The Ml Qotihes (Quality
The real clothes quality is not wholly visible to the naked eye. You
merely see the outside but the real quality is mostly hidden. That's
where you must trust largely to the maker and the dealer. The cloth
may be all right, the style all right and the
fit all right but if the make and the interior
finish are not up to standard you've got a
"clothing gold brick.' The breast and should
er finish the building up and balancing of
effect are vastly important in clothing that
counts. These are the things that make the
suit look well as long as it is worn at all.
And these are the things that we insist upon
having in the goods we handle. And we got
all these things in the line of Union-Made
Clothing that we purchased with direct ref
erence to the union buyers of Lincoln and
vicinity. In style, fit, finish and durability
you will find nothing superior to the
BROGK
Union-Made Clothing
It's a
"stands
of which we have an elegant 'line,
pleasure to recommend it because it
up" all the time, and a pleasure to sell it be
cause the purchaser soon realizes that he has
got just what he paid for and is satisfied.
"The Real Clothes Quality" is found at its
best in the Brock line. And we are making
some mighty attractive bargains in it just
now. The season is a little late and a little
slow, and we want to move thingsand we
will if price inducement counts. Now Is your
opportunity.
Don't forget our line of Union-Made
Shirts, Work Clothes, Hats, etc. It is a
"corker." It's up to you to create the demand
we'll attend to supplying it. ,
AirmslLiroinig CMMe
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
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Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Indiana.
Illinois. Iowa. Kentucky. Alabama,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Colorado.
Wyoming and Washington, wherein an
organized effort is being made to pro
mote his candidacy.
French labor unions are essentially
economic and political. They are di
vided into - two classes the "reds,"
which form by far the vast majority
and are decidedly revolutionary in
character; and the "yellows, which
are generally conservative and at
tached indirectly to the Catholic and
non-republican parties. Needless to
say, there is great hostility between
these labor onions.
Taking the returns for the decennial
periods since 1SS6, the growth of Brit
ish trades unionism is found to be re
markable. Jn that .year the member
ship was 340.S93; in 1S96, 1,006,507,
and in 1907. 1,719,031 the correspond
ing income being $3,350,000, 5S.940.0OO
and $13,500,000 respectively. The
funds on hand at each period totaled
$2,800,000. $11.20.000 and J29.000.OlXK
An order issued by the Pennsylvania
railroad to discharge all foreigners
and employ none but American citi
zens has caused a sensation. The or
der affects only the laborers, as the
office force, operating and mechanical
departments have always been oper
ated by English-speaking men. The
Pennsylvania railroad system, when
operating to its full capacity, employs
about 1S0.000 persons.
The friends of John Mitchell, former
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, throughout the mining re
gions of Pennsylvania, are working to
secure his nomination for vice presi
dent at the .Denver democratic con
vention. John J. Loft us of Soranton
said to be a close personal friend of
Mitchell's, asserts that the Pennsyl
vania delegation will lead the boom for
the mine workers ex-president
John Mitchell, retiring president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
has sounded a warning to the opera
tors of the anthracite coal fields, who,
it is said, will reduce the wages of the
miners to make up for the payment of
1 damages under the liability law and
tor the compliance with the safety ap
pliance law. Mr. Mitchell says the
miners will not tolerate such an in
justice, and if the operators persist
in the proposed reduction, trouble is
sure to follow.
Suit for $50,000 damages against
labor union, in which it is sought to
obtain judgment against the property
of individual workingmen, has been
brought by the Citizens Alliance of
Denver, Co!o, on behalf of a marble
also advocates the centraHxatioa of
sick and death beneBt funds. He holds
that if such funds were paid from the
treasury of the international body, in
stead of being paid by the individual
onions, better results would obtain,
and that it would then be possible to
raise death benefits from $100 to $509
and sick and disability benefits from
$5 to $10 per week.
Many unions have in the last year
been experimenting in the matter of
dues. In several instances unioas
which have always strictly adhered to
the high-doe rule have reduced tem
porarily their initiation fees in an en- -deavor
to decide for themselves to jast
what extent a high initiation fee ham
pers growth.
Though there is a law in Italy to
prohibit children under 12 from work
ing more than eight hours oat of the
24, and children of 12 but under 1
more than 11 hours Out of the 24. ex
ceptions have been made by the min
ister of agriculture, industry and .com
merce, acting, of all tfctnga in the
world, on the advice of the Provincial
Council of Hygiene. These exceptions.
where perishable goods are concerned.
allow children of 13 and up to IS to
work 12 hours out of the 24.
An experiment is being tried in Paris
looking to the abolition of the sweat
shop conditions surroundings many of
the French working people. The ex
periment consists of the establish
ment of a workshop apartment build
ins, where workmen may labor and
live under the most modern and hy
gienic conditions at a minimum cost.
The building contains forty-eight work
shops and apartments, and the price
per year for these combinations is
from $100 to $145. In the basement are
baths and on the seventh floor ar
rangements for washing and dryfeis
the family linen. Electric power Is
supplied at a minimum cost from a
central point. Any workman bszbs
the lights for machinery can install
themselves in the building. In fact.
twelve families have already done so.
finding the new, clean workrooms a
most agreeable and healthful substi
tute for their former dark and iU-ventilated
shops, Compiled by St. Louis
Gimes.
UNION PRINT SHOPS.
Printeries That Are Entitled to Use
the Allied Trades Label.
Following is a Est of the printing
offices in Lincoln that are entitled
to the use of the Allied . Printing
company, on the ground that members I Trades label, together with toe
of the Marble Workers' Union held ! her or the label hr
GOSSIP OP THE TOILERS.
Latest News of Busy Workers in
Mi, Mills and Workshops.
The Mexican porter handles toads
of 40 pounds with ease.
Figures show that school teachers,
as a etas, are long-lived.
Newsboys of Kansas City. M. have
organized a union.
Coal miners in Belgium have suf
fered reduction in wages. -
An employers liability bill
passed by the Illinois legislature.
Coopers In New South Wales, Aus
tralia, are-paid $12.54 a week.
The Alberta (Canada) legislature
passed a workmen's compensation act.
A new carpenters union was recent
ly organised at Pedro Miguel Panama
At Harrtsburg, Pa, a city ordinance
excludes foreign labor from municipal
work.
, The farmers unions are becoming
more clotty allied to the organized
workers.
On July 4 the Amalgamated Leather
Workers Union of America will meet
la convention.
In the recent spring election at Wao
sau. Wis, labor elected a mayor and
three aldermen.
The convention of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers cost the or
der about fs.000 a day.
Paving cutters contemplate the es
tablish neat of the eight-hour day
throughout the craft.
Labor is now plentiful in the Canal
Zone. The president has appointed a
committee to report on conditions.
The recent Ohio legislature accord
ed the workers more recognition in
the shape of labor legislation than any
previous legislature.
The wage scale of Boston (Mass.)
pavers has been fixed at $4 per day for
pavers and $5 per day for foremen
The eight-hour day has pre
vailed for many years.
Painters at Coeur d'Aleae, Idaho,
have notified the contractors that the
rate was to be increased from 45 to
5S cents per hour.
mteraaUoaal Typographical Union
this year ts expected to spend up
ward of $5. for pay and expenses
of regular and special organisers.
The vast army of female workers in
this country is divided into 294 occu
pations, of which there are 125 em
ploying more than 1.00 women.
Kansas City, Me, is the headquar
ters of six International organizations
of organized labor, having a combined
membership of nearly
The thorough advertising of the var
ious trade labels has proved to be of
great value in increasing the demand
for the unton-labeied products.
Many cities are sending labor dele
gates to the democratic national con
vention, and organised labor will un
doubtedly be a power on Its floor.
Out of a total of 307,15? workers in
clothing factories in Great Britain
197,320 are women, the female tailors
numbering 44.072 to 1S.SS4 men.
New York has a union of nou union
ists. They will only work for double
pay and three square meals a day.
They are commonly known as strike
breakers. The city of Vancouver. British Co
lumbia, now uses the union label on
its printing. The -fair wage" clause is
inserted In the Provincial Government
contracts.
At a meeting of the State Federa
tion of Labor at Tacoma not long ago,
reports were handed in that showed
over 14.004 men out of employment in
Washington.
Over eighty national and interna
tional unions of laborers and farmers
have decided on a plan of political ac
tion to protect the interests of wage
earners.
Largely through the efforts ot the
women's clubs of Florida there is a
new child labor law there, which pro
hibits the employment of children un
der 13 years of age.
The difficulty with the traction com
pany in Spokane, WasiL, has been set
tled, and the company has decided to
meet the demand for increased pay
and shorter hours.
There is a growing sentiment among
the railroads to place auditors on pas
senger trains to collect fares and al
low the conductors more time in the
operation of the train.
If the recommendation of the book
committee ot the Methodist Episcopal
church is adopted, the great publish
ing houses of that church will in the
future be conducted along union lines.
Thomas TS. Keogh, international or
ganizer for the Brotherhood of Cement
Workers of the United States and Can
ada, has gone to Reno, Nev to organ
ise a union of the craft at that place.
From the returns made by 219 labor
unions in Massachusetts on April 1 it
was learned that nearly 9,000 u
bers of these unions, with a member
ship of 56,54, were out of work at
that time.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Typographical Union, which
is to convene in Boston, August IX for
a week's session, promises to be a
great event in the trades union world.
The statement is made that the fed
eral immigration bureau Is planning
to asisst in the distribution of farm
laborers in the eastern states of sev
eral thousand male foreigners who are
without employment in New York
City.
In England the miners' ballot as to
joining the labor representation com
mittee has resulted in the affirmative
in all the chief districts, except in the
Midlands, in which district the ma
jority was against joining the labor
Prty.
The International Ladies Garment
Workers Union will hold its conven
tion in Boston. Mass. next year. In
the Interval special attention is to be
paid to local organizing work by the
local organizers and also by special in
ternational ones.
Galveston (Tex.) baseball players
have organized a labor union which
will affiliate with the American Feder
ation of Labor. The idea is to create a
fund for a ballplayers home; also a
fund modeled somewhat on the gen
eral plan of the actors fund.
Andrew Furuseth. secretary of the
Coast Seamens Union for the Pacific
coast, with headquarters in San Fran
cisco, is one of the fraternal delegates
of the American Federation of Labor
to the British Trades Congress, which
meets this year in London.
Condition of organized labor in Wy
oming compares favorably with other
parts of the country. The different in
ternational organizations are well rep
resented. The industrial centers are
well organized, but there are quite a
number ot unorganized workers at out
lying places whose wages are very
low.
There have been dissensions in vari
ous districts of Wales among the col
liers, and it has been decided that pow
ers be given to revert to the old sys
tem, and "colliery fight colliery." This
would do away with the prospect ot
wholesale strikes, and. in the opinion
ot the leaders, the noounionists would
gradually he eliminated from a col
liery.
Organized labor generally feels very
friendly toward Judge George Gray of
Delaware for president. Especially is
this so in the mining districts of
up the construction ot the Ideal Build
ing in Denver by a strike for higher
wages. The American Federation of
Labor will fight the suit to the highest
courts, it is declared.
From a report on " British trade
unions recently issued it is shown that
this form of labor organization is
steadily increasing in membership and
strength. Returns were received for
190i from 645 unions, with a member
ship ot 1.719.031, an Increase of 151.
512 over the report of the previous
year. Their-income for the same
period was approximately $13,500,000,
an increase of $760,000. Their expen
ditures aggregated $11,400,000, or
$1,100,000 less than the year previous.
At the present time the funds of these
unions total about $29,000,000.
Grand President Frank J. McNulty
ot the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers urges the creation
of a large defense fund, one so large
as to be useful in cases of differences
between employers and employes. He
Jacob North 4c Co, No. 1
C S- Simmons, No. X.
Freie Presse, No. 3.
Woodruff-Coffins, No. 4.
Graves & Mulligan, No. 5.
State Printing Co, No. &
Star Publishing Co, No. 7.
Western Newspaper Tnmn, No. S.
Wood Printing Co No. 9.
George Bros, No. 11.
McVey Printing Co, No. IX.
Union Advertising Co, No. 14.
Ford Printing Co, No. It
Gillespie fc Phfffips, No. IS.
Van Tine & Young; No. 24.
The shop having label No. IS Is re
quested to report the fact to the sec
retary of the Allied Printing Traits
Council.
"Did your husband have any sort
of luck at the races yesterday?"
"Splendid! The street car system
broke down, and he dkiat get there
till they were over. Judge.
M Church and Leicr
VII. COMMON PEOPLE IN HIS
TORY. Rev. Charles Stelxle: In reading
history one would think that the
common people did not exist. Kings
and thrones and dynasties are paraded
before us as though they alone were
worthy of mention.
It is well to note that bible history
practically ignores the great kingdoms
of the times with which it deals, and
follows almost exclusively the des
tines ot an insignificant race, which
spent hundreds of years in captivity.
subject to one of the great world
powers, brought there because of its
own folly. Many an interesting hu
man story is told ot families and in
dividuals, whose joys and sorrows.
whose victories and defeats, meant
more to the God who Inspired the
writers than the intrigues and the bat
tles, the ambitions and the exploita
tions of a world ot kings. It Is the
human element which makes the bible
so attractive, and the story of Israel
so fascinating.
It was in the interest of the Jews
that prophets and warriors wejre
raised up, so that through them all
the world-might be blessed. It was
through these despised people that
Christ, the Emancipator ot the
mon people, was given.
These facts give us 1
Again must the power of God be exer
cised in helping those who need a
strong arm to fight for them.
"When wilt thou save the people?
O God of mercy, when?
Not kings and lords, but Tntfr.
Not thrones and crowns, hut men!
Flowers of thy heart. O God. are they:
Let them not pass, like weds, away,
God save the people
Shan crime bring crime forever.
Strength aiding still the strong?
Is it thy win, O Father.
That man shall toll for wrong?
No, say thy mountains; "No. thy
skies;
Man's clouded sun shall brightly rise
And songs ascend Instead of sighs:
God save the people!
When wilt thou save the people?
O God of mercy, when?
The people. Lord, the people.
Not thrones and crowns, but mem;
God save the people; thine they "ve.
Thy children, as thine angels fair.
From vice, oppressive, and
God save the people!"