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lilNCOLK, NEBBASKi JANUARY 18, 1907
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NO. 41
Brother Jones is
Advertising Again
The Wageworker's bosom friend, L.
O. Jones, manager of the Lincoln
Overall and Shirt Co., Is advertising.
It has been several weeks since The
Wageworker gave any of Its valuable
time to Brother Jones, and for fear he
may think we are slighting him we
fetop the press to Insert a few remarks
concerning the Jones advertising.
For many days an electrically Illu
minated sign by night, and a gaily
colored sign by day has announced to
the world "Girls Wanted." meaning
that Brother Jones desires to augment
the force engaged in the task of mak
ing overalls and shirts in his factory.
If we remember rightly that sign has
been there since last spring.
i A display advertisement in the
Journal-News during the last week
conveys the thrilling information that
"during the last two weeks we have
added 25 girls to our force." Perhaps
we can give you a better Idea by giv
ing the entire advertisement in re
duced form. In the Journal-News it oc
cupies a space two columns wide and
two inches long. It reads as follows:
$-$-$-$--$-$$-$-$-$
WE HAVE ADDED 25 GIRLS
To our force in the last two weeks and
CAN USE 25 MORE AT ONCE.
Apply quickly. Steady work. Good
wages.
LINCOLN OVERALL & SHIRT CO.
Corner 14th A P Sts.
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whole week's work is not working
nine hours a clay at the Jones' factory.
Or if she is she was taken back after
being discharged because the check,
unbeknown to her, appeared in The
Wageworker.
It is because we are a real frl
to Brother Jones thit we hasten
give him some advice which,
lowed, may make it much eas
him to secure help. Let him eafavsh
a boarding house, a theatejPsum
mer garden and a concert jrnnex to
his plant and pay the union scale of
wages, which is by no means an ex
orbitant scale. We believe the highest
price paid In any union overall factory
for making overalls is less than $1
a dozen.
Brother Jones continues to adver
tise that he has added twenty-five
girls to his force "during the last two
weeks. If that is strictly true he has
added about 200, for the advertisement
has been running quite a long time.
A SORE HAND.
President Coffey of the Typographi
cal Union has been laid off for a week
on account of a sore hand The tend
ons of the left hand were strained, pro
ducing a couple of swelling that neces
sitated the use of the surgeon's knife.
The hand isAJi better and Mr. Cof
fey is agai?' yfnding the life out of a
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TtNWORKERS GET INCREASE.
The tinworkers employed by the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Co., a
subsidiary concern of the United
States Steel Co., hae received a 2 per
cent increase. The' increase came af
ter ai. investigation it the concern's
books by the Amalgamated Association
of lion Sheet and Tin Workers.
ALDRICH OF BUTLER.
The Wageworker cheerfully gives
Brother Jones the benefit of this es
pecial advertising. He is welcome to it.
We give it to him for the reason that
he could not buy space in The Wage-
worker at any price under existing
circumstances.
But after you have read and digested
the above interesting advertisement
which is displayed, we beg leave to call
your attention to another Jones ad
vet'tisement. This one does not occupy
display space, however. Quite the con
trary. It is tucked away in small type
among the "want" notices. Under the
pucial heading of "Wanted" -in the
Journal-News appears the following
"ROOMS and board in private resi
dences at reasonable priees, for 25
Kills. Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co."
Now, after carefully persuing both
of Brothers Jones' advertisements does
nnything occur to you? No? Why,
that's very strange.
If the new girls In. his emqluy were
Lincoln girls, why advertise for room
and board for them?
Why, of course!
If he really has added twenty-live
girls to his working force after months
of persistent advertising, and wants
room and board for them In private
residences, it follows as night the day
that the new girls were obtained out
aide of Lincoln.
Now why didn't ho get Lincoln
girls? Can it be that there are none
in Lincoln who need employmen'.?
Or Is it possible that thora is a
dearth of employment In the country
districts? Or is it possible that
Brother Jones has painted such a pret
ty picture of steady work and good
wages" that a lot of country girls have
been persuaded to come to Lincoln
where they can work for only- ni:ia
hours a day and on Saturday haul the!:'
j , wages home in a hay wagon to spend
as they please most of It for board
and room?
There ij something peculiar about
all this when you compare the two
advertisements and ponder over them.
The longer you ponder the more pe
. culiar it seems.
We further notice by a recent news
peper article that Brother Jones has
equipped his factory with a reading
room. That's good. After a garment
worker has bent over one of Brother
Jones' machines for nine hours she
can saunter over into the reading
room and spend the rest of the day
reading. Lovely scheme. She ean sit
there in an easy chair and read until
-nhe grows weary. Then she can go
back' to the sewing machine and rest.
.They Uied to work ten hours a day
In Brother Jones' factory, but shortly
after- the appearance of a fac Bimile
check In The Wageworker the number
of hours per day was reduced to nine.
Printing Expert of the Senate Objects
to City Prices.
Senator Aldrich of Butler is evident
ly the printing expert of the senate,
He objected to the estimates for
printing the senate journal. "Why, wc
can get it done for a lot less money in
the country," he declared. Sure thing!
And there are printers right here in
Lincoln who would make better sena
tors than Aldrich and do it for $3 a
day.. But they wouldn't do it because
they wouldn't "scab" on the honorable
senators. Senator Aldrich may be an
expert on printing, but it's dollars to
doughnuts he doesn't know the differ
ence between an em-quad and a galley
rack.
The state had an experience with
"country work" two years ago. It paid
a "country printer" more for a very
inferior job of house and senate rec
ord printing than it is now asked to
pay for work from Lincoln shops that
have a record for turning out first-class
work. Two years ago the expense of
preparing the copy for the printers
and furnishing mimeograph copies of
the proceedings daily to house and
senate was $4,324, and the mlneograph
copies were "bum" and the book job
at the end of the session an almighty
poor specimen. This year it is pro
posed to print the proceedings daily
and bind the whole at the end of the
session for practically the same mon
ey. Expert Aldrich objects and wants
to have it done In the country because
it is cheaper.
It might be possible to get "cheaper"
senators than some we have, but we
doubt !.
ALLIED PRINTING TRADES.
Last Sunday's Meeting Slimly Attend
ed for Various Reasons.
The special mass meeting of the Al
lied Printing Trades last Sunday was
siimiy attended. About fifteen were
present. The small attendance was
due partly to the fact that a lot of
men were working overtime, and still
others were either forgetful or indiff-
event, or both. Little or moment was
done. The committee on permanent
headquarters failed to report, only one
I member of the committee being pres
ent. The committee was discharged
and another appointed to look after a
room which could bo used as head
quarters without incurring an expense
to exceed $12 a month, of which the
Typographical Union is to bear one
half. Some very excellent cigars were
passed around with the compliments of
manufacturers wio were mentioned
after the former meeting.
VIOLATED AGREEMENT.
Fifteen hundred Polish employes of
the Chicopee, Mass., textile mills
struck for an increase in wages last
Monday. The strike caused a closing
down of the mill. The Poles struck
despite the protests of the Textile
. j Workers' executive committee, and in
This was a magnificent concession, see- violation of agreement. The executive
ing that the girls work on a piece ! committee has ordered them back to
system. The unfortunate wnmnn tn work nn vialii nf holnc pvnallml frrm
that $2.42 check was given for t membership.
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PATRONIZE YOUR j
HOME INSTITUTIONS j
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Where you earn your money is the best place to 3
spend it. " ?
Let Lincoln workingmen remenber that important g
fact. Every dollar earned in Lihcoln and spent out-
side of Lincoln is a dollar takenjaway from the local
volume of money, and in time wijl re-act on the wage
ear nets.
Every dollar spent in Lincolnfadds to the volume
of business, and every addition to business means
more work for wage earners, f
These statements are axiomatic.
selfTevident truth.- 5
There is no reason whatever why
earner should buy a pound of groceries, a stitch of
clothing, a dollar's worth of fire', accident or life in
surance, a piece of furniture, a yard of carpet, or
anything else, outside of Lincoln.
may be purchased as cheap or
than elsewhere. You know yojir local merchants.
They are responsible, and if theis wares are not up to
requirements they will make gjod. The catalogue
houses are financially responsive, of course, "butrff"
the goods they sell are not satisfactory the purchaser
has no recourse. Every dollar spent with Chicago
catalogue houses is a dollar taken from Lincoln, and
that dollar never comes back to Lincoln. A dollar
spent with your home merchant remains in Lincoln,
and sooner or later some wage earner gets it.
Yotir local merchant will help yon if you are in
thejiole. He will give you reasonable credit, and in
ease of sickness will stand your friend. The cata
logue houses do not know you, will not trust you
and after they get your money they don't give a .
tinker's dam whether you live or die. Your local
merchants pay taxes to help support the schools
where the children of Lincoln wage earners are edu
cated. The Chicago catalogue houses do not pay a
cent towards the support of Lincoln schools. Lincoln
merchants pay taxes to help keep the streets clean
and well lighted and the city library open. The cata
logue houses do not pay a cent in Lincoln for that
purpose.
Last year the merchants of Lincoln voluntarily
subscribed upwards of a thousand dollars to improve
the new city park, which will be enjoyed by the wage
earners of Lincoln and their children. The catalogue
houses will not subscribe a cent in a thousand years
for that beneficent purpose. ,
When you were out of work a month or two ago,
was it the local merchant or the catalogue house
that gave you credit and trusted you until you got
work and made the money to meet the bill? The
local merchant of course. You would have suffered
and you family would have suffered if youliad been
compelled to depend on the catalogue house.
Stand by your local merchant. Spend your money
at home, and you will be able to make more money .
to spend.
Home first, the world afterwards. That's a mighty
good motto for any city to follow.
Patronize home institutions and home merchants
unless you know them to be the enemies of organized
labor.
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Liberal Reward For
Enterprising Kidnapers
STEROTYPERS.
The proposition to create the $500
death benefit passed in the referen
dum. In order to get this benefit every
member must be in good standing with
the local union. All dues and assess
ments must be paid up to the current
month. Dues and assessments must be
paid, and why not be on time with
them and not run the risk of being
deprived of this $500 in case of death.
MINE WORKERS.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the United Mine Workers of America
began at Indianapolis last 'Tuesday.
The convention will be in session ten
days and about six hundred delegates
are expected. The general condition of
the union is good, there being only a
few jminor troubles in existence. The
convention will not have anything sen
sational to discuss or transact.
The decision of the United States
supreme court in the case of Moyer
and Hayward demands the close at
tention of union men throughout the
country. If that decision stands no
man is safe. Moyer and Hayward were
abducted from the state of Colorado
and taken to Montana, where the were
indicted on the charge of complicity
hth murder of ex-Governor Steunen
herg,In order to get Moyer and Hay
ward avithin the jurisdiction of the
Montana courts they were kidnapped
from Colorado, through connivance
with the" Colorado authorities. The
supreme court of the, United States
has declared that this kidnapping was
all right. With all the horrible facts
before it the honorable court and
courts are always made up of honor
able men said:
"Looking first at what was alleged
to have occurred in Colorado touching
the arrest of the petitioners and their
deportation trom the state, we do not
perceive that anything v done there,
however hastily or inconsiderately
done, can be adjudged to be in viola
tion of the constitution of the United
States. EVEN IP IT BE TRUE THAT
THE ARREST AND DEPORTATION
OP MOYER, HAYWARD AND PET-
TIBONE FROM COLORADO WAS BY
FRAUD AND CONNIVANCE, TO
WHICH THE GOVERNOR OF COLO
RADO WAS A PARTY, THIS DOES
NOT MAKE OUT A CASE OF VIOLA
TION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE AP
PELLANTS (MOYER, HAYWARD
AND PETTIBONE) UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES." ' .. :
Now let that monstrous decision per
colate through your craniumsl Kid
napped and deported by violence and
connivance between state officials.
BUT THAT DOES NOT VIOLATE
THE RIGHTS OF THE VICTIMS UN
DER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES!
Is any man safe while that mon
strous decision stands as the law of
the land?
A few years ago William Goebel,
governor-elect of Kentucky, was assas
sinated as he was walking toward the
state house in Frankfort. Governor
Frank Taylor, who was about to re
tire from office and who would be the
political beneficiary by the death of
Goebel before he took the oath of of
flee, was charged with being impli
cated in the crime. Taylor fled to In
diana. The governor of Indiana was a
republican, and Taylor was also a re
publican, the first repulican elected to
the governorship in Kentucky for
many years. The Kentucky author!
ties made a formal demand on the
governor of Indiana for the return of
Taylor. The demand was refused,
Taylor went to Pennsylvania, and
again a demand was made for his ex
tradition, and again refused. Although
charged with murder', Taylor has been
protected by the republican governors
of Indiana for the past ten years.
Under the decision of the supreme
court In the Moyer-Hay ward case, any
many is at liberty to organize a sneak
ing posse of Kentuckians and cross
over into Indiana, sandbag Taylor and
drag him back to Kentucky to face the
charge of murder. The supreme cour
says this would riot be a violation of
Taylor's rights under the cdnstlttuion
of the United States. Or a body of
Hoosier3 can kidnap Taylor, take him
to the Ohio river and turn him over
to the Kentucky authorities. The su
preme court of the United States says
this would be perfectly . legal and
proper.
The Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kas.,
leading organ of the socialist move
ment, offers a reward of $1,000 in gold
to the person or persons who will kid
nap ex-Governor Taylor and return him
to the state officials of Kentucky, in
which state he Is wanted on charge
of being accessory to the murder of
William Goebel. The Wageworker
wishes it could add another thousand
dollars to this offer.. It can not, but
it will do all it can, and hereby offers
to add $25 to the reward offered by the
Appeal to Reason. It believes a score
or more of other labor papers in the
United States will do the same thing.
Let some enterprising men kidnap
Taylor, legally under the decision of
the supreme court, and turn him over
to the Kentucky authorities. Then we
will see if the supreme court will de
cide that a rich and influential politi
cian must stand up to the rack and
take the same medicine administered
to poor and uninfluential workingmen.
ONE THOUSAND AND TWENTY-
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD TO THE
PERSON OR PERSONS WHO WILL
KIDNAP EX-GOVERNOR TAYLOR
AND RETURN HIM TO KENTUCKY.
FISH AND FOWL.
Husband " Being "Well Known Mer
chant" Name Was Suppressed.
From the Lincoln Daily Star of Tues
day, January 15, we learn that "the
wife of a highly respected business
man was detected in the act of shop
lifting at one of the department stores. '
We further learn from the same source
that'only the good name of her hus- ,
band saved her from being taken to
the police station." . And still further -
we learn that the woman "ranks high
in one of the aristocratic churches of -.
the city."
How fortunate for this woman that
she was the wife of a respected "busi
ness man" instead of being the wife of
a "common mechanic." Otherwise she ,
would have been haled to the police
station and booked, thus casting a
shadow on the home of the working
man. But she wasn't. Her husband
has money. He is no common labor
er, mind you. He is a "business man,"i
therefore entitled to more considera
tion than the inferior clay that wears
greasy overalls. The workingman is"
"fish" to be dragged in without regard
to family connections. The "respec
ted business man" isfwVTOTOerrWW"
ed with great consideration. It re
minds us of the time when Charley
Mosher was given the awful sentence
of five years for stealing three-quarters
of a million from widows and orphans
in Lincoln , and another fellow who
stole $S was given the wholly in
adquate sentance of fifteen years at
the same term of court. .
We'd like very much .to know the
name of this "respected business man's
wife," If we had it we would print it
in The Wageworker. She is entitled
to no more ' consideratnon than the -wife
of Bill Smithers, the day laborer
not as much in fact. And her husband
is no more entitled to consideration
than the humblest mechanic in the '
city.
BRAKEMAN KILLED.
Mangled Beneath Wheels While Mak
ing Air Hose Coupling'.
Gladstone F. Tate. - a Burlington .
brakeman, was run over and killed
Friday night of last week. Tate was
making an air coupling and while thus
engaged a string of cars was shoved
against the car on which he was work
ing. Tate was' thrown under the
wheels and terribly mangled, dying in:
a very short time. The body was tak
en to the morgue.
Saturday evening Jacob Kern went
to the morgue and gazed on the
mangled corpse of Tate. Then Kern
started home,: and while on the rail
road crossing near hi3 residence was
run down by; a switch engine and
killed... Kern was not an employe o!
the company and was killed because ;
of his own negligece. Tate was killed
while on duty, and surface indications
are that his death was due to the care- -lessness
of "fellow-servants," - which
will probably release the company
from all damages.
EXPERT TYPOGRAPHERS.
Winners of Prizes Offered by
Company for Ad Display.
A month ago the Lincoln Gas
Gas
&
Electric Light Co offered prizes for
the best set advertisements furnished
by the company to the daily papers of
the city. Ad anen on the Star walked
off 'with first and third prizes. H. F.
Vandercreek winning first and Charles
Reiger third. A "Journal ad man won
second prize, but The Wageworker was
unable to secure his name in time; for
this week's issue. The Gas Co. an
nounces that in a short time it will
offer similar prizes to the ad men on
the weeklies of the city. ,