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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
UNION BANQUET HELD.
Members Of the Various Unions Are
Banqueted at Eagle Restaurant.

That Will Maupin of The Wage
worker never does things by halves
was demonstrated to the Central Labor
Union LIST Monday night when it's
members, to the number of dozen or
more. We're Toasted by the Wagework-
er's representatives at the Eagle res
taurant.
The function was an informal one,
but the spread was sumptuous, and in
stead Of toasts the members present
ably discussed the affairs of the vari-
GUS labor unions and the best methods
for their upbuilding.
Every member present expressed his
ideas and the consequence of opinion
was that renewed and greater effort
should be made to increase interest
and membership in the several unions
in the city.
Commendatory remarks were made
Of the Wageworker and of the good
work it's editor Is doing in the cause OF
organized labor a9d,,it was resolved
that all members n NE various unions
SHOULD give Will M leanpin their sup.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
THE TRANSFERS.
Still Hammering Away and Keeping
Up the Good Work.

Still Hammering Away and Keeping
Up the Good Work.
Despite manifold discouragements
the Transfers Union continues to do
business at the old stand A renewed
interest is being manifested in the
work of the union. and it has been de-
termined to make an effort to secure
the cooperation of the ice men and
the transfer drivers. An especial e:.
fort will also, be made to secure tie
cooperation Of the men who drive the
brewery wagons.
The Transfers have not received
from other unions the help that they
deserve Ii Union men and women
will insist on having union Transfers
deliver their coal and building mo-
terial, and will insist on having their
household goods transferred by union
men, it will be splendid help to the
Transfers Union. And the union de-
serves this support.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
GENERAL MENTION.
Brief Bits Of News Crbbed from Our
Live Exchanges.

Springfield Plumbers are asking an
increase OF soc day.
A new union of Granite Cutters has
been chartered at Springfield.
Newsboys of Galesburg have organ
lied with a membership of so.
Every mill in Atlantic City, N. j.,
was manned by Trades Unionists.
Union Molders in Freeport have
been conceded 10 per cent advance
in wages.
Dayton, o., local unions initiated 173
new members in few days recently.
Sixteen local unions Of Carpenters
and Joiners were chartered during tn,
month OF February.
A gain in membership OF 27,774 in
three months is the record Of the
United Mine Workers.
Bricklayers ana Masons OF Allen
town, Pa, will receive an increase Of
wages Of cents an hour.
The Industrial Workers of the World
are trying to break up the Garment
Workers Union in Buffalo
The International Brotherhood OF
Woodsmen and Sawmill Workers has
established hospital at Eureka, Cal.
Chicago Electrical Workers recently
paid death benefit Of 1880. each
member of the organization paying 81.
The Secretary of the United Labor
Council OF Youngstown. Ohio. has been
elected President of the City Council.
AS a result OF u conference between
COMMITTEES representing the Chicago
Building Contractors association and
the Associated Building Trades 1t was
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06

decided to ignore factional disturb
ances between the stone cutters. They
must either settle their differences OF
be ostraoised.
A uniform rate of $40 for eight
hours has been established by the
Printers in Pittsburg. Allegheny and
surrounding towns.
I Springfield Painters asked for 4Oo
an hour and compromised on a71kc
Sixteen firms. including all the large
shops, have signed. @
! Union PAYERS and Rammermen are
preparing campaign for the eight.
hour day and uniform scale through
out the United States.
Deputy State Labor Commissioner
| Schleman of California has caused n
number OF arrests for violations of the
child labor laws in Los Angeles.
The present crime wave in Omaha is
attributed to the importation OF negro
strike breakers into South Omaha dur
ing the packing house strike two years
ago.
Pennsylvania State Federation OF
Labor refused to pass resolution pro-
testing against members of the execG-
tive council of the A. F. of l.. being
members of the Civic Federation.
~ G. Meads, of Gettysburg. Pa,
charged with using counterfeit cigar
labels, escaped a prison sentence by
pleading guilty He was fined $500 and
the costs amounted to $500 more.
Such a large number of non-union
machinists are applying for member
ship In the unions in the Pitrsburg
district that all the f1rst-class machin-
lists will be in the unions before July l.
| Toledo ice dealers have notified con
sumers that because of scarcity of ice
prices will be raised from Is to 10C
per cent, and rejected the request OF
400 ice handlers for wage increase
OF 81 a week.
The Boilermakers' Local Union Of
Pittsburg, whose members have been
on strike for some time, succeeded in
reducing the hours of labor to eight
and increasing wages from $3.50 tt
$500 per day.
The working hours OF the shop meT
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pit
cairn, Pa, have been reduced from
60 to SIS hours week. The men viii
be given half holiday, for which the,
will get no pay.
The well organized Italian Rock
men and Excavators of New York hav,
rendered considerable assistance to thu
Italian organizer of the United Gar
ment Workers. new tailors' loca
has been formed.
The Union Label and Home Indus
trial League of Omaha, Neb., is car
rying on such a whirlwind campaign
that many firms which handle non
union products have been obliged tt
cancel their spring orders.
President Perkins and First Vice
President Gompers we're reelected b.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06

the International Cigarmakers. There
was a tie n the election of second
third and seventh vice-president and 9
new election will be necessary.
A St. Paul tailor had to face the
police Judge on charge Of violating
the union label law which provides
that no manufacturer not a member OF
labor union or employing union help
shall place the label on his goods.
Rockford Trades Council has adopt
ed resolution that no delegate viii!
be accepted who does not wear at least
four articles of, wearing apparel bear.
ing the Union Label Delegates from
new unions are given thirty days in
which to make good. ~
The suit brought by Garment Work
ers' Unions Of New York city against
Andrew Raynis for failing to comply
with trade agreements has been decid-
ed by the supreme court in favor OF
the unions. Judgement was entered
for $500, with costs, which amounted
to 1924.
With the passage by the Iowa Senate
on March IA of the child labor bill,
the measure will become a law las
Governor CuInmins will sign it. The
new law prohibits the employment of
children under IS years of age in any
occupation Injurious to health.
Operator Lively, who has confessed
his responsibility for the collision on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad on
March l6, in which thirty lives were
lost. says that his neglect was due to
physical exhaustion. he having worked
seventeen hours without rest e
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
FATHERS SIDE OF IT.
why Everybodysworks But thu: "Head''
of the Family.

of the Family.
There is a topical song greatly in
vogue at present which is rather rough
on the head of the family. 1t goes
something like this:
Everybody works but father,
He stays at home all day;
Sitting around the fire,
Smoking his pipe of clay.
Mother takes in washing,
So does sister Ann;
Everybody works but father,
My old man"
But father" has vet to tell his side
OF the story. 1t will be found in the
reports of the various factory inspect
ors, and it shows that father deserves
pity instead of ridicule. His side of it
may be also told in doggerel:
Mother works in sweatshop,
Jenny goes out to spin;
Kit is .scash" in a department store
+, Gee whiz, how the money comes in,
Jimmy picks slate in breaker,
John is blowers dog"
Everybody works but father,
'chink's" got his job.
This would hardly run the gauntlet
of, literary critic, but it is, mighty
powerful showing why father does not
work, and if the exclusion bars are
let down, more ans more white fathers
will "sit around all day. and "chinks'
get fathers job.-Mine Worker
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
A PALPABLE HIT.
Union Man Hands Clerk Hot One
on the Union Label.

on the Union Label.
Louis Connolly OF the stereotypers
recently. handed the most expressive,
convincing and sharpest reply to a
fresh clerk who knocked on the label,
that we ever heard in our lives. Mr.
Connolly had asked for the union la
beled goods, and, as usual, was getting
the customary advice from the clerk
as to what he ought to buy. Finally
the clerk thought he had one that
would floor big-hearted and honest
Lolis Connolly, when he asked the
question: What is the difference be.
tween the labeled article and the ar
ticle without the Iabel?" 1.-THE differ
ence." snapped Connolly, as his eyes
shot fire, is the same as between
your salary and nline'vand the clerk
wenI down behind the pasteDoards in
confusion Keep Connolly's fash in
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06

port by subscribing for the Wage
worker.
In connection with the banquet a
word of praise must be given to the
new owner of the Eagle restaurant
who demonstrated her ability as a
caterer of the highest order.-Beatrice
Herald S.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-04-06
Dir. LeOnlarelt 1 scs S1 szs Heart Specialist

your mind when purchasing Western
Laborer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
Between Trains

Mrs. c. was Mortified to discover
that her little seven year-old daughter
was rapidly acquiring the habit of al
luding very freely to the devil and
at last she told her determinedly that
a repetition of the obnoxious word
would bring her severe punishment.
The child knew that her mother was
in earnest, so she set seal on her
lips. At last she seemed to have for
gotten. but one day Mrs c.. who had
been too i'll to go to church. asked if
she could tell what the minister had
preached about in his sermon.
"Oh. yes M" she answered; he
preached about our Lord going up into
the mountain and being tempted by
blythe gentleman who keeps hell
She didn't intend TO run any risks of
being punished.-Lippincot
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15

ing fair analysis of present condi-
tions. That paragraph will bear re-
printing and re-reading, and Is really
the only portion of friend Cochran
cutlery worthy that honor. Here it is.
Read it. Read it over again carefully
lit won't hurt you.
The strongest appeal of the Socialist
to public opinion is an assertion that
unless the government assumes owner
ship of the corporations the corpora
lions will acquire ownership of the
government Both political parties, he
charges. are controlled by corporate in
terests so completely that while the
leaders pose as opponents in politics
they are in fact partners in business.
And what appear TO be their conflicts
over matters of public interest are but
devices by which they combine to de-
spoil the people for their private in
terests.
Hully gee! Bourke has certainly
been studying Socialism to some .pur-
pose. MARDEN.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
CHICAGO LETTER.

Chicago. Oct. 15.-WHEAT has been
heavy all day without any rally what
ever. Early cables were quoted one
quarter higher and reports from Argen-
tine were bullish on their growing
crop, but these factors were lost sight
of by the bear operators. Conditions
in the northwest were favorable for
the movement of the new crop. Sell
ing from that quarter was on rather a
liberal scale. mostly against cash pur-
chases. Sales to the seaboard We're
$4,000. The market closed weak with
very little rallying power noticeable.
CORN-Dull and embarrassing, alb
solutely devoid of feature. Fluctua-
tions only one-quarter of a cent for the
most active future. Shorts were in
cline to cover their contracts in corn
and this gave the market a semblance
Of strength but beyond this fact, the
trade was extremely narrow. The
market closed steady to firm.
OATS-The tone in this cereal has
ben weak all day although the selling
pressure was not on large scale. Com
mission houses were the best sellers
the buying was by one of the larger
elevator concerns who have been prom
inent on the bull side of the market for
the past month. Cash situation I'M
changed from Saturday. The market
closed steady.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
LIVER COMPLAINT.

The liver is the largest gland in the
human body and the least liable to get
out of order of its own accord, but
when the stomach above is overloaded
the bowels below are clogged and con-
stipated, it cannot performs it's work
properly.
The symptoms OF Liver Complaint are
very plain; the skin becomes yellow
there is a bad odor expelled from the
body, pimples. black heads and blotches
form on the face and hands, liver spots
on the back and sides, low spirits, dir
illness, blurred eyesight, drowsiness
bad dreams, nervousness, lack of en-
ergy and flesh, cold hands and feet
pains in the back and sides, generally
the run down feeling, and you feel more
tired in the morning than when retir-
ing.
Quaker Herb Extract acts directly on
the stomach, liver and kidneys. is a
specific for all these and kindred COM
plants, and aids Nature to pass off in
the natural manner all impurities col
lected and retained by these most vital
organs of the body.
This preparation has been sold for
years at drug stores, and can be OBJ
tanned at your local druggist, or is sent
on receipt of price, 500. Quaker Herb
Co. Cincinnati, o.
Free booklet and circular sent to any
address on request.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
WITH THE EDITORS.

The Lafayette Courier has the fol-
lowing to say regarding the pernicious
Zee system as applied to the prose-
cutting attorneys Offices throughout In
diana
The agitation for new law gov
erning the pay of prosecuting attor-
neys is already beginning The prom
esition TO put those officers on SAL
airy has been before the legislature
many times, but was always defeated
BY strong lobby against il. As long
as the law is as it is now. the proseeu-
tor has great inducement to use the
Office as bonanza. by bringing prose
cutions simply for the fees that may
be in them The system is radically
wrong. In every other Office in the
state, with the exception of some minor
township offices. the fee system has
been abolished. The agitation cannot
become 800 strong for its abolition in
the Prosecutors Office. AS it is now.
many prosecutors bring all sorts OF
prosecutions for the fees they may
make out Of them They have no re-
gard for the enforcement of the law.
This does not apply everywhere, but
she truth OF the matter is that the Ian
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
Broad Ripple Correspondence.

Danderine Smithers has got city
beau He's the cutter in an overall
factory in Indianapolis and gets big
money Some say $17 week.
Lyeurgus Dollarhide discovered a
dead dog in his cistern yesterday and
was quite spell bound. 1t was prob
ably thrown in the cistern by some
awdefying person.
Lucindy Goshwiller suffered much
from cramp collie night before last. Doc
Reed thinks it was caused by eating
too much pigs feet and ice cream at
the church social the other night.
Wiley Featherstone of Clermont is
mere visiting his Aunt Barbara Sniff
los Aunt Barbary is quite rich and is
a widow and we guess Wiley is figur-
ing on being mentioned in the old
ladys will
Sam Peasley has named one of his
twins Teddy Roosevelt and has writ to
the president notifying him of the fact.
Sam evidently expects Teddy TO give
him an office. Sam is a little weak in
his upper story.
Old Bill HOLSTERS wife is quite
feeble with galloping consumption, and
he's hired hired girl to help him tend
his stock and do the chores. which
takes off much of the work done by the
old lady Bill is noted for his kind
heartedness.
Luke Slusher pulled a gun on Bill
Gudgeon's egg sucking dog last night
and Bits going to take the law on him
for carrying concealed weapons. The
dog is a cussed nuisance and has suck
ed enough eggs around here to keep a
family a year.-Indianapolis Independ-
ent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15

1t is reported that Kuhn. Loeb & Co.
crowd have been selling Union Pacific
above 100 to keep the market in shape
so as not to let it run away. They are
buyers of the stock from ISIS so the
market viii not be demorahzed; it is
expected that they will milk the mar
ket on this stock until after the cleo
tion and use politics TO put it up or
down within five or six point range.
No doubt If Hearst Is elected it will be
by very close vote. and the suppose
ton is that crops will still be planted
and reaped. the railroads will continue
10 run and collect money for their ser
vices. One big broker says there will
be no more important bull manipula-
ton until after the election although
he is a big bull on all stocks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
I'VE SHOWALTER LAND AGENCY
EAST CHICAGO, IND.
FINANCE AND TRADE
Especial Stock Service to the Lake
County Times).
NEW YORK LETTER.
400 1sland-F, Frisco system-

New York. Oct 15.-The stock market
was dull, sluggish affair today. with
the tendency inclined to weakness. For
a Monday morning il was the dullest
we have had for months. Liquidation
in Union Pacific was again in evidence,
and the selling emanated from the
quarters that have been so enthusi-
asticaliy buliish of late. No doubt this
interest is making an effort 10 bring
about reaction TO procure some more
cheap stock As q ten per cent stock
it looks exceedingly attractive to the
investment public.
In the other standard rails. Reading
and St. Paul, were the most active. but
early trading Reading was weak, aaa
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15

There is more catarrh in this section OF the
country than all other diseases put together ana
unit the last few Years was supposed to he in
durable. For great many wears doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by cons. antly failing to cure with
local treatment. pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
~ p. 7. Cheney & Co, Toledo. Ohio. is the only
constitutional cure on the market It is taken
internally in doses from ten drops to teaspoon
full. II acts directly on the blood and nuco 9
surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it falls to cure. Send for
circulars ard testimonials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, Sc.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15

the fluctuations did not exceed one and
one-haf point in either issue. In the
lost point from the opening; later it
regained part Of the loss. St. Paul
closed a fraction lower than Saturday
final sale.
In the industrial list Copper was the
leader For some unknown reason
there seemed to be plenty OF stock for
sale, Notwithstanding the excellent
earnings and the possibilities of in
creased dividends
The market closed steady. and on the
whole slightly lower than Saturday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15

1t has become fact too glaring to
escape notice that from year to year
the salaries Of men in clerical positions
in which integrity should be figured as
an essential qualification. in one who
fills the same, have experienced a
steady decline Bookkeepers. cashiers,
collectors and clerks of all kinds who
have access to the cash drawer or
valuables of their employers, and are
confronted in the performance of theh
duties by what might under certain
conditions constitute temptations, are
getting at least a third less pay than
twenty years ago.
The fact that the cost of living has
increased in less than half that time
in like proportion. makes the situation
extremely trying to those who depend
for their substance on positions coming
under the above quoted classification
In looking for the cause of this con.
dition and in the face OF the fact thai
the country a nation is more pros
porous than ever before. the allied
interests of capital combined in trusts,
looms up in the foreground. In con-
sidering trusts in this connection one
usually figures on corporations which
directly control the salaries OF men in
their immediate employ But there is
another factor, partaking, albeit, of the
nature of a trust which is overlooked
in thus disposing of the subject By
this is meant the surety companies
which execute bonds for salaried men
at the instance of and under contract
with their employers and stand ready
to indemnify the latter in case an en-
ploye embezzles or steals, or through
dishonesty of any tangible character
causes loss to the firm by which he is
employed.
Before the surety companies held
sway there was such a thing as a
premium on honesty. An honest man,
moreover, took a personal interest in
his own Integrity. A concern that had
open a position of trust selected the
man who was to fill it for his reputa-
ton for integrity as well as for his
business ability. and stood ready to
pay him for such integrity. Where a
bond was required it was apt to be
furnished by a friend by whom the
man bonded felt personal response
bility to do the right thing. Under a
bond furnished by a surety company
there is no such thing as personal re-
sponstbility. The company hiring a
man loses interest in the question of
his honor. Whether knave or saint it
is all one to the employing concern. as
In case of loss through undetermined
dealing on the part of its servant, it
can recover from the bond company
The servant, on the other hand, feels no
personal obligation to the bonding com
pany. In many cases he has nothing
but bitterness in his heart for the rich
corporation that is paying him a star.
walton wage for the best that he can do
and il he is tempted to steal there is
nothing but the fear of the law that
stands in his way. The baneful in
huence of this discount upon honor
has made itself felt in the renumera-
lions OF the vast army of men and
women holding positions which are
made a matter Of traffic between their
employers and the SUI ETY. companies.
YOU CAN come down now. Mr.. Foot
hall PLAYER IFS all Ovar
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
SOUTH WATER STREET.

Chicago, Oct. 15.-Quotations in
-BUTTER--Extras in creameries,
o On sS5 5e dariea eStra Sz52S c rst
Isl a17c; process. 2o$s @2zI1 e' pay - >
EGGS--Extra, 25c; prime, flrsts, % y
firsts,. 21c; seconds, 9Q11c; dirties,
CHEEsE-Twins. 12h @124c; Dais-
1es 12% gi h$e; faeu1 y Americas H.
Il q &c; brick, 121k a12c.
BEANS-Pea, handpicked, $1.47 q 1.4S:
MIA, $4.5O@ AIS; brown Swedish. $3.50
LIVE PoULTRY-Spring chickens,
10c per lb; turkeys, lac; chickens, fowls
geese thin to good weights, per doz.,
weight, 7c; eoS S. lbs ~ asc 80 so@ al o
lbs, sac: 1870 lbs and heavier, 1860.
?, MSEL90NSZG5emsf crates, 40 melons,
f fet9 bd Ros Msnr ords 80 lde
GREEN FRUITSAAppIes, new, per
brL, Red Streak, s1.75Q2; Alexander,
ons, California, seas; Oranges. Cali
DO, per BUNCH, $1,.40@1.5O;, straight,
Grail. apples, bril-, $2.5O@2.75; baskets,
!, VEGETABLES Tomatoes, boxes. /
tubs, 35@ 40c.; head lettuce 5O6sI
onions, crates. Spanish, $1.20@1.35
Cabbage, large crates, 60 Is 75c. Cucum-
String beans. wax, baskets y bu., Iii
nois, 81; Beets. per 100 punches, SIG
I25. Celery. cases, 35cq$1.1O. Car
rots, per 100 punches, 81. Egg plant
per doz., 2O635c. Lima beans, per qt,
20@30c. Squash, per doz., Hubbard,
soc; Caulifioweps BOXES to II heads,
per h., No. 1, soc; No. 2. 15Q35c.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-15
Factory Money Lenders.

1t will doubtless surprise many to
learn that thousands of persons are
carrying on the trade of usurer in
connection with some other calIIns. IN
one government factory there are no
fewer than IL men who add to their
wages by lending money to their fel-
low-employes. The scandal of this
system cannot be exaggerated.-Lon
don Commercial Intelligence.