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li; THE WAGEWORKER A Newspaper with a Mission and without a Muzzle that is published in the Interest of Wageworkers Everywhere. VOL. 1 JLINCOIjN, NEBRASKA, DECEMBER 16, 1904 w0 Worsley Speaks To Central As a result of the cold weather. in hufllclent advertising anl a part in I misunderstanding, the open meeting tf the Central Labor Union last Tues duv evening was not nearly so weil I'.itrnded as It shot-Id have been. B"t the sixty or seventy worktnguion pres ent wtre privileged to hen.' one of th? Iist nddressts eer dellveied befcie 0 representative Loily of workingmen In Lincoln. Hon. A. A. Worsley was the principal speaker of the evening, and he easily iiiulntmncd the hlc.li reputation he ia inured In labor circles as an earnes". eloquent and forceful champion of tho rights cf labor. Several years ago ho v.-ns the labor candidate for governor iil Wisconsin. Later h.j tntered th campaign in Chicago on behalf of (.lu lu I 'or candidate for mayor. Two years a'o he defended the striking teani f;ers of Omaha who wer-j arrested lor violation of an injunction issued ayalnst them, and he secured tha im mediate release of the thirr.y-two who had b-en hauled to Jail by a deputy 1 nltcd Stateii marshal. "We go to the universities and get ul' the dead languages, speculative sci ences and isms," . said Mr. Worsley, "tut one thing that we w ed the most and of which we fcet the least is the science of national life, of govern ment. We need a change of study at the schools, a change of systems government, a change In the mode of life. Labor, on the maket now, us merely a commodity, was never at more degraded stage, and this system of government is only making it worse. I lt preventative government is obso lete. Direct legislation, single tax and public ownership of public utilities win wive us. I would not tell you these things to make you pessimistic, but to i.ihkc you optimistic and gc to work." ,The speaker then discussed the question af wages and 'abor's portion in the fruits of its Industry. He said: "The United States census shows that the laborers of this country pro duce annually 13 billion Collars' worth ii wealth. Of thin they get two bil lion dollars in payment for their work. This means that tor every able bodied i ,hn in Ch country $12 worth of wealth is produced ev-iry day of the yes: Out of this he gets from $1,'J5 to J per day. The question is, where does the remainder go and why not to the producer? Thn ho anawctcd hi question by declailng that such men as- Kockt; iVIJcr pet it. and al! because labor has not !'ec learned hew to secure it. He told of the day when kerosene sold for 10 to 14 cents a gallon, when I li the rest of the produi of the well was thrown away. Now that every particle is used, ior gasoline, fancy si aps and galves the Standard Oil com pany makes more from the gasoline lone than it formerly made from thi Ufrosene. With al! -the Improved refining ma chinery and this use of the by pro duct we in Boyd county have to pay 2i: cents a gallon for ::orosene of a fciade to low that the people who use It risk their lives. It ;uld be soli in Uncoil at a profit for two cents a gallon. It has been shipped to Rus iia and sold for a cent end a half u gallon because the czar would not re new a contract with the company to operate the wells of Russia at l late suitable to Rockefeller. "For once the Kiandard Oil company is being Lra ten," said the speaker. "Sheridan oal that sells In Boyd county for i:o.GO a ton lb plentiful In Sheridan at II a ton. Ytu can provj it by going Here. Gradually these great neces sities are being monopolized. In time, it the a rest body of the people do not v ake to their rights, the earth will ae owned by one man." Tood has gone up 16 oer cent In a lew years, other incidentials of life l ave risen from 20 to t.0 per cent. Wases have scarcely moved, said the speaker, while ths purchasing power it the dollar han (Swindled. Thoce figures are given by th ) records of the national bureau and the census. 1 he trend is to Increased poverty over the entire world. In 1830 the census showed that aboil'. 66 per tent of Un people owned no homes. The census of 1900 showed that 70 per cent d) not own their homes. The remaindf r arc very much mortgaged. It is this and the unequal distribution of wealth hat causer strikes. "When the system of government ul)serves distribution and not monop oly of the products of labor then will the cry of race suicide be hushed," said Mr. Worsley. "People will not under take to raise famalies in the pinch of Increasing poverty." President Kelscy of the Central Labor Union also spoke briefly. The regular routine business of the central body was transacted In short order, K nil after adjournment those present crowded around Mr. Worsley and "thanked him cordially for his enter Vinlng and instructive address. The meeting was. conidred a suc cess in spite of the small attendance, rntl t gave new Impetus to th Idea o'. having a series of open meetings during the winter month's DYNAMITE. Looks Like a Smooth Scheme to Secure the Public's Sympathy. There is a strike on at Newport, Ky., the employes of the Newport Iron Foundry and Machine company being out. "Scabs" were 'imported to take the place of the strikers, and immedi ately the strikers began picketing ani appealing for moral and financial sup port. The company found its business falling off and its profits melting away because of the inferior work done by the "scabs." Something had to be done to secure public sympathy. Aha, an iea! Make the public be lieve the strikers were resorting to dynamite and physical violence. That, was the card to play. One night a dynamite bomb was exploded at the foundry. It exploded right where !t would not endanger any life nor des troy any particular amount of prop erty. But the next day the news papers were filled with big headlines, and tha strikers were charged with having resorted to dynamite. The scheme was working. Another bomb was exploded a few days later, but it. another part of the foundry, and apain far away from any point where I-. would endanger life. More startling headlines! More ap peals to the public for .-sympathy for he "scabs" and the employers. And of course a lot of people were fooled by all this dynamiting. Who could profit by using dynamite? Clearly not the strikers, because it v.ould alienate public sympathy and support. Who then? Why, certainly those whom public sympathy and sup port would naturally go the em ployers. Certainly a cheap invest ment a few pounds of dynamite anl the loss of a rickety old shed or two, if public sympathy and support if secured thereby. This is tlie season of the y?ar when the hauling of coal is the chief employment of a large number of men. There is a Team Drivers' Union in Lincoln, and it is striving to build up union sentiment. This union has been of valuable ser vice to the cause of unionism in other cities. In fact, the Team Drivers' Union of Chicago stepped into the breach a feV months ago and saved the skilled trades unions from a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Parryites. Without their help Chicago would today be in the hands of the Parry ites and the trades unions would be helpless. Lincoln unionists have a duty , to perform a duty to themselves, to their fellow unionists and the cause of union ism. They should g've every support to the Team Drivers' Union, and now is the time to give it. Every union man in town who buys coal should sec to it that only union team sters deliver it, and if the man who presents the ticket for signature is unable to show a card, let him haul the coal buck to the yards. Better still, when you order the coal from the dealer, specify that it must be delivered by a union teamster. There are dealers who will make a howl about this, and there are people who will call it "unfair to men who are striving to earn an honest living." Do not let that sort of tominv-rot influence vou. Stand bv votir friends- STRUCTURAL IRONWORKFRS. Few Facts That Explain Why Men Organize Labor Unions. People who oppose labor unions and can see no reason for their existence are invited to consider the structural iron workers. In New York state alone last year 1,200 structural iron workers were killed or disabled. If they bad no union who would take care of the wives of dead members? Who would care for those disabled while on duty. Life insurance com panies will not acept them as risks save at prohibitive rates. The em ployers have no use for a structural Ironworker after he Is disabled. But the Structural Ironworkers Union does tal:e caro of the widows and the or phans, and looks after the member who is disabled. Can you blame these union men for refusing to work along side men who refuse to pay their just proportion of the expense entailed by the work of caring for the helpless? The structural ironworker risks his life every day he works. And for Ms skill and the risk he runs, he f.:ts for eight hours work less than la usually paid for a good seat at a fash ionable New York opera. Opponents of Ibbor unions are Invited to do a little thinking. AN ENTERPRISING FIRM. Has Shown It Friendship for Labor In Numerous Cheering Ways. Readers of The Wageworker are fa n.aliar with the Arm name of Fred fchmidt & Bro., because the firm's ad vertisements have appeared in this Household Necessity with gratifying regularity. Fred Schmidt & Bro. op eiate a general store which carries the largest line of general goods in this section of the country, and the con stantly growing trade of the firm Jj evidence .jrnough. of, Its wise business management. The only thing chea about the goods in this great atorjgj? the price the values are all above par. "We are enjoying a splendid trade.' said Fred Schmidt to The Wageworkc the other day. "We are constantly adding to our number of regular cus tomers because we are making an ef fort to give the people good goods a; right prices. That looks tood to me," pointing to a store full of shoppers. On another nasre will be found a "Christmas ad" from this enterprising firm, and readers of The Wageworker will do themselves a favor by giving it careful study. IN POLITICS. "Laboring Men's Clubs" Organized and Gets Busy Politically. The Laboring Men's Club met last fc'aturday night and got into politics without any attempts concealment. Its members know what they want, and knowing it have no hesitancy in tell ing It. The club has been partly organized for some time, but a permanent or ganization was perfected at the last meeting, and constitution and by-laws adopted. The membership books were opened and already 125 members are enrolled, with an interest manifested that promises to increase the number several hundred per cent before the city campaign gets well under way. After the preliminary work of the club politics came up i'or discussion and the administration of Mayor Adams was endorsed and the mayor suggested as his own successor. The suggestion took with th club and it was adopted by a rousing vote. George Overton was endorsed for excisemen in ( spite, of his vigorous protest. Ex ciseman Wolfe was also' endorsed for re-election. Two committees were appointed. One consisting of three members, will be t j wait on the candidates endorsed and give thorn official notification of the labor support, so far as represented by the club. On this committee are William Stewart, John Carr and P. C. Carter. The executive committee, appointed by Frank Blado, president o" the club, consists of William Stew art, W. H. Odell, P. C. Carter, John Carr, C. C. Mumford, John Anderson, & George Overton, Charles Hall, William Wirtz, John P. Wise, and John Dur ham. Joan Andersou, street com missioner, is secretary of the club. The report of the by-laws committee, Messrs. McKnight, Mumfcrd and Car ter, was accepted without protest. President Blado in outlining the club'3 object made himself very clear. He said: "As there are many new member here who did not attend the first meeting," said he, "it would be well to state the purposes of this organ- nation. It is for laboring men who desire to take active interest in the government of the city, county and slate in which we live. Anybody who labors for a living and pays taxes is entitled to be a member. We am banded together to see that the law makers and ofllce holders do their duty. It is also our part to see that men are elected who will realize and fulfill their responsibility. We hope to take in futura camuaigns in the city, and we will do ouv duty our selves when we see that the people whom we elect hold to their obliga tions." Eleven members are to handle the business of the club when it is in convenient to call v. meeting, the work of this committee to be confirmed by the club. Six members out of the eleven shall make a quorum. The board is to be appointed by the presi dent. One or two pToteet3 were madn against this and President Blado him self said this responsibility was more than he cared to assume. Peter Carter went to the rescue of the situation by saying that according to thi Roberts rules of order the chairma! must 'appoint the executive committer. The protests were then abandoned. It was provided that any member iwho wrongrfckty secures money In the nante' otOlW brganlzay6a Shall be ex pelled. Each; nTt-rttT be taxp t twenty-five cents per month for the maintenance of tha eluu. Meetings are to be held the second and fourth Saturday evenings or r-acu month. Suitable arrangements were made for regular meetings in the Marshall hall. Ninth and O streets. . The names of members are to be kept on a roll with addresses, by meats of which notice cf special meetings will be given if called. TOUGH LUCK. "Sunny Jim" Leaden Suffers a Loss By a Sunday Fire, About the toughest bit of luck that one can imagine struck James M Leaden last week. In less than an hour the savings of years were swept away, and Leaden and his family were without a home, j A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Leaden invested their savings in a little home just west of the asylum, and there they purposed living and enjoying themselves dur ing the years to come. They moved in one day, and it e next lost every thing by fire. Just how the fire started is not known, but apparently it was caused by a defective flue. At any rate the house took Are last Sunday night, and in less than half an hour was entirely censumed, together with all of the household furniture and most of the clothing. There was no insurance upon the household goods, and the in surance upon the house goes to the man who held the mortgage given to secure the unpaid balance upon the purchase price. Mr. and Mrs. Leaden lost practically everything they had. The accident is of a peculiar interest hecan.se Mr. Leaden s a prime favos ite in labor. circles, and because Mrs. Leaden is prominently connected with Capital Auxiliary, No. 11. In their loss they have the sympathy of friends who are but waiting for an opportunity to express their sympathy in a sub stantial way. A GREAT STORE. Christmas Display That Is a Oefight to All Beholders. The idea that Nebraskans have to go east of the Mississippi river to see a metropolitan stock of clothing will be d'ssipated by a visij. to the great Arm strong Clothing coripany store. There is no larger clothiug store in the great west, and certainly none that has tak en on a more beai:tM'-ul ho-iday appear ance. The decorations installed fo? the joyful Christmas time make the great store a perfect bower of beauty. More than a thousand incandescent lights gleam brightly, and the glow ing colors appeal to the eyes of all who can appreciate the artistic. Noth ing like it in the way of decoration has ever before been attempted in Lincoln, and it is safe to say that nothing finer has ever been executed by any firm in the west. Two spacious floors are piled high v.ith goods embracing everything in the clothing and furnishing lines, and the arrangement and accommodations can not be excelled. Manager Anu-etronf-'s long experience iu the busi ness has enabled him to gather the very best of everytning from fll parts of the country. Attention lb called to the advertisement of the Armstrong Clothing Company, "good lcthes merchants," in another place lit this issue of The Wageworker. You vill have no difficulty at this store in finding what you want with the union label thereon. THE SUNDAY STAR. A Great Sunday Newspaper Made a Great Hit at Once. Tha Sunday Star made its first ap pearance last Sunday morning and made a great hit. It was a splendid paper despite the serious handicap under which its managers labored. Manager Mickel says he is willing to bet that it was the biggest and best daily newspaper ever issued from a four-machine plant, and Managing Editor Gale, being a Missourian, an nounces that he will have to be shown a brighter Sunday morning newspaper before he will believe there is any such. Too much credit can not be given the mechanical force for the success attending the launching of the Sun day Star Some of the boys were forced to work thirty-six hours at one stretch because of the scarcity of print ers, and the sterotyping and press room forces prespired enough to irri gate a small ranch in western Nebras ka. But the boys went at it hammer and tongs," the linotype machines fairly sizzled, and the "ad alley" was a blur of swiftly moving men, and the paper came out on time thirty-two pages crowded with splendid news and literary features and showing up 2,000 inches of profitable advertising WHAT UNIONS HAVE DONE. A Few of the Good Things Obtained far the Men Who Toil. . Trade unions have done more to increase wages and shorten the houia of labor than all other agencies com bined. The masses, all classes, unio.i and non-union, have enjoyed the fruits of trade union activity. Non-unionists enjoy better pay as the un'cns increase wages for its members. While they work for less wages their pay is never-theiesshighe4- than it would be were it Tttv Tm ifi ilo-.alA rf t" ti-ntr.". There is no question but that the non unionists have reaped a benefit from the union's work in shortening the hours of labor. Unions first set tho limit of daily toil at ten per day, which soon became the universal work day for nearly all classes. Since the'unioiis have set the limit at eight per day and secured it in many instances we find many non-unionists working only niae and nine and one-half per day and lr. some instances eight per day. Ci- garmakers' Journal. HANGING BACK. Strong Unions That Have Failed to Get Into the Fold. Once more The Wageworker takes occasion to print the names of local unions, that have subscribed as bodies. The Wageworker is indebted to them for their support and assures them that it will strive to merit it more and more. Here is the roll of honor: Typographical Union. , Teamsters' Union. Carpenters' Union. Bartenders' Union. Barbers' Union. Bookbinders' Union. Pressman's Union. Painters' and Decorators' Union-. There are a numbr of unions with out a single member enrolled upon The Wageworkers' subscription books. Several of these unions are numeri cally and financially strong, but so far they have failed to get in line, and the individual members show no disposi tion to support a labor organ. Some of these unions are represented in a. small way on the subscription books j by men who subscribed when. The Wageworker was established nine months ago, and if paid for at all,, paid for three months.. This is mentioned to remind, them that the printer and the pressman have to- be paid regularjy and promptly. Beginning witH the first of the new year The Wageworker- will go only to those who have ordered it and paid for it in. advance: We urge every union in. the city to subscribe as- a body and have The Wageworker sent regullarly to every member. It wilT lie a help to the union and the right kind of support to give t& The Wageworker. The time to- act Irr right now, and don't you forget it. The men who declare for the ''open shop" are not honest in their contentions. They loudly declare that "every man should have the right to work where he pleases," but they do not believe it themselves. If they did, any man could walk into their shops and go- to work. The "open shop" so loudly demanded by Parry and his crew is in reality the "closed shop" in which every workingman is closed forever. According to the military census taken last spring Ne- braska can put an army of 119,000 men of military age into the field. And under the- provisions of the infamous Dick bill every one of the 119,000 men can be compelled to take the field. The Dick: bill was a of compulsory military 'service and France. How many laboring men know that thev can be-summoncd by the federal government, forced to lay down the tools of their trade, take & down men whose only offense peration to assert their rights by violence? Every laboring iman in the country should post up on the Dick bill, ' When: they have, the Dick bill will be wiped out, and the men re-- sponsible for it retired to political obscurity. QUIT .T Growing Evidences of Uniformed1 Flunkey- Ism That Should Be Stopped. Have y6u noticed the growing tend ency towards compelling American workingmen to dress up like flunkies in England and disport themselves In gold . braid, brass buttons, knee breeches, and all that sort of thing? It is time to call a halt. It is all right, of course, for large employers of labor, like street and steam rail ways, to insist upon a distinctive uni form, but let it be plain. But genuine Americanism revolts at the idea of knickerbocker butlers, gold bespangled bell boys, and the like. Right here in Lincoln the un-American idea is tak ing root. Don't it make you sick to see a swell carriage driven by a coach man in high hat. English top boot3, fawn knickies and British coaching coat? This country is drifting towards the aristocratic fast enough without hurrying it along by adopting the iveried flunky business so dear to tho British heart. READ THE AD. The Lincoln Clothing Company has a large display advertisement elsewhere in this issue, and the attention of our readers is called to it. The prices quoted speak for themselves. This firm has not been in business long, comparatively speaking, but it has built up a gratifying trade by treat ing the people right and giving them the full worth of their money. ADD WAGE HOLIDAY RATES. To accommodate holiday travelers the Union Pacific has placed In effect a rate of one fare plus 50 cents for the round trip., Dates of sale DecemDr 24, 25, 26, 31 and January I and 2, with final return' limit January 4. Iu- What Graham Really A peculiar' news item traveled thru the newspapers of the land recently, It told the story of how Moses Gra ham, owner of the Highwood lumber mill, in Jones county. Miss., deliber ately wrecked with dynamite the ma chinery of his mill rather than acced to the demands, of about one hundred employes striking for ; higher wages, The mill has been shut down for two months on acount of th-3 strike. Tii strikers lived on Graham's land and when ordered off camped in tents on the border, awaiting the opening of the season. Graham announced that he had plenty of money, was ready to retire, and to force the strikers to seek work in other sections he publicly announced that he would blow up the mill and retire from business. He de rived great pleasure from his victory over the discomforted strikers. When i George F. Rinehart of the Newton', la., Hearld, read that thril ling bit of news he got busy. When Rinehart gets real .busy with his pencil something is bound to be properly at tended to.. He reprinted the news item aforementioned, and thi3 is the way he discussed it. His words should be read , by every thoughtful man and woman in the country, and especially by workingmen and women: "Pernaps nine out of every ten peo ple who read the above will declare that Moses Graham did the proper thing- in blowing up hi.? mill with dynamite. They will argue that he had a right to do what he pleased with his property. They will contend that he had a right to refuse higher wages to his- employes. "As society Is at present constituted there is no question but that Moses Graham had a legal right to de as he did. Legal right does not mean moral right. Judged by the code of Jesus Christ that man Graham deserves the lash. He deserves the curse of right eousness. The wrath of the Nazarine is his portion. . "Let us analyze the matter a little hope and aspiration of the Ion g' step towards the svsteirr that weighs down Germany up arms and go out to shoot is that they are driven by des- Here is a man who admits that he las plenty of money and is ready to retire. How did he get his money? On the face of the evidence he made it out of the milL He reaped the profits ot labor until he had a competency. He coined the muscles of his men into gold. He stored their labor until he had enough on hand to keep the wolf of want forever from his door. Then the ' dirty hound turned them empty handed from their homes. "Again, all that Graham is he owes to society. It is society that assists him in his work of despoiling labor. It is society that gives him property in machinery of production and pro tects that property against the world. That mill was the joint product of the whole people and the whole people had an interest in that mill which no man should ignore. It was produc tive property, and added to the wealth of society. But this highwayman, after holding up society for the profits of its machinery, willfully destroys the plant that had brought him wealth! "The building of the mill was a tri umph of the time. Into that mill had been built the progress of the human race. The best development of all ages was incorporated into the various departments of that plant. When it was opened labor had a market for its brawn. Nothing but the risk of accident menaced . the perpetuity of that plant. It , was there to stay. Weighing the chances, men came there from far and near to gain a livlihood, convinced of the substantial character of the job offered. This amounted to ai: implied contract between the worker and the drone, the one was to secure employment, the other to keep the mill running to give employ ment,. And yet, this-bold buccaneer who had held up labor for its best pro duct -deliWerately blew . up the " mill I of rather than submit to the demand th'e.l increased cy age oi trust aor "The fact that Ghan of money and was i'. t4 iteelf conclusive' evK'nce should have paid his men im After society had Jn-otectofl t . ' for all the years he was robb -of its just returns be turns on and" robs it;f a inachine that t. f t ' out a product society needed. Any V i with the" abilitvto think 1 otigh - So feel tha outiisp' " A Very Simie 4 '?A-rP nuiuiinii fn ""tw-- The labor . unions of thur'vity touM-4 ' have a labor temple ;whlchf. -they -can manage themselves attd-vpnjl' -itY revenues arising therefrom: V;' trouble aboutj getting such a IroIMlng is that when 'Je matter is meatioaed ' I-?.. union men throw np-their hands and declare that It is impossible. - As result nothing is- being done,' and the unions continue to pay , out aevtrai thousand dollars every. yeaF for-, the rent of inadequate quarters; "" (" Is no central place in which jtl ',' - .... . i S - :. .l . bers of different crafts nay t social or business purposes-. . u The Wageworker has a scac Y ing towards the erection , fa t 3 , future of a labor temple., that , l . ford every faculty needed by the '- ions of the city. Naturally et " . a matter of tb,is kind must bt i u - growth. It can not be accomp'.- iad in a day, or;' a month,, and part-;.' not in a year. But a labor tempi .ci be erected and made a source of r good as well as .financial profit: ifhe I thing to do. is to begin agltatifei tor It right now. t v-jff i TJTCL. The Wageworker propones ' ipr''.;' "-if temple committee' mace up, tf i., ' member from each, union jn th eitjr,' tms committee to devise ways .and; means and report back the union.' There is no need of waiting" for ews-t centrated action on this . pro poal"' Let each union select its mtjjbfvoif mat committee m jut aexi( r meeting, and report the select. A t The Wageworker. . As soon as clent number of unions have t members of the committee The worker will call a meeting committee and turn the. who over into its hands, i Then p!a ( bt discussed, schemes set on f oot, . something done towards supplying t unions of Lincoln a labor , temple f at 1 . -f the unemployed may go to ascert ir. where work is to be had. A few simple figures may serve O ' give unionists some idea of whfr - a labor temple owaed and conducted , y the labor unions of the city would , e i financially profitable. ? There are r -'. proximately twenty-five active via- w , unions in Lincoln and Havelock. TI e Carpenters' Union Is perhaps the larg est, and it pays $300 a year rent. F' t estimating the average rental' paid,, t each union at J50 a year,- $he-total V(t '-1v rent paid by the twenty-five - unions - fa $1,200 a year,: or 6 per cent "interest J ' on $20,000. Twenty thousand; Ol!ar , would build a labor temple in a central ."- Z -i ti location,, provide several haUa for- h f ; ' i convenience of the unions as welt -as a large mu ior social aiiaire au uuiu? for a secretary, reading rooms V:anI store rooms to rent. The latter would bring in considerable' revenue , and. with the rent now paUI by the'unlotJ be of inestimable value to the unload of the city. - ; ; "O, but haw could the- unions rslsf $20,000?" asks some timi-i union-many They couldn't raise it all at once, and . they would not need to do- ao. Twenty-five per cent of that amotfit would be all that would have to raised as a starter. That if. only $$,000.' Perhaps even , less than - that woejid suffice. , ' -. ' , A "But we would be unable t" rata' even $5,0001" exctaiins our timid union H-; friend. f " ' r 1 - Voo lira fisiilst a A ' Af : l",' 1 t"-. , ... easier than a wink. Mow? . 'all, ther are approximately 2,000 union me Lincoln and tuburts. The Insignifl sum of $2.50 from each one w , raise the amount. - Suppose a bu company be organized - and enoui stock sold to buy a lot That W bo easy if union men . and local ur took hold of the matter, in eaf feil ; With a lot in tho business seotf .i bought and paid for the matter of xt.' ing the money for the, bu'iding wr ,. be ' comparatively easy. - ' v - But all this could and should , be j? ? investigated by a eommiite such as J,, f suggested in the. above. Let ewery , A local union at its next meeting .etacf .v a member of a "labor tpmple eonfr X mittee," and then let that committ. .j,-' do the worrying. If the wholetfcir ) k worse off thiuajbey are now.4jiIf, Jr "r '- . , ..utu witia mit. then, the fnl '- t I are gainers JaKAJfcauiL . iiV t' : i.' t ; tit uv-' ?1 A n: I". -m; in- I trv" If; If r. i ''-I i r' i. - t It 1