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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1909)
SOME PLAIN TALK. We are showing Large Assortments of Warm Eeddie YAith Somo Special Values For Saturday and and Excellent Values in the Regular Lines Cotton Blankets German finish, short felt nap, good weight; colors, gray, tan or white with pink or blue borders. Sizes 72x80 inches 1 Regular $2.00 Value for $1.65 per Pair Wool and Cotton Blankets Light gray mixtures, a large fluffy blanket, ' very sightly. Size 70-80 inches Regular 3.75 value for 2. 95 pair All Wool Blankets 25 pair in f-in checks, white and blue, white and pink, white and gray, white and tan; 25 pair 4-in. broken plaids, white and blue white and pink, white and tan, white and gray; 10 pair plain gray; 5 pair tan, 5 pair white with pink or blue borders. We have never offered better values than these Regular 5.00 value for 3.95 pair Ex Mill Cotton Blankets in neat bordered effects: colors gray, tan and white 10- 4 . 50c, 75c, 90c 11- 4 at ,1.00, 1.25, 1,35, 1.50, 2.00 12- 4 at 1.35, 1.75, 2.00, 2.25, 2.50 Wool Blankets in neat borders and fancy plaids; all good values 10- 4 at 4.00, 4.50, 5.00, 6.00, 6.50, 7.50 pr 11- 4 at 3.75, 4.50, 5.00; 5.50, 6.00, 6.50 pr 12- 4 at 7.50, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.50, 15.- 00 and 18.00 pair. Two Qood Values in Wool Filled Com fortables, covered with Silkoline, in choice colors and designs, 72x80 inches. Excellent values for -5.00 each Comfortables COTTON COnFORTABLES We show a very large assortment of tufted and stitched cotton comtortables in large sizes only. At. I.50, 1.75,2.00, J. 25, 2.50, 3.75, and 3.15 each pair pair pair Cotton Baby Blankets White Cotton Baby Blan ket, with pink or blue bor ders, size 30x40 inches ; 50c value 39c pair , A Country Newspaper Discusses the Omaha Situation. Though the reports are censured by the metropolitan press, the facts have leaked out that Arthur Brandies and Gurdon Wattles, president of the Om aha street railway, mixed in a London prize ring engagement over the street car strike. . . Wish we could have been there to hold the bottle for Brandies. That man Wattles is the first of his species in the west. His is a tribe we do not want to increase. Of questionable . commercial antecedency, he was the proper agent for those eastern ex ploiters of Omaha's public service lip- lifters. , The few walks we had to take in Omaha were healthful, but the scurvy plug-uglies imported to operate those cars were an Insult to western civili zation. . They might do in some of the east ern cities where the majority of the laboring element do not speak the English language, but not in Nebras ka. Creighton, Nebr., Liberal. THE CIGARMAKERS. Business Picking Up and the Outlook Growing Some Brighter. Business is picking up in cigar mak ing lines, and as a result more men are at work in Lincoln than for sev eral months. Pepperberg has added four or five men to his force since the first of the month, and Cinberg has also been compelled to' add a few. v John Steiner has quit business for himself and may now be found at a bench in the Pepperberg factory. T. W. Evans left the last of this week for a mpnth's visit with friends . and relatives in Ohio and Kentucky. He will spend a week or two with his brother at Cleveland. ' W. C. Linder has gone to Portland, Ore., where he will work for a time. The best wishes of a host of friends will go with him. v ' " THE RAPIDLY INCREASING COST OF LIVING Reprinted by Request r A few weeks ago the Central Labor Union of Lincoln appointed a committee to inquire into the cost of living, this being a part of the educational campaign marked out by that body. The work of conducting the inquiry was given to Rev. Mr. Zenor, pastor of the East Lincoln Christian church and fraternal delegate to the central body from the Ministerial Union. Rev. Mr. Zenor devoted consid erable time to the inquiry, visiting and talking with craftsmen and laborers in various parts of the city, and the following report is the result of his investigations. He says: "If you turn to the daily press, or to those who depend upon it for information, you will read or hear words to the effect that 'these are the best times we ever saw good prices for everything and good wages for everybody.' "The writer can remember a few years ago, when we were told that we had. the worst time3 that the American people ever saw; and I am still inclined to believe most of it because there are so many people out of work, or did not find work at any price, and we were toldi that they could not find it. "We were then told that the cause of that hard pressure was due to over-production, to not having sufficient money with which to transact the business of the country, to 'political inefficiency,' to 'the extravagance of the labor classes,' to 'too high living, domestic incompetency' and, in fact, almost any man you would chance to meet knew just what was the matter, and also had just the remedy that would bring about the desired results, and that speedily. "It was in this year that it was said, 'we have not less than a million of idle men and they are on the road ; and we by our indis criminate charity have made a million tramps.' "Who does not recall General Coxey's or Ceneral Kelley's army, or the terse expression, 'keep off the grass,' but now worn out and trite, although seen every day upon some sward. Who cannot recall the hot times in which men standing on the street engaged in discussion of the 'hard times,' the hue and cry of politics, the 'full dinner pail,' or the one more terse, 'Washington was the father-of our country, Lincoln freed the slave and G rover Cleveland gave the laboring man a rest.' "Those were hard times indeed; for the man who was able to find work accounted himself fortunate; but the wages oh, what wore they? I myself was then working on a salary of just one-half of what I am now receiving. But was that one-half quite as effi cient with which to purchase the necessaries of life as the double nniount now is? True, wages have advanced a great aeai since then, but have they kept pace with the advance 01 the cost 01 liv ing, with rents and taxes and other items? "At the time used as a short introduction to this paper I was living in the commonwealth of Nebraska, and a few of the then living prices will certainly not be out of order. I copy the prices from my day-book kept at that time. I paid for the best flour 90 cents per 100 pounds. The other day I paid $1.80 for a sack of 48 pounds, or practically four times as much as m the hard times. 1 then paid 10 cents for just as good butter as I can now get for 30 cents per pound. I pay here from 8 to 22 cents for meat no better than I got for .from 3 to 10 cents per pound, and the same com parisons hold good through the entire grocery line, the same is also true of vegetables of all kinds, of clothing, of furniture and household goods. In fact, of everything except coal and wood. "But let us stop this generalizing, and get down to real specific otoAments of the cost of living today in the city of Lincoln. Let us take the average family of six pei3ons. By actual investigation T find th cost of livinar risrht here in vhe city to be as follows. In Reading matter $ .W Potatoes Ml Fruit ' 14 Books .It Street car fare .' .It Medical aids 10 Benevolences 05 Shoes .10 Household incidentals 0 the following table I have reduced items to cost per day : House rent $ .50 Flour 10 Meat '. . . .32 Canned goods ... .15 Lard 05 Soap ;03 Clothes .10 Cullinary .05 Ice .05 Gas .10 Coal 10 Total .$2.50 "You will observe that I have put in absolutely no luxuries; not that we are not entitled to it, but that we just cannot afford it. You will observe that the butter allowance is only one and one third ounces per day per person, and that the meat is estimated upon the basis of two pounds per day for six persons, or five and two-fifths ounces per person per day. : And it will be further ob served, out of this abundance, I have estimated one $18 suit of clothes, and for everyday clothes, hats, caps, underwear, etc., we have left the magnificent sum of $18.60 for each person. Allowing two pairs of shoes to the person at an average price of $3 per pair. But let us stop and study the wages paid by the poor corporations, as stated to me by the men themselves who are doing the work. The Missouri Pacific is paying its section men here in the city $1.35 per day. Magnificent sum! All the other railroads are paying the same class of labor $1.50 per day, while the Lincoln Traction Co. is paying the same class of laborers $1.75. After all the information I am able to gether, with brickmasons at $4 and carpenters ranging from $2 to $3.20 per day, and then at the expense of the loss of all the time when the material is short, and wet days or days unfit to work on the' outdoor work, to say nothing of the persons who have to work short hours, lose all the odd time, and an hundred others looking for places where one can better his condition, all the while on expense, I am astonished that anyone should have the audacity to speak of 'the good times' of any one but the speculator, banker or lean agent, or the grafter." 1 WORKERS UNION H I J UM10M STAMP j 8 I racfory J 000OC000OffiOO0C-e050000000000Q o Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-union .Factories. DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE 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 Altcays Non-Union Do not accept any excuse for the absence of the UNION STAMP. BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 Sumner St., Boston, Mass: John P. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas. UNION MAN FOR SHERIFF. Louis Faulhaber Asks Your Support for That Important Office. Louis Faulhaber, a member of the Carpenters' Union, and one of the most loyal union men in this section of the country, is the democratic can didate for sheriff of Lancaster county. There are many reasons why he should be elected, and more reasons why he should receive the support and vote of every union man. He is a union man himself, and has carried a card in the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners for many years. He has al ways been found ready when work was demanded in the interests of unionism and union men. But this unionism is by no means his chief recommendation for support. He has lived in Lincoln for many years, and there are thousands who will tes tify to his ability to handle the duties of the office with credit to himself and to the people. He is a candidate now for the first time, and his candi dacy offers an opportunity to get some new blood into public office. If elect edand he will be if his fellow wage earners stand with him he will be the first active card man ever elected to the office of sheriff in Nebraska. Let's break a record with "Louie" Faulhaber! IN TORONTO. be a Labor Temple Has Proved to . Profitable Investment. The annual statement of the di rectors of the Toronto Labor Temple shows that the year's business was a profitable one.' The receipts amounted to $13,568.33, leaving a balance of $1, 856.18. The assets of the company are the building, $35,888.34; furniture, $7,500. The profits show an unde clared dividend of over 13 per cent. The excess of assets over liabilities is $17,309.87. The original allotment of stock has been taken up, and the sin. gle transaction of $5.00 for the year closed the final allotment. At present there is no stock on the market, and the company will not Issue any more, as the stock as it now stands is worth more than double what was paid for it. The supreme court of Missouri has thrown down the gauntlet to the legis lature and declared that no law shall be passed wnlch dares to prescribe a maximum punishment for contempt of court. Surely, even rapidly, govern ment by the various supreme court is being established. Why not abolish legislatures? Or will the people wake up before It Is too late? New York Call. v . EVERY SHOE "UNION MADE" HERE Thompson Shoe J $3.50 $4 4 Handcraft Shoe NH Y $5.00 " All Mw--"F0R KEIT-AII New Hen's Bootory J 12th & P Sts. GO 'TO THE FARMERS MEAT CO. 226 No. 10th, if you wish to save from 10 to 15 per cent. The working's men's friend AUTO 1371 BELL 899 J. W. Wolfe, Prop. GREGORY, The Tailor Knows how to dress you up and has the finest line of fall and winter goods in the city. :::::: : Pressing a Specialty Your Business Solicited