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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1910)
ORPHEUM Phones Bell 936 Auto 1528 WEEK STARTING FEBRUARY 21 NELLIE NICHOLS WALSH-LYNCH & CO. FAY. TWO COLEYS & FAY HYMAN MEYER FREDERICA RAYMOND TRIO VERONICA & HURL-FALLS ELDORA M.itlnee at 2:30 1 5c and 25c Evening at 3:30 15c, 26c, 35c, 50c RECTOR'S White Pine Cough Syrup la a quick and positive remedy for all coughs. It stops coughing spells at night, relieves the soreness, sooths the Irritated membrane and stops the tickling. It Is an Ideal preparation tor chil dren, as it contains no harmful ano dynes or narcotics. 25c per bottle. RECTOR'S 12th and O streets. Lincoln Printing Co. 124 South Eleventh Auto. Phone 30i Will Save You Money on Any Kind of Printing Call us. DR. GHAS.YUNGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. SElM, LINCOLN, NEB. Wage workers, Attention We have ''Money to "Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy, KELLY &NORRIS lao So. Illh St. ELECTRICAL WORKERS For a month or more the Electrical Workers have been considering a new wage- scale. I has been considered from every angle and with great care, and it is now in proper shape accord ing to the views of the men. Last week a committee from the union vis ited every corporation in the city em ploying members of the union and presented the new scale. Heretofore there has been no regular scale, the wage running from $1.75 to $2.90, the latter being the highest sum paid line men. The new scale calls for $3 and a nine-hour day. Cable spT3r3 will receive a little more, they having asked a small increase. In every instance the committee was courteously, received and the em ployers promised to give the matter careful consideration. The scale asked for is an increase, but it is not equal to the Omaha or Des Moines scale, where $3 is paid for an eight-hour day. A number of Iowa towns much smaller than' Lincoln pay the scale asked here. The Lincoln lo cal has a membership of about 140, and has about 90 per cent of the craftsmen enrolled. There Is only one local of the craft here, although the Inside wiremen have long considered the advisability of organizing separate ly. This is allowed under the consti tution of the international organiza tion. The presentation of the new scale gave rie to rumors that there was cranger of a strike this spring, but this is scouted at by the union men. They are confident that the employers and employes will get together and come to a peaceful understanding. With one little exception there has never been any trouble worthy of the name between Lincoln electrical work ers and the employers. The committee appointed to arbi trate the differences between the war ring factions of the international met in Springfield last week and put in several days. This week the commit tee is in Cleveland trying to adjust some of the financial tangles. The Springfield Tradesman declares that there is every evidence that a conven tion will be called inside of the next four months, and that the dawn o peace is already in sight. At Cleve land the arbitrators met with the bankers and the warring chiefs and held a long session looking towards the untying of the funds now useless because of suits and injunctions. The three arbitrators have had some stren uous times lately, and they are as anx ious as anybody for an early termina tion of the struggle. Vice-President Fitzgerald and Or ganizer Perrin attended the Spring field session. SecretaJy Mayer of the Iowa-Nebraska district has been under the weather for several days, but has managed to keep up with his official duties. PAINTERS & DECOR ATERS The union painters and decorators of Lincoln have decided to ask for an increase of 5 cents an hour after April 1, and to raise Sunday work from time and a half to double time. This will make the scale 40 cents an hour.' ' A committee will present the new scale to the employers of the" city and-undertake to have it signed. The union has a membership of about 80, and while this represents only about 40 per cent of the: men en gaged In the trade it has had the ef fect of keeping up the scale, the non union men. as usual, profiting by the efforts and sacrifices of the union men. The union craftsmen expect that of course they will get no help from the non-union men, but that the non unionists will sit tight and let the unionists make and. win the fight for an increase, and then come in and get an equal share of the increase. The paperhangers will share in any in crease secured, all of the three crafts being in one organization. This is the dullest season the paint ers and paperhangers have had for a long time, but the spring and summer outlook is unusually good. The Lin dell hotel job has kept a number of men at work, but outside of this there has been practically no work. uicuuLii ui vision mar, most people ex pect to find in them. Many of them have ( forgotten how to smile. To laugh is a lost art. The look of care has come so often, and for so long a periodj at a time, that it is now for ever stamped upon the!? faces. The lines are deep and hard. Their souls their ethical souls are all but lost. No hell in the future can hold as many terrors as the hell in which they now live. They fear death less than they fear sleep. Some, indeed, long for the summons, daring not to take their own lives. Pain and hunger are their lot. Dirt and sadness do always follow them. Like lean, warped animals, they slinlTthfough the greyness of life, under the iron law which seems to grip them. Isn't this enough to take out of them all the spirit of fair play? It's a dog's life at best and it's the life of vast numbers of laboring men. They're foreigners, most of them, true enough. But this is the level to which some "captains of industry," but prin cipally their cold-blooded representa tives, would bring us, if their schemes for the control of labor should go through, and that's why we're going to fight them to the very last ditch. Rev. Charles Stelzle, in "Letters from a Workingman." Does This Help You Solve the Problem of High Prices? ippJ0" CL0SELY! This will give the patrons of the BASKET STORES n - - " ' a" others. You keen tthl ' ,ZL Z2L at A muc.h than stretch vour dollar. r.- " ouraenea-and you will (considerate. arfiii Ka.wA. i. . manufacture Z' .- 7 .ov wen xnax It the .rally th con.ume7 h . "rTfc':n""L," an .a1ic,e tha it costs to market an artTc,e thTmaHertTackaae." fte" hC mo" ZXT : r:l.?eTlae added to som manufactured articles is a host package. of high priced traveling men. Atw "'" 13 a nost thf. market Th, olo , ui citpcuoe is uie distance Irom Packages cost mo?e pensive premiums here and there make some packages cost moie In order to give the patrons of the Basket Stores a tip along this line the following information is given to you 10c Bar of Sapolio. Constant ad vertising expense added to the cost 7c HER NAME ON AN EGG. Woman Wrote It Restaurant Man Reads It Three Years Later. E. C. Neff, an Oakland City, Ind., restaurant keeper, recently bought some cold storage eggs, one one of which he found a woman's name and address. He wrote to the woman and learned that the name had been placed on the egg when the woman lived in Princeton, Ind., more than three years ago. Neff wrote . to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who has said that one year was the limit of usefulness of the storage egg and gave him the proofs of this egg's age. Dr. Wiley, in reply, said that the proof had been placed with the sub-committee that is investigat ing cold storage products, and that it probably would prove valuable. DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal diseases such as Piles, Fistulae, Fissure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. Office, Richards Block. . . Cafe . . BEST 2"c MEALS IN THE CITY V.7imitch,Prop. MONEY LOANED on household goods, pianos, hor ses, etc.; long or short time. No charge for papers. No interest in advance. No publicity or fil papers. We guarantee better ti ms than others make. Money Enid immediately. COLUMBIA CAN CO. 137 South 12th. I i OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY v,? Specialist children 1 :! f Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. Office tllS O St. Both Phoca !'" LINCOLN, NEBRASKA EXPLOITING THE WORKING CLASS. The American workingman is begin ning to see through the smoke of the battle. While race has been pitted against race, and religion against re ligion, he is recognizing in his op ponent a brother, whose interests must be his interests, and whose cause must be bis own. We are get ting together ifi spite of it all, and one day we'll present a solid front against those who would exploit us. -Many of the immigrants ate of rather an in ferior order, but if they are good enough to bring over to take our jobs, they are good enough to be organized into labor unions, and that's what we're doing with them just as fast as we are able. I don't know what we can do with the Chinese and Japan ese. We are being told that we are narrow and selfish in the way that we are treating these people. "Give them a man's chance," their champions are shouting at us with a good deal of feeling. The trouble about it is that they don't really want an AMERICAN MAN'S chance they simply want a heathen's chance, with all that im plies. I wouldn't be opposed to giving them a man's chance if they wanted it. But they are satisfied with the very low standard of living which they brought with them from their own country, and it happens that the rate of wages is usually determined not by the highest standard of living, but by the lowest. In a particular craft. If some of their friends should be brought into competition with them as we are, I guess that they would set up a howl about the degradation of the American people. Oh, these folks who are up in the grand stand, eating and drinking the good things of the land, and wearing the best that the country affords, how easy it Is for them to look down on the game in the arena and tell the fighters what they ought to do. Let them come down and try it them selves. I'll venture to say that the sight of the blood and the smell of the sweat would give them a fainting sen sation. But we're in the midst of an experience of which they never dream. Nine-tenths of man's happiness de pends upon how he was born. It makes a whole lot of difference wheth er he first saw the light of day in a tenement or in a mansion. Fact is, if he's born in a tenement, he won't see much light anyway, and the chances for his seeing it very long are against him. Hundreds of thousands are doomed to work in unsanitary factor ies, with long hours of labor, and lack of a living wage. Poor and insufficient food, no money with whichs to buy medicine or to pay doctor's bills, the lack of leisure, the swift-approach of old age, the dismaj future these are not very conducive to broad thinking. Small wonder, then, that the great mass of working people haven'e the TEMPLE TALKS Next Sunday, 3 p. m., at the Labor Temple, Mayor Love will be the speaker at the second' of the series of "Temple Talks." The mayor will talk on "Commission Government." Every body invited. We have another Bar of Scouring nvay. -m. a. at an with adver tising, 4c; i 3 for ioc 1 pound Royal Baking Powder. Millions upon millions spent in advertising, per can 45C 1 pound Tip Top Baking Powder. The, best or your money back. N. B. at all either with adver tising or salesmanship by the manufacturer 10c Cream of Wheat. Probably one page in one magazine cost over $6,000 for one insertion, 14c; 2 for 27c Wheatling. Tjp weight 1 ounce more than Cream of Wheat. N. B. with advertising. Manufac tured in Nebraska.. .,,11c College View Cereal Coffee. Tip. v.N. B. and made only 7 miles away, 9c, 3 for 25c 1 pound Granola. N. B. and Ivory Soap, large size. You help ' pay advertising here 8c 2 small bars Duck Floating Soap. Tip. N B. 5c, 2 for gc Snider's or Van Camp's Beans, 2 " pound can. The manufacturer adds salesmanship and advertis ing expense . . .12c 2 pounds Golden Beans. N. B at- all; 10c, 2 for 19c Bengal Bluing. Made In New York;. 9c, 3 for 25c Elliot's Bluing. Made in Lincoln.. 4c Jap Rose Soap. Burdened with advertising; 9c, 3. for 25c Pure Glycerine Soap. Tip. N. B.; 5c, 2 for. .. 9c Memmen's Talcum Powder, 25 cent , siie. Highly advertised 15c Velvet Talcum Powder, n, B. at all i 6c Fels Naptha Soap. One month in Lincoln alone it cost about $400 to push the sale of this; 5c, 2-' tor .. 9c Muauijr ga li rresn, c, d ior. . .use Rub-No-More Naptha Soap. Tip. Elastic Starch. The customer pays- x. B. verv much 4c straight advertising bill 9c Carnation Milk. Bill board adver- Celluloid Starch. N. B 8c tising is expensive 9c Old Dutch Cleanser. "Tip. A Pet Milk. N. B.; 9c, 3 for ...25c printer knows what it costs to Tip means recommended as good advertise this; 8c, 2 for 15c quality and must be satisfactory- or Earl Cleanser. N. B 6c vour monev hair- " , , , J i . .. 1 , . yi l . . . vvaiiei i5aKei s vuocoiaie. a tew cents must be added for adver tising expense 19c W. H. Baker's Chocolate. Tiu. Follow the tip of a Basket Store Clerk . . And extravagance you will shirk." N. B. means Not Burdened that N. B. with advertising expense. 17c is to say, the cost of the article is 1 pound Pearline. Probably 15 millions have been spent to mar ket this; 9c, 3 for 25c 14 ounces Rub-No-More. N. B. very much; 4c, 3 for 10c Snider's Catsup. Tip. Adver- r.ot burdened 'by the manufacturer and you are not compelled to pay for unnecessary advertising, salesman ship, etc., if you buy the article. . "Sow economy, reap independence." Stop eating common stuff! Bv fol- tisea; saiesmansmp expense. ... ioc lowing the system of the Basket Elliot's Catsup. N. B. Pints only. 7c stores you can afford the best quality. Store No. 1231 So. 11th, H. A. Moore, No. 5 2045 O, W. E. E'gger, Mgr. v Mgr. . See our Nectar Line. Buy a case of No. 2'4 121 No. 14th, J. E. Bryan, Nectar Raspberry Preserves, Straw- Mgr. berry Preserves, Cherry Preserves, No. 3 889 No. 27th, E. L. Horn, Mgr. Etc. Probably no better quality said No. 4 1645 Elm, C. S. Alvord, Mgr. anywhere. THE BASKET STORES J. R. BURLEIGH, Owner. MORE SPRING GOODS New Spring Goos are arriving right along now, and you are invited to come in and see them. We quote a few special prices on some of theman inducement for you to call early. Come and see them. Cloakroom SEPARATE SKIRTS The assortment of these is about complete. We have taken great care in selecting same. All the newest designs and materials are em braced in these. Ws recommend these skirts as the best tailored perfect fiting garments at reasonable prices,$9.95, $8.95, $6.95, $5.95 and $4.95. 1 1 rack of Broken Size Skirts, $9.95 to $12.50 values choice at Vz Price NEW ARRIVALS IN WAISJS White Lawn, Tan and Blue Gingham and Madras, good $1.50 values, special, at $1.25 Capes for Ladies, all colors, at $9.95, 7.95 and $5.95 Capes for Children, at .-. $4.95, $3.95 and $2.95 NEW JACKETS :!2 inches long, Black, Navy, and Light Colored, $8.95, $6.95 and $4.95 NEW SUITS In all leading colors and fabrics, at $22.50, $19.50, $17.50 and $15.00 ONE PIECE DRESSES Black, semi-fitting, with dagobert pleated in Chiffon Panama, Vine, Navy and Blue skirt, regular $14.50 values, cut prict at $7.95 In the Dry Goods Dep't. WOOLEN DRESS GOODS Just received our new and complete line of Spring Woolen Dress Goods, in all plain and fancy colors. Come in Taffeta, Serge, Mo hair, Panama, Voile, Henritetta, etc,, prices from ..... .50c to $1.50 GINGHAMS See our new spring line of 27-inch Ginghams in plaids, checks, stripes and plain colors. A large assortment to choose from. A great ' value, at 122c 8c PERCALES 6'2c 1 lot of 24-inch Percales in assorted colors and designs. A large line to choose from. Worth 8c, to close at Vzc POSTAL CARDS, 1c Just received a large line of Postal Cards in Views, Flowers, Birthday Cards, St. Patrick and Eeaster Cards. A great line, all at, each.. 1c ALL-OVER LACES See the new effects in All-Overs and Yokings; Cream, Ecru and Black. All new patterns. Prices from 50c up to $2.50 New Shoe Our new Ankle Strap Oxfords and Pumps meet with great admiration from every woman that sees them. The models are entirely new. ' This new design is not only handsome, 'but it prevents slipping at the heel as well, and assures a perfect fit. We'll take pleasure in showing you, Madam. The leathers are Patent Kid and Colt, Span ish and Cuban heels. Wte have your sizes and widths. $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 50c TABLE DAMASK 35c 5 pieces of 68-inch Bleached Mercerized Table Damask. A nice range lof patterns. They were bought at a special bargain, to close at, 35c RUSSIAN CRASH 2 pieces of 18-inch Russian Crash for fancy work, bleached and un bleached, special, at. .15c COMFORTS large size Silkoline Comforts, filled with fine cotton, worth .$4.00 1 . to close at - ....$3.15 5 full size Silkoline Comforts, filled with cotton and tied with y arn. Assorted patterns,, worth $3.50, to close at ?2.7o 20 Per Cent Discount on All Others. LADIES' UNDERWEAR Last Chance at These Great Bargains . All our Ladies' Union Suits. Drawers and Vests, fleece lined, worth $1.00, to close at All our Ladies' Vests. Drawers and Union Suits, fleece ' lined, 50c, to close at . 20 Per Cent Discount on AM Other Fleeced Underwear. 79c worth . .39c New Arrivals of Spring Styles in Gordon Hats 917- 92 I O. ST 1 AND LINCOLN. NEB. Advance Showing of Men's Shirts in the New Spring and Summer Styles