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Ckicjuco. The differences between
the rving contractors and the strik
ing paring laborers will be submitted
to arbitration. This was decided at
conference of representatives of the
contractors and the officers of the
pa vies; trades council and the Chicago
Federation of Labor held in the office
of Major Basse. Frank C Geugeo
back. president of the Paving Trades"
council, selected Attorney Daniel L.
Cruk-e to act as arbitrator for the
anion. President J. J. McCarthy of
the Paving Contractors'' association
will select the arbitrator for the em
ployers, and the two will select an
umpire. More than S. street
pavers hare been on strike since May
1 because the contractors refuse to
grant an eight-hour day. as provided
for in the agreement. The contract
ors claimed the men violated the
agreement by refusing to begin work
at T a. m.
Washington. The capital Invested
in the various industries last year was
U.StiiSt.00 tor ft kindred
products. Ji.lT4.441.41S for textiles.
J3.1T.r.72 for iron and steel and
their products. $L223,TS.S3 for lum
ber and its remanufactures. $TiVS.T47,
47 for leather and its finished prod
ucts. $SS7.U25 for paper and print
teg, $idl.2.65 tor beverages. S1.0S1.
&23 for chemicals and allied prod
ucts. S22.4$ for metals and metal
products other than iron and steel.
Jv4i.SI4.44S for vehicles for land
transportation. eXTSLtStMS for day.
glass and stone products. $iS1.117Sl
for tobacco. $2.7&23 for shipbuild
ing, and JPM1.V04.S73 for miscellaneous.
Columbus, O. The delegates to the
International convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers began
their sitting as representatives of the
insurance branch of the order. V. K.
Futch. president of the insurance de
partment, recommended that indigent
members be permitted to draw from
a fund during their life instead of leav
ing It to he drawn by their families
after their death. Mayor Bookwalter
of Indianapolis was permitted to ad-
- dress the delegates, extending a for
mal Invitation to the brotherhood to
hM Its next convention In Indianapo
lis and to select that city as its perma
nent headquarters.
Washington. -Since 152$, when the
first general crisis broke out. the
hol industrial and commercial world
. . . m thrown out of joint about ece
in every ten years. Commerce is at a
standstill, the markets are glutted.
products accumulate, as numerous as
they are unsalable, hard cash disap
pears, credit vanishes, factories are
dosed, the mass of the workers are in
want of the means of subsistence be
cause thy have produced too much of
the means of subsistence.'' Frederick
Engehv
Chicago. The truck drivers union
at a mass meeting in Bricklayers' hall
voted to arbitrate the euestion of an
increase of L.Maweekin wages, as de
manded by the union. Nearly!. team
sters attended the meeting. Officer of
the union declared the team owners
offered to arbitrate the dispute. Sec
retary T. J. Cavanagh of the Team
Owners association said, however.
that the union asked for arbitration.
Pittsburg. Pa. Orders have been is
sued by the H C. Frick Coke company
lor the blowtng-in of additional
coke oven In the Connellsville field,
ess ploying 2,0e men. and tor the first
time In many weeks an Increase In the
production of coke hy the Steel cor
poration Interests has been noted in
that field.
- Pittsburg, Pa. A national delegate
convention of telegraphers, train dis
patchers, agents and signalmen, who
were originally affiliated with the
Order of Railway Telegraphers,
- amended the by-laws of the organisa
tion so as to provide that before
strike may be ordered four-fifths of
the vote cast must favor it. Another
amendment adopted admits to mem
bership telephone operators who han
dle train orders.
Milwaukee. A. fc- Manchester, su
perintendent of. motive power of the
Chicago. Milwaukee A St. Paul Rail
way company, received orders from
headquarters to begin at once on the
construction of 7 locomotives of the
highest type. This order means an
outlay of $1,400,000 and will result la
restoring to employment at the West
Milwaukee shops of that company the
full force of 5,000 men.
Fall River. Mass. The reduction In
wages which will go Into effect in the
print cloth mills of this city at once
wtll probably amount to nearly IS per
cent, the heaviest cut ever made at
one time here If the six months slid
ing scale agreement is put Into tuU op
eration by the manufacturers.
St Louis. The executive commit
tee of the National Prosperity associa
tion decided to Issue a call to manu
facturers. Jobbers and commercial con
cerns In the dty to make June 1 "em
ployment day. The various concerns
will ho requested to take hack as
many as possible of their laid off em
ployes and to start the wheels moving
in their factories.
Columbus. O. The international
convention of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers has voted to admit
to membership the engineers of all
electrically drawn trains on steam rail
Cleveland. O. Greater progress in
setiang the street railway strike
peacefully and by arbitration was
made than any day since the t rouble
began. Both sides made material con
cessions. President Du Pont of the
Muiacipal Traction Company said that
he would take back the employes as
new men. He insisted upon giving the
present men at work the preference.
This was objectionable to the union.
In a later conference with the union
the members of the state board of ar
bitration obtained a slight concession
from the strikers. They agreed to
have the men go back as new mea as
a temporary expedient. Coupled with
meat to allow the future status of the j
strikers to be arbitrated. f
Springfield, EL A mass meeting of
the local miners unions of the Chica-',
go and Alton sub-district was held atl
inayer ana resolutions were adopted
demanding the resignation of the state
officers and the officers of the sub-
district of the miners union, owing to !
dissatisfaction of the miners with the ;
action of the executive committee of
the organisation in disposing of the '
shot firers question. Resolutions were
also adopted requesting the governor j
and the attorney general to enforce i
the present law requiring operators to
pay the shot firers.
Pittsburg. Pa. Evidence of return
ing prosperity is furnished hy the an
nouncement that the Pittsburg & Lake
Em railroad has ordered the Standard
Steel Car company to begin coast ruc
tion of 2,M all-steel cars for that
road. The new cars will be used to
handle the tonnage between the coal
and coke regions and the takes. The
order calls for 1.00 specially designed
all-steel coke cars and 1.904 agisted
gondoSas. The contract was originally
awarded last summer, but held up. De
livery will be started as soon as the
cars can be completed.
St. Paul. Minn. "Freight rates must
go up or the wages of railroad em
ployes must go down. This was the
statement made by L. C Cass, third
vice-president of the Chicago Great
Western. Mr. Cass said: The differ
ence between the cost of transporta
tion and the present setting price is
not sufficient to produce a reasonable
return on the railroads of the country.
The cost of railroad operation has in
creased SS 1-3 per cent, since 10.
while the price of transportation has
decreased from IS to S3 1-3 per cent.
Kansas City. After 7 days of ne
gotiations the coal mining troubles of
the southwest, where S3. men are
wpon a strike, were practically ended
when the joint subcommittee of the
operators and miners reached an
agreement on the wage scale and
working conditions. If the convention
of miners approves the agreement.
and officials assert that It will, the op
erators will ratify the agreement In
Guthrie. Okla. Both house of the
Oklahoma legislature have passed a
bill authorising the state labor com
mission to fix the wages of all em
ployes in the state.
VToonsocket, R. L The Alice mill of
the Woousocke Rubber company re
sumed operation on fall time. The
mm employs 1.50 operatives.
Kansas City. Mo. Active, efforts to
settle the strike of the brewery
woikets were made by Louis Kemper
of Cincinnati.
Kansas City. Mo. The strike of Tt
brewery workers ended when the
brewers agreed to grant a small in
crease of wages.
Superior, Wis. Plans for the steel
plant of the Cnited States Steel cor
poration are about completed and
there Is a prospect that work up the
river at the site of the proposed plant
will be started about July 1. This Is
not definite, but plans are being made
to start work then it the conditions
seem to be right.
Kansas City, Mo. T. TL. Lewis.
president of the Tailed Mine Workers
of America, said that unless the opera
tors came to some agreement at the
convention of miners negotiations
looking to an ending of the strike of
the is. 000 southwestern coal miners
will come to an end.
Fernie. B. C Nine hundred coal
miners in J. J. Hill's mines refused to
go to work at Michad on account of
alleged discrimination in hiring
District President Sherman of the
union opposed the strike. Feeling
against Sherman is strong.
Pittsburg. Pa. Miser employes are
prohibited from drinking intoxicating
liquors by the new rules of the H. C
Frick Coke company, a branch of the
United States Sted corporation. The
ruling applies whether the men. are on
duty or off.
Chicago. Judge Walker in the Cook
county court declined to issue an in
junction sought by eight nonunion em
ployes of the Chicago Railways com
pany to prevent their discharge.
Toungstown, O. Although the
sions are secret it Is reported from a
reliable source that the local wage
agreement amendment has been adopt
ed after four days discussion hy the
Amalgamated association of Iron, sted
and tin workers in convention here.
This agreement will allow the organi
zation of lodges in nonunion mills and
will, it is believed, strengthen the or
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PLENTY OF PRICES. W BETWEEN
Headquarters for Union Made Hats and Shoes
ENGINEERS ELECT.
Brotherhood Officials Chosen by Ac
clamation at Columbus. -
The following officers of the Intes
Mtional Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers were elected by acclama
tion; Granl Chief Engineer W. S- Stone
of Cleveland.
Assistant Grand Chief Engineer K.
V. Hurley of Cleveland.
Assistant Grand Chief Engineer F.
A. Burgess of Cleveland.
Ash Kennedy, general chairman of
the general committee of adjustment.
Canadian Pacific railroad, was elected
to one of the sew positions ct assist
ant chief.
THE CARPENTERS.
A Word or Two About Knights of
Saw and Plane.
Twenty-four delegates representing
the eight Buffalo locals of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
were seated by the credentials com-
rsitte of the United Trades and La-
tor Council recently. The carpenters
and joiners have not been affiliated
with the central body for several
years.
The carpenters of Kansas City have
voted to increase their union dues
from seventy-five cents to a dollar
a month.
A new carpenters union was re
cently organized at Pedro Miguel,
Panama.
NEXT WEEK.
The TVageworlfer has received from
Rev. Y. M. Balch, pastor of Trinity
Methodist church, a copy of the "labor
(solutions recently adopted by the
ecumenical council of that great de-
romination. hey ring true, and Rev.
Mr. Balch may well be proud of the
fact that he helped to frame them.
They will he given space in The Wage-
worker next week.
TALKING AMALGAMATION. ;
A movement is on foot in the
United Garment Workers union to
bring about amalgamation with the In
ternational Women's Garment Work
ers union, 27,000 members; the Shirt
waist and Laundry Workers union,
ru.OOO members, and the Journeymen
lailors' National union, 22,000 mem
bers. The United Garment Workers
union now has a membership of ?,
feNL. It amalgamated with its allied
trades, the membership would reach
upward to 150.000, and advance the
union to the third largest national or
ganization affiliated with, the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
KATY CARMEN STRIKE.
Shop Employes and Officials Fail to
Adjust Differences.
Five hundred carmen employed on
the lines of the Missouri Pacific and
Iron Mountain system in Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado, Arkan
sas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas
are on strike as a result of the fail
ure of conference between General
Manager Sullivan of the Missouri Pa
cific and a committee representing
members of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Carmen.
THE BARTENDERS.
The San Francisco Bartenders' Un
ion, Local No. 41, voted $200 for the
relief cf the members of the craft who
were rendered destitute by the great
fire in Chelsea a short time since.
WORSE AND WORSE.
An injunction has been asked for
by the trust and combine and has
been issued against the jewelry
-sorters, prohibiting them from put
ting their union label, the double
acorn, upon articles of jewelry of
their own manufacture.
. Apricot Sauce.
Use one pound of evaporated ap
ples, one-foarta pound of dried apri
cots, stew together, stirring while boil
ing, to mix and prevent burning.
CHURCH AND LABOR.
Chicken In Green Pepper Cases.
Cut three large sweet green, peppers
tn halves from stem end down, remove
'the stem and seeds and scald live min
utes. Mix one cupful of minced cooked
meat, either veat or chicken, one-
fourth cupful of bread-crumbs or boiled
rice, with enough white or tomato
sauce to moisten. Season and pack
the mixture in the pepper
Sprinkle buttered cracker crumbs
over the top, lay the peppers in a
shallow pan with water to cover the
bottom, and bake about 20 minutes. A
garnish of the tops of celery makes
an attractive setting for the green
pepper
In It's Real Sense
Characterizes the splendid auits offered here
for men and young men the quality of these
suits is undoubted after a season's wear
they are such suits as will improve the ap
pearance of any man, no matter how good
or how bad a figure he may have any man
who admires clothes of particular distinction
should see this matchless showing of fine
suits our prices are low lowest in Lincoln,
considering quality. : : : : : : : :
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SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS.
Ten thousand children are killed
snd 250,006 made degenerates every
year hy the mills and factories cf
this country, according to Senator
Beveridge of Indiana.
Typical Family of Maine.
One of . Maine's old-fashioned fam
ines is that of Capt. Usial F. Candage
and wife of South Bluehill. They have
been married 35 years. They have
nine children seven boys and two
girls three daughters-in-law, one son-
in-law and tea grandchtldrea. making
2S in all. There has never been a
death in the family and all are well.
No Half-Clad Hope.
If we were a sculptor we wouldn't
m a woman halt dad, with yearning
eyes fixed upwards, as a figure of
"Hope;" a better illustration would he
a man with overalls on. who has plant
ed garden seeds, and Is looking to see
If the neighbors chickens Intend to let
them come up. Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
Erosion Spreads Rapidly.
The rapid water-erosion of parts of
Cape Colony is attributed chiefly to
burning of vegetation and the start
ing of paths by cattle and wagons.
Once started, erosion is very rapid,
and the Ongers or Brak river, which
did not exist 60 years ago. now aver
ages 300 feet in width and 15 feet in
depth.
Peculiar Clock Weight.
The most remarkable dock weight
in Maine is that of the Baptist church
at Cherryfleld. an old smooth-bore
cannon, The old cannon was one of
the old smooth-bore type and was
brought by Gleason R- Campbell from
Boston on one of the return trips of
lumber vessels.
Uahtens Life' Leber.
A French wit defined manners when
he said: I would rather be trampled
on hy a velvet slipper than a wooden
shoe though it must not be forgot
ten that the velvet slipper tramples
not nt all. Polite manners trip through
fife Bke the velvet slipper, making
beauty, injuring no one.
Em Denote Bodilv Condition.
The eye has a habit of registering
the health. Thus a lack luster, heavy
lidded expression Is generally the re
sult of excessive fatigue or ui-heaitn;
dilated mini) nsnallv means fever:
a yellowish tint to the white of the
eye bespeaks biliousness, while an ex
treme hhdshness of the white is often
an indication of impure blood or a
scrofulous tendency.
SOLS GOOD DISHES
METHODS OF COOKING AND SERV
ING MEATS.
Lamb Scallops. One can coM
Iamb, one cup stewed tonsatoes, one
cup bread crumbs. Arrange in layers
In a buttered dish, having crumbs on
top with bits of butter; put salt, pep
per, and bits of hotter between the
layers: hake.
Beef Lost Chop or grind togeth
er two pounds of the round of beet and
one-half pound bacon, crumb one half
loaf of bread, and heat two eggs. Mix
the meat, bread and eggs together sad
season with one teaspoon salt, oae
half teaspoon pepper, teaspoon poultry
dressing. Pack firmly is a baking dish
and bake 14 hours.
Colorado Roast Venison. Cover
the venison rout on an sides
with white paper; secure firmly with
cord. Then make a thick hatter of
flour and water; spreading nan an
over the paper; dredge ..with flour;
bake 23 minutes to n pound; take front
the oven and crack off the batter,
which has formed a crust.
Remove the cord and paper, salt and
pepper to taste, lay strips of fat pork
cut thin on top, and dredge meat with
flour.
Place in oven until well browned;
make brown gravy and serve with cur
rant jelly. Many who dislike game
enjoy it if prepared thus, the eookfng
of the game in this way extracting the
strong taste sometimes objecUonahle.
Veal Birds. Use slices of real
from the loin cut thin. Remove the
bone, skin and fat and pound ttD one
quarter of an inch thick. Trim with
pieces ii hy four inches. Chop the
trimming fine, with one square inch of
fat salt pork for each bird.
Add half as much fine
crumbs as yon have meat.
highly with salt, pepper. lemon, cay
enne and onion. Moisten with one egg
and a little hot water as for veal Tost.
Spread the mixture on each snce
nearly to the edge, ran up tightly, sad
tie or fasten with skewers. Dredge
with salt, pepper and flour.
Fry them slowly in hot butter tnf a
golden brown, but not dark or burned.
Then half cover with cream and sim
mer 15 or 20 minutes. Remove the
strings and serve on toast. Pour the
cream over them. Garnish with points
of toast and lemon.
Colorado Roast Venison ttumilliinfi
New to the Average lis 'life
Veal Birds aa Appetizing
Addition to Mean.
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