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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1910)
A COMMON OCCURRENCE. 9 Playing quare Game It has been said, and we have often repeated, that "the goods Union Men make are the goods Union Men should buy." Naturally this carries with it that in addition to the label the goods are of equal or superior merit. The label adds noth ing to the wearing qualities, but its presence does guarantee superior workmanship at living wages, and sanitary conditions of manufacture. When to these are added the merits of extra good quality of material, superior workmanship and tasty colors and patterns, we have the proper combination. All this we have in our Fine Lines of Union Made Clothes We have earned a liberal patronage from Union Men by selecting from the markets the largest and best lines of Union Made Goods brought to this section. So com plete are these lines that we are ableand always willing to outfit the "Square Man" from head to foot in Union Made articles to wear hat, collar, necktie, shirt, shoes, hose, suspenders, su -t and overcoat. Not alone Union Made, but the acme of style, fit, wear and patterns. Th e Early Barg ain Price Now We again call attention to our method of offering the real bargain price at the very beginning of the season. We have no "Marked Down" sales for. the simple rea son that our prices are marked down at the very be ginning. This gives you the splendid advantage of selection at the beginning of the season and at the bar gain price. No waiting till the fag end of the season when the best selections have been made and you are left to choose from broken lines. Think this matter over. And if you want Union Made goods in the line of Men's Furnishings, we have them, and all of the best. We are content to invite comparison both in quality of goods and in the prices asked. ON THE CORNER SPEIE 10th R & SIMON & O Streets ON THE SQUARE Fairbury Printer's Experience by no Means a Novel One. ' This printer paid for a sewer permit recently paid the city 75 cents for a little piece of paper and upon ex amination found it was printed by Jacob North & (Jo., Lincoln. How's that? Must a printer pay taxes to maintain the 'city and then see the. city officials send to Lincoln for printing? How much taxes does Jacob North 4 Co, pay in "Fairbury? Knowing something of the scale of prices charged in Lincoln, it" is safe to say the job would have been done cheaper and better in Fairbury. Some body forgot. Fairbury, (Nebr.) Jour nal. ; . (Come now, Brer Cramb;" cheer up. Your experience is not a: novel one. Fact is, it is such a common thing that it has ceased to excite our wonder ment. A couple of years ago The Wageworker printed a bully good arti cle advocating the patronage of home , industry. We know it was a bully good article because we wrote it our selves. A couple of days after the paper was out a manufacturing firm right here in Lincoln wrote us a beau tiful letter, thanking us for the article and urging us to continue the good work of boosting Lincoln industries. It made us feel real good, and we were about to reprint the .letter when we happened to notice that the letter head of the firm in question had been printed in St. Louis. Again, the "Lincoln 'Boosters," flaunting the motto, "Let lis all work together for Lincoln," went on another trade excursion last week and the oand they took along was not a Lin coln band, but a band picked up in a country town a hundred miles away because it worked cheap. The Lincoln bandsmen are expected to boost for Lincoln until they starve, as they 'may for all these organized "Lincoln boos ters" seen to care. Human nature, is pretty much the same, Brer Cranub, whether it is ex hibited in the metropolis of Jefferson or in the metropolis of Lancaster. THE MUSICIANS. Forced to Put Royal Highlanders on the Unfair List. Bonnie Doon Castle, Royal High landers, having refused to discontinue,, the use of a "scab" orchestra at its social functions, the Musicians' Union has declared the society unfair. f The Highlanders employed Walt's non-union orchestra for its big func tions, and then sought to square itself by employing union music at its little informal affairs. The union musicians refused to fall for that sort of thing, demanding that the use of non-union music be discontinued. The Highland-' ers declined. Now. the Musicians will act in self-defense, and the facts will be brought to the attention of all union men and women. A GOOD LAW. Texas unionists demand ja law re quiring all railroads in . the state that control or operate 500 miles or more to erect suitable hospitals and mainv tain them for their employes. Without a- strike, employing nprol sterers have sigaed up en increased scale in New York City.'