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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1911)
f f '! f 1 SUPPORT THE LABEL. When you are makine mir- !ter your friends. This is not by any means a plea wholly in the Interest of the employer who 1, iiia.uuj.uv.Lui uuiuu iiiuue guuua, even tnouerh he is entitled to VVUOIUV.1 a U V JUUl UC&UV&O UUI f remember that his employees. although perhaps In another in- t friendly support. Remember the Ion label product and remember friendship if you in turn expect theirs. If you won't be a friend to the workers who will? .w. .w. .-w. -w. .w. ,w. .w. .w. -w. -w. -w. .w- .m. .w. -w. ,w. w - TTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT fit BLACKLIST AND BOYCOTT. Both Equally Foul, Says Federal Court Justice. Judge Francis E. Baker of the United States circuit court in a recent ad dress before the Chicago Bar associa tion discussed the rights of capital and labor. Judge Baker said: "Without the aid of statutes the courts have long since become agreed that workmen have the lawful right to organize for the purpose of secur ing improvement in the terms and con ditions of labor and to quit work and to threaten to quit work as a means of compelling or attempting to compel employers to accede to their demands. "The capitalist asserts his right to an unobstructed access to the labor market so as to get his work done and thus free himself from the demands of his opponents. The workmen assert their right to an unobstructed access to the labor market so as to keep oth ers out of their places. 'The sympathetic strike, like the spite fence, is not the beneficial use of a coequal right, but is the usurpation of the power to punish. This infliction of harm is unjustifiable unless the harm is only the harm that naturally and directly flows from the good faith exercised of the competitive right. That is the loss to his business that the employer suffers by reason of the striking, employees presenting their side of the controversy to the other employees so that they freely and of their own judgment decline to work for the employer and must be suffered by him without complaint. "Therefore persuasion and picketing In order to learn who the new em ployees are to whom to present their cause are lawful, and all judgments to the contrary are wrong, I believe. But the use of force or intimidation to keep others away against their will is unjustifiable because it deprives the employer of his coequal right of ac cess to a free labor market, i "But concerted pressure by the strlk ers to coerce members of society who are not directly concerned in the pend ing controversy to make raids on the rear the secondary boycott Is wrong not only because such action is not within the immediate field of compe tition, but because the direct, the pri mary attack is upon society itself. : "One set of rules should govern the action of both contestants. If the sym pathetic strike is a foul blow the sym pathetic lockout is equally foul. If a boycott is held to be an attack in the rear under like circumstances a black list Is an attack in the rear." Plea For Fair Wages. Professor Burman Foster of the Uni versity of Chicago recently made a plea for better surroundings for the laboring man. He said: "On every hand you hear the demand for social reform, and regularly you hear the rly:--JFJrst.maketkejmcUyldual bet- teF. If men- were'better, 'braver, more industrious, these conditions would soon be better.' But the question re mains. How are we to get this new and better man? What can be done about it? Let the wage be such that the laborer can have a home of light and joy and sunshine in a decent lo cality. Let the laboring men's wom en not have to go to factory and day's work outside, but have time and strength to be women, mothers, wives and make cheerful homes. In this way we can help them to achieve an Inner life." Trade Union Briefs. Portland (Ore.) union seamen get $50 a month and 55 cents an hour for over time. The Northwest Council of Carpenters will represent 7,500 members and will embrace Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Montana and British Columbia. The union label section of the San Francisco labor council has decided to adopt a universal label in place of thr different labels now in use and will ask the council for its approval of the change. The labor unions of Kansas City plan to have a store where members of the labor unions or any one else may buy groceries, meat and produce and then get some of their money back out of the- profits of the business. Ohio enjoys a rather nnique distinc tion in the fact that two of its miners have arisen to great prominence. One is a supreme court judge and the other attorney general for the Buckeye State. United Mine Workers' Journal. All the Boston locals have Indorsed President Richard W. Garrlty of the Boston Bartenders' union. No. 77. for international president of the alliance of bartenders, cooks, waiters, waitress es and hotel and restaurant employees' unions. The convention will be In Bos ton May 8 to 13. Mr. Garrity hac been the first international vice presl dent for some years. Trade Union Briefs. About 6,000 of the 10,000 furniture workers In Grand Rapids are organ ized. Former Secretary of State John S. Whalen has been appointed deputy commissioner of labor of New York. The postoffice department has served notice on the mall clerks that it will not tolerate affiliation with the A. F. of L. A free employment bureau for New York city is provided in a proposed amendment to the city charter Intro duced in the legislature. Four thousand union carpenters struck recently In St. Louis because of a refusal of a demand for an increase of 5 cents an hour in wages. The Lehigh Valley railroad on. its main line and branches between New York and Buffalo has advanced wages of 3,000 trainmen from 6 to 10 per cent. The board of directors of Borden's Condensed Milk company is taking under favorable consideration the idea of introducing a pension system for employees. Governor Colquitt of Texas vetoed the bill passed at the recent session of the legislature prohibiting laborers upon public buildings or works and state employees from working more than eight hours a day. Leaders among the Indiana miners are worrying about the outlook for the 18,000 miners in Indiana this spring and summer. There is present distress in a number of mining localities be cause of a lack of work. Some mines have been idle five-sixths of the time Ujca (he first ot Teay, " mmvimua-n FES ATTEND BENWAY'S MAY FURNITURE TIVAL Benway's May Furniture Festival grows with inter est every day. There is a great deal of satisfaction to us in knowing that we are right when we claim to give the public great er values in high grade furniture than can be found elsewhere. We believe this fact is clearly demonstrated by the big success of our May Furniture Festi val and by the satisfaction of hundreds of customers who visit us every day. This Big Festival is doing a great work towards Furnishing Lancaster County Homes with Furniture of Quality at Economy Prices. Educational as well as Profitable Time here is pleasurably and profitably spent See demonstration on the new Cadillac Electric Cook Stove. Coffee and Wafers served. First Trust and Savings Bank 0wnedby Stockholders of First National Bank The Bank for The Wage Earners Interest aid at Fou r tr Cent 139 South Eleventh Lincoln, Nebraska 3