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GOSSIP OF THE TOILERS Latest News of Busy Workers in Mines, Mills and Workshops. Silversmiths in Tokio, Japan, are paid 22 cents a day. Cigarmakers at Mayagues, Porto Rico, have formed a union. The Photo Engravers' TTnion of North America has adopted a union label. In eleven years the coal output of Japan has Increased from 200,000 tons annually to 11,500,000. Civic Employes at Prince Albert, Sask., have struck for $2 a day, an increase of 25 cents, Wheeling (W. Va.) carmen have received an increase In wages of and 1 cent on the hour. Capital Beach will be beautifully decorated in oriental colors. Do not fail to see it. August 3rd to 8th. Full 50 per cent of the boiler mak ers of Massachusetts are either on half time or absolutely unemployed. The total value of the telegraph and telephone line poles used in this country during 1906 was $9,471,171. International Gloveworkers' Union of America will hold its annual con ventions in Detroit, Mich., August . Pennsylvania produces over $15, 000,000 worth of vegetables annually. Only one other state makes a better showing in the value of garden pro ducts. Trade unionists alt Walla Walla, Washf, have placed the president of the - Trades Council as a candidate for street commissioner. - The reduction in the initiation fee for membership In the United Mine Workers is now effective. ' The regu lar initiation fee is $10. In August it will be $2.50; in September, $3; in A SUIT or 0VED00AT Undo to Order For No More From Shecps Back to Your Back ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF IIMITB0 REGISTERED World's Greatest Tailors NOTHING DOING! I October, $3.50, and in November, $4. Beginning with December 1 the regu lar $10 fee will be charged. Ironworkers' wages are once again io the fore in the United Kingdom, and Staffordshire, the Midlands and South Wales are the districts affect ed. The insurance agents of Wheeling, W. Va., may organize -a labor union for their self-protection in the near future. , The A. F. of L. had $137,438.12 cash balance on June 1. The receipts for May were $12,206.63, and its expenses $15,182.19. The fifteenth general convention of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, next September. Boston, Mass., Cigarmakers' Union has levied an assessment of $5 on each member to advertise the union label. Strong efforts are being made by the various printing trades in Wash ington, D. C, to have the Cuban cen sus reports printed at the govern ment printing office. C. H. McConaughy of San Francis co, Cal., has been chosen third vice president of the International Broth erhood of Electrical Workers to suc ceed M. J. Sullivan. The Alabama district organization of the United Mine Workers of Amer: ica has appealed to all mine workers in Alabama to cease work and make an effort to organize the state. : It has been only eight years since this country passed Great Britain in the matter of coal production. Now the English mines are-hardly to be regarded as competitors. A federated council of ' the shop machinists' unions of the Boston & No Less 145 South 13th Street LINCOLN NEBRASKA Courtesy Chicago Daily Socialist. Maine system has been organized and At is expected to soon include every branch organization of the road. Arrangements are being made for a meeting to be held very shortly to form a Pittsburg (Pa.) metal trades council of the metal trades depart ment of the American Federation of Labor. The new National Federation of Weavers held its first convention at Fall River, Mass., with 28 unions rep resented. United Textile Workers' Union, from which the Weavers' unions have withdrawn, is opposing the effort. The South Wales Miners' Federa tion is again in a ferment over the non-union question, and the executive has given permission to issue notices to strike unless the non-unionist toe the line and join the Federation. The annual report of the Bureau of Navigation shows that all records for ship building in the United States were broken last year. v The gross tonnage built was 1,588,627 tons, of whish 204,739 tons were for the Great Lakes. In an effort to reduce accidents at mines, for which money was appro priated at the last session of con gress, plans have been made by Sec retary of the Interior Garfield to open in Pittsburg, Pa., the first , experi mental station. The inventive genius of the Amer ican people is suggested in the figures of patents issued year by year. The latest figures available those of 1906 show that a total of 31,806 were is sued, of which, however, 3,471 were issued to citizens of 48 foreign coun tries. A general movement on the part of the national board members for the rehabilitation of the miners' organiza tion in the anthracite coal fields wili likely be one of the results of the conference held in Indianapolis by the national executive board of the XTnited Mine Workers. Assistant Commissioner Powderly of the bureau of immigration has up to date found 786 places for immi grants arriving in this country. Of that number 203 have found places cn farms in Vermont; New York has received 176; Ohio, 12; other states from 4 to 50, and Pennsylvania none. As an expression of appreciation for their faithful service and cour tesy to the traveling public, checks amounting to $175,000 were mailed to 1,153 conductors and 2,617 porters by the Pullman company. In each case the check was equivalent to one i-.'onth's pay an average of about $46.40. The West Virginia State Federation or Labor continues to grow bigger and stronger each week. President Welch is confident that by the time of the next state convention the state federation, reorganized at Huntington last February, will contain all the labor unions in the Mountain stato. The prospect of smooth working in the labor world in Sweden is any thing but bright, and a great deal of trouble is expected during the sum mer. The most threatening" feature is the conflict between the dockworkers' organization and the shipowners, which is hound to drag in all kind? of workers. The dispute between the Ship builders association and the Ship wrights and Joiners on the Wear waa recently amicably settled by mutual agreement at a conference held at Sunderland, a reduction of Is per week instead of Is 6d being agreed io. The" fear of a lockout in the district is thus averted. The Louisville & Nashville .Rail road company has announced a gen eral reduction of forces in the ma chine shops along its lines. Many men were dropped from the shops at Mobile, Pensacola, Montgomery, Bir mingham and Decatur. Officials of the company say that the reduction is due to a marked falling off in busi ness. Another move to use the convicts at the penitentiary in the making of a system of good roads has been started in Chicago. At present in the neighborhood of 200 convicts are used at the penitentiary at Joliet preparingroad materials for use in the state. The promoters of the new movement want the scope extended. When completed Kansas City's labor temple will cost nearly $100,000: and the union men of Kansas City will not owe one cent on the struc ture. The building will be four stories high, and already to the third floor has been completed. The labor people are furnishing the funds for the temple, and are raising the money among the local unions. Illinois has a new law, which went into effect recently "that wil' virtually prevent the importation of strikebreakers when the miners of that state are on strfke. ' The law requires all coal miners to pass an examination. The examiners arp practical miners and union men, and they can prevent the importation of strikebreakers. Railroad employes throughout Me. ico are piannnlg organization of a union which will have for its sole aim the exclusion of Americans from connection in any capacity with tj various roads. It is said that 90 per cent of th men of the railroads are Alexicans, the c..her 10 per cent on tae positions being held principally by Americans. Because of the activity of orga nized labor in Toledo, the board of education recently gave West Vir ginia non-union coal the go by. The labontes asked the board not to recognize a standard of living based on a 17-cent rate of mining against that of 53 cents a ton prevailing in Ohio; and the moral side of the ques tion won the day. Mine Inspector P. C. Fenton of th Twelfth Pennsylvania district, com prising 11 collieries, employing 10,- men and boys, in his report for June has a clear record, save one non-fatal accident. This is the first time sines the formation of the Twelfth district fcix years ago that the monthly re- port did not show at least one fatal accident. To solve the problem of a normal living wage in a city like Chicago or New York an investigation was recently conducted by- a committee of charity workers, sociologists and college professors. It showed that $656 a year was the normal minimum vage for a fair standard of living for the average family of husband. wife and three children. The International Brotherhood of Leather Workers does not hold Con ventions as is the case with other in terntaional unions. All its business is transacted at the annual sessions of the executive board, composed of the president, secretary-treasurer and four vice-presidents. Proposed changes are submitted to a referendum vote of the local unions. The International Brotherhood of Leather Workers has declared for universal eignt-nour day, and a cau cus of all the local unions within the jurisdiction of the international union will be held in September to decide upon the date when the shorter workday will be put into effect. The meeting will be held In Kansas City, where the international union has its headquarters. The arbitration law adopted by Australia for the purpose of settling labor disputes worked well for time and it was supposed by the people of that country, as well as others, that the means of avertin; strikes and lockouts had been reached but flaws were discovered in the law and it became inoperative. A new law will likely be passed hav ing for its principal feature the im I osition of penalties upon both labor and capital for industrial strife. In England the progress of the co-operative societies has been re markable. At the English co-opera tive congress, which was held a short time ago in Newport, Monmouthshire the Central Board of the Co-operative Union received reports for the year 1307 from 1,566 societies, with total membership of 2,434,085. The members held shares of stock amount ing to $160,000,000; the trade for the ear reached the huge total of $528,- 000,000, and the profit was $60,000,000. UNION PRINT SHOPS. Printeries That Are Entitled to Use the Allied Trades Label. Following is a list of the printing offices in Lincoln that are entitled to the use of the Allied Printing Trades label, together with the num ber of the label used by each shop: Jacob North & Co., No. 1. C. S. Simmons, No. 2. Freie Presse, No. 3. Woodruff-Collins, No. 4. Graves & Mulligan, No. 5. State Printing Co., No. 6. Star Publishing Co., No. 7. - Western Newspaper Union, No. 8. Wood Printing Co., No. 9. George Bros., No. 11. McVey Printing Co., No. 12. Union Advertising Co., No. 14. Ford Printing Co., No. 16. Gillespie & Phillips, No. 18. VanTine & Young, No. 24. Graves Printery. Dairyman Pub. Co., 130 No. i4th. WE DO NOT v PATRONIZE BUCK STOVES AND RANGES! NO COMPROMISE. No compromise should be made. It is not a false alarm. Unless the union men of this country rally around their standard, before many months pass every labor union in this country will be put out of business. Union men should not wait, but should now take up the gauge of battle and not rest un til they have put every man on record as to his feeling toward organized labor, both in the past and the future. Colorado Springs Labor News. The Union- Hypocrite. Organized labor's greatest enemy is the lukewarm union man. He bears the same relation to the union that a hypocrite bears to a church. When the labor movement is falsely meas ured it is generally by' the standard of the " trades union hypocrite. Charleston (W. Va.) Labor Argus. ARE THE YRIG'HT? "O, to hell . v.'ith the labor vote we can whip them into line!" That's the, way the machine politicians have it figured out. Are they right? UNION BARBER SHOPS. Information as to Where You Can Get Your Work Done Fairly. Following is a list of the union bar ber shops of Lincoln, the name and location being given: Gus Petro, 1010 O street. W. A. Jackson, 1001 O street, W. E. Myers, Capital Hotel. C. A. Green, 120 North Eleventh. Geo. Shaffer, Lincoln Hotel. J. B. Ramer, 1501 O Street E. A. Snyder, 1206 O Street. -A. L. Stern, 116 South Thirteenth. A. L. Kemmerer, Lindell Hotel. ' Chapman & Ryan, 127 North Twelfth. H. A. Larabee, 922 P Street Knight and Parmenter, 122 South Twelfth. HC. Leopold, Fraternity Building. Frank Malone, Havelock. E. A. Wood, Havelock. C. B. Ellis, Havelock. Windsor hotel, C. B. Lewis, Prop. THE STAGE EMPLOYPS. Have at Last Succeeded in Securing Recognition From Headquarters. ' The local union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes has at last secured recognition from headquarters, and the boys now have a full-fledged union of their own. It has taken two. years of hard worft to secure this recognition. It seems that two or three Lincoln men were former ly members of the Omaha local but fell behind in their dues. Omaha pro tested against granting Lincoln a char ter until these men paid up. The Lin coln local was required to give bond that it would pay these back dues if the men themselves failed to square up. Not all of the delinquent ones are still in Lincoln, but their dues will have to be made good by the loyal unionists who have persevered in spite of difficulties. The" following officers have been elected : President, E. R. Wiese. Vice' President, A. Bradshaw. Financial Secretary and Treasurer, George Emmons. Corresponding Secretary, J. F. Ste phens. Delegates to C. L. U., E. R. Wiese, Frank Watkins, Wm. Robinson. Labor Day committee, Frank Wat kins. The local meets on the second and fourth Sundays. It has about thirty members and promises to be one of the liveliest locals in the city. THE BARBERS. If Prosperity Has Returned It Has Managed to Dodge This Bunch. The union barbers of Lincoln are not making any loud complaints, but the fact remains that the situation is not all that could be desired. The alleged return of prosperity has not made itself felt to any great extent among the knights of the razor and shears, and while very few men are. unemployed the average weekly wage is not what it was a few months ago:. Lincoln's union barbei-3 work on a percentage, with a weekly guarantee. The close times have resulted in a f.pasm of economy on the part of tiie men who patronize the barber, shops, and a3 a result, the boys are r.ot getting -the money. But they are rot complaining. 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