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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1908)
Armstrong's Gigantic July Clearing Sale Is the clothing event of importance in Nebraska today. It's the one sale that causes men to sit up and take notice. Here is our whole stock of Men's Sack Suits divided into five grand price divisions. :::::: Division 1 at Division 2 at Division 3 at Division 4 at Division 5 at $21.90 $17.90 $13.00 $9.90 $5.90 Givins Choice of Men's Giving Choice of Men's Giving Choice of Men's Giving Choice of Men's Giving Choice of Men's $40, $35, and $30 Suits $27.50 and $25.00 Suits $22.50 and $20.00 Suits $18.00 and $15.00 Suits $12.50 and $10.00 Suits Special Bargains in Union Made Goods for Union Men wno iriay tne uame . As a special sweetener we will give a uniform discount of 20 per cent off on all Men's Odd Pants; also 20 per cent discount on all Trunks and Bags. Boys', Children's and Young Men's Suits divided into five price divisions: Boys' and Children's Knicker bocker, Sailor, Russian Blouses and Eton Suits, ages 2 1-2 to 17 years, are divided into five great price divisions as follows: lVIXIdlVT 1 Embraces Boys' and Child DlVllVjrN 1 reus Suits, t QC worth $3.75, $3.50, $3.25 and $3, at pi.JJ rxi7ITlXT O Embraces Boys' and Chil DlVlOlUrN. dren's Suits, fcO CC worth $3,00, $4.50 and $4.00, at rxi" ri7IVlVT "5 Embraces Boys' and Child ly 1 V llUli O ren's Suits, fc QC T m'SiYftt and $6.00. at worth $7.00, $6.50 and $6.00, at IMAICIA XT A Embraces Boys' and Child DlVIOlUrN rens Suits, $A QC worth $9.00, $S.50 and $7.50, at invl7Id VT C Embraces Boys' and Child DlVlIMVjrN O ren's Suits, A QC ,1. tir, io rrt nd $10.00. at J7'U0J Young Men's Long Pant Suits, made with long coats and peg top pants; age 16 to 21 years, are all divided into five great price di visions on the following basis: niVIQiniV 1 Takes in all Young Men's 11W1 1 Suits that t-2 QtZ formerly' sold at $6.50 and $6.00, at PJ.Oi7 niVICiriM Takes in all Young Men's UlYlOlUn X Suits that d!C QE formerly sold at $10, $8.50 and $7.50, at 4J07 niVIQiniVJ "X Takes in all Young Men's lOIUll o Suits that formerly sold at $15.00 and $12. 5(3, at P -OiJ UlYlOlUn Suits that 0 formerly sold at$20.00 and $18.00, at P V.O7 niVIClHM 5 Takes in all Young Men's VI V IZMViX O Suits that QC formerly sold at $25 and $22.50, at P 07 Dm's Unian Underwear at One-jM'Shirt ttas That wm tiakt Emy Special Third Off Regular Prices I Shirt Buyr Stand Up and Tki Motlct Bargains in Two-Piece unoerwear Armstrong Clothing Co, prohibits Pinkerton detectives from working in the state jurisdiction. The financial transactions of the Ci gar Makers' International Union for the year 1907, including the amount on hand on January 1, 1907, amounted to $1,538,828.18. The Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul railway has been fined $1,000 on a mo tion of the attorney general of Wis consin on the charge of violating the eight-hour law for railroad employes. The specific charge was that a teleg rapher worked overtime. The road "declares it will carry the case to the United States courts. - Much favorable comment has been 'expressed throughout the country since the announcement made by the International Typographical union some time ago that it had inaugur ated a system of supplemental trade education, under the direction of a commission created by the Hot Springs convention for such purposes, 'with headquarters in Chicago, 111. According to the forty-eighth an 'nual report of the Amalgamated So ciety of Carpenters and Joiners of the United Kingdom, the total member ship was, at the close of 1907, 269,735, showing an increase over 1905 and Stio. There was qlso an increase of nve in the number of branches, the total being 910 at the commencement of the present year in the United Kingdom of colonies, and in Uie United States. More than 500 managers of Chi cago's places of amusement, includ ing theaters, concert balls, nickel shows and public amusement parks, recently received circular letters of warning from State Factory Inspector Edgar T. Davies as his first step in a crusade against these places. Par ents are also to be held to account by the chief inspector when it is found they permit the children to work in these places when they are under 16 years of age. COMPARE THE PLANKS. GOSSIP OF THE TOILERS. Latest News of Busy Workers in Mines, Mills and Workshops. Baton Rouge (La.) barbers recent ly organized. Kalamazoo, Mich., has 30 labor or ganizations. Printers In Tokio, Japan, are paid 26 H cents a day. CBlcago, III, has a school of in struction for railway trainmen. New South Wales farm laborers earn from 15s to 20s a week. Street car men at McAlester, Okla, have secured 23 cents an hour. Organizations ot women workers are now under way at Logansport, Ind. Carpenters at Arecibo and Hu maceo, Porto Rico, have formed unions. Kansas City (Mo.) bakers recently secured a reduction of one hour a day. A Women's Label League has re cently been organized at La Crosse, Wis. A State Federation of Labor for Louisiana was recently organized at Shreveport. New York hoisting and portable en gineers are receiving 15.50 for a day ot eight hours. Germany has over 62,000 carpenters affiliated with the General Federation of Trade Unions. A city ordinance recently passed at Penning. .Ark, requires union labor on all street work. The funds of the Durham (England) Miners' Union are said to aomunt to nearly $2,000,000. Last month's report of "the iron molders of Scotland showed a balance on hand ct $420,000. The Welsh miners are sUU very en ergetic in their efforts to get the non union men into the federaUon. The annual convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Can ad will be held at Halifax in September. Springfield (Mass.) painters are gradually winning their strike for a 44-hour week, without a wage reduction. The 'Manitoba government reports that 26.624 foreign laborers are re quired and over 5,000 female servants. Six thousand cotton operatives of Toronto, Canada, who have been on a strike, returned to work recently. Female labor in the United States even extends to well boring, eleven women gaining their living in this way. Cigar selectors at San Juan, Porto Rico, have won their strike for the union shop and increased wages. The first annual convention of the NaUonal Federation of State, City and Town Employers Unions will be held in Boston, Mass., Aug. 2. Trade unionists at St. Joseph, Mo., are working hard to send members from their own ranks as representa tives to the legislature and other offices. The total amount invested in Cana dian railways is $1,171,000,000. One sixth ot the Canadian population owes its livelihood to these undertakings. The unionists of St. Joseph, Mo. have organized a Legislative League for the purpose of examining into the records of candidates for legislative offices. The differences between the Nash ville, Chattanooga & St Louis Rail road and its switchmen in Atlanta, Ga, will be arbitrated, and the men have returned to work. Belfast (Ireland) boot and shoe op eratives are on strike and are being supported by the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives and from federation funds. Secretary Treasurer W. Dl Ryan of the United Mine Workers of America is trying to capture the republican nomination for congress in the Twen ty-first Illinois district. Severe depression affects the iron trades in northeast Derbyshire, Eng land. Since March about 1,500 em ployes have been discharged at var ious works, owing 'to scarcity of orders. Painters and decorators at Sher man, Tex, who went on strike for an eight-hour day at $3.60, which was refused, have started a co-operative shop with excellent prospects of mak ing it a success. The Montana State Federation of Labor is initiating a petition for sub mission at the next general election for the Employers' Liability Act, and an act exempting labor unions from injunctions. Recent advices from Christiana are to the effect that strikes, lockouts and labor conflicts are numerous in Nor way at the present time. The lumber, building, woolen and leather indus tries are particularly affected. The Bakers Union of San Francis co, Cal, has appointed a committee to prepare a recommendation to the in ternational convention that is to meet in October to erect a home for aged and disabled members of the organiza tion. The mayor of Knoxville, Tenn, re cently appointed three representatives of organized labor to assist in draft ing the new city charter, and through their efforts it is expected that the initiative and referendum clause will be inserted. The Nashville (Tenn.) Trade and Labor Council has gone on record as opposed to state-wide prohibition. The quesUon was sprung by the Brewers' Union, which threatened to withdraw unless some action was taken. The National Joint Arbitration Board of the Granite Cutters" Em-; ployers' association and the Granite Cutters union has adjusted all the points in dispute at Quincy, Mas, and there can be no strikes nor lockouts in the next three years. In resolutions setting forth that scarcely 25 per cent of the men who depend upon the iron industries in San Francisco, Cal, are at present em ployed, the machinists lodge has pro tested against iron work of the city being given to outside firms. The Diamond Workers Union of Antwerp, by a vote of 5001 to 390, de cided on complete cessation of work. The decision affected 10,000 men in the polishing and allied trades. When work is resumed the union, intends to ask higher wages for its members. The international Brotherhood of Teamsters will have its annual con vention in Detroit, Mich,' in August, when it is expected an agreement will be reached for a settlement of the dif ferences between that organization and the United Teamsters of America. A delegated convention of union la bor men will be held in Memphis, Tenn, on August 19 to nominate can didates for the legislature. The res olution adopted calls for a conven- 1 tion composed of delegates from the labor unions of Memphis and the Tarmers' Unions of Shelby county. A bill has passed both houses of the Oklahoma legislature which provides ffor a penitentiary term for any em ployer who refuses work to an em ploye on account of the latter belong ing to a labor union. The bill also One Frank and Fair, the Other a Meaningless Jumble. We submit the above plank (the injunction plank) in the platform adopted by the democratic national convention for the consideration of all laboring men. For our part we Jo not see that any more could be said, if the platform had been one on which a distinctly labor candidate was In tended to run it could not be more in keeping with the wishes and desires of organized labor. Mr. Bryan him self is a man universally liked by the laboring people, and running on tie platform which has been adopted he should receive the favorable con sideration of all toilers. Compare this plank with the garbled one placed in the republican platform, an J then wake your choice. The same plank was offered the Chicago convention l?j Mr. Gompers, but it was too favor able to labor to suit the ideas of the republican leaders, andthey substi tuted in is stead a meaningless Jum bie of words which it is to be hoped v. ill fool no one, much less the men of organized labor. Mr. Bryan has always borne the grand appellation of the "Great Commoner, and we are sure that he deserves it. Making his fight with such good-will toward the common people proves his considera tion for them and recognizes in them a power which he is desirous of sum moning to his aid in the great battle which he is about to wage. Baltimore I-abor Leader. THE ELECTRICAL WORKERS. They, Top, Are Bound to Take Part in the Political Game. The Electrical Workers are about evenly divided as to party affiliations. but they are a unit in their union ism. For that reason they have been agitating the matter of .boosting S'jme good union men into the legis lature, and it is a cinch that they will get behind their brother, O. M. Rudy, who has been endorsed by the Central Labor Union. Work in the electric line continues to be good, and there is a fine pros pect The Electrical Workers promise "something out of the ordinary for toe Labor Day demonstration. Cachinnation. He told us our only salvation Was voting for Taft But much to his perturbation The union men laughed. , KERN IN -LINCOLN. Vice-Presidential Candidate Meets a Number of the Boys. John W. Kern, vice-presidential candidate of the democratic party, vas in Lincoln several days this ";eek, and while here met a number of the union men of the city. Mon day afternoon he felt the need of a shave and asked to be directed to a good union barber shop. H. C. Peate of the Typographical Union took the distinguished visitor in charge and piloted him to a shop that proudly displayed a union shoo card Mr. Kern met a number of railroad men a local cigar store and impressed them favorably. "He's a good mixer, all right an light," was the general comment among those who met him. THE PRESSMEV. Motors Going Again and Work Re suming Normal Proportions. A goodly number of the Dressmen took enforced vacations several days last week owing to the flood. Bnt since the current has been turned ot again the boys have been making n for lost time. This is campaign year and the prospect for a big run of work the political game, not as partisans unusually good. The pressmen, too. are getting into but as union men. They will be found on hand and willir- to work when the time comes. Notice of Petition. Estate No. 2443. of Roscoe R. Jack son, deceased, in County Court of Lan caster County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska. To all per sons interested in said estate, take no tice, that a petition has been" filed for the appointment of Ella C. Jackson as administratrix of said estate, which has been set for hearing herein ca August 21. 19. at o c.ock a. in Dated, July 14. 1908. P. J A3. COSGRAVE. (Seal.) County Jnde. By WALTER A LEESE, Clerk. DR. CHAS.YUIIGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BUC. UICOLI, IEB. ATTO 31 BELL a6 Wise Talk by tie Office Bay 4 mm Wise Talks by the Office Boy. Cheer up. Mary; Peaches are ripe, aad so are fruit jars. It's time to think of preserving something besides yoor bean ty. Mary. Ton know you tza to the beauty doctor any time and give her cards and spades i get your spades c-f mt) but yo uoan't always pot up nice fruit, because it isn't always looking the gift jars in the mouth. What I mtrying to tell you is to advise you not to have any gift jars, or cheap old style jars, that may put you to a lot of trouble in tne tall. Jim come and see the new Schram &ehram automatic jars, and let us expfcusj the improvements in Jarring things. Then you will rise and say. "Blessings on tne man who invented that ar. even if he Is a homely old thing." A man can't be pretty, and be an inventor, so don't ex pect Mr. Schram to make good on the line of beauty, but thank your stars he didn't invent bloomers, or something yam wouldn't car for. I have to teO yoa a lot about fruit jars this month, because we have to sell a lot or sell out. It beats all how hard times would be if we didn't call her bluff, but cans or Jars, we are ready for you. WILLIE, with Knudson A Lund holms, IIS So. 12tl HAYCEtTS WT STL-S New Location, 1127 O nrkaSpae JUtoJSM Ublrtef 0 r - aliiWnll OJotkinc eC aS treaaos a specialty. mew rau J. C. WOOD S CO. A FOR PRJCELT3T. "PHONES: Ben. 147. Aoto, 12. 1329 N St. - - Lincoln, Nob. OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Honrs 1 to 4 p. m Offloe 2118 O St. Both Phone LINCOLN, NEBRASKA