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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1911)
rassa IN OUR NEW HOME NOW We are now in our new home at 110 South Eleventh Street, and cordially invite you to call and see it and us. We are proud of our new home and proud of the more than ten years of success ful business behind it. We pay Four Per Cent Interest on de posits. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Let us explain to you our method of doing business. AMERICAN SAYINGS BANK IIO SOUTH UTH ST. mfirl for I .in coirs Made in Lincoln 1 I3ERTV FLOUR t H.0.BARBER&SONS LIBERTY W Test of the Oven Test of the Taste Test of Digestion, Test of Quality Test of Quantity Test fTime Measured by Every Test it Proves Best Demand Liberty Flour and take no other. If your grocer does not handle it, phone us about it. H. O. BARBED Once Tried Always Used Little Hatchet Flour Made from Select Nebraska Hard Wheat WILBER AND DeWITT MILLS RYE FLOUR A SPECIALTY 80.459 145 So." 9th St.,-LINCOLN, NEB. Dr. Chas. Yungbhit ROOM TA , ' rv BURR No. 202 LeiltlSt BLOCK AUTO. PHONE 3416, BELL 656 LINCOLN, -:- NEBR. Wage workers h Attention Plenty of it. Utmost Secrecy. 129 So. iithSt. Kelly & Norris RIGHTS OF LABOR. Wageworker Is Bound by Fetters of Unjust Laws. MUST ASSERT HIS POWER. The Untenable Doctrine That Restricts Trade Unionise In the Performance of Its Beneficent functions Must Be Overthrown. Essential to tbe welfare and Inde pendence of the masses is the free ex ercise of certain of their rights and powers in :bo economic field. This truth becomes clear to our minds when we consider It as applied to the indi vidual possessing those rights and pow ers. Let a man have the right to de cide when he is to work or is not to work and let that decision be backed by his power to keep himself from be ing obliged by immediate necessity to offer his labor to an employer and the consequence must be that he will not sell his labor power until the terms offered him are the best that the In dustry can warrant. Similarly when a number of associated persons may freely decide- us to whether they shall work or not and uphold that decision they have in their hands the economic power tcr secure to themselves from the products of Industry a share re stricted only by industrial success. In the mere statement of the condi tions indicated by my words there are suggested the reasons why labor is compelled in present circumstances to engage in the political struggle. It Is. in a word, in order to set itself free. Labor is bound by the fetters of un just laws. It Is labor's task to break those fetters one by one. The first to be removed are necessarily those which are the most painful, binding and de structive of labor's rights and powers. There' must in justice be no law for mulated by judge or lawmaker which can deprive a wageworker of his own exclusive ownership of himself, or, in other words, of those rights over his own labor power which are guaran teed by the constitution and the con cepts of liberty implied in the funda mental principles of our republic. There must be no law which can de prive the laborer of his right over his power to purchase or to refrain from purchasing whatever is legitimately on sale in the community. . There must be an end to the unten able doctrine that a right pertaining to an individual singly becomes a wrong when exercised by him in com bination" with other individuals legally enjoying the same right singly. These examples illustrate points at which the labor movement comes into contact with politics, since only by force of lawmaking can present laws be abrogated or the limits of law making itself be outlined. As the defense of rights, manifestly varying in their scope with respect to men, women and children and in times of peace or war, is the legitimate do main of government, so the defense of thoso rights which peculiarly bear upon the wageworker is inevitably the especial concern of the labor move ment. I am impressed with the con viction, however, that with the free exercise of the rights which will leave untrammeled the regular and recogniz ed functions of trade unionism the workers of this country will move for ward by leaps and bounds to a general condition of unexampled welfare. With those rights in full play they will be possessed of the economic power to en able themselves to push forward to greater, successes, to. Justice freedom and a better humanity, tbe goal of la bor's aspirations. Trade unionism is self help. The possibilities of self help by its means have never yet been reached nor with certainty foreseen by any authority, however prescient. The dividends thus far declared in its history by trade unionism have been immeasurably tbe highest ever known to any movement of the unprivileged and deprived class es. Every trade or calling in each year since the formation of our federation has moved its members upward from the state in which they previously lived. In every walk of life the men of this continent recognize the benefits worked through trade unionism. By far the greatest of its benefits have come through the exercise of its eco nomic power. Let that lesson be taken to the hearts of all workingmen. Let that thought be kept uppermost with any of them when In danger of being lured away from union work by any political party, whatever its name ojr Its pretenses or its promises. Samuel Gompers. Strike of Long Ago. . Numerous strikes occurred In the In dustrial world in 1835. The most pa thetic of these labor disputes was that of a thousand children employed In the factories at Paterson, N. J. The ages of these child workers ranged from Beven to eighteen years, ami they struck to enforce a reduction of two hours In their daily working time, from thirteen to eleven hours. So great was the feeling of sympathy In their behalf that they succeeded In their effort. Shields Reinstated. William E. Shields, well known throughout New England .and the we3t, has been ordered reinstated In the government printing office at Washington by the president of the United States. Mr. Shields was dis missed by Public Printer Donnelly nearly a year ago. He was In Chica go when tbe executive order was issued. HOME FOR WORKING GIRLS. Board and Room and $2.50 a Week In Endowed, Self Governed House. Under the auspices of the Episcopal Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist a boarding house for working girls has been opened in New York city where fifty girls can be accommodated and the charge for board and room will be only $2.50 a week. This is said to be the most inexpensive of such -Institutions in the city, and it is made possible by an endowment The building was formerly a school. The sleeping arrangements sare on the dormitory plan, and the house Is provided with a roof garden, gym nasium, reception room and a dancing room. Although Sister Julia Frances Is to be in charge, no sectarian limita tions will be put upon the admission, and the general conduct of the estab lishment will be most liberal. ' Some thing in the nature of self government will be installed, according (to the present plans. . The girls will bare the privilege et entertaining company on any night of the week, but the house "closes at 10 p. m. This regulation -is not designed to prevent theater parties and such outside amusements, for a slser will be on hand to open the doors for those who have been out for the evening. The Brooklyn (N. X) vCeatral Labor union Is composed of sixty-five unions, with a membership of about 100,000. San Francisco . musicians .Are: .warned to stay away rom Honolulu. Mana gers there organized and cut salaries. .
