The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

workingmen engaged in hazardous en-
ployment in the electrical field The
king offers a prize of $4,000 for a
simple and manageable apparatus
which will protect electrical mechanics
from danger incurred in the perform
| ance of their duties.
Z bars Elder-fower soap, Csc; 10 bars
q. c. Soap, Csc; butter, per lb., zoe;
eggs, per doz., 15c; good -four, per sack,
SIC. Saturday. at Bowman's grocery.
The American Smelling and Rein
Ing company, which has four big
shelters in Colorado, is coming to see
the light, and their employees were put
on an eight hour day May 1, and re-
ceived an increase of from 20 to 80
per cent in wages.
The Master Painters association Of
ST. Louis has signed an agreement
with the painters in effect on April
% and continues in force until March
Is, 1908. The wages of house and
fresco painters is increased to SO cents
an hour and the sign and pictorial
painters will receive 56A cents
A report sent out from Raleigh, NJ
G., that the union of woodworkers who
were locked out at High Point had
gone to pieces is not true. Only one
mechanic has gone back and several
non-unionists have joined the union
Letters are being received daily from
manufacturers in other places asking
that men be sent them.
Having sold the Eleventh Street
lunch counter, I opened a table res
taurant on South Twelfth street.
have now removed the tables and put
il a lunch counter; open at a. M and
dinner from II a. M till p. m.
Quick service. Don Cameron, ITO So.
18th st.
The Motorman and Conductor, the
organ of the street car men, reports
general tendency toward an increase
in wages throughout the entire juris-
diction of the association and mark
ed absence of resistance by the COM
panies to proposit IONS embracing :,
more favorable wage scale.
ACI IuC Au5pAlAu6 WdCCAWdIu gu
forth that-We will stand by our
friends and administer singing re-
Duke to men or parties who are either
Indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and
wherever opportunity affords, to Sc
cure the election of intelligent, honest.
earnest trade unionists, with clear, I'M
blemished, paid-up union cards in thei..
possession. Political platform A. F.
LOT L.
Indianapolis: The strike of the
hour has been generally conceded.
Seventy-two members were received
into the Garment Workers Union,
mostly from the recently unionized
Model Shirt company. About Is car
: Ipenters are on strike at the Wonder
land Entertainment Co. because Of the
It employment Of non-unfon painters
Michigan Union Advocate.
s The agreement entered into between
the Pittsburg Street Railway company
It and Division No. IS, of the A. A. s. E
}. r. E. includes that: The hours Of ser.
e vice will be made as near as possible
equal on basis of maximum of II
n hours and minimum of eight hours
;. with 10 per cent leeway, and all runs
completed as near as possible within
S 16 hours. All men shall have reason
n able time to eat. The men shall have
the privilege of putting in the mems
s room at each car house, a bulletin
9 board where notices of the amaiga.
mated association can be posted All
:, regular runs on Sunday working less
r than weekday schedule shall be paid
weekday schedule.
Agreements have been secured with
employers recently in IA cities and
towns in the country by the Brother.
i hood of Painters and Decorators and
$ new locals have been established in
e four cities.