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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1910)
Named for Lincoln Made in Lincoln s- t- o u k s- X AH.03ARBER&SONS LIOERTY Demand Liberty Flour and take no other. If your grocer does not handle it, phone us about it. H. O. BARBER & SON Once Tried Always Used Little Hatchet Flour Made from Select Nebraska Hard Wheat WILBER AND DeWITT MILLS RYE FLOUR A SPECIALTY mTaum 145 So. 9th St.. LINCOLN, NEB. j WORKERS UNIOMjT UNION STAMP All Shoes Without the Union Stamp are Non-Union Do not accept any excuse for absence of the UNION STAMP Boot and Shoe Workers Union 246 Sumner St, Boston, Mass. JOHN F. TOBIN. Pre CHAS. L. BAINE, Sec-Trees. First Trust Owntd by Stockholders off tha First National Bank THE BAKTK "FOR THE WAGE-EARNER INTEREST PAID AT FOUR PER CENT Tenth and O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska 0909C Ball 348, Auto 2S3S rfjnaBalaUUHBlBHaV m I Underwood Typewriter Co. 137 North L1 E .E. FRANCIS, Mgr. Green The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 'i for noa-eontagtona chronic diaeaaeav. Largest, beat equipped, moat beautifully furniabed. Test of the Oven Test of the Taste Test of Digestion Test of Quality Test of Quantity Test if Time, Measured by Every Test it Proves Best Named Shoes are Often Made in Non-Union Factories. Do Not Buy Any Shoe no matter what the name unless it bears a plain and readable impression of this Union Stamp. Savings Bank s Oliver Theatre Blag. 13th Street UNCOLN, NEBR. Gables INJURED TOILERS, Denmark's Plan of Compensa tion For Accident. ALL LITIGATION IS AVOIDED. 8yatem Provide For Prompt Relief. Protects Crippled Workers' Depend ents From Want Government Passes on Claims. Id view of the interest now being taken in workmen's compensatiou and employers' liability laws, the follow ing Information as to how the subject is handled in Denmark will be inter esting: By a system of compulsory insurance the workmen's Interests are safeguarded without litigation. The consumer practically pays the insur ance premium, it being included by the employer in estimating the cost of production. The advantages of the Danish law are: (1) Absolute protection of the workingman: (2) avoidance of all liti gation connected with injuries re ceived from accidents: (3) the knowl edge on the part of the employer that so long as the Insurance is paid he need fear no losses from damage suits, etc.: (4) if a workingman is injured those depending on him are protected from such want or privation as might be caused by the cessation of his wages. The settlements are made promptly, and the sufferer and bis de pendents are caused as little incon venience as possible. If a workingman engaged In any of the employments covered by the law suffers an accident which has tempo rarily or continually decreased his working capacity he is insured against the sustained loss of his working capacity. If the accident causes death and the workman leaves a widow she is entitled to the insurance if the mar riage took place before the accident and they had not ceased to live to gether. ; If the workman does not leave a widow who is entitled to the insur ance his children are entitled to it if he was liable for their support or did support them at the time the ac cident took place. If the workman leaves neither wife nor children it will i be decided by a council whether the insurance shall be due to others who at the time of the accident were sup ported by the workman. The same rules apply to female employees who leave children or others supported by them. Survivors who at the time of the accident did not live In Denmark have not the right to claim compensation. For the settlement of all questions arising under this law a council bas been established, consisting of a chair man appointed by the king, two mem bers likewise appointed by the king, of whom one shall be a doctor, two em ployers appointed by the minister of the interior and two workmen of those trades included in this law. The council decides as soon as pos sible after notice of any case First Whether the case reported In volves any claim under the accident insurance law. Second Whether such facts are present as will determine the nature of the compensation. I ' Third The amount of the compensa tiou which is due to the survivors. The decisions of the council as to the first question may be appealed to the minister of the Interior, while those under the second and third cannot be appealed. Amounts decreed by .the council are to be paid to that body within four teen days and are at once paid to the person in question. In some Instances the council may decide that an annuity be bought for the money, in which case the annuity is paid direct to the annuitant. Daily payments and burial expenses are always paid direct to the beneficiary. According to the last annual report of the council, made to the minister of the interior and published, the num ber of cases of accident reported and dealt with by the council In 1008 amounted to 2.893. of which 425 were not considered, as they were found not to involve any claim according to the law: in 1.365 of them the person in question fully regained bis working capacity, and fifty-eight cases resulted in death, in seventeen of the latter the deceased did not leave any person who was found entitled to the Insur jiuee. and the funeral expense mil? were paid. In the remaining forty -on cases beneficiaries were found and 130,400 crowns ($34,947) were paid In addition to the funeral expenses. Labor Gossip. A campaign has been started to or ganize the tobacco workers of the Do minion of Canada. The International Typographical un ion voted to meet next year at San Francisco. It will be the fifty-seventh annual convention. In spite of last year's trade depres sions Id Austria the Kallwuy Men's union In that country has Increased Its membership from 58,000 to 02.OU0. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the Massachusetts state , branch. American Federation of Labor, will be held at Hibernian hall. Worcester. Oct. 10-13, The potters of Trenton have de manded a general increase of 10 per cent In wages In various forms and the installation of more modern meth ods for Improving working conditions, such as dust preventing devices. The present working agreement expires Nov.' 1. PUBLIC SENTIMENT. I Power of the Press Used by a 8ettle ment to Settle a Strike. Rochester can boast of unique set tlement activities. In 1907 Florence Ledyard Cross started a small house keeping center in the Italian quarter. A bureau of information and protec tion for foreigners was afterward add ed, which has just taken a prominent part In settling a strike of Italian la borers. On January the union notified the contractors that laborers on street and sewer Jobs would not work after May 1 for less than 25 cents an hour. The notice was ignored, and on June 9 a strike was called. The strike and the part the bureau took are well de scribed by Richard KItchelt in the Survey: "At first people who had been criti cising the Italians for their low stand ard of living criticised them now for trying to better their condition by the only means at their command. Groups of strikers were attacked by the po lice. Some men were shot and others arrested. The cases of these latter were twice postponed in spite of their desire ' for a speedy trial, and they were finally discharged for lack of evi dence. Arbitration through Italian law yers was tried, but with no success. "In this extremity some of the strik ers' executive board turned to the bu reau for help. Miss Cross called to gether a committee of prominent citi zens and laid before them through the testimony of the workmen themselves the importance of a speedy and just termination of the strike. It was shown that the wages of the laborers averaged $6.50 a week, an amount in adequate to maintain a family in health and strength: that the city was being injured by a continually lower ing standard of living: that the injec tion into the community of irresponsi ble strike breakers was a menace to the public peace and welfare. "The newspapers were induced to print the truth about the strikers. Public sentiment gradually changed in favor of the workmen. Petitions from residents and shopkeepers along torn np streets were laid before the mayor. At last, after the strike had continued four weeks, the contractors consented to a conference, which resulted in an immediate increase of a cent an hour land an agreement to arbitrate the wage scale before the next season's contracts were entered into." THE PRINTERS' CONVENTION. Changes In Existing Laws to Be Sub . mitted to Referendum. The convention of the International Typographical union at Minneapolis last month suggested some changes in the present laws which, if adopted by the referendum, will at least simplify matters very materially. One of the suggestions was a change in the meth od of collecting dues. The method now in force is an assessment of a certain percentage upon the earning capacity of a member. The change in proce dure would make a fixed charge of $1 per month. Another change graduates the mortuary fund so that members of one year or less shall receive'$50, two years $100, three years $150, five years $200 and over five years $250. The old age pension substitute was also actpd on favorably., Under It a totally disabled member, who there- j fore would be ineligible to the privi leges of the Union Printers' home. I shall be directly entitled to the regu ! lar pension. A proposition to erect a $100,000 headquarters building at Indianapolis was adversely acted on. but a further proposition to hold the annual conven tions at the headquarters city instead of hini.i'droming about the country was sent back to the subordinate unions for discussion until next year's convention. Another resolution that will come before the referendum is the fixing of the salaries of the president and secretary-treasurer at 83.000 a year. They now receive $2,100. The executive, board was Instructed to make a generous contribution to the American Tuberculosis society to aid In the fight against consumption. Resignations In Advance. If Fred Shane and James P Egan. organized labor candidates, are elected to represent Lucas county in the Ohio senate and lower branch of the assem bly respectively about the first thing they will do thereafter will be to write their own resignations. The resigna tions, under blank date, will be ad dressed to the governor of Ohio, but will be held by the officers of the To ledo labor congress. If the Toledo, laiior congress decides thai Its repre sentatives In the lawmaking body of the state ever cease to be real repre sentatives of the cause of the workers the right of recall will be exercised. The made in advance resignations will be forwarded to the chief executive of the state, the offices will become va rant and the ousted legislators repu diated by the voters who elected them. A German Labor Leader. The active leader of the German movement is Herr C. Legien. He is a wood turner by trade and has been president of the German Federation of Trade Unions for twenty years. He has been ii member of the reichstag for twelve years. He is a writer of rare ability and is the author of an almanac on the labor movement of the world, which Is published each year In' German. French and English. Make Agitator Show Label. Whenever you hear a union man damning a "scab" ask him to show the label in his hat. If it Is there then he may be somewhat justified to continue. If it is not there the gentleman is out of order. PRINT o PROMPT N PROMPT PROMPT PROMPT E PROMPT THE WAGEWORKER PRINTERY PROMPT L Y 0 PROMPT N E K I PROMPT I N D T H PROMPT s PROMPT T