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WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAVPIH, EDITOR
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postofflce at Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
"Printers' Ink," the recog
nized authority on advertis
ing, after a thorough investi
gation on this subject, says:
"A labor paper is a far bet
ter advertising medium than
i an ordinary newspaper In
comparison with circulation.
i A labor paper, for example,
having 2,000 subscribers is of
! more value to the business
man who advertises In It
i thi an ordinary paper with
I 12,000 subscribers."
OMISSION AND COMMISSION.
There are just two kinds of sin the
sins of omission and commission; the
sin of omitting to do the things we
ought to do, and the sin of doing the
things we ought not to do.
There is not an industry in the city
of Lincoln that The Wageworker is
not anxious to boost. There are many
that it does not boost, and many more
that it dobutless would boost were it
acquainted with the facts. There
are some which to boost would be a
sin of commission on the part of t
paper holding the principles that The
Wageworker holds. There are some
which The Wageworker, in order to
avoid the sin of omission, should
"knock" every week.
The Commercial Club is a great in
stitution. It i' doing a geod wort
for Lincoln !'. it could do a better
work if it made its yi;".c.icc conform
to its preaching.
"Build up Lincoln and Lincoln in
stitutions" is a shibboleth of the Com
mercial Club. It is a good one, too.
Carried out to- the full measure of
the ability of the men who compose
the Commercial Club it would soon
make Lincoln the leading commercial
city of the west.
The trouble with the Commercial
Club is that it is guilty of too many
sins of omission and of commission.
It omits doing so much it ought to,
and it fails so often to do the things
that it should do.
Last Monday morning the Commer
ce Club started on a "Trade Getting"
excursion, traveling in a special train
of Pullmans. It took a band along.
But it wasn't a Lincoln band. "T'ell
with Lincoln bands'."
The Commercial Club omitted this
important work. It failed to do its
duty in helping to build up the band
industry of Lincoln. And while guilty
of this sin of omission it was also
guilty of committing the sin of hypo
crisy, for it is the rankest kind of
hyprocrisy to shout about "building
up Lincoln" and "patronizing home in
dustry" and to go to another town
to hire a band.
The Commercial Club, if it wants
to be taken seriously, will have to
square its actions with its words.
THE TEMPLE PLAN.
As was expected the Labor Temple
plain failed to materialize enough to
make it go on the date originally set
June 3. But there is yet time to
accomplish the good work. Enough
pledges have been secured without an
organized attempt at solicitation to
warrant the assertion that the plan
can be carried to a glorious success
just as soon as a few willing workers
will take hold and push it along.
The Wageworker has succeeded in
giving the plan a good start. All it
now needs is for the Central Labor
Union to wake up and take hold. The
expenditure of $30 or $40 right now
will result In securing enough pledges
to warrant the calling of a meeting,
the organization of the building com
pany and the election of officers.
That is what The Wageworker
wants to see done at the next meet
ing of the Central Labor Union.
But it must not be child's play,
This work will demand the careful
attention of earnest, thoughtful, in
telligent and tireless union men men
who are willing to do a lot of work
and take their pay in "knocks" and
"backcapplng" for the present. When
the work is accomplished the just re
ward will come. When the bandwagon
gets started everybody will want to
ride.
The names printed beneath the
Temple Pledge In this issue of The
Wageworker represent upwards of
$1,000 towards the Labor Temple,
4 TRDWcjr
These names represent less than 5
per cent of the union men in Lan
caster county. The Wageworker is
satisfied that there are men outside
of the unions who will invest in the
aggregate $10,000 in a temple' build
ing if union men will invest $20,000.
Several business men who have inves
tigated the plan proposed, by The
Wageworker have expressed a desire
to get in on it, believing it to be a safe
and wise investment.
The Wageworker is going to keep
igTit on boosting this project. If it'
doesn't win one year, then it will boost
for two years, or three years, or as
long as the man in charge of the
paper remains in control.
We've simply got to male the thing
success! Duty demands it.
If you are really interested in the
Temple project, attend the meeting of
the Central Labor Union on Tuesday
evening, June 11, and help frame up
plans for a systematic canvas for sub
scribers to the stock in a company to
be organized for the purpose of erect
ing a Labor Temple in Lincoln.
The Wageworker will take $100
worth of stock as a starter.
A Lincoln man who swiped a pair
of shoes; worth $1 or less was fined
$25 and costs, which meant thirty
days in jail. An eastern banker who
stole $100,000 was sent to the peni
tentiary for six years. If the sentence
pronounced on the Lincoln man was
just, the eastern banker should have
been sent up for 8,333 years and 4
months. If the eastern banker's sen
tence was just, the Lincoln man's
sentence should have been a little less
than thirty minutes. "
Wise boys down in Oklahoma. The
democratic trades unionists are going
Io fee to it that members of unions
are nominated for the offices 'having
most to do with wage earners, and the
republican trades unionists are going
to do the same thing. The result will
be the election of a lot of trade un
ionists. The unions are so so' id down
there that both parties are struggling
to corral the vote.
Edward A. Moffett, former editor of
the Bricklayer and Mason, contributes
to the May number of that splendid
journal a masterly argument in fa,vor
of affiliation of the Bricklayers and
Masons' International Union with the
American Federation of Labor. Here's
hoping that every union bricklayer and
mason in Lincoln read it.
" ' i '':
The Oklahoma Stats Labor News,
published by Nora I. Krogh at Okla
homa City, has just celebrated its first
anniversary. It is live, wideawake
and prosperous, and is deserving of
the hearty support of organized labor.
The Wageworker wishes Miss Krogh
continued and Increased success.1
President Roosevelt's love for or
ganized labor was shown by his ap
pointment of Stillings to the .highly
remunerative position of public print
er. Stillings is an official of the Unit-
d Typothetae of America an.i one
of the niost radical "open 3hoppers"
in the country.
The eminent politicians who want
to run President Roosevelt for an
other term are evidently trying to
force him to become a member of an
Ananias Club. Roosevelt has repeat
edly declared that he will not again
be a candidate.
If your local labor paper contains
something you don't like, "backcap"
the editor. If your daily paper con
tains something you don't like, just
swallow it and say nothing. This is
the way not to build up the labor
press. , ,
The Barnum & Bailey circus is us
ing "scab" printing, and the Streator
Typographical Union will fine its
members $2 each for attending when
the show appears in that city. That'3
label boosting for you.
Perhaps Public Printer Stillings is
selling that "race suicide" medicine in
order to prevent the recruiting of the
trades uuions in future. The only way
to kill trades unions is to destroy the
human race.
Owing to increased advertsing pat
ronage the Colorado Springs Labor
News has been compelled to enlarge.
Gee, that sounds good!
The Jackson, Mich., "Square,Deal"
is the latest labor exchange to show
up in this office. It looks good and is
as good as its looks.
Men will be cheaper than dollars as
long as workingmen figure themselves
in terms of dollars and cents.
Only about- sixty days more until
Labor Day. Time to begin preparing
for it.
You can not be a union man and
knowingly wear "scab" goods. -.
WONDERFULLY GOOD WAGES.
Splendid Opportunity for Wage Earn
ers Who Are Especially Skilled.
The Wageworker cuts the following
advertisement from a Lincoln daily
news paper and prints it without
money and without price. We are al
ways glad to "afford publicity to mat
ters of this- kind:
TEACHERS WANTED One for the
6th and 7th and one for the 8th and
9th grades; salary $50 per month;
must have first grade certificates. J.
M. Stephens, Sec'y, Ulysses, Neb.
"Must have first grade certificates." !
"Salary $50 per month."
This is about what a manual laborer,
would earn. It represents $12.50 a
week" for about thirty-six weeks. The
"salary" offered for these holders of
first grade certificates would amount
to $400 a year. This is slightly over
$1 a day for every day in the year.
And Nebraska, the state that boasts
of the smallest percentage of illiter
acy, offers the munificent wage of $50
a month to holders of first grade cer
tificates! More shame upon Nebraska!
To be the holder of a first grade
certificate and competent to teach in
any one of the grades above enum
erated means a longer term of appren
ticeship than is required 'by any of
the skilled trades. The teacher of
an eighth or ninth grade must work
long hours after school is dismissed,
examining papers, preparing for the
next day's lessons, marking examina
tions and attending to the thousand
and one details of the work now re
quired by our public school system.
It is hard work, mentally and phys
ically. The average teacher wprks
from ten to fifteen hours a day, Sun
days alone excepted. And for work
like this Ulysses, Nebraska, offers $50
a month.
The union printer who worked as
many hours as the average school
teacher above the eighth grade would
earn upwards of $20 a week if a job
man, and upwards of $26 if a machine
man. And he would have work the
year around instead of eight months
Un the year. ...
The union bricklayer who worked
ten hours a day for eight months in
the year would receive over $1,200, or
three times as much, as the yearly
average of the Ulysses school teacher.
The union carpenter who worked ten
hours a day for. eight months in the
year would make more than three
times as much as the Ulysses school
teacher.
Why do the skilled craftsmen draw
so much better wages than the school
teachers? The answer is' very easy.
The skilled craftsmen are organized,
and they deal 'collectively with em
ployers. The school teachers, seem
ingly, believe they are too far up in
the social .scale to do such a plebean
thing as organize, and when they meet
in associations they discuss the which
ness of the whence instead of getting
together and framing up plans where
by they can demand better wages and
then enforce the demands.
The public school teachers of Okla
homa "got wise" early in the game.
The have organized and are affiliated
With the , Farmers' Union and the
American Federation of Labor, and de
spite the opposition of the authorities
and tf the union haters, they main
tained their organization and have se
cured a handsome ihcreasein wages.
The public school teachers of- this
republic should be the best paid pub
lic servants in the republic. Upon
them is the responsibility,, in large
measure, for the future of the coun
try. Ulysses, Nebraska, wants some
teachers there. They must have first
grade certificates.
The salary is $50 a month.
Do your duty, and when some
"knocker" gets busy, just remember
that it is the nature of a jackass to
kick.
Henry Pfeiff
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