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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1910)
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Our safe deposit boxes could not be gnawed thru in a hundred years; Besides they are fire-proof, and rent for only $2.50 a year. Let us kerp your business payers in a businesslike way. EVERY BANKING CONVENIENCE OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS 6 to 8 F. & M. BLDG. I5th & C STREETS. rirst 1 rust savings Bank P Owned by Stockholders of the First National Bank 1 THE "BAhJK FOR THE WAGE-EARNER 8 , INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT 9 5 Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska A goaoso?ooeooooaooooooooooooc EVERY SHOE "UNION MADE" HERE Thompson Shoe $3.50 & $4 Handcraft Shoe $5.00 AIIMw--"F0R MEM"-AII Nu ens Bootory 12th & P Sts. Gentlemen and Ladies HATS Worked and Blocked Over New or Cleaned Clothes Cleaned, Repaired And Pressed Fixed under Our Guarantee are 0 K. We have a dressing room and can sponge and press your clothes while you wait TED MARRINER, 235 NORTH I ITH STREET First 2 Doois North of Labor Temple. Auto 4875; Bell F1009 Practical Hatter Expert Cleaner ar.d Dyer KOMO COAL The best coal in the market for the money LUMP, EGG OR NUT $6.50 For Furnace, Heating Stove or Kitchen Range. Try it. Ben km WHITEBREAST COAL CO. Anto ;28 lllKi o STRKET I J Indianapolis, Ind. Of the national labor organizations, none, it Is be lieved, is ' gaining 1 more rapidly in membership than the united Brotner- hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. At the present time tne or ganization has 185,000 members in good standing and more than seventy thousand members who are between three and six months behind in their dues. This does not exclude them from membership In the organization, however, but they are not entitled to international benefits unless their dues are paid up. President William D. Huber says that at the rate the or-, ganization is . growing at present he expects the paid-up membership to oass the 200.000 mark by June 30, the end of the calendar year. The organi zation Is in good condition financially and otherwise, according to the state ments of its officers. By far the larg est per cent, of the membership is em ployed. Demands have been made by the workmen for higher wages in New York, Dallas, Memphis, Cincin nati, Columbus and other places, but no serious difficulty is anticipated at any point, although there may be strikes, April 1, when the new wage scale takes effect. In some of the smaller cities the men are demanding that the number of hours be reduced from ten to nine and in others from nine to eight. Philadelphia: The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company has Issued an order reducing the working hours in some of its departments because of the slowing un of business. The offl- 'cial announcement of the company is as follows: "On account of falling off in volume of traffic and consequent loss of revenue, the Philadelphia Readme Railway Company have is sued orders reducing the hours of la bor in all locomotive and car shops to eight hours a day, beginning on Mon day, the 28th of February. This will effect a reduction in shop expenses of about 15 per cent." The Reading em ploys many thousands of men In these shops who have been working on an average of about ten hours a day, The reduction was not, looked for by the men. Cleveland, O. "We are not con cerned in the cost of coal, freight rates, or other railroad finances; what we want is a fair day's wage for a fair day's labor," said President Lee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen here, in reference to the statement of representatives of the eastern rail roads that the increased cost of opera tion prevented an increase of wages, Our men know they should receive higher pay," he continued, and they mean to set it. They are in dead earnest. The railroads west of Chi cago pay higher wages, and there is no reason why the eastern roads can not It is probable that within thirty days it will be demonstrated that the roads should pay the increase asked by our men." London, Eng. The year 1908 was not a good year for English trade unions, according to a report issued by the Registrar of Friendly Societies The report says that the total mem bership of the 634 unions making re turns was 1.971.238. a decrease of 2,822: total income, $16,479,705, an in crease of $1,799,230; total expenditure, $18,C22,480, an increase of $6,722,745, as compared with the figures for the previous year. The amount of funds at the end of the year was $29,980,160 or $15.10 a member. During the year 40 trade unions were registered, and 49 dissolved or gave notice of ter mination. New York. The first Italian Central Labor union was formed in this city. A call was issued by the delegates of the Rockmen's and Excavators' union, the Italian Stone Masons' union and several other unions of Italians for a meeting for the purpose. Thirty unions were asked to send delegates, Most of the delegates were elected in anticipation of the call. All the unions are affiliated with the American Fed eration of Labor. Edinburgh, Scotland. In connection with the movement for. obtaining for boys apprenticeships to trades, and thus preventing their drifting into the casual ranks, the Stirling school board has decided to establish a labor bu reau for Juveniles. A register will De kept of the boys about to leave school and the trades they wish to follow, for the information of employers, and all children, after leaving the school, up to the age of 16, may also place their names on the register. Denver, Col. The Denver City Tramway Company increased the wages of its conductors and motor men five cents an hour, the new scale being from 25 to 30 cents. San Francisco. To eliminate the sweat shops and the Chinese factories from the city is the task that the members of the Garment Workers' union have set for themselves. In or der that all the union members of their craft may have work, and that conditions may be improved in the shops, they are asking that their friends look for the union label on garments they purchase. Chicago. There is a general de mand for an eight-hour day among leather workers of the west, prepara tions for the inauguration of which will be begun soon. Philadelphia. The demand of the bituminous miners of the central Pennsylvania field - for an increase in" wages was refused at a conference between the executive committee of the United Mine Workers, district No. 2, the Clearfield district, and the ex ecutive committee of the association of bituminous coal operators. The committee met to discuss a new wage scale agreement to take effect April 1. The miners' representatives were bound by the resolution passed by the Indianapolis convention demanding an increase for all other classes of la bor.1 The operators refused to pay in creased wages as long as they are compelled to compete with non-union mines in Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia. A strike of 17,000 miners may be called In the Pittsburg district, claming the mines of the Pittsburg Ccal Company, as the miners declare their contract is being violated by the com pany because more men are in the works than the contract calls for. Seven hundred men have already quit work at Suterville. Baltimore, Md. The two powerful railroad labor organizations, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen,- which have Undertaken to secure a general increase of the wage scale for all em ployes in those branches of the serv ice on the ' principal lines ' in the eastern part of the United States and in Canada, have suffered a repulse at the very inauguration of its better-pay campaign. Three weeks of negotia tions with the Baltimore & Ohio rail road, among the first to be approached in the matter, ended when the com pany, through President Daniel Wll- lard, declined to accede to the de mands of the organization. New York. The latest trade to have a union was announced recently by or ganizers of the American Federation of Labor as that of the sheepskin workers. It was found that somehow this trade had been overlooked, , but organizers here and in Boston got'into communication on the subject, the re sult being the forming of the Sheep skin Workers' union In Boston, which it is said is to be followed by a sim ilar organization in New York. When sufficient enrollments have been made in the two unions scales of wages will be agreed upon, covering every kind of work from preparing parchment for writing to the making of drumheads. Kansas City, Mo. On account of the increased cost of living, 1,500- organ ized carpenters in Kansas City ' have made a demand on the contractors for an increase of ten cents an hour for their work., There are about 3,000 carpenters in Kansas City, the ma jority of whom are non-union men. About 150 of these already have enlisted with the union in their demand for an increase. The date set for the 4ncrease to take effect is May 1. The unions demand 65 cents an hour for foremen and 55 cents an hour for journeymen carpenters. Paris, France. The threat of a gen eral strike of the firemen and en gineers on the State railroad is due to the dissatisfaction of the employes of the Western railroad, recently, taken over by the state, with the adjustment of premiums accruing under the old management. M. Millerand, minister of public works, posts and telegraphs, offered to make certain changes, but the employes were not appeased. The engineers on the State railroad voted in favor of a strike unless an increase in wages was granted them. Cleveland, .The replies of the southern railroads to the wage de mands of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors were opened here. The refusal of the railroads to meet the men's terms was unanimous. This places the southern railroad situation in practically the same state as that in the territory north of the Chesa peake & Ohio and east of the Missis sippi. It is now certain that any ac tion taken by the men to press their demands will be simultaneous in the east and south. Washington. According to the bu reau of vital statistics of the United States government, American bakers and confectioners have a death rate due .to consumption of 250.1 per 100,- 000. The death rate from pneumonia amounts to 117.4 per 100,000. From these two causes, both growing out of their occupation, their death rate is 367.5 per 100,000. The average death rate among all people is 110 per 100,000. Boston. March 1 the 65 cents an hour rate went into effect for "the members of Boston Operative Plaster ers' union, according to the terms of the agreement which settled the strike last year. Manila, P. I. Following the refusal of the owners to grant a series of de mands, the crews of the inter-island steamers struck, tying up the vessels and so holding up the mails. It is claimed the strike was instigated by Dominador Gomez, former president of the Nationalist party. The strike breaks a two years' pact entered into by the owners and crews last fall. Minneapolis, Minn. This year's scale will be 45 cents an hour for painters and paperhangers in Minne apolis, which is a raise of 2 cents from the rate prevailing last year. This will apply to St. Paul also. Where the Big Meetings Will Be Held This Year. April 4 St. Paul, Minn., Internation al! Association of Fur Workers. April 18-23, New Orleans, La., Broth erhood of Railway Clerks. May 2, Philadelphia, Pa.; Chartered, Society of Amalgamated Lace Opera-1 tives of America. May 9, Louisville, Ky., Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. May , Cincinnati, Ohio, Tin Plate Workers' International Protective iAs sbciation. ".' . !.,':vV May 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, American Federation of Musicians. May 23, Buffalo, N. Y., National Print Cutters' Association of America. June 6, Chicago, 111., Internationa Association of Marble Workers. June 13, St. Louis, Mo., International Brotherhool of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers. June 13, place not selected, Interna tional Ceramic, Mosaic and Encaustic Tile Layers and Helpers' Union. June 13-19, Omaha, Neb., Internation al Stereotypers and Electrotypers' Union of North America. ' June i3, New York, N. Y., Interna tional Brotherhood of Tip Printers. June 13, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinders. June, third week, Columbus, Ohio, In ternational Printing Pressmen and As sistants' Union of North America. June 27, St. Louis, Mo., International Union of Pavers, Rammermen, Flagg- ers, Bridge and Stone Curb Setters. June , Kansas City, Mo., Interna- ional Journeymen Horseshoers' Union July 4, not decided as to piace. Amal gamated Leather Workers'" Union of America. July 11, New York, N. Y., Inter national Longshoremen's Association. July 11, Pittsburg, Pa., International Jewelry Workers' Union of America. July 11, Atlantic City, N. J., Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada. July 11, Washington, D. C, Theatri cal Stage Employes' International Al liance. July 12, Dover, N. J., Stove Mounters and Steel Range Workers' Interna tionalUnion, -r. ," . July 16, Springfield, Mass., American Wire Weavers' Protective Association, July 18, Ottawa, Ont., International Steel and Copper Plate Printers' Union. ' July , Atlantic City, N. J., National Brotherhood of Operative Potters,, August 1, Peoria, 111., International Brotherhood of Tteamsters. ' -- August 8, Minneapolis, Minn., Inter national Typographical Union. August 22, Detroit, Mich., United Garment Workers of America. September 5-6-7, Chicago, 111., Na tional Federation of Postoffice Clerks, September 5, Chicago, 111., Interna tional Slate and Tile Roofers of Amer ica. September 5. Boston, Mass., Interna tional Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. ' ' '' September 6-10, Louisville, Ky.', In ternational Photo-Engravers, Union of North America. -i ' i- September 6, Bangor, Pa., Interna tional Union of Slate Workers. September 8, Boston, Mass., Interna-, tional Spinners' Union. -- September .12, Kansas City, Kan., Coopers' International Union. September 12, Denver, Colo., Inter national Union of Steam Engineers. September 12, Cliter, Interna tional Union of United Brewery Work men of America. ' . - September 12, Philadelphia, Pa., In ternational Union of Elevator Con structors. - September 12, Streator, 111., Interna tional Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' Alliance., , ; 1 September 13, New . York, . N."-Yt American Brotherhood ;' of . Cement Workers. September 19, Des Moines, Iowa United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. . '; September 19, Rochester, N. Y., In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. September 21, St. Paul, Minn., Broth erhood ' of Railroad Freight Handlers. September 26, Columbus, Ohio, Oper ative Plasterers' International Associa tion of the United States and Canada. 17. L. DOUGLAS 3.00,3.50, 94.00 & 5.0O. SHOES UrtOft MADE V W. L. Douglas shoes are the lowest price, quality considered, in the world. 'll.:llent:tfulH ami Wearing LLTO5JU of It you have been paying MkiriewWMr shoe. then jrou need a pair fire W. L. Douglas shoes triaL .-,YM can save money on, your footwear and get shoes that are just as good ia every way as these that have been costing you higher prices. If yon could visit ear large factories at Brockton, Mass, and see for yourself . how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, yen would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better ana wear longer than outer makes. 1 VAV'riON W. U rxmgtos name and prim J Mamped on the bottom to protect the weaier again) high prices and Inferior shoes. Take Me-SJunsU-tete. IfW.UDonglssshoesareitotrorssls-lw-yoar K&MUsl? Order OsSsloyL W.1TJoulu, r Bros. therefore said that he would know a little of everything if he only knew a little lav. Graciously conceding that his court could not interfere with the action of congress, this interest ing judge nevertheless holds that it can interfere with ' a congressional committee because congress has no power to delegate its duties to com mittees. , It will be an instructive speo tacle, the " appearance' before JudKe Wright of a congressional committee to purge itself of contempt of court. Chicago Public. THE TEMPLE DIRECTORS. uectae on Date tor First Annual Labor Temple - Association Ball. - The board of directors of the Labor Temple Association met Monday even ing,, with a bare quorum present. Beo retery Ihringer was prevented frsat- tending.,hy, illness. in4 his family. .Tin property when the Temple was openeflj . and it was discovered later that, the property was covered by chattel mort gage. , Manager. Rudy was instructed to file complaint against the) fellow vlll baIi! i Aw1 4ki Ill pushed to the limit. - It was decided to hold the first an nual Labor Temple Benefit Ball at the .Auditorium on the evening of April .20, and the necessary commlt- iveu - were itiTiuiKeu- iur.'V-mr.nfluar- r en will attend to the hall and the music and Mr. Manpin to the printing and publicity. A number from each stockholding union will act on the re ception committee, and another : on the floor committee. The orchestra will be composed of fifteen pieces, and the, admission will be $1, extra lady 50 cents, and ladies without escorts will not he admitted. t" --'.V It is the intention to make this ball the greatest social affair in the hls tory of Lincoln trades unionism, and every union man and woman will,. be expected to get into . the game and help to make it a success. .. JUDGE WRIGHT AGAIN. Notorious Washington Judge Again'- in the Lime Light. Judge Wright of Washington, that interesting judicial product of Cincin nati, who, as an appointive judge at Washington, threw the network of contempt -proceedings around Gom pers, Mitchell and Morrison last year (Vol. XII, pp. 1, 3, 1188) in order to throttle freedom of the press for la bor papers, now reaches up for higher game. In a committee to consider of ficially something which it had offi cially decided not tcoonsider (pp. 146, 156), Judge Wright holds that his court has jurisdiction over them. His argument is worthy the lawyer uf the anecdote who was a dabbler in many subjects, and of whom a candid friend TEXAS AGAINST EMMTT IMUrV - LAW, .i. " "' . ,; . Th0 st-ota lour A-naAifc-, a ttuk tasrtV Texas legislative se&atim - fijsfng-aa- eight-hour workday for telegraphers has been declared invalid in a deci sion by the court of civil appeals, sitting-in -Galveston. ."The court con tendsvthat the state '-law.-.-cenfiicts witti the nat'onal statute, which nrnvidea a nine-hour day for dispatchers. FAIR BARBER 8HOP6. Vou Will Find the Union Card lit the Following Places. . When you enter a barber shop, see that the union shop card is in plain sight before you get into the chair. If the card is not to be seen, go else where. The union shop card to : a guarantee of a cleanly shop, a smooth shave or good hair-cut, and courteous treatment. The : following . barber shops are entitled to the patronage ol nicin '.men: N ... ',-.'. .; George Petro,, 1010 O." ; J. JT. Simpson, 1001 O. George Shaffer, Lincoln Hotel. C. B. Ellis, Windsor Hotel. D. S. Crop, Capital Hotel. M. J. Roberts, Royal Hotel. A. L. Kimmerer, Lindell Hotel. C. A. Green, 120 North Eleventh. W. G. Worth, 1132 O St. E. A. Wood, 1206 O. - . Chaplin & Ryan, 129 North Twelfth. E. C. Evans. 1121 P. Bert Sturm, 116 South Thirteenth, J. B. Raynor, 1501 O. . - ' Muck & Barthelman, 122 South Twelfth, i . J. J. Simpson, 922 P. , t Frank M alone, Havelock. C A. Hughart, Havelock. , ... ,