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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1910)
) -4 r mi For Two Weeks only, an Extra $5 Fancy Vest v (Drama With every Suit or Overcoat. We like to keep our tailors and cutters busy between seasons, and in order to do so we make you this offer. Regular $25 and $35 values in suitings and overcoatings, cut and tailored to your order and measure ment with an extra $5 Fancy Vest. UNION TAILORS 7Htl i iu j. h. Mcmullen, Mgr. 133 So. 13th Street Auto 2372 Ma ADE IN LINCOLN DE BY FRIENDS INCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN UBEKI7 FUUB fj 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 docs not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone us and wc will attend to it. Ask your neighbor how she likes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it. H. 0. BARBERS SON K Your Cigar Should Bear This Label.. B D 1 JBaSSSXSSR fTK rftf i4ta ftgft. It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. . . . oo $ First 'Trust "22 Savings Bank Owned bj Stockholders "'of the First National Bank THE HAVK FOR THE WAGE-EARNER INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska Farmers and Merchants BanK v ' i t V I J J A certain man in this city has deposited $5.00 a month in the bank for three years. With inter est it amounts to nearly $200.00. Are you get ting ahead? -:- -:- Open Saturday evenings 6 to 8 F. & M. bldg. 15th & 0 Sts. Boston. Several hundred thousand operatives in mills and factories of Massachusetts and Rhode Island be gan work on a shorter schedule of working hours in consequence of the new 66-hour laws passed by the last two state legislatures becoming effec tive. .While the new statute applies only to women and minors, the manu facturers find it impossible to separ ate the departments so that the men can work longer than the women and children, and have therefore brought all their operatives under the new schedule, which allows them to work not more than 56 hours a week. In Rhode Island it is estimated that the 20,000 operatives affected will lose a total of 2,080,000 working hours a year. Many of the great textile mills in Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River and New Bedford, had already reduced their working hours in conformity to the policy of curtailment of produc tion. Paris, France. Official statistics of the strikes which occurred in France last year have just been issued, and they show that there were in all 1,073, in which 99,042 persons, mostly men, took part, leading to idle days esti mated at the huge figure of 1,720,743, including 241,672 days lost by the fact that 9,196 non-strikers were unable to work. This is, however, an lmproove ment on 1907, when there were 1,275 strikes, with a loss of 3,562,220 days, and a still greater improvement on 1906, when the total number of lost days amounted to 9,438,594. It is ex plained that the strike movement has a marked tendency to coincide with prosperous years, workmen expecting to obtain more concessions from a thriving employer than from one who can just make both ends meet. Most of the strikes have emanated from the refusal of an increase of pay. ' Washington. Officers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor have Issued a call to the 1,540,000 members of the organization, calling on them to sub scribe to a fund with which a bitter fight is to be begun aganst the United States Steel Corporation. The cor poration, the call sets forth, is Inim ical to both the interests of labor and to the country at large, and; is termed "a bold and daring violator of the laws. The sum of $154,000 will be raised by this first appeal, but fur ther calls will be issued as the. fight progresses. The action is the result of the conference held in Pittsburg on December 13 and 14 between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, the Tinplate Workers' Protective association and the Long shoremen's and Seamen's union. Chicago. Committees representing the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors on nearly forty railroads east of the Illi nois Central and north of the Chesa peake & Ohio presented new wage schedules to the general managers. A standard scale on all lines is asked, which would require advances ranging from five to forty per cent. About 125,000 employes are interested. Lo comotive firemen employed on the1 same railroads are also considering a new wage schedule equal to that paid for the same work west of Chicago. The result will be known in a few weeks. Boston. Clarence L. Mitchell, sys tem chairman for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the B. & M. system, is authority for the statement that the general committee of that organization for the road has not as yet met to consider any wage increase requests. It is stated, however, from a railroad source, that a request for a better arrangement of hours and working conditions for the engineers of that system ha3 been suggested. Memphis, Tenn. Believing in char ity of a definite and helpful form, Memphis Typographical union has in corporated in its book of laws a pro vision that annually an assessment of one-half of one per cent, on the Oc tober earnings of its members shall be levied, the sum realized to be M vided equally between the day nursery and the foundling home. London, Eng. In reference to the' workings of the liability laws of Great Britain, the usual plan is weekly pay ments of compensation, but under some circumstances, as where a work man is incapacitated for the work In which he is engaged, and he desires to go into other business, an arrange ment is made by which he receives a lump sum. Boston. National executive board of the federation of state, city and town employers' unions has decided that the annual state convention shall be held at Lynn, Mass., February 6. Mount Vernon, N. Y. John Mitchell, the labor leader, who was asked by the Temple club of this city to de scribe what he regarded as an ideal relation between capital and labor, has replied as follows: "It is my firm conviction that the ideal of trade unionism will be attained when ; a strong organization of labor, supplied with an ample reserve fund and em bracing every workman in its trade, shall find itself face to face with an equally strong association of employ ers embracing every employer in the trade. The two will then meet on a basis of absolute equality " Philadelphia. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Phila delphia Rapid Transit Company held here, it was decided to give $500 free insurance to all employes in the serv ice of the company. It was also de cided to give pensions of $20 a month to all employes who have been 25 years in the employ of the company and have attained the age of 65 years. A new scale pf wages, to become ef fective on July 1, 1910, was also adopted. On that date the wages of motormen and conductors, which have been 22 cents an hour, will be in creased to 23 cents. These wages will be Increased one cent an hour every two years until the maximum of 25 cent an hour Is reached. A similar increase will be granted1 the employes of the elevated road. The maximum for motormen on the latter line will be 28 cents an hour. Indianapolis. Four additional paid organizers of the Journeymen Bar bers' International union, headquar ters of which are In this city, will start out in the field next Monday. The country has been divided into four districts eastern, central, west ern and Canadian, and an organizer will be placed in each of these dis tricts. There will also be a general organizer, who will travel in these va rious districts. The - barbers' interna tional is showing substantial growth, having issued ten new charters since November 1. The charters were Is sued to locals in the following cities: Anadarko, Okla.; Columbia, Mo.; Lethbridge, Alberta; New Rochelle, N. Y.; Charlerooi, Pa.; Mangum, Okia.; Watertown, S. D.; Spartanburg, S C.; North Yakima, Wash., and Hutchin son, Kan. . Chicago. No increase will be grant ed the switchmen in the Chicago dis trict unless it should come through a board of arbitration. The managers submitted their proposition to the union committee, and in substance it refused every demand which the union made. The demand of the men for time and one-half . for . over-time . and Sundays was answered by the state ment that in the movement of passen gers and freight the railroads got no extra compensation for holidays and that work performed on such days must be regarded as regular work and paid for at regular rates. . South Bethlehem, Pa. As a result of a conference between General Man ager Maguire of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and a committee of conductors, the conductors will re ceive substantial increases in their pay. Ten hours instead of . 12 will constitute a day's work. Passenger conductors will receive $3.90 a day in stead of $3.50. Through freight con ductors will be paid $3.50 instead of three dollars, and the wages of local freight conductors will be increased from $3.55 to $3.85. . About 1,200 men will benefit. San Francisco. Every, law pertain ing to or bearing on labor and in force in California at the present time has been condensed into one small compact volume by the state labor commissioner. This is to meet a constant and increasing demand for such a publication by lawyers, public officials and others interested in vari ous ways. Boston. Thirty-five hundred con ductors and motormen employed by the Boston Elevated Railroad Com pany received New Year's gifts from the company of ?1'0 and $25 respec tively as a reward for good records in 1909. The company distributed this year $75,000. Sacramento, Cal. At the next meet ing of the federated trades council an effort will be made to amend the con stitution, to the extent of making it obligatory for every, delegate to' wear a union-made hat. Boston.-r-More than : 100 - delegates will represent New England at the biennial convention of the railroad clerks, to be held at New Orleans next April., ,. '.-:;-,. Washington. A : convention o the International ; Transport Workers' Federation meets in Copenhagen, Den mark, next August. Laramie, Wyo. a state : federation comprising in its membership about 6,000. miners, was organized : recently in Wyoming.. New York. Organizers are. at work in this city trying to form an interna tional union of typewriters and stenog raphers- Augusta, Me. A new eight-hour law has gone into effect in the mills and factories of this state. The running time hitherto has been 60 hours weekly. Washington. Hungary has almost 150,000 trade unionists. Washington. Since the adjourn ment of the American Federation of Labor convention, renewed activity in the ranks of the International Mill Employers' union has resulted in the return to the union of five locals, that have not only paid up all arrearages, but have been successful in obtaining the use of the union label for their product. Boston. It has been decided that the Massachusetts legislature be peti tioned to enact a minimum wage law of $2.25 a day for all state laborers, and particularly for those employed by the water, sewer and park boards. Long Winters Nights May be made bright and cheerful by illuminating the home with either Gas or Electricity. And the disposition of the housewife may be sweetened by relieving her of the drudgery of filling "smelly" kerosene lamps and cleaning smoky chimneys. Nothing is so well calculated to make home happy as bright lights and cheerful dispositions. We will furnish the illumination and the cheerful dis positions will follow as a natural result. If It's a Question of Cost Let us prove to you as we canthat it is cheaper, more convenient and far better to illu minate with gas or electricity than it is to illumin ate with kerosene amps. Counting cost of kerosene and chimneys, to say nothing of the drudgery connected therewith it costs no more to use' gas or electricity. And as for the results dollar for dollar you get immensely more and better light always ready, no cleaning, no break-age-by using our illuminants. Equipping a Modern Kitchen Mr. Mechanic, you - insist upon having the best and most up-to-date tools. Why deny your good wife the same conveniences for her trade. If you think hocsewif ery is not a trade, just try it. Equip the kitchen with labor saving; devices first a gas range, then electric irons, toasters, .etc. . Come in and let us show you a few things. Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Co. OPEN EVE N INGS WORKERS UNION t I UKIONJ STAMP E,ZH!a. mil mi oooocoosooooooo-soooooooooooc Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-union Factories. DO NOT BUY ANY SHOE no matter tohat its name un less it bears a plain and read able impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes toithbut the Union Stamp are Alvcaus 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 F. 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