Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912, May 19, 1911, Image 12
COMING TO THEIR OWN. No Power Can Stop the Onward March of Organized Labor. The Rev. Charles Stelzle. superin tendent of the department of labor for the Presbyterian church, recently ad dressed a mass meeting of the West Side Young Men's Christian associa tion, New York city, on "A Square Deal." He said: This is the era of the common man. Slowly but surely the masses of the people are coming to their own. For long years they fought for the religious democracy, and they won. Then for 400 years they shed their blood upon many a battlefield as they struggled for the political democracy, aud they conquered. Today they are fighting for the industrial democracy, and no human power can stop their onward march, and I believe that no diviue power will. The labor union is an important part of the labor movement. It is accused of numerous indiscretions and of many violations of the law, but one need not go very far back in the history of the church to find duplicated practically everything that we deplore in organiz ed labor today, even down to the boy cotting and slugging. Every great re form organization must pass through Its period of hysteria. But organized labor has a moral and ethical value for which it does not al ways, get credit. It is seeking to abol ish child labor and to give women a square deal. It is working to wipe out Insanitary conditions in the shop and tenement, to Americanize the immi grant and Introduce universal peace. The trade union insists that it must be judged not by its worst leaders aud by its worst organizations, but by its best hopes and aspirations. Let's give these men a square deal. The American workingman is the best paid workingman in the world, but compared to what he produces he Is the poorest paid workingman in the world. With us it is not so much a question of production as one of dis tribution. Both the workingman and the bosses need a larger vision. The workingman is too close to the labor question to understand it. This is equally true of the employer. There are thousands of employers who are deluded by the vain hope that if they can abolish the labor union they will have solved the labor question, but these men forget that the labor union Is not the labor question. LIABILITY LAW UPHELD. Federal Judge Declares Act of 1908 to Bo Constitutional. Judge Itellstab of the United States circuit court, district of New Jersey, has just handed down a decision on the employers' liability act of 1908, leg islation which has been watched with intense interest all over the counti-y, both by lawyers and laboring men, since 1907, when the first federal at tempt at such legislation, the employ ers' liability act of 190G, was pro nounced unconstitutional. Judge Rell stab holds that the act of 1908 is con stitutional, thus differing from Judge Baldwin of Connecticut, governor of that state, who held that it was uncon stitutional and with whom Colonel Theodore Roosevelt became involved In a bitter controversy on the subject of the judge's decision. The case? upon which Judge Rell ptab's decision was based will be car ried to the United States supreme court by the defendant company in an attempt to have this latest employers liability act pronounced of no effect. No case has been carried there since the law passed, and the lower courts over the country that have passed on it have differed, there being, however, a predominance of opinion in favor of the law. LOTHES FACTS WO RTH-M ONEY There are some facts about our system of business that mean money to you. FIRST, we do not start off each season with high prices and then make "bargain sales" at the fag end of the season, giv ing at that time prices that would have been reasonable at the season's beginning. We always give the bargain price when the season opens, during the season and when the season closes. SECOND, we carry only the best known makes of furnish ings, clothing, shoes, etc. These we sell on a reasonable margin that means a profit to us and a saving to you. THIRD, we operate other stores, thus giving, us enlarged buying capacity and consequent discounts, which saving is passed on to our patrons. Think these things over. Then bear in mind that our lines of Clothing are the best. "Bradford" in clothing means the acme of perfection in the ready-made clothing line. We are agents for this territdrv. "The price fange is from $20 to $25, but in every suit there is the superior skill, fabric and style that makes them the envy of other manufacturers. For the union man who wants the garments that the union men make, we can offer lines that enable us to outfit him from hat to shoes with the labeled articles. The Season's Hat Styles. The styles for the season are unusually good and in straws we have the best offerings ever presented to Lincoln buyers. TKe finest of blocks, the finest of weaves all at unusually good prices. Our line of straws, especially Panamas, is larger and better than ever which is saying a great deal. Everything That A Man Wears may be found here, and at the bargain price now, not at the sea son's close. Why not have the use of the bargain all these months? ON CORNER