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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1909)
ADE IN LINCOLN j LINCOLN MONEY ! EFT IN LINCOLN Your Cigars Should Bear This LaoeL E BY FRIENDS World of Labor union-mac csrs. UBEGfirV HUSK News from All Parts of the World, of General Interest to the Worker w ttimfi, w m ami mm i in iiiirrMimn mum m1 lOtninauii 4 8 II 113 f 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 how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the. recommendation of those who use it, It 0. BARBER & SON I 1 GREEN GAB1LES . I TheDr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska 1 t i . . s C For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, v g best equipped, most beautifully furnished. & A Suit or Overcoat Dodo to Ordor for 1 ID) IIP MORE n IIP LESS From Shccps Back to Your Back ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OF ITTJITBP r Wastry TSfc or. HECA RSISTE9ED Tellers 145 Sedh 13th Strttt LIKCCU1 Advanced Vaudeville Mat. Daily Except Monday 15 and 25c Every Night Prices 15, 25, 35 and 50c in New York. With the hope of carry- ins out the )olitical program outlined last fall by the American Federation of Labor, an organization known as the Workingman's Political Party has been started in New York. Work is being done in every assembly district and an attempt will be made to con centrate the votes of union men on as sembly candidates who will pledge themselves to work in the legislature for a modification of the injunction laws. The movement was started soon after the conviction of President Goinpers and his associates for con tempt of court, and it was at first hoped to enlist the unions in the plan as unions. But as this has failed missionary work is being done among the labor men individually. Chicago. An eight-hour day for women workers in Illinois will be asked of the state legislature and the support of all- women will be asked for it. The Women's Trade Union league, of which Mrs. Raymond Rob ins is president, decided to co-operate with the Waitresses' union to advo cate such a measure and a bill will be drawn immediately and presented to the legislature. The active support also of every women's organization in the state will be asked for the measure. Reading. Pa. A committee repre senting the 3.000 employes of the Reading Iron Company appeared be fore the superintendents of the differ ent plants and laid before them the decision of the employes not to sub mit to a reduction in wages of from seven to fifteen per cent. The' Car penter Steel Works posted notices of a reduction of ten per cent, in wages. It will affect 700 men. This industry furnished many projectiles during the Spanish-American war. Chicago. Work for 7.000 men de veloped when the Chicago Railways Company and the City Railway Com pany opened up the spring work on the rehabilitation of their tracks.- The Chicago Railways Company took out permits with the bureau of streets for track rehabilitation on 11 streets. They propose to start with 4.000 men at once. The Chicago City Railway will put 1.000 men to work to com plete their rehabilitation work. Winnipeg, Man. Telegrams received from MacLieod. Alberta, indicate a peaceful termination of the coal miners conference on the wage-scale agreement. It was announced that the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, which controls the Coal Creek, Michell and Charbonde mines, owned by the J. J. Hill interests is ready to sign the agreement and will withdraw from the Western Operators asociation. Chicago. Electricians are threaten ing to strike unless the employers grant the demands of the union for an increase trcn ?- to $5.50 a day. Elec trical contra..-ors have announced they wilt fight tlie demands to a finish. Steauifitters have failed to reach an agreement with the employers relative to their demand for a raise in pay. New York. The average earnings for organized workingmen in New York state in the third quarter of 1908 was $207, as compared with $227 in 1907, or $223 in 1906. San Francisco. Bakers and Confec tioners' union recently decided to or ganize all the helpers in local bakeries into an auxiliary to the local. Seattle, Wash. An effort is' being made by Seattle musicians to have the convention of 1910 American Fed eration of Musicians held in that city. Boston. The executive officers of the A. F. of 1- have issued a circular letter addressed to state federations of labor bodies, urging such to secure legislation in the matter of enforcing anitary conditions where wage earn ers are employed, establishing special hospitals for the, treatment of tuber culosis, where such do not already ex ist, and to promote the union label. New York. Officers of the Interna tional Photogravers all commend the proposed international union compact with' the allied printing trades, and recommend that the union proceed along the lines of the same. Berlin, Germany. house-to-house census, which has been taken under the auspices of the trade unions, show a total of unemployed persons in that city of 67.267, in addition to 33.393 unemployed in the suburbs. The municipality will take a similar census, but has called upon the un ployed to report at various centers. Boston. Boston Typographical union 13 has decided to postpone ac . tiou on the book and job scale until the July meeting. Minneapolis, Minn. A branch of the American Association for Labor Leg islation has been formed. Reading, Pa. The coal traffic on the Reading railway is very heavy, as all of the mines of the company have been working full time. The coal dealers all over the country, who fear trouble in the regions, are sending in orders for fuel, and the cars are being unloaded as- rapidly as possible at all of the terminal points. New York. The Musical Mutual Protective union has adopted an amendment to its constitution which exempts from all dues and assess ments members over 60 years of age who have been members of . the union 23 consecutive years. - Parsons, Kan. The Missouri, Kan sas & Texas Railroad Company has ordered a reduction of the working time in the shops all over the system .of from nine to eight hours a day and five days in the week, not working Saturday. The order includes the shops at Denison, Tex., and Sedalia. Mo., as well as the principal shops here, and the new schedule will be in force until June 30. The shops here have been working nine hours and seven days a week since they re opened July 6. 190S. Several men have been let out of the shops here and all the night operators on the Kansas City division have been taken off ex cept at Moran, while there are only five night operators on the Sedalia division. The company says that the passenger and freight traffic on the "Katy" system is larger than It ever has been before and gives as the rea son for the reduction of the working schedule that a cut of $10,000 has been made in the equipment appropri ation. Boston. As a demonstration against the sentences of imprisonment im posed upon Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison by Judge Wright in the superior court of the District of Columbia more than 5,000 members of labor unions paraded through the streets of this city. After ward a large meeting was held in Fanueil Hall, and several overflow meetings in the surrounding streets attracted large crowds. Judge Wright was accused of using "intemperate and bitter language to representatives of organized labor," and it was said that "he was not a fit person to handle the case.". Copies of the resolution were sent to President Taft, Vice-Pres ident Sherman and Speaker Cannon. Paris, France. At a mass meeting of 6,000 striking government tele graph and post office employes, it was voted by an overwhelming majority to resume work. Only about 200 of the men voted to continue the strike. The strike committee' telegraphed broadcast to its adherents in the prov inces the decision of the employes to return to work. After a parade through the streets, the men in Paris went to their posts. Owing to the disorganiza tion caused by the strike it was a week before the telegraph and postal services became normal. Boston. The New England printing trades organizations are all sending notifications to their ' senators and congressmen asking them to sustain President Roosevelt's veto of the bill which would permit of the census work being done outside the govern ment printing office. Washington. Members of trades union affiliated with the Central La bor union, do not take kindly to the so-called "mixed union" of bosses and workmen. San Francisco. Since the ad journment of the State Federation convention, held here last October, 25 new unions have been organized and 11 have reaffiliated with the federa tion. Cleveland, O. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has let the steel contract for its new 13-story building which will cost $1,000,000. Minneapolis, Minn. In the state of Minnesota there are 330 unions, out side of the railroad organizations, and 185 of these are affiliated with the State Federation. Lawrence, Mass. A new lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks has been established here. : Portland. Ore. A bill that has been presented before the Oregon legisla ture, providing for the protection and safety of persons engaged in work on buildings, bridges, etc., is commented on editorially in the Bridgemen's Magazine, the official organ of the In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. In speaking of the need of suitable legislation, the editorial says that "owing to the ex treme hazard surrounding our employ ment any protective measure, in the way of legislation or attempted legis lation, should receive our hearty and unqualified support. Washington. The cost of the la bor political committee of the Ameri cancan Federation of Labor during the campaign of 1908 was: For speak ers. $6,361; postage, $1,024; printing, $580. and clerk hire, $504; total, $8,469. The contributions to the cam paign fund amounted to $8,531. Philadelphia. A bill has been intro duced in the legislature which limits the day of a hoisting engineer in the mines to eight hours. San Francisco. Moving picture operators have been organized into a union, as auxiliary to the union of theatrical stage employes. London, Eng. With a view of con solidating the labor movement in the boot trade, the English National Union of Boot and Shoe Clickers has recent ly been taking a ballot of its mem bers on the question of whether they should join the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operators, and the proposi tion was carried by 123 to 1. Chicago. A report from the inter national office of the Cigar Makers' union, shows that during the year 1908 there were sent to local unions 27, 173,156 blue labels. In 1907 the num ber was 31,586,094. The decrease la attributed to depression. 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