The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-01
GENERAL MENTION.
Notes of Labor Garnered From All
Sections of the Country.

Notes of Labor Garnered From All
Sections of the Country.
On to Beatrice.
Monday.
Union made shbes at Rogers &
Perkins.
Typographical Union meets next
Sunday afternoon.
cumseh this week.
Is the label on your shoes, in your
hat and on your 'chews?"
The union label is the bulwark of
the American workingman.
The Central Labor Union meets
next Tuesday evening. Be there.
Miss Maud Spence of Omaha is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Erstine King.
The largest line of union made
shoes in the city at Rogers & Perkins.
If your dealer does not handle
Blue Ribbon" cigars, call up Neville
& Gardner.
Smoke BLUE Ribbon cigars
Union made. Manufactured by Ne
vile & Gardner
Of all typesetting machines in use
in the United States and Canada, S5.3
per cent are operated by union
printers.
President Woodland of the Carpen-
tiers was ill several days this week,
but managed to keep going in the in
terest of the Labor Day excursion.
The Pressmen's Union is feeling
quite chesty these days. The member
ship has been increased, the interest
renewed and the work of the union
quickened.
The municipal government at Beau
mont, Tex. employs union labor on
all buildings and repair work, and the
Woman's Label League is actively en-
gagged in agitating the union label.
The Union Pacific train for Beatrice
leaves from the Fourth street station
at 1925 a. M, and returning leaves
Beatrice at Z p. m. Fare for the
round trip Labor Day is 80 cents, chill
dren half price.
Henry Schnasse, web press helper
at the Free Press Office, has taken out
a helpers card in the union This
makes the Free Press press room all
union. Schnasse is laying off now to
nurse a sore foot. He let door fall
on it.
A resolution recently moved by a
Socialist member in the parliament of
Holland, calling for maximum g.
hour workday for miners, was defeat
ed by So to % votes, in spite of the
fact that in 1903 the government
promised this reform.
Colored cooks have been displaced
by white men on all the dining cars
OH the Union Pacific railroad. Criti-
cisms have been made that, while the
colored mans cooking might be of a
superior quality, he was not clearly
and painstaking as the white man in
his travelling kitchen.
The West Australian government
has taken steps to reduce the amount
of labor carried on in the gold mines
OIL Sunday. Certain work is necessary
on Sunday, but the practice has
grown into an evil, and a course has
been adopted which will prevent the
system of permits for Sunday labor
being abused.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers is making great preparations
for the rally in Lincoln on September
1929. Grand Chief Stone has promised
to be present, and other distinguished
members of the Brotherhood will as
sist to make the occasion one long to
be remembered.
Lord help the millionaire! There is
Rockefeller with no appetite; Morgan
is so restless that he can't stay long
in one place; Carnegie has long been
a sufferer from dyspepsia, and the rest
OF em are dying with envy because
they are not as rich as the three of
them. Blessed be bacon and beans
and health, with the grace Of God!-
Wichita Eagle.
Some days those 'divinely appointed"
guardians who now have a monopoly
possession of the gifts of nature will
be called upon to relax their grip or
surrender altogether. There is an
impression now undergoing the pro-
cess of percolation which seriously
threatens this assumption of divine
inheritance" by the few, while the
many suffer-Trades Unionist.