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The Wageworker
WILL M. MAUPIN,
Editor and Publisher.
$1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
'Entered as second-class matter
April 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lin
coln, Neb., under the Act of Congress
126 NORTH FOURTEENTH ST.
.t vtrchanta who advertise In Jt
0 tlu" iabor papers show that
9l they care for the union man's
j trale. Patronize those who
j art wiling to heip you.
Read the advertisements in
jt THE WAGEWORKER, and if
jl you need of anything in their
j line, visit their stores and
Ot make your purchases, and tell
j them why you came there.
We desire to particularly im-
j press this matief upon the
j wives and daughters of the
jt union men, as they do most of
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j the purchasing. J
A BETTER SCHEME
The Wageworker from time to time
publishes a "We do not patronize" list,
not because it is a sincere believer in
this method of prosecuting the work of
unionism, but because of the absence
of a better method. The Wageworker
believes that more may be accom
plished by boosting the friends or or
ganized labor than by knocking its
avowed enemies. If union men will
talk more about friendly employers
and less about unfriendly employei-s,
and will advance the interests of thu
lair employers, much more good will
be accomplished.
The great trouble with organized la
bor is a lack of unanimity in pushing
,the interests of those who are friendlji.
Instead of knocking the non-union em
ployer, just ignore him and give your
patronage to the fair employer. The
way to detect the fair employer ia to
look for the label on the goods he man
ufactures. The label tells its own story.
The unfair list is all right in its place,
but it should not be the sole guide of
the labor unionist. The label is the
only safe guide. Look for it, and keep
on looking until you find it.
FIGUREITOUT
There are not less than 5,000 men in
Lincoln who smol-e cigars It is safe
to say that an average of 15,000 cigars
are smoked in Lincoln every day, and
Just as safe to say that less than 10
per cent of this number are made in
Lincoln. Men who know nothing about
unionism are invited to ponder on a
few facts in this connection.
The average stint for a clgar-maKer
is 250 cigars a day. ' If every cigar
smoked in Lincoln was made by a Lin
coln cigarmaker, it would mean the
employment of from 60 to 75 cigar
makers steadily and at good wages.
This would mean the payment of
wages amounting to upwaids of $1,000 j
a week that would be spent with Lin--i
coin merchants and run through the j
channels of Lincoln trade. The citi
zen who can not look at this from the
standpoint of unionism might profit
by looking at it fiom the purely finan
cial standpoint.
The editor ot The Wageworker
smokes, and rather opines that he
knows a good cigar. And here and
now he makes bold to state that he
can get just as good a cigar made here
in Lincoln as is made anywhere else,
price considered. Every time you
smoke a Lincoln made cigar you are
contributing to the business of the city,
end not to the business of foreign
cities where cheap scab and sweat-shop
labor is employed. From the stand
point of "patronizing home industries"
the scheme is worth pusning. The Com
mercial club ia doing some good work
along this line, but it could and should
do more. "Lincoln made cigars for
Lincoln smokers" is a pretty good
watchword right now.
THE JONES WAIL
j Manager Jones of the Lincoln Over
all and Shirt company wants the citi
zens to furnish Ins company with a
building. Failing this he will take his
factory elsewhere. This would be a se
vere losg to Lincoln and especially to
a large number of women and girls
who made excellent wages at this fac
tory not. Mr. Jones is opposed to
union labor, anil we have been told
that he required all empioyes to sign
ait agreement not to join a labor union
while in his employ. We do know that
Mr. Jones is opposed to labor organi
zations, and we do know that he Is a
very pious man. He is head and front
of the Epworth Assembly, which is a
magnificent influence for good, and
which has the best wishes of The
Wageworker despite Mr. Jones' con
nection therewith. But while Mr. Jones
is loudly praising the Master and sing
ing with unction that good old song,
"For all, the Lord has done for me
I never shall cease to love Him;
And for His grace so full and free
I never shall cease to love Him"
While he has been singing, we re
peat, that good old- song with great
unction, girls have been toiling fifty-
four hours a week over machines in his
factory and drawing the magnificent
wage of from $9 to $13 a month for it.
While he was praising the Lord in
song, tired girls in his factory were
making overalls for 27 cents a dozen.
Somehow or other we fail to grasp the
true inwardness of the professed Chris
tian who willingly walks around and
watches girls making overalls for 27
cents a dozen,
When we take note of the wages paid
by Mr. Jones we can understand why
he will not permit any labor unions to
"interfere with the management of
hi3 business." He is wise enough to
know that the labor unions are opposed
to that sort of a wage system.
Lincoln can not afford to offer any
inducements to factories that pay the
wages admittedly paid by the Lincoln
Overall and Shirt factory. Such fae
tories will come soon enough without
inducements, and with their coming
will come all their attendant evils
evils easily recognized by those who
have vi3ited the sweat shops and fac
tory centers of the east.
Before Lincoln people put up any
good money to subsidize Mr. Jones'
factory they ought to investigate wages
ahd hours. Certainly Mr.. Jones has a
right to manage his own business as
he pleases, but when it pleases him to
work girls fifty-four hours for a wage
of from $7 to $13 a month loyal and
thoughtful Lincoln citizens should not
permit themselves to be made a parly
to the thing,
The farmer who antagonizes labor
unions is either ignorant or criminally
foolish. The dissolution of the labor
unions would mean the practical ruiu
of every farmer in the country. Unions
enforce living wage3, therefore mak
ing it possible for the farmer to sell
his produce. Good wages attract men
to the cities, thus reducing the com
petition among farmers. The interests
of the farmer" and the union man are
identical, and they should be working
together shoulder to shoulder for the
same ends.
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Post of Battle Creek depends almost
entirely upon small retailers for the
sale of his dyspepsia breeding "health
foods," and yet he is the same Post
who is backing the parcels post bill
that will put small retailers out of
business and build up the big mail
order houses. The small retailer who
contributes to Post's wealth is merely
cutting his own business throat.
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The employer who treats his em
ployes fairly and is willing to meet
them on a common ground for the dis-'
cussion of mutual affairs, never has
any trouble with labor. It is the man
who denounces "labor union inter
ference" because it. compels him to be
decent, who is always in trouble and
always pays starvation wages.
Representative Burns' bill to change
the city election from sprin.? until fall
and consolidate it with the county and
slate elections, should be defeated
without loss of time. Its enactment
is demanded only by parties having a
selfish interest to advance and would
be a step backwards in civic reform.
Smash the Burns bill.
President Roosevelt's new chief sta
tistican of the bureau of labor statis
tics is a college professor who is as
ignorant of labor conditions as Car
roll D. Wright was of a disposition to
be honest in his figures.
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When we can forget Homestead,
Pittsburg, Chicago and Colorado we
will begin damning the Russian gov
ernment for St. Petersburg and Mos
cow. But just now our forgettery re
fuses to work in that direction.
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If your local union is not on The
Wageworker's subscription books,
don't you think it would be a good idea
for you to bring the matter up at the
next meeting of the union and have
some action taken.
You will never be a square-toed
union man until you invariably insist
upon seeing the label or demanding the
card of the man who does your work.
Get into the game.
The man who tries to "knock" John
Mitchell in a convention of miners is
quite apt to hit his own thumb plenty.
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Having waited a long time to "see
Scudder," it is now the intention of
the people to make Scudder see.
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Lincoln does not want sweatshop
overall and shirt factories badly
enough to pay bonuses for them. .
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Every time you give a fellow union
ist a boost you boost yourself.
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Old John Rockefeller is a wise gaza
boes He pays better than average
wages, and therefore never has any la-
bbr trouble to interfere with his work
of gouging the public i
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It is as easy to boost as it is to
knock. .
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And the results are far better.
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So you'd better be a booster
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Don't be a knocker.
Demand the label.
All the time.
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Everywhere.
Properly Labeled
CAKES AMD HONEY-.
tWith proper acknowledgements to Mr.
J. M. Dryden of Watson, Mo.)
You may talk about your coffee and
some rolls at breakfast time.
You may sing the praise of country
eggs and ham.
You may talk in glowing measure of
the health foods fit and prime,
Or chant of chopa you carve from
pig and lamb.
But I tune my voice for singing of a
finer bill of fare
None better could the mind of man
ere wish
O, for breakfast c-v'ry morning let me
witness standing there
Smoking buckwheats and some
honey by the dish.
Give me glowing, redhot buckwheats
and some honey in the comb
Ixts of both, and then upon 'em
turn me loose
And with knife and fork I'll rattle out
the old tune, "Home, Sweet
Home,
Till my appetite puts out a flag of
truce.
Buckwheats hot from off the- griddle,
lots of honey O, yum-yum!
Talk about rour bills of fare from
f soup to fish!
i'ir
pass up the French chefs quickly
if you 11 only give me some
Sizzling buckwheats and some honey
by the dish.
I'll admit there's lots of pleasure
'round the splendid banquet
board.
With rich viands brought from ev'ry
land and clime;
I'll confess I've smiled with pleasure
when rich vintages were poured,
And the quip and jest flew fast to
pass the time.
But despite the glare and glitter, and
despite the viands rare.
While I sat there I possessed a se
cret wish
Just a wish that they would give quite
a plenty and to spare
Of good buckwheats and some honey
by the dish.
CORRECTED
Orator "In the bright lexicon of
youth there is no such word as 'fail.' "
Printer iin the rear seat). "Huh!
That publishing house needs a proof
reader.
POSTSCRIPT
"Man wants but little here below"
You've heard that oft before;
Now to that little line I'll add
But just one small line more:
"Man wants but little here below,"
Then why his vain regrets?
He wants but little, and 'tis true
It's little that he gets.
WHERE TO BUILD
"I see that the canal commission is
undecided which plan of construction
to follow, whether to take the thirty
foot elevation, the sixty foot elevation
or the ninety foot elevation"
"Say, this canal has been in the air
long enough. What's the matter with
building it, and building it on the
level?"
OUR SUBTLE LANGUAGE
"My only desire in seeking this of
fice," said the candidate, "is to do you
good."
After being triumphantly elected he
did do the people, good.
However, the people may have been
to blame for not understanding the
subtleties of our language.
DISAPPOINTED
He walked into our office with a
stately tread, and with the grace of a
Chesterfield handed us his card.
"What can wj do for you?" we asked.
"Sir, you can help me herald to the
world the greatest invention ever of
fered to man." ,
"And that is?" we queried, stopping
to give him opportunity to explain.
"I have invented a non-losable col
lar button. By an attachment so small
as to be almost imperceptible a bell
is set ringing the moment the button
is dropped, and the bell continues to
ring until the button is returned to its
proper position in the neckband or
cuff, as the case may be. In this man
ner it is rendered unnecessary that the
owner search in three thousand places
where the button might have fallen,
while all the time it is hidden away
in a place where the owner could not
have placed it by the most diligent ef
fort. This invention of mine is des
tined to revolutionize business and
bring about a reform in the matter of
profanity, and I am sure that you as
a man of public spirit, and " '
And then two uniformed men rushed
int grabbed the visitor and manacled
his wrists.
"Beg pardon, sir," said one of them,
"He is usually harmless, but if he gits
started he's liable to git violent. He
PRINCE SVIATOPOLK-MIRSKY , ,
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Minister of the Interior SviatopolK-Mirsky, who has been endeavoring to Inaugurate reforms In the Imperial gov
rnment of Russia for the benefit of the people, occupies the SMme position that Ridgley occupies In his liberal credit
system dealings with the people. How much better It would have been for Russia and her people had he been permitted
to inaugurate those reforms the result of his failure through the machinations of a coterie of weaklings who surround
the Czar and always advise him to do the very worst thing possible for the Romanoff dynasty and his subjects has caused -a
revolution that ultimately means the establishment of the Russian Republic. Such another revolution is occurring now
In your midst by Ridgley's credit system. He will bring all business to the credit system by his liberal, policy, or cloas)
them, his competitors, up. Credit to all. None refused. We give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps. V : ' -
RIDGLEY CREDIT CLOTHING CO., 1406 O St., Jesse T. Brlllhart, Manager.;
got away from us this mornin' an' we
just got him located."
EVEN
The committee of Plain People, sent
to Washington to investigate Senator
Graball,, was ushered into the presence
of the Great Man.
Thrusting his right hand into the
bosom of his left breast the Great
Man bowed and asked:
"And now, gentlemen, what can I do
for my well beloved constituents?"
"Senator Graball," said the spokes
man in an awed tone of voice, "it is
charged in our state that you owe
everything - to the great corporations.
We have come to see what basis there
is for the charge, and to ask you about
it."
"Gentlemen!" thundered the Great
Man. "There is no basis for the cruel
charge. I owe the corporations noth
ing absolutely nothing. I ask you to
go right ahead with your investiga
tion." ,
So saying the committee of Plain
People was majestically bowed from
the room. As the last of the committee
disappeared' the Great Mar. smiled
grimly, dropped into an easy chair and
muttered:
"No, I owe the corporations nothing.
I have paid them in full."
Having no access to the corporations'
books the committee of Plain Peo
ple was compelled to return and report
accordingly.
BEFORE AND AFTER
The minager of the transportation
company called his employes together
and made them a little speech.
"My dear friends," said the manager,
"if this bill before congress becomes a
law we will, in self defense, be com
pelled to reduce the wages of our em
ployes. It is to your interests to help
us defeat the iniquitous measure. It'
strikes at your bread and butter, and
I would not have your dinnerpails ab
breviated." Much more along the same line did
the manager say, and the men coun
seled together. Throwing their influ
ence against the bill they were enabled
to see it overwhelmingly defeated. Six
days later notice of a 20 per cent re
duction in wages was posted. The men
called on the manager en masse and
protested.
"You told us that if that bill became
a law our .wages would be reduced. We
defeated the bill, and lo, our wages are
reduced just the same. How is it?"
"My unsophisticated friends," said
the manager, "we went to great ex
pense to show how that bill would re
duce your wages if it became a law,
and we are now merely recouping our
selves for that expense."
Realizing that they were up against
a "master of finance" .the employes
returned to work, muttering however,
and wondering what would come next.
CARDS'
Not all misers hoard money.
Gossips thrive only when listeners
are handy.
A starving man finds it difficult to
interest himself in tracts.
God looks behind the sum given to
see the heart of the giver.
Some would-be reformers exhaust
themselves in the prospectus.
The man who reaps joy today is the
man who sowed smiles yesterday.
The best way to measure a man la
to put him alongside a big issue.
A brave man is always willing to ad
mit that he is afraid to do wrong.
A lot of men expect to wear crowns
because their wives bore heavy crosses.
When a congregation' goes to sleep
it is a sign that it is time to wake up
the preacher.
It's a selfish man who insists on
sharing the benefits without helping
to bear the expense.
We know men who never do good
with their right hands for fear their
left hands will find it out.
Whenever a man offers as an excuse
for wrongdoing that he is a victim of
environment it is generally safe to
guess that he chce the environment.
The greatest successes some men
achieve are their failures. And some
men fail most lamentably when they
succeed in accomplishing their objects.
As a general proposition it is not
difficult to ascertain the party who is
in the wrong in a labor dispute.. Just
spot the one who is not willing to meet
the other half way.
When we hear a man making fun of
what the average woman carries in
her pocketbook we feel like offering
him something to make a showing of
what he has in his sixteen or twenty
pockets.
Edgar Howard, one of the best demo
cratic editors in the west, defends the
dress suit on the ground that it i3 the
most democratic garment a man can
wear. He cays that when men wear
dress suits you can not tell the chief
guest from the head waiter.
A Lincoln mother who has two lit
tle daughters recently began scolding
because they kept the house in a con
stant litter with their toys. One of
the little ones looked1 up and asked:
"Mamma, whicii would you rather
have, your two little girls or a clean
house?"
ONE ' WHO DIDN'T KNOW. f
First Friend "Hello, Jinks, that's a
bad cold you have. Soak your feet in
boiling water and drink a pint of hot
vinegar and molasses. It's a sure
cure."
Second Friend (a few moments later)
"Bv Jove! Jinks, you ought to do
something for that cold. Take a big
dose of quinine sure thing every
time."
Third Friend (ten minutes later)
"I say. Jinks, there's no use coughing
yourself into the grave like that. Get
a , bottle of Jane's Hopetorant stop
it quicker'n a wink."
Fourth Friend "Got a bad cold,
haven't you?"
Jinks (after waiting some time)
"Well, do you know a sure cure?"
Gourth Friend (hoarsely) "No. Got
a bad cold myself."
APPEARANCES OFTEN DECEPTIVE
Tramp "Please, mum, I'm almost
starved."
Housekeeper "I saw you enter half
a dozen houses before you got to this
one, and you stayed a good while in
each."
Tramp "Yes, mum, but they was all
board in' houses."
The beautiful Washington maiden
cut him off in the middle of his impas
sioned proposal. "Indeed, Mr. Awlrite,"
she said, "you must not say any more.
There are reasons why I cannot listen
to you."
"Then give me leave to print!"
gasped the young congressman, too
badly rattled to know what he was say
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The overfeeding of infants has been
responsible for so many deaths recent
ly that it is proposed to legislate with
a view to making it compulsory for ev
ery child to be marked with a loadline
corresponding to the Plimsoll mark
on ships.
. "The court has made him receiver for
Catchem and Fleecem, the firm that
failed."
"I wouldn't like that job."
"Why not?"
"It's too much like receiving stolen
property." ' !
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Pr.(li (lord Me lit
DENTIST
Office Over Sidles Bicycle Store
PAGAN'S
C A F E
aao O STREET
HANDLES EVERYTHING IN
SEASON
MODERATE PRICES. FIRST
CLASS SERVICE
MEALS, I5cts AND UP
ALL jNIGHT
STUCKEY'S
14-39 O.
Confectionery
Ice Cream. i
R-V OUR"
COAL
FOR
COOKING
$4-90 PEP TON
Hutchins & Hyatt
Bell, Phone 630. Auto Phone 1630
LEMING'S
DEALER IN
Ice Cream. Oysters. MilK
Confectionery and BaKed Goods.
Prompt Attention Given to All Order.
401 So. Ilth Street, LINCOLN. NEB.
Lincoln Auction Co.
' 1325 O. ' ' '; '
Will give yon bargains the next thirty
days in Furniture, Stoves,- etc.
Wm. Walworth, Prop.