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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1906)
WA6EW0RKER WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postofllce at Lincoln, Neb., under the. Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. J jt "Printers' Ink," the recog- Jl jl nized authority en advert!- Jl .it Ing, after a thorough Invest!- J gation on this subject, says: s 4t "A labor paper is a far bet- J ter advertising medium 'than Jt jt an ordinary newspaper In J comparison with circulation. Jl j A labor paper, for example, Jt j having 2,000 subscribers is of J jl more value to the business J jl man who advertises In it jl jl thn an ordinary paper with jl jl 12,000 subscribers." Jl jl J JtJt.JlJtJlJlJtlJl LABOR'S WATCHWORD. We will stand by our friends and ad minister a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, neg ligent or hostile, and, whenever oppor tunity affords, secure the election of Intelligent, honest, earnest trade union ists, with clear, unblemish-d, paid-up union cards In their possession. THE LAST APPEAL. This is the last issue of The Wage worker before election day. It is seized upon as the last opportunity to present to the workingmen the necessity of standing together and giving solid and enthusiastic support to Smith and Quick, the labor candi dates for the legislature. ' The Wageworker has refused in this campaign, as it has in all campaigns since it was founded, to engage in partisan politics. When The Wage worker was started it declared that all politicians looked alike to it. It sees with the same vision now that it did one hundred and thirty weeks ago for this is the 130th issue of this little labor paper. More than once The Wageworker has had opportunity to make temporary gain by opening its columns to the claims of partisan candidates. We say "temporary gain" because .that is what it would have been. Not because it was more honest, than other papers, not because its editor is more Incorruptible than other labor editors but because we believe that it Is more profitable, now as well as in the long run, to stand four square in the interests of labor instead of "playing politics." Tho Wageworker' has not, and will not, support any man for office whose sole claim is "party." The candidates whom It supports must be concerned more about the interests of labor than they are in party policies. This paper doesn't care a rap who is elected governor, or United States sen ator, or congressman this trip. It is not a bit Interested in ship subsidies, or tariffs, or freight rates this year of our Lord, 1906. But it does care who is elected to the Nebraska legisla ture, and it is Interested in common with all workingmen in securing some legislation and preventing some legis lation, all in this prosperous year of 1906, A. D. And It has given to just two candi dates its support Harry Smith and George Quick, union workingmen who 'are candidates for the legislature. It has been invited to support others yes, urgently invited. It has advo cated the election of Smith and Quick because they stand for everything The Wageworker stands for, and this little paper stands for the interests of la bor. It stands for the men who toll for a dally living. So do Smith and Quick. If they didn't they would not have the support of The Wageworker.- The Wageworker now makes a last appeal to workingmen union and non union to stand by the labor candi dates for the legislature Their elec tion means the presence in the legis lature of two men whose chief aim ' 'will be to secure legislation in the interests of the workers and to pre vent legislation inimical to the work ingmen. Their election "means that we will have in the legislature at least two men who will be for us. Their election will demonstrate to the poli ticians of all parties that we are tired of "playing horse" and are determined to get what we want. You've heard of tho old colored man who prayed night and moriing for the Lord to send him a Thanksgiving turkey. But no turkey appeared. The night before Thanksgiving the old colored man kneeled down and prayed the Lord to send him after a turkey. And there were turkey feathers all over that old colored man's back yard on Thanksgiving morniDg. Workingmen have been praying the lawmakers to give them needed legis lation for years. Next Tuesday let's just go and get it by electing men who are as anxious for it as we are. Three months ago the politicians laughed at the idea of electing two men who did not happen to be on the ticket of the dominant party. Today they are scared and are admitting the possibility of electing Smith and Quick. If workingmen will 'do their duty next Tuesday that possibility will be a certainty. A little more hustling, a little more independence, a little more self-interest and the deed is done, t If you don't help yourself, God knows nobody else will. I THE UNION LABOR FAIR. It Is as certain as anything mundane can be the Union Labor Fair to be held at the auditorium in Lincoln the first we.ed in December. The audi torium has been engaged. Several have already signified a desire to make displays. Union men and wo men are enthusiastic over the plan. The project has been launched. It now remains for every union man and woman to take hold and help malie it a glorious success. No one man, nor one hundred men, can make it a success. It will require the hearty co-operation of all. All must "boost" night and day for it. There are 2,500 union men and women In Lincoln and suburbs. If each one will spend an average of one dollar In attending the fair and enjoying Its many attractions. It will mean a clear profit of more than 81,500. Wouldn't that look good as the nucleus of a Labor Temple Fund? The campaign will be at an end next Tuesday, and from now on every effort of every unionist in town should be devoted to making the Union Labor Fair a success. From now on The Wageworker will be devoted very largely to "boosting" the proposition along. . v ' Take hold now and "boost." If you are asked to do something to help it along, don't "renig." Sacrifice a little of your leisure time for the good of the cause. Let your pastime for the next month be the "boosting" of this splendid project. "Every little bit helps." George B. Cortelyou will soon be come secretary of the treasury. He is now postmaster general, and the man who says that the employes of the postal department must not or ganize and forbids them exercising a constitutional right to petition for red ress of grievances. If organized labor ever gets a chance at Cortelyou what It will do to him will be a plenty The Carpenter Paper Co., of Omaha, is about to establish a branch house in Lincoln. The Carpenters are op ponents of organized labor. One mem ber of the firm is, or has been, n member at the Omaha union busters' association. It is against the law to boycott, although the blacklist has been declared legal. Lest we forget the Carpenter Paper Co. About the cutest little trick that has been turned lately is the offer of the Citizens' Street Railway Co. to accept the tickets of the Lincoln Traction Co. in payment for fares, and then sell them six for a quarter, just as the Citizens Co. sells its own tickets. There are multiplying evidences of in creasing grief for Mr. Scudder. Joe Cannon has got his prosperity wires crossed. According to his own figures the average wage in 1890 was $145, while In 1905 the average was $413 a loss of $32 per wage earner. And while the average wage has gone down, the cost of living has advanced from 35 to 50 per cent. When you visit the new postofllce and view the handsome woodwork of that beautiful structure, don't over look the fact that it is the handiwork of Lincoln union men who work in a thoroughly unionized mill. The election of Smith and Quick will make Clint Lee spend a lot of his con vict made wealth in wining and din ing the legislators to prevent the loss of his graft. We are neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but we predict the election of Hearst In New York by upwards of 50,000 majority over Hughes. The election of Smith and Quick to the legislature will make the political bosses sit up and take notice. Let's make 'em sit up. age wage in the United States for 1905 was $413. The average worth of product per wage earner was $2,800. Who got the $2,387? We don't expect it, but if Joe Can non is beautifully licked on next Tues day we will not be surprised. If he is, we'll celebrate. It wouldn't hurt a bit to lay off election day and spend it in working for the election of Smith .and Quick. Now, if the Citizen's Railway Co. will urge its men to organize it will add 2,500 "boosters" to its staff. Vote for Smith and Quick and show that you are interested in looking out for your own interests. If you haven't registered already, you have until 9 o'clock p. m., Novem ber 3, to do it. Two legislators this time, boys. A governor and some other officers next time. Gosh, but Hearst has got 'em scared out of their boots in New York. Look at these figures! Speaker Can non says they are correct: The aver- Smith and Quick! A vote for them is a vote for those who work. Boost for the Union Labor Fair, De cember 3 to 8, 1906. Union Labor Fair, December 3 to 8. Just once; now, all together. Union Labor Fair. Smith and Quick. AN INDIVIDUAL PROTEST. A Workingman Who Voices the Senti ments of His Fellows. You can determine the distance of a. star by multiplying the number of seconds that it ' requires for a ray of its light to travel to the earth. You can know exactly what will result when certain chemical sub stances are brought together. But you can never tell precisely what a man will do under circum stances which have been familiar to the world since the beginning pf time. The element of human nature will not permit itself to-be classified and-catalogued. It resents every attempt to force it into the laboratory for the purpose of analysis. It objects very strenuously to being placed upon the operating table for the purpose of dis section. There are degrees of human nature so fine that they can not be measured by the most exact "micrometer" that was ever invented. To the man who would cram it into a mould it mani fests its indignation by breaking the barrier that confines it. You can not deal with men as the etomologist deals with his millions of bugs. They re fuse to be "grouped." And they prove it by annihilating the carefully made deductions of the sociologists. Some times these superior beings are "sur prised to find that their "subjects" have forced their way into the "holy of holies" the very social grade to which they themselves belong. No longer are they the "high priests" with peculiar privileges. Their sociological rules can not account for It. ". They re gard with astonishment the working man who seems to possess powers equal to their own. With impunity have they been prodding their kid gloved fingers into his private affairs Without shame have they been "slum ming" in the respectable tenement house district in which he makes his home, subjecting his wife and children to the humiliation of the outcast In society. No, ye students of the . working classes, ye can not deal with us as yo deal with the beings and the ob jects of a lower social order. But "brother" is an open sesame to every heart, even though each heart may have a beat all its 'own. REV. CHARLES STELZLE. A STRENUOUS HOWL. Local Merchants Bewailing a Big Hoist of Insurance Rates. Judging by the howl local mer chants are putting up about the threat ened raise in insurance rates one might judge that the insurance com panies are made up of "irresponsible and anarchistic union men." The raise is uncalled for, and the merchants are justified in making a strenuous kick. Why don't they do like union men and organize for their own insurance? Why let a lot of outside grafters hold them up? The insurance companies make an insolent proposition. They say they must raise their rate about 40 per cent. After the raise if Lincoln will spend $150,000 in improving the water works they will reduce the rates about 12 per cent. Wouldn't that jar you? SCHAUPP COAL CIMPANY. The Adam Schaupp Coal company has an advertisement in The Wage worker. Only union drivers are em- Profit-Sharing Prices D We're striving every minute to pro mote the good feeling established, know ing we must hold your favor after we have won it We have assembled for our customers the biggest, brightest and cheapest gathering of GOOD CLOTHES for men and boys ever before shown in our store. Come in and see for yourself, that you may better realize the savings to.', be made by purchasing your clothing here. : Prices for Next Week that Mean a Saving Men's Beaver O'Coats, worth $7.50 for $5. Young Men's Dbl. Breasted Suits worth $12.50 Hen's Best O'coats, worth $12.50 for $7.50. at $5 and $7.50. Boys' Odd Coats, worth $2.50 for $1.00; sizes Specials on Men's Suits at $7.50 and $10.00, up to 8 years. worth up to $15. What You Save on One Purchase Here, Helps You to Buy Another gSS LINCOLN CLOTHINGXa NORTHWEST CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS ployed by this company, and they'll have a button and a card when they deliver your coal. OFFICE OF DR. R. Li. BENTL.EY, Specialist Children Office Hours 1 to 4 p.m. Office 2116 O at. Both Phones. Lincoln, Nebraska. II WORKERS UNION J ,ftoryNa UNION STAMP SHOES MEANS THE BEST SHOES FOR THE MONEY No higher in cost than other shoes, bnt you may be sure they are made tinder the best conditions. More for your money in Union Stamp Shoes than in those withont the stamp. By wearing Union Stamp shoes you do much to help wage earning shoemakers. 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If you cannot use either of the above, take The Chicago Express leaving at 7: to a. m. , - in these three trains the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway offers an excellence in service between Omaha and Chicago not obtain able elsewhere. All trains arrive in Union Station in the heart of Chicago. All trains are protected by block signals and run over a smooth track all the way. .', i: Low Rates to Many Eastern Points F. A. NASH, General Western Agent. 1524 Farnam Street, OMAHA. The Dr. Benj. F. Baily Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska For non-contagious chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. PREWITT'S PHOTO GALLERY 1214 O STREET When you want a good photograph call and see my work. Satisfaction guaranteed . . . . We are expert cleaners, dyers and finishers ot Ladies' and Uen tlemen's Clothing of all kinds. The finest dresses a specialty. THE NEW FIRii rJ. C. WOOD & CO. Aj FOR PRICELIST. PHONES: Bell, 147. 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