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GENERAL MENTION.
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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
1 positions will follow as a natural result.
If 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 kerosene amps. Counting cost of
kerosene and chimneys, to say nothing of the
drudgery connected therewithit 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
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 hocsewifery 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.
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in Non-union Factories.
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ANY SHOE '
no matter tchat its name un
less it bears a plain and read
able impression of this Union Stamp.
All Shoes toithout the Union Stamp
are Altcays Non-Union
Do not accept any excuse for the 'absence of the
UNION STAMP.
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Bits of Labor News Picked and Pil
fered From Many Sources.
Bert Pentzer went up to his "Kin
kald ranch" the first of the week, to
see if it had come out properly from
its blanket of snow.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
will soon pass some new labels
around among the print shops.
W. M. Maupin was in Des Moines
Monday and Tuesday, looking after
some matters tending to further the
work of the Nebraska Bureau of La
bor. The front of the Labor Temple has
been painted and it now looks a
thousand per cent better than neigh
boring buildings. Let them be treated
likewise.
Business must be picking up with
the cigarmakers; a request for four
strippers was posted on the Temple
bulletin board the first of the week.
William H. Gilmore, the Burlington
engineer killed in a wreck just east of
Nebraska City last Sunday is credited
in the daily papers with having, the
"honor" of pulling the first passenger
train out of Lincoln after the inaug
uration of the big strike in '86.
Next week The Wageworker will
publish an interesting communication
from a Lincoln pressman concerning
civic matters. It should be read by
every union man who is a taxpayer.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor
meets at Waterloo in June.
Manager Jim Sullivan of the "An
telopes" has arrives, and already the
boys are cvaorting around in their old
baseball uniforms. The "season can't
open any too soon for a lot of us,' and
here's hoping that a "rag" will fly
from a pole at the ball park when the
season closes.
Carpenters in Utica, N. Y., have
been granted a Saturday half holiday.
Cloakmakers in Montreal, Canada,
have struck for better conditions.
All flour mills in Evansville and
Boonville, Ind.,- will use union cooper
age hereafter.
Machine men empoyed in planing
mills in Springfield, 111., hae been
granted an increase.
Sheet Metal Workers' union in In
dianapolis, Ind., has decided to estab
lish a night school fcr apprentices.
Increase of 10 per cent in salaries
has been granted by the Western
Maryland railroad to its more than
300 telegraphers.
Chicago & Alton officials have grant
ed passenger attaches $4 monthly in
crease and freight men many changes
in conditions, j ,
An increase in membership of 300
per cent inside of a month. That's
the record of the Carpenters' union in
Lincoln, Neb.
The Seaboard Air Line railway has
granted skilled shop men an Increase
of 2 1-2 cents an hour. Three thous
and men are affected by the increase.
Will the Hatters' union, with - its
quarter of a million fine for violating
the anti-trust law, get off as easily as'
did the Standard Oil trust with its
$29,000,000 fine?
v The Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing
Trades, the United Garment Workers'
official organ, has come out in favor of
organizing a labor party along British
lines. i
Trouble at the Greenhut Cloak com
pany, Cleveland, has been adjusted.
The concern conceded an increase of
15 per cent in wages and recognizes
the union. -v,
The wage dispute between the
Switchmen's Union of North America
and eight railroad companies will be
gin next Friday in Chicago. More than
5,000 men are involved.
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing asso
ciation in St. Louis, Mo., announces
that funds for the benefit of the 6,000
employes, which will represent a year
ly outlay of $75,000, has been estab
lished. Plumbers, stone cutters, electrical
workers, bricklayers, paper hangers,
plnters, . clerks, . musicians, . railway
trainmen and pressmen in Evansville,
Ind., report outlook encouraging for
1910.
Boston branch of the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers has given notice
that it will co-operate with Boston
lodge of machinists in its organizing
work and its demand for a 20 per
cent increase in wages on May 1.
Five members of the Coopers' union
In East Liverpool, O., who belonged
to the Holy Rollers, declined to pay
dues to the union, claiming that their
religion would not permit of their be
longing to any other organization, are
now at liberty to seek other Jobs.
- Frank Driscoll, a plumber, who in
stituted suit against the Alis-Chalmer3
company in Milwaukee for $25,000
damages for injuries, resulting in par
tial paralysis of his body on January
31, 1908, was awarded a verdict of $20,
last week.
Eighty bricklayers quit work at the
coke plant of the Steel Trust in South
Chicago, because the Steel company
persisted in hiring scab laborers. The
Steel company has been employing
scab labor to as great an extent as
possible, only calling in the union men
when they were needed.
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Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, etc.
AT ONE-HALF PRICE
Chicago Wholesale
Company
Our Wholesale Price
2SBars One 10 lbs Bbl. 100
Best Large Best Best bsbest
SOAP HAM RIC R0UR SUGAR
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CHICAGO,
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Merchants Retail Price
25Bars 10 lb 10 lbs BM. 100
Best HAM Best Best lb
SOAP lor RICE RO'JI SUGAR
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, f r III city east of the Rocky Mountains, if you live farther write us for term. One bbl. flour
or 100 lbs. sugar at the above price with an order amounting to $17.50 of other groceries whioh you oan order any
amount you wish. 60 lbs. of sugar or T bbl. flour with an order of $10.75. If you are not in a position to send us
an order of any size have your neighbors or friends join you. Free Catalogue giving wholesale prices on everything.
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100 lbs. Best Eastern Gran
ulated Sugar SO. 00 S2.7S
1 bbl. Best Gold Medal or
our own Flour 6.75 t.75
50 lbs Best Granulated Su
gar S.0O 1.40
bbl. Best Flour, Gold ,
Medal or our own....... 8.00 1.40
10 lbs. Best Japan Rice... 1.20 .76
10 lbs. Best Santa Clara
Prunes 1.20 .75
6 lbs. Soda, Arm and Ham
mer Brand or our own.. .SO .28
5 lbs Corn Starch, Best
Quality; .60 .38
10 pkffs. Enrllsh Cur
rants and Brfkst. Food 1.25 .75
10 lbs. Barley, choice for
oups o .40
6 lbs. Tapioca or Sago, I
Best Grade 50 .30
10 lbs. California Peaches.
Best Evap 1.6s . .98
8 lbs. Apricots, ; Choice,
Best Evap 1.5 .81
S large cans Tomatoes or
Sauerkraut, none better 1.20 .75
S lanre cans Cbolce Corn '
or Peas 1.20 .72
12 cans Baked Beans or
Mustard Sardines 1.20 .75
2 lbs. Chocolate, Best
Quality, sweet or bitter. 1.00 .60
2 lbs. Finest Shredded Co- 1
coanut SO .35
10 lbs. Chicago Coffee, best
quality, roasted 4.00 2.70
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10 pkgs Rolled Oats and
Yeast Foam 50 .25
10 lbs. Rio No. 1 Coffee,
roasted comp 2.50 1.50
6 lbs Chicago Coffee, best
quality, roasted... 2.00 1.40
IS lbs Rio Coffee, roasted
comp 1.25 .80
8 lbs. Finest ..G. P. or Ja- '
pan Tea 2.65 1.48
3 lbs. Finest English
Brkfst, or Oolong Btk.
Tea 2.65 1.48
3 lbs. Choice G. P., Japan
or Black Tea.... 1.50 .98
5 lbs Baking Powder.
Price's or our own brand 2.50 1.80
8 lbs. Baking Powder,
Choice Chicago .75 .45
1 gal Finest Maple Flavor
Syrup 1.50 .98
1 large patl, Mackerel. . . . .. 1.50 . .75
X 'large pail Whiteflsh or
Herring ,, 1.60 .78
4 os. Lemon or Vanilla
extract, strictly pure.... .60 .36
8 oz. Lemon or Vanilla
Extract, strictly pure... 1.20 .65
15 bars Castile and Tar
. Soap 1.60 .88
15 bars Ivory Soap, large .
size, and Coco Castile
Soap 1.20 .75
26 bars best quality Laun
dry Soap 1.50 .75
1 ' box Best Soda or Oys
ter Crackers 1.50 .98
Wilt TM Wkft Tm
traPsr tm
1 box Ginger Snaps or Wa- .
fers . 1.08
1 lb. pure ground Pepper .46- . .19
1 lb. strictly pure Cinna
mon, Mustard or Ginger .69 .29
10 cans finest Columbia
River Salmon 1.79 1.10
1 large Choice Ham 3.09 1.29
1 large piece Finest Bacon 3.26 1.35
10 spools Best Thread or
10 pkgs. Pins 69 .8
6 pairs Men's Black Hose,
good quality 99 .48
6 pairs Ladies' Black Hose,
good qualify 1.69 .76
12 Men's large Whit
Hdkfs... good quality 1.29 . .65
12 fancy Ladies7 Hdkfs 1.29 .69
1 pr. Men's Chicago Dress
Shoes 3.99 1.88
1 pr. Ladles' Fancy Dress
Shoes 8.69 1.69
1 pr. Men's Good Work
ing Shoes 8.99 .98
1 pr. Men's All Wool
Trousers 3.99 1.48
1 pr. Men's Overalls, or
Working Shirt .7 .87
1 pr. Nottingham Laee
Curtains, 2 yds. long
by 30 in. wide 1.09 .46
12 towels, fine quality 1.29 - .69
1 heavy Cotton Mop Head
or large Scrubbing Brush .86 .12
1 large Shoe or fancy "
Clothes Brush........... .IS .15
1 package Rising Sun
Stove Polish or 1 box
Shoe Polish. . .......... .10 .94
Chicago Wholesale Co., 40-42 Michigan Ave., Chicago; 111.
DEPT. 131
FINDING A WAY OUT.
What we need is clear-brained and
warm-hearted men who will direct this
labor movement unselfishly. Some of
those who are outside the' trades-
union could help us, but they are so
interested in statistics, that they
haven't quite gotten hold of the bis
human side of the question. The
beautiful schemes that look so well
in books and magazines, and that
sound so fine when they are present
ed from the lecture piHtlnrm, go a l
to ,pieces 'when applied to flesh and
blood men, because they leave out al
together the element -of- human na-
ture. - . . . t . , . . .J
It's all well enough to tell us what
we ought to do during a time of stiike.
and when we are getting ready to
strike. It's a. mighty easy proposition
lo nicely balance the arguments for
and against, and subject the whole
tiling to the test of an elegant system
oc ethics. .. But this labor business is
no Sunday school picnic, neither is it
a matter that can 'be settled right off
the bat. There are too many compli
cations, too many things that don't
appear on the surface, and that it's
hard to put into so many words, so
that the outsider will understand. "We
need some folks who can ex pain these
matters better than we can do it our
selves, and since It's hard to do this
unless you've been in the game, we
aren't making the progress that we
might. It's one thing to make a study
of the workingman's problems from
above, even with sympathy and sin
cerity of purpose. A man may even
tramp it, or go into the shop or live
in a tenement, tout he does it knowing
that at any moment he may leave it
if he wants to do so. Anyway, he
misses a good deal of the joy and hap
piness of working people, because of
their appreciation of many things that
come to them, , and which pleasure
your students knows nothing at all
about. But, oh, the hopelessness that
comes so often too often, for most of
us. I'd give a good deal if I could
forget some of the things that I've
passed through. Perhaps I ought to
be glad of the experience, because it
will help me understand some other
fellow who Is passing through the
same trials, and that's worth some
thing. ''
Lots of good people get impatient
with us because we don't seem to ap
preciate what they are doing for us.
To be perfectly honest, we'd rather do
these things for ourselves, in just the
way that we think best. It may not
be the best way, but It's our way, and
there's a good deal in that. We'll ap
preciate having them show us how
the things may be done, but we want
a hand in the doing of them. We'll
work with these folks and we'll he
glad to have them work with us, but
(he whole thing must be on the level,
like the. big democracy that we all be
lieve in. i
I can't help feeling that there are
a good many folks who, if they weren't
so plagued indifferent or lazy, so con
founded comfortable and easy-going,
really could mend matters.' I wish
that I could help wake them up to it.
I suppose that It would be hard for
the bosses to make the move. There's
so much In the way. .Business deal
ings are too mixed up. 1
But there are some people who can
do it, and some of them are Obosses,
too. They can get busy creating a
sentiment in favor of a squarer deal
all around., . If I understand the
Church, that's a good share of its busi
ness. There's . nobody that can , do -,
more in getting matters 'set right than
the churches, if they will only start
in on the job.! There are millions of
church-members in this country, more '
folks than there are 1 Socialists and
trades-unionists combined, by a good
deal, and probably more than . there
ever will 'be. ' It ought not to be very
hard to. map out a policy for them to.
follow, if the teachings of Christ are
ever to foe applied to every-day living.
Rev. Charles Stelzle In "Letters
from a Workingman." ' .
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us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor
how she Ekes Liberty Flour. We rely on the
recommendation of those who use it.
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