The wageworker., 1905-03-31
GENERAL MENTION.

vote for Brown is vote for d
| friend Of organized labor.
Kansas will employ convict labor in
the new state oil refinery.
Register Saturday, April 1, if you
were not registered last fall.
Every time you ask for the label you
drive nail in the coffin of the sweat.
shop.
The California legislature has raised
the child labor age limit from IL to
IA years.
The Minneapolis Bartenders' Union
wants the 1906 convention of the orga-
nization.
| The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany is not fair. Patronize the Postal
Telegraph.
! The miners of Illinois are preparing
to build 100000 headquarters build
| ing at Springfield.
| Mrs. G. W. Armstead of North Bend,
Neb., is the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. w. M. Maupin.
James Leaden is building a new
stroyed by fire last winter.
Lincoln Typographical Union No.
| 2O9 meets at Carpenters hall next
+, Sunday. Nominations are in order.
The second biennial convention of
| the International Association of Glass
workers will meet in New York in
June.
Treasurer O'Connor of Painters
Union No. 381, Fitchburg, Mass, is
in Jail on charge of having made
away with union funds.
| Philadelphia Painters have signed
an agreement for 1905. They get the
closed shop, the eight-hour day and a
slight increase in wages.
| The Benton printing Office is un-
fair. 1t does not employ union print
ers and it's proprietors refuse to recog-
nize the right of men to organize.
/ Business Agent DeLong of the Paint
ers' and Paperhangers' union is too
busy to hunt ducks, which means that
he is about the busiest man in town.
| The Cigarmakers' Unions of this
country are taking vote on the propo-
sition to establish a home for con-
| sumptives in Arizona or New Mexico.
| A press report asserts that Holsters
| are scarce. Not so, dear exchange.
There are plenty of them who claim
| to be union men and never ask for
the label.
| The sales of the Henry George and
George w. Childs cigars are falling
off at a great rate, with a correspond
ing increase in the demand for cigars
bearing the blue label.
| Cheap wages mean cheap men.
Cheap men mean a degraded country.
A degraded country means a lowered
civilization. A lowered civilization
means a return to barbarism.
Free demonstration of the Blanchard
New ethod Baking Saturday even
ing, April 1, at o'clock, Lincoln Gas
& Electric Light Co. demonstration
hall Wives of union men especially
invited.
! The work of organizing an auxiliary
to the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers goes merrily on, and before
long Lincoln will have local that will
accomplish good work in the cause of
unionism.
| The Central Labor Union of Indian
apolis is working out plans for park
for the exclusive use Of labor unions.
This is calculated to make David M.
| Parry throw another series of anti
union fits.
c. B. Fighter has ordered another
mill and will get into the CONNER
cial composition game for fair. The
new mill is a combination affair of
the latest model and will be the finest
Eone in the city.
If you have moved since the last
| election, you must get transfer from
last years voting precinct and regis
| ter again in the precinct where you
| now reside. Saturday, April l., is the
only day for registration.
The physicians of Newark and Lin
| coin counties, Ohio, have organized a
union and adopted a wage scale. The
| first thing we know the ministers will
'get wise" and insist on minimum
scale and a regular pay day.
The Wageworker would like to have
live correspondent in every union
and auxiliary in the city. Look at
what Capital Auxiliary No. IL to Typo
graphical Union No. 209 is doing in
the way of handling the news.
Jesse T. Brilliant, manager of the
Rigeley Merchandise Co., reports that
his annual spring opening was splen-
did success. This company is doing an
increasing business, and is catering es-
pecially to union men and women.
A. L. A. Schiermeyer of the Build
ing Laborers' Union will soon start out
on his wheel for a speaking tour in
the country between Lincoln and Chi
cago. Mr.. Schiermeyer is a socialist,
pleasing speaker and an earnest
worker in the cause OF labor.