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133 So 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
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GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits of News Picked and Pilfered
From Manywhere.
Job printers still " negotiating in
Spokane.
. iiicic flic oUjtiio w ui ivii v y men
in Germany. ;
Theatrical choristers in Australia
have formed a union.
At Hamburg, Germany, 3611 metal
workers have gone on strike.
Missouri has an employers' liability
law before the voters in November.
In Connecticut the courts are being
used to fight the striking Cloak-makers.
A strike of Shoeworkers in Salem,
Mass., has been won by 1,400 members.
A co operative store in Milan does
a business of $1,250,000 a year. '
Government telephones in Western
Canada are -successful and reasonable
in charges.
Musicians in Spokane have refused
to withdraw from unfair restaurants
where Waiters are on strike
The striking Ooakmakers in many
cities have won out since New York
s went fair; and Denver is the latest.
Lumber mills in Montana have shut
down to the extent of over 75 per cent,
f i' . o I o t it'i i - . ..
nient.
A homo is to be established in Calif
ornia for the aged and infirm members
of the International Marble Workers'
Court proceedings have again dis
closed the fact that much of the Anti
Saloon . League's money comes from
John D. , ..
Contending factions of building
trades have tied up operations in New
York for a week This kind of war-
r
fare is very foolish. 'x
Iron Moulders will hereafter ex-v
change cards with -unions in. a number
of different countries 4n Europe. " j
Organized labor in Stockton, 'Cal., re- i
cently built a house by voluntary-labor
for a widow - who lost her home by
fire t . ' ;
A number of Los Angeles employers
are going broke fighting unions The
big fish eat, the little ones better in
such contests. V
There is no question but what the
initiative and referendum was adopted
by 30,000 majority of those voting on
the measure in Arkansas.
- A co-operative laundry estabished
by union men in Los Angeles has been
captured by., "open shop" employers
and is (fighting the union.
The government printing office in
Washington ras 4,000 employes, , prints
50,000,000 books and documents a year
and consumes $1,000,000 worth of
white paper 'annually
Denver Waiters in a swell hotel re
cently struck against the impositions
practiced on them by the proprietor.
He required them to eat only refuse
and scraps . "rl-'C : '''
The paperhangers of Nashville,1 Tenn.
have won their strike, whieh'was 'in
augurated several weeks ago, when the
employers refused to sign the' new wage
scale. . - - " -V
The garment" workers of Texas ask'
the legislature to pass a- law requiring
all prisoirinade garments intended for
general market labeled as being made
by convict labor.
The unfair breweries in Los Angeles
.are selling; it for just enough to pay
the revenue stamp, and still the stuff
is a drug on the market.
Omaha cold storage, plants; hold 4,
000,000 dozen eggs and will boost
prices The farmers don't gain, the
workers don 't gain who buy those
eggs. Who does?
In New York City there are now 120
union shops and 280 non-union, employ
ing 8,000 union and , 5,000 non-union
necktie workers respectively.'
Texas unionists demand a law re
quiring all railroads in the state that
control or operate 500 miles or tmore
to . erect suitable hospitals and main
tain them for their employes
The governor of Ohio has appointed
a noted professional strikebreaker as
a delegate to the Prison Congress.
Labor is asked to indorse Harmon for
president. V ' -, .
Since the " successful strike of the
Ooakmakers in New York several hun
dred dressmakers have won out after
a brief and exciting contest. - . v
French labor organizations are fight
ing highs food prices, which it is
claimed are higher than necessary be
cause of combinations and petty mon
opolies. With skilled building tradesmen- in
abundance all around the town con
tractors for Walla Walla buildings con
tinue to advertise in Portland for
mechanics. ,
. Signal men on the New York Central
recently settled - with . til company
after a walk-out. The company made
concessions of all essential points de
manded. ., . ;
The shipping trust in Europe has
10,000 slaves branded so that they anay
be dragged back to the ships wherever
found . The brand is with ink, but it
cannot be gotten rid of for some
months. Hot irons may be used next.
Conviets in Colorado are placed upon
honor and worked on the roads. They
justuy tne claim tnat men will work
if well treated, and can be depended
upon not to break away. Most crimi
nals are . victims rather than vieious.
Some arffuments are heinc- advanced
for government railroads jin Alaska.
The Saeramento Bee observed v,that
these arguments apply with tenfold
force to government railroads in the
United States.
Some peculiar people are wondering
how it is that Teddy has no grand
children although , his daughter -has
been married three years. Does she
believe in the awful doctrine of "fewer
children and better?"
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It is said that a sort of boycott is
being operated by the Douglas 'Shoe
Company on all labor papers that re
fused its ads during the late unpleas
ntness between that rm and the
union. . .3 - '
Courts have f orbidden passing of lit
erature or picketing by the strikers
in Columbus. The injunction is a
sweeping denial of the rights of free
speech, free press and free assemblage.
Japs have captured the garden and
berry markets of Los Angeles, estab
lished commission houses and ; are
crowding these latter off the, earth.
The "open'.' shops of all kinds are
seekincr .Tan labor in this ancroWe pitv -
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and its leading paper is applauding
every lick that the Jap loversare giv
ing organized American labor.
LABOR TEMPLE AFFAIRS.
Directors Fail to Meet Owing to Ab
sence From City.
Several members of the board of
directors of the Labor Temple Associa
tion were absent from the city last
Monday night, and as a result a quo
rum iwas not on hand. ' There was no
AVll.m. Vk.-i4 4ln '-I .n.t n .
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present talked things over. A letter
was read from Julius Pepperberg, the
well known cigar manufacturer, sub
scribing for a handsome block of Labor
Temple stock. Mr. Pepperberg 's letter
appears elsewhere, and the directors
are hoping that his example will be
pretty generally followed.
The 'board will meet next Monday
night, and every director is expected
to be on hand when the gavel falls. The
plumbers will be represented by a new
delegate at the next meeting, Director
Pickard having been compelled to re
sign on account of continued employ
ment outside of the city. The board -regrets
Pickard 's resignation, because
he was a worker while he was able
to attend the meeting. Especially is it
to be regretted that he resigned before
foe, succeeded in having that light in
the hall spotted in the center.
IS THIS SARCASM?
The Wageworker of Lincoln, Nebras
ka, is after a fellow by the name of
Ellis who has been touring the country
and forging checks on that paper. The
Wageworker is lucky few labor papers ,
have bank accounts. Oklahoma. Labor
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