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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1905)
r TIE BIG SIMBAY MAI You Should Not Miss For Sunday October 22 A Bunch of New Features New Colored Magazine Pages The Big Football Game at Ann Arbor between Michigan and Nebraska, will be told in great detail by The Star's Sporting Editor, direct over special leased wire, with illustration of plays and players. In addition there will be :i full account of all the other big football games, sent over The Star's special leased wire. THE WORKER'S MAGAZINE , will have an unusually fine lot of interesting and instruc tive articles for those who work with hand or brain.. This special feature alone is worth the full price of the paper. THE, NEWS SECTION' " " . : ' can always be depended on to give all. the latest News. Foreign, Domestic, State and Local. You, get all the news and get it first in the ' ' ;'" !,: New Comics and Humor es BIG MM STAR- M Newsdealers In the Comic Section "CIRCUS SOLLY VISITS THE OLD SHOW" '.ft- 9V, and the fun he has is great. Jrull page in colors. i ' "HOW PAPA GOAT HELPED THE YOUNGJAN.SUIT INTO SOCIETY." Billy Goat and the Kids arc great, and will please every body. Half-page in colors. " 'WILLIE HAWKSHAW,' THE AMATEUR DETECTIVE." A clever satire on the current crop of detective stories. Half page in colors. , , "LITTLE LOVEY PETT." "" A "sissy boy," only he isn't. A whole lot of fun. Half page in colors. SUPERSTITIOUS SAM AND THE HAIRPIN' A "good luck" story that wasn't and was. Half-page in colors. ... THE TOP O' THE MORlJlN'," " ' By V. D. Ncsbit, the humorist of the Chicago Tribune. A ful page of bright, witty, clever, stories and sayings. Il lustrated in colors. In the Magazine Section "THE FINEST DEVELOPED CHILDREN IN THE WORLD." , The three children of Governor La Follette, of Wisconsin. Half-tone illustrations from life, in colors A full page ar ticle of, unusual interest to every father and mother. "GIVE UP THEIR POSITION FOR LOVE." A story of two ladies-in-waiting to Queen Alexandra of England. Full page in colors. t "SOME OF THE THINGS A MAN CAN DO WITH ONE, ARM." - . Illustrated with numerous half-tones. "STRANGE MISFORTUNES OF THE MAN WHO KICKED A DOG." ' A story that is worth reading. ' .'J- 9 "A KISS FROM EVERY GIRL AS TOLL." The eccentric tribute demanded by a gallant Spaniard. How the courts upheld his rights, and the romance that resulted. Illustrated. "WHO STOLE THE SOCKS OF DETECTIVE VANTAU?" An amusing mystery that puzzles Paris. Illustrated. : Learn Your Business Every man says he knows his businessand then admits that he does not know it at all. Every man still has something to learn from oth ers about his own line of work. Technical1 schools, manual-training schools, special schools in every line are established to teach men their specialties for this is an ajfe of specialties, but even the teachers in these schools do not know it all. They still have something .to learn and the people from whom they must learn are the Workers the men who have had the experience. The worker at lathe or anvil, at desk or forge, in office or in the field, can teach the teacher, and the professor Can add to the value of the. worker. Practical science and scientific practice are not quite synony mous. The place where the practical and the scientific meet is in the Worker's Magazine of The Lincoln Sunday Star. Through the Worker's Magazine the practical worker learns scientific methods and the scientific mtn profits from the experi ences of the practical worker. , We must all learn from each other. o man can originate everything and few can originate anything. The man who wants to succeed in any line must know by what means and methods the other fellow succeeded, and the best place to learn that is in the columns of the Worker's Magazine, the only place in the world where science and practice meet and discuss their doings so that each may profit. ' !.k ' The worker in any line who wants to succeed must.be up to date and know all the tricks and all the advances in his. ow? trade or profession. He must learn these from, others, who have learned them by experience and by experiment, and the Worker's Magazine is up to date. It prints the best scientific treatises by the best instructors in trade and business methods and the best practical hints by workers. - j Read the Worker's Magazine and keep up to date. anoewswys If you are not reading the Big Sunday Star you are m a year, and the Stars Great Imperial issing the Greatest Newspaper in Nebraska or the West. Daily and Sunday, by mail $4.50 fYDlVEl Tfl 1YA V Multi-Color Map of Nebraska, free, on full .prepaid yearly subscription. V1VLFJL,JLY 1U MJt We Will Not be Free Until Ovr Courts Are Made Free The toilers of America will not be free men and women until the courts of the land are free to deal out exact justice. The courts of Amer ica today, taken as a vast whole, are not free to do this. The bench is crowded by the ju dicial representatives of private interests. Men are elevated to the bench, not because of their legal knowledge or judicial ability, but because of their willingness to do the bidding of the men who secured them the judicial ermine. Shout anarchy until you are hoarse. De nounce any man who makes such an asser tion as a traitor and an anarchist ! But the truth of the declaartion that the courts are, corrupt is as true as gospel writ and the workingmen and women of America are the victims of the corruption. Instance the sub servient Judge Jackson of Pennsylvania,' who, at the bidding of the mine owners, restrained an aged old Methodist minister from meeting with and praying for the striking miners at Hazelton. Instance the federal judge who re strained railroad men from quitting work to enforce a demand for living wage and refused to grant those, same workingmen a writ re straining their employers from reducing their already starvation wage. Instance the federal judge who issued an injunction restraining workingmen in Omaha from assembling in crowds of two or more to talk about their grievances, while the employers were meeting within sound of the judge's voice and framing up schemes to throw ihe workingmen in jail. Instance the judge-made laws for- the viola tion of which free born American citizens are thrown into jail, denied the right of being heard, denied the right of trial by jury and imprisoned just as long as the whim of the self-sufficient judge so demanded. Instance the judicial usurpation of legislative functions at the behest of rich and powerful corporations. The federal judiciary as now constituted is a menace to the liberties of American freemen. The elective judiciary is permeated with rot tenness because men are elevated to the bench to do the bidding of conscienceless corpora tions. These are facts that no thoughtful man can deny, and facts which no thoughtful man should ignore. The lengths to which this thing of "government by injunction" has gone is il lustrated br a case now on in Ohio. John P. Stetson, a workman in the employ of Meek & Co.. at Cincinnati, was taken from his bench by his employers and placed on the road as a salesman. Stetson developed into a splendid salesman and - in time his services were sought after by other firms in the same line. Finally Stetson accepted a liberal offer from a rival firm, resigned his position with Meek & Co. and went to work for his new employers. Immediately Meek & Co. appeared before Judge Thompson of the United States court and secured a temporary injunction re straining Stetson from working for any other firm than Meek & Co. They set up in their plea that Stetson received his business educa tion from them and therefore had no right to use the knowledge thus gained against1 them in the industrial field. ' ' 'Now just stop a moment and consider the fact that a judge really issued even a temper rary injunction on such a plea! Is it any won der that the courts are falling into disrepute and that ' judges are becoming despised for. their spineless truckling to corporations? Sup pose this injunction is made permanent Stet son will be just as much the slave of Meek & Co. as Uncle Tom was of Simon Legree. Even while it is only temporary he is as much a slave to Meek & Co as Eliza was to the brutal slave driver who chased her across the ice locked Ohio river. If Stetson's services are the property of Meek & Co. then he is the property of Meek & Co., for he can not live without receiving a return for his service. That Stetson is a huirian being is of no moment while that temporary injunction is in force he is merely a human machine without rights to be considered or soul to be regarded. - it has come to pass in America that mine mules receive more consideration tha'n the miners, and machines of iron and steel are given more thought than the souls of the men? who operate them. If the mine mule gets sick it receives instant attention; if the miner gets sick he can die and rot for all the owners of the mule care; If something goes wrong witb the machine an expert hastens to 'repair it ; if something goes wrong with the ml.n who ope- rates ine maenme men ooa fieip mm -ior ine owners of the. machine are too busy making money tolhink of such a cheap commodity as a laboring man. And now comes a federal judge who by judicial ukase restores chattel slavery, and we who protest at this misuse of the legal machihery. are called anarchists and traitors. " . ' God help America if the judicial machinery of this government is not speedily renovated! THE PRINTERS. Only Cheering News Comes From Strike Centers. Nothing but cheering news comes to head quarters from strike centers. Every day mem bers of thvTypotheta who vowed they would die in the last ditch before signing the eight hour agreement march up to t,he captain"slesk and affix their signature. Up to October 14, according to a bulletin from headquarters, 240 unions have secured the eight-hour day, and forty-eight have secured contracts Qperatrve on January 1, 190(i. On October !) Manager Hart of the El Paso, Texas. Times, and president of the local Ty potheta, capitulated and signed an eight-hour agreement. The following telegrams to Presi dent Lynch are self-explanatory: Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 13, 1905. James M. Lynch. Newton-Claypool Building, Indian apolis: ICverything appears in good shape here. Getting no men in St. Paul, and only boys from Iowa towns in Minneapolis. St. Paul, Minn., 'Oct. 12, 1905.- James M. Lynch. Newton-Claypool Building, Indianap olis : Twenty-eight shops signed. Getting im ported men out faster than 1 ypotheta gets them in. Three shops tied up. Everything satisfactory. Charlotte, N. Ci Oct. 13, 1905. James M. Lynch, Newton-Claypool Building, Indianap olis: Presbyterian Standard signs up. Worcester, Mass., Oct. 12, 1!)()5. James M. Lynch. Newton-Clayprol Building, Indianap olis : Lclisle Printing an Publishing Company, cmploving eight men. signed today. I en shops, two I vpothcta, employing tnirty-tour men, working under agreement. Twenty-two mem bers out. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 12, 1905.T James M. Lynch. Newton-Claypool Building, Indianap olis: Practically all offices under our jurisdic tion signed the eight-hour agreement today. ' Augujta, Ga., Oct. 10, 1905. James' M. Lynch, Newton-Claypool Building, Indianau olis: Nine-hour contracts canceled with con sent of employing printers, and eight-hour con tracts with advanced scale effective January 1 signed. El Paso, Texas, Oct. 9, 1905. James M. Lynch. Newton-Claypool Building, Indianap olis: Hart, manager Times, president El Paso Typotheta, signed agreement today. Richmond,' Va., Oct. 10, 1905. James M. Lynch, Newton-Claypool Ujiilding, Indianap olis : Fergusson & Sons signed. Grand Junction, Colo., Oct. 5, 1905. James M. Lynch, 50 Newton-Claypool Building, In dianapolis: All offices have signed eight-hour agreement. The following condition of affairs obtain in the cities named. Note the cheerful tone of the reports : . Kalamazoo. Mich. Thirty men out. Two dailies and three job shops employing thirty men have signed. Minneapolis, Mim. The opposition has less than ten competent men at work. Union cap tures every competent man brought in, but lets the unfair shops have the incompetents. The result is badly "balled-up" print shops. Mitchell, S. D. TWo boys and two girls on Simplex, machines are trying to do the work of seventeen competent men who are on strike. Niagara Falls, N. Y. Union' confident. Is suing daily paper with 2,000 paid subscribers. Outlook better "than ever. Newark, N. J. Strike on in ten ships, sixty eight men involved. Union men working in twenty-three shops. St. Louis, Mo. No change in situation. Eight offices out, leaving 128 men on strike. St. Joseph, Mo. Positions only half filled, and those by incompetents. Union confident and determined. Everybody staunch from fore men to apprentices. Union pushing the label with splendid effect. St. Paul, Minn. Three shops have shut down entirely, being unable to get men. The West plant practically closed in composing de partment. Pioneer Press, largest job shop in the city, has about ten men, less than half of whom would be eligible to membership. For,ty men working in signed up shops. Sioux Falls, S. D. Injunction served on union. Members firm and no desertions. De termined to win despite unfair injunction. Springfield. O. Ten out of twelve offices signed up. Crowell Publishing Co.. publishers of Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside, unsigned and has secured injunction against picketing. Electrotypers in Crowell concern refused to work on non-union forms and walked out. Ann Arbor, Mich. Strike roll reduced to seven. No desertions. Altoona, Pa. Strike in Mirror office. Union gaining ground daily. - Atlanta, Ga. Seventy-four mert came out on call.. Next day large Typothaete shop em ploying forty-seven men signed up. Thirteen firms have signed. Only fifteen men now out. Aurora, 111. Pictorial Printing Co. has se cured injunction against union talking with imported rodents. Buffalo, N. Y. Twelve Typothaete shops, were struck. Thirtv offices have signed. One hundred and forty men out. Chicago, 111. Two hundred and sixty con tracts signed, .giving employment to 2,200 men. Twenty-three offices employing 450 men now struck. Union gains daily; Cincinnati, O. One hundred and forty-four men out of twenty-three officesv Seventy nine offices employing 180 men have signed. Dallas, Tex. Prospects fine Typothaete advertising all over northwest for "rats" and can't get them. " Detroit, Mich. Fewer "rats" here than last week. Struck offices tied up almost complete ly. Old No. 18 standing pat and making good headway. Erie, Pa. Only four men and one appren tice out. El Paso, Tex. Herald, News and Times, all three Typothaete shops, have signed. Freeport, 111. Eighteen men went out of two plants. Four "rats" have been secured. Most of men who walked out have found em ployment in the four plants that have signed. Victory assured. ' . . . Grand Rapids, Mich. Seventy-seven nteit and thirteen- apprentices are out. Union se curing all good men who come in and shoving incompetents off on the Typothaete. Result is that shops are in awful shape. Greensboro,. ?J. C. Not an idle' printer in the city,although three offices were struck. Hannibal, Mo. r-Only nine men but now. Gains made right along. ' Jacksonville, Fla. Situation practically tin-' changed. Thirteen men out and struck shops have not been able to import a "rat." . Jersey City, N. J. Twenty offices signed. Jersey City Printing Co. has sued union for $100,000. American Typefoundry Co.-is bit terly opposing the union. '.Mark it. , Toledo, Ohio The situation in Toledo is unchanged in regard to number of offices signed and men out, but our chances of win ning improve with each succeeding day. The struck offices are doing but little, and the peo ple they have at work in the composing rooms wouldn't be allowed a"look in" jn times of peace. Altogether, the fifth week of No. 63's struggle for the. eight-hour day finds us in splendid shape, with the membership present ing a united and aggressive-front to the enemy. ,New Haven, Conn. With the exception that our ranks have been augmented by seven, making a total of fifty-nine out, conditions remain unchanged. The men out are firm and loyal, and their places are not filled, regard less of the Typothaete bulletin to the contrary. Union men, stay away from New Haven. San t Antonio, Tex. Situation improving, despite Typothaete circular stating full force competent non-unonists at work. A glance at the "circular sufficient refutation of state ment. ; . .. Rochester, N. Y. Situation unchanged. One I)undred and twenty members on strike; thirteen offices affected.' Sixteen agreements signed. ' " Richmond, Va. One office signed this week. Balance situation unchanged. Peoria, 111. Everything going along nicely fn Peoria. Eighteen members on strike. Union has made satisfactory arrangement with one -of the largest firms and men have returned to work. . - Quincy, 111. Two offices are still out, af fecting only eleven men. The union has brouglit suit against one company for using'" the label illegally. Worcester, Mass. As reported in telegram , -in this circular.