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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1909)
z- .. CAPITAL BEACH t It WADE IN LINCOLN lYlADE BY FRIENDS LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN In Labor's Realm Matters of Especial Interest To and Con cerning Those Who Do the Work of the World Cooled by Lake Breezes" EVERY EVENING AT 8:45 f REE VAUDEVILLE AND 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 S SON I GREEN GABLES I I $ The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium I Lincoln, Nebraska 9 I : 8 J For non-eontastious chrorie diseases. Largest, g iK'st equipped, most beautifully furnished. To UNION MEN! HELP US TO HELP YOU SUIT TO YOUR ORDER -Afore $1S.00l FIT GUARANTEED AT THE The Laboringman's Friend 133 SouthJThirteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. J. H. M. MULLEN, CUTTER AND MGR. NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DeWitt Mills THE CELEBRATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOVfi A SPECIALTY , vJE&Tii us, 14S SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. 5 Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. g It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . Bricklayers Report. William DobstV secretary of the Bricklayers and Masons International union, has finished his report for the six months ending June 30. and copies of the report have been sent to the rarious local unions throughout the country. In regard to the report Mr. Dobson says: -In submitting the semi-annual returns of subordinate unions for the term ending June 30, 1909. we find much that is gratifying, for, notwithstanding the continuous efforts that are being made through out many parts of our jurisdiction to establish the non-union shop, our org anization as a whole remains intact. Conditions of work, at least so far as our members are concerned, are much improved over those of last year, and we have every reason to believe that the future holds much that is good in store for us. 'The eastern states are once more enjoying the blessing of ready employ ment. New York city in particular, which was one of the most afflicted cities during the recent great finan cial panic, has become the scene of great activity in the building indus try, and at the time of writing nearly all of our members are employed. And the most pleasing feature of this sud den improvement in our affairs gen erally is the indication that the pres ent activity will continue for an in definite period. "The middle west is very satisfac tory, and much improvement is shown in the southland. In the far west, while no boom is on, our members generally are being employed. The southwest, however, is where the great wave pf prosperity has struck us as never before in the history of our organization. In that section of the country the demand for our labor has been uuusually great and the wages correspondingly high. Condi tions in the northwest, to say the least, are on a par with former years. ilr. Dobson explains, how ever, that trade disturbances still con front the organization in many sec tions of the country. The report shows that the total membership in good standing was 60. 6S2, a net gain of about 200 in the six months. Some of the strongest unions, by the way, failed to send in their re ports, and so this information is not altogether complete. The report further shows that the total number of local unions was 993. In regard to finances, the report says that the financial reports of sub ordinate unions show that about $17.- 900 was paid out to sustain strikes, $3,100 of which was donated to unions of other trades. The sum of $43,500 was paid out for beneficial purposes. the amount being about 113,000 less than for the corresponding term of the preceding year. The amounts in the treasuries of subordinate unions showed s total of $353,502, which, com pared with the previous report, was an increase of about $33,500. German Iron Workers. Consul George Nicholas lift of Nu remberg reports as follows concerning the prevailing wages in the South German iron and steel industry In 1908: "The South German Iron and Steel association (Berufsgenossenschaft), which comprises 12.493 concerns, em ploying 210.6S9 workmen, reports the average yearly earnings of a fully em ployed journeyman workman during the year 1908 at $283.94. as compared with S2S0.13 in 1907, an increase of $3.31 for the year. Not counting Sun days and deducing SO days for holi days, it will thus be seen that the av erage daily wages of the journeymen workmen in the South German iron and steel industries was less than 97 cents. "While even this was a slight in crease for the workman lucky enough to have steady employment, there was, however, during the year less em ployment to be had than in 1907. The number of hours of actual labor per formed in these concerns In 1907 was 592,950.000 and for 1908 this dropped to 591.160.000 hours, a decrease of 1.790,000 hours, or. at eight hours per day. a total of 283.750 days less. "Because of this lesser opportunity to work, the annual earnings of the individual workmen were, in many cases, undoubtedly considerably small er. The number of journeymen work men employed in 1903 was 197.054, as compared with 197.649 in 1907, but the advance in wages was enough to make the total wages paid slightly higher, the actual figures being $54.- 901.840 for 1908 and $54,649,560 for 1907. The number of employes in sured (including masters, journeymen and apprentices) was 210.689 for 1903, as compared with 210,246 for 1907." Child Labor in England. A committee of the British board of education has learned that 170,000 children between the ages of 1J and 14 have left school and are not re ceiving any kind of further Instruc tion, and that out of a total of 3.000, 000 children not yet 17 years old. onlj one in four is striving after additional educational equipment. The natural result Is that through lack of tech nical training countless thousands fail to acquire that knowledge of handi craft which would enable them, to rise to higher levels in skilled em ployment, while the absence of physical training eventuates in im paired bodily powers and consequent poverty of self-control. Nor is that the worst aspect of the situation. Such are the conditions of modern in dustry that there is an increasing ex ploitation of boy and girl labor during the years of adolescence. Washing ton Herald. . Actors' Pay in Germany. The campaign of the German actors in favor of the new theater laws which are under consideration In the Ger man reichstag has caused much pub lic discussion as to the profession and the income which it yields. One sta tistical article which is being exten sively circulated says that 45 per cent. of Germany's actors receive from 720 to 1,000 marks a year; S3 per cent., 2.400 marks; 20 per cent, from 2.400 to 3,000 marks, and only ten per cent, have an income of over 3,000 marks a year. The worst of it all. the actors say. is that they cannot be employed for a whole year, even at those fig ures. "That the theater year only lasts about nine months Is no fault of ours, nor do we blame the man agers, but that 3,000 marks a year (about $750) is looked upon as good par for an actor for a year's services is proof that we should have an or ganization. says one of the aggrieved Unions Help Girls. The waitresses of Chicago have a onion that makes It possible for them to demand wages that will allow them to live in something like decency. A waitress Is not, as a general thing, paid a very good tealary, the expecta tion being that shi will make enough money by tips to help out. In the poorer classes of restaurants, these tips amount to so very little that a ui ion seems to be the only solution of the difficulty. $520 for Beginners. - As a vocation for women and as a stepping-stone for young men there is nothing equal to stenography. The principal of the oldest shorthand school in the Cnited States, Mr. Hickox. says that he cannot supply the demand made upon him for stenographers at a beginning salary of ten dollars a week. In what other profession can the minimum salary of $520 a year be had by the expenditure of from six to nine months' time and about $100 in money. LABOR NOTES The Kansas City' (Mo.) hod car riers' strike is over. At a meeting of the Builders club it was decided to offer the hod carriers 37 cents an hour, a compromise suggested by the state board of arbitration. The union accepted the offer. The union called the strike when the contractors re fused to increase the carriers" pay from 35 cents an hour to 40 cents. The trauiwaynien of St. Petersburg. Russia, struck some time ago, on ac count of a set of new rules being is sued by the management which al tered the working time to the disad vantage of the men. This is the first forward movement of St. Petersburg workmen since the reaction in the la bor movement of 1906 and 1907, and it will be of good augury for the fu ture, if the men manage to win even a few concessions. The miners employed at the col liery proposed to be taken over by Sir fchristopher Furness, M. P.. to be worked on the co-partnership system, have refused to adopt the scheme. It is admitted that the o3er was a fair one, especially to the miners, for the union was to be fully recognized and represented en the labor council. The International Pressmen's union purchased at court sale the Hale Springs property, 60 miles east Knoxville. Tenn. A national home for aged, indigent and disabled press men and stereotype rs will be estab lished. The purchase includes t Hale Springs hotel and 1.100 acres. witn iour mineral surings. According to the annual report of the British chief inspector of factories and workshops for 1908, the total number of accidents nrrnirinr that year throughout his jurisdiction was i -z,i4. a decrease of 2.1 74. as com pared with 1907. Of these 1,342 were fatal accidents, a decrease over the previous year of 137. Denmark unions paid in 1903 more man .oq,oM in unemployed benefits. besides collecting a special effort fund for giving relief to members out of benefit, which fund reached $72,500. This fund was started in January and during its existence there have been 14 distributions: at the first 6,655 members out of benefit were helped, at the ninth the figures had risen to 7,867, at the last there were 3,090 to be helped. sk Off Lake View Ordiestra Concerts SALT "WATER BATHING Fresh Water Sbuwms Half Mile of Sandy Be Private Dnaaa Rcms bby Bathing Sots foe Hac EXCELLENT FISHING De&gntbil Boating tod Sausac BEAUTIFUL. PICNIC GROVE Parties CoHuSy Invited 100 ATTRACTIONS 100 Grand Night Illtsnnutxns Daacise UmiU 11:15 Admittance to Isaac, 1 c Sir "yjuOT & Sfii -yJ 11 UNIONjSXwl H factory Ka J Named Shoes are Often Made g in Non-union Factories. DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE I no matter tchat its name un- less it bears a plain and read able impression of this Union Stamp.; All Shoes toithout the Union Stamp are Altcaus Non-Union Do not accept anu excuse for the absence of the UNION STAMP. I BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 Sumner St, Boston, Mass: f John F. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec-Treas. o f Hot .Wcathen Comforts Mr. Inside Man, you have an electric fan. How aboat your good wife? Has she an electric fan? Is she still broiling herself and the steaks over a red-hot coal range? Why not pause and consider her comfort and convenience a little bit? If not both electric fan and gas range (Get si (Gas It will make the kitchen comfortable; it will save hours and health, and make home happy. Cheaper than coal and so clean, convenient and comfortable. We sell the ranges (cash or pay ments) and furnish the gas. You furnish the match. And then the housewife is equipped with labor-saving machinery. Once used, never abandoned. Ask 5,000 Lincoln women who cook with gas.. Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Co. OPEN EVENINGS 0 M050o03oaoooccQ0oeo$oe