The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-01-13
GENERAL MENTION.

Stick it out little while longer.
C. l.. U. melting next Tuesday even
ing.
Smoke BLUE Ribbon" cigars. Union
made. All dealers.
Rogers & Perkins carry a full line
of union made shoes.
There are over 100000 persons at
present unemployed in London.
No loyal union man will wear non
rnion overalls. Look for the label!
The largest line of union made shoes
in the city may be found at Rogers &
Perkins.
There is said to be an unprecedented
demand for switchmen among the rail-
reads in the west.
Lawrence, Mass, wooden mills will
grant their employees a 10 per cent in
crease in pay at once.
R. s. Elliott, foreman of the Star
stereotyping rooms, spent the holidays
with friends in Beatrice.
Louis 4; Maurin : returned Tuesday
from a weeks visit with his grand
mother in Minden, Nebr.
Chief of Police Cooper is looking for
two or three stalwart, intelligent men
to place on the police force.
Mrs. S. ]. Kent was called to Spring
field, Ills, the first of the week by the
serious illness of her nephew.
j. L. Sullivan, general secretary
treasurer of the Bartenders' union, has
been elected International auditor.
Central Labor Union of Buffalo, N.
Y, will impose fine of 800 upon any
union Withdrawing from the central
body.
There is a well defined movement for
a national organization of school
teachers on trade union lines in the
United States.
Smoke "Blue Ribbon" cigars and be
happy. Made by union cigarmakers in
Lincoln and sold by all dealers. Ne
Vile & Gartner.
The New Zealand government has
just purchased eleven acres of land,
costing $4,000, near Dunedin, for
workmen's homes.
Chicago printers, besides paying lib
eral strike benefits to all members out
for the eight-hour day, are raising a
local defense fund of $4,000.
Six hundred men and 800 girls, en-
ployes of shirt factory, on strike in
Philadelphia, won an increase in wages
and the piece-work system.
The Australian postmaster-general
has stated that he intends to take
STEPS to prevent the sweating of en-
ployes in contract postofices.
Use the Allied Printing Trades
"sticker" on all the bills coming 20
your house without the allied label
thereon Every little bit helps.
The journeymen carpenters of south
ern Massachusetts will, early in the
spring, make a demand for a wage OF
$3.50 day and the union shop.
A federal conference of tobacco
workers, held recently in Sydney, New
South Wales, decided to form an Aus
tralian Tobacco Workers Union
The Central a5cr Union will meet
il regular session next Tuesday even
ing. If your unions delegates have
not been attending, get after them with
sharp stick.
w. J. Hosey, machinist for thirty
two years in the railroad shops at Fort
Wayne, Ind, has been elected mayor
of that city.
The American Federation of Labor
has refused to grant charter to the
National Stogie Makers League be-
cause the trade is so closely identified
with cigar making.
Holding that peaceful .picketing is
not unlawful. Judge Gruman of Rich
mond, Va, dissolved the Injunction
against the striking printers secured
by the Typothetae
1t is estimated that 10000 workers,
with their wives and children, are in a
starving condition in the Baku dis
trict, Russia, as a result of the Tartar
rising and depredations.
1t is said that the A. F. of L. has
expended the sum Of $61 ,694.29 during
the past year in the work of organic
ing, exclusive of printed matter, post
age and other expenditures.
1t is said there are but two mines
i'll Illinois working under non union
conditions and that the operators of
both are losing money through the
inexperienced men employed.
A last echo of the Woodworkers'
strike was heard in Chicago recently
when the Phoenix Parlor Frame COM
pany and the National Parlor Furni-
ture company granted the union shop.
The strike of arsenal employees in
France has been broken up by the
minister of marines circular giving
the men the option of going to work
or having their names struck off the
rolls.
Union cigarmakers affiliated with, the
American Federation of Labor are to
make bitter fight against the intro