The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
GENERAL MENTION.
Interesting Items Mostly Swiped from
BRIGHT Labor Pape-E.

Demand the label.
The union label-that's all.
Look for the union Label.
If it is not labeled, refuse it.
Bartenders of St. Joseph, Mo-, have
reorganized.
Union made shoes are sold by Rog-
ers & Perkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Castor spent Sun
day with relatives in Wahoo.
In three years, not including all OF
last year, Pittsburg's wages increased
$500, 900.
Six Boston printing offices have been
added to the list of houses using the
union label.
Blue Ribbon" cigars are union
made, Lincoln made and well made
Sold by all dealers.
Harnessmakers of Kansas City, Mo-,
have received an advance in wages
from $12 to SIS per week.
Every elevator constructor in New
York City is a member of the Ele-
vator Constructors Union.
Boston Cigarmakers' Union reports
that out of membership of 1890 there
are but seventy out of work.
William d. Huber has been reelected
president OF the International Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America.
BENJAMIN Meyers, Chicago, was
fined 800 by Judge Newcomer for
fraudulently using the label of the
cigarmakers' union.
mines and smelters in Montana have
received an increase of wages aver
aging 25 cents day.
Street car men have organized a
union at Point Richmond. near San
Francisco. Lincoln men are still at
the mercy of the employers.
The Burden company of Troy, N. T..
has notified it's employees of a general
advance in their wages. Puddlers are
to get an increase of 25 cents ton.
The cutters employed by the Shar-
rood Shoe company and the Minnesota
Shoe company, st. Paul, Mimi, have
received a raise of 10 per cent in their
wages.
The announcement is made by the
Northern Pacific railroad of the In
crease of wages of baggagemen $40
per month, and telegraphers SIS per
month.
The question of what labor is to
be used in the mines is to be made
the main issue in the Transvaal AT
the elections under the new consti-
tuition.
1t is limited that high wages offered
by the canal commission are respon-
sible for the exodus of steam shovel
operators from Mesaba range, in the
northern peninsula, to work on the
Isthmus of Panama.
Boston Local No. have sent out
circulars notifying musicians to be
OIL the lookout for Frank p. Morton,
who disappeared from Philadelphia,
Pa, Dec %. He is violinist and was
engaged with the Philadelphia SYM
phony orchestra.
Now that President Elliot, of Har-
ward University, has refused to pay
the carpenters employed there the reg
ular wages union men at Boston be-
lieve that they have discovered why
he is so pronounced in his adverse
views on trades unionism.
News comes from Saginaw that
President John Harris, of the Mich
igan Mine Workers, will not be can
didate for reelection. Elsie McCul-
Tough, present national board member,
Il is thought will succeed Mr.. Harris.
Two thousand men are affected
The Bill Posters and Billers' Inter
national Union has signed up agree
ments with all the circus companies
throughout the country. This is a
great victory for this enterprising
union, and will give vast amount
OF employment to its members.
Union men! please your wife and
your pocketbook by purchasing Riv.
eiside Base Burner. There is abso
lutely no stove on the market that
will furnish as much heat for the
amount of coal consumed as will the
Riverside. Sold exclusively by Hoppe
at 10S North Tenth street.
1t is stated that in the two and one
half years strike on the Santa Fe
railroad that the corporation has beer
compelled to purchase 694 engines a