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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1909)
Ou r January learance Sale COMMENCES Saturday, Jan. 2 ENDS i 1 I i Saturday, Jan. 9 'DAYLIGHT STORE J IS In Labor's Mealn Matters of Especial Interest To and Con cerning Those Who Do the - ' Work of the World Advanced Vaudovcl! I i A SUIT or OVERCOAT Made to Order For No More No Less From Shcopo Back to Your Back ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF IP". ORG r APRIL I 1291 RXCISTCTED World's Qroatest Tailors ltf 0VU1II 13th Street LINCOLN NEBRASKA WORKERS UNION UHIOP STAMP No. By Insisting Upon Pur chasing Union Stamp Shoes You help better shoemahing conditions. You get better shoes for the money. You help your own Labor Proposition. You abolish Child Labor. ' DO MOT BE MISLED By Retailers toho 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 P.-Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas. 0&0TC03t:'9eQgO000$00&0 NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DeWitt Mills THE CELEARATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOVB A SPECIALTY BMrnSTJU, ' SOTH 9TH, UHCOLH, HEB. The Lincoln Wallpaper & Paint Co. A Strictly II!m Ste SffiS Modern Decorators, Wall Paper, Mouldings, Etc. 5?Ts! Aitt rktae 1975 Pittsburg, Pa. At a meeting of the independent window glass manufac turers of West Virginia and south western Pennsylvania in Mdrgantown it was decided to close down all their factories and remain closed indefinite ly. ' About 2,500 stained window glass workers employed in the active fac tories of that territory will be made idle. The decision of the manufactur ers was brought about by a demand of window glass workers for the aboli tion of the wage agreement and . an advance of 25 per cent, over the pres ent rate and the maintenance of the new rate as a flat scale for the rest of the year. The shut-down, may ex tend to other districts, as the demand of the workers is not confined to one section. Springfield, 111!4 Gov. Deneen has ap pointed Peter W. Collins, grand secre tary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Edwin, Wright, president of the Illinois State Federa tion of Labor, and William M. Russell of the Chicago Federation of Labor to be members of the commission to in vestigate and report on necessary legislation for the health, safety and comfort of employes of the state of Illinois. The appointment of this com mission was authorized by the last legislature, and its duties will be to in vestigate and advise the enactment of remedial legislation for the protection of the health and lives of the workers. Fort Wayne, Ind. General Mana ger Emmons of the Fort wayne & Wabash Valley cheered the hearts of employes by restoring to them the wages and salaries paid before the panic set in a year ago. . At that time the salaries of all who received $40 or more a month were cut with the exception of the motormen and con ductors. This cut has now been re stored in view of returning business W. H. Fledderjohann, president of the Decatur & Springfield interurban, has just returned from Cleveland, where he paid off the last of a note for $100, 000 which was borrowed to complete the road. Washington. Representatives of of ficials and employes of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad were in executive, conference with Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Commissioner of Labor Neill, whom both sides had se lected to arbitrate the controversy over wages and conditions of employ rnent. Messrs. Knapp and Neill are not acting as mediators under the Erdman act, but as arbitrators, both sides having agreed to abide by their decision. Fort Smith, Ark. At Friday's ses sion of the union miners of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas assembled here to probe charges against district offi cers of mls-i waging a recent strike, the latter w;;re exonerated of certain of the charges. During the session National Organizer Mooney of Mis- souri defended National President Tom L. Lewis, who he declared had been condemned by the convention. During his speech he broke down and wept. - Sheffield, Eng. A serious strike is threatened in the engineering indus tries by reason of the employers de mand for a reduction of 25 cents a week in the wages of molders, to the number of about 1,200. At a mass meeting held, the men resolved to re sist the reduction. A 25-cent advance was granted in October two years ago; the wages now are $15.50 a week. . Melbourne, Australia. In - giving judgment in connection with the bakers' strike at Wellington, the New Zealand arbitration court held '-that the operatives' union was entirely re sponsible for the strike, and fined it 1,000, intimating that if the fine were paid within a week only nominal penalties would be inflicted . on the men individually. If the union' did not pay the court would inflict substantial penalties on the operatives who struck, Washington. Prof. Kobatsch of Aus tria, a recognized authority on labor questions and economics, recently is sued a statement In which he sets forth that compulsory arbitration can not be adapted to the economic and so cial conditions of. continental Europe. He cites in support of the staud he has taken that in England, the rjunsTro gresslve industrial country Cv. Europe, a proposal for compulsoryarbitration was defeated by a maJcritKof 660,000, .Boston. The workmen oft 25 big trades at the Charlestown navy---yard have been granted a wage increase for 1909. The increase in many cases brings the yard wage up to the general trade union scale in effect outside the yard, and In some cases exceeds It Boston. Trans-Atlantic oteamship clerks' assembly wage scale has been adjusted after several months of con ference. The agreement made pro vldes for the hourly day wage, the old plan of increased night wages and double time payment for work be tween five and seven a. m. Another conference will be held April 1, ' Berlin, Germany. In 1901' the sum of $27,608,000 was expended by em ployers in Germany for the direct aid of their employes. More than two thirds of this was given aa voluntary contributions by private firms and in Gary, Ind. Six thousand men are employed In the new mills in the ac tual manufacture of steel. The first furnace was "blown in" December 21, and the event was the signal for gen eral rejoicing among the workmen and residents of the city. Mary Louise Gleason, the 14-year-old daughter of Superintendent W. P. Gleason, had the honor of lighting the first fire. She was surrounded by a group of officials and was cheered by the hundreds of workmen who witnessed the cere mony. It was announced that other furnaces would be in operation within a few days and as rapidly as possible the working force in the mills will be increased. Berlin, Germany. With 60,000 per sons in Berlin unemployed and the number constantly increasing, the executives of the city and officials of the Prussian government are trying to devise ways of dealing with the prob lem. Six weeks ago an official count was made, the idlers numbering 40,000. Unfavorable business conditions have increased this number by one-half since then. 'With the coming of win ter great suffering is being endured by these people. All public works either begun or projected probably will be pushed to completion with a full force of workmen. Washington. Over 7,000,000 human beings in Great Britain are enduring hardships and want through unem ployment and the General Federation of Trades' unions has advised all union men to refuse to work overtime, re ports Consul General Wynne of Lon don. The federation points out that for every skilled workman out of em ployment two unskilled men are work less. It urges the employment of sur plus labor by national and municipal work and recommends the establish ment of a national department of la bor, whose head shall hold a cabinet portfolio.' Cleveland, O. At the close of the first day of the strike of the National Window Glass Workers, enacted to en force the adoption of the new wage scale, with a 25' per cent. Increase, President Faulkner announced that six plants had signed. These factories include the American Window Glass Company ofPittsburg, the Patterson Window Glass Company of Cameron, W; Va., and plants at Fredonla, Kan.; Kane, Pa.; Shinglehouse, Pa., and Eld- redge, Pa. : - - London, Eng. -The British home secretary has appointed a depart mental' committee to inquire into the causes and , circumstances of the in crease in the number of reported acci dents in certain classes of factories and workshops and other premises un der the factories acts, and to report what additional precautionary meas ures are, in their opinion, necessary or desirable. Boston. Chelsea city men's union committee last week requested the board of control to establish the $2.25 a day wage in that city, and Somer ville city men's union ' asked the offi cials of that city to pay the men for legal holidays, a custom generally fol lowed by all cities but Somerville, it is claimed. , London, Eng. The Canterbury con ciliation board of New Zealand has rec onmmended that the hours of farm la borers and farm hands should not ex ceed eight, except at harvest time, when ten may be worked. In America the farm hand works an average of 14 hours. Washington. According to . their agreement with the Pressmen's union, made two years ago, all printing es tablishments here, members of the United. Typotheta, granted . to their employes, beginning on January 1, an eight-hour-aday working schedule, About 70 per cent, of the other print ing shops not in the united body, it is thought, will follow in the giving of the new schedule. This will bring the working hours of pressmen down from 54 hours a week to 48. . London, Eng. "It is not competent for a trade union to provide for the maintenance of parliamentary repre sentation by means of a compulsory levy." . In these momentous words the master of the rolls, sitting in the court of appeal, allowed an appeal from judgment of Mr. Justice Neville, who held, in the case of Osborne vs. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Serv ants, that trade union funds could be legally used to finance labor members. New York. The movement to estab lish a retreat for aged, sick and infirm members of the Painters, Decorators and PaperBangers of America is re ceiving the hearty indorsement of the craft. y '.--: , - " Washington. The A. F. of L. reports show the following benefits - paid , to members during the last year: Death benefits, $1,257,244.29; death benefits to members' wives, 31,390; sick, bene fits. J593.541.34: traveling benefits, 151.093.86; total insurance, $6,871.83 unemployed benefits, $205,254.31; total, $2,144,375.43. , - Pittsburg, Pa. T. L. Lewis, interna tional president of the . United Mine Workers, has issued the official call for the twentieth annual convention of the miners, which will be held In Tomlin son hall, Indianapolis, beginning at ten y OPERATED JN CONJUNCTION 'WITH The Orph cUa m G I rtJ It r " "V""' GEORGE HILLMAN . . Zm - - ,. A$& His Eight - , Redpath Naponees. HOMER LIND & CO. : , In "The Opera Singer," LA VINE AND LEONARD . ! "7" c In "Automobiling Extraordinary." MR. AND MRS. JACK McGREEVY -, Musical Comedy Entertainers. JULIAN AND DYER . ' ' Stunts and Bumps. ' ' FRITZ HOUSTON 'The Droll Cartoonist' KINKER. Contortionist. VIASCOPE MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA Matinees Daily (Except Monday) 15c, and 25c. EVERY NIGHT AT 8:15. Prices 15, 25 and 50. ADE IN LINCOLN DE BY FRIENDS Ti lNCOLN MONEY lEFT IN- UNCOLN (JJ No better flour sold on the Lincoln market. Every sack, warranted. We want the trade of Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it If your grocer does not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor -s how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it. , ? : ' H O. BARBER E SON 0000000000000OffiOfflO00000000; Start The New Year Right -and Light ! THAT means putting in some new, handsome, and economical gas fix- tures. It means a new and improved gas range in the kitchen and that means an emancipation proclamation y for the housewife. These things not , only mean economy, but mean :, The Home Happy The Home Beautiful Perhaps you are among those who believe that gas for cooking and heat ing is expensive. If you are, and are -; open to conviction, come in and let us convince you of your erros-We can prove-it by the experienil users of gas in Lincoln. V , erything in the way of proved gas and electric f furnish the gas and electir evenings. LJNCOU & ELE 0000? ' r-i o o dividuals. a. m., Tuesday, January 19, 190fc