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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1907)
I- f GENERAL MENTION. Labor Locals Picked Up in Lincoln and Elsewhere,. Demand the label. The union label that's all. 1.00k for the union label. If It Is not labeled, refuse it. Union made shoed are sold by Rog ers & Perkins. Pretty near time to begin planning for Labor Day. Central Labor Union meets next Tuesday evening. The Commoner force will hold its annual picnic on May 25. Twelve hundred boilermakers arj on strike in Boston for higher wages Members of Stone Planer Men's Un ion in Chicago now receive 47 V6 cents an hour. "Bltfe Ribbon" clgara are union made, Lincoln made and well made. Sold by all dealers. New boot and shoe workers' unions have been organibed In London, Ont., 'ni4 Vnahii5 V H. ' . Woodworkers obtained an increase from $1.20 to $1.30 a week in the factories In Grand Rapids. Car workers, machinists, clerks, clgarmakers,' boilermakers and bar bers nave organized in lonia. Some radical changes and improve ments have, been made by Manage1 Quick of the Royal hotel bar. Plumbers in Lewiston, Idaho, have een granted an Increase in wages ir (A cents a day, making a rate of $5. The theatrical workers have organ ised a union in Streator, 111. It starts off with some forty charter members. At a recent meeting of the Indian apolis Bookbinders' Union, No. 103, fe male bindery workers were admitted. Striking Salt Lake City street rail way men won practically every con tention after being out forty-eight hours. The retail clerks of St. Louis have made a request for a 6 o'clock closing hour on Saturday during July and Au gust. Street railway men are again talk ing of organizing. Somebody must nave been squirting starch up a lot of spines. Lamplighters in five boroughs of Greater New York struck for higher wage on May 1 and recognition of their union. William C. Gilbert, a union clerk in a shoe store, was elected mayor of Danbury, Conn., on a union labor ticket. The Freie Presse's new Merg anthaler arrived 'last Monday, and on Wednesday it was set up and is now running smoothly. ' Schenectady, N. Y., labor unions have organized a "Labor Temple Asso ciation," elected trustees and filed ar ticles of Incorporation. Union men in Rockford, 111., got to gether and elected a union labor may-, r last week. They also elected three members of the council. John Mitchell, president of the Unit ed Mine Workers, was operated on for strangulated hernia at his home in Spring Valley, III., on May 1. . Some 300 telegraphers on the 'Cin cinnati, Hamilton & Day ton railway have received an Increase in salary ranging from 5 to 20 per cent. ' Cincinnati Electrotype company has none out of business, and the two new union foundries are rushed with ork. Beware of the buzz saw. In Grand Rapids the street car men received a raise In wages without seeking for it. This Is one of the good results of the strike on the M. U. R. By granting their 3,000 employes a wage advance averaging 8 per cent the big brick companies of Chicago prevented a tie-up of the yards re cently. Tho Wageworker has it on the au thority of the chairman and secretary of the democratic committee of the city of Lincoln that the Benton non union printery represented Itself to the committee as being a union office, and on the strength of this secured a job .of printing letterheads and envel BRIGHTEN UP THE HOME It is cheering to know how easily and cheaply old things may be P made to look like new with our j STAINS, POLISHES, ENAMELS. J W have the Ageaejr for JapalaC RECTOR'S x Kin inn v aueets A. A 04,KOrcK opes. The Benton printery is unfair. The Marine Firemen, Oilers and Water Tenders' Union of the Great Lakes is now a duly charted local oi the InternationMl Seamen's Union of America. The Erectors' Association, which employs only non-union iron work-its, met in Chicago and decided to reduce the wages of '"their independents" 10 per cent. Charleston, W. Va carpenters stuck on May 1 for the eight hour day, and contractors employing 80 per cent of the men signed up in less than twenty four hours. The Standard Railway Equipment company of East St. Louis have locked out the machinists because they asked or the same rate of pay in effect in all other shorjs. A lot of Lincoln mechanics are yearning for some capitalist to build a lot of neat five and six room cot tages that will rent for from $15 to to $18 a month. The Illinois legislature passed, the Canaday bill raising the maximum amount of damages recoverable for death by accident in coal mines from $5,000 to $10,000. Col. Joseph Shively, deputy com missioner of public lands and build ings, sends $2 to The Wageworker and says, "Shove my subscription ahead as far as you can with this." Tho pressmen got into the Labor Temple game this week. Practically every union pressman in the city has pledged a day's work. There is room for every other union man in the city. Common laborers in the Armour packing house at South Omaha struck for higher wages last Monday. Their demands were granted after a day's Idleness. They now draw 19 cents an hour. A contract for five years har; been signed between the Chattanooga, Tenn., Typographical Union and the newspapers. With one exception the eight-hour day was, agreed to by the job offices. The strike of the metal polishers employed by William Hall & Co., of Wollaston, Mass., because of the re fusal to grant a minimum' wage of $3 has been settled to the satisfaction ( f the union. The Bartenders' International Un ion issued charters to six new locals in January, including Schenectady, L03 Angeles Union has 260 members, and the average wage scale is $2 a weel-r. with a ten-hour day. Unless unexpected developments oc cur more than 30,000 cotton mill op eratives inFall River, Mass., will have their wages increased about 10 per cent on May 2", when the working agreement in force expires. San Francisco is again in the throes of a labor war. Workingmen out there actually seem to think that they are entitled to some share of the wonder ful prosperity now being enjoyed along the Pacific coast. Six sterotypers in the Minneapolis Tribune office walked out because one of their number was ordered to work In the press room. The matter was soon settled, and the sterotypers will not do press work. The master and journeymen barbers of Duluth, Minn., have agreed upon a wage scale of $16 and up to $26 aud In excess one-half. The arrangement places in the union ranks every barber shop in that city with one exception. ' The display of penitentiary-made brooms was taken from the Rudge & Guenzel show window on Eleventh ' street two days after The Wageworker called attention to It. The Wage worker is a great advertising medium. After many unsuccessful attempts which have been made within the last seventeen years the roll turners ol the Pittsburg district have organized and applied for a charter from the International Association of Machin ists. At Detroit, Mich., the engineers who are employed in the different brewer ies presented a schedule asking $30 per week for chief and $22 for sec ond men. The employers offered as a compromise $28 per week for chief and $20 per week for second engin eers, which was accepted. The new agreements take effect May 1 and run for two years. COWARDS AND COWARDS. There Are Two Kinds, Each Much Worse Than the Other. President Roosevelt's square deal policy may occasionally wobble a little, but the labor agitators and trades uuions will have some difficulty In convincing the public that he is a coward. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.). There are two kinds of cowards- the moral coward and the physical coward. To perpetrate an "Irish bull' each of these cowards is worse than the other . No one ever thought of charging Theodore Roosevelt with physical cow ardice. Indeed, he may be termed a foolishly brave man, physically. He is brave to foolhardlness when it comes to a matter of exposing himself to physical dangers, whether it be on the NEW BARGAINS FOB THIS WEEK, Winter has retired from the lap of spring and summer is here. You'll need that warm weather outfit before you know it. Better make the purchase this toeek. We offer a fete specials that should be oeru attractive to uou. 14 pieces of Princess Cloth, same fabric as the Dannish cloth, only has small polkadot of self color; 20c value; this week 15c 15 pieces new Waterproof Suitings in grey checks and plaids;, 25c values . . 19c Choice of any of our Worested Suitings and Plaids in choice gray and tan mixtures; 50c values; this week . ..'.39o 20 pieces of Imported Mohair Suitings in plain colors; also small check and stripes in colors on white ground; 50c values 39c 38-inch all wool Panama in all the popular shades; 65c value. .... .50c ' 2 pieces of navy blue; 1 piece a 50-lnch granite, and 1 piece 52-inch . etamlne, in all-wool; regular 90c and $1 cloths; to close out 65c 2 pieces of -new .gray and tan. Plaid Suiting; suitable for coats, suits and skirts; 52 inches wide; $1.00 values. 85c 44-Inch Imported Silk Mohair, in all colors, including black and cream white; $1.00 value........ , 79c Go through our Shoe stock and pick out Shoes to your liking. The new ideas are here. Shoes for bus iness, for street, for dress, for wet weather or dry, for hot weather, for vacation, for summer sports Shoes for every purpose for which Shoes are wanted. Shoes and Oxfords for Men, Women, Boys. Misses. Children and Infants. Shoes for you! If we were to name a string of Shoe prices a yard long, what would it prove to you unless 'ou matched up the Shoes to theprices? Come see our Shoes ghat's our slogan. 917-921 0 STREET South Of P. 0. range, on the hunting course, or on the battlefield. But . is Theodore Rooosevelt . as brave morally as he is physically? That is the real question involved in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's para graph. It takes a brave man to admit an error. It requires moral courage to admit a mistake. And when Presi dent Roosevelt made the mistake of throwing the weight of his official in fluence against Moyer and Haywood, on trial for their lives and entitled to a. "square deal," did he have the moral courage 'o admit his mistake and the moral courage to rectify it? Or did he exhibit his physical bravery by "stand ing pat?' ' It required physical courage to charge up San Juan Hill, and Theodore Roosevelt had it. It required moral courage to admit the mistake of throw ing the weight of his official influence against Moyer and Haywood, and Theodore Roosevelt did not measure up to the occasion. These are the plain facts, and the Globe-Democrat can not deny them. THE CARPENTERS Have Amended Their Fair List, Which Is Published Elsewhere. The Carpenters and .Joiners have amended their fair list, and the new list appears elsewhere in this issue. It .will be noted that one or two names have been stricken from the list, while several changes are made in firm names. The list as It now ap pears is correct up to date. One contractor is under inyestiga tion, it being charged that be has a habit of taking contracts and then let ting another do the . work with non union men. Special called meeting next Tues day evening. ' - The meeting last. Tuesday night was well attended and several new mem bers were added to the rolls. Work continues good and the prospects for a busy season were never better. Racine, Wis., carpenters secured their demands and the threatened strike on May 1 did not bake place. - Paterson, N. J., carpenters struck on May 1 for a raise from $3.50 to $4 a day. A thousand men are out. At Newark,' N. J., 1,300 carpenters struck on May 1 for an increase of 2 cents an hour, making the mini mum 50 cents. At Denver on May 1 union millmen and woodworkers went on strike to enforce the closed shop. A sympa thetic strike in the building trades is threatened. About a hundred Milwaukee car penters are on strike for an increase of 2Va cents an hour. Two hundred carpenters at Wilm- F Days of Great Values in Our Cloak Room We cary an exclusive assortment of Ladies' and . Mises' ready-to-wear Skirts, in a variety of hand some new styles, made of this sea son's choicest materials, imported or domestic all-wool woresteds and mixtures; they show tBe distinction of men tailoring, and perfect fit. Compare our prices with whal you ordinarily pay. ington,- Del., are on strike for an in crease from 40 to 45 cents An hour. Philadelphia - dally newspapers, speaking of the great May day labor parade in that city, unanimously give the carpenters credit for the largest turnout and the . finest appearance while on the march. .. ... VERY MUCH "WAHOO.' . .- Railway Brotherhood Officials Throw "Bull Con" at, Members. If the daily newspapers of Lii3oln know what they are talking about and tell the truth, three or four railroad brotherhoods ought to get together and gently but firmly whisper a few words into the ears of some of the bro;:her hood officials. According to the daily paper G. W. Balton, chairman of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers of Ottuinwa, la.; B. Strickler. .: chair-i man of the brotherhood of railway trainmen of Illinois and M. C. Allen, chairman of the brotherhood of . loco motive firemen, were in Lincln last rfnnday and addressed a joint meeting of their brotherhoods at A. O. U. W.j hall. According to the Journal these eminent visitors "urged railroad men to make an ef fort to earn the increased pay granted by the roads; to repay the company for the effort it has made in behalf of the men, and to do their duty in every other way toward their employers." "Wahoo!" Which is Injun ' for some thing else., Make -an effort to earn the increased pay!" Wouldn't that jar you? Are Messrs. Balton,, Strickler and . Allen representing the managers or are they representing the v brotherhoods? If they have been quoted correctly one would imagine that their salaries were paid by the railroad managers, and that their duties consisted In seeing to it that the railroads were held up as model employers. : "Make- an ' effort to earn the in creased ' pay granted by the rail roads!?, .- O, "Bi S." Which is an abbrevia tion for "butter scotch." AVhy -are not these officers, who are paid by 'the men in the overalls, vis iting the railroad managers and urging them to" ; pay the increased ' wage earned by the men? , Would they have the . men In the overalls believe that railroads are elemosynary. insti tutions and the railroad officials philanthrophlsts who are in business merely to give people a chance to earn wages? It is right and plroper that these brotherhood officials should urge the members to "do their duty In every way toward their employers." That is what every honest emplye will do. But the men were earning that increased pay long before they got Six Day Dress Goods Sale 1 This is the week to buy dress goods and save on every yard. Below you will find quoted a few of the many prices: . V ' 56-inch black and white shepherd check Suiting; 85c value; Hah " wcek ............. 73c 20 Per Cent Discount on All Fancy Plaid Suitings. Sale of Black Dress Goods r 45-inch Imported Wool Batiste; 90s" value ..... . .............. .70c 42-inch all-wool Prunella; $1.90 value; to close . ....... .75c 44-inch all-wool Roxana; $1.00 value; to close... 75c 40-inch Imported Voile; 85c value; at. ....... ......... ...... .68c 42-inch Imported Voile; $1.00 value; at. .....79c 42-inch Imported Voile. $1;10 value; at... .........;..'.... ,88c 42-inch Imported Voile; $1.25 value; at. ................ . . . . ;. v:.8c '; 44-inoh all-wool Taffeta; $1.25 value; at , . ....".,. .98cv 44tach Silk and Wool nrpoVted Begaline; $1.40 Value. ........ . . vj$as 42-inch Imported Wool Poplin; $1.50 value.......... il2o' 20 pieces of 27-inch Silk Batiste in Jacquard effects;, sel-eotored cnecksami plaids; a very sheer weeks Skirts Fine Voile, Chiffon, Panama and Taffeta Silk; low priced at $13.50 and $12.50: 5-day soenial. .$10.95 Fine Voile, Chiffon, Panama; low priced, at $9.00 u $y.So; o-aay . special .$7.95 Have your choice of Voile and Panama, $5.95, $6.50 Skirt3. for 5 days at. ..$4.95 Black Serge, full satin-lined, close fitting; 5 day special $7.95 Wool Check Novelty - Box' Coats; velvet-trimmed; 5 day spe cial ... $4.95 the increase, and they are earning more than they' get, or are likely to get for a long time to come. Said a member of one of the best of the organized mechanical trades when he read of Sunday's meeting: "I don't know anything about the railroad organizations, but I do know union' care around and shot off J that if one of the head officials of my such rot as that at our meeting, he would retire with his ears burning so badly the fire department would ' be called out. The railroad organizations must be in a heavenly situation if the members have to make a special ef fort to earn the increased pay granted by the employers. All otber laboring men have to make a spedlal effort to get some where near whal they earn." The railroad managers certainly ars under obligations to Messrs.' Balton, Strickler and Allen. . EXCEEDING HIS AUTHORITY. Will This Be Known as Age of "The- odore, the Meddler?.' In a letter to Honore Jaxon, chair man of the Cook County Moyer-Hay-wood conference, the president at tempts to explain his recent character-, Ization of Debs, Moyer and Haywood as "undesirable" citizens, at the same time reiterating that they are such. To the charge that his utterance was cal culated to influence public opinion, he. seeks to evade the issue by casting the same charge back at labor in the rerson of the Moyer-Haywood corifei tnce itself. - The reply is weals, and can not ob scure the real issue. - ) ' Let us get down to the facts in the case. We need not consider Debs. The fact that he differs from the presl ccnt politically is sufficient explana tion, and Debs has a right to his op' 11 ion just as the president haa a rifc'u to his. It is not merely that Moyer and Haywood are on trial at Boise. A great labor organization is on trial. If Moyer and Haywood are found guil ty, if it is shown that the Western Federation of Miners did conspire to assassinate a state governor who was unfriendly to lahpr, then organized labor will receive it bitterest blow, '.. But who is this man who under takes to say out of his personal knowl edge, unsupported by anything except hearsay, that you are "undesirable" citizens? What man is this who as sumes the right to put his stamp of ap proval upon you and deny it to us? What the President says is naturally of vast importance. He is our first cit izen. We have chosen him as a model and to perform certain functions in our system of government, - With the great forces of state at his washable fabric; 50c value; this V.39C- Jacket special Black Broadcloth; full satin-lined, close-flttlng; 5 day special. ........ s ... ...$4.95 XJrto, r, -. ,i IT 1 f 1 . 6 day special., ; . . . . . .$7.9S q Vnii are Wlrom O To -look over our complete line of Jap Silk Waists, Brussels Net Waists, and White . and Colored Lawn Waists. The quality, the style, the fit and the exceedingly low prices will meet with! yoxir ap proval; prices ranging from $6.95 way down to 39c each. " 917-921 0 STREET Lincoln, Neb. command, his words are official and have unmeasured influence upon all classes of eitizens. It it reasonable to suppose that , what President Roosevelt has said of Moyer and Hay wood has sunk- in to the public mind and will remain among many people as a . lasting conviction of these ac cused men. What a frightful risk the President has taken. '- i Even now it does not occur to hint that by his casual remark, he may have planted a seed of prejudice In the mind of one or all of the 12 -men who will sit in final,, judgement of Moyer ana uaywooa at tsoise. air. KooseveiE aoes not seem to realize tnat ne may be the instrument of false judgemen in this vital issue. The President has exceeded his au thority. The American people, under their constitution and their system of law, maintain ' their right -to submit this matter to unprejudiced men, un influenced men, men who will hot 'be swayed or biased according to private belief, or political, influence, religious scruple, who will,, in a word, find ac cording to fact and. justice. J: As for the Moyer-Haywood -conference, what if it does seek to Influence public opinion? . It is .organized, for that purpose. : But the- President is for the whole people. He has neither legal nor moral right to declare In ad vance of the courts as to anything, nor to say . words calculated to influence the courts, because we have a great system of justice, the accumulated jus tice of ages, whose function It is alone to separate between' "desirable" and '"undesirable" citizens. . - Today we say to the President: kTou have made a mistake. You have ex ceeded the authority, for which we elec ted you. It is doubtless true that by taking an active part in every phase of the national life, whether It concerns you or not, you are adding a little personal popularity here and there. But history will not concern itself with popularity. Consider the whole people Mr. President, and use a little wise restraint, , so that, as men designate ages, this age may not be known as that of Theodore the Meddler.-Buf-f alo Progress. BLACKSMITHS ORGANIZE. The Blacksmiths and Helpers ' in railroad employ in this vicinity nave organized and secured a. charter from the international. The organization was perfected two weeks, ago, and at the meeting last . Saturday night twelve or fifteen additional names were added to the roll. The new union starts off with every prospect of success, and The Wageworker con gratulates the members upon .their goocl sense in getting together.