The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-11-30
GENERAL MENTION.
Intere sting Items Mostly. Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

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Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union label-that'S all.
Look for the union label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
Electrical workers and polishers
have been organized at Clinton, Iowa.
Carpenters in ST. Joseph Mo-, say:
'The open shop is a past issue with
us.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
The Grand Trunk, which has been
wedding" out it's conductors, may be
called upon to prove its charges.
Three hundred policemen in New
York city have set out to organize all
the men on the force, when they Will
ask for an eight-hour day
The total membership of the Ma
chinsts' Union in Philadelphia has in
creased fully 20 per cent since the
increase in dues took effect on the 1st
of January.
Terre Haute, Ind, Typographical
Union has signed a new scale cover
ing period of three years-$1.50 in
crease Immediately and $3.50 on No
vember /, 1907.
Illinois and Missouri lead the coun-
try in the amount OF prison made
goods they place on the market. ILL
nois produces in value far more than
any other state.
The Foresters' Companion, a month
ly paper printed in Philadelphia for
the Order of the Foresters of America,
has submitted to the inevitable and is
now being printed in fair Office.
The iron molders, machinists and
metal polishers have been supplanted
in the Pope Manufacturing company
in Toledo by professional strike
breakers and several incompetents.
The iron molders in Pittsburg are
paying an assessment of 81 a week to
create defense fund for the impend-
ing struggle with the Foundrymen's
Association, whose members have de-
clared for the open shop.
The threatened trouble between the
Bricklayers and Masons' International
Union and the Operative Plasterers'
Union is now a thing of the past, an
agreement having been reached be-
tween the two bodies.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv-
etside Base Burner. There is abso-
lutely no stove on the market that
will furnish as much heat for the
amount of coal consumed as will the
Riverside. Sold exclusively by Hoppe
a. los North Tenth street.
Machinists have received encourag-
ing news from the Santa Fe. The di-
rectors of that road have refused
the request of Hendricks that he be
empowered to purchase more engines,
and told him to fix up some of the 700
or 500 engines standing on hospital
tracks along the system.
The building trades are enjoying
prosperity in Cincinnati. Lathers re-
port everybody working-even
father" Plumbers and painters are
exceptionally busy for this time of
year The latters wage scale COM
mittee held conference with the
bosses and practically agreed upon
everything.
A labor party has been formed in
Tokyo. Japan. The new party's pro,
gram includes opposition to monopo-
lies, and favors universal male and
female suffrage, general increase OF
wages and reduction of hours, the
abolition of capital punishment and OF
titular distinctions, fundamental re-
form in taxation and arbitration in all
international questions.
There are in the Briclllayers' and
Masons International about 10000
plasterers, of whom between 1900 and
5000 are exclusively plasterers. These
members who are plasterers only are
in towns where there is no local union
of the Operative Plasterers' Associa
ton. The membership of the Opera
tive Plasterers' International is be
tween 1900 and $4,000.
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