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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1909)
1 If' - tr FARMERS ANDfrtttcCHANTS H WADE IN LINCOLN LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN IV JADE BY FRIENDS In Labors Realm Matters of Especial Interest To and Con cerning Those Who Do the Work of the World 15th and O Streets Established 1901 Hot weather does not affect interest 3 degress or C8 degress, it's all the son. A young man deposited 83-SOeaeh week in the bank. His employer failed and the your man had to hunt another job. As it eras a slack time he aad considerable difficulty in getting a place, particalarly as his only i man nil atton was from his former employer now bankrupt- (Concluded next nreek THE EAST O STREET BANK RANK. ( 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 1 GABLES 1 The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium . Lincoln, Nebraska I For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, 8 g best equipped, most beautifully furnished. OSO00OSOSOSOSOSO090SOSIOCOS05090SOSOSOSOSOSO 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 SouthThirteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. J. H. M. MULLEN, CUTTER AND. MGR. NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DeWitt Mills THE CELEARATEB LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR TUtpkamm us Boil ttom oo. vWo l45o RYE FLOUD A SPECIALTY 145 SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . jf " " Your ClSuW BcIr Thte Label.. Q C- uiikmnaaadixaafav. . I ) ; gMMB!!i-Jl Norfolk. Va. The machinists and blacksmiths of the Seaboard Air Line railway general shops in Portsmouth, who have been on a strike, returned to work following an agreement brought about through a grievance committee headed by H. M. Fallon of Savannah. Ga.; E. R Pace. Raleigh, N. C, and W. G. Bagwell of Ports mouth. According to the strikers the differences were setUed in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. Hartford City, Ind. There is every indication that the American Window Glass Company is preparing for a long contest with the only two skilled work ers it employs, the 300 window glass cutters and flatteners, who are on strike. No word has been received from Pittsburg which would indicate that the company proposes to accede to the demand of the workers. Pittsburg, Pa. Labor day in west ern Pennsylvania presented a unique and grim anomaly. Nearly thirty thou sand men are idle as a result of strikes, lockouts and walkouts. The 5,000 glass workers of the American Glass Company, who paralyze the glass industry throughout the coun try; 3,500 unskilled and nonunion strikers of the Pressed Steel Car Com pany at Schoenville; 18,000 organized but dissatisfied coal miners in this vicinity and 5,000 union Unplate work ers aided in making the day set apart for -the workingman one to be re membered in labor circles for years to come. Vienna. The report on the activity and finances of Austrian trade unions for the year 1908 shows that there has been a diminution of the total membership amounting to 18,815, which is equal to 3 per cent, on the total for 1907, 501,094. Albany, N. A large pavilion for consumptives has been erected by the unions in this city and is now in op eration. The unions of Rochester. Syracuse Buffalo and other cities are also taking steps to acquire similar institutions. Washington. Advices from Manila indicate that the strike fever has reached the Philippines. It is said that the leaders of the strike and boy cott against . the Manila street rail way and one of the commercial houses of that city have called them off. Both strikes have . failed from their incep tion, but the boycott against the street car system has been partially effec tive. The union in control of the strike has announced plans to reorganize along lines which will lead to greater sympathy between labor and capital The general labor situation has im proved and it is doubtful if any more strikes will occur. Cleveland. The newest thing in trade schools probably will be estab lished by the s.ractural ironworkers this winter, says Secretary Charles Smith of the union. He declared that the technical part of the trade was learned by the men at work, but that the theoretical part of the trade should be taught. He and others of the union will urge the hiring of a teacher to give instructions to the members of the union at least once a week, so that they may be better fitted for the work. Thomas Graves a member of the executive 'committee of the union, will aid in establish ing the school. Chicago. The constitutionality of the ten-hour law prohibiting women in factories from working beyond that limit is attacked in a suit filed against State's Attorney Wayman and State Factory Inspector Edgar T. Da vies. W. C. Ritchie & Co., paper bos mak ers, and Anna Kussorow and Dora Windeguth, two of their employes, are the complainants. - It is charged that unless overtime is permitted, the busi ness will be ruined and the employes will suffer, for the business is such, the petitioners say, that for six months the demand exceeds the normal ca pacity of the factory. The two women aver that conditions are healthful and comfortable, and that they need to work overtime when the opportunity offers in order to support their families. Pittsburg. Pa. Reports received from towns in the Pittsburg district are that 5,000 men employed by the American Window Glass Company are idle as a result of the Btrike inaugu rated to obtain an increase in wages. Notices were posted in six machine blower factories of the glass company that the plants, would be closed forth with. These notices constitute all that the company officials have to say In regard to the trouble. The men have asked for an advance ap proximating 20 per cent, this being refused by the company. Stockholm. The labor federation has called off the general strike, which has been in progress for several weeks. This decision was the out come of government intervention. which was directed toward arranging a settlement of the difficulties satis factory to all parties. London, Eng. Workmen employed in the British ordnance factories have recently been negotiating with the British secretary of state for a pen sion scheme. New York. Upward of 1,400 girls are members of the Women's Bindery union in this city. Chicago. The Compressed Air Workers' union and the employers have agreed on a new scale of prices. The lower the work the greater the air pressure and the more destructive to health and even life. So the wages are increased with the depth. At 22 pounds pressure the pay will be $3.50 for a six-hour day. At 40 and 45 pounds pressure the day's work wfl! be only 80 minutes long and the pay $4.50. Hartford City, Ind. The fight be tween the American Window Glass Company and the Window Glass Cut ters' & Flatteners association is on in earnest. Both sides are confident of winning and no one can predict at this time which side will be success ful. The company has informed the only two skilled trades it now em ploys that it will pay the same scale of wages that has been agreed upon between the National Window Glass Workers association and the inde pendent, or hand-operated manufac turers, and no more. The workers have demanded a differential of 12 per cent, more than this scale and 20 per cent, more than has been paid the last year. Pittsburg, Pa. The McKees Rocks strike, which has been in progress 53 days at the Pressed Steel Car Com pany, is over. The workmen, number ing over 5,000, have won. Practically all the demands made by the men have been granted. One point, that of an increase in wages, has been compromised. The company is said to have promised to pay the 1907 rate of wages as soon as present contracts are filled. St. Paul. Minn. It is the intention of the officers of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor to make every ef fort to bring about peaceful settle ments of all labor disputes where such thing is possible. Whenever any controversy comes up, these officials will at once proceed to the seat of war and will use every honorable means so to arrange matters that a settlement may be arrived at by con ference, or arbitration should this means fail. Evans ville, Ind. The loom fixers at the Evansville cotton mills are on strike. The men say they have been subjected to what is practically a re duction in wages. They say that in addition to tending the 128 looms they have been asked to measure the cloth. but for the same wage scale, J1.7o a day. They demand 25 cents a day extra for measuring the cloth. Lynn, Mass. Arvid Erlando of Chi cago was elected general organizer at the closing session of the first na tional convention of the United Shoe Workers of America in this city. The next national convention will be held at St Louis, Mo, September 6-10, 1910. The United Shoe Workers of America represent the so-called independent shoemakers of the country. Norfolk, Va. Machinists and black smiths at the Seaboard Air Line rail way's general shops at Portsmouth have struck because of the alleged employment- of non-unionists. It is stated officially that 46 per cent, of the machinists and all but six black smiths have gone out. St Joseph, Mo. John A. Crawford, local manager, and Frank Hutton, night manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company here, pleaded guilty and were fined ten dollars and costs on two charges of violating the child labor act by employing boys under 14 years old.' The costs were $29 in each case. Several cases in which the deputy state labor commis sioner is complainant are yet to be tried. Washington. Timothy . Healy of Yonkers, N. Y, who came to Wash ington several years ago and settled the brewery strike of the stationary firemen in a jiffy, nas been re-elected president of the International Union of Stationary Firemen. He Is a vet eran of the war with Spain. Two years ago Mr. Healy was the Demo cratic, and Labor nominee for con gress from the Yonkers district. He started into the political campaign with but 85 cents in his possession. He was not elected, but the majority of his opponent was whittled down to a splinter. He is again being urged to enter the race for congress by his friends. London, Eng. Four-fifths of the Lancashire mills which spin American cotton are on systematized short time owing to the depressed condition of trade in cotton goods aaroad. The president of the Master Cotton Spin ners Federation says that the pres ent crisis is one of the worst the trade has ever experienced. London, Eng. Last year there were 309 important disputes betweeen work men and their employers in England, of which more than 65 per cent were settled by compromise. Detroit, Mich. The marine engin eers now have a total membership on the coasts, the lakes and the rivers of the United States of more than eleven thousand. New York. State Labor Commis sioner Williams issued a bulletin stat ing that only 21.6 per cent of the 350,000 organized laborers of that state are unemployed, against 35.7 per cent, this time last year. O o g eosocososccososososcososososososoeosoeoso9 First Trust ssi Savings Bank Owned by Stockholders of the First National Bank THE 'SANK FOR THE WAGE-EARN EH . INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska OS0S0SOS0S0S0S0SCO3000S0S0Q0S05OS00S000S0Q0SO Subscribe Now, $ 1 osososoosososososososososc-sosostooqosoqostctcosoo 35 Named Shoes are Often Made in Son-union Factories. DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE no matter tchat its name un less it bears a plain and read 's, wuur &shqPW WORKERS UNIOH ff UHlONj STAMP I able impression of this Union Stamp.) All Shoes toithout the Union Stamp are Altcaus Non-Union Do not accept ang 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-Treas. o (7 $Mot Weather Comforts 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 pause and consider her comfort and convenience a little bit? If not both electric fan and gas range (Set a Qus 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 orients) 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