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PHELPS-BURRESS CO.
GOAL
yvOINFgC H $6.5Q
Best Stove, Range or Furnace
coal for the money
Other grades of coal at lowest market prices.
PROMPT DELIUERY
A LITTLE HOMILY.
206 FRATERNITY BLDG.
Auto 2321. - Bell 129
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HOLIDAY
EXCURSION
RATES
To accommodate holiday
travelers a rate of one fare
and one-third for the round
trip to many points on the
Union Pacific and its con
necting lines has been
placed in effect by the
UNION PACIFIC
Dates of Sale, Dec. 22, 23,
24, 25, 30, 31, 1905, and
Jan. I, 1906, with final re
turn limit Jan. 4, 1906.
Additional dates of sales and longer limit for students
and teachers holding certificates.
INQUIRE OF
E. B. Slossen. Gen. Agent
COCCOOCXXXX)C)G3CXXX
ADAM SCHAUPP COAL CO.
...COAL...
COKE AND WOOD
Rock Springs, Hanna, Maitland
CENTERVILLE BLOCK 05.50
Spadla, Pittsburg: nut, Washed Egg. Best Grades. Scranton
and Lehigh Anthracite. Best and quickest service. Deliver
ed by Union Teamsters only.
CITY OfflCC 1234 0 STREET
BELL 182. ALTO 3812
UWOH MADE SHOES
I carry nothing but union made
shoes, and have a full line of
them. I manufacture shoes and
shoe uppers. A share of union
patronage is respectfully solicited.
S. L McCOY
1529 0 Street
Columbia National Bank
6trtl Staking Businus. Intend on tins deposits
lNCOLn. NEBRASKA
0O0CNK
PATRONIZE THE WAGEWORER'S ADVERTISERS
The'Jnterurban Is putting up iron
trolley poles and it doesn't have to.
The Lincoln Distraction company Is not
putting up Iron poles because it doesn't
have to.
Joy Morton was thrown from a horse
at Nebraska City the other day and
landed cm his head. He felt very much
like he did the day that union team
ster made him put back a union card
he tore down. -
Every union teamster in .' Lincoln
should make it a point to attend the
meeting next Monday night .fclid par
tlclpate In the election or -offfe
New Brunswick, N. J., had a big la
bor demonstration last wek. including
a parade and public meeting addressed
by prominent men. Rev. L. Wheeler,
fraternal delegate to the central body
of that city, presided, and made a brief
address commending the work of or
ganized labor. V
Boilermakers and helpers employed
in the C, H. & t. shops refused to
make repairs on Brie railroad engines
because the latter shop3 are non-union.
& D. has been di-
Now that the C,
vcrced from the
gone back to
Those Who Benefit Most by Unionism
Are the Least Grateful.
Many years ago, just after. John J.
Ingalls had been defeated for senator
from Kansas, Mary Ellen Lease con
tinued her rabid attacks on the dis
tinguished and extinguished states
man. A newspaper reporter tried to
secure an interview with' Mr. Ingalls
concerning Mrs. Lease. Mr. Ingalls
looked glum for a minute and then
said: , . -
"There are only two classes of peo
ple who mutilate the dead Indians
and somen."
There are thousands of earnest wo
men engaged in the work of unionism,
and they have been a wonderful force
in the movement. But the fact still
remains that a majority of the women
take little or no interest in the work.
And the women are, of all others, the
ones who benefit most from the ad
vancement of the union cause. A lit
tle incident happened the other day
which emphasizes this indifference on
the part of the women. There is a
voung woman in Lincoln who has a
sitjation in the business office of a
concern that employs only union me
chanics. The mere fact that it is a
union shop guarantees her the situa
tion. A union man saw her buying a
copy of the unfair and "rat" Woman's
Home Companion, and in a very gen
tlemanly way called ner attention to
the fact that it was unfair to the
tradesmen working in the office where
she is employed.
"O, I don't care a snap about that!"
tshe exclaimed. "I like it very much,
and I intend to buy it regularly. I
clrn't care anytihng about the union.
You can't interest me in that at all."
And the union man, being wise in
his day and generation, and realizing
the folly of trying to make plain any
Matter to such an one, merely walked
nv.'ay without venturing a reply.
And yet the unions have done more
to lift up the wage-earning women to
a higher plane than any other influ
ence known to mankind. Benefitting
personally by what the unions have
done for her sex, this young woman
selfishly refuses .to make any return
for the assistance rendered her and
declares emphatically that she doesn't
care anything about the unions. By
that she admits that she doesn't care
if her sisters are compelled to work
for starvation wages. She doesn't
care if industrial conditions compel
her less fortunate sisters to eke out a
living by selling their souls. She
thinks more of a few hours pleasure
in reading" a "rat" magazine than she
does of helping others to secure better
wages and better hours.
"Only two classes of people mutilate
the dead Indians and women."
MR. CRABTREE DEFIANT.
Thinks He Has a Cinch on His Job
and Talks Very Boldly.
"I'll bet $20 the labor unions can't
get my job," James Crabtree is re
ported as say!;i;;.
Crabtree is an engineer at the A
street well. He may be correct in his
assumption, but the unions are going
to make a try, and if they don't get
Crabtree's job they'll get something
and don't you forget it.
Crabtree has been guilty of show
ing the basest ingratitude. A few
years ago he joined the Carpenters'
union. Before he had been a member
six months he fell from a scaffold and
broke his leg. His fellow unionists
imemdiately came to his assistance.
He had started to build a little cot
tage, but his accident put a temporary
stop to operations. But the union car
penters donated time and money, and
before Crabtree was recovered from
his accident his cottage was ready for
occupancy the work of good and
loyal union men.
A little later Crabtree got a job as
fireman under the city administration,
and in time became an engineer. In
the meantime he had dropped out of
the Carpenters' union. Last summer
he built a flat,' and every bit of the
carpenter work was done by "scabs."
A man guilty of such base ingrati
tude is not a fit man to hold a respon
sible job under the municipality or
anywhere else in the estimation of
the union men of Lincoln. And they
have demanded Crabtree's dismissal.
And they are emphatic in the demand,
too. They are in deadly1 earnest about
it, and they are not going to let up
iu their scalp hunt. If Crabtree has
any . large number of k twenty.- dollar
Williams he wants, to bet on the propo
sition quoted above, The Wageworker
opines it can find him a few takers.
THE CARPENTERS.
Preparing to Begin the New Year With
Redoubled Enthusiasm.
At Tuesday's meeting three new
members were initiated and one ad
mitted from Kenosha, Wis., on clear
ance. Bro. Dullenty's sign committee was
absent last meeting and so was the
sign.
Bros. Scott and Fredericks were re
ported improving by the sick commit
tee. A committee of three were appoint
ed by the chair to draft resolutions of
sympathy on the death of Bro. Haw
kins' father-in-law.
Work in the building line is consid
erably duller and there are some idle
men".'
. The committee on social and enter
tainment have their plans perfected
and aasure.us that the meeting at Rich
ard's hall, 1034 O stfeet, next Tuesday
evening; wjil 'be a 'great success-. In-
vitations have been mailed to all the
members.
A Happy New Year to all members
of 1055.
Since October last year 176 members
ha ve been admitted to Union 1055.
Have you met the knocker? He is
around; he never comes to the meet
ing or does a thing to assist the union
in maintaining better conditions, but
is quite industrious in back-biting the
men who do something, and pulling
down the union that he ha3 sworn to
support. '
Bro. Kent has two Hercules clamps
left. Who wants them?
Bro. H. P. Hand is working in
Omaha.
In Omaha the mill workers have or
ganized under the U. B. They were
formerly organized under, the Amalga
mated Woodworkers.
A joint committee. from the U. B. and
the Amalgamated Woodworkers are
soon to meet in Indianapolis to discuss
the question of consolidating the two
organizations.
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
Will Meet January 5 at the Home of
Mrs. Fred Ihringer.
Capital Auxiliary No. 11 will meet
Friday afternoon, January 11, at the
home of Mrs. Fred Ihringer, 1539 D
street. For a year the Auxiliary, has
been meeting in a hall, but beginning
with the new year will resume meet
ings at the homes of the members. At
the next meeting the following officers
for the ensuing term will be installed:
President, Mrs. W. ,C. Norton. ,
Vice-President, Mrs. Bert Pentzer.
Secretary, Mrs. Will Bustard.
Treasurer, Mrs. Marshall.
Chaplain, Mrs. H. W." Smith.
Guide, Mrs. A. L. Compton.
Executive Committee, Mesdames P.
W. Mickel, Barngrover, Maupin and
Ihringer. I
Mrs. A. L. Compton is visiting in
York, Nebraska.
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THE CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH.
There are always some things left over from the Christ
mas stock, and rather than carry them we will offer them at
wonderfully reduced prices
Suspenders
Wufflei-s
Fancy Vests
Collars
Neckwear
Handkerchiefs
fetyllsh Shirts
Cuffs
Cuff and Collar Boxes
We have also on hand a fine assortment of slippers, j
turs, etc., and the prices we now make for this "Aftermath
Sale" are so low that the bargains are unsurpassed. It is not
yet too late to make a useful Christmas present, and we have
them in plenty.
Bargains in Suits and O'Coats
We are still headquarters for suits and overcoats for men
and boys who want good clothing, not a maker's name, for
their money. Our $5 suits and overcoats 'are worth double.
For $15 we give a suit or overcoat that others ask $20 and
$25 for.
Lincoln Clothin
Tenth and P Sis.
is
A SPLENDID BUSINESS.
Lincoln Merchants Well Pleased With
Their Big Holiday Trade.
The publisher of this modest little
labor paper interviewed several of its
advertisers concerning the volume of
their holiday trade this year, and
without exception they declared it to
be the largest in the history of the
city. The Saturday before Christmas
brought a trade that swamped all of
them, even though they had prepared
for a big rush.
At Thursday noon Mr. A. H. Arm
strong smilingly admitted that the vol
ume of business up to that hour was
equal to the whole of the week before
Christmas a year ago.
Saturday evening about 9 o'clock
Mr. J. E. Miller declared that the
day's business would be fully 50 per
cent more than the day before Christ
mas a year ago.
Mr. H. Herpolsheimer was more
than satisfied with the business done
during the ante-holiday season. Fred
Schmidt & Bro. was all smiles over
the volume of his firm's Christmas
trade. Manager Brilhart of the Ridge
ly Merchandise Co. could hardly stop
smiling long enough to express his
satisfaction, and the Lincoln Clothing
Co. managers were as happy as the
rest of them.
It has been a good season and a
good year. And why? Because labor
has been well paid. And why has la
bor been well paid? Because it has
been well organized. That is the se
cret of the good business done.
"WAIT AND SEE SCUDDER!'
He May Cough Up a Dollar for the
Base Ball Season.
The Lincoln Distraction Co. will
reap the bulk of the profits from base
ball in Lincoln. But President Scud
der refuses to donate a penny to help
secure the grounds. Other men who
will not only not reap a penny of
profit, but to whom the game will be
an expense, are donating liberally.
Scudder holds on to his purse. strings
avd sits back to await the stream of
nickels that the game will pour into
the Lincoln Distraction Co.'s strong
box, f
Isn't it about time for the people of
Lincoln to take President Scudder by
the nape of his neck and shake him
until he sits up and takes notice?
Isn't it about time that, they imbibe
a little courage and jgive the Distrac
tion Co. a. shaking' down and up?
Antedeluvian cars, Podunk schedules,
bump-the-bump rails,' twilight closing
these are a few ofcj the things that
the people of Lincoln have quietly
accepted from President Scudder fof
years a plenty. If tney submit to it
any longer they deserve it all, and
worse if worse is yossible.
TIME TO STOP IT.
Pool Halls Must Be Brought Up With
a Sh.irp Turn.
The pool hall evil in Lincoln has
about reached the limit. There are a
half-doze that exist wholly -upon the
patronage of boys whose parents
either do not know what their sons are
doing or are too infernally careless to
care. Two or three halls in the vi
cinity of the high school are thronged
at all hours of the day with boys who
are supposed to be in school. At the
noon hour the crush is terrific. Foul
language, foul tobacco smoke and foul
obscenity fairly make these dens reek
with filth. The police have tried to
put a stop to it, but have found them
selves hampered by mistaken parents.
But The Wageworker Is going to
begin a crusade of its own. It is go
ing to print a few names of the minor
habitues of these pool halls. Cer
tainly the parents who permit their
minor sous to frequent these pool halls
can have no objection to the names of
their sons being published. The
Wageworker's crusade is going to be
gin in a week or two, and it is going
to include a, few drug store saloons
that cater to the rapidly increasing
depravity of the young by selling al
leged soda water that is fiercely
"spiked" with aicohol in its most al
luring -forms. The good people of Lin
coln who are always mourning about
the "saloon evil" would do well to de
vote a little time to investigating the
pool halls and drug stores.
MR. DOOLEY AGAIN.
He Discourses Briefly Upon the Recent
Typothaete Bulletins.'
(Apologies to F. P. Dunne.)
"Whut do ye think uv th' bulletins
th' printin' bosses is sindin' out t' th'
public?" asked Mr. Fennessey.
"Shure, Finnessey," said Mr. Doo
ley, "they ar-re th' wur-rk uv a master
moind. It wud not be fer me, Fin-
nesey, t' criticize th' lith-erary effu-
shuns uv th' bar-rd frum th' land uv
Bobby Burns. R-ather, Finnessey, let
me point out t' ye th' gr-rate services
these bulletins ar-re renderin' t' th
tee-po-thee-tee. Heref Finnessey, is
th' way they rade:
" 'Rising Sun, Indiany, Novimber 1.
Stroike over so fer as th' tee-po-thee-tee
is concerned. We have secured
79 foine printers t' take th' places uv
th tin min that quit.' .
" 'Rising Sun, Indiany, Novimber 2,
Employers standin' pat. Thirty-sivin
desershuns from th' union. Can use
about fifty good min.'
" 'Rising Sun, Indiany, Novimber 3,
Still standin' pat. Have secured an
injunction to prevint th! union min
from aven thinkin' about th' stroike.
Lost eighteen min an' secured two
min net gain uv twinty.'
" 'Rising Sun, Indiany, Novimber 3,
It has been discovered that th' em
ployers uv this city signed an eight
hour agreement with th' union some
time ago. This is not a victory fer
th' union, as there niver was a tee-po-thee-tee
in this .city. If there had
been iny trouble, we wud have stud
pat.'
"An' so it goes Finnessey, an' th'
beautiful city uv Risin' Sun is
dhropped from th' tee-po-thee-tee bul
letin." 1 "Do ye suppose," said Mr. Fennes
sey, "that th' mon that writes th' bul
letins belaves thim?"
"Uv course not," said Mr. Dooley
"he's no fool." Typographical Journal.
A LITTLE DINNER.
New Clohing Firm Entertains Em
ployes at Christmas Dinner.
Christmas night the firm of Speier
& Simon, clothiers, entertained the
employes of the store at dinner, and
a delightful time was enjoyed by all
present. The firm has been in busi
ness but a shqrt time, but has already
built up a good trade. The good will
shown by the employers was highly
appreciated" by the clerks. Several
short talks were made by those pres
ent, and after disposing, of the . good
things tho little crowd' blowed Havana
smoke into the air and laid plans for
the future.
Speier & Simon have been liberal
advertisers in The Wageworker, and
this will account in part for the good
trade enjoyed by the firm during its
short but prosperous career.
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The Theory and the Fact
I love to sing of happy days of days down on the farml
CTis easier to sing, you know, than hold a breaking plow.)
' I love to dwell in ecstasy upon each rural charm.
CTis easier to dwell, you know, than milk a stubborn cow.)
I love to lend my ears to hear the music sweet and clear
Each morning when the air is pure and rosy dawn aglow.
But on the square, good friends, I'll say I very greatly fear
The concert is too early let me sleep an hour or so.
"Quack, quack, quack!" goes the pretty little duck;
"Ba, ba!" goes the little sheep. .
The roosters "cock-a-do," and the milk cows "boo" -High
time now to wake from sleep.
I've noted in my brief career that those who sing the most
Of happy days upon the farm are those who live in flats;
That those who to the farmer drink jthe deepest brimming toast
Are those who wear boiled linen and the slickest of silk hats.
They wake up in the morning in the neighborhood of nine
With heads that feel like footballs and with eyes chock full
". of, glue; ; . ;.. .' -
And then they will imagine that for rural life they pine.
But they don't they merely think so, but they never really do.
. "Gobble, gobble, gobble!" .goes the old turkey cock;
' Fuzzy little chickens "peep, peep!".
The hungry horses neigh at the early dawn of day
No use trying now to sleep. ;. ,
There's a blooming lot of difference getting up at . 4 o'clock
And dressing in a room so cold you fairly freeze your nose.
Then hustling out beneath the stars to feed and j water stock
It's diff'rent from the city way 'as every farmer 'knows.
It may be full of poetry when one has but to write,
But full of gooseflesh pimples when you're Johnny-on-the-spot.
'Tis easier to sing than to arise at dead of night
The city man may like it till he tries it then he'll not.
"Bow, wow, wow!" says Towser at the gate.
"Woof!" goes the porker, loud and deep.
Gee whiz, it four o'clock! Hustle out and feed the stock!
. No use wasting time in sleep. .
May heaven bless the farmer he's the man who feeds us all-;
He rises mighty early and he works away till late. -We
sing his hearty praises in the summer, winter, fall "
And then are mighty careful that he has to pay the freight.
I love to sing of rural charms, of corn and waving rye;
Of gentle cows, of woolly sheep, of horses and .of swine.
But, honestly, I'd rather be allowed to gently lie
Upon my downy couch and sleep until it's nearly nine.
"Wah-he-wah!" is the donkey's hungry wail
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To the farm I'd love to flit and enjoy its pleasures nit!
It don't give a fellow time to sleep.
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"heroes" has reecived a judicial vin
dication. : Once more has one of
those vile, unpatriotic and un-American
labor unionists been justly cinched
and made to understand his place.
And once again has the free and inde
pendent workingman who is not the
slave of any walking delegate or union
been set upon a pedestal. It all hap
pened -in this wise:
A New Philadelphia. O., undertaker
was called a "scab" by a union man.
Smarting "under the taunt the under
taker flew to the court and asked for
a judgment of $1,000 against the
union man. The judge .heard the
case, a jury listened to all the evi
dence, and the verdict was for the
undertaker. He was given judgment
for 11 cents.
But and notice the word the un
dertaker was mulcted for all the costs
of the suit, and in order to get the 11
cents he has to pay about $500 in' court
costs and attorney's fees. , .
And thus does the "scab" secure his
vindication. We hope that he carried
the news to President Eliot.
UNION PRINTERS ACQUITTED.
A NON-UNION VICTORY.
One of President Eliot's "Heroes" Se
cures a Vindication.
It is with becoming humility that
"he Wageworker makes, mention of
the fact that ong of Presidentj-Eliot's
Union Busters Fail Before a Fair and
Impartial Judge.
Dan Young and Dennis McCarthy,
two union printers, were acquitted of
the charge of disturbing the peace of
E. L. Skinner and Leonard Kari, by-
Judge Daniel O'C.-Traceyjtie First
district police court.
Young and McCarthy were arrested
at the instigation of Skinner, who is
a member of the firm of Buxton &
Skinner, one of the job printing firms
which has failed to sign the eight
hour agreement which the printers are
preparing to enforce January 1. Two
charges of disturbing the peace were
lodged"agaInst them, and they were
held until they gave bond for $500
each on both charges. . .
The evidence at' the trial of the
union printers showed that after Karl,
a non-union printer who recently came
here" from New Orleans, left the of-
flee of the printing company on Fourth
street, he walked up Olive street, to
Sixth, where the union printers ac
costed him, and told ' him - that the
president of the union would like to
talk with him a few minutes. Mc
Carthy and Young went with Karl op
Olive street to Eighth, where they,
were overtaken by Skinner and a pri
vate detective'.' Skinner spoke to
Karl, who turned and went back with
him. The next day Skinner saw the
men on Fourth street, and requested
Policeman Lane to place them under
arrest. The policeman took the print
ers to the ' Chestnut street station,
where Skinner lodged a complaint
against them.' A few minutes later
Karl came over and made the same
charge against them. . - : . :
After hearing the evidence in the
case, Judge Tracy dismissed both
chareeb acaittst Ybune. and one of tike
charges against , McCarthy, and the
other was dismissed by the attorney
for the complainant.
Judge Tracy stated that the evi
dence showed that the printers had
disturbed nobody's peace; that they
were merely exercising their rights as
American . citizens in soliciting "per
sons to become members of their
union, and that they had done this In
a peaceable manner. He said that uny
man had the right to solicit others to
join his order or union so long as he
went about it quietly, and that In the
case of the union printers they 'had
been guilty of no acts of-vtolence what
ever, had made no threats, nor 'in any
way intimidated the non-union num.
This is quite a different decision of
that rendered by the little judge from
Chieago who attended the convention
of the Citizens' Industrial Alliance.
St. Louis Labor Compendium.
Hon. D. E. Thompson, publisher of
the Daily Star, hung up his Christmas
stocking and Santa Claus put the Mex
ican embassy in it.
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Thomas Thompson-i stone mason,
was elected mava' Jew Bedford,
Mass., by a nlv' 0 votes.
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