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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1910)
.t-v V. . l LABOR TEMPLE DIRECTORS. Decide Upon Plan to Take Up Indebt edness on the Property. The directors of the Labor Temple Association met at the Temple Monday evening and decided upon a plan hav ing for its object the taking up of the indebtedness Against the property. Hrierly stated the facta are these: The pioperty originally cost $20,000, upon which $3,000 has been paid. While paying v-.iis $5,000 another $5,000 has been added to the property in the way of improvements, making the prop erty worth, at tjie lowest calculation, $25,0M. The indebtedness of $15,000 is represented by two mortgages, one of $7,000 now due and one for slightly more than that amount due in 1913. Tho mortgage due is drawing 6 .per cent, while the other mortgage is draw ing 4 per rwt. The plan as adopted by the directors is one proposed by a leading lawyer whose friendship for organized labor is well known, and it is so hedged about that it will be im possible for any man or set of men ever to get control of tho property and alienate it from the uses to which it ia now dedicated. Business men and others will be asked to take stock in the . association to the amount of the indebtedness, receiving one-half the utoclt in their own names and the re maiising half to remain in the hands of trustees appointed by the board of directors and by them voted. No divi dends are guaranteed on this stock, but the board undertakes to retire the stock as rapidly as possible, first tak ing vn the stock held in trust. The articles ot incorporation are Mich that it is impossible for control of the Temple to pass out of the hands of the board of directors. There have been some who have put up a cry that it ia all a -scheme to let business men get control of the prop erty, but this (ry is put up ty men who have not a dollar invested in the property. The plan meets with the approval of the men who have sacri need their time for three long years and who have invested their own sav ings in the Temple. A committee was appointed to take charge of pushing the plan, and an other one was appointed to arrange fo a refunding of the mortgages an case the other plan should be abandoned. Bits of News t Deftly Picked and Pil fered ijrom Manywhere. Several officials of the San Francisco labor movemt'i; have brought suit for I'iminal libell against Harrison Gray Otis of the ILos Angeles Times. The Iron Aolders' union of Jersey City, N. New York and Brooklyn have secured a minimum scale of $3.50 for molders aiid $3.25 for core-makers, by the terms of a new agreement. Charles Fear, editor of the Missouri Trades Unionist published at Joplin, has been unanimously nominated for the legislature in his district by the republicans. Of the 30,0(10 miners affected by the strike order in the Missouri district about 9,500 lire in Kansas, about 8,500 in Missouri, H.000 in Oklahoma and about 3.000 in Arkansas. The Bavarian diet has appropriated $2,380,000 for building, houses for the employes of the state railways. Since 1890 about $3,GS!),000 hasSien nppio- empToyes. The maximum contribution, printed for this purpose. '"N New South Wales parliament has passed a bill establishing a superannu ation fund for railw.iv and tramway THE CARPENTERS Rejoice Over tbe News Brought Back by Delegate Eissler. Fred Kissler, who represented the Carpenter's Union, made his report at the meeting "held last Monday evening. . snd the reuiW-jKa such as to make the. members raise right up and holler. Delegate Eissler brought back the good word that the convention had ap propriated $500 Tor the' purpose of pushing the work of organization in thtst vioiii'Ity, the money to be furnished to the local union and by it expended with the advice of the international This means that the carpenters are going to make greater progress than ever, and that during the dull winter months the work of organization will bn pushed to the limit. "It was a great convention," sai Delegate Kisaler. "I heard some of the finest speakers I ever heard, and I wouldn't be afraid to put that bunc of delegates up against the congress of the United Statese for oratory am looks and I 'd bet my head it would 'have congress skinned a mile for horse sense. es Moines treated us fine. The convention worked day and night and transacted an immense amount of business. It donated u thousand dol lars to the striking garment workers in St. Louis." 1 I 7 thejr presen.trle has been sanctioned by the international organization. It is expected ihat the officers of the feeders will iswirt negotiations with the Printers' Ltlgue at once, and that verything will be peacefully settled. GENERAL MENTION. UNION BENEFITS. Amazing Progress of the Broth erhood of Teamsters. . SUNDAY WORK ABOLISHED. Wages Increased and Men Are No Longer Forced to Labor Overtime Without Pay A Convincing Argu ment In Favor of Organization. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has perhaps done more for Its membership within the past five years than any other organization of labor, writes President Tobin in the American Federationist. It is a well known fact that before the teamsters of this country became organized the life of the average individual working at that craft In the large cities and towns was perhaps the hardest kind of an existence for a workingraan. Unusually hard work, long hours and small pay were the conditions that surrounded the life of, tbe teamsters up to within a few years ago. Sunday work was almost as common us em ployment during any other day-of the week, because if the teamster was not working on the street or around the warehouse on Sunday he was usually busy around the stable taking care of horses, harness, wagons, etc. Naturally this kind of work Is hard work anyway, because of the hard ships nnd privations which men of this craft have to endure ard are subjected which is compulsory, is U2 per cent , to. especially in tun cold and inclement of the wages of the beneficiaries. Denmark has the strongest trade union movement in the world. In Cop enhagen there are 100.000 unionists alone. There is not a non-union printer to be found in Denmark. The Iron Molders' union of Little Bock, Ark., has signed a minimum st-ale of $3.50 for molders and $3.15 for core-makers, this being an advance of 25 qents per day for molders and 40 cents for core-makers. , Toledo policemen wear caps and uni forms bearing the union label. So thor oughly does the union sentiment pre vail in that town that even the fire department horses wear shoes with the union label. Official notice has been given that thirteen of the forty-six mills in the two plants of the American Steel & Tin Plate Co. at Martin 's Ferry, Ohio, are to be started after being idle since July, 1909, on account of the strike. At the recent Des Moines conven tion of the Brotherhood of Carpenters the delegates adopted a resolution pro viding for the establishment , of libra ries in every local union. The libraries will have boons on economics, politics and history, and will be of such a na ture as to be not only ornamental, but useful to the workers. I HOW COST OF LIVING WORKS THE PRESSMEN Widely Advertise the Fair Position Taken by The Star. The Pressmen and Assistants' Union has been busy for the past week adver tising the fact .that the Daily Star is again fair towards organized labor. Five thousand notices were printed nnd circulated throughout the crity. No one familiar with the new management of the Star was surprised at the an nouncement that the pressroom had been squared. Mr. Tobin merely asked for time to get his chair warm, and when that came to pass he cleaned out the pressroom. Within an hour after the announcement that Mr. Tobin was to be the new manager the "rat" pressmen had their tools all packed. Union men should benr in mind the fact that the Daily Star is the only thoroughly union daily newspaper printed in Lincoln. Pressfeedors' Union No. 1, of New York city, has demanded from the Printers' League a new scale calling for an increase in wages of $2.00 per week. There has been a movement Amnncr t. H c nrflssf rfri r f annua fim. r. - .-- " to have their wages raised from $10 to $12 per week. The Printers' League was notified that, according to the loci si on of tbe union, the increase Is to go. into effect on October 3. The feeders are affiliated' with the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of America, and Everything Goes up and Poor People , No Longer Get Merry. ' Mellville and Miggins, vaudevilili ans, have prepared a few little observa tions on the high cost of living, which seems well worth presenting to a long suffering and down-trodden community. Here they are: "If the price of pork continues to advance, even the street car hog will have a value.. Mutton has advanced so in price that the poor man can't even look sheepish. . "Beef is following the trend of other meats and soon the Irishman will be deprived of his 'bull.' "The market basket is now often naught but an aching void. "The old motto, 'Eat. drink and be merry,' is wrong nowadays. How can yon be merry when you figure up the price of a dinner? "The only thing that is cheap now adays is human1 life. "By and by the trusts will be. put- toing aerometers on our noses and charging us by the cubic foot for the air we breathe." Minnesota Advo cate. weather, nnd it is almost .Impossible for any person to realize the nature of this employment without personally experiencing those conditions. But since organization has taken place among the men a complete change has been brought about. Wages have been increased within the past six years perhaps from 30 to 60 per cent in all the large industrial centers. The hours of labor have been regulated, and over time Is now being paid in nearly every section of the country where men work over a certain number of hours. Usual ly the work performed on Sunday is merely the stable work, talcing care of horses, etc.. and this Is done by men employed specially for this task, and the rank and file of the teamsters are not required to put in an appearance nt all at the stable on Sunday. Tbe carriage and automobile branch of our trade we have regulated as to hours and gained increases In wages and generally bettered conditions. It s impossible to dispense with the work of those men on Sunday, but we are now endeavoring to regulate this class of employment so that a man can have at least one Sunday In four with the members of his family and for the purpose of attending church service if he so desires. Comparing the present with tbe past. It is hard to realize that such a com plete change has taken place within a few years, but this condition has unquestionably been brought about through organization of our craft and our allilialion with the American Fed eration of Labor Very true, there is plenty of room for improvement, but we are movlujr slowly, conservatively, but surely onward every day. At first It was rather a bard task to make the teamsters of the country believe that nny good could be gained by tbe formation of a labor organiza tion, but as time went on those men became slowly convinced that their only protection was in banding togeth er Into an organization. Today the membership of the inter national Brotherhood of Teamsters would perhaps give up anything they have in the world rather than surren der their labor union, which has done so much for them and their families. The teamster has been made a better man, a better feeling exists among the individuals working day after' day on the streets of our great cities, as tbe teamster has been somewhat educated through bis meetings and through the labor Dress. Be feels more like a man than Before. k HOW ABOUT IT? Do Modern Ministers Dare Tell Truths to Parishoners? Wouldn 't it be fine to hear some elo quent minister get up and denounce sortie of the abuses that exist right here iri Lincoln, and instead of doing it in general terms do It -specifically, point ing ministerial finders straight at the pews and saying "thou art the man!' Lincoln Wageworker. .-. The early doctTine of Christianity, only top often' in recent years, has given way to policy. It is not the laboring man directly, who supports certain aenomin the expounders the bald and i the teeth of tho pews, he would was preaching t! tianity. Bitter iions. Were some of f the gospel to hurl (adulterated truth in who sit in the front .speedily . find that hie wrong kind of Chris pis it is, the average ' -v - p r preacher works for wages, and modern Christianity does not pay for an ex coriation when it drops its tithes into the hands of ciiireh wardens. Cincin nati Chronicle Chicago Telegraphers Waking Up. . Telegraphers emplyoed by tbe Post al Telegraph company in Chicago at a recent meeting embodied resolutions calling on the company to grant its employees tbe right to join labor unions. More than 200 applications fjr membership In the Telegrapners .union were made at the meeting. : The recelit discharge of three operators by the company officials for alleged assistance to a strike of "f-hei-U" boys was the reason for the meeting. The operators have not been affiliated with a uuiau since the telegraphers' strike of 1907.: Indiana Liability Law Upheld.- ' The Indiana employers' liability law has been upheld in a decision ren dered by the United States supreme court- The Louisville and Nashville railway tested the law. It appears that under this decision not only is the employer liable for damages for injuries sustained by a workman, but where a contractor does work for a corporation the latter can be made a party to a suit for' damages if the worker Is Injured. A; Law of Life. It Is a law of life that men of one occupation or calling seldom improve any calling but their own. This will be found true of labor. College presi dents and others have tbe weakness of thinking that they know another man's business better than he (tbe other man) knows It himself, but the truth is that all advance that ,has been made for the working masses vhas been accomplished by labor unions." Aooiver aw Sale In The Shoe Department A splendid opportunity to buy high grade, seasonable Shoes at special reduction. It will pay you to visit this section early and choose liberally of unusual valuee offered. Ladies' Shoes LOT 1 Includes a special assortment of $5.00 and $600 shoes, in patent kid, gun metal, tan, calf, vici kid, and a few Hanan & Sons.' and E. C. Burt 's shoes, good range of sizes. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. . . . . LOT, 2 Includes $3.50 and $4.00 values a large' number of the late styles in all the popular . leathers, button or lace, welt or turn soles good range of styles and sizes. Anniversary Sale Price 3.95 as & large he popular . soles good 2.95 Men's Shoes LOT 3 $3.50 and $4.00 values includes a good assortment of desirable styles and dependable qualities in all leathers hand and welted soles. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. . . LOT 4 35.00 values includes a large assortment . of up-to-date models in all leathers button or lace good range of sizes very exceptional valuee. Anniversary Sale Price Pair.... 2.95 assortment button or exceptional 395 LOT 5 Regular $6.00 values a liberal assortment of highest grade shoes in patent colt, gunmebal, calf, tan and wine calf, with quite -a HANAN and STETSON shoes included " Anniversary Sale Price Pair... gunmetal, I number of 435 Children's Shoes . ' - . . ...... - , LOT 6 Includes Misses ' and Children 's service able shoes in a good range of styles and size,... Child's 5 to 11, regularly $1.35. Sale Price ... 95c Misses' 11 to 2. Regularly $1.65. Sale Price 91.33 . Larger Girls, 2 to 6. Beg.' $2.00. Sale Price $1.65 .' LOT 7 $2.50 values in boys' solid school shoes, in gun metal, calf, bluclier, double soles, broad -and J' medium toes good range of sizes. 4 AfJ.'.. Anniversary Sale Price Pair.--. . I T LOT .8 Boys' $1.65 and $2.00 shoe? good sid calf skin shoes good styles and gocd range of sizes. Little Boys, 9 to 2, reg. $1.65. Sale Pr.1.35 o 1 - ilu 72- -u-ugu tarry $2.00. Sale Price. . 1.65 BARGAIN TABLES FOR SHOES ! We have taken all samples, broken lines and discontinued numbers out of our regular stock and have placed them in SIX LOTS on the BARGAIN TABLES in the Basement. These shoes are seasonable styles in' good dependable qualities, offered at remarkable reductions during the Anniversary Sale. LOT 1165 PAIR WOMEN'S SHOES Regularly $2.00 and $3.00 pair in patent or vici kid but . ton or lace high or low heels good serviceable shoes in which sizes are broken or styles dis continued not all sizes in this lot. Anniversary Sale Price Pair.;,... TABLE NO. 2249 PAIR LADIES ' SHOES Regu larly $2.50 and $3.00 pair good serviceable shoes, lace or button, mostly - narrow widths, with a fair range of sizes in the lot every pair a real bargain. Anniversary Sale 'Price Pair. TABLE NO. 3197 PAIR LADIES' SHOES Regu larly $3.00 and $4;00. pair lace or button shoes .' in all leathers good styles and reliable makes ' about all sizes in the lot but not all sizes in 98c 1.49 each style. -; Anniversary Sale Price Pair. . . 1.98 TABLE NO. 4263 PAIE LADIES SHOES Regu larly $3.50 to $5.00 pair lace and button shoes in all leathers about all sizes in the lot but not all sizes in each style. a i Anniversary Sale Price Pair. ZLM TABLE NO. 5137 FAIR MEN'S SHOES Regu larly $3.00 and $3'.50 pair good dependable shoes in-a good run Of sizes iand styles this is an especially f,ood -time to buy school shoes 1 for larger boys. 4 fAO Anniversary Sale Price Pair. I Mf4 TABLE NO. 6188 PAIRS MEN'S SHOES Regu . larly $3.50 to $5.00 pair includes gun metal tan - calf and vici kid priced to close. r f M . f Anniversary Sale x-rice Pair. . i t'mHfi3 Anniversary Sale of Hosiery and Men's Furnishings There are many unusual bargains in Women's and Children's hosiery for this sale-it will pay you to lay in a season's supplyNOW. WOMEN S .HOSE Regular 25e quality medium : weight cotton hose, full Tegular made fast black high spliced heels and toes welt top tf) Anniversary Sale Price Pair. ......... WOMEN'S HOSE Regular ;' 35c quality medium weieht fast black fine gauge full regular made. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. WOMEN'S SILK LISLE HOSE Regular 50c qual ity look like silk fast black full regular made garter tops. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. WOMEN'S EMBROIDERED HOSE Regular 50c' quality a large range of new designs to select from. ' Anniversary Sale Price Pair. WOMEN'S BLACK SILK HOSE Regular 50c value lisle top fast black seamless. Sizes 8 to 10. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. CHILDREN'S FINE RIBBED HOSE Regular 25e value double heel, knee and toe seamless- excellent for service all sizes. Anniversary Sale Price Piar. . , CHILDREN'S FINE RIBBED HOSE Regular 50c quality fine ribbed full' regular made fast black. Sizes 6 to 9. Anniversary Sale Price Pair. . 25c 50c qiial llar made 42c gular oOc to select 42c jular 50c ;s. Sizes 42c gular 25e jamless 21c jjular 50c ade fast 35c MEN'S HALF HOSE Regular, 25e quality feed ium weight cotton fast black, full regular maA Sizes 10, 10, 11. -' t y , o 4 pa Anniversary Sale Price MEN! You. will find many chances to save in. buying your supply of winter underwear," -hosiery, etC. ' ' . '. ' - 1 - 1-- . v- . MEN'S SHIRTS AND DRAWERS Regular 50c ; values good weight-fleeced cotton in ecru only. Ail sizes.. ' ' . Anniversary Sale Price Each. . , .-. MEN'S SHIRTS AND DRAWERS Regular $1.00 value wool mixed jersey rib-oed gray only- - -all sizes ... ' . -. ; ' Anniversary Sale Price Each . MEN'S HALF HOSE Regularly 35c pair medium weight eotton, very fine gauge crow foot half hose Hermedorf fast black. Sizes 10, 10V, .. ii ' r : - : : v ; :...- Anniversary Sale Price Pair. . . . . , SOFT BOSOM SHIRTS Regular $1.00 quality . assorted colors in stripes cuffs attached. I T Anniversary Sale Price. OUTING FLANNEL'; NIGHT SHIRTS Regular $1.25 value made extra large full heavy weight -with "V" neck. - . V Anniversary Sale Price . i ... . 40c ilar $1.00 ,y only 75c medium foot half 10, ioya, 25c quality 70c Regular .y weight. i 95c Main Floor. ANNIVERSARY SALE of UNDERWEAR WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.00 quality -.medium weight, fine ribbed white .cotton, with high neck, long sleeves and ankle length Stret ton make, open down front. .Sizes 4,' t .:. . OA Anniversary Sale Price. . .V ' OUC WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.00 quality "MUNSING" jersey ribbed light weight cot ton, in white only high neck, long sleeves, an kle length open half way down front. Sizes 4. 5, 6. 7 ft Anniversary Sale Price. - ( ut TrCUtE'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.00 quality, .medium weight, tine ribbed white cotton, with low neck, no sleeves, and ankle length a gar ment that is one of our most popular sellers. Sizes 4, 5, 6. , OA Anniversary Sale Price Out WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.00 quality fine qribbed cotton, fleece lined', in white only high neck, . long sleeves, ankle length. Sizes 5, 6, 7, 8. 7ft Anniversary Sale Price...... wt WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.25 value medium heavy, fine ribbed white cotton high .i neck, long sleeves, ankle length a verv ser viceable garment. Sizes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. QCj. Anniversary Sale Price 7JC WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $1.50 quality -, wool mixed, winter weight in white or gray , hi"h neck, long sleeves, ankle length. Sizes '1. 5. 6. I OA ' Anniversary Sale Price J..iV WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $2.00 value Merode, medium weight about 2-3 wool, in white orily. Sizes 4, 5, 6. C Anniversary Sale Price .... lOJ WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Regular $2.50 quality . silk and wool mixel white only winter weight high neck long sleeves, ankle length. Sizes . 4, 5, 6. QC Anniversary Sale Price: X WOMEN'S VESTS AND PANTS Regular 50c. : ; qualitymedium weight cotton high neck, long sleeves; pants, knee or ankle length. Sizes, 4, 5, 6. ilO Anniversary Sale Price Each. fXiC WOMEN'S VESTS -AND PANTS Regular 50c quality cotton, fleece lined, jersey -ribbed col ors white and gray. Sizes 4, 5, 6. Aft Anniversary Sale Price Each ffaC WOMEN'S VESTS AND PANTS Regular $1.00 quality medium weight cotton vests high neck, long sleeves j pants, ankle length white or gray. Sizes 4, 5, 6. - Oft. Anniversary Sale Price Each . OUC CHILDREN'S VESTS AND PANTS Regular 25e value fleece : lined cotton. Sizes 18 to .30. ' "I O- Anniversary Sale Price Each. ....... X Ov CHILDREN'S SLEEPING GARMENTS Regular 50c quality made of a good grade of outing flannel in pink and blue stripes with or with out feet Anniversary Sale Price Suit ttti, CHILDREN'S MUNSING UNION SUITS Regu lar $1.00 quality cotton and wool mixed. Sizes 1 to 8. - ' ' OA Anniversary Sale Price Suit., Out YOUTHS SWEATERS Regular $1.25 value-r-in gray, with blue,' gray and red trimmings. Sizes 20 to 34. AC- MILLER & - PIN)