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THE CARPENTERS.
Have Arranged for Educational Talks
at Their Regular Meeting.
Lincoln local, No. 1055, United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, , is working along progressive
lines these days. At the meeting last
Tuesday night it was unanimously de
cided to select a committee to ar
range for a series of educational ad
dresses at the meetings, and C. H.
Chase was selected to attend to the
matter. Rev. Mr. Pritchard, pastor
of the Christian church at Bethany,
appeared before the union by special
invitation and delivered a thoughtful
and earnest address on labor and re
ligious lines that was listened to wtih
great interest. The Wageworker
hopes to be able to print a synopsis
of this address in the next i issue.
This move on the part of the car
penters could be followed with profit
b other unions. The carpenters have
already had several of these addresses,
and they were so enjoyable and proflt
abel that it was decided to make them
a permanent feature of the regular
meetings. -. ..- -
ELECTRICAL WORKERS.
A Hustling Union That is. Doing
' Things to Help Along.
The splendid work of organization
undertaken by the Electrical Workers
of this western section is having a
beneficial effect. Organizations are
being planted in every town where
there are enough men to hold, a char
ter, and the district organization plan
keeps things humming." District Sec
retary Mayer of Lincoln is developing
a case of writer's cramp in his efforts
to keep up with his correspondence. ;
John Dobson, a' member of the
Omaha union, No. 162, has been called
t.- his long home. He was one of the
staunchest members of the organiza
tion and was a- great favorite "among
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Exclusive Retailers. Manufacturers of
High-Grade, Made-to-Measure Petticoats
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Renovating a Specialty
Work called for and delivered
120 No. 12th St., Lincoln, Neb.
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THIRTEENTH AND P STREETS.
WHEN 'WALK-OVERS' GO OH
SHOE TROUBLES 60 OFF
ROGERS & PERKINS CO.
1129 O Street.
ZErust anb Savings Banh
Owned by Stockholders ol First National Bank.
INTEREST PAID AT 31-2 PER CENT
his fellows. He was forty -five years
of age, and leaves a wife.
Here's what a little timely hustling
will do: The Joplin, Mo., Electrical
Construction and Supply Co. is un
fair. It secured the contract for re
wiring Neuman & Co.'s big store in
that city. The union as soon as it
heard of it sent a committee to Neu
man & Co. and laid the facts before
the firm members: Mr. Neuman, the
manager, immediately cancelled the
contract and awarded it to .the P. A.
Tonnies Co., a strictly fair concern.
CLOSES NEBRASKA OFFICES.
Pleading insufficient operators an i
the necessity of economy, the Missouri
Pacific has closed twelve offices in
Nebraska since the inauguration of
the nine-hour law. It took a lot of
money to buy Anna that French count,
and a lot more to lose him.
PASSED UP.
Some labor bills are being passed,
"Passed up" is what I mean;
And as they go, the face' of "Joe"
Is thrown upon the csreen.
So long as workingmen shall vote
For Cannon and his kind, ' ;
They'll stay just like the old cow's tail
A h mi ging on behind. ' '
Kansas City Labor lerald.
IAB0R SERMONS
I.
'LABELED GOODS."
(By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.)
Most of us wear a label. It may
no! be a "union" label, but It morel
accurately indicates the conditions
uuder which we were developed than
is sometimes possible by other kinds
of labels. The United States govern
ment has recently declared that every
form of prepared food and patent druij
must be so plainly marked that any
one may know its principal constituent
parts. But jnore . minutely still - is
every . man and woman labeled an-1
classified. At . any 'rate, there are
same folks who know about us, try
ty deceive the world as we may. It
i.j still true that you can fool som
of the people all of the time, and all
of the people some of the time, ,but
you cannot fool all of the people ali
oi the time, t
Many a workingman who is ex-
sr.emely careful about having the
union label in his hat, forgets it is
fai more important to' have the right
kind of a label in his heart,-' For "as
a man thinketh in his heart, so IS he.''
That's scripture, vand I've; no .doubt
it's true. And what a man IS, . is
pretty sure to be revealed in his talk,
his walk, his hand, his face, his eye.
hiy life. All this in a man will make
a pretty good sized label, apd you
don't have to dig down into his
clothes, or lift the band of his hat," to
tell what manner cf man he is.
i CAPITAL AUXILIARY NO. 11. V
Capital Auxiliary met Friday, Febru
ary 28, with Mrs. Fred Ihringer, 1539
O street. After the regular business,
ti- pleasant, social . time was enjoyed,
twenty-one members being present. '
The name of Mrs.. Otto Hoffmeister
was added to our membership!
. Thirty-six dollars was collected by
the chairman of committee for salo
of tickets to the annual ball. Mrs.
H. W. Smith received the reward for
stlling the greatest number:
Mrs. W. S. Bustard arrived in Lin
coln from Washington ' to attend the
silver anniversary ball.
'Mrs. G. M. Wathan left on. Friday
for a short visit to Auburn, Neb.
Capital ' Auxiliary was i well repre
sented at some of the Press associa
tiori meetings last week. . , ;
; Word has been received that one of
our members, ' Mrs. James Kinkaid,
will become a charter member of the
Council Bluffs , Auxiliary how ' being
organized. -f v
Capital Auxiliary meets Friday,
March 13, at 2:30 with Mrs. Ernstine
King, 2135 South Tenth street.
MOVE TRAINS BY TELEPHONE.
Nine-Hour Law Brings About a
Change in Railroading. J
The nine-hour law for railroad te
legraphers, which became- effective
March 4, is "hastening use of the
telephone in the operation of trains,
according to A. S. Ingalls, assistant
g neral superintendent of ' the -. Lake
Shore road. - i '
"I believe," said Mr. Ingalls, "that
the new law regulating working hours
will bring about in one year what it
would have taken ten years to accom
plish in the direction of new use of
the telephone on railroads." v.'
Superintendent Ingalls some time
since induced the Lake Shore to make
a thorough test on the Lake Erie.
Alliance and Wheeling. After being
tiled for four months, during a period
when freight traffic was heavy, reports
have been made - that the system
proved satisfactory.
Kewanee, 111. A threatened big cut
la the wages of the workmen of the
Western Tube works, and the refusal
of the employes to submit to the wage
reduction, is causing great concern
throughout the city,' which haB a labor
ing population of about 8,000 workers
at this plant. Back of the refusal of
the men to accept the new wage scale
is the Steel Workers' union, which has
forbidden the men to "return to work.
The management of the plant declares
it is paying the men So large a daily
wage that it cannot stand the financial
pressure, the wages ranging from $4.50
to $15 a day.- The men maintain that
they will be unable with the reduction
in working hours to make more than
two dollars a day.,
Chicago. A reduction in the wage
scale of union mechanics in the build
ing trades line was attempted when
the cut stone contractors asked the
Stone Planer Men's union to accept a
decrease in pay for the next year. The
present rate of wages is 47 cents an
hour, and the reduction asked equals a
ten per cent. cut. In a letter to the
business agent of the planer men's
organization' the contractors asked for
a conference to discuss the wage scale
with a view1 to making the reduction.
The union, voted to ask for an in
crease, but the committee appointed
to confer with the master's said that a
renewal of the present scale i would
be satisfactory. '
St. Louis. On the charge of violat
ing the laws of the International
Printing Pressmen and . Assistants'
union, in failure to pay their .last three
months' dues and assessments, e
charters of the Printing Pressmen's
union, No. 6, and. the Press Feeders
and Assistants union, No. 26,' were re
voked by the board of directors of the
international organization.
Norfolk, Va. Judge McLemore "has
decided in a strike case that no in'
junction could lie until violence against
the plaintiffs or their property is at
tempted by the defendants, and that
members of the ; Engineers union
were within their rights in ,trying by
argument or other fair means to have
employes of the plaintiffs quit their
employment. . -. ' .
New York. So pronounced has the
depression in the building trades be
come that the big contracting firm of
James C. Stewart & Co., which : em
ploys upward 6f 9,000 men in the busy
season, has -already, found it necessary
to reduce the wages of its skilled me
chanics 50 cents per day in the, south,
which is to be followed by similar ac
tion here.'- "vy-, ."'.' ". ''- '; ,'.'',' J
Boston. President Tuttle of the
Boston & Maine railroads-announces
that a reduction in salaries of ten per
cent.' will be made, affecting all em
ployes of the road receiving more than
$100 per., month, to . take effect at
once. About 800 employes wnl be af
fected. The business depression is
given as the cause. , r ,'-.',
- Essen, V Germany, Krupp's' ' 1 can
hbn and " armor-rplate factory, which
was working overtime on great pres
sure of orders -until the latter part ?of
last year, is now experiencing very
dull trade. To obviate dismissals at
the cannon foundry many men are
now employed on industrial works of
peace. .' . ' :
San Francisco. rWaltev Macarthur,
editor of the Coas( Seamen's Journal,
will continue as editor 06 the Journal
for another year.' At the annual elec
tion of the sailors of the Pacific, held
recently, ; Macarthur was chosen " for
the position, which is an elective one.
St. Louis. Because of a lack of or
ders from railroad companies, the
plants of the American Car and Foun
dry Company at Madison, 111., and va
rious Missouri, New York and Penn
sylvania ? towns, : employing 150,000
men in ' all, will . be shut down within
the next ten days, according to the
statement of an official. - Officials of
the company say that about 30 '.per
cent, of the total working force has
been let out temporarily. . ,. ;, ,'..
.'Philadelphia. The. Pennsylvania
railroad has on its lines east and west
77,000 idle cars,' representing an in
vestment of $77,000,000. -Of these idle
cars, which represent' aproxiruatelv 35
per cent. of the company's freight
equipment, 61,000 are standing on the
sidings and yards over , the system
and 16,000 are, in the various shops
undergoing or. awaiting repairs.
. Cleveland, Ohio. The formation of
a hack and cab drivers' union has
been -practically completed. Two meet
ings have already been held and 200
have signified intention of joining. A
charter has been received from the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters. ; , There are 1,000 cabmen in
Cleveland. . - ' '
St. Paul, Minn. As a result of the
financial difficulties the Chicago Great
Western railroad employes will suffer
a reduction in income. , This reduction
will not come in the shape of a direct
cut in salaries, but through a change
in the schedule under which the ' men
are working. . The company is now
preparing a new working schedule.
East St. Louis, 111. The Republic
Iron and Steel Company put 900 men
to work and announcement has been
made by the -National Enameling and
Stamping Company that 400 extra
men will be given employment in the
mills at Granite City, j
New Orleans. Seventy-two men, .
representatives of all classes of labor
employed on the New Orleans river
front and, who compose a union known
as the Dock and Cotton council, were
indicted by the. United States, grand
jury on the charge of conspiring to re-.
strain trade in violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law. ' The indictments
followed the refusal of the Dock and
Cotton council to permit the Coal.
Wheelers' union to coal the steamer
HabU The ageni of the Habil signed,
an agreement with the union, had his
vessel coaled and then placed the mat
ter in the hands of the United' States
district attorney.
Berlin, Germany Sixty thousand is
a conservative estimate of the unem
ployed here, about equally divided be
tween the skilled and the unskilled.
It is the ,, largest .1 number for many
years, and proportionate figures are
reported from all German industrial ...
centers. "The "slump" in : the 'coun- :'
try's commercial prosperity is partly
a consequence of the' American. -crisis, 1
which is chiefly responsible for scores
of factories working either half time
or with half staffs or being shut
down., .'.'.' i- - i
Indianapolis, Ind. The' strike as
sessment levied ' byi the printers'
union in support of -the eight-hour ,
Strike two years ago has been - de
clared off. An assessment of one-half
of one per, cent will go into effect
from March 1 for the purpose of pav
ing old-age benefits. Members " 60
years old or over, and of 20 years' con-'
tinuous membership fai the union. will .
receive four, dollars a week, r k r ,
Baltimore," Md. It is' officially an-"-'
hounced that ' hereafter employes : of
the Baltimore & Ohio having anything
to do with the direction or running
of trains will not be permitted to use
intoxicants at any time, either when '
on or off duty,. and no person "using
such beverage will, be employed. This '
action nas neen taicen oy xne omciais
of the railroad in an effort to reduce
the number of accidents. , , -
Leicester, England. The arbitration j
board for' the Boot and Shoe .Trades '.
has decided upon an advance in wages
equal to one-half of the operatives'
demand. ' The operatives , demanded
an advance of 4s to 32s a week.' The-
seiiJeuieiLi lum cuecieu wiu ib&ii iui
three years without action ' on pither
side. ' , ' . '
Memphis, Tenn. The Producers and, .
establishment of an exchange in this,
city by which ' the, necessities of life
raised by the, farmers in the territory :,
surrounded by Memphis can be sold,
direct to the consumer from the pro-, ,
ducer at rates mutually advanta-
geous. .. ; 1 " i.- i' i.
.'Boston. :At a recent meeting of
the District Council of Carpenters it
was voted to ask "for, an Increase 1 in. 1
wages from May 1 next trom 43'i
cents an hour to-50 cents an hour, with
an eight-hour work day.; The' Satur- ,
day half-holiday ' the year' 'around is
also to be asked for. , The council rep-
resents 6,000 men.
-.' Detroit, Mich. Detroit .' Lodge of
Shipmasters' association' has adApted
a resolution,' urging Washington as a
permanent , meeting place . for the an-
hual Winter sessions. All lodges aloug
the lakes will be asked to support this
plan.' , ,- '
' Winnipeg, Man. The ; Carpenters'1 .
union boasts of. three men who ' have
been continuous members of the or
ganlzatlon for more than 36 years.iThe
union believes this sets a record. '
Mobile, : Ala. The new"" Alabama
child labor, law. recently went into ef- '
feet. , It forbids the, employment, of
children under 12 years of age in cot- ,
ton mills .and other industries, and
children between the ages of 12 anH 14 t;
are not allowed ' to work,1 full' time.
For some time the (managers of the'
mills have been "preparing for the en-i
forcement of the law, and have, been
displacing 'the children r who would
be affect ed by the operation of the new-statute.-
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'..'Wollavllla O TliA TTnifarl '. .Qfn I ao .
Pioneer, Patterson's and the McNicol
potteries and the Wellsville plant of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate '
sCompany "have resumed,, giving work,
to over 1,700 men. ' Extra labor is be-,
ing employed at the Cleveland & Pitts
burg railroad shop, and sewer pipe ant
firenrick plants have started.
Chicago. Judge Pickney. has or
dered judgment for $8,000 against
Armour & " Co., in favor of Walenty .
Bunida, a laborer.' Bunida some time
ago accidentally struck his wrist
against a pickling needle used for the
injection of a preservative Into hams.
Blood poisoning developed and it was
necessary to amputate his arm.
' Chicago. Officials of ; the National
Founders' association received notice
that the long strikes of molders in '
Dayton, O.; St. Paul, Minneapolis and
South Milwaukee ' have been, de
clared off by the union, and that the
strikers' were instructed by their lead-
ers to find work where thoy can. . '
' T J T,. , J f. J-U , 1ljA .,
shipyards the shadow of ! the ' threat-
ened strike has been removed, the- -men
having' accepted a reduction of
five per cent, on piece rates, the mas
ters having on their side agreed to,
forego the proposed reduction of on, -'
farthing per kour on time rates. ' ' h