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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1907)
GENERAL MENTION. Bit of Labor News Gathered Chiefly With the Scissors. The union label that's all. Look for the union label. If it Is not labeled, refuse It. , SteamQiters In Hamilton, Ohio, have . organised. Union made shoes are sold by Kog tra & Perkins. Slack barrel coopers have organized at Cleveland. (Street car employes organize at Ke- wanee, Indiana. Boilermakers on strike at the Globe Boiler Works. Toledo. Keep away, The Metallic Lathers' Union of New York City Is again a member of the International Union. The report that the Union Pacific had discontinued all work on the Lane cut-off was untrue. John P. Tobln has been re-elected president of the International Shoe Workers' Union. . During the past year International Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers' Union has gained 5,000 members. ' - Iron moulders have granted char ters to Cation, O., Monaca, Pa., Inde pendence, Mo., and Douglas, Ariz. John Golden of Fall River, Mass., has been re-elected president of the United Textile Workers of America. Is It not about time the Lincoln frelghthaodlerg got together and' re vived their once strong local union? The unions at Eureka, Cal., are erecting a Labor Hospital. It will be three stories high and will cost $30,-004. Tailors have signed up with Youngs- town bosses. Falker ft Rogge and Schaeffer Tailoring Co., Cleveland, al so sign ad up. The Crown Overalls Manufactur ing Co., Cincinnati, has granted its employes the eight-hour day -with no reduction in pay. There are nearly 1,500 members in this Boston Barbers' Union, which makes It the largest Barbers' Union In the country. Sixty-eight non-union carpenters or ganised a union in Hamilton, O., and affiliated with the Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners. British Boilermakers and iron ship builders had a total membership at the close of 1906 of 52,056, an Increase ul ,t&o in itto ear. Plumbers' strike was brought to a close in Terre Haute, Ind., by the em ployers agreeing to pay 50 cents per hour after February. , The Potter Wall Paper Co., Hobo ken, N. J., is now operating a union establishment and is removed from the "We don't patronize" list. That the recently organized Inter national Jewelry Workers' Union has already 24 locals shows that live men are at the head of that organization. Telegraph operators on Kansas City Southern railway have been granted an increase of f 5 a month. This makes the second increase since January 1. Cornelius P. Shea, of Boston, former International president of the Team sters' International Union, denies that he Is heading a movement to organ ize a new organization. During the past year the Photo-Engravers' Union has gained 660 mem bers, and the total membership is now 3,000, while the financial strength has increased proportionately. There are about 6,000 men In the Illinois Steel Company's plant in Chi cago, who depend upon 300 skilled men in the rail, plate and .converting departments. Their wages range from $6 to $30 a day, the latter Ague being for the men who tell when the blast of the furnaces is ready for pour ing. There are at least 1,000 helpers In these departments, who work for less than $2 a (lay: There are but 600 men now em ployed in the yards of the Chicago Shipbuilding Co. The officials refuse to either affirm or deny the report that the yard is to be entirely abandoned Seventy-five moulders and core- makers employed at the Hill Clutch Co., Cleveland, O., went on strike be cause that concern had been doing work for a non-union Dayton firm THE WORLD'S WORKERS. $2.70 worth of Sanitol Toilet Goods for $1.00 If you've never used Sanitol Prlparatlons, come in and let us show them to you. For a few days only we will give the following Toilet Prparations ii for sf.oo: 1 Sanitol Liquid Antiseptic 25c 1 Sanitol Tooth Powder. .' 25c 1 Sanitol Teoth Paste 25c 1 Sanitol Tooth Brash 25c 1 Sanitol Violet Elite Soap 25c 1 Sanitol Face Cream. 25c 1 Sanitol Bath Powder 25c 1 Sanitol Face Powdea 85c 1 Sanitol Toiltt Powder 35c I Sanitol Shaving Cranio 25c Full retail value -$2,70 - RECTOR'S PHARMACY News of The Toilers in Many Lands and Climes. Victoria, Australia, has 4,766 facto ries, employing 67,545 persons. Two thousand unemployed have pe titioned the Transvaal Government to send them back to England. Adelaide, Australia, flour-mill em ployes have formed a strong union and requested Premier Price to estab lish a wages board for the trade. In Germany there are 33 Govern ment labor colonies, and one in the United Kingdom, for the reception and employment of workless toilers, In the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, there is a marked activity in union circles. New uniohs are rapidly, springing up. and the ranks of the older ones are increasing in number. The negotiations between the jewel ry manufacturers and the skilled workmen at Paris, France, have failed. It is announced that 110 em ployers have decided to dismiss their employes and will declare a lockout. University extension lectures are now delivered at meetings of the Trades and Labor Council of Sydney, Australia, by profesors of the univer sity, who at the same time receive instructions as to objects of the labor movement. A general strike to compel the enactment of Universal 'Suffrage laws began in Hungary on October 10. In 164 towns no work is going on and no food can be bought anywhere, every hotel, coffee house and restaur ant being closed by the police. A correspondent of a Charter Tow ers (Queensland) newspaper states that in the Ingham - district sugar farmers employ aboriginals at from Is to 10s per week, and in one mill in the district Japs and other colored aliens are working at almost every trade, from fitters and carpenters to blacksmiths. The passive resistance strike at Vi enna, Austria, is extending to the freight traffic divisions ' in Moravia. The municipal authorities are con cerned regarding the provisioning of the city, and shipments of meat, fruit and vegetables have already fallen out. Thousands of workers are now earning only 40 cents a day. Kelr Hardie's Dill to provide work for the unemployed, recently Intro duced in the 'House of Commons by Ramsay Macdonald, proposes that lo cal authorities must devise schemes for providing work, the necessary funds to come out of local rates, and, where extreme distress arises, Par liament to vote money to meet the difficulty. In consequence of 1,500 British scabs being Imported by the Antwerp Shipowners' Association to take the place of the local wharf laborers striking for better conditions. Labor Member Crooks' has Introduced a new bill in the British House of Commons to appliy the penalties of the Foreign Enlistment Act to British workmen who take the places of workmen oh strike abroad. Ia the, Victorian Assembly recently a motion of adjournment was moved in order to bring before Parliament the brutal treatment meted out to coal miners at Outrim and Jumbunha. M. L. A. Lemmon, who moved the mo tion, urged that the public should boy cott every ounce of coal supplied by the companies at the places, ia con sequence of the unfair treatment of the men. THE BOOKBINDERS. Five Per Cent Assessment Not Needed and Was Called Off. The preposition to assess the mem bership of the Bookbinders' Union. 5 per cent a week has been found un necessary. When the International officials were preparing for the eight- .IS'DJKOHI Advanced Vaudeville POPULAR PRICES Balcony 10 Cents. Entire Lower Floor 15 Cents Boxes 25c. Nothing Higher. THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY MATINEE 3 P. M. EVENING 7:45 and 9:00 P. M. Men's Fall and Winter Styles That Excel and Why THE DESIGNERS who plan Armstrong Clothes arc 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 talants 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 found elsewhere. Oil's SuitS and 0'CoatS Manyr aothicrs no Ion&er attempt to sell at this figure, having been forced to raise to $12 and $15. We are content with a small profit and C?n 1 (R fH'H continue the same old Quality at the same old price thafs why we sell P alii VUa VUVU so many $10 Suits and Overcoats. LlOtl'S SuitS and 0'CoatS A VCry PPuIar Pritc and one guarantees $18 to $20 values. Buy ing in such enormous quantities we buy for less and buying for less we 1 Ce f'fi se ' cst American Woolens possessing every new and ap- L2DU'VU' propriate weave and excellent tailoring. , Uon'S SuitS and 0'CoatS Novelty fcloths admitting of varied, pretty and personal effects, together wiih the staple and quiet colors Domestic and Imported Weaves the 2a(0) (Q)J Iattet prcdmmatlg silOW their QuaKtf and Skill and their making at a lIWlfON MADF Wc have thc fincst " of UNIONl UINJIHIM lVJLiUOCi 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. install XtotfMi Co. : GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS hour campaign they Imagined they would need a bundle of money as big as a piano leg, so they asked for a 5 per cent assessment. Then came the strike, but so many of the employers yielded gracefully that the rest of the campaign can be waged on the money on hand and coming in as i regular dues. President Glocking reported or. October 12 that there were 15,000 members working eight hours and 1,600 on strike. Since then a num ber of big shops have come in line, and the strike rqjl Is now well under the 750 mark. The 'bookbinders have made a winning. ii .! The Omaha strikers had a picnic one day last week, and took to the woods. They had a bully time, fish ing, nutting and framing up schemes to make the unfair employers walk the floor o' nights. i The bindery girls in Omaha struck, and Tommy Klopp and Frank Johnson haven't been talking about anything but "ingratitude" since. The international now Includes 176 locals, two having been organized slnec the strike for the eight-hour df.y. ; - GOOD BUSINESS SENSE. It Should Appeal to Lincoln Manufac turers of Shirts and Overalls. Here is a plain statement of fact that should appeal to the manager of the Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co., and the manager of the Inter-Ocean Shirt Co. The man who is not Interested in organized labor and who knows noth ing about union labels, will buy a un ion labeled shirt or overall just as quickly as he will the unlabeled gar ment. The loyal union man, or the opponent of sweat shop labor will not buy the garment unless it has the label. The unlabeled garment therefore appeals to only a part of the buying public. The labeled garment appeals to both union and non-unionosts. 1 Now why not make garments that you can sell to all classes of men in stead of to only part of them? Just think this over a little while. Perhaps the truth will percolate if you give It a good fair chance. If Mr. Jones will put the label on his goods, and if the manager of the Inter-Ocean factory will do the same, The Wageworker and 3,000 union men will proceed to boost for them. " Now if that sort of boosting is worth having, you gentlemen know how you may secure it. GIVEN A WATCH. Fireman H. Lux of the Burlington is proudly wearing a handsome gold watch given him last week by his fel- ow employes on the Burlington. It was in recognition of his heroism in risking 'his life to save that of a tod dling little girl -who got in the road of the engine on which Lux was firing. The incident happened this side of Seward a few weeks ago. The little girl got on the track and Lux saw that the train could not be stopped in time. He crawled out along the run ning board, and down upon the pilot. At just .the right instant he threw himself forward and to one side, grab bed the little one and 'both rolled off together and into safety. A single slip and Lux and the ilttle girl would both have been ground beneath the whels. Here's hoping that Lux will live -a thousand years, and keep the watch every day of the time. , '" ' CARPENTERS' .REFERENDUM. The vote of the Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners for the national presidency, which is by referendum, will be taken all over the country during the third week in November, the returns to be in the national head quarters in Indianapolis on the third werk in December. . Use the Best ft Is E1TY FL0V It is made in Lincoln and every sack is warranted to give satisfaction. BARBER a FOSTER , i. .: Tlie Lincoln Xttz&r fTPalnt Co. Modern Decorators, Wall Paper, Mouldings, Etc. gStM Alt) tbst U75