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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1910)
GENERAL MENTION Deliberately Swiped from the Progres sive Portland Labor Press. :Many of these dknamite stories from Los Angeles smell fishy. Oklahoma votes ujhju woman's suf rage and local option at the Novem ber election. New York spends $35,000,000 a year on charity. It costs money even to be poor is Gotham. Tinsjuiths in New York have won out for union conditions after a five weeks' strike. The Tobacco Trust has gobbled up 200 drug stores at a gulp. Going ,to have a trust in that line, too. Th legislative committee; of -the Central. Labor iCouncil of Spokane will attend all sessions of the new charter commission. John Z. White, the well known ad vocate of direct legislation and of the single 'tax, is speaking throughout Col orado. The toll of death on non-union elec tric roads is something even cold blooded capitalists are taking note of in the east. John Dietz, the Wisconsin fighter for his home against the lumber trust, ha3 asked that Clarence Darrow be se cured to defend him, and it is said that Darrow will do so. The Australian governing Labor party has deciided to place by direct referendum to the people the ques tion of extending the nationalization of industries and monopolies. The candy workers of Paris arc out on a strike. Nearly all girls. They re wagiug a militant class con scious struggle against under pay and overwork, and for the Tight to or ganize. Seattle linns have lost the building of a vessel by being underbid by a Ran Francisco ifirm employing uniou men- The nonunion men and im ported strikibreakers come high. The Dominion Trade and Labor Con gress meeting recently at Fort Wil liam strongly indorsed the proposed law to allow vitics and towns fro as sess improvements at lower rates than land values. . The Albuquerque Tribane-Citizen says that the people of New Mexico will vote down the new constitution unless the initiative is provided for ac cording to the pled'ges of a (majority of the delegates elected. The job printers 'of New York City have signed up a new acle for five years. A gradual increase each year is provided for until the last year it will be $27 a week for both hand and machine men for night work. The attempt of the employers of New York Oity to break up the brick layers has met with complete failure The union demands are granted and hereafter the bricklayers will be in closer accord with other .trades, as well as with the builders. With the accession of the Tacoma Labor Advocate by the Central Labor Council came 2000 subscriptions from unions and' union men. The paper is row a power for good in Tacoma, and should have every union man within ten miles of the city on its subscrip tion lists. A New York philanthropist has been securing lots of free advertising for hi chain of department stores by sell- M Work for ing pure milk at cost. Now lit appears that he is like all the "open shoppers" and underpays to the limit. iSome of them are out on strike. American Industries, the organ of the ' ' open shop ' ' and union fighters in the United States, charges that Sam uel Gompers was responsible for the Los Angeles explosion! Such class hatred is a deplorable outcome of the nationwide attempt to break up or ganized labor. While Galveston has a clean and efficient commission form of govern ment it does not grow. This is not the fault of its government, but be cause of the monopoly of its water front by a combine formed of Tail road and corporation interests. This combine slowly chokes out and dis courages (trade and commerce. Recently a concern publishing the Guide in New York City locked out 353 union printers. Wanted longer day, shorter day, and other lin variable accompaniments of the "open shop." In a few days the concern signed up an agreement to pay $1 a week more and $1 a week more each year for five years. It found the typographical ar tists were true blue all through, and not a scab in the bunch. NEW ZEALAND LABOR PARTY. A recent Trade and Labor Union Congress, held at Auckland (N. Z), composed solely of representatives of industrial organizations, has given birth to an independent labor party, free from the trammels of all other parties, in New Zealand. A progres sive platform has been adopted which, among other . planks, includes : Im mediate . nationalization of monop olies; no further sale of Crown lands; tenants' right to improvements; grad uated land tax; state bank; abolition of legislative council; right to work; equal pay for equal work for imalt3 and females; afid state assistance n. maternity. s R Republican Candidate For The Legislature from Lancaster County. HE EMPLOYS McKelvte ACME SCHAUPP For Cooking Gireein The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium LINCOLNNEBRASKA For non contagious ebronic disease. Larfeet, beat equipped, most beautifully furaiahed. CONGRESSMAN ; MAGTJTRE. Justice to Congressman Maguiire, rep resenting this district, impels the state ment that his every vote in congress was recorded on the side of the people, lie supported every labor bill that the American Federation of Labor was in terested in. THE BOOKBINDERS. Chicago Craftsmen Win Notable Tri ;" umph in Their Negotiations. An agreement containing the "closed shop" clause and a raise in .wages of $1.50 a week, has just been reached between the Bookbinders ' union and the Chicago Employing Printers' asso ciation and Master Bookbinclew. ICelvie 8 UNION LABOR - .. - - M Nov. 8th. COAL COAL CO. and Heating. Gables This is looked upon as a notable victory for the bookbinders, who have been in conference with the employers . for some time. Hereafter the "mini- mum iwage will 'be $19.50 instead of $18 a week. . The organization also made some . changes in the apprentice regulations and will hereafter control all check book and manifold work which here-, tofore has been done by boys. - The new agreement goes into effect immediately and will expire on Sept. 30, 1913, at the same time that all the ' other contracts in the printing trades come to an end. , . . . The ' agreement covers - forty-five shops in the city, no shop of any im portance being left out. 4 : :