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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1910)
GENERAL MENTION. SHOP EARLY IN THE WEEK IWotidLeiyr Morning, January 3d Brief Bit of News Picked Up and Pilfered From Manywhere. Teamsters in Toledo received 53 new applications last week. Shoe cutters In Rochester, X. Y., are being supplanted by Armenians and Greeks. ' Four hundred women joined the Waist Makers' Union In Newark. N. J. last week. Moving picture operators in Cin cinnati have almost every show house in the city unionized. The Ilock Island cut the pay of its section men In Dubuque, la., to $1.25 u cut of 10 cents. They are unorgan ized. The one concern in Fort Worth, Ind., that Insisted on handling and act ing as agent for Buck's Stoves has re tired from business. The Lebanon Valley Iron Com pany, Lebanon, Pa., has granted pud dlers an 'increase from $t to $4.50. Four hundred men are affected. Steamfitters In Cleveland report every shop in the city with one ex ceptlon la union, and there are not more than four competent mechanics outside of the union. Union made sample shoes 1-2 off. Rogers & Perkins 1129 O Street. The Railroad Telegraphers' Union Is a widespread one. It has members In Canada, the United States, Porto Rico, Cuba, the Hawaiian Island, and the Philippines. Factory Inspector Watklns has been securing data of the Labor Unions In Jackson, "Mich. Every union has reported an -increase in Its membership. In some cases a 50 per ceut Increase is noted. Painters In Jackson, Mich., feel jubi lant over the success of their eflorts to increase the membership. It is ex pected that every painter in the city will be in the union before the spring season opens. The three-year fight between the painters and contractors at Fort Texas, has come to a close. The last boss has just signed an agreement with the union and fired the scabs, and alt sides are pleased. All but 25 of the 200 girls employed as knitters In the Standard Hosiery Manufacturing Company Philadelphia, went on strike to voice a protest against Intolerable conditions. "We're at peace with the world," says President James J. Freel, of the Stereotype and Electrotpyers". Un ion. "Eighty-seven per cent of the workers in our line in North America are affiliated with our union." An eight-hour city with one strike In 18 years is the boost for Barre, Vt., of P. F. McCarthy, of the Quarry Workers' Union of that town. One third of Barre's population of 12,000 are declared to be trade unionists. A number of the leather workers in rejily to advertisements inserted iu forvlgn papers arrived in Ottawa, Can ada, but Immediately on learning that thert was a strike on they joined the International Union of Leather Work ers. Only 29 years old, Matthew Woll president of the International Photo Engravers' Union, fa probably the youngest International president. Working "at the bench" by day and studying at night, he put himself through a considerable law course. In protest against the attempt of the firm of M. Cohen & Bros., Brooklyn, N. T., to out the wages of its em ployes 20 per cent and to discharge the organizers and members of the un ion. 200 paper box makers are strik ing and feel confident of victory. Ninety per cent of the strikers are women. , A lockout of 200 clonk and skirt makers occurred in the Printz, Btederman & Co., shop, Cleveland, for demanding the right to have a committee in the adjustment of prices. The cloak and skirt bosses proceed upon the theory that the workers have nothing to say about wages, hours, etc., but are to accept what is handed to them and be mighty thankful that they are alive and permitted to work for kind masters. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? Dancing luxuriously for the relief through our alms of those we impover ish by our privileges, may be an agree able kind of penance; but isn't it somewhat suggestive of those follies of the predatory rich of France which provoked the excesses of the Rtvolu tlon? Chicago Public. ' A PERTINENT QUESTION. The Gary steel plant has a hospital for its employes, who work ninety-six hours per week. Wouldn't a cemetery be more appropriate? Michigan Un ion Advocate, A NEW ONE. The Tribune, of Springfield, Ohio, is the latest to bid for favor in the realm of labor. The Tribune is a neat seven column quarto, well edited. Issued un der the auspices of the Trades Assem bly of Springfield. We welcome the Tribune may it live forever. sXyji "nN Carpets I If i 11 O On all Furniture on 1 I f J AwAj Q Main Floor West I A y Ol A Great Many Articles I i Jy 3 O Al1 Through the Store p "T jT jr V"" Fancy Hand Decorated China, Russian Hand Hammered Brass P A G g 1 i i l V on the Main Floor and a Number of pieces of Furniture Q 1 D1SCOUN i m see THE CARPENTERS. Will Meet Monday Evening in Their Quarters at The Temple. The Carpenters will meet Monday evening, and for the first time in the Temple. This fact is expected to bring out a larger attendance than has been the rule for some time past On the ground of lack of funds the local union declined to elect a delegate to the South Omaha convention. A few of the members are possessed of the idea that when a union is not prosper ing as it should, that the time to make a special effort to start some- j thing. The State Federation's purpose is to push the work of organization, as well as to push beneficial legislation, and the organizations that need as sistance most should be the organiza tions to make the most earnest efforts. The local union of carpenters has five times more members than one other Lincoln union that has prepared to send a delegate, and an even ten times more members than still another Lin coln local that will be represented at South Omaha. Clearly the Carpenters' Union is not appearing in a good light when it refuses to send a delegate to the Nebraska State Federation of La bor convention on the ground that it cannot afford the paltry expense of $15 or $20. Last week Manager Rudy of the Temple hustled around and secured the lumber to floor the north side store room, and then a bunch of car penters appeared on the scene and do nated the work of laying the floor. The work was done in rapid time in or der to have the floor in shape for open Ing on December 29. THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE. The constitution of the Nebraska State Federation of Labor provides that the president shall appoint a com mittee of credentials, and that this committee shall meet iu the conven tion city at 2 o'clock In the afternoon the day before the 'convention opens Our Windows for Bargains and prepare a list of duly accredited delegates. Acting on this authority President Maupin has appointed the following committee: Louis Connelley, sterectypers, Omaha; Frank M. Cof fey, Typographical, Lincoln; T. O. Duckworth, Barbers, South Omaha. This committee will meet at the Labor Temple in South Omaha at the hour mentioned. President Maupin and Secretary-Treasurer Hart will act with this committee. UNION BUCKS.' Son of Original Founder Will Start New Union Stove Works. S. B. Buck, son of Charles H. Buck, founder of the Buck's Stove and Range company of St. Louis, which always employed union labor during his control, has organized a new con cern, as originally announced in The Review of October 29 through our Denver correspondence. The new company is known as the S. B. Buck Stove and Range company, of which Mr. Buck is president, and the factory is at Belleville, 111., across the Missis sippi river from St. Louis, home of the old Buck plant now controlled by Van Cleave, which has made such a famous, and for itself disastrous fight on organized labor. Business head quarters of the company have been located at Kansas City and it is the purpose of the firm to devote its at tention for the time being to territory west of the Mississippi river. Mr. S. B. Buck was in Pueblo this week and, of course, had no trouble in establishing an agency for his stoves here. In fact, the firm which had been carrying the Van Cleave non-union Buck's stoves in cold stor age is said to have been glad to ac cept the local agency for the new union Buck's stoves and ranges and quit handling the non-salable St. Louis product. For the past month Mr. Buck has been in . Denver demonstrating the "new Buck" stove, having brought a We have never gone into a Clearance Sale when our assortments in all lines were as complete as they are at this time. Having bought heavily, anticipating an advance in price by the manu facturer, our warehouse and salesfloors are crowded with the newest and the best the manufac turers can produce in our line. While our holiday trade was exceptionally heavy, we have many discontinued lines that we close during this sale if prices will do it. There are many, people who have the idea that prices are higher during the holiday season so wait till January before doing their buying. While prices in this store were no higher in December 1909 than in any other month, they will be lower during this sale in order to reduce stock before invoicing. We advise shopping early in the week and early in the day. carload of the first manufacture! west for this purpose, and has met with great success. Mr. Buck says the Belleville factory of the new Buck's stoves is ' to he union throughout and it is, expected to supplant the old Buck's non-union stove throughout the entire western country. Agencies are being estab lished just as fast as he can visit the different cities, and just as rapidly the old Buck's are being thrown on the scrap pile with Van Cleave, of labor crushing notoriety. The formation of the new company is the direct outcome of the present fight of the Buck's Stove and Range company of St. Louis on Gompers, Mitchell and Mlorrison, of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and it is understood several dissatisfied mem bers of the old firm have transferred their allegiance and money to the new concern. In buying a "Buck's" be sure you get the "S. B. Buck." Pueblo In dustrial Review. : i STRIKERS GO BACK TO WORK. Locomotive Company Effects Settle ment With Boilermakers. Schenectady, N. Y., Dec. 28. The strike of the bollermakers in-the Sche nectady plant of the American Locomo tive company was settled this after noon, and this action will act as a set tlement of the strikes of the boiler makers in the plants of the company at Dunkirk, Montreal, Richmond and Pittsburg. About three thousand men are involved. The men will return to work in the Schenectady plant on.tke basis of day work tomorrow. An ef fort on the part of the company to in augurate the standard time system led to the calling of the strike here Decem ber 7, and the general strike followed. THE MUSICIANS. A Member of That Union Now Sits upon That Bench, In the recent New York City elec- Everything for the tion Edward J. Gavengan, who holds a card in the Musicians' union of that city, was elected to the supreme court bench for a term of fourteen years at a salary of $17,500. Here Is what the New York Tribune says of him: "Edward J. Gavengan, elected jus tice of the supreme court, is a gradu ate of Yale, class of '89. He holds a union card of the Musical Mutual Protective union and has represented the Building Trades as counsel. He was attorney for various labor organi zations at the conference of labor men, called by President . Roosevelt last year. He is endorsed by Attorney General Wickersham, - James Byrne and "P. Tecumseh Sherman, ex-state la bor commisisoner. He is an indepen dent democrat." TAFT'S FRIENDSHIP. Promotes Notorious Labor Hater to Supreme Bench of Nation. President Taft has appointed Judge George A. Carpenter of the circuit court of Cook county to assume the place on the federal bench in Chicago left vacant by the death of Judge Sol omon Bethea. It is said that ' Presi dent Taft appointed Judge Carpenter on his record which interests labor men. One is his hostile action in the Mears-Slayton contempt case, in which he sentenced three union carpenters to jail for contempt of court without a hearing. The second is his refusal to include without a fall hearing, several manufacturers in the injunction grant ed by Judge Richard S. Tuthill in fa vor of the W. C. Ritchie Company against the woman's ten-hour law. , DIP INTO EDITORIAL WdRK. Shirtwaist Strikers Present Their Side of the Case. New York. Dec. 29. Scores of shirt waist strikers played the part of "newsies" today. Garbed in their best, the girls invaded the residence and business districts selling copies of a T 1 1 12-1 114 O Street Home newspaper printed under their editor ship and setting forth, their side of the strike issue. The strikers were aided in their editorial work by young col lege women who volunteered for the task. ' .' i Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, one of the Vassar graduates having the newspa per venture in charge, declared her confidence in the result of the girls' campaign. .-, ' , , Miss Dutcher, mentioned in the above dispatch, is a Nebraska girl. Several years ago she was a member of the reportorial staff of. the Omaha World-Herald at the same time that the editor of The Wageworker was similarly employed. She is a capable newspaper woman, and in her the TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. First Meeting of New Year at the Tem ple Sunday Aftemonon. ' : Lincoln Typographical Union will meet at the Temple Sunday afternoon at the regular hour. , As this' is the first meeting of the new year, as well as the first meeting in the 'Temple, it is expected that the atendance will be larger than the average. So far as is now known there will be no especial business to come before the meeting further than provision for the organi zation's share of the Temple and the election of a member of the Temple board of directors. The meetings will be in Hall No. 2 hereafter, and the union's handsome banner will adorn the wall alpng side the charter. A case will be secured for the banner at once. Secretary Hebbard will have his desk in the "Smokery" down stairs, where he will have regu lar hours for meeting the membership. Engineers on the Lehigh Valley railroad have been granted an increase of $-10 per month. Ten hours 4s to be considered a day's work and overtime is to commence after that number of hours of service.' 1