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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1908)
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. The recent telegraph strike cost 120,000,000. Union made shoes are sold by Rog ers & Perkins. In New York City electrical work ers receive $5 a day, of eight hours. The Brotherhood of Carpenters will hold lta annual convention in Salt Lake City. One hundred and fifty firemen are employed on tome of the great Amer ican liners. Among the organized women work ers in. Germany, 14,972 belong to the metal trades. Twenty-fifth annual ball, Lincoln Ty pographical Union. Fraternity Hall, February 26. ' In Italy the membership of trade unions decreased from 240,689 in 1902 to 204.271 In 1907. There are 131,333 barbers and hair l leasers in the United States; 1,565, 450 waiters and 83,875 barkeepers. Germany has altogether 33 labor colonies where the unemployed can obtain work ns a right. The immigration to Canada for the first ten months of this year totalled 254.077. an increase of 59,103. Unions in England are endeavoring to municipalize the milk supplies for the protection of the liealth of the public, and especially of the children. Colonial Secretary Smutz, -of the Transvaal, has declared that if the Chinese are retained they will eventu ally drive the whites out of that coun try. The municipalization of the Ade laida, Australia, tram service has re sulted in shortening 'the hours of la bor, and an increase of wages of em ployes. The French government has issued statistics showing that 12,000,000 working men and women make regu lar deposits In the postal savings bunk. The savings aggregate- $888, 000.000. A careful canvass of the labor situ ation in Chicago recently showed that there are in the city 138,959 idle work ing people. Normally there are 50,000 men out of work at this season of the year. It was stated at a meeting of the Municipal Council of Schoeneberg. a suburb of Berlin, recently, that there were 30,000 skilled and 33,000 un skills:! workmen idle in Berlin alone. A proportionate number are Idle In other industrial centers and in the (fanning i regions. A roush count of the census of Cuba cabled to the war department by Governor Magoon shows the total population of the island to be 2,$28, 282. In looking for outside trade just ' now American piano manufacturers ought to find in Cuba some pretty good plana territory. Russia, anxious to develop the .col onization of Manchuria and Trans baikalia, has sent emissaries to Buko wina to divert part of the America- bound emigration to Russian Asia. The inducements offered Include grants of land, lumber, and other building material. .100 roubles ($150) farm Implements and free transportation. Alexander Hume Ford, the maga- aiue writer, writing to Honolulu from FIJI, says rhat the Hindoo coolies, in troduced there as laborers for the sugar plantations, are fast driving the white population out of Fiji, and are even driving the native Fijian to the wall, and will eventually not only e the laborers, but the owners of the sugar Industry. The discovery of a bed of white coal at Wrightsburg, McLean county Illinois, has been reported. 'Spec! mens of the coal will be analyzed by experts for the purpose of determln ing the composition and value of tho deposit for commercial purposes. The coal is of a grayish white, with aeon Chapped Hands It they are red, rough or cracked, one trial of Witchcrol Cream will convince yon of its superi ority and efficiency. Witcherol Cream will keep the hands Boft and white. Ask for a sample next time you are down town. 25o Per Bottle. Rector's . Twelfth and 0 me Week's Sale off RtemiraaiiMs amidl An event that prudent shoppers wait for eagerly, knowing full well that the remnants we put out are not bought by us as jobs and include old goods, but come directly out of our stock of salable merchandise Each remnant is good and desirable, no matter how low the price; this season's accumulation of REMNANTS and SHORT LINES is greater than ever, owing to the greatly increased business CAVP 95 TO 50 PPD f'PlVT b siting some of these DRESS GOODS WHITE GOODS TABLE LINENS FLANNELS GINGHAMS CHAM BR AYS PERCALES TICKINGS SHIRTINGS CRETONNES MUSLINS SHEETINGS FLANNELETTES OUTINGS UNDERWEAR BELTS BLANKETS HOSIERY DRESS TRIMMINGS GLOVES MITTENS , CORSETS EMBROIDERIES RIBBONS LACES ETC. Cloak Room After inventory, we find the stock of Coats, Jackets, Skirts and Waists badly broken in sizes. However, there is a fairly good assortment left. Our aim is not to carry any gods over, therefore we make a RIDICULOUSLY LOW PRICE offer for next six days' selling. At these prices the gar ments will certainly not last long. JACKETS. Silk Plush, $13.50 values, must'go at $ 6.50 Silk Plush, $17.50 values, must go at 7.50 Furettes, $35.00, $29.50 values, must go at 12.50 COAT8 All $13.50, $12.50 regular price, must go at $ 5.00 All $16.50, 15.50. 14.50 regular price, must go at.. 7.00 All $22.50, $19.50 regular price, must go at 9.00 All $29.50, $27.50, $25.00 regular price, must go at. 12.00 1 lot of Childrens' Spring Jackets, values up to $3.75, choice 98c 1 lot of 42 inch Coats and 27-inch Jackets, not up-to-date, but god wearing garments, were sold up to $15.00, Choice of all Children's Coats, season 1907 styles, sizes 2 to 14 AT HALF PRICE All Plush Capes at One-half Off. SKIRTS, Broken size line. $3.95 values Black Cashmere, choice $1.98 $5.95 values Black Cheviot and Mixtures, choice $2.98 $6.95 values Black Voiles, choice $3.48 $9.00 values Assorted Black and Colored, choice. . .V. 50 WAISTS $1.50 stripe an C heck Novelty Goods choice at 75c $1.75 Stripe and Check Novelty Goods, choice at.... 88c $2.25 Stripe and Check Novelty Goods, choice at $1.13 $2.93 Silk Finished Poplin, choice at $1.48 $4.95 line Taffeta Silk, cnoice $2.95 59c Dressing Sacques, choice at 29c 98c Dressing Sacques, choice at 49c $1.50 Black Petticoats, choice at 95? Odds and Ends in Furnishings MEN'S CAPS One lot of Men's and Boys' Winter Fur Lined Caps, assorted styles, 50c goods, to clean up this week, at, each . . . 35c WOLLEN SHIRTS Men's half and all Wool Flannel Shirts, broken sizes, assorted colors prices from $1.00 to $3.00, to close out this week, at 1-3 OFF FLANNEL GOWNS Men's Fancy Flannel Gowns, fast colors, made good and large, sizes, 14 to 19, 60 cent values, to close out, this week, each... 39c SUSPENDERS , Men's Extra Heavy Police and Cross Back Suspenders, about 3 dozen to close out, pair .....19c WOOL YARN SWEATERS Men's and Boys' Wool Yarn Sweaters, assorted colors, worth $1.25 and $1.50, about 4 dozen left, now for a clean-up, each 7,c WOOL MITTENS Extra Heavy Wool Driving Gloves and Mittens, water proof .this week, pair ..39c - UNION SUITS Men's Lamb Down Fleece Union Suits, good large garments, $175 sellers, just a tew left, this week, each $1.29 BOYS' BLOUSES A good assortment of Boys' Good Weight Gingham Blouse Waists, fast colors, sizes 4 to 15 years, sold at. 50c, this week to close out, each 39,5 gc0' 917-921 O St. OPPOSITE CITY HALL Shoe Department As a proper' windup to the most successful Clear ance Sale we have ever had, we shall now throw the balance of our Winter Footwear and short lines on the market at such prices as will remove it from our store in short order. .. ' -. : DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. ; . Twenty-five per cent Off on All Warm Lined Shoes and Slippers..'''''.1.--. ' " OVERSHOES, AT CUT PRICES All broken lines of Men's, Women's Boys' Misses' and Childrens Shoes at a discount of from 20 to. 30 per' Cent. . . ' . HIGH CUT SHOE8 : T- Men's 12-inch Kangroo Grain Bluchers, sizes 7 1-2 to 12, $4.00 values.... .S3. 40 , Men's 12-inch Box Calf Bluchers, cap toe, Freak last, . sizes 7 to 11, regular $3.50... ..j ....$2.98 Men's 14-inch Elk Brown Stone Bluchers, cap toes, heavy sole, all sizes, regular $4.95, for .... . .$3.98 Girls' Box Calf lace shoes, high tops, sizes 2 1-2 to 6, regular price $2.25.... ..........$1.79 slderable lustre. It is- said to burn slowly with little soot or cinders, leaving a powdery ash not unlike that from a wood fire. The co-operative laundry in San Jose, Cal., is being operated by the labor organizations of the county. In Germany the membership of all trade unions increased from 1,083,365 in 1901 to 2,215,165 in 1906, or over 100 per cent. Statistics published by the commit tee of the first Russian trade unions congress show that 652 unions, with 246,272 members existed In Russia in 1907. There is a possibility thai New York may within a short time experience a widespread building strike against a proposed reduction of wages from $5to $4.50 a day. According to an official statement, the recent encounters at Iquique, Cbile, between nitrate strikers and police, resulted in the killing of 210 man and the wounding of fifty. The International Typographical Union iutend3 to bring the strike against the New York Methodist Book 'Concern for the eight-hour day before the general conference, which meets in Baltimore. ' Recently twenty-eight new locals of the Masons and Bricklayers of the United States have been organized in North and South Carolina. During the same period five locals were reinstated. THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE LABOR QUESTION CUTTING EXPENSES. Orders to curtail the use of tele? grams have been given once more by the Union Pacific and Burlington rail roads in, the interests of economy. Special delivery letters will be used as far as possible in place of tele grams. ; IN OMAHA. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hammond of Lincoln were visiting Mr. arid Mrs Ingalls, Twenty-fifth and Bitvney, this week. Mr. Hammond is fj. member of the Bricklayers Union cf Lincoln. Western Laborer. ' LEWIS SUCCEEDS MITCHELL. T. L. Lewis has been elected presi dent of the United Mine Workers, succeeding John Mitch'ell, resigned. Lewis' majority was overwhelming. W. D. Evans ' was elected secretary treasurer to succeed "Wilson, the in cumbent, and John P. White of Iowa will succeed Lewis as first vice-president. V. THE WORKINGMAN'S SACRI FICE OF BLOOD. From coal-pit, railroad, mill and shop come startling stories of human sacrifice, offered morning, noon and night. Labor's contribucion to the progress and prosperity of the na tion's life is lauded in poetry and grandiloquent speech, but the needless shedding of human blood in our in dustrial enterprise calls for more than a passing sentiment. . In our coal mines we kill more than three times as many per thousand em ployed as are killed in France or Bel gium, and nearly three times as many as in Great Britain. We kill more per million tons produced than we ever did before, and more than any other country kills now. This in spite of the fact that the coal mines of ,-the United States may be more , easily worked and with less danger than those of any other coal-producing country in the world. In 1906,. 2,061 miners were killed in American mines. But within the past few weeks fa talities at the Naomi mine, at Mo nongah, at another mine in Yolande, Alabama, and still another in the Con nellsvllle region 'in Pennsylvania numbered nearly seven hundred, one third of ,the total number killed with in the entire previous year. Plainly, the ntimber. of deaths in the coal mines of America is on the increase. The pity of it is that all of these dis asters were probably preventable. The story or the destruction of hu man life in the steel mills of this country is appalling. Some one has figured out that in the Pittsburg dis trict alone one life is snuffed for every 7,600 tons of the 7.000,000 ons annual production of iron and steel, and one for every 870 tons of the 800,000 tons of steel rails yearly put upon the market. The railroads in our country kill an average of eight thousand persons a year, and injure eight times as many more, most of whom are workingmen. The railroad man as well as the worker on the high seas, is supposed to sacrifice himself "when it comes to a question as between the safety of himself and that of his passengers. Thus, into the product, of America's giant, industries there is wrought not only the sweat of labor, but the life- that there is no remedy for this whole sale slaughter? Is there no compas sion for the women and the children who remain? Must workingmen themselves pay the price not only for their personal mishaps, but out of their earnings, pay also for the mis haps of their fellow workers? Shame on any law or system which penalizes the workers for accidents-for which they are responsible -to -only a limited extent, freeing froia" practically all Care and responsibility those whose interests were -being served by faith ful men who-"gave their lives so that the wo rljir "'might be the gainer. Rev. Charts 'Stelzle. LITTLEFIELD IN CHARGE. And That's What Show Labor Has for Redress of Grievances. Labor's show for redress of griev ances by the present congress are just about equal to that of the snow ball in hades.' All sorts of bills have been introduced into the house of rep resentatives at Washington to meet the complicated demands of labor. As each bill was presented Speaker Cannon referred it to the judiicary committee. The judiciary committee appointed a sub-committee to con sider them. The; chairman of this sub-committee is Representative Lit tlefield of Maine., Between organized labor and Representative Littlefield there is a feud bitter as wormwood. Littlefield sees his opportunity to get even with organized labor, and he will attend to the little matter of smoth ering the labor bills in committee. In this he will be assisted by Speaker Cannon, who loves labor about like the devil loves holy water. . And that's the show organized labor has to secure some of its just demands at the hands of congress. 'President Roosevelt is expected to send in his promised labor message at any time. He is showing symptoms of getting ready to fight for some laws. satisfactory to labor, and when he be gins the fight there is going to be some lively doings. The American Federation of Labor is going after Littlefield's scalp again this year. The chances of success are better than they were two years ago, when Littlefield had to fight" desper ately to retain his ' seat. Recent ju dicial dcisions have so stirred up or ganized labor that there are others than Littlefield who will have to go some to hold on to their congrest sional jobs. ATTENTION CARPENTERS1 f The meeting of Local 1055, Unjia Brotherhood of Carpenter and Join ers of America, on Tuesday evening, February 17, will be , addressed by Rev. Mr. ' Pritchard of Bethany., Every member should be. present to hear this eloquent minister who is so ably championing the cause of the workers. PRINTERS JAILED. Sentenced to Imprisonment Without 'Trial by High Handed Judge. The following Associated Press dis patch from New York City, under date of February 11 will interest the printers and all other union men as well:' ' 'i"- '. "President Patrick H. McOormick of the local Typographical Union, known as the 'Big Six,' and George. W. Jackson and Vincent J. Costello, union organizers today were fined $250 each and sentenced to twenty , days' imprisonment for disobedience of an Injunction obtained 'by the Typothetae of New York in 1906. Thomas Ben nett and William S. Anderson were fined $100 on thp same charge. Sen tence was imposed by Justice Bischoff in the supreme court. ' : ' "This is the first time any such heavy sentence in the calse of a labor organization for violation of an in junction has been imposed in these courts. The trouble grew out of the strike of Typographical Union No. 6, ordered early in 1906, against the association of employers known as the Typothetae of the city of 'New York for a closed shop and an eight-hour day. Soon after the going out of the men the officers of the Typothetae complained that the strikers were practicing intimidation against their employes who remained at work and those who took the places of strikers and were resorting to -violence. On these representations Justice Blancb ard granted an injunction restraining the officers and members, of the union from continuing the practices which had been charged. ... Later, In April, 1906, a representative of the employ ers' association appeared in court and asked that the members o( the union be punished for contempt in that they had continued the acts of violence and oppression. By order of Justice the charges..' It was upon this report and recommendation . that the sen tence of today was inflicted." President ' James 3. Murphy of "Big Six" issued the following statement Wednesday: , - .: . i "We will not nermit our merrabersv tjx,Jse sent . to jail for insisting upon heir ' rights as American citizens. Yesterday's . outrageous . decision will react on everyone responsible for it. " The union will give bail up to a million should it be needed and will serve notice on the state legislature that the present laws must be amend ed at once or some one will Buffer." . The officers of the union are greatly aroused over Justice Bischoff's deci sion sending certain members to jail for violation of his injunction prohibit ing picketing during a strike. Mur phy continued : , "A few more decisions like this and labor will be firmly united, and this will mean much at the polls." PROSPERITY ITEM. " Fred Bach, a member of the Sacra mento Carpenters';-Union, who wa"s out of work and' despondent, threw himself in front of a moving train this week near Tracy and was killed by the engine. No cause other than the fact that he was depressed and could , not: find work' could be learned for the rash act. - PRACTICAL HELP. The members of the Cleveland Lathers' Union have decided to work only six hours a day and four hours' ci. Saturday, so as to give every mem ber of the union some of the work That is practical unionism. NOTICE OF ADOPTION. In re-adoption No. 246 "of "Ernest" in the County Court ' of , Lancaster County, Nebraska. , : The State of Nebraska, to all per sons interested take notice that Wil liam H. England and Minnie T. Eng land, husband and wife, have ' filed their petition, and relinquishment of the State of Nebraska, by the Superin tendent of the Home of 'the Friendless,' for the adoption of "Ernest"' a minor male child, with bestowal of property rights and change of name to Ralph Throop England, which has been set. for hearing before this court on March 14th, 1908, at 9 o'clock A. M., when you may appear, object to and contest the same. Dated January 31, .1908. -P. JAS. COSGRAVE. . . j (Seal.) ' County Judge. By WALTER A. UBEJSE, Deputy. 44-4t.