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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1910)
GENERAL MENTION. Th. Long Winter1 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. Ii It's a Question o! Cost Let us prove to you -as we can that it is cheaper, more convenient and far better to illu minate with gas or electricity than it is to illumin ate with kerosne 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 lightalways ready, no cleaning, no break ageby 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 jf ew things. Lincoln Gas and Electric Light Co. OPEN EVENINGS r WORKERS UNION H Bunion snra I 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 read able impression of this Union Stamp. All Shoes without the Union Stamp are.Ahcaus 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. Brief Bits of Labor News Picked and Pilfered from Manywhere. Polishers' Union No. Ill, in Quincy, 111., has lately made agreements with most of the foundries. The 250 girl strippers who were on strike in the Pollack stogie factories in Wheeling, W. Va., have won a vic tory. Missouri supreme court knocked out the law which prohibited the working of employes in bakeries more than six days, of ten hour each, a week. Patternmakers are organized in Lorain, Ohio, which embraces Elvira as well. About 75 per cent of the me chanics in that district are in the new union. The legislative committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is taking steps to fight for the passage through the New Jersey legislature of a bi-weekly pay day. A famine in Easter bonnets is now threatened. Word comes from New York City that the 5,000 members of the Millinery Workers' Union are or ganizing for a general strike. After two strenuous nights of nego tiating, the Niles, Ohio, Typographical Union had its scale boosted $3 per week for job and ad journeymen and $6 a week for foremen, or 20 and 40 per cent. The strike of union building trades men on the Brandeis theater building in Omaha, Neb., has been settled, and the "scab" sheet metal workers brought from Chicago are getting home the best way they can.' No organization, either in the rail road industry or outside -of it. has grown as rapidly as has the Railway Trainmen in the past two years, the average increase being in the neigh borhood of 1,000 members a month. . A Boston firm of building wreckers has brought out a circular saw that will cut through nails and bolts . as well as through wood, enabling them to cut into regular sizes of second hand lumber that otherwise would be valueless. Accused of being a spy and "spot ter," Robert Sewell of Akron, O., who joined the Auto Tire Builders' Union a few weeks ago, during the present strike at the Hartford, Conn., Ruhber Works, was ejected from a ' trades union meeting Sunday. The Oil Exchange cafe and Bartend ers Association in Toledo has settled all differences. President Thos. J. Smith of the joint executive board re ports 21 reinstatements and 17 appli cations last week, and three applica tions this week. Six thousand members of the House- smiths and Bridgemen's Union in Greater New York have been granted an increase from $4.50 to $5.00 a dav. Thirty cents a day will be added at once, while the additional 20 cents will be come effective on July 1. The Union Pacific compels its day watchmen to work thirteen hours per day, for which they pay the magnifi cent sum of $1.50. The night watch men are more fortunate, as they only work ten hours and draw $1.60 for same. Just how the company manages to stem the tide" with such a draw on its treasury, is a mathematical problem. The American Brotherhood of Ce ment workers, writes International Secretary Henry Uilner, contemplates the issuing of an official paper at an early date. The headquarters of the cement workers is at San Francisco, and has functioned as an international union for seven years. It has issued 132 charters and has a membership of 9,000. Its territory covers Canada, the United States and Mexico Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc., AT ONE-HALF PRICE Chicago Wholesale Our Wholesale Price 25Bar On 10 lbs Bbl. 100 Best Large Beit Best lbs best SOAP HAM RICE FLOUR SUGAR 75c $1.20 75c 2.75 S2.75 Company 40-42 Michigan Ave. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Merchants Retail Price 25Bars 101b 10 lbs Bbl. 100 Best HA M Best Best lbs SOAP for RICE R0UR SUGAR $1.60 $3.00 $1.20 $6.75 $6.00 Freight Paid Order Today CPIMfl Mil Ml AMP V TOU wish u" to we wiu "hip yu any amount of goods to your city with the privi OCn V l"U ITlUn CI lege of examining every package before paying one cent, and if not found in every way as represented and a better quality than you can buy elsuwhere return them and we will pay all charge. 1A fkAVC ED EE Till A I fiEEED Take the goods home, try them, and if at the end of 30 days you all V A JL O rlVCC 1 Kl AL UrrCIV do not find goods in every way as represented, write us and we will make it right. EDEinHT D A III hen the full amount of cash is sent with the order we will nay freight charges to aay rKClUll I r All! city east of the Rocky Mountains, if you live further writo us for tffms. One bbl. Sour or 100 lbs. sugar at the above price with an order amounting to $17.50 of other groceries which yon can order any amount you wish. 50 lbs. of sugar or i bbl. flour with an order of $10.75. If yon are not in a position to send us an oraer oi any size nave your neignnors or tnenas join you. Free catalogue giving wnoiesaie prices on ovwywnug. ,s. What M Whit Tt a: ?!( fay II What Ion Wait Yi irfiyint far Ua 100 lbs. Best Eastern Gran ulated Sugar $6.00 1 bbl. Best Gold Medal or our own Flour 6.75 50 lbs Best Granulated Su St&f 3.00 M bbl. Best Flour, Gold Med&l or our own S.00 10 lbs. Best Japan Rice... 1.20 10 fbs. Best Santa Clara Prphes ."r 1.20 5 lbs. Soda, Arm and Ham mer Brand or our own. . .50 5 lbs Corn Starch, Best . Quality 50 10 p)tg-s. English Cur rants and Brfkst. Food 1.25 10 lbs. Barley, choice for soups 60 5 lbs. Tapioca or Sago, Best Grade 50 10 lbs. California Peaches, Best Evap 1.50 8 lbs. Apricots, Choice, Best Evap 1.50 8 large cans Tomatoes or Sauerkraut, none better 1.20 8 large cans Choice Corn or Peas 1.20 12 cans Baked Beans or , .Mustard Sardines 1.30 2 lbs. Chocolate. Best Quality, sweet or bitter. 1.00 2 lbs. Finest Shredded Co ooanut - .80 10 lbs. Chicago Coffee, best quality, roasted 4.00 $2.75 1.40 .75 .2. -25 ..75 .40 , .30 .93 .98 .75 .72 .75 .60 .35 2.70 10 pkg-s Rolled Oats and Yeast Foam 50 10 lbs. Rio No. 1 Coffee, roasted comp 2 . 50 5 lbs Chicago Coffee, best quality, roasted... 2.00 5 lbs Rio Coffee, roasted comp i 1 . 25 3 lbs. Finest G. P. or Ja pan Tea 2.55 3 lbs. Finest English Brkf3t, or Oolong B"c. Tea 2.55 3 lbs. Choice G. P.,- Japan or Black. 'Jea i-50 5 lbs Baking1 Powder. Price's or our own brand 2.50 3 lbs. Baking Powder, Choice Chicago. , .75 . 1 Bal Finest Maple Flavor Syrup - 1.50 1 large pail Mackerel 1.50 1 large pail Vhiteflsh or Herring 1.50 , 4 oz. Lemon or Vanilla extract, strictly pure 60 8 oz. Lemon or Vanilla Extract, strictly pure... 1.20 15 bars Castile and Tar Soap .. 1.50 15 bars Ivory Soap, large size, and Coco , Castile Soap 1.20 25 bars best quality Laun dry Soap .. . 1.50 1 box Best Soda or Oys ter Crackers 1.50 What Tn What Tta irafaftaf Pay Sa 1 box Ginger Snaps or Wa- .25 1.50 1.40 .80 1 large piece .Finest sacon 1.48 10 spools Best Thread or 1 lb. pure ground Pepper 1 lb. strictly pure Cinna mon. Mustard or Ginger 10 cans finest Columbia River Salmon 1.48 .98 1.80 .98 .75 .75 .35 .65 .98 .75 .98 6 pairs Men's Black Hose, good quality 8 pairs Ladies' Black Hose, good qualify 12 Men's large "White Hdkfs., good quality 12 fafreV Ladies' Hdkfs 1 pr. Men's Chicago Dress Shoes ". ? 1 pr. Ladies' Fancy Dress '-. Shoes i 1 pr. Men's Good Work 1 pr. Men's All Wool Trousers 1 pr. Men's Overalls, or Worklnsr Shirt ... ... 1 pr. Nottingham Lace Curtains, 2 yds. long 12 towels, fine Quality. 1 hpa.vv Cotton Mod Head or large Scrubbing Brush 1 large Shoe or 1 Clothes Brush 1 package Rising Sun Stove Polish or 1 5.00 1.05 .4 .19 .60 .29 1.70 1.10 3.00 1.20 3.23 1.35 .50 , .30 .90 ' .43 1.50 .75 1.20 .65 1.20 .60 3.00 1.85 2.50 .1.50 2.00 .98 3.00 1.48 .75 .37 1.00 .45 1.20 .60 1 L .25 .12 ' .35 , .15 Z, .10 .04 Chicago Wholesale Co., 40-42 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. DEPT. 131 NEBRASKA'S SELECT HARD-WHEAT FLOUR Wilbur and DeWitt Mills HERE'S GOSPEL TROTH! The union man who spends part of his week's wages for cigars that were made in a pest ridden non-union shop is ten times bigger fool than the fel low that tried to lift himself by his boot straps. Duluth Labor World. THE CELEARATED LITTLE HATCHET FLOUR RYE FLOVfi A SPECIALTY 145 SOUTH 9TH, LINCOLN, NEB. Telephone us Doll Than aoo, ctuto 1459 EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. Sunday. Feb. 27th, will be Woman's Day at the Lincoln Economic Educa tional League. Chas. A. Wickes will lecture on "Woman's Struggle for Economic , Equality." The music will be in charge of Prof. Franta, who made such a decided "hit" with the audience last Sunday. Seats are free. Don't forget the time, Sunday, 3 p. m., Feh. 27 Don't forget the place, A. O. U. W. hall 1007 O street. Lyric Theatre Vlatinees Wed, and &&t. 2:3Q NEXT WEEK "LEAH KLESHNA" THE LYRIC STOCK COMPANY Evening 8:30; 1 5c, 25c and 35c. Matinee 15c and 25c Subscribe Now, $ I UC3 OTFDTT Elegant Four Room Outfit Complete $98.75 $19.00 down $2.50 per wk. We Furnish The Home Complete JBuy your complete home outfit here. The quality of our goods is unquestionable. We sell Good furniture as cheaply as you can buy Ordinary furniture at most stores. IOur $98.75 outfit is a winner too. Scarcely a day ' passes but what we sell one or more of these. We. sell cheaper goods if you want them but we advise buying the better grade. Only $19.00 Down And $2.50 Per Week 1450-1454 o st. Robertson Furniture Go. "Spacializing-a-Little-at-a-Time" THIS IN CEDAR RAPIDS. The retail clerks have renewed con tracts with a majority of the retailers, the contracts to run for another year. In Lincoln? No, in Cedar Rapids, la., where the clerks have nerve enough to organize and have some part in the disposition of their own labor. Up to date Lincoln retail clerks have failed to show themselves to .be the posses sor of any such nerve. Notice of Incorporation. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned have associated themselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of Ne braska. The name of the corporation is The Enterpriser -Publishing Com pany. The principal place of business of said corporation is Lincoln, Nebras ka. The capital stockof the corpora tion is $10,000.00, and shall be fully paid when issued. The corporation shall begin business on the 14th day of February, 1910, and shall continue for the period of fifty years from that date. The highest amount of indebted ness or liability to which the corpora tion shall at any time subject itself shall not exceed the sum of $6,666.00. The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by a board of not less than five directors, who shall choose from among their members a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treas urer, any two of which offices may be filled by one and the same person. The general nature of the business to be transacted by the corporation shall be that of a general printing business, including the printing of books, pamphlets, newspapers, circulars, let ter heads, advertisements and other printed matter and shall have power to buy, own, sell, lease, sublet and otherwise own or control any real estate or buildings necessary or suit able for the carrying on of its busi ness and shall have power to mortgage any such real estate or other property owned by it. C. R. OYLER. CLYDE J. WRIGHT. t. c Mckenzie. Dated Lincoln, Nebraska, February 17, 1910. Green Gables The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium LINCOLN, NEBRASKA For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best ' equipped, most beautifully furnished.. Your Cigars Should Bear This Labe!.. 5 It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease., ... Subscribe Now, $ 1