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THE WAQEWORKER
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WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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Gee, I had a bully time Fourth o' July
Got up early in th' mornin' an' then I
Helped fire salutes Gee, them or a
vils rung
An' ev'ry time we shouted till a lung
Jus seemed tore out. An en we shot
Them crackers all day long. Gee, it
wus hot!
Jim Dolan's cannon busted and a
chunk
Hit Jim right on the stomlck jus' ker
plunk.
An' powder burned his face too bad
fr Jim
I'd hate to have the face he's got on
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THE REAL DIFFERENCE
When President Shea' of the Chicago Teamsters' Union' was
accused of grafting the colnmns of the daily press teemed with
reference to it. ' The morning that the charge was made the daily
papers averaged about two columns, front page, devoted to it, and
when Shea was dropped by the executive council two or three more
columns was the average. .
When Senator Mitchell of Oregon was declared guilty of using
his official position to secure money the verdict being rendered by
a jury of his peers one-half column was enough to tell the story.
Shea, the laboring man who was presumed to be innocent because
he had not been tried and found euilty, furnished a text fc- sol
umns of sensational rot. Senator Mitchell, tound guilty, lurnisneu
the text for less than half a 'column. The humble labor leader is
considered worthy of columns of space, while the exalted and in
fluential senator and politician is let off as lightly as possible by
the press.
Will some one explain why this is? Every trivial little incident
in Shea's life that could be twisted and distorted to his disadvantage
was used by the newspapers against him. Why didn't the same
press use the same tactics towards Senator Mitchell? Who is
Mitchell? He is a senator of the United States from the state of
Oregon. Many years ago he wore another name, and in Penn
sylvania married a young girl. Afterwards he deserted her, went
to Oregon, changed his name to Mitchell and went into politics,
He married again under his assumed name, in the meanwhile leav
ing his deserted family to get along in the best manner possible
When confranted by his crime he went back to Pennsylvania, put
up big money, secured a divorce and returned to Oregon and was
sent to the senate. But the Associated Press which dug up every
thing it could against Shea, the teamster, made absolutely no ref
crence to the record of Mitchell, the senator.
The daily press of this country speaking as a whole is owned
and controlled by the interests that are seeking to crush labor unions,
the element that controls the great trusts and corporations. The
newspapers that scorn to be thus controlled are denounced as
"yellow sheets" and their owners accused of being little better than
anarchists and a little worse than socialists. Perhaps this will
explain why the daily press devoted columns to Shea, the teamster,
and gave as little space as they could to Mitchell, the senator.
THE NERVE OF MR. POST
We cheerfully admit a great admiration for the supreme nerve
of Charles W. Post, president of the Manufacturers' Association,
head of the union busters, manufacturer of imitation food and hus
band of his ex-stenographer. Mr. Post has enough gall to furnish
an adequate supply 10 any ana an umuu uusuug aasu..ivua. . ..
gall the foundation of his imitation food he would have enough
raw material on hand to ruin his scab factories double time for
many years to come.-
v Mr. Post has issued a little pamphlet containing his address
as president-elect of the Manufacturers' Association. Presumably
it was isued at the expense of the association, but it carried a full
page advertisement of Mr. Post's gripe-guts and roastem-serious
foods. Even David M. Parry never had the nerve to advertise his
scab carriage works in that manner, and what Dave Parry wouldn't
do to advertise himself the devil would hesitate to do.
As ,ah exhibition of supreme nerve we give the award to Mr.
Post. By the side of this little pamphlet deal his other exhibitions
pale into insignificancve. When the man who forced his wife to
secure a divorce by reason of his cruel treatment broke into print
to denounce trades unions for brutality, we thought that was the
acme of exhibitions of nerve. But even that was not to be com
pared to this latter exhibition. We are now looking for even a
greater exhibition. And our trust will not be misplaced, for the
husband of his stenographer seems capable of reaching any height
of gall.
wave rarry complains because the unions of the country include
only 15 per cent of the workingmen of the country, and declares
that it is wrong for this 15 per cent to run things in behalf of the
other 85 per cent. . The union busters of the country, organized by
Parry and now headed by Post, embrace only three-tenths of 1 per
cent of all the manufacturers of the country, and yet Jjiey are trying
to run the whole manufacturing business insofar as the labor end
is concerned. Parry and Post make us laugh.
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The election of Prank W. Brown to congress would be the
means of compelling recognition of the labor vote in future con
ventions of both parties. That is the thing to be sought after by
the unionists of the First Nebraska district. If we stand together
two or three times the chances are that the time will soon come when
we can send men from our own ranks to represent us in legislatures
and congresses.
him.
'Bout 'leven o'clock th' band begun to
play
Down in th' grove, an' some folks
went that way
T" hear th' speakin'; but you bet 'at I
Don't waste no time that way Fourth
o July.
LBut when 'twas noon you bet I wus
th rust
Ter dinner e't till 1 nearly bust,
An' lemmynade, an' pie, an' jell, an'
cake,
An' chicken e't until I had a ache.
But it hurt good. An' 'en we shot some
more
Big crackers, celebratln' July 4.
An' then you'd oughter see th' fun we
made
In that there callytumpyan parade.
John White he's sister's beau lent
I He played he wus a clown an' he fell
down
A gittin' on his hoss, an' all th' town
Jus' laffed an' whooped, an' Kate she
looked so proud
'At I could see her blushin' in th'
crowd.
An' late at night .1 heard her in th
hall
Say, "John, your ' part ' wus jus' th
best of all."
My hand? Huh! That's burned. I lit a
fuse
An' then furgot I had. Failed to let
loose
An' bang she went right off there in
my hand.
Skeered me so 'at I could hardly stand.
An' hurt! I ruther guess it hurt. An1
ma
She said it wus the worstest burn she
ever saw. .
But pa jus' laffed an' said, "Don't
worry none;
Twon't bother till tomorrow, will it,
son?
An' all next day my hand hurt me so
hard
I couldn't hoe no weeds ner rake th1
yard.
An' when th' fireworks wus let off at
night
Who bossed th' job but sister's beau,
John White!
An' John let me help hand things up
r mm,
An' when he'd fire a wheel I'd git th'
rim.
John can shoot fireworks mighty fine,
1 say.
Ain't got no better in this dinky town
no way. i
John give me a quarter t' git ice
cream he said :
But I got cartridges an' punk an' caps
instead.
An late at night I jus' fell on th'
floor '
An' that's all I 'member 'bout July 4
If the unions of Lincoln are going to observe Labor Day as
usual it is time to go to work. The Wageworker favors cutting out
the parade this year. , Let us devote the money usually expended
on parades to our defense funds, and then spend the day quietly
in family picnics.
Central Labor Union benefit at the Oliver, Wednesday evening,
July 19. The Fulton Stock company will present "Lost Paradise,"
the greatest labor play ever written. Proceeds for benefit of Central
Labor Union. Admission 25, 15 and 10 cents.
Get into the game, and help .'boom "the Central Labor Union
benefit. At the Oliver, Wednesday evening, July 19. The play,
"Lost Paradise," a great union labor play that will enthuse every
union man and woman. Let's fill the Oliver from pit to dome.
U Paul Morton had been a tabor leader his crookedness would
have been denounced from Maine to California. Being an aristocrat
and a financier he was merely given a letter of recommendation
and . the management of . an insurance company notorious for its
rottenness, . ' '
Another bank, this time at Topeka, -Kan., has gone by the board
on account of speculation and high living. But they can not hold
"any union or labor leader responsible for it.
Vote for Brown and show the strength of the union vote.
( Brown's election will impel all political parties to seek the advice
and support of union labor in the future.
" , What's the matter with having a great 8-hour day rally in
' ; Lincoln? This city is well situated for such a rally.
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" Remember the Central .a
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Aveanesaay evening, j my i. r
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The trades union Mjathves to itsA It'giorig to be long dying
"p all by itself.
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.The celebration lasj .Tuesday was sa arid saner" thin usual.
Bad :
Immediately after the battle of Tren
ton a revolutionary officer approached
General Washington and exclaimed:
"This is a day long to be remem
bered ! "
"Yes," replied the father of his
country, "and that is what is worrying
me."
"WarrriiK you. general? How can
that be?"
"This . day we ve brought great
trouble upon our country."
"Trouble?"
"Yes the Hessian fly!"
"Having thus sprung the only joke
which history records of him, Wash
ington turned his attention again to
business.
The Ownership of the Ox
"Hello, Bingerly! Have you been
reading Lincoln Steffens' articles on
municipal graft?"
"ou bet: say that fellow's a
peach. The way he ripped it into
those democratic grafters in St. Louis
was simply immense. That man Stef-
fins is all right!"
"Have you read what he says about
Tom Johnson and the municipal Gov
ernment of Cleveland. Ohio?"
"No, but I bet he ripped it into that
fellow proper. I must get it.",
"Yes, read it. He says Tom John
son is the best mayor of the best
governed city in the United States.
"What! Says that about Tom John
son? Say, Steffins is the most unrelia
ble writer in the country. He isn't
entitled to notice, he Isn't The idea
of a man like Tom Johnson being held
up as a model! I don't understand
why great juaeaeine - like McClure's
prints sucn drivel as , Link Steffens
writes."
Biff! Sang!!
Little Johnnie had a cracker
Made of ordinary powder,
But he wanted something better
Something that would be much
louaer.
Johnnie found it 'twas a cracker
Loaded up with dynamite.
Biff! Bang!! Boom!! And little
' Johnnie
Went straight up clean out of sight
Successful
"Did you. have a good vacation?"
- "Bully! I got so tired enJovine it
that I'll have to work six months to
get rested up,"
' Brain Leaks
The wise man will not ask for a
woman's reason.
The man who guesses at his' work
gasps at the result.
The bent of the boy often indicates
the breaking of the father.
Girts given with expectation of re
turn are little if any better than
bribes.
We'd give a whole lot if we could
enjoy burning blisters on our fingers
like we did about thirty years ago.
Wouldn't you?
The man who undertakes to fight
the devil with fire is going to find
himself engaged with an antagonist
who is thoroughly familiar with the
weapon.
We may be wrong, but somehow or
other we have grave suspicions about
the men who are forever agitating
about a "noiseless Fourth." The man
who has forgotten that he was once
a boy might forget to be a man In a
business deal. . it
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