UNIONISM GENEROUS.
Fights Not For Self Alone, but For All
Mankind.
In Melbourne. Australia, facing the
public garden and immediately in
front of the legislative hall, is a memo
rial pillar erected in commemoration
of the eight hour law. The labor world
owes this signal victory to unionism.
The wages board act, now law in most
Australian states, whereby the union
nominates three, the employer three
and these six appoint the seventh,
their chairman, thus creating a legal
board which fixes wages and hours
for two or three years, a wise law,
which recognizes the union, is due to
unionism. Unionism insisted
First. That machinery must be well
guarded, and soon we had a factory
act.
Second. That workers must be pro
tected In their work, and soon we had
a compensation act.
Third. That it was dangerous for
young people to run stationary and
marine engines, and soon we had regu
lating laws.
Fourth. That strikes and law courts
are too costly to settle wages, that
wages must be enough to give a decent
living and that hours must not be too
long. Soon we had in Australia the
wages board act, which has not yet,
but must soon, reach America.
Unionism looks at the child and says,
"Let It grow and be educated and not
stint its life by hard work from ten to
fifteen years of age."
Unionism is generous. It is for all.
Its effort is to force capital to give a
full share to the worker for the time
he spends on his work. It says to cap
ital: "We build, we make, we create
out of the hard iron, the rough stone,
the huge tree, all these finer products.
Now we must have in return enough
share of the profits to give us good
food, shelter and clothes, some recrea
tion and some education." It is best
that capital should at once accept this
Idea and give labor a good living share,
for then, we have content, comfort and
happy citizens.
I have heard judges say that union
Ism was a curse to a country, yet the
ethics of the labor union are higher
than the ethics of the board of trade.
The unions demand a minimum wage
for all. weak and strong, and they ma
terially aid their poor.
Hon. John McGowen, the labor lead
er of New South Wales, writes me.
"We have no almshouses here." W.
F. Ilatheway, Member of Canadian
Parliament, in American Federationist.
FIXING WAGES BY LAW.
Proposed Massachusetts Plan Eco
nomically Sound.
Much discussion as there has been
about the moral enormity and the
economic folly of paying any worker
less than a "living wage." meaning
thereby a wage sufficiently large to
make it possible for the recipient by
Industry and economy to improve his
social status, it will startle many peo
ple to learn that Massachusetts is con
templating the passage of a law fixing
a minimum less than which no employ
er shall pay to any woman or minor.
Even the Massachusetts reformers are
not bold enough, it will be observed,
to propose as yet the setting of a
minimum wage for men, but perhaps
that will come in time.
JLt present, as a matter of fact, they
hare only secured the appointment of
a. commission to study the matter of
wages for the weaker workers men
tioned, and later it will "report upon
the advisability of establishing a
board or boards to which shall be re
ferred, inquiries as to the need of fix
fey ptotapn. -rates ot w.aggijtoj
women TancTTninors in anyimlustry7
Next year's legislature will pass upon
such bills as this commission may
recommend. The Iron Age, in com
menting upon this plan, admits that
the commissioners may perform a use
ful work in the way of obtaining
valuable information, but It cannot
understand how any tribunal can be
vested with the power of telling any
employer what he must pay any em
ployee. This inability will be shared by
many, and yet It was not so long ago
that the idea of forbidding employers
to contract with women for more than
a certain number of hours of work per
day was equally novel, and it took a
long battle in the courts to vindicate
the state's right to do even this. The
effects of underpayment are analogous
to those of overwork and endanger the
welfare of the community in much the
same way. As. the Iron Age points
out, however, employers themselves
are more and more coming to realize
that it is "good business" as well as
common humanity to pay a living
wage that they cannot afford to have
employees who are not In health and
spirits.
The final argument in this contro
versy, of course, is that when less
than living wages is paid the num
ber of paupers and criminals, with in
cidental burdens on the taxpayer, in
evitably increases.
BELIEVES IN UNIONS.
The trade union movement has
been not only a great benefit to
the wage earner (and can be of
still greater benefit), but is also
a positive and material advan
tage to the fair employer of la
bor, to the business man and to
the public in general. It aids in
establishing a uniform basis for
figuring the cost of production,
insures a higher standard of effi
ciency, increases the purchasing
power of the consumer and,
above all, tends to raisdi the
standard of citizenship morally.
intellectually ana socially. X. t.
Harrington. Employer, Indian-
apolis, Ind.
A Dreamer In Denver.
Herman Muslin, a young German
Socialist, has come to this city, says
a Denver dispatch, to teach new eco
nomic reform, which he believes will
result in the absorption of labor unions
and all similar organizations. The or
ganization is to be known as the "Work
ers Welfare league. Of course he Is
decidedly opposed to the present meth
ods of conducting labor unions and
will attempt to secure converts for
his idealistic idealism. It is proposed
in the formation of this new panacea
to eliminate the charges for initiation
and dues to a very great extent. He
designates initiation fees and dues as
"a tariff on being allowed to work
and as rottenness in the unions."
Union Painters' Trade School.
The union painters of Chicago, says
the Painter and Decorator, have
shouldered the resionsibility of the
trade education of the 4tH apprentices
employed in the union shops. The
course wall cover all branches of the
trade plain and decorative painting,
wood finishing, paperhauging and sign
painting. During the three years of
his apprenticeship each apprentice is
to be required to spend two half days
of each week in school. To spur am
bition each boy will be required to
pass an examination at the end of his
a pprenriceship.
Pynamite Case Dismissed.
Prices Reasonable Highest Grade Work
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labor Headquarters fjrbmL6s Angeles
states that Bert EI. Conner. A. B. Ma
ple and F. Ira Bender, the first two
ironworkers and the latter president of
the local lodge of machinists, who were
Indicted recently by the grand jury of
Los Angeles, charging them with dy
namiting the hall of records last Sep
tember, have been dismissed for want
of evidence. The detectives are ap
parently having a tortuous road to
travel in fastening guilt upon members
f organized labor.
When She Phones.
"Business will bo held up In this
store for the next ten minutes. growl
ed the impatioent man. "Even the
prescription clerk Is holding his
breath. Two good looking women are
getting ready to use the telephone.
That is why. When a handsome wom
an talks over an open telephone every
body within earshot takes a vacation
and listens. A plain woman might
talk half a day and nobody would pay
any attention, but a good looking wom
an at a public telephone draws a big
ger crowd than the president of the
United States. Everybody thinks she
Is going to say something worth, hear
ing, and they become vitally inter
ested." "If yon are in such a big hurry."
said the impatient man's companion,
"why don't you go down street and
attend to that other errand while they
are putting up your prescription
here?"
"Oh, no, said the Impatient man. "I
want to hear, too.
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NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DE
FENDANT. September 15, 1911.
To Harry B. Gilson,
You are hereby notified that the
plaintiff, Grace M. Gilson filed her
petition in the District Court of Lan
caster County, Nebraska, on the 16th '
day of May, 1911, praying for a di
vorce from you on the grounds of wil
ful abandonment and non-support and
he also prays for the custody of your
sminor child Marguerite Gilson. Now
unless you answer said petition on or
before the 6th day of November, 1911,
said petition will be taken as confess
ed and the prayer of the petition will
be granted.
GRACE M. GILSON,
By Tyrrell and Morrissey,
26-4t Her Attorneys.
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska.
The business of said corporation is
to do a general publishing and print
ing business and any and all things
necessary and consistent caerewith,
including the right to buy and sell
real estate.
The authorized capital stock 13 five
thousand dollars, divided into shares
of fifty dollars each.
Said corporation shall commence
business on August 7th, 1911, and con
tinue for twenty years, unless sooner
dissolved by a majority vote of its
stock, or by process of law.
The highest amoun- of indebted
ness to which it shall at any time
subject itself shall not exceed two
thirds of its authorized capital stock.
The affairs of the corporation shall
be governed by a board of four di
rectors, . who shall have power to
elect from among their own number
a president, vice-president, secretary
and treasurer.
Dated this 5th day of August. 1911.
WILL M. MAUPIX,
FRANK L. SHOOP.
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned have associated themselves
together for the purpose of forming
a corporation under the laws of the
state of Nebraska.
The name of the corporation shall
be the Maupin-Schoop Publishing Com
pany. Its principal place of business s
LEGAL NOTICE.
Seth W. Lowell, will hereby take
notice that William Foote has filed
his petition and commenced an ac
tion in the District Court of Lancas
ter County, State of Nebraska, enti
tled "William Foote, Plaintiff, vs.
Seth W. Lowell, Defendant," and
plaintiff has filed affidavit therein
that the defendant is a non-resident of
the State cf Nebraska.
The object and prayer of said ac
tion is to recover the sum of $176.45,
with interest at the rate of six per
cent per annum from the seventh day
of March, 1890, upon a promissory
note that plaintiff has caused to be
attached in said action, the undivid
ed one-third interest in Lot Four (4),
Clock Two (2), Tresters Addition to
the City of Lincoln, Lancaster Coun
ty, Nebraska, and the undivided one
third interest in Lot Eight (8), Block
Forty-three (43) in University Place,
Nebraska; that the defendant is re
quired to answer the petition of the
plaintiff on the ninth day of October,
1911.
24-f SETH W. LOWELL,
By TIBBETS & ANDERSON.
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