The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-05-24
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.
II 1t is not labeled, refuse it.
Mrs. Erstine King is reported to be
quite sick.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers G Perkins.
Bakers in Washington, D. c., now
receive $2.SS for a nine-hour day.
Forty-three shops in st. Louis have
signed agreements with the machin-
lists.
"Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
Plasterers in Fl. Wayne. Ind, har
received an increase in wages from
As cents an hour to so cents.
Carriage workers of Baltimore won
a strike for reduction Of hours from
ten to nine and eight on Saturdays.
Street Commissioner Hensley. .
member of Carpenters Union No. 1855.
has been reappointed by Mayor Brown.
Twenty-seven shops in San Frar
cisco and vicinity have granted the
eight-hour day to the iron workers.
Piano and Furniture Movers Union
in Boston have received So week
increase for all transfers, packers
and helpers.
Eight hundred union BARRIERS in Chi
cago have been granted an increase
In wages and better working condi-
tions.
Coffee and free soup every noon"
is a new inducement being offered
by the Omaha overall factories to get
girls to work.
Onicers of the Chicago Machinists'
Unions declare that wages and work
ing conditions are better at present
than for years.
Jess Fulton has already announced
that whenever the Central Labor I'm
ion Is ready he will tender the reg
ular annual benefit performance.
One Of the largest employers of
machinists In st. Louis. the Amer
lean Brake Company, has settled its
troubles with striking employees.
City Weighmaster Kelsey, a men,
Der Of the local union Of Leatherwork-
ers on Horse Goods. will continue an
other term under Mayor Brown.
Thirty-eight manufacturers in Lou
isville, KY. have signed agreements
with the Ciearmakers' Union. Bowl
iLg Green manufacturers have agreed
to- sign.
The debt OF $4,000. with which the
United Garment Workers of America
were saddled, has been entirely wiped
out and there is a neat little balance
Gin cash on hand
doc" Rikhter is not worrying about
the killing of Of the fruit crop. He
says the late frosts signed his eman-
cipation proclamation as cherry and
strawberry picker this year.
bill limiting the hours for railroad
telegraphers to eight day. and has
also passed law giving street rail-
way employees ten-hour day.
The Commercial Club, which has for
rallying cry Build up Lincoln in
dustries." is negotiating with the Ere
mont band for the music on the Com
mercial Club trade excursion.
Up to date the only objections to
Sunday band concerts in the city park
came from those who have leisure
time on every other day of the week
in which to listen to good music.
Patternmakers' league of North
America spent $1,000 in organization
work In the Eastern Coast states last
year, and since that time new mem
bers of the union have received 5000.
600 in wages as direct result Of that
work.
Electrical workers, machinists and
blacksmtths of Great Falls, Mont, who
recently went on strike, have signed
a contract for five years. All the
smelter employees are now back at
work and all are bound by five-year
contracts.
Mrs. w. M. Maupin went to North
Bend Thursday to be present at the
graduating exercises of the North
Pend high school, her sister, Miss