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5
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Fifty Thousand Dollars
in Premiums
To be divided among exhibitors from the different
States at
The National
CORN EXPOSITION
OMAHA, NEB.
DECEMBER 9-19, 1908
See especially Union Pacific exhibit of California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Old Mexico products. Yon cannot
afford to miss this interesting and instructive Exposition.
Come to Omaha via
GModd Pacotfoc
, Eleetrie Blook Signal Protection.'
The Safe Road to Travel.
E. B. SLOSSON, General Agent, Lincoln, Neb.
lA Cheerful Home
oTWaketh for
Creature Comfort
And the home illuminated by gas is always bright
and cheerful. And, too, the economy adds to the smiles
of content. If your house is not piped for illuminating
gas, let us show you some figures that will convince
you that it should be.
Taking Off the Chill
Little early foe the furnace but not too early for
chilly mornings and evenings. A gas radiator will take
the chill off and save coal bills. Mighty fine for the
bath" room about thi3 time o' year.
Pretty Fixtures
For Modest Homes
If you haven't already investigated you will be sur
prised to find how cheaply you can install some modern
and pretty gas fixtures fixtures that will add a whole
i lot to the cheer and brightness of the little cottage. We
arc showing a fine line of these new and up-to-date fixtures.
Using Gas
Better get over the unfounded notion that gas is
expensive for lighting or heating. It is the cheapest
illuminant adn the cheapest fuel. We will prove this
if you will let us. Brightest and 'cheapest light Hottest
and cheapest heat. Here are two facts susceptible of
easy demonstration.
How About Coke?
Ever use it in the furnace or baseburnerf It is "fine
business." Cheaper and better than hard coal or semi
anthracite. We sell the coke.
Lincoln Gas and Electric Light
Company. Open Evenings
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By Insisting Upon Pur- I
chasing
Union Stamp Shoes
You help better shoemaRing
conditions. You get better
shoes for the moneu. Yju
Labor Proposition. You abolish
Labor.
DO NOT BE MISLED
By Retailers who say: "This shoe does not bear
the stamp, but it is made under Union Conditions."
THIS IS FALSE. No shoe is union mads unless it
bears the Union Stamp.
BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION
246 Sumner St., Boston, Mass:
John F. Tobin, Pres. Ghas. L. Baine, See.-Treas.
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AMONG THE LIVE ONE8.
(Continued from page 1)
last Sunday, and also the further
Incisure of receiving a handsome en
dorsement from that bully 'bunch , in
his candidacy for appointment to the
position of deputy labor commissioner.
The report of the machine scale com
mittee sounded good. It revealed an
advance of 25 cents a day for the
ensuing year, and 25 cents per day
additional thereafter two years on
the World-Herald, three years on the
Newg and five years on the Bee. The
total expense of securing the increase
was $6. The new strike committee
up there is getting busy, and harmony
seems to be the watchword all along
the line.' The meeting was one of
the largest in many months. Orga
nizer Bert Brady is in Omaha and
looking after things.
Lincoln Typographical Union No
209 will meet next Sunday afternoon
several important committees are
slated to report The news from
Omaha gives encouragement to the
boys down here.
H S H DlflCMMfflS
are truely wonderful stones nothing at all like the
ordinary immitation diamonds as brilliant as the real
diamonds. See them, you'll be surprised and delighted.
Henderson & Hald,
lOth Street. Opposite Post Office
The muddle in the affairs of the
International Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers bids fair, to be settled
amicably. The Denver convention de
voted considerable time to unraveling
the tangle, and the results promise
to be good. A committee was ap
pointed to investigate and held five
long sessions. It decided to seat as
delegates McNulty and Fay, elected
ty the Louisville convention in 1905.
asserting that it could find nothing
in the Brotherhood's laws to empower
the president to appoint delegates.
The committee further reported as
follows:
"Tour committee further recom
mends that all officers, members and
local unions of the Brotherhood
make every effort possible to pro
mote the holding of a special conven
tion in St. Loui3, Mo., on January 1S(
1909, and that under existing cir
cumstances every local should be re
resented. We recommend that Presi
dent McNulty and Secretary Collins
issue, jointly, without delay, a circu
lar, urging the holding of said special
convention and every local to be rep
resented therein. We also recom
mend that Brothers J. J. Read and F.
Sullivan, representing the protest
ing delegation, ir-sue a similar circu
lar, urging the holding of the special
convention in January, 1909, at St.
Louis. Mo., and that all locals be
there represented.
"Your committee also recommends
that President Rompers be directed
to issue a circular to all local unions
of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers urging that the
special convention be held, that all
local unions send delegates, and to
embody in such circular the action
of this convention.
"Your committee finds thai the
funds of the Brotherhood are not
available for the necessary payment
of benefits, and the general work of
the Brotherhood, because of injunc
tion suits, attachments, etc., leaving
the organization in a condition that
threatens the life and necessary work
of the Brotherhood.
"Your committee, in order to re
lieve this unfortunate and perilous
situation, recommends that all suits
at law tieing up the funds be with
drawn; that all funds now on han4
or on deposit, or hereafter received,
by either side of the controversy, be
made a special trust fund in charge
of a bank in Springfield, 111., to be
designated by President Gompers, to
be paid out by said bank on orders
or checks signed by Secretary P. W.
Collins and Treasurer F. J. Sullivan,
in accord with the laws of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
"Your committee further recom
mends that the action of the special
convention to be held in St. Louis,
Mo., in January next, be binding and
final in accord with the constitution
of the Brotherhood, upon all ques
tions submitted thereto, and that all
moneys In the trust fund be at the
close of the convention turned over
to the proper officers of the Brother
hood, as designated by said special
convention."
All this seems to meet with favor,
and there will be another convention
in St. Louis earlv in the year this
time a Vhannony convention." Lin
coln will be represented, of course.
The Lincoln bunch of Electrical
Workers is made .up of "live ones."
HEN
OVERCOATS
And CRAVEN ETTES
The Price
of Men's Overcoats at
Speier & Simon's
starts at $15 and runs
along with frequent
stops up to $22.50.
If you pay more you -pay
too much.
SEE THE BIG WIN
DOW DISPLAY.
We save you money.
The Price
of Men's Cravenettes
at Speier & Simon's
starts at $7.75 and
jogs along with
frequent stops till you
get to $20.00.
If you pay more you
pay too much. These
prices get the best.
We save you money.
Remember, men, that our clothing is priced so low that we can't afford
to have cut-price sales. If we marked our goods up now 25 per cent
and 30 per cent and made every man pay this high price till January
first, then we .could afford to "cut" the price and "holler" about it as
loud as anybody; In that case if you bought now and your neighbor
bought in January, you would not be getting a square deal1) having
paid 25 per cent more for the same goods.
THIS IS OUR POLICY One low price to all, every day in the year.
We welcome all men who appreciate this method of doing business, to
our store.
peier
N. E. Corner 10th and O
Out of the High-Rent District
uracil
We Save You Money
3
George Bros, have branched out a
bit in the printing line, having added
a German printing department. Fore
man Fred Brenner knows the Ger
man end of the printing business as
well as he does the English end of
it, which means that he is an artist
at both.
Last 'season Lew Dockstader prom
ised that as soon ase he got rid of
hia bunch of non-union printing he
would use onlv labeled stuff. But
Lew's promise doesn't seem to be
worth much. He is using the same
old "rat" printing this year.
Mr. Alex Weckesser and Miss Min
nie M. Kleinschmidt were married on
November 26 at the home of the
groom in this city., The Wageworker
joins with the many friends of this
young couple in wishing them a happy
and prosperous life. They are now
at home to friends at 904 B street.
Mir. Wecklesser is foreman of tht
press room at George Bros.' printery,
and is one of tho real "live ones" in
Lincoln trades union circles.
The Building Trades department of
the American Federation of Labor,
which met in session immediately af
ter the adjournment of the Denver
convention, elected the following offi
cers: i
President, James Kirwin of Chicago.
First vice-president, G. E. Hedrick
of New York.
Second vice-president, James G.
Hannahan of Chicago.
Third vice-president, Frank M.
Ryan of Chicago.
Fourth' vice-president, W. J. Me
Sorley of Philadelphia. v '
" Fifth vice-president, M. O'Sullivan
of Pittsburg. .
Secretary, William J. Spencer of
Dayton, Ohio.
The convention adjourned to meet
at Tampa, Fla., the second Monday
In. October, 1909.
RAYMOND ROBINS' GREAT
SPEECH.
1 (Continued from page 1)
that the stone which the builders
have 'rejected has become the head'
Btone of the corner; and the stone
which the builders of empire have
rejected in the history of men has
been the great group of toil. That
stone" was rejected when in the great
council of the people of Great Britain,
th?re was present the members of
that despised group the group of toil
who stand there in parliament for
great human values, the greatest
values for the empire that had ever
been advocated in that great house
of parliament in the history of man
kind. Jt was said by that brave man and
follower of the simple -carpenter of
Nazareth, Charles Stelzle, on this
platform this afternoon, that the leis
ure class did not make good. My
friends, 1 want to add to that, just
UqSoII
HARDWARE, STOVES; SPOTT
ING GOODS, RAZORS, RAZOR
21KUP2 AND CUTLERY
At Low Prices
Hoppe's Hardware. 100 North 101b
;his: The leisure class in the history
of mankind never did make good; it
never . will make good, because it
never can. Whenever a boy or girl
is raised under conditions where he
does not have to work for what he
gets, whenever he is surrounded by
I.rivilege and opportunity, he becomes
careless and indifferent, and his mind
and body are not capable of the service
that the working child, if he has good
food and good air and decent condi
tions, is capable of giving to the
world.
The battle Is In better shape today
than ever before More men of labor
understand what their great work Is
to be. More men outside of Tabor's
rank are in tympathy with the ulti
mate purpose, the citizenship rights
of the manhood and womanhood of
labor than ever before. Let us gather
courage, let us dare to believe in each.
other, let us dare to believe in our
leaders. My friends, the other fel
lows don't dicker and divide their
forces in the face of the enemy on
the day of battle. God grant that the
day will come in the history of orga
nized labor when, after we have de
cided what is best, we will stand to
gether, submitting and surrendering,
if need be, our personal choice in
the interest of the common good. , 1
want - to say that I look forward to
the unity of organized labor, not be
hind any party thank God, I dare
to be free! I have voted the repub
lican ticket and the democratic ticket,
and I thought I was doing right each
time, and I will vote any old ticket
that looks to me as being best for the
human values of this country any
time it comes to the front. But, men,
we have no power worth considering
on the political field for any party
or any principle until we get together.
I don't know what the future holds.
Even such a wise man as this olfl
leader of labor, Samuel Gompers,
knows not what the future hnMa i
do know that' there is no future of
any kind for us until we have sense
enough to lay aside personal differ
ences, agree on a program and then
stick to the bitter end.'
THE BARBERS.
Little News Notes That May Interest
Men of That Craft.
The barbers of Minneapolis hav-s
employed a business agent who will
devote Mb entire time to working for
the organization. A special effort will
be made to unionize every shop In the
Flour City. . , . . V
'Men who follow the barber trade
in Omaha hereafter will have to stand
a stiff examination. They must show'
that they are good workmen, and in
addition must know something about
skin diseases and their remedies. A
board of examiners has been ap
pointed by Mayor Dahlman, acting
under an old ordinance that has re
cently, been revived.
Mr. Till Hardy, in a talk before the
Lincoln Ad Club the other evening,
told some interesting facts about thf
barber " uninees abroad. " He said bar
be shops in Eng!and were travesties
on American' shops both In fitting
and In workmen Most Englishmen
shave themselves, and those who pa
tronize a barber do so at their own
risk. The best shops are in the
swell hotels and are patronied almost
exclusively by Americans. J-
AIM OF UNIONISM.
The trades union is not an agency
of antagonism, but of sympathy and
charitableness. f It does not aim to
array man against man, but to unite
them in the bonds of truest brother
hood. Duluth Labor World.
