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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1909)
Farmers & ZMezchants Bank M ADE IN LINCOLN ADE BY FRIENDS LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN In Labor's Realm Matters of Especial Interest To and Con cerning Those Who Do the " Established igor 1 5th and O Sis. Work of the World $1 fjj 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 s OR BEN GABLES The Dr. Ben. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska R I For non-contagious chroric diseases. Largest, g best equipped, most beautifully furnished. 090030QO00000OQOOSO00OQO0000o4d To UNION MEN! HELP US TO HELP YOU SUIT TO YOUR ORDER More $15.00 Us FIT GUARANTEED AT THE The Laboringman's Friend 133South'jThirteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. J. H. M. MULLEN, CUTTER AND MGR. NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and De Wilt Mills THE CELEARATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOUD A SPECIALTY Boil rZTlto t459 1 SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. ooooeogooocoosoaooooooooosooo H Your Cigar Should Dear This Label.. S. Ugc It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. ... ooo Boston. A gigantic movement, born of long time unrest, is in progress in the leading cotton textile districts of the world, looking toward a general curtailment of production for the re mainder of this year and during 1910. The reasons advanced are the gradual Increase in the cost of raw material and the failure of the dry goods markets to re spond in a way to assure continued profits to manufacturers. The cur tailment movement had its Inception in Lancashire, the greatest cotton goods producing district In the world. On September 15, the Arkwright club of Boston, representing 14,000,000 of the 17,000,000 spindles in New Eng land, sent out to all the cotton mills In this district, which Is second In the industry to Lancashire, an agree ment for signatures for a curtailment The proposition calls for suspension of work for 224 working hours be tween the date of the agreement and August 1, 1910, to become effective when 7,000,000 spindles have been signed up. The curtailment Is not likely to become effective in this state In the immediate future, as many mills that will sign will be unable to fill present orders without steady run ning until well into January. The Rhode Island and Fall River manu facturers are, as a rule willing to cur tall production. The curtailment has also been taken up by southern cotton mill owners. The board of governors of the American Cotton Manufactur ers' association, at a meeting in Char lotte, N. C, adopted resolutions set ting forth their claim that the present disparity between the price of cotton and cotton goods precludes the possi bility of the successful operation of southern mills. A committee was ap pointed to formulate a curtailment agreement which every mill In the south will be urged to sign. The cot ton mills of New England, including yarn mills, employ upward of 200,000 hands. Chicago. The recall of the charter of local union No. 3 by the Interna tional Union of Steam Engineers was sustained by Judge Petit In the circuit court when he dissolved a temporary injunction formerly entered which re strained Matt Comerford, general pres ident of the union, from revoking the charter and taking the books, seals and records of the local. The local union of engineers offended the In ternational union several months ago by entering into contracts with the Chicago and Milwaukee Brewers' as sociation without having them sanc tioned by the general executive board. Orange, N. J. Rumors of a settle ment of the hatting strike, which have been circulating here for the last .week or more, were intensified when it be came known that the firm ' of E. V. Connett & Co. of this city had laid off permanently 85 per cent, of its non union force, with a view to re-opening its factory at the end of next week with union employes. The 15 per cent, retained, it is understood, will get union cards. They consist of union deserters or men who have con tracts with the firm. Gary, Ind. The total contracts placed with all rail manufacturers this year have aggregated a little over 2,500,000 tons, 800,000 tons of which are for next year's delivery. It Is es timated that the rail mill capacity of the country is now between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000 tons annually. It Is ex pected that the Gary mill will be able to turn out 1,000,000 tons per year when the plant Is completed. The estimates of total production Include light as well as standard sections. Pittsburg, Pa. With nearly half a million tons of standard rails on the books of the Illinois Steel Company, over half of which Is Bessemer, it seems certain future demands of the Steel Corporation for Bessemer rails must come to the Pennsylvania mills. The Alabama mills already are well filled, a large part of their tonnage be ing for export. Indianapolis, Ind. The Internation al Printing Pressmen and Assistant's union has gone heart and soul into the movement for the conquering of con sumption among its members. A prop osition is now advanced for the en tire membership to contribute annual ly one day's pay toward the establish ment of a tuberculosis hospital. Pittsburg, Pa. At the recent glass bottle blowers' convention It was de cided not to publish an official trade Journal. The organization has a sys tem of keeping the members posted and fears that the publication of a Journal woul tend to give important information to outsiders for whom it is not Intended. Washington. The labor situation In Switzerland has peculiar features. A considerable part of the country's in dustrial operations are carried on in the rural districts, the employes work ing in their own little strips of land 'during the short farming season of the i summer, and in the factories or other industrial establishments the rest of the year. Victoria, Australia. At a meeting of the Dockyard and Ship Laborer's union it was decided to take Into con sideration the advisability of Joining in a federation of all dock laborers In the commonwealth. , Stockholm, Sweden. Trade unionists in Sweden have a novel way in stav- Pittsburg, Pa. M. O'Sulllvan of Crafton, general president of the Amal gamated Sheet Metal Workers' Inter national alliance, and N. S. Glass, busi ness agent of local union No. 12 of Pittsburg have returned from the fif teenth general convention at Denver. President O'Sulllvan was re-elected. Beginning with October the monthly per capita tax, payable to the general office, will be 35 cents. This will cover all obligations and will do away with funeral benefits and Journal assess ments. The due stamp system of crediting payment of dues to the local unions will be In effect January 1, 1910. In future all trade agreements must be filed at the general offices, Kansas City, at least 90 days previous to becoming operative, if the support of the international body is expected In event of a strike. New York. A split has taken place in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Several locals, after making charges of several kinds against the general officers, among which are Incompetence and wasteful ness, have seceded from the-brotherhood. An effort is to be made by the officers of the American Federation of Labor to reunite the factions. Mean time the officers of the brotherhood have notified the different unions that the seceding faction is not to be rec ognized. Buffalo, N. Y. The Erie, Lacka wanna and Buffalo Creel railroads pleaded not guilty to 25 indictments charging them with violation of the labor law requiring them to pay em ployes twice a month. The attorneys reserved the right to demur later. The cases had been presented to the grand Jury in September on evidence fur nished by the state labor department. There is no dispute about the facts. The fight will be on the constitutional ity of the law. - ' , New York. Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, who has been In Europe study ing continental labor conditions and problems, returned to ' the United States. Labor men here gave him a rousing welcome home. A more elab orate reception . was accorded him in Washington upon his arrival there. Mr. Gompers left New York on June 19 and since that time has visited most of the important European coun tries. ' Berlin, Germany. Germany has a law that provides that if it can be proved that a man is earning a suf ficient wage to support those depend ent on him, but that he is dissipating that wage by vicious habits, he can be declared a minor, and he Is then treated as a child. ' His employer ts told that the wage must not be paid to the man, but to a guardian appoint' ed by the magistrate of the district in whic hhe lives, who uses it for the support of the wife and children. Ottawa, Canada. The act for the maintenance of Industrial peace In Canada, which went Into effect March 22, 1907, shows by actual operation that 96 per cent of strikes - were avoided or ended. These pertained to disputes concerning mines,' railroads, street railways, longshoremen, team sters and sailors. Watertown, N. Y. Workmen em ployed at the United States arsenal are expressing Indignation at some new working and discipline rules es tablished at that plant.. The men claim they are drastic and onerous, also that the men are being so driven In their - work that its quality is ma terially suffering. Boston. During the past year Mas sachusetts has placed in employment on an average 49 men a day through its three employment bureau offices In Springfield, Fall River and Boston. This year the Boston office alone has obtained work for 50 or more men a day. Munich, Germany. At the recent convention of waiter girls, it was re solved that efforts should be made to emancipate themselves from the fee system by insisting on minimum wages in hotels and taverns of 75 cents to one' dollar a day. New York. The Women's Trade Union league Is carrying on an active campaign among the white goods mak ers, the corset makers, the finishers and textile workers and the dressmak ers of that city to bring about more thorough organization. London, Eng. In England the trade unionists are interested in the estab lishment of a central labor college, which they will finance. Brooklyn, N. Y. The official Jour nal of the International Association of Steam Engineers will hereafter be printed in this city. London, Eng. According to the an nual report of the British chief Inspec tor of factories and workshops for 1908, the total number of accidents occurring that year throughout his Jurisdiction was 122,154, a decrease of 2,171 as compared with 1907. Of these 1,042 were fatal accidents, a decrease over the previous year of 137. Pittsburg, Pa. The Cambria Steel company of Pittsburg has purchased 18,000 tons Besemer pig iron for de livery this quarter at (18 valley, and 23,000 tons for delivery during the first quarter of next year at $18.50 val ley, making a total of 41,000 tons. Pittsburg, Pa. Throughout conti nental Europe the Metal Workers' Yes everyone was glad that Mrs. Wendt got her $7671.00 back after it was stolen, bat suppose she hadn't. Pat your money in out bank where it will be safe. It will earn interest for you too. j Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8. THE EAS7 O STREET VANK O I 1 Workers union m I lUNIONSlAHpi Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-union Factories. - DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE no matter what its name' un less it bears a plain and t ead- able impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes toithout the Union Stamp are Altcays 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 P. Tobin, Pres. Chas. L. Baine, Sec.-Treas. First Trust Savings Bank Owned by Stockholders of the First National Bank3 THE ''BANK FOR THE WAGE-EARNER INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska iO00000000000000000000QO00 illy Weather Cheerfulness These mornings make you' think of the fur nace, eh? ; And coal bills? But what's the use of worrying yet-r-there's lots of time. Chilly mornings and evenings? '. They can be cured at ' small expense smaller than worrying and feed ing the furnace. i A Gas Heater Does the Work Attach it to the gas jet in dining room, sit tiug room or bath room. No work, no worry. A cent or two and the room is comfortably warm, and the furnace out of business for weeks and weeks to come. Cheaper and cleaner and better. With the furnace you must use enough coal to heat the house and most of it wasted these days. The gas heater merely gives you the heat you need, where you need it and when. Ask the Users Their Advice We'll stand that test you ask those who are using the heater these days. 'Several thous and of them, and you ought to among the num ber. We sell the heaters, good ones, at a low price. Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Co. OPEN EVENINGS O