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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1909)
"K JfADE IN LINCOLN lVlADS BY FRIENDS INCOLN 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 doss 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 GREE'N G ABLES 6 I The Dr. Benj. F. Baity. Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska $ J For non-contagious olirorc clijases. Largest, To UNION MEN! HELP US TO HELP YOU SUIT TO YOUR ORDER No Less jybr.S15.00. FIT GUARANTEED AT THE The lboruigman's Friend 133 SouthjThirteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. J. H. M MULLEN, CUTTER AND MGR. NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DcWitt Mills THE CELEBRATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOUfi A SPECIALTY Hou rJZrJL t 15 SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. Your Cigars Should Bear This Label. 1M tar Ill I I U Union-mada Osars. iS i r in It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . as In Labor's Real Matters of Especial Interest To and Con cerning Those Who Do the Work of the World Washington. The conditions under which a German employer may or may not discharge his clerk, book keeper, stenographer, etc.. are such as to cause astonishment here. In this country it is customary for an em ployer to dismiss bis employes with very little ceremony if fee sees fit to do so. and generally without the for mality of giving notice. The dis missed employe has very little to say or to do in the matter except to re ceive his salary up to the day of his discharge and to go. In Germany, however, the conditions are such that unless a special agreement in writing is made between employer and em ploye to the contrary a notice of six weeks must be given on or before the first day of the yearly quarter, i. e January. April. July or October, if the employer wishes to discharge his upsatisfactory employe. In like man ner the employe must give six weeks notice if he wishes to leave his un satisfactory employer. Pittsburg. Pa. Through the cool- headedness of President Thomas I. Lewis of the TL'nited Mine Workers, a strike of coal miners involving at least twenty thousand men was averted. An amicable agreement reached between President Lewis and the officials of the Pittsburg Coal Company probably means peace in the coal regions for months, possibly years to come. President Francis Feehan of the local union had declared a strike of miners, calling out about filteeu thousand. National President Lewis immediately stepped into the breach, ordered the men back to work and adjusted all differences. Washington. As a result of the cru sade being made by the trade unions for more healthful and sanitary work ing conditions there has been a marked decrease in the percentage of tuberculosis among the workmen of some of the well organized industries. Statistics recently secured show that in 1SSS 52 per cent, of all cigar mak ers deaths were due to tuberculosis. In 1S90 this percentage had been re duced to 35 per cent. In 13SS the av erage life of a union cigar maker was 0 years and five months, and in 1906 It was 46 years and eleven months. Minneapolis. Minn. The four rail road organizations of Minnesota, the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers and the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen. have started a movement in the state of Minnesota to form a joint legislative board, consisting of a representative' from the State Federation of Labor aud the four railroad brotherhoods. Washington. The executive com mittee of the A. F. of L. recently made a ruling carrying out the in structions given by the Denver con vention. The ruling is to this effect: Hereafter all unions affiliated with the A. F. of L. must affiliate with the section to which it properly belongs, also with the Central Labor council and the State Federation of Labor or give up its charter. Boston. The quarterly report of the New England union label confer ence of Cigar Makers unions shows total receipts front dues of $2.673.0o. The outlay was $981.21, leaving a bal ance of $1,691.84 for the work now in progress. The expenditures were mainly for newspaper and other forms of advertising and general union label agitation work. Boston. At a meeting of the exec utive board of the Massachusetts State Association of the Plumbers. Gas and Steamfitters' unions, which belong to the united association, held recently, it was decided to merge the state or ganization into a New England asso ciation of plumbers, to have jurisdic tion over the New England states. Washington. The executive, coun cil of the American Federation of La bor adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of an International Fed eration of Labor. President Gompers will advocate the plan during his trip to Europe. New York. The International Metal Polishers and Brass and Silver Work ers union holds a referendum election each year on the question of a nation al convention. The vote this year showed a majority of 687 against the proposition. Terre Haute. Six hundred men em ployed at the mines here returned to work after being on strike two weeks. Both sides submitted their differences to National President Lewis of the Vnited Mine Workers. Cheyenne. Wyo. The difficulties of the coal miners in northern Wyoming have been satisfactorily adjusted. It affects 14.000 men. New York. The amount of money that will be spent for new steel con struction over the next 12 months will be larger than in any similar period in years. The cash outlay of the steel and blast furnace companies will not faU short of $100,000,000. Pittsburg. Pa. The area of the Pittsburg-Allegheny district the most intensive labor section in the conn try is 19S square miles, and its pop ulation in 1900 was 623,343. The num ber of manufacturing establishments in 1904 was 1,859, and they employed 119,839 persons, and put out products valued at $383,490,468. Pittsburg. Pa. The first effort ever made in the United States to stop a strike by enjoining both the princi pals and the commonwealth failed. Judges Ford and Brown of the com mon pleas court sustained the demur rer of the Pressed Steel Car Company to the petition for injunction made by the Public Defense association of Pittsburg against the company, the striking employes and the sheriff of Allegheny county. The decision of the court establishes a precedent and caused general comment, as the opin ion handed down is far reaching in ef fect. Attorneys commenting upon the action of the court were universal in their opinion that Judges Marshall and Brown were entirely within legal right in their ruling. Washington. Denmark appears to have the most practical plan of deal ing with unemployment as a condi tion which may be expected to come about with frequency and which may at all times more or less affect some of the people. The Denmark plan rests upon the general principle of in surance. The government, however, contributes one-fourth of the premium fund. fader the law funds may be established by the working people for the purpose of participation by tae members in the insurance against un employment. The minimnm benefit allowed a day is 13 cents and the maximum 54 cents. Washington. The department of state notified all the American am bassadors to extend every possible courtesy to President Gompers when be visits the various European cities on a tour of investigation of labor conditions in the old world. This an nouncement has been given little pub licity. This attention of Washington officials is accorded leaders in all walks of life, when visiting foreign countries, but this is the first time Uncle Sam's representatives abroad have been notified that a worker is coming. Indianapolis, Ind. McNamee and other labor leaders are very favora ble to the proposal made by Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, in his speech here during the carpenters building dedication, to erect a temple of labor in Washington. They figure that If a contribution of only one dollar were made by each of the 2.000,000 affili ated workmen that the A. F. of L. would be able to erect a building in Washington that would have decided effect on the lawmakers. Boston. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners international financial statement for June received by the local unions shows receipts of $43.- 627.23. Death and disability , pay ment? aggregating $23,374.50 were paid. The donations to various sec tions for litigation and strikes in cluded $1,000 to the Boston District council and $260 to the Haverhill union. The balance in the general fund July 1 was $351,990.72. Kenosha. - Wis. The men who had been striking at the plant of the Simmons Manufacturing Company, which strike threatened to result in 2.000 others being called out, was set tled peaceably. The men agreed to re turn to work at the old scale of wages and with the understanding that the differences between them and the company will be taken up later and adjusted. Washington. Incorporation papers of the American Federation of Human Rights, a branch of the French labor organization that demands equal rights for both sexes before the law. and which proposes to combat Ignor ance under ail forms, has been filed with the recorder of deeds of the Dis trict of Columbia. Lynn. Mass. The committee ap pointed by the recent conference of delegates of independent shoe work ers' organizations to consider forming a national body of those organizations, decided that the convention for that purpose would be held at Lynn Satur day, September 4. Indianapolis. Ind. International Printing Pressmen's convention ap pointed a committee to devise a prac tical and economical plan to provide treatment for the tuberculosis, which plan shall be submitted to the refer endum. St, Louis. A proposition to estab lish a home for incapacitated post of fice clerks, similar to the one estab lished by the printers at Colorado Springs, will be acted on at the con vention of the national federation, to be held here in September. Washington. For machinists on the Panama canal the wages are 56 cents an hour for a day of eight hours, and transportation is furnished free. Bloomington. The "time" in the Chicago & Alton shops was increased to ten hours in the car department, affecting 1,500 men. For the last year the plant has worked on eight hours or less. Toronto. Canada. James Wilson will lead the Pattern Makers League of North America for another year. The convention in this city elected him unanimously. Indianapolis, Ind. President T. L. Lewis of the TJ. M. W. of A. wants his organization to number 400,000 members by the end of this year. It is now op to 825,000 members. 4 . t W. T. Stevens i 4 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE & -2 4 Candidate for renomination at Repub- Ttl i: d - - i t i . i - 3T ueui i iiinanes. nave devoted tune exclusively to practice of Law in this A. . Sit 1 t nn r ciiy since march I ooo. Mope tor the endorsement of the party, and will, if re-elected, continue so far as lies Within mv nnwpr fr vim Wenluto j w tAwuiv lurauiuib j equality before the law to all. as?. Y WORKERS UKTOjfJ I UNION STAMP j I radfary ta , , , j Named Shoes are Often Made g in Non-union Factories. S DO NOT BUY I ANY. SHOE no matter tchat its name un- ? less it bears a plain and read- 2 able impression of this Union Stamp. X All Shoes tcithout the Union Stamp -f are Altcays Non-Union T i. - e . i . - . . O uj ii ul accept any excuse ror tne acsence of trie g . UXI0T STAMP. BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION f 246 Sumner St, Boston, Mass: I I John F. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas. o IF Hot Weather Conafiorts Mr. Inside Man, you have an electric fan. How about your good wife? Has she an electric fan? Is she still broiling herself and the steaks over a red-hot coal range? Why not panse and consider her comfort and convenience a little bit? If not both electric fan and gas ' (Get a (Sas It wjll make the kitchen comfortable; 'A wi3 save hours and health, and make home happy. Cheaper than coal and so dean, convenient and comfortable. We sell the ranges (cash or pay ments) and furnish the gas. You furnish die 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 Car JLL Subscribe Now, $ 1 ooooeoosoeoc