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June, the merry month of brides
and roses, of outings and of moon
lighted strolls. Sounds good, doesn't
it? But here's something else that
sounds good. Listen:
The Real Goods
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and at prices that are good from
the viewpoint of the union man's
purse. Union made clothingand
the best we can buy. We long ago
learned that union men deserve the
best, and also that they demand it
and are willing to pay a fair price
for it So we searched till we found
the best union made clothing in the
world. It bears the name of "Brock'
in addition to the union label.
Enough said, except that the bar
gain prices we offer will please you
fully as much as the goods.
Oh, yes! We've got other union
made goods. Elgin shirts, for in
stance. None better at the price.
No Name" hars. None so good
for the money. Ginger up with
June and outfit yourself in union
made array.
ARMSTRONG
CLOTHING CO.
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Clothes Merchants
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Officers of the state body -will try to
induce the St Paul central body to
reconsider its action. The assembly
has been represented in the conven
tion for 20 years.
Unions of retail clerks, hod carriers
and mason tenders, sn 3 building labor
ers, were recently installed at Roches
ter, X. T. Other anions are in pro
cess of formation, and it is expected
that Rochester will hare at least half
dozen healthy labor organizations
and a strong central body when the
work there is completed.
The District Council of Retail
Clerks, composed of delegates from
San Francisco, San Jose, San Rafael,
Point Richmond and Oakland, Cal..
met recently and adopted the name
of California State Council of Retail
Clerks. The council will act as an
intermediate body between the sub
ordinate organizations and the labor
council.
A movement has been started in
Sonoma county, California, to have
all producers form an organization
for the protection of mutual interests.
This movement has for- its purpose
the securing of a place in San Fran
cfco where all products can be
shipped direct and be disposed of
without having to pay a commission
to the middlemen for handling the
goods. 4
The Dominion Immigration depart
ment has sent a circular to steamship
companies and booking agents an
nouncing that the only classes of im
migrants wanted in Canada at the
I resent time are experienced farm
laborers, farmers, farmers financially
cble to take homesteads or purchase
lands, and female domestic servants.
It says that the demand for railway
labor is filled for this season.
May Day this year is probab;y a
record-breaker in tie labor world. It
was remarkable for the scarcity of
disturbances along industrial Ene.
there being very few strikes through
out the country inaugurated on this
day, the hard times from which the
country is Just emerging dcabOess
preventing the men in the varkj-fc
crafts from bringing a farther troaM"
on the expiration of their yearly wac
contracts.
PERSISTENCY WON.
Talk about staying qualities; the
Theatrical Stage Employes of Detroit.
Mich., won a strike for recognition of
union and wage scale after a struggle
which was persistently wagej for
seven years. They most have been
endowel with the spirit of the O'd
Guard Kansas City tabor Herald-
To Clsan Silk QI..
Washing silk gloves rota them rap
idly, especaHy at the ringer ends, yet
nothing is less excusable than soiled
white or other light silk gloves, be
cause it Is so easy to wash them.
To prevent this rapid destruction
of the finger ends the gloves should be
hung to dry with the tips up. This can
be accomplished only by pinning each
finger out on a cloth and then tincMg
up the cloth with the arms of the
gloves down. This lets water ran
into the portions of the gloves which
receive the least wear, dries the tips
more quickly and prevents the destruc
tive action of water on the silk. Delineator.
GOSSIP OF THE TOILERS.
Latest New off Bwsy Worker in
Man, Mill and Workshop.
Wage of Cregeland, Ea&, miner
h& re bee, reduced per cent.
St. PL Minn, io bakers bar
.retired an Increase of 91 week in
their pay.
New York brewery workers hav
turned three-rear agreement with
Ike employers.
Tinsmiths tn New Zealand are
among the best paid mechanics. They
receive 3 lfta week.
The French Railway Workers nnio
cambers $, men, and has a an
aual Income of about 3.tiw.
The maximum figure for an experi
enced locomotive engineer in England
I only tH.CS per week.
The New Tork Central employs 50,-
men, and between 3.o0 and
tLSOMK Is paid in monthly wage.
For 11 year ther has been no legal
restriction whatever upon the work
ing hour of girl over 1C tn Illinois.
International Union of Journeymen
Ilorseshoera win hold Its annaal con
vention next month 1 Washington.
L C.
A referendum is being taken by
ta brewery workmen to decide
whether or not the annaal convention
shall be abolished.
Labor anion are no new Invention.
Accurate records of their existence In
Roman time have been dug up In
FompeiL
Approximately 125,000 unskilled
laborer are affiliated with the Gen
eral Federation of Trade Unions in
Germany.
Governor Gillett of California will
endeavor to hare the next legislature
aake an appropriation to enforce the
law to regwlat the employment of
children.
It Is expected that a new anion of
street laborers will be organized and
affiliated with the San Francisco labor
council.
In Germany all workmen, servants
and clerks above li, and getting less
than S3 a year, are obliged by law
to insure against old age.
If a miner is killed by aa explosion
in Japan the law is that his famltjg
shall receive $23 or 10 days wages
formerly earned by the deceased.
Andre Marotta of New Tork. spe
cial Italian organiser for the Vailed
Garment Workers anion, has formed
n Italian local in Boston. Mass.
Andrew Carnegie has given $2v.K
more to the General Society of Me
chanics and Tradesmen of New Tork.
bringing the total of his gifts to that
body ap to S27.0O.
Work was resumed recently in all
coal mine In Illinois. The vote on
the proposition to accept tie opera
tors proposal of the scale of ISO
was IU1 tor accepting to lS.lt
againsL
Boston waiters and other anions are
making aa effort to have the license
commissioners make rale that
en cannot be employed to serve liquor
Uc any licensed place la the city.
Horse Collar Makers association of
Boston, recently ceased to exist, after
25 years. The member joined Har
ness Makers anion. No. 105, in n
tody.
Memphis, Tenn, local of the Inter
national Steam Engineer has re
ceived a petition from the hoisting
and portable engineers at work In
the city, requesting the privilege of
organising hoisting and portable
local.
The supreme court of Nevada has
handed down decision which renders
boycotts in all forms illegal. The.
decision of a lower court that a anion,
being an aaincorporated body, could
rot be sued, is reversed.
It is raid that the Canadian govern
ment railroads nave agreed to recog
nise the International Brotherhood of
Railway Employes, and that 2.000 em-I--oyes
of tire International Railroa
have joined the organization.
Applications for the organisations
or divisions in South America and in
the Canal Zone have been received by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers. The applications from South
America came chiefly from BraxiL
New Tork, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Freight Handlers anion No.
is dissatisfied with what Its mem
bers consider unnecessary layoffs by
that road, and has appointed a com
mittee to confer with the manage
ment. The latest addition to the federation
of employes already reported covering
trades in the mechanical department
cf the Canadian Pacific railroad is the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen.
They will Increase the federation In
strength by 35,00 men.
It was recommended at the recent
convention of the International Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, held
at Columbus, O-, that an age limit of
50 years be established, so that no
man may be taken Into the ordnr
after that age If he has never been
a member.
"The first use of the word -strike-in
its present accepted sense occurred
in the London Chronicle in 1765. In
September of that year are numerous
references to a great suspension of
b-bor in the northern coal fields, and
the colliers are stated to have "struck
oat for higher wages.
The decision of the woodworking
operatives in the shipbuilding trade
cj the Tyne district not to agree to a
redaction of wages has induced the
employers in Scotland to proclaim
kckoue of all similar workers, nof
aithstanding that the Clyde men had
sot'refosed to accept the reduction,
The labor men of Memphis, Tenn,.
are planning to again have representa
tion in the Tennessee legislature. It
is likely plan similar to the one.
adopted two years ago will be again
adopted this year, in order to secure
the choice of organized labor as to
who shall represent it In the legisla
ture. By a referendue rote of 77,000 to
7,000 the United Mine Workers anion
cf America has ratified the two-year
wage contract entered into at Toledo.
Ohio, in April between representatives
cf the onion and the operators. The
agreement affects ta coal fields tn
Western Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Ohio.
The American Federation of Labor
can appealed to the New Tork CUB.
and to all local unions affiliated with
it to contribute to the fund for the
purpose of the conference organized
to take action to bring about the pas
sage of the bills before congress
sought by the American Federation of
labor.
The St. Paul, Minn, Assembly did
not elect delegates to the state federa
tion convention this year, believing
that the money could be used advan
tageously in local organization work.
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"Where you earn your money is the best place to
spend it.
Let Lincoln workingmen remember that important
fact. Every dollar earned in Lincoln and spent out
side of Lincoln is a dollar taken away from the local
volume of money, and in time will re-act on the wage
earners.
Every dollar spent in Lincoln adds to the volume
of business, and every addition to business means
more work for wage earners.
These statements are axiomatic. An axiom is a
self-evident truth.
There is no reason whatever why a Lincoln wage
earner should buy a pound of groceries, a stitch of
clothing, a dollar's worth of fire, accident or life in
surance, a piece of furniture, a yard of carpet, or
anything else, outside of Lincoln. All these things
may be purchased as cheap or cheaper in Lincoln
than elsewhere. Tou know your local merchants.
They are responsible, and if their wares are not up to
requirements they will make good. The catalogue
houses are financially responsible, of course, but if
the goods they sell are not satisfactory the purchaser
has no recourse. Every dollar spent with Chicago
catalogue houses is a dollar taken from Lincoln, and
that dollar never comes back to Lincoln. A dollar
spent with your home merchant remains in Lincoln,
and sooner or later some wage earner gets it.
Tour local merchant will help you if yon are in
the hole. He will give you reasonable credit, and in
case of sickness will stand your friend. The cata
logue houses do not know you, will not trust you
and after they get your money they don't give a
tinker's dam whether yon live or die. Tour local
merchants pay taxes to help support the schools
where the children of Lincoln wage earners are edu
cated. The Chicago catalogue houses do not pay a
cent towards the support of Lincoln schools. Lincoln
merchants pay taxes to help keep the streets dean
and well lighted and the city library open. The cata
logue houses do not pay a cent in Lincoln for that
purpose,
Last year the merchants of Lincoln voluntarily
subscribed upwards jf a thousand dollars to improve
the new city park, which will be enjoyed by the wage
earners of Lincoln and their children. The catalogue
houses will not subscribe a cent in a thousand years
for that beneficent purpose.
"When you were out of work a month or two ago,
was it the local merchant or the catalogue house
that gave you credit and trusted yon until you got
work and made the money to meet the bill? The
local merchant of course. You would have suffered
and you family would have suffered if you had been
compelled to depend on the catalogue house.
Stand by your local merchant. Spend your money
at home, and you will be able to make more money
to spend.
Home first, the world afterwards. That's a mighty
good motto for any city to follow.
Patronize home institutions and home merchants
unless you know them to be the enemies of organized
labor.
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