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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1908)
GENERAL MENTION. Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly With the Scissors. Look for the union label. " The union label that's all. it it Is not labeled, refuse it. Union made shoes are sold Ilog nt & Perkins. There r.te fort.y-t.hree women hack drivers in the United Slates. Duluth, Minn.. Els-trlc!ann' Union has started a co-operative shop. Mtul polishers and buffers Have formed a union at LaCrosse, Wis. Typographical' Union No. 20U meets Sunday uttemoon at Fraternity ball. Carpenters' are warned to stay away from Cheyenne and Fort Russel, W'yo. V. K. Painter, of Lincoln, bus been made tiainmaster of the Burlington nt MeCook The labor bill was referred to Con gressman LltrleHeld. Itilefield Is a "friend of labor." ' C:irpeuters' District Council of Greater Boston has within its folds more than 0,000 men. . Fred Mlckel has sold his property ou South Sixteenth street and is now living at S001 S street. "A collection wb taken up by L. O. Jones." Trust L. O. Jones to gel the money end of the game. Littlelield figured up the eost of "re piuHatiiig" Oompers and concluded that once was enough. The Western Vnlort lit Omaha let out seven operators last week. Dull ! ; times and the panic is over. ' ' ' ' libor asked the supreme court for a guarantee of rights. The supreme court handed labor a lemon. . The Standard Steel Car plant at Hammond. Ind.. employing 2,500 men, will close for lack of orders. ' .Twelve thousand unemployed held a meeting in New York City last Sun day. Another prosperity Item. It is Illegal to boycott the Buck Stoves and ranges, and it is the act of a "scab" to buy them. That's all. Every one of the one hundred and forty lamplighters in Boston Is a mem ber of the Lamplighters' Union. Wage earners are requested to keep away from Seattle, Wash., as thous ands of meu are out of work there. On March 28, the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway laid off a couple of hundred more shop men. The panic Is over. ' . .- ' If you don't think Lincoln Is about ' the best town you ever lived in. It's up to yt" to move to a town you think is better.' Boost. Six hundred men were laid off at the Reading railroad shops, !h Read : lug. Pa., the other day. More "re covery from the panic." - And the other day. we say a union pressman going home with a Ladies ' Home Journal in his pocket!. Said he didn't know It was unfair. Twenty years ago this week the Bur lington engineers were on strike, and switchmen throughout Burl!ngton ter Htory were striking in sympathy. The Lincoln Star has inaugurated another "most popular contest," the first; prize being a $1,700 automobile. Guess we'd rather get a wheelbarrow. Jf Lincoln can provide the state with a jsite for a state historical building, why can it not provide local union men with a site for a Labor Temple? i Pittsburg street railway men came near striking against a reduct'on in .wages. The company ugreed to let the Kcale remain In force pending arbitra , lion. - Tbe greivance committee of the ' Brotherhood of -Railway Trainmen is In'sefcsion !n Chicago, conferring with the ,niuagers of forty-seven railway linem? ' ' The United .Mine Workers of the Iowa jurisdiction are figuring on build Ing a home for. aged and indigent mem bers. It will probably be located at Des Moines. ,i Thje , Pennsylvania railroad let "out 2,000 nhoi men last week. About Sep tember 1, these men will be asked to ., ' mnrrh in the "full dinner bucket" po- Iltlcal parades. " It is time for local unions to begin considering the matter of observing the second Sunday In May as "Labor Sunday." Let's all join In and make It a big meeting. R. J. Cireen, a lawyer of Lincoln, was ctonvtctcd of extortion and fined $200. If some worklngman had played the same game it would have been the ' ' "big stir" for him. Treadwell, Alaska, miners demanded better wages and conditions. What they got was a troop of calvary sent out by Uncle Sam to make the miners be good to the bosses. Tbe Western Union Telegraph Com pany made $400,700 less than last year ' n a result of the late strike of opera .,' tors Another strike and they will be ' down and out for good. The "prohibition parade" today will have music furnished by three non J union, bands. Most of the literature put . out by the prohibition committee was '., innocent of the union label. 'Pleading that their business has leen seriously affected by financial and industrial conditions the officials of the Pittsburg Railway company have nuked a reduction in wages. ''. i i Tim Mahoney of Omaha, the legal adviser of the Union Smashers' AI- yJII u II 1 n i i mm 1 K-rtr OUR spring stockthe largest and finest we have ever shownis now ready for your inspection. We extend to you and yours a hearty invitation to call and feast your eyes thereon. We have always tried to take a step in advance every season, but we have taken several steps this time. Not only have we opened a spring stock of unusual size, but it is so marked by an elegance of design, a superior ity of finish and a closeness of price that we are unusually proud of it. Wo have never had its equal in all that goes to appeal to the man of good taste who wants to exercise reas onable economy in his clothing account. The man, too, who has to count the pennies, will find just what he wants. And the man who wants what he wants and can afford it well, we can fix him out like "Solomon in all his glory." In fact, we can suit all tastes and fit all purses. More Reasonable Than Ever Despite the superiority in style, finish and fabric, the prices are more reasonable than ever. We buy from the most reliable makers of the best grades of clothing, and by reason of large purchases we can make inside prices. Making clothing is no longer a "hit-ormiss" proposition. It is an art. We patronize the artists in the clothing line. But come in and see for yourself . Suits and Top Coats to MO No matter what the price you Get a splendid bargain for your money. Come in and " ". . be convinced by personal inspection. Armstrong Cloth ing Com pany HES MERCHANTS liance, was handed $75,000 for a couple of months' work as an attorney in th Count Creighton estate matters. This is the same Tim Mahoney who accuses men of being anarchists if they or ganize and demand $3 a day for their labor. A Lake City, Iowa, man caught his foot in a railroad trestle. It was dark. He lighted a twenty dollar bill and flagged the train. Gosh! We couldn't save a fingernail at that rate. Seventy miners were kilied at Man na, Wyo., by an explosion In Mine No. 13. It is a penal offense for miners to organize for their own protection against the greed of the mine owners. Harry DeGour has sold the Reading, Pa., Labor Advocate to ATfred Bauer. We welcome Mr. Bauer to the ranks, but we warn him he will have to go some if he makes as good a "viper" as DeGour. New York city is talking of trying tbe experiment of women police. Now wouldn't you like to have a woman po lice officer stop to see if her hat was on straight before she started to ar rest you? , . The dinner pail Is full of holes. It is rumored that Frank B. Kellog of Minnesota will be appointed to suc ceed Justice Harlan because of his splendid work in prosecuting the pa per trust. But the paper trust is still doing business, and not one of its of ficials has been jailed for violating the injunction. George Vroman, for thirty-nine years a Union Pacific engineer, has been re tired on a pension. He has been chair man of the board of adjustment of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers since 1877. A wholesale exodus of Polanders to Europe will follow the ten per cent reduction in wages in the Chicopee and Holyoke cotton mills. Seventy-five per cent of the 4,500 operatives af fected are Polish. Ten Kansas City, Kas., school ma'ms struck because the treasurer of the dis trict insisted that . they calLuAt his house to get their salary warrants. The board met and sustained tbe conten tion of the strikers. Last week Tbe Wageworker printed a column of matter Containing, argu ment against prohibition, and five col umns from a local minister who used the space to show why prohibition was the thing. Yet The Wageworker was accused of having "sold out to the sa loons." Wouldn't that jar you? Orders were issued Wednesday by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, at Pottsville, Pa., for the resumption of the fifty-five cojler- ies and washeries April 11 This affects about 25.000 men and boys. The Commercial Club got busy when a freight rate on. brooms threatened to crimp the Lee Broom and Duster Co. But it never turned a hair when the penitentiary, broom factory put a hun dred . free broommakers out of work. "Why I Am a Union Man," is the title of. a bully article, that bas been making the rounds of the' labor press. Usually it appears as original matter. We know it is bully stuff because we wrote if, and it appeared originally in The Wageworker. . N. M. Burd, a Burliiigtop brakenian living at Wymore, . had..' his right hand and ankle horribly crushed at Fair-bury last Saturday. He fell from the truck of a freight car and the wheels caught him. He was married about two months ago. .. The plate and slab mills of the Il linois Steer Co., South ' Chicago, will open Monday, after being shut down a month to make improvements and al terations. One thousand men will be put to work. Other mills are expected to resume operations in a few weeks. When the financial panic struck last fall the bankers persuaded the news papers that it would be best to mini mize the trouble. So the newspapers shouted that it was nothing worth while. These stories about resuming industries and demand for workers is a piece of the same con game. 'State Board Is Enjoined. Judge Pollock, in the United States circuit court, Topeka, issued an order temp'orarily enjoining the state board of railroad commissioners from put; ting . into effect the new schedule of freight rates April 1. The railroads assert that the rates are confiscatory. The case will be argued in Topeka on April 14. Nebraska Will Make Trip, y Two of the navy's newest and bes battleships now on the Pacific coast are likely to be sent on', the trip around the world with Admiral Evans' Atlantic battleship fleet. These are the Wisconsin and the Nebraska." The announcement has been made that the Nebraska has been assigned to tlie Atlantic fleet, which practically as sures her accompanying the-. battl- sbips around the world. SPECIAL PRICE .. -. 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