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lillSTCOLK, NEBRASKA,; FEBUAKY l 1907
NO. 43
PA8SES THE HOUSE.
Child
Labor Bill Safely Through the
First Stage of Battle.
House Roll No. 9, Clarke's child la
bor bill, was passad by the house last
Monday, the vote being 72 for and 16
against The vote on roll call for
final passage was as follows:
Ayes Alderson, Balrd, Barnes, Bly
stone, Eolei. E. P. Brown, E. W.
Brown, Brown of Sherman, Buckley,
Byram, Carlin, Clarke, Cone, Culdice,
Davis, Dodge, Eller, Farley, Fletcher,
France, ' Fries, Gllman, Graff, Grieg,
Hamer, Hansen, Harrison, Hart,
- Henry, Howard, Howe, Jenlson, John
son, Jones, Keifer, Killen, Knowles,
Kuhl, Leeder, Lee, Line, McCullough,
McMullen, Metzger, Neff, Quacken
bush, Raper, Redmond, Springer, Stal
der, Steinauer, Talbot, Thlesseri.Tuck
er. Van Hansen, Walsh, White,
Whltham, Whitham, Whitney, Wilson,
Worthington 72.
Nays Adams, Funk, Gllem, Hage
meister. Mill, manners, raacKey, mar
latt. Marsh, Masters, Murphy, Pilger,
Richardson, Stolz, Volalensky, Nettle-
ton 16.
To the seventy-two gentlemen who
voted for this bill The Wageworker
desires to return the hearty thanks
of the whole vast body of wage, earn
ers. They will also receive the thanks
of the splendid women and the cour-
ci n-urtii a mn Yvhrt fontrA helnjarl tn m n Ir n
public sentiment on this Important
Question.
It seems remarkably queer that men
claiming to be intelligent enough to
be lawmakers should have opposed
this bill on the ground that it would
prevent farmers from employing their
own children ;m rho farm. 'Ihe Wage
worker gives the opponer i of the bill
credit for being honest in their do
deration that they opposed It because
they thought it would interfere with
At.ll,1Hnn An tVio farm t J n If ttiav
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were lawmakers in another state and
opposing a 8imiliar bill on similiar
grounds, we would be very much in
clined to believe that they were not
telling the exact truth. This "farm
labor" business has been used as a
club to defeat beneficial child labor
legislation ever since iue euuur ui
this little newspaper has been carry
lag a union card, and he has carried
a card more years than some Nebras
Ka legislators have been voting.
We are lust a bit disappointed in
Speaker Nettleton. We thought he
was too big and too broad to be de
ceived by that "farm labor" feature
But If the bill wiH prevent a farmer
from driving his children to toil harder
than the average slave had to perform
and children of. Nebraska farms
have thus driven then tne bill Is even
better than we thought :t was. There
is an awful lot of Tot" sprung every
day in the year about the benefits
. of having been brought up on a farm,
There are a lot of Nebraska farm
children who need the protecting hand
of the law.
' It is to be hoped that Ihe bill will go
, through the senate without- opposition
In the meanwhile let every union man
cut out the names of the sixteen gen
tlemen who voted against this splendid
child labor bill and paste the list
where it can be seen especially on
future election days. We give them
again this time in blackface letters
tn that thev may be read at a dis
tance:
Adams, Funk, Gliem, Hagemeister,
Hill, Lahners, Mackey, Marlatt, Marsh,
Masters. Murphy. Pilger, Richardson,
Stolz, Volalensky, Nettleton.
TvDoaraphical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25. Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
THE PREVAILING COMPLAINT.
The Home
This week The Wageworker begins in earnest what it hopes will
prove to be a successful home patronage movement. But The Wage
worker wants to make its position plain at the very outset. When it
advocates the patronizing of home institutions and home merchants
it wants it distinctly understood thatlt does not advocate the patron
age of those institutions or those merchants who are unfriendly to the
best interests of labor, or which seek to build up a big business by. em
ploying a class of labor that does not, never has and never will, be of
any service in building up a stable prosperity. There are several such
institutions already in Lincoln and more of the same kind are prom
ised, provided cheap labor can be supplied. Lincoln will be short
sighted indeed if it gives aid and encouragement to factories that de
pend upon cheap female labor. Such factories are a detriment.
But there are a large number of institution in Lincoln wholesale,
retail and manufacturing that are deserving of the most liberal stu
port. They deserve it for the reason that their growth means added
labor to be performed by well paid and skilled workmen. A number
of these firms are mentioned at length in this issue. It is not pretend
ed that all of these deserving firms are listed in this issue. ' But those
herein listed have an especial interest andare more than usually de
serving because they have been enterprising enough to take hold of
this home patronage movement at its inception and lend it to their
aid.
The Wageworker knows of wage earners in Lincoln who' send a
goodly share of their wages every month to catalogue houses in Chi
cago. This is not only poor judgment, Dut it is uaa Dusmess, policy.
It is not fair to the business interests of the city wherein the wage
is earned. The money earned in Lincoln shoidd be spent with Lincoln
firms. Every reason of policy dictates this.
There are two sure ways of making a city prosperous talking it
up and working it up. Every Lincolnite who finds himself elsewhere
tor even the briefest season should be a hustling missionary preaching
the resources and the future of Lincoln. If you are in another state
and somebody asks you where you are from, exclaim:
"Lincoln, Nebraska the best city in the best state in the west.
Got more and better schools than any other city of its size in the
world ! A city of sixty thousand people, and the only one of the size
in the country that can truthfully say it has two churches for every
saloon. The greatest railroad center between Chicago and San Fran-
feiseo! A city doing so much business that it ranks twentieth in the
amount of second-class mail matter handled excelling cities like Bal-
Patrohage
Movement
timore, Pittsburg, and cities of that class. Wide streets, well paved,
well lighted, municipal lighting plant, municipal water plant furnish
ing(the best and purest water known. Rapidly forging to the front as
a manufacturing center, and long. a wholesale center. Fine public
buildings, handsome residences, more home owners in proportion to
the; population than any city of equal size in the country. Two mil
lion dollars spent in improvements last year, and this year going to
break the record. Clean city government no graft, no rottenness.
In all that is good Lincoln affords the best."
That's the song every Lincoln man and woman should sing and
sing loud when visiting elsewhere, or when entertaining friends
from abroad. ' , -
Are you doing your part towards making Lincoln a bigger and
better city? You are not if you are spending any part of your wages
abroad for goods that can be bought at home. There is not a thing
you eat or. wear that can not be bought as cheaply in Lincoln as elser
where and as a rule more cheaply. Certain it is that price being
equal the Lincoln product is superior. If bought at home and it is
not what it should be, you have recourse. This is not true if the
article is bought of a catalogue house.
How much money sent to catalogue houses in Chicago ever comes
back to Lincoln? How much of it goes to pay Lincoln wages, support
Lincoln schools, light Lincoln streets or build Lincoln sidewalks? Not
a penny ! . , ' "
How sick would a Lincoln wage earner have to be before Ward
gomery Mont & Co. or Rears, Sawbuek & Co. would offer him a line
of credit and supply him with groceries and clothing until he was
again ableW work? How long would the schools be open for the
education of the children of Lincoln wage earners if they depended
upon the taxes paid by catalogue houses in Chicago and elsewhere ?
Keep these things in mind ! Help yourselves by helping to make
Lincoln a bigger and a better city! . - i
The Home Patronage Policy should be followed by everybody in
Lincoln. Let us build up Lincoln industries that are deserving. Let
us cirsse our doors against the sweat shop lactones and the enter
prises" that call for "cheap female help," and while building up the
legitimate enterprises already here work to secure others, that will
employ men and pay them such wages that they can support their
families comfortably and not compel the women and children to work
for a scanty wage in order to eke out a miserable livelihood.
Here's to a bigger and a better Lincoln !
Stand by the fair home industries !
IS IT A GOLD BRICK?
Has Higgins Handed the Pressmen's
. Union a Huge Lemon?
, If the press dispatches have ; not
cruelly slandered Martin Higgins,
president of the International Press
men's and Assistants' Union, has hand
ed the rank and file a large and very
sour lemon. It is reported on seem
ingly good authority that Higgins has
signed -a contract with" the United
Typothaete whereby the union is
bound for a period of five years to an
open shop contract, the eight hour day
to be "granted two years from now. .
If it is true that President Higgins
has signed an open shop contract he
should receive a jolt from the rank
and file that will jar his back teeth
loose.- If the open shop at all, in
heaven's name why saddle a contract
on the loyal union pressmen who have
been paying a heavy assessment for
months to finance a demand for the
eight hour day? A contract to work
in an open shop is adding insult to
injury.
And why should any kind of a con
tract have been made with the mori
bund and discredited Typothaete? 'It
is about the deadest thing in the way .
of an industrial organization that one
could imagine. . - .
There is no doubt that the pressmen
received the tarred end of the stick
from the Typographical .Union a year
or two ago, but that is no reason why
Higgins should sacrifice, his own men
in order to play even with the head .
men of the printers. And if Higgins '
has signed the kind of a contract
claimed in the dispatches he has . sac
rificed his own union. More than that,
he has delivered the union pressmen
bound hand and foot to a conscience
less lot of employers who have- patted
Higgins on the back, only to laugh at
him after getting him sewed, up in a
sack. ' ' '
Local pressmen do not understand
the matter at all. It seems that they
have been left altogether in the dark,
and that all they have been asked to
do is to put up. the money. "For God's
sake hand over the assessment, boys;
we'll spend it!" And the good money
they ; have put up has been used to
buy a real nice Typothaete gold brick ',
if all reports are true ,
to wipe the perspiration from your
fevered brow.
If the man who has to suffer all
these things Is responsible for what
he says and thinks, he has kept the
recording aflgel awfully busy, 'the
editor has been laid up for the past
week, and if there is anything em
phatic to say about the grip that he
hasn't said, will somebody please tell
him what, it is. He wants to say it.
TvDoaraphical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
Think You Are Going to Croak, and
Afraid You Won't.
, People call it "the grip." That's as
good a name as any, although you
, wish when you are In the grip of the
grip that you could Just let loose and
call it any old name you wanted to.
The first signs you see or feel, rather
is a tickling sensation In the back
of your throat and a slight yellow
sensation in the front of your head.
You go to bed feeling as If somebody
had fed you on powdered castor oil
and the stuff had caked around your
tonsils, and when you wake up In the
, morning you feel as if you had been
jerked sldewlsa and lengthwise and
endwise through a vat of distilled
essence of accumulated human ill3.
You have a taste In your mouth that
makes the morning after seem like
the ambrosia of the gods, and you
ache all over. You feel as if you were
going to lay right down and die, and
the only thing that keeps you from
doing it is the fear thta you won't
die aulck enough.
Your wife asks you how you feel,
and before you are half-way through
with the answer she has a finger in
each ear and Is exclaiming through
her tears that she is going right home
to ma if you don't quit talking that
way. Your nose feels like a description
of Mount Vesuvius in action, and while
nart of your arteries are running liquid
lead the rest of 'em are running ice
water. Your eyes feel like two holes
burnt in a blanket, and each individ
ual hair on your head feels like a bit
of annealed wire being bored through
your scalp to find a place to clinch.
You try to eat, and everything tasten
alike Just like remorse. You uraw
up to the fire and shiver till you shake
the crockery off the pantry shelf, and
then you quit shivering long enough
LEATHERWORKERS NOTICE.
Bids Coming For Men From Cities
'That are Unfair.
The Lincoln News of January 2S
contained a "want ad" signed by Mar
shall & Wells, Duluth, Minn., askin,
for harnessmakrs, cutters, machine
operators and collarmakers. Duluth
is one of the many cities that union
leatherworkers on horse goods are
warned to stay away from. Others
are St. Louis, Nashville, Paducah
Quincy and Kansas City.
The firms in the above named cities
have put off. the harness makers from-
time to 'time when scales and agree
ments have been submitted. In the
meanwhile the firms have kept "ads'
btandir.g in the papers throughout the
country asking for men. Then the
flims refuse to have anything to do
with the union's committees. After
deceiving the men for weeks they de
clare the open snop ana wrowing
open their doors invite tne cnnaren
and women in to do the work mat is
hard for grown men. Lincoln leather-
workers are not being deceived by the
Marshall & Wells sort of of advertis
Ing.
ing Co. took up the matter and offered
to print a directory if the home people
would stand by them. That the home
people have done so is evidenced by
the size and the completeness of the
book. And what has been accomplish
ed in this one instance can be acom-
plished in a thousand other instances
if the people will wake up to the home
patronage idea.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
RINGING RESOLUTIONS.
MACHINISTS WAKING UP.
The machinists employed in the
Havelock shops are waking up, and
the indications are that they will have
a strong union in the very near fu
ture. The Burlington has not been
very friendly to shop organizations in
the past, but a new policy seems to
be gaining ground. "We used to have
trouble getting officers when we had
an organization," said an old machin
ist recently. "Just as soon as we
elected officers" the company would
fire 'em, and we'd have to begin all
over. We would have to" wait until
some man was about ready to throw
up his job, then we'd elect him and
he'd get his walking papers as"soon
as the fact was known." The Ma
chinists at Havelock ough to have omJ
of the strongest organizations of the
crat in the entire west.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra. -
Lincoln Carpenters Condemn Outrage
i On Rights of Citizens.
The United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners of America, Lin
coln Local No. 1055,-have unanimously
adopted the following resolutions in
regard to the Moyer-Hayward case,
now attracting universal attention: '
WHEREAS, Moyer, Hayward and
Pettibone, officers of the Western Fed
eration of Miners, were kidnapped
from the state of Colorado, being de
nied the right to appeal to court to
to secure counsel, and
WHEREAS.The officials of Colorado
conspired and connived with the of
ficials of Idaho to deprive these men
of their constitutional rights as citi
zens, and
WHEREAS, History fails to record
another instance wherein the most
vicious criminal was ever denied the
right of counsel or court proceedings
to ascertain whether or not they were
fugitives from justice, or whether
there was legal cause for being extra
dited; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That we condemn the
action of the officials of Colorado and
Idaho as being most high-handed and
outrageous; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That we demand a
speedy and impartial trial to the end
Khat justice may be done to all parties
concerned. -
; ROSEWELL SHERHERD, Pres.
. ; J. A. CHAMBERS, Sec.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
NEW CITY DIRECTORY.
A Credit to the Publishers and to the
City.
It gives The ' Wageworker great
pleasure to mention In its first "home
patronage" edition the new city di
rectory just issued by the North Print
ing Co. This is purely a home pro
duct. It was compiled by citizens of
Lincoln, and the mechanical work was
performed by Lincoln workmen.
Nothing finer or more complete in the
way of a city directory was ever of
fered the people of this city. From a
mechanical standpoint it furnishes con
vincing proof that Lincoln can furnish
the best talent to be found in the print
ing art. From every other standpoint
It excels in equal measure. It is the
largest directory ever issued for the
city, and it Is.evident that the business
men stood by the enterprise.
The Wageworker has taken to It-
Belf some credit for the success of the
new directory. The local . printing
crafts started the fight in favor of a
home product, and The Wageworker
carried it to the attention of the
people most interested the local mer
chants. . As a result the North Print-
WESTERN GLASS AND PAINT CO.
In the rapid strides that many of
the business houses of our- city have
made during the past year there is
none worthy of more particular note
than the successful progress made by
the Western Glass and Paint Co. This
company are leaders in the line of
j paints, oils and glass. The product
of this company nas in past years ana
is still finding its way into many of
the finest residences and public build
ings in Lincoln and surrounding towns.
In fact it is generally understood that
this company is in a position to meet
all competition. This institution has
always held a fair attitude towards
labor, and are entitled to recognition
in this review. They are located at
301 to 317 South Twelfth Street. The
officers are T. P. Kennard, president;
C. N. Chapman, vice-president; J. 11.
Kennard. secretary and treasurer; G.
O. Rlrdon, sales manager. ,
away, and we behold a world-wide
benefaction of science. Modern ma-
enmery grinds the wheat, cleans it,
impurities are removed, and we see a
satin finish, as righteous as its color.
am even tor its color their are op
portunities for selection where the
nour is better,, the bread more whole
some and the confection made a posi
tive delight. It is therefore the flour
we need, the pure food product before
the kitchen is correctly equipped. The
Lincoln Flour Mills has given modern
milling its detail, and is furnishing the
crane witn oranas or merit. This com
pany manufactures high-grade flour
and we hope that when you buv vour
next flour, you will demand the Lib
erty Hour, manufactured by thia friend
ly firm. This company is extremely
friendly to labor, which has been
shown since the beginning of business
in this city. This mill is located-at
Ninth and Vine, and is one of the lead
ing industries. Union men should fos
ter and encourage such institutions as
this, and you can do so by demanding
juiDerty iviour. . '
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
THE PIANO CONTEST.
Ticket No. 371 is entitled to a fine
Bush and Gerts piano. It is held by
Homer Honeywell, who was enter
prising and liberal enough to purchase
a hundred tickets. - And there isn't a
man in Lincoln who knows Mr. Honey
well who will begrudge that liberal,
wholesouled gentleman his good for
tune. , 1 '
LINCOLN
MACHINISTS' HELPERS.
The machinists helpers of Lincoln
and vicinity organized last Monday
night. They had the assistance of
the machinists and the new orgauiza
tion promises to cut considerable ice
in labor circles in the future. The
Wageworker will undertake to give a
detailed report of affairs in its next
issue. It congratulates the helpers on
their enterprise and wishes them
abundant success.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
FLOUR MILLS LIBER-
. TY FLOUR.
The kitchen is the workshop of the
hjime, and as such it should receive
the same care and attention In all its
details as i3 given to any other work
shop. There are many little improve
ments and which, if adopted, might
make the housewife's work much more
accomplished than it is. There is no
reason why the kitchen may not he as
up-to-date as the rest of the house.
Never before was the world so exact
ing in Its demands or so willing to pay
for what it wants. The up-to-date
kitchen of today is careful of the foods
or preparations that are given admit
tance. The flour that is used can
either spoil or improve the bread, and
for all of mother's ability it is at last
up to the miller, and will be so for
time indefinite. The mill of yester
day was truly ground by the water
that will never grind again. By the
Improved process of today a genius, or
a score of them, has wrought a trans
formation. Money, and plenty of it,
has invested itself so that the primi
tive and antiquated regime has faded
ERNST HOPPE, 108 NORTH TENTH
STREET,
, This well known and popular hard
ware firm represents one phase of
Lincoln's commercial developments on
which too much stress cannot be laid.
For many years this concern has occu
pied a foremost place in the ranks of
hardware fixtures of this city and has
kept pace with the expansion of Lin-
coin's commerce. Especially in the
line of house furnishings does this
company show its knowledge of what
is wanted in Lincoln, for each and
every article in the house bears the
imprint ot a manufacturing concern
that is recognized as foremost through
out the world. This store is located
at 108 North Tenth street, and a most
complete line of stoves, house furnish
ings, mechanics tools and builders'
hardware is here arraigned in varrled
assortments , and prices. The firm
handles furnaces, steel ranges and re
frigerators of the best manufacture
also cutlery, sporting goods and fish
ing tackle. When you patronize Mr.
Hoppe you spend your money with one
of the best friends of organized labor
in Lincoln. Telephone Auto 2853, Bell
972, and he will attend to your wants
in this line.
UNION COAL CO., 1014 O STREET.
In the line of coal, coke and wood,
this company is serving the people of
this city well. The Union Fuel Co.
by a broad, liberal policy of conduct
ing its business, has gained an ad
vanced position before our people. As
a result of this spirit this firm has the
esteem and good will of all union men,
In all transactions with this company
its patrons have been well treated, and
satistaetonly served at all times. Mr,
H. T. Eolsom, the secretary and treas
urer, has carefully given his persona
attention to the business. This firm
caters to the union trade and has al
ways shown a. friendly interest in the
cause, and is entitled to the hearty
co-operation of all union men.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra.
PLUMBERS' NEWS.
TYPOGRAPHICAL
uni5n.
Getting Busy and Growing in Numbers
, Very Rapidly.
The local union's sanitary commit
tee has been doing some very effective
work of late. The attention of prop- ,
erty owners and the-plumbing- inspec
tor has been called to several jobs. -where
plumbing installed in improper :
and dangerous manner was ordered
changed. - "
The organization of the' masters in
our craft has been effected.in this city,',
with ten shops represented, or at least
that is the rumor.. If this organization
would co-operate with the journeymen
with a view of enforcing ' state laws
and city ordinances now on the books.
instead of the single narrow idea of re-
ducing wages and further debasing '
our conditions, we would hail the
news. Our interests are identical from
a sanitary standpoint; why not work
on harmonious lines to the betterment
of the trade? . : " -
Bro.- A. V.White has represented
our interests so faithfully during his
first week's service as business agent
that he was instructed to continue the
good work. The recent additions to
our ranks have been so numerous that
we look forward to a solid union town
before the bird's sing. V --
The drain-layers of the city have
held two meetings of late, with the
majority of their trade represented, ;
and formed a temporary organization.
The evil of sub-contracting was dis
cussed 'and a harmonious feeling ef
fected with the journeymen plumbers
by which they will be permitted to in
stall the 'water pipe to the basement
from street, and repair . all hydrants
and iron pipe in ground outside build
lugs. This much abused craft should
certainly receive "more than laborer's
wage3, and by their present move will
no doubt soon be in a more prosper
ous condition.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra. - -
Next Sunday Should See Every Mem
ber on Hand (in Time.- ;
The Typographical Union wili meet
at Bohanan's hall next Sunday. The
change in meeting place is made in
anticipation of the largest turnout in
many months, owing to the pressing
business "to be transacted. Every
member should 'realize the necessity
of being on hand when the president's
gavel falls. :', '
In addition to other important busi
ness the committee on observance of
the twenty-sixth' anniversary of - the
union will make its report and sub
committees will be announced.-' This
is going to be the greatest anniversary
In the history of the local, and in
after years you will . be proud if you
do your share in making it such.
Typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February 25, Fraternity Hall. ' Quick's
Orchestra. '
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