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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1910)
WE FURNISH Four Rooms Complete for Housekeeping for $84.65 PARLOR Couch Rocker Rocker Center Table Lamp 2 pr. Lace Curtains 9x12 Rug Consisting of BEDROOM DINING ROOM Iron Bed Spring Mattress Pillows Dresser Washstand Toilet Set Lace Curtains Rug Extension Table 6 Chairs Dinner Set Lamp Knives and Forks Table and Teaspoons Rug KITCHEN Stove Cooking Utensils Kitchen Table Kitchen Chair 8 Window Shades Sold on Weekly or Monthly Payments Everything for the Home EENWAY'S 1112-1114 O Street Working Men Should Support Their Own Paper Underwood Standard Typewriter Underv A LEADER The principle of construction in the Underwood was found first in the Underwood, and every typewriter seeking business in the same field with the Underwood which has been put on the market since the advent of the Underwood, has been an imitation of, and in general appear ance like, the Underwood. The last "Blind' advocates of importance have now fallen into line, and there is not today a single "blind-writing" typewriter actively on the market. Recall all the arguments you have heard in past years by Underwood opposition, and you will realize what an advance agent of progress the Underwood has been; then bear in mind that the Underwood was the first fully "visible," has had that to develope and improve, and is today the most perfect typewriter made. s "The Machine You will Eventually Buy Underwood Typewriter Go. OMAHA BRANCH, (INCORPORATED) 1621 Farnam Street Omaha, Neb. GENERAL MENTION. Brief Bits of Labor News Deftly Picked and Pilfered. Building trades in . Germany are inclined to strike. Coal miners and operators have reached an agreement in Illinois. The Philadelphia street car strike has been settled on a compromise basis. Army officers in Cuba have been drawing full salary from both treasuries. The primary election law of Wis consin is upheld by the supreme court of that state. v British naval bands have been noti fied to demand the regular union rates hereafter; Attracted by deceptive advertise ments, many men are idle at Belling- ham, Washington. On the roads in Western Canada, over 15,000 section men are demand ing a better scale. The bill to protect coal miners has been placed in "cold storage" in the United States senate. Building k borers in Spokane ha.'t organized and affiliated with the Cii- tral Labor Council. Live property is to be increased in assessed values twenty-five per cent in New York City. The threatened strike of the street car men at Columbus, Ohio, has been averted by arbitration'. Barber shops in Oakland, California are maintaining the Sunday closing rule very successfully. Contractors in Spokane must here after hire men through the free em ployment bureau for all city work. The first estimate of the spring gold clean-up in the neighborhood of Fairbanks, Alaska, is $9,000t000. The womans nine-hour law has been knocked out in Michigan. Courts want "freedom" for women to slave. The members of the Farmers Un ion now exceed three million. They are very friendly with the A. F. of L. Lumber pliers' in Melbourne, Aus tralia, have been awarded by arbitra tion an advance from 25 to 27 cents on hour. The New York, New Haven and Hartford repair shops have reduced work to 46 "hours a week and no Saturday work. Farmers near Spokane are consid ering the proposal to put the union la bel on all products shipped to the local markets. The Steel Trust is said to be con templating an increase in wages that will give nine millions a year more to its employers. Oakland, California, Chamber of Commerce recently placed an ad with the Saturday Evening Post for $6,000 in spite of the protests of the Allied Printing Trades and organized laboi. The returns from that investment n rat printing did not amount to sixty cents. The next advertisement scheme of the Chamber of Commerce invested in had the union label, and the returns were very satisfactory. The Phi'ndelphia street car com bine is nearly broke, and must issue bonds. The strike wiped out its sur plus funds. Spanish Liberals and Radicals are likely to follow England in levying a tax on land values exclusive of im provements. . Bakery Salesmen have been suc cessfully organized in Oakland and surrounding towns throughout Ala meda County. California. By recent enactment women in Germany are forbidden to work in factories at night, also their hours shall not exceed ten. The province of Quebec will pro hibit the exportation of wood pulp cut on the Crown lands of the pro vince to the United States. Hogs have all the diseases that man is heir to; and some men claim that man is half hog at his best, and all hog at his worst. It is said that eight more battle ships would have prevented the Span ish war. The reply is that eight le3S would have also prevented it. At Honolulu 800 Russian laborers have been turned loose destitute af ter being inveigled to come there t(. work on sugar plantations. In Maine the organizers of paper and pulp workers have been refused halls and compelled to hold meetings on leased vacant lots. Vast concourses of people in Ber lin have been perfectly peaceable, but the demands for extension of fran chise rights very determined. The United Brotherhood of Carpen ters will celebrate its twenty-ninth anniversary in August. Local cele brations will be held everywhere. With 59 aVowed Socialists in the Spanish parliament, it would seem as if there should be something do ing in that wornout old country. Conductors and brakemen on the lines of the Pacific Lumber Company at Eureka, California, have demanded better pay and treatment. The ex-secretary of the Federal La bor Union of Spokane, Ed Lane, Is said to be wanted for absconding with $200 of the union's money. An employment agent for the Phil adelphia street car combine recently received sixty days on the rockpile at Rochester, N. Y. He carried a gun. At Butte, Montana, the miners have joined the A. F. of L. The strife between the Western Federation of Miners and the A. F. of L. is at an end. Jewish strikes against the meat shops in New York have put a num ber of them out of business. The high prices are bitterly resented and the local dealers blamed. In Milwaukee the Allied Printing Trades Council has been awarded the right to have its label returned from an unfair firm that used it after it was demanded. . . Three cent street railway fares on the Cleveland traction system have not only proved a paying venture, but promise to give a handsome surplus to the railway company. In Oakland the newspaper printers are endeavoring to secure a new scale increasing rate about .seven and a half per cent. Over half the men employed now receive it. In Germany the Christian Trades Unions were established to offset the Socialist Trades Unions. Now the two have joined a demand for better con ditions in the building trades. Cincinnati's city council has re pealed the ordinance passed a year ago whereby "more daylight" was to be secured by setting local clocks two hours fast from May to October of each year. The Gripenuts fake has had to pay out many thousands of dollars to noti fy people that it used no peanut shells in its trash food products. This ex cessive denying looks itself suspicious The Sugar Trust violated some Fea eral injunctions. Other Federal judges, upon being appealed , to, said the in junctions were too strong. They were thereupon swept into the has-been bin. The railroads have brought pressure to bear on the different commercial bodies on the Coast to ask for no rail road regulation laws from Congress. Like slaves, the business men of Seat U fall in line. . The directors of the Tronoto, Can ada, Labor Temple Company have de cided that the only tenants that may rent rooms in their building in th future will be those affiliated wltn international organizations. In Montgomery. Alabama, $30,000 was raised to equip a hospital , for women in China last January. In . March a woman died on tne streets because for a month there was no place for her to go to secure medical attention. Dr. Lepage, ' the eminent surgeon, has sent in his bill for $20,000, his fee for the operation performed on King Leopold a few days before the king's death. It should be worth that much to have gotten rid of the old repro bate. In response to the demand for lia bility of the employer for the Inured and killed wrokmen, the National Civic Federation calmly proposes to collect, per force, a sufficient sum (and then some, no doubt, from tne workers to do it. The recent killing of a boy on the. wharf of San Francisco who was al leged to be an escaping military pris oner is reported by the S. F. Star to be a deliberate and wanton murder. Being a military affair It' will probably be glossed over. Oklahoma "open" shop contractors will learn with horror that all bids must contain an agreement to employ only union men, eight hours a day, and at union pay. Why not have something like that in Oregon? Recently an "open" shop establish ment in Las Angeles has been dis charging its union men and urging them to withdraw from the union to be reinstated in their position. An "open" shop is a closed shop to union men as fast and as far as its owners dare make it so. Senator Chamberlain is making good in Washington. He is on the right side and the progressive, side every time. He is not given much space in the plunderbund organ's dis patches, but he is. there with the goods when the opportunity offers. He is not a plutocratic Democrat. The United Italian Trades, with a membership of over 65,000, is to be affiliated with the A. F. of L. It is hoped to include in its ranks all of the Italian mechanics and laborers and to secure better conditions for them, as well as to prevent competi tion between them and organized la bor. Spokane is to seek to revise Its charter shortly with a view to estab lishing a commission form of govern ment. That term covers a multitude of sins. If It includes direct legisla tion by the people, it is somewhat better than the ordinary kind; but if it has the preferential vote it 1 better. With these and proportional representation it is best. 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