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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1910)
GO IT, ARIZONA! WW If THE SKIRT STORE, 121 No. 11th Announce Their Annual Clearing Sale. The Sale you have been waiting for. The sale that means so much to every economical woman, a sale of dependable Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Petticots and Shirt Waists. Not goods that were bought for sale purposes, but Coats and Suits of the famous Redfern and Sunshine makes, at 1-2 price and many instances much less than 1-2 price. Never were goods of such a quality put on the market at such prices. The size of our store will not permit us to carry over a single article. Owing to our crowd ed condition we are compelled to sacrifice every Coat, Suit, Dress, and Skirt in the house at about the cost of the raw material. A big line of Suits and Coats, dersiable materials and sensible styles, $15.00 values for $5.00 A big lot of skirts worth up to $6.00 for : $2.00 Coats and Suits, former values $35 and $40, at. ..$10.00 and $12.00 We can not expect to do the selling through the ad, all all we can say is come the Skirt Store and save 60 to 75 per cent on your purchases. THE SKIRT STORE, 121 No. 11th Call Bill's Bluff and Make Him Show His Hand. Arizona goes to the bat with the recall on all servants of th people, notwithstanding the en deavor to put the judiciary above any responsiblity to the people. Indications point to a spasm of virtue on the part of Taft and the U. S. Senate that will respect the constitution if the people of Arizona pass it, which they are very likely to do. Arizona called the bluff of Roosevelt when he told her that she absolutely must vote in favor of being admitted with New Mexico as one state, or stay out for fifty years. She ob solutely refused to be bluffed. The very best thing that could happen Arizona would be for Taft to kick her in the face, and the U. S. Senate to jump on her, and a lot of U. S. Senators bite" the dust who did the jumping. Go to it, Arizona, old gal, and demand your rights and maintain them. Don't allow the republican has-beens and corporation sena tors to bluff you down for a min ute. Stay with them till skating is good on the Yuma river, and Phoenix has five feet of snow. Portland Labor Press. WHAT IS "IT?" "The Mutual Protective League is "IT" WHY? RATES ARE ADEQUATE, PLANS ARE CORRECT. C E. CAMPELL, State Manager. Auto Phone 6180 LABOR BRIEFS. ment of the Christmas rush, De livery Wagon Drivers of Chica go won their demands, and after the first of the year will settle on a scale of Wages for 1911 and 1912. Meanwhile hours are re duced, pay increased, union recog nized and discharged men rein stated. Business goes on just the same. Working women of Washing ton will strenuously demand a law making eight hours the limit for women throughout the state. Get the initiative, girls, and enact the law for vourselves. Small Bits of News Gathered From Rany Where. The workers in white goods, mostly underwear, in New York, are the most poorly paid and vile ly treated of all the working wo men in the country. The pros pects are that there will be a very extensive strike among them in a few months, and then we shall see where the church people come in and go out on the labor question. Backed by the Citizens' Al liance, the Denver Rock Drill & Machinery company of Denver asks for injunctions forbidding the Machinists from doing anything but breathe in their strike and boycott of this institution, i It has broken its word with organ ized labor repeatedly, and started fight after fight, only to capitu late and start again. By striking at the commence- The members of the building trades of Toronto, Ont., will in the near future discuss the adop tion of some means to prevent the stealing of tools on buildings. Strikers in Chicago have taken to watching the policemen and reporting their individual viola tions of regulations and laws. It might be followed elsewhere. cured if this last power is made first. The Order of Railroad Teleg raphers will soon erect a 15-story building of their own at Nash ville, Tenn., having recently bought the ground. Labor organizations in Spo kane will unite upon one man for one of the five city councilmen if the new charter is adopted on tlje 28th. The Spokane Spokesman-Re view has signed up a five-year contract with the Stereotypers The entire plant is now unionized, The International Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators re cently organized a new local un A movement is under way in Spokane to make the 28th of De cember a general holiday in order to get out the workingmen to vote for the new charter. Where the members of the un ion distrust their officers ,and therefore refuse to accumulate a strong defense fund, the least trouble breaks them up. Organized labor in Massachu setts has 16 measures to present to the legislature this winter, of which the most important is for the direct legislation by the peo ple. All the others can be se- During the last year 2,000 new members have been added to the ion at Sioux Falls, S. D. Some of the "escorts" provided for strikebreakers by the manu facturers m Chicago are notorious white slavers. Operative Plasterers' Internation al Association. New Westminster, B. C, labor men will put a labor candidate in the field at the next municipal election. New York Bricklayers demand an increase of five cents an hour. The differences will be arbitrated. The lower the dues the weaker the union. Demand the Union Label. WHAT'S THE MATTER? The unionists of Los Angeles are fighting for the simple right to have an equal voice with em ployers in the disposition of their labor. Ihey are going hungry to defend this righteous orinciole. They are being jailed without warrant, beaten by brutal police men and railroaded to prison for contempt. Heard any Los An geles ministers denouncing the brutalities practiced upon the wage earners who love justice enough to die in its defense if necessary. Heard any prayers being offered up in behalf of the men who are making a gallant fight against greed and oppres sion? Any collections taken up in Los Angeles churches to feed the women and children who get just as hungry in Los Angeles as the heathen s do in China or In dia? Mighty palatial churches in Los Angeles. Lofty spires, gild ed roofs, stained glass windows, pipe organs, cushioned pews evrv thine calculated to make de votional exercises quite as easy as sitting in one s comfortable home. But all the practical re ligion that seems to be coming from such churches does not. ap parently, go very far towards al leviating the distress forced upon the wage earners of the city of Los Angeles by the greed and rapacity of the men who occupy the front pews. The steam engineers interna tional recently organized a union at Saginaw, Michigan. The striking taxicab drivers in San Francisco are receiving the support of the labor unions.