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"The FOLSOM" BAKERY M ADE IN LINCOLN LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN ADE BY FRIENDS I UBEEuTffi mm The Best Place for Union Men to buy CONFECTIONS BAKERY GOODS and ICE CREAM Remember Us THE FOLSOM BAKERY A. T. Seeley & Co. 1307 O STREET A RLAJIN SIGN of satisfaction's shown when a dea'er is recommended by his customers. It is our happy lot to say that our oldest patrons are our best salesmen. They Know Coal bought here is always clean and free from slate, and they also know that a ton with us means a ton never less. Has your expe rience been altogether of that character. Dm SCHAUPP COAL GO. 1218 O St. Yard, 18th and R. ' Bell 182. Auto 3812 talk Ifltpill eal estate I3C South 15th St. LINCOLN A SUIT or OVERCOAT f.lado to Ordor For No More No Less From Sheeps Back to Your Back ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF REGISTERED rufri v . ' !! i World's Greatest Tailors 9 IJC C.nlL 13th Street LINCOLN NEBRASKA IELMJ TC3I LABEL The Lincoln Wallpaper & Paint Co. A Strictly UbKih Ste JSfK Modern Decorators, Wall Paper, Mouldings, Etc. g?? Alto Pfctae 1975 Chicago. The building trades sec tion of the American Federation of Labor has been permanently organ ized. The officers elected are: J. M. Klrby of Chicago, recent president of the structural building trades alliance and a member of the carpenters' brotherhood, president; J. W. Spen cer of Cleveland, of the U. A. of plumbers, gas and steamfltters, secretary-treasurer, and the following vice-presidents: W. J. McSoiiey of Ohio, president of the wood, wire and metal lathers; George Hedrick of Al bany, vice-president of the painters, decorators and paperhangers; Frank Ryan of Chicago, president of the bridge and structural ironworkers; James Hannahan of Chicago of the hoisting engineers; and C. Leps of New Jersey of the building laborers. The plan adopted is virtually the same as that of tbe Boston C. L. U. and its building trade section. The section will hold its annual convention in De troit in November, simultaneously with the general convention of the A. F. of L. Boston. Hebrew bakers' union 45 began the distribution of free bread to the poor. In two days more than 1,600 loaves were given away. The work will be continued on a more ex tended scale. The money for the work is secured by a $1 a week assess ment on themselves by the members. The Hebrew charitable organization officers will cooperate this week. Fri day the union refused a $100 a week donation offer from a local newspaper, because the paper was involved in a dispute with the Boston newsboys' protective union 9077, A. F. of L. New York. The New York branch of the printers' league of America has advised the local typographical union that it has an arbitration agreement with the pressmen and press feeders' union by which there will not be any strikes or lockouts in the future, and that all questions, including those of wages, will be adjusted by arbitra tion. It announces that it is nego tiating with the international typo graphical union with the idea of hav ing a similar agreement with union printers. San Francisco. Allied Provisions Trade Council has taken steps to pro cure work for the unemployed. This organization does not intend to con fine its efforts to the members of the unions affiliated with it, but will en deavor to find work for those who are not of the unions. The council will prepare an appeal to the people of tbe city asking those who employ Asiatic servants to dismiss them and give em ployment to white men and women. Chicago. Cigar makers' locals are voting on four proposed amendments to the international union. One is for the establishment of a blue label ad vertising bureau; another for an in crease frojp 2. to 35 per cent, in the sum allowc- 1 locals for general ex penses, and the other two to. regulate employment of members of less than a year, and the manner of sending in matters for a decision of the inter- j national president. - Elmira, N. Y. The Erie railroad has officially notified its boiler makers and boiler makers' helpers that their wages will be reduced ten per cent. Telegraph operators who were put on a basis of eight hours a day, to con form to the new law limiting their work day to nine hours, are said to be organizing to protest' against a cut which, it is said, unofficially, will be made in their wages. Berlin, Germany. The German gov ernment is doing much to relieve the sufferings of the unemployed. The kaiser has ordered that all unem ployed be given work on great public undertakings, and thousands of men, starving a short time ago, are now cleaning and repairing public build ings, building bridges, fixing the road beds of the government railways, and instructions have been sent to ; all municipal authorities to take up the same policy. -Washington. According to reports received at the department of com merce ana moor tnousanas or rami la borers can be cared for in New York, New England, the agricultural states of the middle west, Colorado and other sections of the southwest and on the Pacific slope. In New York there are thousands of abandoned farms whose owners are anxious to get desirable tenants. The same thing is true of New England. Boston. Bookbinders union se cured the eight-hour day and union conditions in several more shops. Now but three big Cambridge or Boston shops have not signed or agreed to establish the workday at a near date. . Washington. James M. Lynch president of the International Typo graphical union and T. C. Parsons, president of the local typographical union, conferred with President Roose velt regarding the appointment of a public printer. They did not recom mend any one, but told him they would appreciate it if he would select a prac tical printer. Providence, R. I. Notices were posted in all of the mills of the B. B. & R. Knight cotton mills announcing that the plant will go on a three-quarter time schedule, affecting 6,000 operatives. Washington. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, closing the argument for the eight hour bill before the house committee on labor, emphatically contradicted the assertion that had been made before the committee by employers that working men as a rule were in favor of work ing over time if they received extra pay for it. He claimed that the rep resentatives of some of the employers who had appeared before the commit tee during these hearings had been in strumental in securing legislation that practically has made outlaws of union workmen. Asked by Mr. Vree land to explain his meaning, Mr. Gom pers said: "The suits that have been brought against the organizations of labor and which have reached final de cision by the supreme court of the United States have outlawed the or dinary actions of the labor organiza tions that had been regarded as law ful until those decisions were ren dered." Detroit, Mich. Representatives of the Dredge Owners' Protective asso ciation, who have . been In conference with delegates from the four labor unions of the dredge employes, have completed their wage agreements with all the unions. Wages remain practi cally unchanged from last year, but whereas last year the men practically declined to work overtime on any conditions, this year the owners can obtain overtime work by paying double wages, or, in some instances. 2 times the regular wages. Cincinnati. The Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers gave its final de cision not to accept a reduction In wages. The case will not be put up to the interstate commerce commis sion. Mr. Burgess, assistant grand chief of the organization, said: "The engineers are now actually suffering a 30 per cent, reduction in their wages Men who made $150 a month a year ago are now getting about $100. This is bad enough without talking about another cut of ten per cent." St. Louis. The American Car and Foundry Company plant in South St. Louis has closed down, throwing 1,200 men out of employment. In normal times the plant employs 3,000 men, but 1,700 were laid off several weeks ago. It is also stated that the men yet employed in the three other plants near St. Louis will be dismissed with in a few weeks. Lack of orders is given as the cause. Boston. "New England is to be the scene of the most serious railroad troubles this season, our international believes, and that's why we are here," is the statement made by the trio of international officers of the car work ers' unions who are now in this city. They are Martin Ryan of Kansas City, Benjamin P. Lewis of Memphis and John H. Suthons of Buffalo. Ashtabula, O. John O'Brien of Cleveland, former representative of the Structural Iron Workers' union, was sentenced to six years' imprison ment at hard labor in the Ohio peni tentiary at Jefferson, having been con victed of assault with intent to maim George Riley, a non-union foreman, in a labor riot at Ashtabula Harbor on February 5. , Chicago. The Industrial Workers of the World propose to organize every branch of the milk Industry, from the persons who milk the cows to the men who deliver the milk. The organization announces that steps will be taken to form a national onion of the employes of the industry. Boston. Notice has been received by 7,000 employes in five factories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, con trolled by the United States Rubber Company, that the mills will be closed shortly, some for an indefinite period and others for several weeks. ' St. Louis. Announcement was made by the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mointain railway system that the serv ices of 2,000 men employed in the com pany's shops at the foot of Sidney and De Kalk street here will no longer bo required. . . New, York. W. H. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company, said that his company is now operat ing about ten per cent, more of its mills than it did a 'month ago. Some increase is made from week to week. Westbrook, Me. Orders were re ceived from ' tbe S. D. Warren Com pany of Boston to place their paper mills here on short time. They will run five days a week. One thousand men will be affected. Halifax. Measures for the better payment of school teachers, the better registration of vital statistics and pro vision for old-age pensions are fore casted in the Nova Scotia legislature. 'Philadelphia. Several thousand un employed of this city will receive em ployment' on public works, in all prob ability, in about a month, by tbe pas sage of the $10,000,000 loan. Councils will authorize the floating of the loan at its next meeting, and Mayor Rey- burn will immediately advertise for bids. Washington. Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commission and Commissioner of Labor Neill, as mediators under the Erdman act, be gan their conferences respecting the proposed reduction of wages of em ployes of the Southern railway. No better flour sold on the Lincoln - market. Every sack warranted. We want the trade of Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it. If your grocer does not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor how she Ekes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it. , BARBER & FOSTER iKyK0000 Bell Phone F3008 Auto Phone 6334 Henderson & Hald Jewelers and Opticians 132 North lQth St. LINCOLN, NEB. J TvVwVwlvVvVwVwVwVwfwVvVU Uo Soil HARDWARE, STOVES, SPOBT IN6 GOODS, RAZORS, RAZOR STROPS AND CUTLEDY At Low Prices Hoppe's Hardware. 100 north IQlh 000OSO0000000000 LYRIC THEATRE Matinee 3:00 P. M. Eieiing 7:45 & 9:00 POLITE VAUDEVILLE Lincoln's Popular Playhouse. Prices Balcony 10c, Lover Floor 20c Shoes Bearing TO Stamp are made by Union Labor and Fair Employers agreeing to arbi trate all differences. Believers in Industrial Peace and Fair Treatment of labor, should ask their shoe dealer for shoes bearing this stamp. The product of Fair Employers and Fair Labor merits the patronage of all fair minded persons Ask your dealer for Union Stamp shoes, and if he can not supply you, write ',. BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 Summer St., BOSTON; MASS. j WORKERS UNION W II UWIOHjSKHpl H factory No. 1 The Dr. Benj. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. eeo Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. TTninn-mnrkk ftlsviFa. i iTiiiTiiirriTfHiitijiPriuii it$ liT ill u in fi i ilF r tT r i if ' CtflUtf. rffAir"rTf-T"iifft It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . oeoe