The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-24
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Items of Interest From Home
and Other Places.

panion. There's a reason.
Rogers & Perkins carry an immense
line of union made shoes.
The largest line of union made shoes
in the city at Rogers & Perkins.
Omaha Typographical Union No. 1870
is paying 81 and SO to the strikers.
St. Paul BARRIERS are entering a cam
paign designed to advertise their I'M
ion shop card.
If it is union made it will have the
label. Don't take some irresponsible
clerks word for it.
Minneapolis printers are up against
an injunction, and arguments thereon
are slated for tomorrow.
Boston Garment Workers added 800
to their membership last month by a
thorough campaign of organization.
During the month ending November
Is, twenty-eight Typographical Unions
secured contracts for the eight-hour
day.
One hundred and fifty San Fran
force a demand for new wage
schedule.
News comes from Philadelphia that
negotiations are on looking to a set
Element of the strike on the Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The carpenters report the state of
trade unusually good for this time of
year. There are few, if any, idle I'M
| ion carpenters in the city.
The secretary OF the Milwaukee
school board has notified the contract
| ing printers to put the label on all
work done for the board.
The continued fine weather has
been beneficial to the bricklayers.
They have been busy as nailers right
along, and are praying for good
weather right up until Christmas eve.
Chairman Shonts wants to disre-
gard all laws in the building of the
Panama canal and employ coolies
ten hours a day. Shall the coolies
and heightened hours follow the flag?
Don't forget that Bro. Mccoy, whose
advertisement appears elsewhere, is a
union boot and shoemaker and that
he carries a fine line of union made
shoes. Give him a call. He does
repairing. e.... .... ..s....
Wanted -First-class non-union COM
positors.'' You see that advertise
ment every day. It's no use, however.
There are no first-class non-union COM
pcsitors. All the good ones are in
the union.
It's car workers an increase of cents
day, and the men are now hustling
around for available building sites.
They want to put their increased
wage into houses and lots.
The Central Labor Union meets
next Tuesday evening. Let every del
egate be present. All unlonists IN
good standing are eligible to admis-
sion Help make the Central Labor
Union an active and positive force in
the labor movement in Lincoln.
J. S. Bishop has been made chair
man of the council committee on
printing. Mr.. Bishop opposed the I'M
ion label ordinance and waxed faceti-
Gus in explaining his vote. The I'M
ion printers need except no considera-
ton at the hands of Mr.. Bishop.
The building laborers are having
prosperous season. Work continues
good in all departments. The Inter-
urban building and the lincoln Trac-
ton company's improvements make
places for more men than can be Sc
cured. All the idle men in lincoln
are idle froc choice.
Prince louis of Battenburg, the
royal admiral who has just visited
the United States, is a printer by
trade. He visited the Baltimore News
office and the chapel Immediately met
and elected him member. The
prince expressed his delight and made
the printers neat little speech.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers and the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Firemen are meeting with
trouble in trying to secure concessions
from the Grand Trunk railroad. The
committees have been in Montreal six
weeks without accomplishing any
thing, and much uneasiness is felt.
Rain-in-the-Face, the Sioux chief
who was reputed to have fired the
shot which killed General Custer, is
dead at the Standing Rock reservation
in Foreman county. His death &C.
Cured September II, but the fact
only became known to the state autho-
rites today.
The Indian, during his lifetime, gave
the United States troops as much
trouble as any other who ever lived
He always bore the reputation of be-
ing a bad" Indian, and never lost his
hatred for the white man.
Rain-in-the-Face joined Sitting Bull
in his famous uprising, and was one
of the leaders in the battle of the
Little Big Horn river, June 25, 1875,
which is popularity known as the Gus
ter massacre" He always claimed
that he fired the shot which ended
the life of Custer. Rain-in-the-Face
was pure blooded Sioux and was 81
years old at the time of his death.
A hard fighter, maker of trouble,
horse thief, an Indian who would
kill on the slightest provocation, the
best general Sitting Bull ever had I'M
der him in his campaigns, Rain-in-the-
Face was one of the most picturesque,
dangerous and daring chiefs who ever
fought against the troops of the Uni
ted States. He belonged to the Sioux
tribe and was full-blooded member
of it; without a drop of any other In
dian blood in his veins-a fact of
which he was excessively proud.
The Custer massacre was largely
due to his oath of vengeance against
the entire Custer family-an oath re-
sulting from his arrest in the early
| ''7Os by tom" Custer, brother of
| General Custer. Custer arrested Rain
in-theFace for murder in western Da-
r., ONT