FOGELSON BLOCKED IT.
Prevented Early Closing Movement
Among Merchants on F Street.
Just because one Fogelson, a P street
merchant, was afraid he might lose
a nickel, the attempt on the part of
P street merchants to secure early clos
ing in conformity with other merchants
of the city was blocked. Every mer
chant in the district agreed to early
closing with the single exception of
Fogelson, in whose eyes a nickel is far
more important than the health, com
fort and happiness of those sentenced
to serve him.
The action of Fogelson compels the
merchants in his immediate locality to
remain open long hours, for the trade
going to that particular district is
peculiar. While the other' merchants
were willing to do the fair thing by
their employes, Fogelson was not. He
wants long hours for the money he
pays, and he feared he would lose
a penny now and then by being fair.
The workingmen, and others, who be
lieve in shorter hours, decent wages
and fair treatment are cordially invited
to store these facts away in their
minds. Their patronage should be
given to men who believe in the Bquare
thing, and should not be given to the
long-hour, low-wage, nickel-squeezing
merchants.
, LABOR TEMPLE BENEFIT. -
Tendered by the Fulton Stock Com
pany and Manager Zehrung of the
Oliver on Friday evening, July 29.
"Under Sealed Orders" will be the
ibill. Usual prices of admission. Tick
ets exchangeable at the box office for
reserved seats are now on sale. Ex
change may be made at any time
after next Tuesday morning.
C. L. U. BENEFIT.
ing the giving away of a handsome
present to some one in the audience.
It behoooves those who are inter
ested in the welfare of the Labor Tem
ple to get out and hustle and fill the
Oliver from pit to dome on benefit
night. It will be easy to put $100 or
more into the strong box of the Temple
Association through the medium of the
benefit.
Tickets exchangeable for reserved
seats will be offered immediately and
may be exchanged at any time after
next Tuesday morning. For further
particulars see advertisements in the
daily papers, posters, small bills and
men interested in making the Labor
Temple a success.
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"METCALFE STAMP FUND."
Richard L. Metcalfe, who is a
candidate for United States senator, is
a wage earner. He depends upon his
salary as a newspaper man, therefore
has no money to spend in a campaign.
But he is a candidate of the people, es
pecially the workers. They ought to
back his candidacy. Everybody can
help. It will be a postal campaign
and that means postage stamps. You
can give some stamps to further
"Mots" campaign. Join the "Ten
Stamp Club" by sending him ten
postage stamps. Every stamp means a
letter to some voter. 'You can hand
the stamps to Gen. T. C. Kelsey at the
Labor Temple if you cannot go to
"Met's" headquarters, 324-330 South
Twelfth.
Every lover of the square deal ought
to be for Metcalfe. .
Clever Amateur Performance Nets Cen
tral Body Neat Sum of Money.
The benefit tendered the ' ' Central
Labor Union at the Lyric theatre last
Saturday evening was very successful,
but not so much so as it would have
been hnd the weather been cooler and
another night selected. Saturday is a
bad night on account of wage earners
finding it about the only night in the
week in which they can go shopping.
Mr. Murdock of . the recent Lyric
stock company, managed the presenta
tion of the play, and he is to be com
mended upon the manner in which his
associates and himself presented it. It
would be unfair to pick out individuals
for all were efficient and gave evidence
of marked dramatic talent. Some
criticism was heard because "Lost Par
adise" was rendered under another
name, but it is a play that will bear
constant repetition and those who saw
it last Saturday night, even though
for the second or third time enjoyed
it thoroughly. As a result of the bene
fit a neat sum was added to the treas
ury of the central body and will be
used to push the work of organization.
SERIOUS INJURY.
, While playing about the yard re
cently little Mary, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. T. W. Parker, ran a huge
sliver in her foot. She did not tell
her parents and the sliver remained in
the wound until it festered and gather
ed. For a couple of days the little
one was in agony, and not until a sur
gical examination was made was the
trouble located. The sliver was re
moved and the wound dressed, and the
little one is getting along nicely.
CLOSING AT FIVE
Beginning last week the store of
Eudge & Guenzel will be closed at 5
p. ' m. every evening except Saturday
untill September 1. This generous
action gives the army of , employes
more time for rest and recreation and
the action of the employes is fully
appreciated by the employes.
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SHOBT ON ICE BOXES.
Three thousand carpenters employed
id store, office and bar fixture factor
ies throughout Chicago are out on
strike for higher wages, consequently
Chicago may expedience a shortage in
ice boxes which are manufactured by
several of the affected shops.
THE PEDESTRIANS.
Word comes that "Doe" and " Lit
tle harley" Bighter have ended their
long pedestrian tour and are now nurs
ing their pedal blisters in the quiet
retreats of central Wisconsin. With
the exception of less than thirty miles
of tW long journey of 350 miles "Doc"
and "Little . Charley ' walked it,
sleeping out at nights when the wea
ther was good, eating wherever they
happened to be when hungry, and tak
ing in all the sights along the way.
While their appetites increased with
each succeeding day they both lost
. flesh. As soon as the ( blisters have
henlod and their visit is ended the two
pedostrinns, will start back home but
not afoot. Far beit from so. They
will loll back on the velet cushions
and watch the telegraph poles go whiz
zing by.
PETTY THIEVERY.
The following articles are furnished
members of Congress free by Undo
Sam: Playing cards, poker chips,
pockttbooks and purses, shears and
scissors, hand bags, suit cases, sou
venir bags, nail clips, files and brushes,
manicure sets, safety razors, matches,
post curd albums, hunting knives, cuff
cases, glove stretchers, shopping bags,
cigar lighters, ash trays, jewel cases,
opera bags, smelling salts, ammonia,
vaseline, olive oil, plaster, bromo
'seltzer, etc.
LABOR TEMPLE BENEFIT.
ANOTHER BOY.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. McBride,
on Saturday, July 16, a son. "Mae"
now has a pair of them, and he is
willing to put them up alongside any
two boys in the country.
GENERAL MENTION.
RUDGE & GUENZEL CO.
759 YARDS OF BEST QUALITY
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II Ot EI IS
Our Regular 75c Quality
THIS WEEK 45c A YARD
750 yards of the best quality "D" Grade Linoleum, two and one
half yards wide. A quality we have been selling at 7 0c a yard, we
have priced for a quick, snappy sale at 45c a square yard.
.10 Patterns to select from, full rolls of each pattern being shown,
every yard perfect, and will be sold on our usual satisfaction guaran
teed plan. If convenient, please bring the measurements of your
room with you. If not, we will havean expert call, take the dimen
sions of your rooms and deliver the goods in the order of sale.
It is important to note that this is not a remnant
v. sale; that the goods are guaranteed and that the
prices are about half the price usually asked for this
quality of Linoleum. Those in need of a good floor
covering should attend this sale. h
Fulton Stock Company Will Tender
One on Friday Evening, July 29.
Through the courtesy of the Fulton
Stock Company and Manager Zehrung
of the Oliver, tho Labor temple will
be given a benefit at the Oliver on
Friday evening, July 29, at which time
"Under Sealed Orders" will be presented.
It is not necossary to speak of the
merits of the Fulton Stock Company.
Its position in the hearts of Lincoln
playgoers is assured for all time, and
especially is this true of the wage
earners of the city who have been the
recipents of many favors at the hands
of Mrs. Fulton and her associates.
Some interesting extras will be pre
sented on benefit night, among them be-
Bita of Labor News Picked and Pil
fered from any where.
Hodcarriers in Sacramento receive
$4.50 a day.
Clerks in 350 tea stores in New
York City will be organized.'
French old age pensions will go in
operation in the last of 1911.
Courts in New York have upheld the
law to compel railroads to pay their
employes semi-monthly. i
For attempting to import contract
labor, a Los Angeles concern has been
fined $45,000, a thousand for each man
contracted for.
Every member of a trade union in
Sacramento pays 25 cents a week into
the fund sent to sustain the striking
iron workers of Los Angeles.
A graduate at the exclusive Cornell
college in New York recently declared
that the courts are the tools of the
capitalistic classes and are despotic.
A tent city on 87 acres of land has
been established in Los Angeles by
the striking trades of that city. It
beats paying rent to the Employers'
Association.
Tho city council of Columbus, O.,
has just passed an ordinance forbid
ding the operation of street cars by
men who have had less than ten days'
experience in the city on the lines.
This is expected to prevent the em
ployment of strikebreakers in the fu
ture. Labor unions do not hunt for trouble.
They have learned better. Enough of
it conies their way without beating
up the brush for it. The Employers'
Association of Portland scares up all
the trouble or itself that it can, and
so far has wonderful success.
The killing of men for money, for
that is what most of the deaths of men
in mines, on railroads and in factories
amounts to, does not attract the op
position of the moralists and human
itarians as muck as the pummeling of
one man by another for money.
The new tariff rates ordered by the
United States Railroad Commission has
yet to be tested in the courts. Spokane
and other eitics of the "inland em
pire" should not lorget tnai wis
country is ruled by commissions tem
pered with an irresponsible judiciary.
The plunderbund press is urging
Uncle Sam to throw open half the
timber reserves in Oregon bo that some
body can develop the country. How
much does a tax-dodging timber grab
ber corporation develop the country
by stripping off our timber and paying
nothing for itf
Unable to secure permission to speak
in any of the public parks of New
Castle, Pa., Fred Warren, editor of
the Appeal to Reason, recently secured
an orchard of a farmer and spoke to
many thousands, thereby attracting
more attention than if granted free
speech in the city.
The three-cent fares of Cleveland are
proving sufficient to provide interest
on real and fictitious securities and a
sinking fund o ultimately redeem them
also a surplus of $25,000 a month. This,
however, will be absorbed with the in
creased demands of the men for better
wages. '
The steamer Frank H. Goodyear, re
cently wrecked in Lake Huron, wnt
down with eighteen lives because man
ned by an inexperienced non-union
crew. The Steel Trust, back of the
fight against the union sailors of the
Great Lakes, don't care, if it costs
1,800 lives so it beats the union,
v Oscar Lawler once wrote a letter "as
if he was president" and the presi
dent signed it. Recently he demanded
the utter suppression of a Socialist
paper with several hundred thousand
subscribers. Perhaps he made the de
mand "as if ho were president" and
perhaps the president will or has sign
ed it. Causes and newspapers feed on
persecution.
Workingmen should make the fellow
with a lot of speculative tracts and
a pug dog for a family help educate
the generations of men and women to
soon step on the stage of life. At
present the eottage of the worker pays
too much and the empty lot and the
pug dog of the speculator pays too
little., We don't care a rap for the
dog, but the lot escaping its just share
hurts us all.
is interested in it, as his brother and
his assistant editor of the Commoner
are officers.
The price of land takes from labor
the greater part of what labor produces
resulting in low wages, and poverty
The Only Way, Philadelphia. '
Organized labor is a great educa
tional institution a mighty polytech
nic university in which more handi
crafts, trades, professions and con
structive workmen engaged in prac
tical world-building exist than in any
other organized school in the world.
Edmund Norton. ;
Among the development taking place
near Nehalem is the establishment of
a cooperative cannery. With the rail
road this beautiful section of the state
is going to be invaded by capital in
many forms, and cooperative enter
prises like this can do much to ad
vertise the locality.
At a recent meeting of the- corpora
tion lawyers of Oregon they resoluted
against the board of inspectors and a
bi-monthly magazine proposed "by the
People's Power League. It was a
very natural thing for these hirelings
of great special privileges to oppose
anything that would let in the light.
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LIBERTY
Progressive Democrats have started
a Federation of America, through which
it is hoped to reach candidates of the
party and induce them to support such
progressive measures as are demanded
by the vote of the people. This vote
is to be taken by postal cards and
will be quite an extensive undertaking.
Tho supposition is that W. J. Bryan
CARPENTEBS SET EXAMPLE.
Four hundred boys in Chicago who
are paid to go to school. Not an oc
casional nickel or dime doled out by
grandma or Aunt Mary, but from $1.20
to $2.00 a day every school day in the
week and for 12 weeks in the year.
Over at the Joint Arbitration Board
of the Carpenters '.and Builders' Asso
ciation and tho Carpenters' Executive
Council, 112 Clark street, they can tell
you all about it, for these 400 boys
are the Carpenters' apprentices of Chi
cago, and this innovation in school
work is made possible by a friendly
three-cornered agreement between the
contractors, the carpenters' unions and
the Board of Education.
LABOR TEMPLE ' BENEFIT.
Tendered by the Fulton Stock Com
pany and Manager " Zehrung of the
Oliver on Friday evening, July 29.
"Under Sealed Orders" will be the
bill. Usual prices of admission. Tick
ets exchangeable at the box office for
reserved Beats are now on sale. Ex
change may be made at, any time
after next Tuesday morning.
Nuff Sed
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