The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-04-04
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors.

With the scissors.
Look for the union label.
The union laSel-that's all.
IT il is not labeled, refuse it.
Union made shoes are sold By Itog
Es & Perkins.
There are fortythree women hack
drivers IN the United States,
Duluth, Mimi. Electricians Union
has started a cooperative shop
Metal polishers and buffers have
formed union at Lacrosse, Wis.
Typographical Union No. 209 meets
Sunday afternoon at Fraternity hall.
Carpenters are warned to stay away
from cheyenne and Fort Russell, Wyo.
w. L. Painter. OF Lincoln, has been
made tiainmaster of the Burlington
al McCook. . zaE.
The labor bill was referred TO Con
gressman Little6eld. Lttlefield is a
friend OF labor
Carpenters District Council OF
Greater Boston has within its folds
more than G,000 men.
Fred Nickel has sold his property
on South Sixteenth street and is now
living at 3001 S street.
"A collection WIS taken up by l.. o.
Jones' Trust l., O. Jones to get the
money end OF the game.
I.ittletield figured up the cost of re
pudiating" Gompers and concluded
that once was enough.
The Western Union at Omaha let
out seven operators last week. Dull
9times-and the panic is over.
Labor asked the supreme court for
guarantee of rights. The supreme
court handed labor lemon.
The Standard Steel Car plant at
Hammond, Ind, employing $500 men,
will close for lack of orders.
Twelve thousand unemployed held
a meeting in New York City last Sun
day. Another prosperity item.
1t is illegal to boycott the Buck
Stoves and ranges, and it is the act of
''scab" to buy them. That's all
Every one of the one hundred and
forty lamplighters in Boston is men,
Der of the Lamplighters' Union.
Wage earners are requested to keep
away from Seattle, Wash, as thous-
ands of men are out of work there.
On March IS, the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railway laid off a
couple of hundred more shop men. The
panic Is over.
If you don't think Lincoln is about
the best town you ever lived in. it's
up to you to move to a town you think
is better Boost
Six hundred men were laid off at
the Reading railroad shops, N Read
ing. Pa. the other day. More re
coyery from the panic"
And the other day we say union
pressman going home with a Ladies'
Home Journal in his pocket. Said he
didn't know it was unfair.
Twenty years ago this week the Bur
lington engineers were on strike. and
switchmen throughout Burlington ter
ritory were striking in sympathy.
The Lincoln Star has inaugurated
another most popular contest" the
first prize being a $1,7O0 automobile
Guess we'd rather get wheelbarrow
ifLincoln can provide the state with
a site for state historical building,
why can it not provide local union
men with a site for a Labor Temple?
! Pittsburg street railway men came
near striking against reduction in
wages The company agreed to let the
scale remain in force pending arbitra-
ton.
The grievance committee of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen is
in session in Chicago, comforting with
the managers of forty seven railway
lines w.
The United Mine Workers of the
Iowa jurisdiction are figuring on build
ing home for. aged and INDECENT mem
bers. 1t will probably be located at
Des Moines.
The Pennsylvania railroad let out
1000 shop men last week. About Sep
march in the full dinner bucket" pc
litical parades.
1t is time for local unions to begin
considering the matter of observing
the second Sunday in May as Labor
Sunday" Let's all join in and make i,
big meeting.
r. J. Green, a lawyer of Lincoln. was
convicted of extOrtion and fined $500
II some workingman had played the
same game it would have been the
"big stir" for him.
Treadwell, Alaska. miners demanded
better wages and conditions. Wha
they got was troop of calvary sen
out by Uncle Sam to make the miner.
be good to the bosses.