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NEBEAS KA, MAY 31, 1907
NO. 8
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Printers Pay Loving
Last Sunday afternoon Lincoln
Typographical Union No. 209 observed
"Union Printers' Memorial Day" with
appropriate exercises at the First
Christian church and on the union's
burial lot in Wyuka cemetery. The
church was well filled despite the
threatening weather, and the assem
bly at the cemetery was the largest
since the custom was established.
Three times has the Lincoln' Typo
graphical Union observed this day, and
three times has the weather man in
terfered, giving raw, chilly and threat
ening weather. But this did not dis
courage the earnest unionists and
their wives, and each year sees a
larger number attending the services.
Lincoln Typographical Union inaug
urated this custom, which now has the
sanction of international law, and last
Sunday it was honored by having two
splendid orators to deliver addresses,
one of them the foremost orator of
this day and age, the other one of the
foremost newspaper men of the county-
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William J. Bryan delivered the mem
orial address at the church, and Rich
ard L. Metcalfe, associate editor of
the Commoner, delivered the address
at the cemetery. Both of these men
are staunch friends of organized labor,
and both of them are especially close
to the union printers.
; Mr. Bryan's address was all too
brief, but into his twenty minute ad
dress he put a world of senyment, of
hope, and of cheer. He praised the
Typographical Union for Its progres
slveness, and said that the printers,
always in the front of progress, were
deserving of praise for setting the
example of devoting one day in the
year to paying a tribute of love and
tears to the' memory of departed com
rades in the industrial strife.
"We pay the tribute of our tears
to those who have preceded us to the
other world," said Mr. Bryan. "One
by one the ties which bind us to this
life are broken, and one by one the
ties which draw us to the other world
grow stronger. I shall never forget the
moment when, after a year of journey
ing around the world, we drew near
to the shores of our own beloved land.
Here were ties that bound us close.
Here were friends whose hearts were
knit to our hearts with bonds of love,
love stronger than steel. And words
fail me in attempting to describe the
emotions of our hearts when we gazed
Into the well known faces of neighbors
who had traveled fifteen hundred miles
to meet us. I 'have faith to believe
that when we approach the shores
of the other world the ties which bind
us to those loved ones will make our
landing on that far shore much hap
pier, than any return to . loved ones
and to home on this earth. I believe
that In God's wisdom and goodness
He will so arrange it that we shall'
'know each other there. Not with the
bodily eye, for this poor shell of mor
tality will have crumbled to decay,
But from the spirit of the Creator we
shall gather the spiritual body which
shall be recognized and greeted by
our loved ones there. The grain of
wheat found in the Egyptian sarcopha
gus after lying there for three thou
sand years, still contained the germ
of life. That grain of wheat burled
in the ground will die, but in its death
it gathers from earth and atmosphere
the substance which makes the tender
shoot, the full stalk and then the ripe
grain In the stalk. So, too, I believe,
will this spirit of ours, when Its mor
tal shell shall have fallen to decay.
gather from spiritual abundance and
grow Into the perfection of spiritual
ity."
Mr. Bryan's address was character
ized by that simple faith in immor
tality which has marked his entire
career and which has stamped him
as one of the great teachers and lead
ers of his day and generation.
Mr. Bryan's address was preceded
by a brief review of the history of the
. International Typographical Union,
given by a member of the union. Rev,
H. H. Harmon, pastor of the First
Christian, invoked the divine blessing
upon the assembly, and the benedic
tion was pronounced by Rev. S. Z. Bat
ten, pastor of the First Baptist church
At the conclusion of the church
; service the Union and Auxiliary took
"a special car to the cemetery, .where
the decoration services were carried
out. The address was delivered by
Richard L. Metcalfe, who said:
Faith, Hope and Charity the least
as well as the greatest of these ring
true within that realm where the chil
dren live, and love, and play. In this
Kingdom-of-Make-Believe there is no
pretense in the virtues that "exalt
great Nature's favorites." In that do
main! friendship is the friendliest,)
truth is the truest, and love is the
loveliest.
The best demonstration of that fra
ternity which ought to exist between
all men living a common life and
orklng to a common end is found in
the relations between the little one
of our own flesh and blood and the
invisible child with whom we often
find him prattling and playing. Listen
to the story of those two comrades as
told toy the sweet singer of the Balti
core Sun:
All day in the swing of his fancy, the
lilt of the laughter, he goes.
Whose life Is a gleam in the sunlight,
a lily, a pearl and a rose;
And there to a phantom talking, with
a phantom by his side, ,
He moves with a shadow playmate, to
gether they romp and glide.
t hear through the hours of his revel
his little tongue chatter away;
Alone, but not lonesome, he follows
the fairies that flit through the
day.
He shares with his dream and his
phantom his blocks and his drum
and his horn,
And he talks to his dear little play
mate, invisible there in the morn.
They seem such good 'comrades and
friendly, and get on together so
well;
There's never a moment of quarreling
and never a sorrow to tell;
The phantom does just as he wants
him,, the shadow plays everything
right
O, beautiful playmates that revel light-
hearted in realms of light!
They plan and they ponder together,
the living locked arms with the
dream;
They sail on invisible waters and fish
In a make-believe stream;
They tunnel for coal in dream moun
tains and fight in invisible wars
And they hide in the walls of their
fortress when the enemy's battery
roars.
All day in the childheart splendor, a
lad of the legions of fun,
With a little invisible playmate, talks
on as they laugh in the sun;
And, happy and heartfree together, I
lean and look down on them there
And dream of my own vanished play
mates, dear phantoms that float
everywhere!
Ay, tender, invisible comrades, like
children of old at our play,
We dance In the dews of the morning
and dance through the dreams of
the day;
And arm upon arm in the sunlight
with laughter and longing and
tears,
We move like an army of shadows
far down in the valley of years!
The Invisible Playmate knows other
paths than those leading to the nur
sery; nor Is he always a child playing
with a child; sometimes he hunts out
those whose hair is turning gray
sometimes he seeks those whose eyes
are growing dim.
How quickly the Invisible Playmate
of some of the grown folks responds
to the summons once fond memory
brings the light of other days around
us:
A rusty sword a blade that never
knew dishonor' and we go arm in arm
with the father who, perhaps, gave to
the world considerably more than the
world ever gave to him; living again,
with him, the life so full of tender
memories; learning again, from him,
the lessons of stern duty.
A picture spotted with the dust of
time and we stand within the very
presence of the gentle one who gave
- us brith ; feeling, almost, the clasp of
her dear hand; hearing, almost, the
sound of her sweet voice taking, in
truth, the benediction of her holy love.
A little shoe, frayed, at the heel and
punctured at the toe and we feei
around our neck the clasp of two little
arms and hold against our wildly beat
ing heart the jf'Little Breeches" of our
home.
Oh, the little white arms that encircle
My neck in their tender embrace
Oh, the smiles that are halos of
heaven, ;
Shedding sunshine of love on my
face."
A scrap of paper and we are drawn
to the . side of some old friend long
gone beyond; and there the days of
old are lived again call it in "Djeam
land" if you please but lived again!
Playmates of the long ago! Invisible
all, but playmates every one!
And arm upon arm in the sunlight
with laughter and longing and
tears, '
We move like an 'army of shadows far
down in the valley of years!" '
Who says we must see before we
believe? We forget that the unseen
are the real forces. One note of music
will bring a smile; another will draw
tear; a burst of song will set in
motion all the memories and emotions
of a life-time. We know something of
the marvelous things wrought by elec
tricity, but with all of our progress we
can not tell the whence or the whither
of that great force. We know that love
has well been called the "greatest
thing in the world" yet no man has
seen it, while all men have felt it.
Parting is the sweetest sorrow, 'be
cause meeting is of the force that was
not born to die. Love proves immor
tality, because we would not part with
the one great grief if by doing so we
must forfeit the one great joy. In all
this beautiful City of the dead, where
love is loveliest because embalmed
in tears," there is not a' grave which
those who hold it dear would blot
from out the realm, of fact, if the
memory for which it stands must be
obliterated.
As love proves Immortality, so sor
row proves the "Elder Brother." Our
very ignorance suggests the God, our
very helplessness demands the Christ.
Out of our own night of grief we look
to Gethsemane; from under our own
heavy cross we turn to Calvary.
We may obtain some idea of the
tear3 that have been shed within this
world when we remember that with
in the silent city of one hundred acres,
hardly an inch of soil has escaped the
tears of those who have loved and
for the moment imagined they had
lost. Men may think the have made
progress when they dismiss, as un
worthy of the consideration of prac
tical people, the lessons taught by the
mothers; but standing within the
shadow that falls athwart our own
home, we may realize that the inspir
ing story of the life of the mission of
the Man of Galilee is history's1 soli
tary answer to the pathetic call that
goes up from every vacant chair: .
Oh, into what bosom, I wonder,
Is poured the whole sorrow of years?
For eternity only seems keeping
Account of the great human weeping;
May God, then, the Maker and
. Father
May He find a place for the tears!"
"Beyond the smiling and the weep
ing, beyond the waking and the sleep
ing; beyond the rock waste and the
river; beyond the ever and the never
love, rest and home!" Love, rest,
and home and reunion with the play
mates big and little of the olden
time playmates now Invisible to the
human ken but immortal in the law
of love as1 they are immortal in the
law of life!
Civilization has not vindicated itself
in the presence of the thing we call
death. x These little birds singing their
Te Deums from the tree-tops and these
sweet flowers bringing reassurance of
another springtime and asserting,
through their green leaves and frag
rant blossoms, the great eternal law
of life and love are better settings
for this calm and peaceful scene than
the emblems of woe and hopelessness
which give denial to our faith.
When one whom we love better than
life Itself passes through "Glory's
morning gate" our hearts will ache,
But when the march of civilization will
sweep away the barbaric customs
which; at the bier of our loved ones
only contribute to our woes then "that
ancient Saxon phrase which calls the
burial ground God's acre" will be in
common use; then the smiles will
mingle with the tears;' the band of
crepe will go, the wreath of flowers
will come; and in that day the men
and women of this world will know
that what we now call death is really
'God's great morning lighting up the
sky."
Night after night we go' to sleep
without the slightest fear, trusting to
nature to bring us again to life and
to duty; night after night we bid
our loved ones adieu and wish them
pleasant dreams in their journey to
an unknown, but not, to tired men,
a dreaded land
And '"Thy not then
Lie down to our last sleep, still trust-
fft ing Him
Who guided us so oft through shadows
dim,
Believing somewhere on our senses
again
Some lark's sweet notes, some golden
beam shall break,
And with glad voices cry, 'Awake!
Awake!"
At the conclusion of Mr. Metcalfe's
address the roll of the union's dead
as called, and at each name a mem
ber of ' Capital Auxiliary , stepped
forward, and laid upon the lot the trib
utes of flowers brought by surviving
comrades. As the flowers were being
laid upon the mound the sun pierced
through the clouds and flooded the
day with golden beauty. Then Miss
Ruth Walter stepped forward and the
silvery notes of the .bugle, as1 she
sounded "taps," were borne upon the
chilly wind. The assembly. then sang
the "Doxology." Rev. Mr. Batten pro
nounced the benediction, and the cere
monies were over. "
CARPENTERS' SPECIAL MEETING.
Next Tuesday Date Set to Vote on
Amalgamation -Question!
All members of Local 1055, Carpen
ters and Joiners, are hereby' notified
that next Tuesday night Is a special
called meeting for the purpose of tak
ing a referendum vote on the consoli
dation of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of , America
and ' the Amalgamated Woodworkers.
Also nomination of officers for this
local for the next term and such other
business as may legally come before
the meeting.
- J. A, CHAMBERS, Rec. Sec.
Local Union 1055 adopted the fol
lowing resolutions:
Whereas, God in His wisdom has
taken from our brother, Louis P. Faul-
haber, a devoted father; therefore,
be it
Resolved, That we tender our sor
rowing and afflicted brother our heart
felt sympathy in. his bereavement to
the .end that he may be encouraged to
accept with resignation the Divine
will. An be It further
Resolved, That our charter , be
draped in mourning for fifteen days;
that a copy of these resolutipns be
sent to Brother Faulhaber and family,
a copy be entered upon the mlnntes of
this local, and that they be published
In the Wage worker.
X W. EMBERSON,
G. Ly. QUICK,
J. M. SCHULER,
Committee.
THE BARTENDERS.
Convention Will Be Held In Cleveland,
Ohio, Next October
The proposed amendment to the
constitution to establish additional lo
cals in cities with over 400.000- inhabi
tants, which was left to a general ref
erendum vote, was lost by a large -ma
jority. . ' ' ' 1
- According to statements made by
the Gen. Sec.-Treas., convention will
be held in Toledo, Ohio, next October.
The general result will not be known
for certain until next month.
GOSPEL TRUTH.
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Every once in a while some mer
chant will tell you that union men will
not buy union goods. That is a mis
take. A -union man will always call
for union goods, and will buy them In
preference to any other goods at ad
vanced prices. , Any member of
union T?ho will do otherwise is
scab with a union card, Label Pusher.
Advocates of Open Shop
Caught in Nasty Work
. John Maclntyre, secretary of the
United Typothetae . of . America;
Charles Stillings, ex-secretary of the
New York Typothetae and now public
printer, and several other "open shop"
advocates and self-constituted guar
dians of industrial freedom and lib
erty, have been caught with the goods
on them. These eminent gentlemen
organized a company to exploit a" pat
ent medicine, the purpose of which no
decent newspaper could print in de
tail. The" advertisement of such nos
trums is prohibited by law, but this
company had its publicity bureau
guided by the wise council of a man
of great legal attainments, and he
seems to have made it possible to
avoid the law to a great extent. As
near as The Wageworker can explain,
the medicine compounded by the de
lectable .bunch of guardians of indus
trial freedom was claimed to be a
sure means of carrying out the race
suicide campaign so strenuously op
posed by President Roosevelt. They
organized a company under the laws
of West Virginia for the purpose of
manufacturing a drug to be used with
criminal intent and purpose. -, : The
medicine was put up in tablet form
and : called a "herb remedy." The
criminal nature of the medicine was
indicated by a "caution" so worded
as to broadly Inform the buyer that It
was a "race suicide" preparation
Plainly speaking, the "caution" was to
the effect that under certain condi
tions trie medicine should not be used
by the woman purchasing it.
Complain was made to the postal
authorities and at once a decoy order
for the medicine was sent to the com
pany headquarters. The? tablets were
sent to the decoy address and prompt
ly receipted for by a government
agent. The medicine,' together with
the skilfully worded advertisements
of the company, was filed witlTlthe
postoffice and legal departments. The
Eastern Laborer says that Public
Printer Stillings wa3 sent "for and
questioned. At first, it is said, he de
nied any connection with the company
and branded the charge -as one trump
ed' up by some discharged employes
of the government printing office. The
post office department refuses access
to his ' final statement, . so its exact
text can not be given. ''
It is said that Mr. Stillings, after
admitting that he had been one of the
incorporators,; declared that he had
withdrawn from the company on being
appointed public printer and that he
had never known the nature of Its
business. To controvert this, it is said,
evidence has been obtained to show
that he did not transfer his stock until
the middle of July last year, when, it
ij said, he became alarmed because a
fight was being made because of his
administration of the government
printing office. . ,'
The case dragged along during the
last months of Postmaster-General
Cortelyou's administration, Those
who were investigating it could get
no satisfaction from the inspector's
office.' '' '; ..''
"We are investigating." "There has
beeen no decision yet." These were
the stereotyped answers they received.
On every hand there were evidence
that political ; pressure - was being
brought to -bear. : or a time the one
idea was to keep the scandal from
the president.
A few weeks ago additional evidence
of a most startling nature that the
nostrum had actually .been peddled
about the government printing office
was brought to the notice of the
post office departmentf41 in a letter
which read: V
"WV J. Vickery, Chief Inspector Post
Office Department, Washington,
D. C: . . '
"In regard to the matter of the Na
tive Herb Remedy Company, of Boll-'
var, W. Va., I wish to call your atten
tion to the fact, which has lately come
to my knowledge, that Oliver C. Terry,
late of the Government Printing Office,
how of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, was the first and principal
agent to handle the 'proof tablet' nos
trum for the company in the Govern
ment Printing Office. '
I learn that ne held direct com
munication with the manager and of
ficers of the company and acted as
its agent while he was employed In
the general printing office. ,-
"He also advertised in the papers
of Washington for female .canvassers
to go from door to door in this city.
At that time Terry was rooming with
Dr. Charles D. Ake, of No. 231 E street,
N. W., who is aware of the move
ments' pf the company." ,
The men implicated in this criminal
deal are all union haters and rank
open shop advocates. They have worn -
their lungs to a frazzle talking about
the "criminal labor unions," and they
have long posed as the holiest of
the holy. , i
Public Printer Stillings is an ap
pointee of President Roosevelt. What
will t the strenuous opponent of race -suicide
do with the man who is try
ing ba boom the race suicide Indus- ,
try?, ' '
MASONS AND STONECUTTERS.
Philadelphia Agreement Which Means
End of Long Dispute.
The Philadelphia Trades Union
News of last week conveys the wel- ..
come Information that the long dis
agreement between the . unions ' of .:
bricklayers, granite cutters and soft
stone cutters of that city has been set
tied. This means that in a short time
the matter will have been settled all .
over the country, thus ending what
has been a long and costly trades
union war. The Trades Union News .
says: .'.,
All strikes on the part of the unions ,.
of bricklayers and masons, granite
cutters and soft stone cutters were
called 'off this week and the mason
builders' lockout lifted at the appoint-
ed hour, in . accordance ' with the un
derstanding reached between the labor
leaders on Saturday. Tb,e costly fight
over the right to set cut stone, which
for three t- years has caused endless
disturbance and delay in building op
erations, and for the last two weeks -has
. involved nearly every1 building
trade In , dead-locked idleness, was
thereby ended. '
All the mechanics involved in the
ended strikes and lockouts reported
for work after having received official
notice at their meeting Monday night
as to the end of their fight. The remain-
ing negotiations between their lead- ,
ers will in no way affect the men at
work, who when 1 building operations
started up again had the assurance .;
that they will not more be interrupted.
The five men responsible for the
peace arrangements are ; William' ' J.
Bowen, president of the International
Union of Bricklayers and Masons;
Thomas Preece,' first, vice-president,
and William Dobson, secretary, 'on" the '
one side, and Thomas Maguire, of the
Granite Cutters' Union, with Stephen
Carroll, of the Soft Stone Cutters'
Union on the other. These men will
still continue their conferences to set
tle every detail of a permanent trade
agreement between their unions, so
that they in the future may work in '
harmony with one another, each trade
within a definite sphere of its own.
it was the mutual desire of the con
ferring sides to have these trade
boundaries definitely ;. settled which
brought them to the understanding on
Saturday, ' and , made a permanent
agreement not only a possibility, but :
an absolute certainty. Thus assured
that there will be no Interruption to
the final negotiations, With their op
ponents, the national officers of the
Bricklayers, and Masons' Union- were
able to report to the Mason Build
ers' Association that they were ready
to resume work. The masters' lock
out was then lifted at once, and the
official statement issued that all work
would be resumed. The conferring la
bor officials have employed every art
of diplomacy so that .neither side to
the trade "dispute will have to confess
defeat. The ultimate trade agreement
between the four unions involved will 1
be such that all sides may claim a
victory. , ;
AUXILIARY MEETING.
Capital Auxiliary No. 11 to Typo
graphical Union No. 209, will meet
with Mrs. Radebach, 1721 P street, Fri
day afternoon at 2:30. . (