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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1905)
LY FUHNIHIIKD AND FIT- fKKM KBVV BATH ROOMS. !w Windsor Hotel Lincoln, Nebraska . lAaaartoaa and EariptM nl.a. imnlM Phi 3 par d.jr. Barspcaa Plan, Hum SOe to l.M par dav. !l roams all aat Ida. Papalar priced raatamrant lack aaaiatar and Iadlaa' cafe. 1RRVICK VJIKXCKLLBD. ! E. M. PEN NELL, Mgr. STILL A MENACE. We Clean Carpets. Wc j! also make rutfs out o! 31 Jold carpets Capital Carpet Cleaning and Rug Works T. H. Mc6ahej, Prop. Both Phones We are expert cleaners, dyers and finishers of Ladies' and uen tlemen's Clothing of all kinds. The finest dresses . specialty. THI3 NEW FIRM SOIKIP & WOOD FOR PRICELIST. 'PHONES: Bell, 147. Auto, 1292. 1320 N St. - - Lincoln, Neb. EXX or Vashingto Oregon Vil UNION PACIFIC EVERY DAY From September 13, to . October 81, 1005 SHORT LINE FAST TRAINS NO DELAYS Be Sure Your Tickets Read Over This Line. INQUIRE OF SLOSSON, Gen't Agt. TRIKEBREAKER. V ho 1 V a V V V V Vat he Vl fool n the Vas a Y he Vor J oyer s Look Upon Him fith Contempt. Eliot of Harvard says eaker js a hero. 1 he uses him to bat fellow workmen tell Bicro." But even the m have no greater this alleged "hero" lloyers themselves week s Saturday a story, Smath- i t iry striKeoreaKer si Is the story ot lc, ana smatners cebrcakmg mot iot strong men- iped at the ad- iperintcndent, t! No matter ihy your car!" car was sur- kl dynamited. light its way lathers, re actions, re- result he the police rned to mathers s and o meet as Soda Fountain Still Luring the Young Astray. The Wagcworker's position on the license question is too well known to need mention here. The saloons of Lincoln have paid $1, ")00 a year each for the privilege of selling wines, beer and liquors at retail, and they are compelled to observe certain strict rules and regulations. Having accepted the money of these saloons the city is in duty bound to protect the sa loons in the conduct of the liquor business. But it is not because the saloons are entitled to protec- ion that The VVageworker again calls attention to the fact that there are soda founains in the city that make a practice of dispensing intoxicants in their most insidi ous forms. The soda fountain habit in Lin coln is doing more to drag young men and women boys and girls into the downward path than all the saloons combined. Beard less boys and adolescent girls fre quent these soda fountains, and with flushed cheeks and glisten ing eyes that tell of incipient in ebriation drink decoctions of wines and liquors that they could not get at any saloon in the city. Boys who would be instantly or dered out of a saloon walk into drug stores and with the air of veterans order "soda" that con tains enough alcohol to make a runken sailor blink and hunt tor the water. Girls who could not gain admittance to any saloon in Lincoln sit at tables in drug stores and stow away "soda that doctored to the limit with wines and cordials. Tie Wageworker asserts with out fear of contradiction that there are soda fountains in Lin coln doing a thousand fold more damage to the community than all the saloons combined, because these drug stores cater to the boys and girls and give them their first initiation into the drink and drug habit. Parents who would raise an awful disturbance if they found a saloon selling liquor to their boys say never a word when their boys loiter around these 'soda fountains" and drink enough booze to send them off reeling. Women who would dis dain to enter a wine room if there happened to be such a thing in Lincoln, think nothing of going into a drug store and ordering a soda that contains a spike big enough to fasten britlge tim bers together. Morphine, cocaine, chloral patent medicine concoctions that are nothing more than raw wins key of the poorest make all these things are dished out with out any pretense at concealment, and the result is that the moral atmosphere of the city is growing more and more tainted every day, Ihere are a number of respect able drug stores in Lincoln. They neither keep nor compound in toxicants. There are drug stores whose drug stocks are a huge bluff, and whose prescription cases conceal the sale ot more liquor than 'half the bars of the city can boast. 1 he police are practically helpless under existing conditions. The only remedy lies in public opinion. Parents should head the crusade, for it is the boys and the girls who are being dragged down bv this horrible traffic. Watch your boys and girls, and if you catch them en tering one of these drug store saloons," take them home, ibend them over a barrel and then ap ply the remedy. men threatened to vote against ratification of the constitution un less that objectionable clause was stricken out, and as there is a di vision of sentiment in the terri tory regarding single or double statehood with Oklahoma, the single staters saw that they were up against it. As a result the con stitutional convention renigged on the "open shop" clause and struck it out. It was an outrageous attempt at discrimination to start with, but what do Post and . Parry and their ilk care about that? All thev want is to make it possible to hammer labor into subjection. Engineer and Firemen Meet Death at Their Posts. At Nehawka, Neb., last Thurs day Engineer B. K Young and 1'ireman William bherheld ot tne Missouri Pacific met death in a wreck. Their engine went off a ridge at that point and both were killed. The engine was at tached to the rear of a train and was backing up. It is supposed that the tender left the rails and truck a bridge support, knocking the bridge out of plumb. Engi- eer Young applied the air and the engine broke loose from the train. The train remained on the rails, but the engine plunged down and its crew was buried in the wreck. The victims were buried at Nc raska City last Sunday. Engi neer Young" was buried from St. Mary s Episcopal church, Kev. A. Knickerbocker omciatmg and the Royal Highlanders having hartre. Fireman Sheffield was buried from the First Christian ; church, Rev. J. T. Smith officiat ing and the Ancieint Order of United Workmen having charge. Mr. Young leaves a wife and sev en children and Mr. Sheffield a wife and ten children. The fune rals were the largest in recent years as both men were well known and respected. FUNNY, ISN'T IT. The Difference a Wad of Money Will Make. Sam Parks went to jail because he took money from employers to settle troubles that he instigated as business agent of his union. John A. McCall, the millionaire president of the New York Life Insurance company has been shown to be guilty of (subornation of perjury, with misstatement of facts concerning his business and with misappropriating trust funds, But John A. McCall is a leader in finance, a respected member of society and not in the least dan ger of going to jail. Parks was a poor workingman. McCall is rich speculator. The possession of money makes all the difference in the world. And vet some foolish people wonder why workingmen have no confidence in or respect for th courts. BROUGHT TO TIME. WRECK VICTIMS. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT liil Statistics show that there is within 6 per cent as much heating power in a bushel of soft coal as in a bushel of anthracite. With the Ilinoy Heater the loss in using soft coal is overcome by f orcing super-heated air directly on top of the fire, burning the gases and smoke, and leaving no clinkers. , This is exactly what the Ilinoy Heater will do and it will pay you to verify this statement before buying a heating stove. If you prefer a hard coal baseburner, nothing made equals the Howe Ventilator. It will heat several rooms to a "comfortable i temperature, and with a small amount of fuel.- A customer, who has used one of these stoves for the past twelve years with no repairs, told us a few days ago that he knew he saved 25 to 50 per cent on his coal bill every winter. We will give you his name and also that of many others who are glad to testify to the merit of this sanitary heater. .;'"' CHARLEY HAWKES. Deserved Tribute to a Hard Fighter for Unionism. Chas. E. Hawkes. late candir date for the, I. T. U. presidency, was a caller on friends at the G. (). last week. No matter what the opinion of Mr. Hawkes' fu ture chances for the presidency may be, or what is thought of his recent race for the same, the fact remains that he is an organizer of considerable magnitude, as the re sults already achieved in Philadel phia attest. He possesses ability n that line that goes to make him valuable man in International Typographical circles, and it is sincerely hoped that President Lynch, who is by far too big a jnan to let personal matters enter where the good of the cause is concerned, will continue to avail himself of the services of Mr. Hawkes, when his work in Phila delphia shall have been accom plished. It's all for the eight hours anyhow Washington Trades Unionist. SMITH'S APOLOGY. Indian Territory Politicians See the Light. There will be no "open shop clause in the constitution of the new state that is to be made out of Indian Territory. The Post ites sneaked in a clause making it illegal to sign a closed shop con tract and tried to make it stick. or a time it looked as if the citi- ens of the teft-itory would ratify he' constitution But they reck- ned without the union men of The union men he "little joker" and ;ouble. The union Washington . Trades Unionist Makes Sarcastic Comment. The Washington Trades Unionist, one of the best labor publications in the country, pays editorial attention to Shelby Smith's apology, and refers to it in the following vitriolic manner. We commend it to the thoughtful attention of the printing craft: "Philadelphia. Sept. 19, 1905. deeplv regret the publication of the statements made in the Trades Union News of February 1905, concerning the' members of the executive council of the International Typographical Un ion. '"I did not mean to intimate that the international officers had en tercd into agrements with the rats or rat employers of Philadelphia "I had no purpose to assail the personal character of the mem bers of the executive council. "The above is submitted as my apology for the publication by ine, in the Trades union News, of the article complained of. (Signed.) "SHELBY SMITH." And the future life of a union card rested on the above "stick ful" of an apology. In the present effort to gain the eight-hour day, with general am nesty allowed in every city in trouble, the worst "rat" in the country has a chance for a card without an apology lor past ac tions in fact, he -is looked upon as a friend in need. No matter what his crime. He - may have traduced evfry member of the last union he ws a member of, vio lated every article of law in the international, and he is taken in to help win a strike. The personality of . Shelby Smith entered largely into his case. With a tongue that utters cutting, sharp, sentences, filled with sarcastic contempt for his al leged. persecutors, he could hard ly expect quarter from a conven tion dominated by administration Assortment Complete ...PRICES RIGHT... HALL, BROS. GO 1308 O STREET adherents i but the sentence in his case was too severe. Parallel the act of a man fight ng for his organization, incessant and insistent for changed condi tions in Philadelphia union, and when the executive council prac tically deserted his cause, saw fit to criticise that august body for its alleged delinquency, harshly, it may be, and his card hangs on an apology. Parallel it with .a rat, carrying any number of coats of whitewash and a card is handed him and funds to carry him to new fields of usefulness for good or ill to the I. T. U. ST. PAUL PRESSMEN. Stand by the Printers With Their Good Money. The St. Paul pressmen are the kind of friends' that count. They have not only expressed sympa thy with the printers who are fighting for the eight-hour day, but have come to the front with a bunch of money. The St. Paul printers are on strike for the shorter day, and a couple of weeks ago Pressmen's .. Union No. 29 adopted resolutions of sympathy and support. Then a member arose and moved that the sum of $500 be appropriated to the local Typographical union to assist it its struggle. There was not a dissenting vote. The St. Paul Pressmen s union has less than seventy-five members and their donation amounted to almost $7 per man. That's the kind of sympathy that counts, and the St. Paul printers will not be slow to make proper recognition in a more substantial way than a mere "thank you" when opportunity affords. THIS HELPS SOME. disagreement and it is probable that further negotiations will be conducted during the coming week. Governor Folk has commuted the sentence of Edgar Bailey from hanging to life imprisonment. Bailey, a hackman at Kansas City, was charged with having mur dered a strike breaking hackman, after luring his victim into the woods. Strenuous efforts were made to save Bailey's neck. The Wageworker is glad that Bailey s not to be hanged, because it does not believe in capital punish ment. And it is glad that Bailey goes up for life, because it does not believe in violence as a strike measure. There is entirely too much of that sort of thing, and the union men of the country should set their faces against it. If we can t win peacefully, then let us lose gracefully. FOLLOW THE FLAG I On October 3 the printers of Utica, N. Y., went on strike to en force the eight-hour day. Last Sunday the Typotheta capitulated and signed .up, and on Monday morning the strike was a thing of the past. The eight-hour day goes into effect on January 1, 190t, withoue a wage reduction. Every office in the city signed. The miners of G. B. Markle & Co., who struck last week, de cided last Sunday to return to work. The driver boy who was the cause of the trouble must re main idle until- the question of his wages is decided by the concilia tion board which the men and the company has agreed shall settle the issue. Ministers March in Labor Day Parade at San Jose. When the union men of San Jose started their Labor Day pa rade they cheered as the members of the Pastors' Union wheeled into line. This union is made up of the evangelical ministers of San Jose, and for some months it has had a fraternal delegate in the sessions of the Federated Trades Council. When the parade countermarched the union crafts men cheered the ministerial marchers . to the echo, and the ministers acknowledged the fact by waving their hands and emit ting a few cheers of their own. The incident has created the greatest good feeling. OFFER REJECTED. Textile Council Will Not Accept Operators' Proposition. The Fall River textile council, representing the organized cotton mill operatives of the city, has decided to reject the offer made by the Manufacturers' association last week to advance wages '5per cent and introduce a profit, shar ing plan. The council had re quested the restoration of the re duction of 12jz per cent,, which, went into effect July 25, 1905. No immediate trouble inxthe mills fe anticipated as thejesult.of the At Indianapolis representatives of the employing coopers and the Coopers' International Union were in session for several days last week. Last Sunday an agree ment was reached and a working agreement signed. Under the agreement the coopers get a slight increase in wages. Required a Lot of Educating. A young Brockton physician tells the following about himself: Upon his graduation from Brown university he went home to the west ern part' of the state for a few days and on the street met a young French man, one of his comrades of the Span ish war. This conversation ensued: "Hello, Fred; I hear you got through down at Brownse's." "Yes, I finished there Wednesday." "Well, what are you going to do now," "I'm going to New York to study medicine." "Huh! You going to be a doctor. How long dat take?" "I'll have to study four years, any way." , "Four years! Gee! Didn't you graduate from the high school here?" "Yes." "And didn't you go four years at Brownse's?" "Sure thing." "And now you mean to tell me you got to study four years more to be a doctor?" "I certainly have, and after that there will be two years in a hospital." "Well, you must be tick-headed." . , Home Visitors Excursion NOVEMBER 30: To many points in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ken tucky, Western Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia, at GREATLY REDUCED RATES THE WABASH has solid road-bed, rock ballast and new equipment, reclining chair cars SEATS FREE. For rates, maps and all information call at Wabash City Of fice, 1601 Farnam St., or address ' HARRY E. MOORES, G. A. P. 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NASH Qcm.r.l Wtitcn Agent, IBM fsraaat Straat, ' OMAHA, The smile that illuminates the counting room will also make light in the home. ' 7 Some men are proud of their ability to give: other men are thankful for an opportunity to give. ; Satan's promises to pay are printed on fine paper In artistic style, but they invariably go to protest. - t v It is rather difficult to have respect for a law when we can have none for the men' who made it.', . , ,
