The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-09
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

0ItSus SoSob oFss~s
Demand the label.
The union label-thats all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Central Labor Union meets Tuesday
night
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
The glovemakers of Lincoln should
organize without further loss of time.
If it hasn't got the label it isn't
"iust as good" for the union man or
woman.
BLUE Ribbon cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
THE Kilties" band, which appeared
at the auditorium Wednesday night, is
made up of union musicians.
Billy" Emberson, as square as they
make 'em, has the contract for put
ting the new front in the Senate
Boost the union labor fair. Tell
your merchant what a good chance 1t
affords him to reach the unionists of
the city,.
Bill posters have recently granted
a charter to a union at Providence,
r. /. The membership is steadily in
creasing.
The Volkszeitung job Office, at ST.
Paul, Mimi, has signed the eight
hour agreement, thereby securing
some printers.
There are enough candymakers in
Lincoln outside of the Greeks and
Italians, to organize a union, and they
ought to get busy.
Newark, N. j., trades unionists are
to have labor temple. In the same
city subscription of 100000 has been
raised to start daily labor paper.
The George E. Howard Publishing
company, the most important Typothe-
tae shop in Washington, signed an
eight hour contract. All rats were
discharged.
Thirty non-union printers struck in
the non-union print shop of John p.
Morton & Co., of Louisville. Ky. 1t
must, indeed, be a sorrowful state of
affairs when non-unionists desert their
jobs.
At the last meeting of the Pittsburg
Association of Patternmakers' League
of North America twelve new mem
bers. were initiated and applications
from over dozen more were re.
ceived.
Mitchell day." October 30. was gen.
orally celebrated throughout the min
ing regions in Pennsylvania. Presi.
dent Mitchell addressed mass meeE
ing of the miners of the Panther
Creek valley.
The strike goes merrily on for the
plumbers in Kansas City. For the
other fellows it is quite another story.
One by one the employers have been
falling into line, until 40 journeymen
are now at work.
Three firms at Baltimore. Nd,
against whom papers for injunction
were filed for the illegal use of the
United Garment Workers of America
label have "caved in" and are union
izing their factories.
Machine printers and color mixers
have a movement on foot for the short
Ell work day, which is gradually COM
ing without sacrifice on the part of
the members of our organization.
Trade conditions excellent.
Wod carvers have secured an
agreement giving a so cent a day in
crease to the men in New York city.
They have won a strike for increased
wages in all shops but two in the city
of Boston. Their membership is in.
creasing.
The International Cigarmarkers UNI
ion has 100000 in the treasury. The
members pay the highest dues of any
union in the country. which may ex-
plain why their union is so strong and
prosperous and it's members so enthus-
iastic and loyal.
The teamsters of Chicago have re-
organized and are now said to num-
Der 5000 members. They are prepar-
ing a wage agreement calling for
scale of SIS a week for drivers of
single wagons, SIG for teams, SIT for
three-horse wagons and SIS for four
horses.
Though conducting themselves in
law-abiding, peaceable manner, the
forty Bell telephone linemen on strike
in Sedalia, Mo-, were served with in.
junction papers, restraining them