The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-10
GENERAL MENTION.
Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere.

Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln
and Elsewhere.
Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union label
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers &c Perkins.
Pretty near time to begin planning
for Labor Day.
Central Labor Union meets next
Tuesday evening.
The Commoner force will hold its
annual picnic on May rs.
Twelve hundred boilermakers are
on strike in Boston for higher wages
Members of Stone Planer Mems I'M
ion in Chicago now receive 47R cents
ah hour
BLUE Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and we'll made.
Sold by all dealers.
New boot and shoe workers unions
have been organized in London. Ont.
and Nashua, N II.
Woodworkers obtained an increase
from $1.2O to $1.30 a week in the
factories in Grand Rapids.
Car workers, machinists. clerks,
cigarmakers. boilermakers and bar.
bers have organized in Ionia.
Some radical changes and improve
ments have been made by Manager
Quick of the Royal hotel bar.
Plumbers in Lewiston. Idaho. have
been granted an increase in wages ~
80 cents a day, making rate of IS.
The theatrical workers have organ
lied union in Streator, Ill. 1t starts
OF with some forty charter members.
At a recent meeting of the Indian
apolis Bookbinders' Union, No. 103, fe-
male bindery workers were admitted.
Striking Salt Lake City street rail-
way men won practically every con-.
tention after being out forty-eight
hours.
The retail clerks of ST. Louis have
made q request for s o'clock closing
hour on Saturday during July and Au-
gust.
Street railway men are again talk
ing of organizing Somebody must
have been squirting starch up a lot of
spines.
Lamplighters in five boroughs of
Greater New York struck for higher
wage on May and recognition Of their
union.
William c. Gilbert, a union clerk in
shoe store, was elected mayor of
Danbury, Conn. on a union labor
ticket,
The Freie Presses new Merg-
anthaIer arrived last Monday. and on
Wednesday it was set up and is now
running smoothly.
Schenectady. N. Y, labor unions
have organized Labor Temple Asso
ciation," elected trustees and filed ar
ticles of Incorporation.
Union men in Rockford, ILL.,. got to-
gether and elected a union labor may
or last week. They arse elected three
members of the council.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, was operated on for
strangulated hernia at his home in
Spring Valley. ILL.,, on May 1.
Some 800 telegraphers on the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton railway
have received an increase in salary
ranging from to 20 per cent.
Cincinnati Electrotype company has
gone out of business. and the two
new union foundries are rushed with
york. Beware of the buzz saw.
In Grand Rapids the street car men
received a raise in wages without
seeking for 1t. This Is one of the
good results of the strike on the NJ
u. r.
BY granting their 5000 employees
wage advance averaging per cent
the big brick companies of Chicago
prevented tie-up of the yards re-
Gently.
The Wageworker has it on the au-
thority of the chairman and secretary
of the democratic committee of the
city of Lincoln that the Benton nom
union printery represented itself to
the committee as being a union office,
and on the strength of this secured a
job of printing letterheads and envel-