The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-04-26
Among the Live Unions
Here i'm Lincoln Town

The Union Carpenters OF Lincoln
are going to dedicate their new hall
next Tuesday evening. The hail is
located at 100 North Tenth street,
directly across the street from the
new postoffice, and has been fitted
alp until it presents a neat and at
tractive appearance The conveniences
are far superior to those offered by
the old hall. Every member of the
Carpenters Union should make it a
point to be at the first meeting in the
new hall and help start things off with
a rush.
The Regent Shoe Co. has display
at the auditorium this week, and shows
card which says, Pay roll $500
week. Patronize a home institution
and it will soon be $4,000 week."
The Regent Co. employed union shoe
workers while il was in Omaha. 1t
does not use the union stamp now. If
it will get rich with the Boot and
Shoe Workers union and use the union
it business that will raise the pay
rool to 1000 a week. AS the matter
now stands we insist on having shoes
With the union stamp, and the Regent
Shoe Go. can not deliver them.
Manager Holmes of the Lincoln base
ball team, is not responsible for the
fact that the caterer on the grounds
handles "scab' cigars exclusively
Manager Holmes is a union man him
self being an ex-menber of the
brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and
one of the organizers of the base ball
players union which was known as
the Players Protective Association
but which died hard death soon
after being born. The caterer may
make half-cent more on each ''scab'
cigar he sells than he would If hs
sold union cigars, but it's cinch he
is not selling nearly so many of them
He could have sold dozen in one
bunch last Monday if he had sen
around a union made cigar, but tn,
bunch of square union men who sa
over on the 'bleachers" with The
Wageworker man refused to stand fo
the scab' article. 1t would seem tina
man with sense enough to make
contract for the catering privileg,
would have sense enough to offe
workingmen who make up big por
tion of the fans" the kind of cigar
they want to smoke.
The Brotherhood of Railway Can
men seem to have outwitted tn
bosses who so long prevented tn
organization of local in Lincoln. Al
effort was made to organize a local
year or two ago, but several forty
dollar-a-month clerks in the headqual
ters building were made to act a
spoilers" and the organizer found hi
way blocked. This time the work wa
taken up quietly and pushed to a SUI
cessful conclusion before anybody ou
side of the carmen were aware of tn
fact that an organizer was in this PAL
ot the country. Lincoln local start
OFF well and The Wageworker expect
to see it become an influential fore
in the upbuilding of organized labc
interests in this vicinity.
President Coffey of the Typograpl
ical Union is still off duty on accour
of bad hand. A surgeon had to CT
several gashes in it to give relief fro1
ganglions, and it will be couple
weeks before Mr.. Coffey can manip
late the keyboard of "Merg." He
not idle, however He is putting
some good licks for the cause
unionism, and incidentally boostin
the little joker" on every side
Colonel Jess Mickel-or perhap
Senor Nickel, would sound better
passed through Lincoln one evenir
last week, en- route from the City
Mexico to Harvard, Nebr., where h
family lives Mr. Nickel has been
Mexico for the last year, and W
return there after he visits coup
of weeks with his family He expec
to work in the City of Mexico f
about four years more and will tn,
retire on a chicken farm and let Il
hens do the work.