GENERAL MENTION
Brief Bits of Labor News Picked Up
Heie and There
Wages in Brazil and Chile averages
80 cents a day.
; Spokane printing trades are in a new
allied trades council.
The Canadian Pacific railway em
ploys hands to the number of 76,000.
Every man engaged in hauling coal in
Boston belongs to the union.
Europe is far ahead of the United
States in providing pensions for civil
employees.
Chicago, 111. Typographical Union Y as
voted $500 for the striking coal miners
of Illinois.
It is said that the Chinese make 75 to
80 per cent of the blue flannel shirts in
San Francisco.
Among the trade unionists about fO
per cent are unemployed, even during
prosperous years.
The pay roll of Krupps in May last
numbered 63,905 men, an increase oi
about 5,000 in two years.
The total number of persons idle in
England as a result of labor disputes is
200,000.
Owning their own railroads, several
Australian states propose to establish
steamer lines to Europe.
Government owned and operated tele
phone lines are being reconstructed and
extended in British Columbia.
The San Francisco Labor Council is
organizing a union label league for the
purpose of increasing the demand f oi
the union label.
By order of the prime minister of
Australia all public exhibits of trophies
and instruments of war are packed
away out of sight.
With automobiles geared to hit the
road at 140 miles an hour, and doing it
for a few miles, the GO mile auto crank
begins to feel like a has-been.
The National Sailors and Firemen's
Union of New England complains that
the ship owners refuse to agree to the
establishment of a conciliation board.
. Brand Whitlock, mayor of Toledo, O.
has ordered the instant dismissal of anj
policeman interfering with any public
meeting of any kind.:
A recent election in Germany to fill a
vacated seat in the Reichstag was won
by a Socialist, who was elected on the
issue of the divine right of kings.
The union 'pressmen on the Denver
morning papers struck recently. The
". papers are being issued in reduced size
on old -style presses.
The Hazel Brook Colliery of J. S.
Wentz & Co., employing about 500
hands, resumed operations recently,
after being in idleness since July for
repairs.
From 1845 to 1907 Germany, paid in
old age pensions and sick ani accident
benefits three hundred and sixty million
dollars. In pensions to working people
Germany leads the world.
New York city has just Completed a
million dollar armory, Taut it has 3,000
children unable to go to school for want
of buildings' called school houses, New
York is civilized too. ;
In the New South Wales (Australia)
Industrial Court recently Judge Heydon
fined the N. .-. castle' Municipal Council
The Most and
at LOWES
THE HUMPHREY GAS ARC LAMP,
Is Not an Experiment
Lincoln Gas & Electric Light Co,
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3, with 7 cost, for a breach of the
painters' award.
South Australia's Labor Government,
in order to encourage native industry,
has decided where it is possible it will
orocure materials from within the Com
monwealth. Machinists of the Baltimore & Ohio
and Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
railroads who went on strike a year
ago, will be reinstated. No announce
ment of the terms of settlement was
made.
The fighters of unions in New York
have fled to Connecticut and hope there
to rally round the flag of lower wages,
slave labor and child killing.. The
courts are helping them in the Nutmeg
state.
Printers in Calcutta, India, recently
went on strike in the government offices
and paralized the departments, after
which a few old mossbacks and digni
taries had to grant the demands and
remedy abuses of long standing.
BOOSTING BKXDWELL.
Omaha Plumbers Want Comrade Ele
vated to Vice Presidency.
Beeently John Parmentier of Buffalo,
N. Y., fifth vice president of the United
A ssociation of Journeymen Plumbers,
Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters and Steam
Fitters Helpers, passed into the great
beyond. This has necessitated the elec
tion of a successor, and the Omaha
local is pushing one of -its members,
Henry, L. BridwelLfor, Jtheposition.-
Mr. Bridwell has been a member
of No. 1 6 at' Omaha for a, ntunbyer
of years -a.nd fpr throe years last past'
has been financial eecretary and busi-n-css
-acnt. -AVhereycr. he. h:.. bcfJ
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Hundreds of thousands of them are
lighting the best stores of the world.
tried out he has made good, and he
commands the respect and con5den.ee
of all with whom he , comes in con
tact. The membership of No. 16 guar
antees that he will make good if elee
ted to the fifth vice presidency. The
endorsement of sister locals throughout
the central district is. solicited by -the
Omaha, local. Mr. Bridwell's candi
dacy is being pushed to the limit.
THORNBURG, LEADER.
Well Known Musician Now Heads Or
chestra at Lyric Theatre.
Grant Thornburg, secretary of the
Musician's Union -ind one of the best
known musical directors in this section
of the country, has been selected to
lead the orchestra at the Lyric theatre.
This means that the Lyric orchestra
will continue to ,be one of the best
treatre orchestras in the west. Mr.
Thornburg has numerous pupils in Lin
coin and nearby towns and is kept
busy all the time. But he is s never
.too busy to pause and say a few words
for unionism wherever he may be. He
has been the efficient secretary of tha
Musicians' Union for a long time.
The Musicians will meet next Sun
day and a full attendance is desired
as election of officers for the ensuing
year is to be had on that date.
LABOR'S MIGHTY ARMY.
There are affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor 120 Interna
tional Trades Unions, with" their 27,
000 ;Labor . Unsons; thirty-nine State
Federations, 632 City Central Bodies,
and 688; LocaL -Trade rand Federal La
tboi Unions-: having no ' Internationals.'
ThTe aTe. 1;456 -vol irteer and ?peial
ora 'i.'V.-as -"V1 us : tlio, LSecrs . of
Light
COST
the unions and of. the American Fed
eration of Labor itself, alwaya will
ing and anxious to aid their fellow
workmen to organize and (in every
other way better their conditions.,
v ORGANIZED CHARITY.
A study of the report of the Organ
ized Charity Society of Lincoln will
be interesting. ItT will reveal that
one-half the , money received by the
poHety is expended in salaries; also
that it requires about $4.50 to investi
gate and extend help to each v appli
cant. One-fifth of the revenues- of
the society is derived from the sale
of clothinr donated to the eociety by
the charitably inclined. ;
THE CHRISTMAS WAGEWORKER.
The Christmas edition of The Wa?e-
worlter will be issued on December 16,
usual with The Wageworker's spec
ial editions it will be a hummer with
horns and a seven-time winner. Cover
in colors with a Christmas poem there
on by Will M. Maupin, thirty-two o1:
more pages,- handsomely- illustrated,
and replete with interesting reading
matter and still more interesting an
nouncements of Christmas bargains in
Lincoln stores.
THEY GOT EVEN.
Governor Draper " of ', Massachusetts
vetoed an eight-hour work-;. .day bill,
and just .to .get .even .tha trade union
ists of the Old : Bay State got busy
with their pencils on-election day and
elected his Democratic opponent by a
handsome , majority;-; Ties J t ifcet pre
seriptfoa .that', effects: a cure.-rEansas
City Labor. Herald. . . :