The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Sits of News of Interest TO
Waseworker Readers.

ing.
Lincoln police made ISL arrests dur
ing January.
j. E. Nickel and son Harold, of Har-
yard, were in Lincoln last Sunday.
Rogers e Perkins carry the largest
line of union made shoes in the city
The largest line of union made
shoes in the city at Rogers & Perkins.
Unless a man has unlimited faith he
should never take his meals in a cheap
restaurant.
Smoke Blue Ribbon" cigars and be
happy. Union made by Neville &
Gartner. Ali dealers
AS RE Wageworker goes to press
this week the Electrical Workers are
having their fourth annual ball.
Central Labor Union meets next
7 ,esday evening. Important business
is to be trasnacted. Be there.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made. A delicious smoke. All deal
ers. Made by Neville & Gartner.
Charley Bowen's daughter has been
quite sick for several days, but is re-
ported somewhat better at this writ
ing.
Mrs. S. ]. Kent has returned from
an extended visit in Springfield Ills.
She has fully recovered from her
recent illness.
Charles Wood, an employe of the
Central Granaries Co., was caught in
in elevator belt the other day and
severely bruised.
John T. McCutcheon, the famous
ca, ZIONIST of the Chicago Tribune, will
deliver an illustrated lecture in Liz
coin en- Wednesday evening, February
oS Admission so cents.
William Estes, an employe of the
Lincoln Traction Co., met with pain
full accident last Wednesday. While
repairing a car the motor jacket fell
on him, ornising him painfully.
Val Bach, formerly one of the pub
fishers of The Wageworker, is now
| operating a machine on the Omaha
| Wnrld-Herald. After leaving Lincoln
he spent several months in hospital.
| The American Bottle company, at
| Wooster. O., intends to reopen it's
plant providing it can secure enough
boys. The plant has been closed for
| three years owing to a scarcity of in
| fants.
The former secretary of the Citi-
zens Alliance of Denver is suing the
| president of that body for salary long
past due. The president says the Al
lance is broke, and the secretary says
the president is CRATER.
There are a few subscribers to The
| Wageworker who began with the frst
number, ard whose unions have never
| subscribed. Most of the subscribers
| are now in arrears, and are cordially
invited to call arond and get square.
At Cadiz, Ohio, 200 Poles. who re.
fused to join crowd of Hungarian
miners on strike because the wage
agreement had not been complied with
were attacked by the strikers last
| Wednesday and several men were
| badly hurt.
| W. J. Tobin, cook at the Royal
hotel, met with a serious accident
| Wednesday. While lifting a quarter
| OF beef from a hook his foot slipped
and he fell against hook behind him.
tearing the flesh very badly. He will
be laid up for some time.
i BY order of the International execu-
tive board of the B. and C. W. l. u OF
A., all members and travelling bakers
are informed that the conditions pre-
vailing on the Pacific coast are not
as advertised, especially in eastern
newspapers, by the employers.
The lockout of the union employees
of the Philadelphia Sheet Metal Con
tractors association is attended by
violation of contract by the employers
something not unusual of late, and in
this case also by refusal to abids, by
the terms of an arbitration decision
Garment Workers of Rockford have
secured an increase of wages of from
| 5 to 20 per cent, and a decrease in
hours, fifty-two hours now constitute
ing working week instead of sixty
S. ]. Stern and J. S. Brimm of Chicago
were of great assistance to the officers
Of the local in securing the new agree
ment.
Street railway employees of Peoria
have organized ana secured recogni
ton of the union and better working
| conditions. Heretofore the men have
put in Sunday mornings scrubbins
cars. BY the new agreement the scrub
bling will be done by others. The
agreement carries an arbitration pro
vision.
General Manager Mohler of the
Snon Pacific announces that a line
will be built Immediately between
Stromsburg and Central City, thu.
giving the Union Pacific new Quite
from Kansas City to the northwest
This will probably mean through
trains over the Union Pacific between
Kansas City and Grand Island.
John A. McCullech, who has beer
manager for the Adams Express Co
| OF Mo For ho,