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WILL M. MAUP1N, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincoln, Nebr. One Dollar a Year.
' Advertising Rates on Application.
Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lin
coln, Neb., under the Act ot Congress of March 3rd, 1879.
THE WAGEWORKER
I GAS FOR LIGHTING
WHAT ABOUT THE, NEW YEAR?
This is the last issue of The Wageworker for 1!)03. In closing
Hie record of the year it might be well to look back before looking
t. ....... .i
The past year has been one of peace ami prosperity in labor
circles in Lincoln. There have been no troubles, no strikes and no
. disagreements. There have been a few minor misunderstandings, it
true: but good sense, fairness and a willingness to get together have
sMn settled them. This is what The Wageworker likes to seeand
what The Wageworker will always stand for. It believes in arbitra-
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violence and advocates respect for law. It wants to see a bigger and
noiicr luicoin, ai.ci ueneves inat me ucm na-j -j .-." - -Mir
mmnrti'nt vunrkmpn mid workwomen who are ofeanizecl thor
oughly and well paid for working decent hours amidst pleasant sur
roundings. For all these things it has stood for almost two years.
n.irlnir tt-w. i-vn.it v.or nmrlv n'prv trades union ill LillCOlll liaS EfrOWll
in membership, strength and organization, . Men have taken a deeper
interest in unionism, have come, closer together in the bonds ot
unionism and are learning that those who toil are dependent in large
measure one unpj-lhe other. The day of selfishness has forever
k.. :.wr.,i,i 0.1,1 trwinv iminii men 'know better than ever
:t.. r ,v. i, irprn nf nil." The vear closes with
wry thing in good shape in union circles, and for all of this ine
f-i r-i 1
A ' 1 . ..... . . 1 '1 1 1 . 1 rrrat fflll
i..f ...i,f f x a-Af? Tt mifrht to be richer 111 erood results
than the year just closed.' It ought to see every union now existing
iarger and stronger. It ought to witness the organization of several
branches of labor that arc not now organized. It ought to. see the lay-
labor teivmle. It ought to see
a Woman's Union Label League so large that the present quarters
- . , 1 ! ! .. nt rm V1 I 1 o rv
would be inadequate. It ought to see tne oisain.diiuu j
. . ' j. i : ... i, .-f,. if .inrlit tn r a revival of interest
in the Central Labor Union. All these things may be accomplished
if union men and union women will work earnestly ana ztaiouy
for the cause of unionism. . ,
i-i 11 1 .-.... if noirp will bf maintained, iiiai
1 nev ageworivcr imsm mat r"" - ---- ,
.1 i. ...,i..,,, Tliat frirndshin mav be maintained be
ttvn .-niniovcrs and emoloves. And in conclusion it wishes for the
toilers, of this citv and of this nation a prosperous and happy new
year, 'fishes great things for Lincoln, the best city ot them au.
A WORD ABOUT THE PRINTERS.'
i.. ,..v..i,.,l, moinritv tlm iminn nrinters of the country
11 clll un.llli,iitniij, iiiujvi.ij i - i -
have voted an assessment of 10 per cent a week to finance the eight
hour struggle which begins next Monday. This means that the un
ion printers arc willing to go down into their pockets and pay from
$10 to $15 a month to' their union. It is the spirit of unionism that
assures a final victory.
The Typographical Union is strong because its members have
been trained to make. sacrifices for their union. Men who pay for
their union cards soon learn to prize them highly. The unionism that
does not train up men ready to make sacrifices is not the kind that
wins or merits success. 1
The Post-Parry crowd of union busters figure that if they can
.... ,i fi,,r mi hpat tln rest of the unions one at a
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... t-'nie. In other words, the fight that the union printers are making
O-.-.-r. ci... r. fVit. jircraniyi'rl trades. If the iirinters
should by any fluke lose the eight hour day fight, it would mean
the loss of the eight hour day to the two or three unions that have it
and the impossibility of other unions getting it for years to come.
If the union printers win it will fracture the backbone of the anti
union movement. And the printers will win. Don't make any mis
take about that. I'.ut they will win all the sooner, and aU the more
decisively, if other trades unions will come to the front and lend
them moral and financial support.
Come on, brother unionists! Get behind the union printers and
make the victory for the eight-hour day so decisive that before the
anti-union crowd can recover its breath the rest of the unions will
have secured the shorter working day.
AN APPRECIATED COMPLIMENT.
Will M. Maupin issued a prosperous Christmas edition of the
Wageworker last week. The "rims" were full of collateral that will
be turned into coin on the first of the month. This has been a pros
perous and successful year for the Wageworker and the Lincoln
unions, and plans are under way to ginger up the unions next year
and make them even better than at present, and at present the town
is in better shape than it ever was in its history. Omaha Western
Laborer. '
"POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW."
Everybody works but Parry ;
' He's full of Postum slop.
Stomach full of Grape Xuts,
Talking of "open shop."
Post is making sawdust,
And other kinds of dope.
Everybody works but Parry,
And he's lost hope.
OPEN EVENINGS
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Sav, wouldn't it be glorious if the union men and women of Lin
coln could witness the laying of the corner stone of a fine labor tem
ple on next Labor day? And why not? There are 2,.00 unionists in
Lancaster county, and that number of well paid employes ought to
be able to build a home of their own without any great amount of
sacrifice.
A lot of Chicago gentlemen who deplore th$ plan of labor or
ganization, organized very suddenly a week or two ago to keep the
failure of one of their number from injuring the whole bunch. That
"the injury of one is the concern of ail" dawned on this bunch with
awful suddenness.
The dust raised by a "scab"' broom, especially a convict-made
broom, causes consumption, tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, phthisic,
hay fever, dyspepsia, gastritis, toothache, heartburn, indigestion, hv
er complaint and glanders. Use only union made brooms.
The laboring man who allows a union to fix hi. hours and con
flitions is a "slave, according to Parry and Post. ISut the laborer
who allows Post and Parry to fix his hours and conditions is a "free
and Independent workingman." . Wouldn't that curi your whiskers?
The most ungrateful people on earth are those who profit by the
work of unionists and refuse utterly to help the unionists pay the ex
1 tense of maintaining better conditions in the shape of wages, hours
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aiidsurroiiiKiings.
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President Eliot of Harvard is suffering from another eruption
i.f the vocal organs. President Eliot is old and senile, and this must
be considered when reading his fill m in at ions against organized labor.
The union busters have reached the point of making threats. But
somehow or other tne uig names reuise to be triglitcned.
;
Score another for the Lincoln Onion Club. A branch "Onion
has been sprouted at Kansas City. ' 1
Factories that employ Women and 'girls at starvationiwages nev-
cr made a cuy pmamua.i - , ; t As
Brief Items of News, Penned ana
Pasted for Busy People.
Rockford has a new local of car
penters.
Cincinnati leatherworkers are still
on strike.
A chorus- girls' union has been
firmed in New York.
The plumbers have knocked out the
open shop in Galveston, Tex.
Stone cutters are on strike at Carth
age, Mo., for a raise from $4 to $4.50 a
day.
A butchers' and meat cutters' union
has been organized at Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Union stage hands withdrew from
the Lyceum theater in Minneapolis,
Minn.
New York teamsters won their
strike and the employers have signed
the scale.
G. A. Creighton & Son's shoe shop
at Lynn, Mass., is closed because forty
lasters are on strike.
Saddlery workers und harness mak
ers to the number or TZa strucK
against Perkins, Campbell & Co., at
Cincinnati.
Carpenters of St. Paul have adopt
ed a new wage scale of 40 cents an
hour instead of 37 cents. It will
take effect April 1.
Rev. Charles Stelzle conducted a
series of meetings in Trenton, N. J.,
in the interests of trades unionism and
the church.
Sheet metal workers of Milwaukee
are gradually effecting settlements on
the basis of 37 cents an hour, a
raise of 2 cents.
The roofers of Boston and vicinity
have requested a 50-cent Increase In
all grades the first raise asked for in
seventeen years.
Molclers at the Louisville & Nash
ville shops at Decatur, Ala., were re
fused a raise in wages. Most of the
men left for other places.
There is such a demand for molders
in Newark, N. J., that the brass mold
ers' Union cannot fill all the places
vacant in the shops.
Mrs.. Ada Davenport of Chicago is
campaigning Washington in the In
terest of the servant girl and will or
ganize that class of workers.
Employes of Tiffany . & Co., silver
ware manufacturers at Forest Hill,
N. J., have been granted the nine-hour
day. The' change came unsolicited.
Hopes are held out to the city fire
men of Peoria that they will obtain
an increase of pay something that
has not happened to them in the past
forty years. ;
By a division of 31 to 19 the mem
bers of the Montreal Trades and La
bor Council declared against the par
ticipation by labor unions in matters
political.
Mayor Whelton of Boston notified
the Electrical Workers' Union that the
men employed in the fire alarm de
partment wilr be put on an eight-hour
basis. "'V
A rumor is- current that Boilermak
ers' and Shipbuilders' Union contem
plates asking for an increase o'f wages
in the United States and Canada on
May 1st.
The Waitresses' Union of Chicago
has founded a school of unionists at
which lectures will be delivered on the
principles and objects of the affiliation
of trades people.
Machinists have been granted by
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad an increase of one cent an
hour ovfer the present -wages of. 25, 27
and 28 cents an hour. '
Boston Musicians' Protective .Union
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A Tale of the Yule Tide
By WILL M. MAVPIN
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CHRISTMAS IN THE JUNGLE
"Tis mighty little Oi love th' work," growled
Private O'Brien as he savagely jabbed his knife
into the can of embalmed beef with one hand
and reached for his canteen with the other.
"O, g'wan with your everlasting' growlin',
Terry," grunted Private Wilkins. "Did you thick
you were comin' on a Sunday school picnic?"
"I guess Oi knew phwat wus comin' t' me wh'3n
Oi enlisted." replied O'Brien, wiping the perspira
tion from his forehead with the .sleeve of bis
shirt. "But little did Oi finu thot we'd be
hikin' t'rough these blessed jungles at Chris'r.ias
toime. Divle liy away wid th' little brown fellys
thot. keep pesterin' us so. Av it wasn't for thorn
it's home we'd be this minnit, an' tomorrow th'
blessed Chris'mus day."
Lieutenant Gilder, in charge of a squad of
"hikers" in pursuit of some recalcitrant members
of our assimilated brethren, was writing up his
report while his men were hastily getting sup
per, and ever and anon he would stop and look
away toward the east with a far-away look in
hi, eyeis. He, too, was thinking of home and
Christmas joys, and he caught the conversation
of his little command as it came floating towards
liim on the fever-laden air.
- "Christmas eve and home ten thousand miles
away," he muttered. "And the thermometer 100
in the shade when it isn't raining and 150 then.
Well, we're in for it, I guess."
The sun was rajridly nearing the western
horizon, and Lieutenant Gilder hastily finished
his report and prepared to take the usual pre
cautions for the night. The supper was quickly
finished, the guards posted, and in an instant al
most the sim disappeared and the tropical night
fell like a "pall.
No fires were allowed, so the soldiers un
rolled their blankets and lolled around upon the
ground, talking in low tones and sending the
clouds of pungent smoke curling upwards to
wards the stars that fairly seemed to shoot into
sight as the sun dropped behind the horizon.
"Oi'ni wonderin' if Santa could find me
stockin' if Oi hung it on thot thorn beyant," re
marked O'Brien with a grin, pointing lazily with
his toe towards a nearby thornbush.
"He could that, if he isn't sufferin' from ca
tarrh," retorted Billy Borden, the wag of the
squad.
"If it wasn't ag'in th' rules Oi'd punch yer
head for thot," - said OBrien. "Tis cruel of ye
t' poke fun at. th' 'fate that has carried me so
many moilcs in th' effort t' make paceful citizens
of me brown brothers."
"Not. so loud boys," cautioned the lieutenant.
"No telling where we ate, or what may happen."
'"Tis cruel hard f he kept so oxcited on
Christmas eve," whispered . the irrepresible
O'Brien. "Wid all th' rest of th' world at pace
it seems a mmtherin' hame we hey t' be itchin'
t' shoot our felly .min."
"Ml bet the kids at home are just about
hikin' out of bed to look in their stockin's," said
Buikett, the bugler.
"O, study your geography," growled a com
rade. "You've got your time on backwards.
- "Well, I'm thinkin' of, stockin's and hangin'
them up, just the same," . retorted Burkett.
"Oi'm not goin' t' snub Santa Claus, onyhow,"
said O'Brien, hitting up suddenly. "If so be he
happens t' come trough this God-forsaken part
of th' world he's goin' t' find Terence O'Brien
maliin' familiar wig-wag."
'"What are you goin' t' do, Terry?" queried
Riley, he of the corporal's stripes.
"Oi'm goin' f hang me stockin' on thot same
thorn. .0: am, an' I'll lick th' man thot laughs
sit it." . ..
."Go ahead, Terry." said the lieutenant. "We'll
all hang up our stockings. It will seem like home
to do it, and maybe we can sleep better."
The whimsicality of the thing appealed to the
lonesome and tired- soldiers, and with subdued
chucklings they dug down into the packs and
brought out clean army socks. They hung them
on thornbush and bramble, then after a few more
.pipefulls of .tobacco they lay down quiet, dozing
off into the first stages of tired sleep where
visions of days gone by pass in review. It is
not difficult to imagine what those soldier boys
were- dreaming 'about as they lay beneath the
tropic sky ten thousand miles from home on a
Christmas eve, with unknown dangers lurking
all about. But at last their restless movings
ceased, and the only sounds heard were those
of the sentries moving about and the call of the
night birds in the jungle.
Private Calkins was just beginning to wonder,
when relief would come when he heard a rustling
noise in the brake. He stopped instantly, brought
his rifle forward and peered into the darkness.
"Hist!"
"What'n thunder's that?" ejaculated the
startled sentry.
"Hist! I'm amigo," came a voice from the
darkness.
"Then come out into the open, hands up,"
commanded Calkins, cocking his rifle and throw
ing the butt to his shoulder.
In response to his command a lithe figure
walked out, hands up.
The figure stopped, just close enough for Cal
kins" to see that it was a Filipino clad in a suit '
of soiled linen, hands aloft and a smile upon
his face.
"What's your business, eh?" growled Calkins.
''I'm Capt&in Enrique Analdo," said the Fil
ipino, speaking in purest English. "I would like
to speak to the officer in command.
Calkins was puzzled. He didn't know exact
ly what to do whether to arouse tha- camp, or
whether to quiz his visitor a little further.
"I'm in command of the band that your band
is pursuing," said Analdo. "But I want to arrange
a truce for twenty-four hours. Take me to yonr
commander." '
"What's up, Calkins," queried the voice of
Lieutenant Gilder. ,
"Please come here, lieutenant," replied Cal
kins. "Here's a little dago who says he's an
officer in the Filipino army, and he wants to
arrange a truce."
Lieutenant Gilder stepped forward and peered
into the face of -the stranger.
"Well, what is it?" he asked.
"I am aptain AnIdo," said the visitor. "I.
command the detachment you are pursuing. I
come with a flag f truce. Tomorrow is the
Christ day, is it not? Why, then, should, we be
at war on the eve of that blessed day?"
"Why at all?" muttered the lieutenant to
himself. Then aloud: "And you propose what?"
"Truce of twenty-four hours, commandant.
See?"
The Filipino's 'fingers , pointed, and following
the direction Gilder could see the socks of his
command waving against the starlit skyline.
"Tke bleaBed Christmas time," repeated . the
Filipino officer. "Let us observe it."
But how?1' Asked Glider.
"I will give a signal to one of my men who
is near. He will join us. I will remain as a host
age in your camp while you go with him to my
camp. There my men will give presents fruit,
tobacco, cigars, baskets, little things for Christ
mas. You come back and we put them in the
stockings for your men. Tomorrow we - eat to--gether.
At sunset we go. At midnight the truce
ends. Then we fight if so it seems proper."
The little brown man's voice quivered with
excitement. . ;
"Well, this Is a rum go," said Gilder. "But
T guess I'll be safe if he remains here. If I don't
get back in fifteen minutes, Calkins, arouse the
camp. Captain Analdo, I accept your offer. But
if anything happens to me what my men will do
to you will be a plenty. Wait until I bring an
other man."
Calkins saluted, the Filipino officer sat down
upon . the ground and Gilder walked back amd
shook O'Brien by the shoulder. ,
"Wake up, O'Brien; but don't make a sound."
"Phwat's up," murmured, the wide-awake
soldier. . - .
"Come and I'll show. you..",, -
O'Brien was quickly made familiar with the
Filipino's proposition and with a" grin remarked :
"Oi guess you ; don't take no chances, lieu
tenant. It wouldn't be healthy f'r me little brown
friend here t'. let ony harm come t' yez."
"Your officer's life is safer now than H. was
an hour ago, sir," said Analdo, stiffly.
""Signal- your man,"-said Gilder tersely. ,
The signal was given, and instantly another
Filipino emerged from , the brake, hands aloft. .
"Jose, conduct the Americano to camp, and
return with him in fifteen minutes. God be with
you, sir." And Analdo gave a salute which the
American officer returned.
"In fifteen minutes. Calkins," said Gilder.- "If
not well, you know."
"Yes, sir." - - , ' '
"And God help me little friend here if it's '
more than fifteen," muttered O'Brien.
Gilder followed his guide into the brake, anft
it seemed only a rod or two ere he stepped into
the midst of the Filipino camp. That it should
be so near and ' yet remained undetected gave
Gilder a wrench and he mentally swore at his
stupidity. But he immediately saw that his visit
; was not unexpected. The brown Boldiers stood
at attention and saluted with precision as he
strode into their' midst. . Scarcely a word was
spoken, but in a few minutes Gilder and his guide
were fairly loaded down with Christmas tokens.
Then the two walked back until they met the
sentry and the waiting O'Brien. -", '
"Thank God, yez got back all roight," whis
pered the faithful Irishman. "Oi had me revolver
at his head iv'ry minute of th' time yez was gone,
sir." - . . ,
The Filipino officer arose from t,he ground
and in a loar voice, said:
"Lieutenant Gilder, I wish you a merry
Christmas. May I have the pleasure of dining
with you tomorrow at 12?"
"If it can be arranged I shall be glad to have
you, sir," said the astonished Gilder.
"Then, sir, at 12 I will meet you here. My
men will follow me one at la time, depositing
their arms on the edge of this clearing. We trust
ourselves to you, sir. And we will bring our
share of the Christmas dinner."
"Very well, sir. And a merry Christmas to
' you, Captain Analdo," said Lieutenant Gilder.
With a swift salute Analdo and his guide dis
appeared in the darkness. But Gilder redoubled
sentries before he composed himself to sleep.
"It looks all straight, but it's almighty queer,"
he muttered. , .
"Let's fill th' socks before we sleep,'.' whis
pered O'Brien. :
And no sooner said ' that done.
"Hi, there, boys!" shouted , Burkett about
dawn. "Blast my eyes if old Santa didn't find
his way into this bloomin' jungle!" .
Instantly the camp was in an uproar. Cau
tion was thrown to the winds and the men dived
down into those army socks and brought out the
little tokens with gasps of astonishment.
But all their queries were for naught. The
three men who could have . explained professed
ignorance . with the rest And so the Christmas
morning lengthened away towards noon. Gilder
looked at his watch every little bit, and finally
he, heard Sentry Bowles shout: ,
. "Halt! Who goes there?"
"A friend under a flag of truce,", was the
. reply. ...
Lieutenant Gilder hasten ej to the ' sentry
post, and there, clad in a sujt of immaculate dudk,
stood Captain Analdo.
"A merry Christmas, Lieutenant Gilder." 1
"The same to you, Captain Analdo." ' '
" The arrangements were soon completed. Cap
tain Analdo walked into camp, arm In arm with
Lieutenant Gilder. And one at a time Analdo's
men came forward, deposited his rifle and bolo
in the growing heap at the foot of a tree, but
carrying his little contribution to the dinner into
the camp. ' -
The Filipinos outnumbered the Americans al
most two to one, but the latter posted a guard
over the Filipino arms and were not afraid.
A half-hour later the. queerest Christmas din
ner in many a year was well under way.
"Your health, Lieutenant Gilder," said Captain
Analdo, holding aloft a calabash full of strong
coffee. - . ,
"The same to you, Captain' Analdo,"- said
Gilder, quaffing from his own calabash.
As the, evening shadows lengthened. Captain
Analdo arose and said.
"It is time to go. The blessed Christmas is
closing. . Until midnight tonight, Lieutenant
Gilder. -
"Until midnight, Captain Analdo and would -to
God it were forever." '
"As God wills," whispered "Analdo." - ,
And with military salutes and with -warm
handclasps, . the little brown men bade: farewell
to the stalwart American soldier hoys and disap-f
peare4 into the jungle from whence they-came.
As .the last figure' disappeared from sight
Private O'Brien spat upon the ground and ex
claimed: .
"Well. Oi be Mowed!"
has decided to erect its own head
quarters' building. .Several thousand
dollars has been set apart as the
nucleus of the building runa.
Charges have been brought , against
Irrael Howitz and Alex Jordan, retail
clothiers of Patersori, NJ., for taking
union labels from garments- and put
ting them on non-union goods.
John C. Harding, organizer for. the
Typographical Union in Chicago,
stated before the Christian Ministers'
association that the union has Spent
$85,000 in conducting the present
strike. He prophesied a, "march of
the unemployed", similar to the Lon
don demonstration, unless the work
ing hours are shortened.
Secretary of the Navy Chas. J. Bon
aparte is a member of a committee of
the Baltimore Federated 'Charities
which is urging the enactment of a
liw in- that state prohibiting child la
bor. . .,j J t
Facts disclosed in our news columns
show conclusively that the locijout by
the employing printers bf Philadelphia
is but a part of the plan of the Na
tional Manufacturers' association to
prevent the adoption of the , shorter
work day in the ingwe trades. -Pliua-
delnhla Trades r In News.