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WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postoffice at Uncoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
I desire to announce my candidacy
for the office of county judge at the
primaries September 3. subject to the
will of the republican voters.
P. JAMES COSGBAVE.
I hereby announce that I am a can
didate, subject to the will of the re
publican voters at the primaries Sep
tember 3, for the office of judge of the
district court.
FRANK R. WATERS.
I am a candidate for the office of
clerk of the district court for Lancas
ter county, subject to the approval ot
the republican voters at the primary
election, to be held September 3.
WALLACE L. C RANDALL.
I desire to announce myself as a
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for county coroner. My opponent
Is asking for the fifth term, I am ask
ing for my first.
V. A. MATTHEWS.
Better known as "Jack" Matthews
of Castle, Roper & Matthews.
1 hereby announce myself as a can
didate for county assessor subject to
the decision of the republican voters
at the primary election to be held Sep
tember 3. THOMAS CARR.
The trades unionists.
Who stands between the unprotect
ed worker and the greed and rapacity
of employers?
The trades unions.
How long would it have been be
fore equal pay for equal work would
have been the rule if left to the em
ployers?
An eternity.
Who profits most by the union shoo
rules?
Every toiler at every trade, for the
non-unionist enjoys the bettered con
ditions brought about by the sacri
fices of the unionists.
What do you think of a man who
would enjoy blessings brought about
by others, and then refuse to assist
in the work of keeping and adding to
bis blessings?
He is a "snitch" and an ingrate.
Can you blame the men who make
the sacrifices for refusing to work by
the side of the "snitches" and in
grates? Not if you are half a man.
What communities are the best
from every point of view, the com
munities where the open shop rule
prevails, or the communities where
the closed shop prevails?
The communities where the closed
shop rule prevails, of course, for the
open shop means one side of the city
hovel and the other side of the city
palace. The closed shop means a city
of comfortable homes, of schools and
of churches.
Who told you that trades unionists
were anarchists?
O, I read of their riots in the news
papers. Do anarchists spend most of their
time doing good?
No.
All right. Now listen. During the
last twelve months the trades unions
of this country have expended up
wards of $5,000,000 in sick and death
benefits. They have maintained hos
pital beds; they have given to church
and charity. They have nursed their
sick, buried their dead and cared for
the widows and orphans. They have
tided the out-of-work man over his
season of enforced idleness, thus sav
ing him and his children from desti
tution and perhaps from crime. If
the latter, the state has profited im
measurably. Does that sound like an
archy?
Of course not.
Don't you think you ought to study
both sides of the trades union ques
tion? Yes.
Then begin at once. You'll be sur
prised when you learn what a wonder
help trades unionism has been to hu
manity, and to tne state ana nation.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of clerk of the dis
trict court for Lancaster county, Ne
braska, subject to the decision of re
publican voters at the primary, Sep
tember 3, 1907.
J. S. BAER.
I am a candidate for the office of
county sheriff, subject to the approval
of the republican voters at the primary
election to be held September 3.
ERNEST HUNGER.
TUESDAY NIGHT.
Let every unionist who can attend
the mass meeting at Central Labor
Union hall, 1034 O street, next Tues
day night, and help boost the Labor
Day picnic and celebration. Every
unionist is invited.
A LITTLE CATECHISM.
Now, Mr. Non-Unionist and Mr. Op
ponent of Unionism, let us ask a few
plain questions and give a few plain
answers:
Mr. Merchant, which do you prefer,
a thousand underpaid workingmen
earning a dollar a day, or five hundred
well paid workingmen averaging $3
and $.1 a day?
Which makes the best customer, the
underpaid workingman driven from
bed to work and from work to bed,
or the well paid workingman who has
eight hours of leisure time during the
day?
Which makes most for a good busi
ness town, the underpaid working
man who is forced to live in a
rented hovel, or the well paid work
ingman who lives in a neat cottage
that he built with his own well
earned money?
Where do the underpaid working
men find employment?
In the open shops and with oppon
ents of trades unions.
Where do the well paid working
men find employment?
la the shops and factories that em
ploy only union labor.
Where do underpaid women work?
In sweat shops and tenements, and
in open shops.
Where do women receive good pay
that permits them to live in comfort
and security?
In union shops and factories where
trades union rules compel equal pay
for equal work.
Who are responsible for the sani
tary laws that protect the lives of
the workers, and therefore make for
a better state and nation?
The "red light" "districts ; of the
cities are recruited from the ranks of
underpaid women and girls. ' Greedy
employers are responsible. The
trades unions are doing more for the
eradication of the social evil than all
of the woman's clubs and churches
combined, because the trades unions
are compelling conditions that give
women an opportunity to live in com
fort without selling body and soul.
LABOR DAY.
The Wageworker believes that the
unionists of this city have acted
wisely in deciding against a parade
on Labor Day. By deciding upon a
picnic they have decided upon some
thing that will result in better ac
quaintances, and that is what we need
more than anything else in Lincoln
right now.
And The Wageworker wants to con
gratulate the unionists upon the stand
they have taken in regard to the
Lincoln Traction Co. The less they
patronize that concern the more it
will realize its mistake in treating the
city with contempt and its employes
without consideration. The only way
to touch a corporation is o hit it on
the pocketbook. When that is done
it will jump. The corporation purse
is as sensitive as the nerve of a de
cayed tooth.
If the union men of Lincoln will
treat the Traction company as it
deserves to be treated, it will not
only change its attitude towards the
municipality, but it will reconsider its
determination not to allow its men
to organize. The failure of the Trac
tion company employes to organize is
hurtful to labor Interests in the city,
and it doe3 not speak well for the
independence and manhood of the
employes themselves.
The conductors and motormen em
ployed by the Lincoln Traction Co.
are the poorest paid of any in any
city of equal or greater size In the
west. They alone are to blame for
this, for the company should not be
expected to pay more than it has to
pay. As long as the men are content
to remain unorganized and -therefore
unprotected, just so long they may
expect to be paid low wages and
have to work long hours.
The Wageworker hopes that the
unionists of Lincoln will turn out to
the Labor Day picnic in such num
bers as to show the Traction com
pany that it is losing money by its
opposition to unionism. At the same
time it will show friendship for an
other street railway company that
demonstrates every day that it is try-
Spring and Summer Dress Goods
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Wash Goods worth up to 35c, at 10c
Wash Goods worth up to 15c, at 5c
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ing to do the right thing .by the
municipality and the men employed
on the line.
Now all together to make the Lafcor
Day picnic a great social success.
Mr. Post is now advertising that his
"dope" is as good as a patent med
icine. We'll agree.
Every time you demand the union
label you give unionism an upward
and onward push.
Bully! Now let the union men of
Lincoln prepare to make a solid pa
rade on election day.
And now Mr. Rockefeller is wrink
ling up his brows so fiercely that he
has difficulty in keeping his wig on
straight.
Some members of trades unions
buy "scab" goods because they can
get them cheap. No union man does
it, however.
The open union meeting win put
a spoke in the wheels of argument
used by the opponents of unionism.
It will also put a quietus on the
Pinkerton labor spy.
Hearst and Mitchell is a ticket
proposed for labor to support in 1908.
It's all right, but Hearst is a demo
crat and Mitchell is a republican, and
how shall we mix the oil and water?
Mr. Van Cleve says the Manufac
turers' Association is going to raise
$l;dtu,O0O and spend it in educating
the people against labor union tyr
rany. Mr. Van Cleve Is such a joker.
Public Printer Stillings is a radical
opponent of trades unions, and one of
the chief bulwarks of the open shop.
His record on these things was known
to President Roosevelt when the ap
pointment was given him.
Spend the forenoon of Labor Day
at the primaries, boosting those can
didates whom yu know to be friends
of unionism. But do not take any
candidate's word for it. They are all
friends of the workingman on primary
and election days to hear them tell it.
Trades unions should devote a part
of their time and money to educat
ing the general public as to what
trades unionism stands for. Once the
public understands the objects and
aims of unionism, the battle for
equality and justice is as good as
won.
The child labor law of Nebraska
should be amended only in the light
of experience in -its operation, not
in . the light of sentiment and greed.
The child is more than money, and
the state's welfare is to be considered
even above the welfare of the corporations.
Look here, Mr. Union Man! Don't
make the mistake of classing the
".scabs" and the non-union man to
gether. There are lots of non-union
men who are thorough unionists, but
who are outside of the fold simply
because you and I have not performed
our whole duty towards them.
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