The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-10-12
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.

Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
Bright Labor Papers.
Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union label.
II it is not labeled, refuse it.
Clerks union at Spokane. Wash, has
been revived.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
Bill posters of Toronto, Canada,
have been organized
The Larkins' Soap company is un-
fair to organized labor.
Two hundred and fifty newsboys
have formed a union in San Francisco.
Chair Dushers and tailors of Atlantic
City are organizing themselves into
union.
Organized labor should remember
that "Larkins Idea" soaps are on the
unfair list
Carpenters and stone cutters Of
Kansas City, Mo-, secured al increase
without strike.
Painters OF Albany, n. Y, secured
an advance of from $3.50 to $500 Il
day by striking.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made. Lincoln made and we'll made
Sold by all dealers.
Steam engineers of Toledo and
GAINESVILLE, O.. and Birmingham. Ala,
We're organized recently.
Building LaboreIs' Protective Union
OF Kansas City, Mo. has purchased d
lot and will erect a building.
Cement workers have been organ
izcd in Washington, D. c., Baltimore.
Nd, and Richmond and Norfolk, Va.
Unorganized section men Of Tam
ara, H., struc,; for an advance of 25
CENTS day. The outcome is doubtful.
The plumbers in Kansas City. Nc,
are winning out Notwithstanding the
arrival Of three hobo plumbers from
Chicago.
The carriage and wagon black
smiths of Pittsburg were organized
and affiliated with the Brotherhood Of
BlacNsmiths.
Sheet metal workers in Des Moines,
la, have secured raise in their mini
mum wage scale from so to 50 cents
an hour until November /, and there
after 37K cents per hour.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners has appropriated 100000 for
the purchase of building in the heart
OF Indianapolis and the remodeling Of
the same.
The unsatisfactory condition in get
ting out the Iowa state printing in 4
Don-union concern has caused the au-
thoiities to give the contract to a
union Office.
Philadelphia is aWakening The
painters have abolished piece work,
increased the pay of the twenty-eigit
men and made a closed shop in a
strike lasting just two hours and 4
half.
The manner in which the bosses in
Wellington, New Zealand, have been
trying to dodge the arbitration court )
awards has caused the president of
thaS court to threaten heavier penal
ties in the future.
The Industrial Workers CD of the
World at their convention" in Chi
cago repudated Samuel Gompers.
Wen, Well! Latest information re-
ceived states that President Gompers
ii still on earth.
The Workman" the official paper
OF the A. o. u. w. in Ohio. will not,
as at first reported, be printed in Il
non-union office. More honor to the
brothers, and may their example be
followed by other societies.
Spokane, Wash, Chamber Of Com
merce donated $4,000 to secure the
national convention of the United
brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers. That's the kind of go-ahead men
they have out west.
The Wisconsin Association of Mas
ter Bakers have adopted 4 resolution
f;tvorng a ten-hour work day. They
have seen the light. They also say:
Sunday work is not in harmony with
modern progress and ideal citizen
ship"