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-
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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.
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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.
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UNION LABOR
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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.
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