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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1908)
Yoo ii Mori 1 1 i hi i 2) in . 1 Is $25 Too Much for a Suit? If yon think so, why not make a change? Suit Made to Order By a Union Tailor SCOTCH WOOLEN MILLS . M. C RANDALL FIRST TRUST AMD SAVINGS BANK Owned By Stockholders of The First National Bank THE BANK FOR THE WAGE EARNER INTEREST PAID AT 4 PER CENT Tenth and O Streets BUY UNION JOB MMT1S AT THE OFFICE OF The iWageworker We are prepared to handle all kinds of Printing Cards to Newspapers. Have you tried us? No! Very likely we can do you : good. ; Wagcworker Auto 1556 130 North 14th Bell 333 i .,....-'. t - . . 185 SOUTH THIRTEENTH KELLY' MADE GOODS riicnnncrrn bag and PAPER CO. Wholesale Paper. Stationery and Fireworks 199 North Klnth St. LINCOLN, KEN. Phones Auto 1614, Bell 606 When "Walk-Over." go on, shoe troubles go off. Have You Tried a Pair? Rogers & Perkins Co. 1 125 O STREET GENERAL MENTION. Labor News Culled by Hustle and Scis sorsMostly Scissors. The American Federation of Musi cians is reported to be in unusually fine condition. Its membership is now approximately 400,000, and new unions are being formed everywhere. The Oakland (Cal.) Trades Council has under consideration plans for the erection of a building trades temple to cost about $10C,000. A new plan to raise money for the building of a labor temple in St. Loui3 has been indorsed by the General Cen tral Trades and Labor Union there. The difference between the Freight Handlers and the Railway Clerks have been settled, and the latter organiza tion has been admitted to the Amer ican Federation of Labor. A bill has passed both houses in Oklahoma which provides for a peni- tentiary term for any employer who refuses work to an employe on ac count of the latter belonging to a labor union. The bill also prohibits Pinkerton detectives from working in the state. Lowell, Mass. A number of new unions are being organized in Lowell. London, Eng. There are signs of a revival in the lead and slate industries of Wales. Berlin. No one in Saxony is al- lowed to shoe horses unless he has passed a public examination and is duly qualified. Indianapolis. Typographical unions have been formed in the colonies of Barbadoes, British Guiana and Trin idad. Glasgow, Scotland. A dispute hav ing arisen in the plumbing trade, the master plumbers decided to issue no tices of a lockout. Elmira, N. Y. The Elmira Heights rolling mills, which have been idle nearly two years, started fires . with large orders ahead. New . York. For strike benefits 1118,332.70 was paid out by the United Brewery Workmer or America for tns two years ending August 13. Washington. The trades in the building industry of Jamaica, West Indies, are organizing into unions af filiated with the American Federation of Labor. London, Eng. The General Federa tion of Trades Unions has issued a manifesto declaring that there are 1,500,000 unemployed in the United Kingdom, with 7,500,000 suffering de pendents. The federation recommends the creation of a minister of labor rnd a permanent "unemployment'' board, and that all members of labor unions refuse to work overtime. San Francisco. A union labor club was formed at the last meeting ot the laundry workers. London, Eng. After being out on strike for some weeks, the Kilton, north of England, ironstone miners have resumed work on the terms that VSE Libcrty Flour (Made in Lincoln) IL 0. Barber Son NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DoWitt The Celebrated Little Hatchet RYE FLOUR A SPECIALTY Ttf.ph. u.: JM?6"0 145 So. 9th, LINCOLN AUTO PHONE 2647 1 BELL PHONE 254S O. A. FULK, Gents' Furnishings. Hats 1325 O Street P LUMBERS were offered to them before they ceased work. The whole matter is to be submitted to arbitration. Edinburgh, Scotland. Coopers, who are, on strike, are to ask trade union ists the world over to boycott the beer of the brewers who will not agree to the demands of strikers. London,' Eng. In several London printing establishments women are employed as compositors, folders, nu merical printers, perforators, wire stitchers, and book sewers. Sedalia, Mo. Effective November 2, all section men employed on the Mis souri Pacific-Iron Mountain system, will receive an increase in wages ot from $1.25 to $1.35 a day. Memphis. An industrial' school for this city and Shelby county, Tennes see, is the probable outcome of a movement, which has been, set on foot by the builders' exchange of Memphis. Newark, N. J. The 5,000 operatives in two great thread mills in this city were notified that full time work will be resumed at once. Since last April the mill have been running on part time. Madrid. It is reported that the cop per miners in the Rio Tinto district will go on strike. Detachments of cavalry and infantry and gendarmes have left Huelva for the1 district to maintain order. ; Manchester, Eng. At, a meeting here of the representatives of the cotton strikers it was decided to ask the employers to meet the representa tives with a view to settlement of the existing dispute. Detroit, Mich. The Burroughs Add ing Machine company announces that it will at once start all its depart ments on full time, 54 hours a week. Of late most of the men have been getting in only 48 hours. Fort Wayne, Ind. The big Penn sylvania shops began to work 75 hours a week to get ready for the rush of trailic that is expected to make a car shortage before another month. In addition, over 100 men were added to the pay-roll. The force had been working only 55 hours a week. Or ders were also issued increasing the hours in the Wabash shops to 65 a week. prganized labor of Norfolk, Va., have started a campaign for an eight hour workday on city work. May the effort win. The Bakers and Confectioners Inter national Union has made arrange ments to maintain two organizers in Philadelphia and one in St. Louis. The Italian government has pre sented a bill prohibiting bakers from working at night and establishing a heavy fine in case of infraction which will go to the fund for incapacitated and aged workmen. Under the new pension law of the International Typographical Union 413 members are drawing $4 per week. It is estimated that there are somo 600 entitled to this pension, and when JOHN Wholesale Uqucr P It Distributor of Dick & Bros., Quincy Brewing Co's Celebrated Lager Beer. OFFICE & WAREHOUSE 427-29-3I.33.35S. 8th St., Llnotla, Neb. Phones: Auto 1817. Bell 117 fH" DRESHER 143 South Twclllh Street LINCOLN, NED. Hills Flour these are all properly registered it will mean an outlay of about $124,800 a year. Any cigar made in Lincoln is union made and the best cigars for the money on the market. The Modern Woodman sanitarium, now in process of erection at Colorado Springs, is being erected under' non union conditions. The union men when pay dues to the Modern Wood men ought to drop Head Consul Tal bot a few warm lines. ' Members of the Ancient. Order ' of United Workmen in Nebraska, who are' also union men, may be interested in knowing that printing done for their order is done in non-union print shop. . . Frank Smith has returned tot Lin coln from Oklahoma City and Is en gaged in doing' some soliciting for a local printery. HE WROTE TO ROOSEVELT. And As ' a Result Patrick M. , Grace Lost His Union Office. Binghaupton, N. Y. Dec. S. At the wannest meeting in the history of Parlor City, lodge, Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, Baggagemaster Pat rick M. Grace, who for twelve years bad been elected without opposition ais financier of the lodge, was turned down as the direct result of the letter he wrote to President Roosevelt dur A SUIT or OVEnGOAT Cida to Order Fcr From Sheeps Back to Your Beck ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF World's Qroatost Tailors ing the campaign, asking the president to state exactly what was Mr. Taf t's stand on organized labor. It was in reply to Mr.- Grace's, letter that: Mr. Roosevelt wrote one of his "famous" open letters explaining Taft's position ob labor matters. . - ;' ' !;".., , Grace wrote hu letter to the presi dent on stationery bearing .the head lug of the Parlor '.City lodge, aod in it he used the expression "What we wish to know." . Many members of the order claim that the use of the- Word "we" on paper f the order gave the impression that the letter was writ ten for the lodge. Feeling: ram high during the- meet ing with wild gesticulation and heated and loud arguments. , PREACHERS FORM A UNION. The Protestant ministers-o -Boston V.ftm AtMniovwl n iiniin blnkv tfsi1 union lines. They will adopt a .scale of wages, and are even discussing the appointment of a business agent. Low wages j is responsible for this union. Jewelry Worker." PLUM TO THE LABOR WORLD. The appointment of John D. Pringle to the office of appraiser of mere! dlse at Pittsburg by President Roose velt, shows how the editor , of the Labor World greased his runners pre vious to election." He supported Taft. Erie (Pa.) Labor Journal. 1 O iie e.fi 12th Strtst LirXCLU No Loss
