At Low Prices Hoppe's Hardware, 108 North 10th WM. ROBERTSON, JR. STOVES, FURNITURE AND CARPETS Use the Best ESE ft tS LME1W It is made m Lincoln and every sack is warranted to give satisfaction. BARBER & FOSTER The Lincoln Wallpaper &!Paint Co. 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