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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1908)
V AUDFQDCaCjDA OR THE BBTHU EST NOW is the time to go. SS30 Every day, Sept. 1st to Oct. 31st, 1908, to San Francisco. Los Angeles and many other Cali fornia points. To Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and many other Oregon and Washington points. Tickets good in Toarist Sleeping Cars. By taking a tourist sleeper, passengers can ma terially reduce the cost of a Pacific Coast trip without sacrificing the slightest degree of comfort. Tourist Sleeping Cars run daily VIA UuDDOirD PacBtfBc For reservations and all information inquire of E. B. Slosson, Gen'l Agt, TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. $ Fur Garments lo Order Men's Suits to Order I I i 137 SO. llth ST. jt SUITE 28 PHONE 3838 THE FASHIONABLE FUBR1EB Seal Skin Coats to Order .... $165 to $375 Otter Coats to Order $100 to $199 Any Fvr Garment made to order, remodeled or repaired at lowest prices, Satisfaction Guaranteed. (cf?TjRI7f? Season Now Here ! UiyJuLL 50O to Close Out Also 2 Car Loads off Furniture at Special Prices I New and Second Hand Furniture Some News Notes About the Men i Who Chronicle Events. Lincoln Typographical Union No. 209 will meet one week from next Sunday the day before Labor Day. The committee appointed to arrange for ' the union's participation in the Labor Day celebration is presumed to have performed its duty. Its report will necessarily come pretty late iu the game. Charley Barngrover, who has printed in Lincoln for the last eighteen year?, drew his card last week and departed for Loveland, Coloi-ado, where he wil! operate a machine in a one-mill plant. The best wishes of the "gang" ac company him. His family will remain In Lincoln for a while. Lincoln printers' hope to march un der a "scrumptious" new banner on Labor Day. The matter is in the "nands of the Auxiliary, which is In the habit of doing things just right. And the banner will bear the union label, too. President Ingraham is in receipt of some printed matter from Humphrey O'Sullivan which is interesting in the extreme. The Star chapel looked like a Teal workshop the first of the week. Get ting out a magnificent special edition taxed the resources of the shop, but the "Ad Alley" made good. The Star's special edition showed a big lot of artistic work. Bert Pentzer has been off duty for several days, rusticating on hi ex tensive "Kinkaid ranch" in Cherry county. "Professor" Hall looked after the Star mills while Pentzer was absent. "Sherm" Foxworthy, ex-president of No. 209, and now manager of the Western Newspaper Union, cast dis credit upon The Wageworker man's ability as a fisherman. "Sherm" was shown to the limit. If you do noi believe it ask him. "Ye editor" jumped town last Sat urday night and spent Sunday at Bis Lake, Mo. He brought home a goodly c&tch of fish, too. Prove it if asked. The Allied Printing Trades section will head the second division of the Labor Day parade, with the Capitol City Band to furnish the music. The liinting trades will form on L street east of Eleventh. Remember, the parade starts at 10 o'clock. There will be a lot of important business to transact at the next meet ing, and every member should make it a point to be on hand. There has been lots of work dur ing the past week or two, but there has been a surplus of men to turn it out. The "subs" have been numer ous in both machine and job shops. hearty support of VanCleave, of Post, of Parry, and every other hater of organized labor. Under which flag, Mr. Union Man? Seventy Men in Omaha Strike for Sat urday Half Holiday. The sheeet metal workers of Omaha asked their employers for a Saturday half-holiday and were refused. They said they would take It. 'AH right," said the employers. But you . need not come back Mon day." The men took the Saturday after noon off, and they did not show up for work Monday, knowing that they were locked out. They did not ask pay for the half-holiday, but they in sisted on time and a half if they worked then. This was refused. The ground of refusal was that this is the busy season and every man is needed. The idea of adding some more men sems never to have entered the heads of the bosses. The employers are not trying to get new men, and the locked out em ployes are putting in their time at the Labor Temple or in fishing. There a general impression that the dif ficulty will be amicably adjusted in a short time. WALWORTH 6 SIIELT0N K: o PHONES i Bell A 1877 i Auto 4WK LARGEST STOCK IN CITY GOODS EXCHANGED We Trust You for Anything Used in the Home Whatever yon want for use In your home will be told to yon on credit. Your choice of 3.UU0 articles will be shipped on approval. Use our aooda 30 daya before you decide to keep them. Then, if aatisfactory. pay a little each month. We mean that exactly. When a person wants to make his home more attractive, his credit is eood with ua. Save 15 to 50 Per Cent We are the lanrest concern of our kind in the world. Our combined capital is S7.0CO.UO0. On our books are more than 150.000 customers. We own 25 mammoth retail atorcs, located in the principal cities, and we control the output of a score of (treat factories. Thus we buy and tell at prices which no other concern can compete with. We invite any sort of com parison. You can return uuy roods, sent on approval. If you don't find a saving of 15 to SO per cent, under the lowest prices, cash or credit, anywhere. 30 Days' Free Trial As you can't come to our store, we send the goods to you on approval. Use them a month, and decide how you like them. Compare our prices with others. If not satisfactory, return the goods nt our expense. The month's use will not cost you a penny. Small Monthly Payments If you are satisfied, you can pay a little each month what you can afford. Take from 10 to 24 months to pay, while you use and enjoy the articles. We charge no interest and ask no security. You simply buy as we buy on credit and our dealings are all confidential. Four Free Catalogs 3,000 Articles We issue four handsome catalogs, showing pictures, prices and descriptions of 3.000 things for the home. Many of the pictures show the actual colors. Simply write us a postal and ay which catalog you wunt. They are free, and we pay postage. Furniture and Carpets Catalog No. 10 shows a new and wonderful line of Furniture. Housefurnlshinits, Carpets, Kugs. Oil Cloths and Portieres, illustrated in actual colors. Also Lace Curtains. Clocks, Silverware.Crockery. Sewing Machines, Wash ing Machines, Refrigerators, Baby Carriages and Uo-Carts. of stoves and ranires the stoves that save fuel enough to pay for themselves in six months. Columbia Graphophones Catalog No. 30 is devoted to the greatest of all talking machines. Wo send a complete Uraphophone outfit, freight prepaid. You don t pay a penny until you have tried it ten daya. Then send us small monthly payments. Pianos on Free Trial No Money Down Catalog No. 40 shows the celebrated Meyer koff and Beckmann Pianos, from S144.S0 up. We send a piano on 30 days' trial, with no payment down. Pay us nothing at all until we convince you that we save you at least $100. Then pay a little each month. Stoves and Ranges Catalog No. 20 shows the whole Empire line Send us a postal today, saying which catalog you want Spiegel, May, Stern Co. - 1323 35th Street, Chicago 46tt 1305, HAVELOCK F. M. MALONE BARBER UNION SHOP Bojf, Wl ApprMialt Yur Trld,. BERT ANDERSON Union Barber HAVELOCK See The Boys You Know CENTRAL LABOR UNION. A Poorly Attended Meeting Results in a Short Business Session. For some reason or other the at tendance at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Central Labor Union was the smallest for' months. Perhaps it was due to the fact that The Wage worker negated to announce it the week before. President Rudy was absent from the city so Vice-P esident Quick officiated. Only routine busi- ress was transacted. The Labor Day program was an nounced and the delegates urged to go back to their locals and arouse some more enthusiasm. J. W. Dick son, candidate for a republican sen atorial nomination, was present and spoke a few words. Others urged the necessity of union men getting behind Dickson's candidacy and doing some lively hustling between now and sun down next Tuesday. Delegates from the Tailors' Union made a brief report of conditions in th4ir present controversy. The story of assaults on non-union tailors was branded- as a fabrication and told for the purpose of prejudicing the public, TAFT AND LITTLEFIELD. . Kow the Republican Candidate Bid Defiance to Organized Labor. Mr. Union Man, do you remember when we were trying our best to de feat Congressman Littlefleld of Maine that arch enemy of trades unionism? Every effort was put forth by the American Federation of Labor to en compass Littlefield's defeat. William Howard Taft, republican candidate for president, went into Littlefield's district and exerted every effort to secure Littlefield's re-election, The Chicago Record-Herald is pretty good republican paper, isn't it? Well, Mr. Taft went into Littlefield's district on September 5, 1907, and In its report of Taft's speech the Chi cago Record-Herald of September 6 had the following headline over Bath (Me.) dispatch: "TAFT BIDS DEFIANCE TO OR GANIZED LABOR." How do you like it, Mr. Union Man'! "Taft bids defiance to Organized Labor!" And Taft is receiving the SHEET METAL WORKERS. NEW CIGAR FACTORY. The Lincoln unions have been strengthened this past month by the addition of a new cigar factory at 815 O street. Mr. J. Pepperburg, the owner of this factory, has been operating a union1, factory at Plattsmouth, Neb, since 1869, and gives employment to between twenty and thirty men. The factory is certainly the most san itary and best equipped in the west. Members of all the Lincoln unions cie invited to visit the factory and get a free smoke of Pepperburg's "Buds." OF COURSE NOT. "We do not propose to enter into any controversy with Mr.. Dickson says Rev. L. M. Grigsby, of University Place. Certainly not. After having made a bald misstatement of facts, Rev. Mr. Grigsby wants tne incident closed. That is the usual way. PLEASES A LOT OF US. The action of the Independence League in endorsing Bryan and Kern, the democratic nominees, is gratifying to the Democratic Schnectady County committee. Following so closely after the action of the Trades Assembly which body also endorsed William Jennings Bryan it looks like a demo cratic victory in this country next November. Schnectady (New York) Leader. UNION BARBER SHOPS. Informaticn as to Where You Can Gel 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 TOorth 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 Farmenter, 122 Soul! Twelfth. H. C. Leopold, Fraternity Buildinu Frank Malone, Havelock. E. A. Wood, Havelock. C. B. Ellis, Havelock. Windsor hotel, C. B. Lewis, Prop, Apex Barber Shop, J. J. Simpson Prop., 1001 O Street. J. V. Masully barber shop, 1014 N St Much Corn In Custer. It is estimated that Custer county will have a corn yield of 5,000,000 bushels this fall. The prospects are for the largest corn yield ever har vested in the county. To Work on Bridge. Steel work on the new Northwest ern bridge across the Platte at Fre mont will soon begin if there are no unforseen delays. An unusually heavy force will be put to work and It is ex pected to finish the structure by Janu ary 1. A. KAPPELIN THE TAILOR Makes Clothes That Have Workman ship and Style Low Prices Press Bldg. 1241 N.St oooffiooooooffioooooQoooooooo LINCOLN BUSINESS COLLEGE Established 1 884 Fall Term Opens Aug. 31 THOROUGH COURSES IN Commercial Shorthand Typewriting Penmanship, Etc Make Arrangements Now. X Catalog Free, Phones: Bell A1018, Auto 2254 00000&000&&000090&0Q00000800Oa080 O OOOGOffiOOOOCOOOOOCffiQ0OOOO C I M. M. MOHNEY at '-,. 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