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VOL. 4
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 17, 1907
NO. 6
Temple Pledge List Sitll
Shows a Healthy Growth
Yes, it is growing, but It la growing
at a rate that seems dlscouragingly
slow to some people. But The Wage
worker is not surprised. It believes
that before long a wave of enthusiasm
will strike the union men of the city,
and when It does things will hum
along at a merry rate.
The llBt has been Increased quite
a bit this week. A lot of printers got
into the game this week. A couple of
locomotive engineers bave taken a
hand, and that means more as soon as
these two get to work. A well known
newspaper man comes in. He is on
the list for "on day's work," but whea
the time comes he will do a lot more
than that. A score or more of the
men on the list have declared their
willingness to make It a week's Work
and take It out in stock. This means
that the list represents a great deal
more than just one day's work for
each name thereon.
Word comes that a union painter is
hustling and has already got a goodly
list of his fellows. But The Wage
worker has not been able to get H
TC3E YKim HEME
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, AGREE TO DONATE THE WAGE
EARNED BT US ON JUNE 3, 1907, TO A LABOR TEMPLE FUND,
SAID DONATION TO BE PAID INTO THE HANDS OF A BOARD
OF TRUSTEES SELECTED BY THE DONORS AND BY THEM
DEPOSITED IN BANK, SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION THAT NO
PART OF SAID DONATION SHALL BE USED FOR EXPENSES.
IT IS FURTHER UNDERSTOOD THAT THE DONORS SHALL
RECEIVE STOCK IN THE LABOR TEMPLE COMPANY EQUAL
TO THE AMOUNT CONTRIBUTED. IN CASE SUFFICIENT
FUNDS ARE NOT THUS RAISED, IT IS AGREED THAT CONTRI
BUTIONS SHALL BE RETURNED WITHOUT DISCOUNT TO THE
ORIGINAL DONORS.
J. W. Dlckeson, University Place.
J. S. McCoy, 1203 XT.
W. L. Mayer, 2335 Q.
C. H. Turner. 1200 P.
Alex Wlcklzer, 904 E.
C. E. Barngrover, 1330 X. 24.
C. B. Rlghter, 2308 Dudley.
W. C. Norton, 1533 N. 25.
H. W. Smith, 1725 P.
Bert Chlpman, 705 S. 18.
Gus Sanders, 932 P.
Henry Hoos, 438 N. 14.
Ed. Fagan, 938 P.
C. A. Phelps, 127 S. 10.
At Walker, 2301 S.
Grove Pylperkers, 228 N. 13.
Sam Landes, 812 H.
H. Sundean, 1844 P. -
L. Spencer, 10 and N.
C. Penrod, 1422 O.
C. Frits, 113 S.- 9.
J. Windier, 1021 Wcxjd.
P. Blbersteln, 146 S. 9.
Al Wendle, West A.
Bob Charters, 1960 T.
W. M. Maupln, 1216 G.
C. H. Bowers, 12 and O.
E. W. Aura, 2253 Dudley.
R. L. McBride, 1648 Q.
Charles Bowen, 1919 S. 16.
Arch Stephens, 2037 K.
J. W. Jewell. 1026 Q.
L. L. Ingraham, Unl. Place
G. E. Locker, 625 S. 18.
F. M. Coffey.
T. W. Evans, 128 S. 11.
O. M. Rudy, 1036 G.
R. W. Elliott, 610 N. 14.
C. M. Anderson.
B. B. Joslln, 215.4 S. 14.
J. R. Cain, 908 Wood.
T. N. Jones, 208 N. 22.
W. K. Terwllliger, 1528 N. 19.
C. N. Castle.
' Chas. Puree, 1002 Vine.
L Ward Betzer, 812 E.
John Metzger, 904 n.
T. Bridges,, 3103 Vine.
R. Winch, 1000 D. '
James Lobaugh,. Cent. Pub. Co.
C. A. Yates, New Century Co.
J. D. Bower, Ivy Press.
E. C. Wergef, 1526 N.
A. M. Larimer, 410 N. 12th.
F. Pillar, 1223 Washington.
Otto Werger, 1526 N.
Bayard Vantine, 2735 Durley.
O. O. Robinson, Western Normal.
C. C. Pierce, 419 No. 10th.
H. G. Davis, 1200 P.
C. B. Mills, 639 S. 11.
G. H. Moore, 1926 R.
J. N. Hyder, 824 N. 14.
R. L. Metcalfe, 17th & C.
L. W. Parks.
yet. There is time. The Wageworker
is willing to give any man time who is
hustling for contributions. No use
crowding the thing too much.
We'll build a labor temple in Lincoln
some of these days. But we ought to
hurry. A golden opportunity is rapid
ly slipping by We'll be sorry some
day if we don't grab it before it is too
late. '
Every dollar you contribute to the
labor temple fund will be represented
by a share of stock in the enterprise.
No man is asked to make an outright
donation. The money will all come
back in the shape of dividends. But
the best part of it will be the influence
for good that a commodious labor tem
ple will have.
If you haven't got into the game yet,
do it now! Some other man may be
waiting for you to make a start. You
may have a few friends whom you see
dally who would gladly get into the
game if you mentioned the facts to
them.
Every man ought to do his part.
Are you doing yours?
C. J. Peterson, 2241 Holdrege,
E. E. Betz, 1448 P.
H. L. Rudy, 1036 G.
Mark Castor, 1419 G.
Louis Maupin, 1216 G.
Wm. Drummond, 511 N. 27
Fred Ihringer, 1529 D
W. H. Astley, 2619 Q
Fred Mickle, 1925 S. 16
Mr. and Mrs. Soandso.
Fred Brenner, 2150 U
W. C. Miller, 1144 O St.
H. W. Essex, 1144 O St.
H. F. Schultze, 1144 O St.
F. Cool, 1144 O St.
F. L. Ryan, 1144 O St.
Joe T. Hazels, 1144 O St.
J. E. Bixler, 1144 O St.
J. B. Leard, 1144. 0 St.
W. L. Morrifleld, 1144 O St.
E. D. Beard. 120 No. 11th St.
J. W. Cromwell, 120 No. 11th St.
G. L. Barbee, 120 No. 11th St.
H. Kehlenbach, 120 No. 11th St.
E. A. Patterson, 120 No. 11th St.
J. B. Biehn, 120 No. ltlh St.
H. Parmelee, 120 No. 11th St.
Chas. Brown, 120 No. 1th St.
A. R. McConnaughey, 120 No. 11th
St.
Burgaman, H., 2201 Holdrege.
George Quick,
Frank Smith 1725 P.
Faulhaber, Louis, 644 S. 19th.
W. A. Woodard, 3126 T.
C. H. Chase, 2005 N. 30th.
E. A. Coffman, 3235 P.
R. E. Traver, 1610 N. 27th.
A. C. Neese, 2734 Dudley.
H. Compton, 2541 Y. t
C. W. Axtell, 330 N. 28th.
Chas. Shelton, 391 T.
J. L. Shelton, 391 T.
C. D. Folsom, 3018 P.
C. H. Cameron, '136 N. 21.
F. W. Kolb, 733 H.
Ernest Shaw, 44th & W.
Frank Mayes, 323 S. 20.
E. L. Walters, 1846 M.
George Loar, 313 S. 20th.
E. S. Chevront, 539 S. 7th.
J. H. Buchs, 728 N. 11th. .
John Brown, 2038 P.
Jacob Weber, 219 F.
Alex Wekesser, 904 E. ,
H. W. Werger, 836 S. 23d. '
E. H. Zubrlgen, 14th and Peach.
W. S. Brown, 1418 F.
A. M. Swigart, 826 G.
Mark Carveth.
H. C; Dalrymple, 13th & N Sts.
Frank W. Brown, Jr.
Jay Worley, 2011 K.
H. P. Van Dercreek, 1705 N.
A. A. Hall, 2743 D.
SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.
How It may be Secured for Working
men of This City.
Many cities larger even than Lin
coln have the Saturday half-holiday
during the summer months. ' Why not
Lincoln
There is one thing that stands in. the
way .just- now, and that is the Satur
day pay day. Naturally workingmen
and women spend the bulk of their
wages the day they receive them, pay
ing t he week's grocery - bills, and buy
ing for the week ahead. To accomo
date them, and as a mere matter, of
business, . the merchants must keep
open on Saturday.
If the merchants did practically no
business on Saturday they could per
haps, be induced to entertain the Sat
urday half-holiday proposition. One
of the largest retailers in Lincoln told
the editor of the Wageworker last
week that he would gladly concede
the half-holiday if employers as a rule
would make Monday or Tuesday the
pay day instead of Saturday.
Why not start a crusade for a Mon
day pay day in all lines, and when it
is secured endeavor to secure the Sat
urday half-holiday?
This is a matter that local unions
would do well to consider and to take
action upon at an early date.
Just make it unprofitable for the
merchants and 'manufacturers to keep
open on Saturday afternoon and night
and they will soon listen to arguments
in favor of the half holiday. Lincoln
ought to get into the profession along
with other progressive cities that have
adopted the half-holiday system.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION ELECTS.
One of Warmest Fights in History of
Local Pulled Off.
Lincoln Typographical Union No.
209 indulged in the luxury of an an
nual election last Wednesday, afod. It
was one of the most interesting as
well as the closest in the history of the
organization. ' Union printers use the
Australian form of ballot, and one can
understand why so many get mixed
up at. a general election after nothing
that the printers who prepare the
aforesaid ballots often seem unable to
properly mark them. Several ballots
cast Wednesday had to be thrown out
on various offices because more can
didates than allowable were voted for.l
While the battle was warm from the
start, it was waged good-naturedly as
a rule, and there are no more than the
usual number of "sore spots." ' Ninety-
one votes were polled, the largest num
ber ever polled by the union. The'
election resulted as follows:
President J. R.- Bain, Journal job
chapel. . i
Vice-President H. C. Peat, Star
chapel.
Recording Secretary H. W. Blng
aman, Freie Presse chapel. .
'Financial Secretary F. H. Hebbard,
Journal news chapel.
Sergent-at-Arms J. G. Sayer, Jour
nal job chapel.
Executive Committee C. E. Barn
grover, Star chapel; James Leaden,
Journal news chapel; Sam Webster,
Star chapel. k
Delegates C. L. U Abe Compton,
News chapel; Charles Love, Journal
chapel ; Sam Webster.
Delegate A. T. C. Abe Compton,
Sam Webster, August Radebach, Gil-lespIe-Philllps
chapel.
Delegates International L. L. Ingra
ham, Star chapel; August Radebach
Alternates G. E. Locker, Star
chapel ; J." G. Sayer.
The officers elected Wednesday will
not take their seats until next August,
and will serve for one year.
HOME PATRONAGE, PLEASE.
The Commercial Club Preaches But
Fails on Practice.
The Commercial Club Is much given
to preaching "home patronage" and
advocating the "build up Lincoln" idea.
Both are good stunts, to be sure. But
somehow or other the Commercial
Club seems much better at preaching
than at practicing. After some "pound
ing" by The Wageworker it did finally
put one Lincoln made cigar in its
case, but this home made cigar is a
slow seller compared with cigars made
in New York and Philadelphia fac
tories.
The Commercial Club has had sev
eral "trade excursions" in recent
DESPAIN
Cartoon by Spencer.
years, and it has always taken a band
along. Did it take a Lincoln band?
Not that anybody knows of, it didn't.
While talking about the "home pat
ronage' movement and advocating the
idea of building up Lincoln institu
tions it went to the extreme western
part of the state to get a band.
Funny way of "patronizing home"
and "building up Lincoln institutions,
is it not?
There' is plenty of band talent in
Lincoln, gentlemen of the Commercial
Club. No trouble to get a Lincoln
band for your "trade excursions." Why
not do a little practicing in between
preaching?"
BOOST FOR THE TEMPLE.
Young Business Man Offers to Come
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Frank W. Brown, Jr., son of Mayor
Brown, stopped The Wageworker ed
itor on the street the other day and
asked:
'Does a man have to be a member
of a union in order to help on the
Labor Temple scheme?"
T should say not!" exclaimed the
editor.
"Well, I want to get into the temple
game. On the day you nnany aeciae
upon as the day to donate the wages
for the temple,' count me in. I'll give
all I ma&e on that day even if I sell
a building lot."
That's why you will see the name
of Frank W. Brown, Jr.; on the list
of "Labor , Temple Boosters." And
there is room there for more like him.
Also for about 2,500 more union men.
PLASTERERS COMPLAIN.
Union plasterers in Lincoln com
plain that Contractor Jensen, who is
building the Rockefeller temple and
who Is on the fair list of the Carpen
ters' Union, has employed non-union
plasterers on the temple building. The
building trades' council seemingly has
a field in which to operate. The Wage
worker gladly mentions the complaint
of the union plasterers, although to its
knowledge it has not more than one
union plasterer on its subscription
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SOME LEGAL FACTS.
But Judge-Made Law Often Sweeps
Them Into the Basket.
"Tgnorance of the law nxcusea no
man," is an old adage. That's a funny
proposition. Isn't it?
LIGHTING IN A SOFT SPOT
. How is a man to know , what the
'aw is unless he is a mindreader, able
to fathom the brain of some federal
judge?
Legislatures used to enact laws, and
were supposed to be the sole .Uw-mak-ing
power. But that was before fed
eral judges awoke to the fact that the
only power in the universe greater
than they is the Almighty, and some
of them seem to think that even the
Almighty plays second fiddle to the
federal judiciary. Nowadays a fed
eral judge can, by one swipe of the
pen, repeal laws enacted by legisla
tures and by congress.
Here are two or three facts In law,
but they will not ' stand when a fed
eral judge objects:
A man has a right to do anything
as a member of a union that he has
a right to do as a private citizen. As
a private citizen he has a right to
remonstrate with a fellow citizen who
is endangering the welfare of both.
Federal judges say he has no right
to do this as a member of a uuion.
The judge is higher than the law or
the constitution. -
A man has as much- right to free
speech as a union man as he has as
a private citizen, amenable only to the
laws of libel. The federal judge says
the union man has no right to speak
freely with a non-union man. The
judge is higher than the law or the
constitution.
The first amendment to the consti
tution says that "congress shall make
no law prohibiting ; the right
of the people peaceably to assemble."
Federal judges have swept this 'Con
stitutional provision aside and issued
a law from the bench forbidding citi
zens who happened to be members of
a trade union ' from peaceably ' as
sembling. As union men they have
the same constitutional right to. as
semble that they have as citizens. The
judge is higher than the constitution;
The same amendment to the const!
tution says that congress "shall make
no law prohibiting the right
of the people to petition the
government for a redress of griev
ances." But even a postmaster gen
eral can sweep aside this constitutional
provision and make' it stick. At any
rate a postmaster general prohibited
men in the postal service from peti
tioning congress for redress of. griev
ances. The men in the postal service
have as much - right to petition as
postal employes as they have to peti
tion as citizens. But the postmaster
Courtesy of Omaha World-Herald.
general Is higher than the organic law
of the land. ; '.' '
Now, In view of all these facts, how
in the name of common sense is a
man to know what the law is?
But you must know It, just the same,
or some federal judge will send you to
jail for your' ignorance, t
PRINTERS' MEMORIAL DAY.
Lincoln Printers Will Honor Memory .
of Their Departed Comrades.
Sunday afternoon. May 26, at 2:15,
Lincoln Typographical Union No. 209
will observe "Printers' Memorial Day."
This custom, which has now received
the official sanction of the Interna
tional Typographical Union, originated
with Lincoln Typographical Union, and
the ceremonies on May 26 will be the
fourth of the annual series.
A cordial Invitation is extended to
all other unions, and to the general
public to meet with the union printers
at the First Christian church. Four
teenth and M streets, at the time set
and participate in the exercises.
Members of the Typographical Un
ion and Auxiliary will meet at the
Lindell hotel corner promptly at, 2
o'clock and proceed in a body to the
church. Immediately after the church
ceremonies the printers and the wo
men of the Auxiliary will take a spe
cial car at ' Thirteenth and O streets
and proceed . to Wyuka cemetery,
where the usual . decoration ' services
will be held! The following program
has been arranged:
At the Church.
Song, "Just As I Am". .... .'. Assembly
Invoction . . .Rev. H. H. Harmon
Pastor First Christian Church. -Song,
"Refuge". . . .'. . . ... . . .Assembly
The Typographical Union, F. M. Coffey
resident L. Tf"U., No. "209.
Song, "Sweet By and By".'. .Assembly
Memorial Address. . .William J. Bryan
Benediction. Rev. S. Z. Batten
'; Pastor First Baptist Church.
' At the Cemetery.
Song, "Nearer, My GodV"fe?Thee,"
. .... . . . i-i.4.:- . f Assembly
Invocation.-.:;;. . .Rev.jS. Z. Batten
"Our Onion Dead" . .Eratine-KIng
fio aah i- L. T. U.; No. 209. xac, tw -SOngj
H'Going Down the;'tVlleyy" ; -
. . .'a juti?.; Assembly
Address, "The Invisible Comrade,"
.-.viR.-L. Metcalfe
Decoration of burial loC;v . Y. . Auxiliary
Song, Doxology A . ..'. ;AHV. .Assembly
"Taps" . . ... i ... ; .--.'MISS'' Ruth Walters
Benediction ...... . Rev. H. H. Harmon.
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