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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1909)
THE BARBERS. against running two machines, have 0000OSO00OSOSO0OeO00OSOSOSOSOQCOQOSOQ won. ADE IN LINCOLN E BY FRIENDS LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN ( 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. H. 0. BARBER & SON Jf CSO00OSOSOSOSOSO00OSO$0000OfOOSOOSOSOCg GREEN GABLES - I TheDr. Benj. F. Bally Sanatorium f Lincoln, Nebraska S I For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, I fi best equipped, most beautifully furnished. S S350S050SOS050SOS050900OS6SOSOSOOSOSOSOS050SOSOsl To UNION MEN ! HELP US TO HELP YOU SUIT TO YOUR ORDER More No 'Less $15.00. FIT GUARANTEED AT THE The Laboringman's Friend 133 South'Thirteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. J. H. M. MULLEN, CUTTER J AND MGR. NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DcWitt Mills THE CELEBRATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOVfi A SPECIALTY u rXo t4S9 15 SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. Your Cigar Should Bear This Label.. Lj"r" ''rrr yrnsu It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . Knights of Razor and Shears Plugging Along at Lively Rate. "Xo, nothing particularly new, re plied the barber man as the editor re clined gracefully in the chair and awaited the usual clean shave at the hands of a skilled union wielder of the razor. "We are plugging along at the same old pleasant rate. Everything is lovely with us. Business is good, there Is no trouble in sight, our relations with the bosses are amicable and we are happy to see the street railway men and the teamsters getting to gether in unions of their own craft.' "Getting any new members?" "O, yes; we get new ones right along and occasionally our ranks are depleted by some good man taking his transfer card and hiking off to fresh fields. But we are a little more than holding our. own at that. "Business good? "Yes, we've no reason to complain. We are all getting good money and working reasonable hours. "Xo, thanks; haven't time for it today," said the editor man In re sponse to the sterotyped question. "All right, come again." And that's about all the editor man could glean about conditions in union barber circles. The cigarmakers of the Pacific coast are booming the sale of goods made by members of the union. The Moving Picture Operators of Los Angeles have organized a union, and are in a flourishing condition. The numerous tributes paid to President Gompers on his departure for Europe were gratifying to his friends. GENERAL. MENTION. Brief Bits of News Picked Up Here and There. Junk wagon drivers, stenographers, bookkeepers and assistants have or ganized at Kansas City, Mo. The longshoremen of the Great Lakes of Detroit have voted against a strike by a majority of less than two hundred. Mina Berger, wife of Victor Berger, Wisconsin's leading socialist, has been elected to the 'board of educa tion in Milwaukee. Press Huddleston, a member of the Typographical Union, has been elect ed president of the city council and mayor protem tn Atlanta, Ga. Lew jjockstader s minstrels re cently gave a special performance at the Union Printers' Home at Colo rado Springs, which was much en joyed by the 150 Home residents. At SUverton, Uolo., the union miners maintain a hospital that cost the membership $35,000 exclusive of furnishings and necessary equipment for the care of the sick and Injured. Reports of the officers to the ninth biennial convention of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, just held at Columbus, O., show an increase of 2,000 in membership since the last convention. The total membership is now 101,000. Uncle Sam Gompers Is off for Europe. It's enough to make Jim Van Cleave throw a fit to see a com mon workingman taking a "trip to Europe. Why didn't he get out an injunction restraining Uncle Sam from going? James Farley, the notorious strike breaker, is out with a public inter view In which he says he declined to assist in breaking the Philadelphia street car strike. The unionists laugh at these professions of moral ity, and hint that Farley is smart enough to keep out of a losing fight The first restraining order ever ob tained from the Philippine courts with the purpose of enjoining the action of a labor union was granted on May 29 on petition of the Manila Street Railway company. It directs that certain union mass meetings ad vertised to take placebe not held. Samuel Gompers, president, and Prank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, had a conference with President Taft on June 2 regarding the various matters affecting organized labor, which were presented to the president by the executive council of the Federation several weeks ago. President Tole of New York Typo graphical Union No. 6 reports the signing up of a large Typothetae office and the transferring of Smart Set, Town Topics. Nautical Gazette, Psychotherapy, Young's Magazine, and other publications from, non union printing houses to those con trolled by ths union. i S. Levin, general organizer of the Jewish bakers in New York, after the successful strike in that city, is now in Montreal, and has applied for a charter to the headquarters of the International Bakers Union. Editor John O'Neill, of the Miners' Magazine at Denver, organ of the Western Federation of Miners, is ar ranging to make a stumping tour eastward to discuss labor questions. Plumbers, tinsmiths and steamfit- ters in Springfield, Mass., work 44 hours a week at the same wages as heretofore against the old schedule of 48 hours. Boilermakers, in conjunction with machinists, have signed articles of agreement with all but two brew eries in Cincinnati and vicinity. About 250 non-union machinists who struck at the Standard Roller Bearing company in Philadelphia TV T" o n v rirst trust savings ttanix A LUSTY YOUNGSTER. On Monday, June 21, the opening of the initial convention foV the for mation of a State Federation of Labor in the State of Nebraska, took place In the city of Lincoln. Addresses of wel come by the governor of the state and mayor of the city of Lincoln were made and an elaborate program cele brating the birth of a new state body was carried out, the day closing with an address from that eloquent cham pion of trade unionism, Mr. Raymond Robins, of Chicago. The latest addi tion to the state branches promises to be a very lusty youngster and we wish it abundant success. Tobacco Work er Journal. 6s MAKES HOT RELISH CURRY ADDS TO PIQUANCY OF VARIOUS DISHES. Chicken and Veal Are . Particularly Adapted for This Form of Sea soning Curried Eggs for Luncheon or Sunday Tea. Curry, the Cinghalese sauce or rel ish whose making Is one of the mys teries of the 'ori ent, is the founda dation, or at least leit motif, of all sorts of "curried dishes, more par ticularly chicken and. veal, by means of which the hostess or housewife can curry favor with her dinner guests. Onions, garlic, pepper, turmeric ground cocoanut and fermented milk are only a few of the simples which enter into the composition of this hot Hindoo condiment which, like most so-called national dishes, inclu ding our own American mincepie, owed its original invention to some accident, famine or emergency. It comes in powder form. The average table-d'hote idea of curry is a watery chicken stew with a litle curry-powder thrown into it at the last moment. The real thing is quite different. Almost any flesh food can be cur ried to the queen's taste, but chicken is the most popular. For this dish procure a good-sized stewing fowl; also. If desired, a couple of pounds of Veal cutlet. Skin the fowl and cut the meat in pieces. ' Slice an onion and fry in butter, to which a table spoonful of curry powder has been added. Then put in the meat, pour in some water, cover the kettle and let simmer by the hour over a slow fire. It may he well to reinforce the cur ry flavor by adding another spoonful of powder, as the boiling proceeds. Keep it irrigated, so as not to burn or scorch. Just before serving put on a blanket of "thickening," made with either flour or cornstarch. Rice is boiled in the eastern fashion as follows: Throw half a cupful of rice into a large kettle two-thirds fun of salted boiling water; leave it to boil 20 minutes, strain through a col ander, then steam five minutes, over a tea kettle, until the separate ker nels are light and dry. Rice, thus prepared, accompanies all curries. The curry should be placed in the center of a large platter, with the rice piled around it as a border. Cut nar row stripes of sweet red Spanish pep pers and place In crosses on the rice as a garnish. Green peppers also can be used to enhance the color scheme. Serve also a dish of grated young -cocoanut, a dish of chutney, some Madras pickles and possibly a scoop of guava Jelly. Bombay duck (which is no duck at all, but a small dried fish), is another Hindoos tan ee hot relish, which doubt less would be more popular with occi dentals if it did not smell to heaven when warmed up in the oven. In making beef curry the round is used, the process being the same as with chicken, except that a not-too- tart apple or two may be utilized for the thickening, being stewed with the meat after it has been boiling three hours. An artful luncheon or Sunday tea dish Is made -by currying eggs. Make white sauce, to which has been add ed a tablespoonful of curry powder, and pour it over hard-boiled eggs cut in quarter sections. Almost all shellfish, too, can be cur ried in a way to make the most sav age gastronome eat out of your hand. oococooooosososo-eosoeTC03o5coio sr Owned by Stockholders of the First National Bank THE BANK FOR THE WAGE-EARNER INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska OSOOSOSO0OSOOSO00 Uo Soil HARDWARE, STOVES, SPC3T mS GOODS, RAZC3S, RAZC3 STROPS AIO CVTLEBY -- At Low Prices i Hoppe's Hardware, (C3 fcrft lZ'.h Milk to Extinguish Flame. Did you ever 'try extinguishing a flame from a coal oil lamp with milk? It is much better than water if it hap pens to be at hand, as it mixes with the on and puts out the flame quickly. I WORKERS UMIOH Eft UWONjMSTaHP t Ha Named Shoes are Often Made in Son-union Factories. DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE no matter tcbat its name un less it bears a plain and read' able impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes toithout the Union Stamp are Altcaus Non-Union Do not accept anu excuse for the absence of the UNION STAMP. BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 Sumner St, Boston, Mass: John F. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine. Sec-Tress. OO9SO3baO9O8O0O9OOOOSOSOCO3O8OSOO,X Subscribe Now, $ 1 Breakfast Bacon. Slice the bacon very thin. Cut the rind and hard parts before slicing. Fill a shallow pan with cold sweet po tatoes with the bacon and bake until the perk is crisp. ffHot Wcathcr'n Comforts Mr. Inside Man, you have an electric fan. How aboat yottr good wife? Has she an electric fan? Is she still broiling herself and the steaks over a red-hot coal range? Why not pause and consider her comfort and convenience a little bit? If not both electric fan and gas range (Get u Gas' It will make the kitchen comfortable; it will save hours and health, and make home happy. Cheaper than coal and so clean, convenient and comfortable. We sell the ranges (cash or pay ments) and furnish the gas. You furnish the match. And then the housewife is equipped with labor-saving machinery. Once used, never abandoned. ' Ask 5,000 Lincoln women who cook with gas. Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Co. OPEN EVENINGS o & o p I cceoeoeococoeoooeoeoaoeooo