The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, August 23, 1907, Image 8
GENERAL MENTION. Labor Local Picked Up in Lincoln and Elsewhere. 7emand the label. The union label that's all. Look for the union label. If It is not labeled, refuse it. Union made shoes are sold by Rog ers & Perkins. " Railway clerks of Kansas City, Mo., have organized. Retails clerks have organized a union in Garrett, Ind. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks have formed a branch In Jack son,. Mich. Street car men In Des Moines, la., Iiave been granted an eleven-'nour schedule. . Shoe cutters are on strike in the shop of Perkins, Hardy & Co., west Derry. N. H. "Blue Ribbon" cigars are union made, Lincoln made and well made Sold by all dealers. The Wageworke-r's Labor Day edi tion will appear next week. It will lie worth -waiting for. Boston Cigarmakers Union paid out $6,687 for advertising the blue la bel from January 1 to June 30. The metal polishers of Jamestown, K Y., have trouble with Wm. Hjorth & Co., makers of pliers and wrenches. The Brotherhood of Railway Car men now has 455 lodges with a total membership of 30,451, and a cash bal- . aoce of $27,866.94. The International Metal Polishers, Buffers' and Platers' Union opened their annual convention In Cincinnati on Monday, Augusf.19. The "Joyo" moving picture theatre will be opened next Monday. It will he "one of the prettiest little amuse ment resorts in the west The remodeling work on the build ing on the north side of O street, between Twelfth -and Thirteenth, is being done by non-unionists. "Pete" Edgerton, the advertising manager of The Wageworker, was called to Deadwood, S. D., Wedn.es day. on business. He will be back Sunday. Delegates Ingraham and Radebaugh and Visitor H. C. Peate returned on Monday from Hot Springs, where tfiey attended the Typographical Union convention. The striking machinists of the Mcintosh-Hemphill company at Pitta burg have been granted their de mands and the 100 non-unionist? have had to take a walk. President Roosevelt has issued an executive order making Labor Day, September 2, a holiday for govern ment employes and laborers who are impioyed by the day. The Builders' Exchange of Cleve land, O., Is advertising for mechanics. There is plenty of labor of all classes 4n that city, but what the builders want Is cheap - labor. ' Members of the Journeymen Tail ors' Union throughout the United States and Canada are making ar raagements for the celebration of th 101st anniversary of the organiza tion. Nineteen boys, who worked eleven hours a day, went on strike in the Dallas, Texas, cotton mills. They were getting from 40 to 50 cents per day and asked for an increase to 75 cents per day straight; The union of sawmill workers in the north of Sweden has defeated one tt the biggest employers after a most bitter and prolonged tight, during which several hundreds of families ere evicted from their dwellings. DISEASE BREEDING PLAGES IN AND AROUND YOUR HOME Cu It Mi kimlist by ngulir iii;icttitt. Wt km iviry ni- i canity. Chloride of Lime, lb 15c Solution of Chlorides, bottle, . .50c Formalhdehyde, per pint S."ic Sulfur, per lb 10c Sulfur and Formaldehyde Can dles , 25c Sulfur Candles 6c Formaldehyde Futnigators ... 15c Hydrauapthal Pastillis. box.. 35c Carbolic Crystals, per lb 45c PHONE YOUR WANTS. RECTOR'S PHARMACY TWELFTH AND O ST. 1410 O ST. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT the employer in question having adopted for some time the device of housing the men in his own cottages. Mrs. Mary Dewey, of Rock Island, 111., visited her cousin, V. M. Maupin, and wife, a couple of days this week. A couple of games of ball between local union teams have been sched uled for Labor Day at the new city park. The Coast Seamen's Journal says that the San Francisco Street Rail way company has issued a bunch of three-year notes for $1,500,000 at six per cent to meet the cost of the strike in -that city. B. F. Jones, head of the Jones & Laughlin Steel company, the $70,000, 000 rival of the United States Steel Corporation, says there is no truth in the rumor -that his firm is about to leave Pittsburg. Carpenters' hall is now used every night in the month save Saturday night, and every Sunday in the month save one. And there -are several locals that want to usa it but can not secure a date. Sheet metal workers in Cincinnati are holding their own in the present strike. Forty-eight firms have sev ered connection with the bosses' as sociation-, and signed up with the union. That's going some. Seventy-five new members have been added to the Carpenters' Union it Jackson, Mich., this year. "This is a remarkable growth for -a union that is in a lockout. Not a member of the local 1s out of employment. The strike at the Port Vue plant at McKeesport, Pa., continues. The company stubbornly and unjustly holds out against paying the - wage scale agreed to by the American Sheet and Tin Plate company and all other Independent companies. The "open shop" of the baker bosses at Newark, N. J., has had its back broken. The Hill Baking com pany, after a two years" battle, has surrendered and forty-five union men went back to work, while the "free and independents" walked the plank. The label boosting caused it. Cincinnati (Ohio) non-union bar bers, arrested at the instance of Bar bers' Union No. 49, for shaving on Sunday, after being defeated in the lower courts, have appealed their cases to the state supreme court, The union has won In three courts and feels confident of winning again. LOST HIS CARD. The house card of Louis Bauer, ccrner of .Tenth and P streets, was removed by the business agent of the Bartenders' Union last Monday morn ing. The local member of the union in that place neglected and refused to pay his dues despite the urgent request of the local. Everything pos sible in the way of a concession was offered, but without avail, and on Monday the card came out. The same action was taken about a year ago, but the matter wa3 again straight ened out and the, card given back. 'As the matter now stands the Bauer saloon at Tenth and P streets i3 without a house card and therefore not eligible for the patronage of true "blue unionists. HOAGLANO A CANDIDATE. Henry V. Hoagland, known to prac tically everybody in Lancaster county, is a candidate before the republican primaries for the nomination as sher iff. There may be equally good men in the race for that office, but there could be no one better than Mr. Hoagland. A veteran of the civil war with a record, to be proud of, a citi zen whose life has been blameless, and a public official who has devoted his energies to the performance of his duties, Mr. Hoagland has strong claims upon the support of people who insist upon fitness rather than upon the "good fellow" dodge in their officials. PRINTERS MAKE GAIN. The newspaper printers of New York have just secured a handsome wags- increase, and they got it with out any trouble. They just showed the employers their side of the case, and as a result an increase of $4 a' week was granted. The job men se cured a substantial increase in the wage scale some- time ago. BARTENDERS WIN OUT. .After a long and bitter fight, the Bartenders have succeeded in union izing the Latonia race track, one of the biggest racing parks in the United States. For fifteen years this was an "open shop," but from now on the bartender who gets a job there will have to show a card -and wear a button OMAHA UNIONS WIN. After long months of litigation the unions of Omaha have won out in the courts of Douglas county and may now move into the old State Hotel building and use it as a labor tem ple, 'fhls will give them commodious hcndsu.irters and allow them to get TC3E TEPPD.E H0GE WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, AGREE TO DONATE THE WAGE EARNED BY 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 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 CONTRD3UTED. IN CASE SUFFICIENT FUNDS ARE NOT THUS RAISED, IT IS AGREED THAT CONTRI BUTIONS SHALL BE RETURNED WITHOUT DISCOUNT TO THE ORIGINAL DONORS. Capital Auxiliary No. 11. J. W. Dickeson, University Place. J. S. McCoy, 1203 U. W. L. Mayer, 2335 Q. C. H. Turner, 1200 P. Alex Wickizer, 904 E. C. E. Barngrover, 1330 N. 24. C. B. Righter, 2308 Dudley. W. C. Norton, 1533 N. 25. H. W. Smith, 1725 P. Bert Chipman, 705 S. 18. Gus Sanders, 932 P. Henry Hoos, 438 N. 14. Ed. Fagan, 938 P. C. A. Phelps, 127 S. 10. Al 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. Fritz, 113 S. 9. J. Windier, 1021 Wood. P. Biberstein, 146 S. 9. Al Wendle, West A. Bob Charters, 1960 T. W. M. Maupin, 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 T J. W. Jewell, 1026 Q. L. L. Ingraham, Uni. Place Ci. E. Locker, 625 S. 18. F. M. Coffey. T. W. Evans, 128 S. 11. O. M. Rudy, 1036 G. R. W. Elliott, 510 N. 14. C. M. Anderson. B. B. Joslin, 2154 S. 14. J. R. Cain, 908 Wood. T. N. Jones, 208 N. 22. W. K. Terwilliger, 1528 N. 19. C. N. Castle. Chas. Puree, 1002 Vine. Ward Betzer, 812 E. John Metzger, 904 n. -T. Bridges, 3103 Vina. R. Winch, 1000 D. James Lobaugh, Cent Pub. Co. C. A. Yates, New Century Co. J. D. Bower, Ivy Press E. C. Werger, 1526 N. A. M. Larimer, 410 N. 12th. F. Pillar, 1223 Washington. Otto Werger, 15E6 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. C. J. Peterson, 2241 Holdrege. .' E. E. Betz, 1448 P. ! H. C. Probasco, F. & M. bank. H. L. Rudy, 1036 G. V . Mark Castor, 1419 G. j 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 F. W. Kolb. 733 H. C. H. Cameron, 136 N. 21. Chas. Shelton, 391 T. Faulh-aber, 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. J. L. Shelton, 391 T. ; C. D. Folsom, 3010 P. ; Ernest Shaw, 44th & W. I. Frank Mayes, 323 S. 20. E. L. Walters, 1846 M. F. L. Ryan, 1144 O St. Joe T. Hazels, 1144 O St. J. E. Bixler, 1144 O St. J. B. Leard, 1144 O St. W. L. Morrlfield, 1144 O St. C. W. Axtell, 330. N. 28th. 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. lit Burgaman, H., 2201 Holdrege George Quick, Frank Smith 1725 P. H. F. Schultze, 1144 O St. H. W. Essex, 1144 O St. F. Cool. 1144 O St. W. C. Miller. 1144 O St. , 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. , , , W. D. King, 2030 M St. Alex Wekesser, 904 E.' , . THE DONORS AND BY THEM H. W. Werger, 836 S. 23d. E. H. Zubrigen, 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. Ed. English, 1933 U.; W. Waack, 429 So. Eleventh. J. B. Estes, 1344 J. A. V. White, 1737 N. , J. K. Wilson, 2230 Sheldon. G. G. Warner, 134 So. Twelfth. X. K. Howard, 1202 M. Chas.' Burns, 846 No. Twenty-six Fred Ress, 1201 B. W. T. Abbott, Lin. Tel. Co. Rev. S. Z. Batten. Gov. George L. Sheldon. F. A. Kates, 1020 K. Fred Eissler, 111 A. S. C. Foster, 437 N. 10. Nelson, 2122 H. ,' C. H. Fowler, 1229 N. 26. R. R. Cooper, 1237 S. 27. O. T. Stowell, 347 S. 24. Chas. S. Smith, 2218 Holdrege. R. J. Adams, 236 19. G. A. Noyes. 1144 R. Ernest Eissler, 111 9. J. M. Quick, 1445 N. 25. A. R. Gibson, 2135 L. J. A. Chambers, 425 S. 30. S. D. Swab, 1536 N. 28. C. E. Mellor, 2149 S. 15. August Radebach, 1721 P street I. R. DeLong. THE WOR KINGMAN'S WIFE. Love Lightens Her Labor and Makes Her Life a Happy One. Many are the factors that enter into the labor question, and numerous the persons who are being brought into the lime-light because of them. We hear of the captain of industry. The newspapers all have in stock his photographs, half-tones and etchings, io be used upon the slightest provoca tion. We hear not a little of the labor leader the walking -delegate and sometimes even his picture is printed. . Then we learn of the "ordi nary workingman," and we are told that the prosperity of our country rests with him. Once in a while, when he is making -a fight for what he considers to be his rights, some body will champion his cause, and really stand by him. But in all this discussion, what about the. workingman's wife? How often is her picture used by the news paper? How often is she mentioned when the struggles and the trials of hsr husband are being exploited? What credit does she receive when the victory is won? Frankly, I wonder sometimes how it is that many of them -do not be come insane, as I think of the awful monotony of their lives. The average workingman's life is dull enough. We'll take that for granted. But his life, as compared with his wife's, is full of variety and good o'heer. She spends most of her time within the confines of the kitchen, surrounded by four dull walls. She rarely sees an Inspiring face, and she gets mighty little credit for her faithful ness even from her husband. Not that he isn't grateful, but he doesn't often think of telling her so. Usually, she hears about it when something has gone wrong. She rarely com plains. She is giving her life for her family. I rarely see a workingman's wife with her bunch of little children but what I feel like crowning her with the highest honor. She "de serves it. If she isn't always "up to date," and if her husband cannot always talk with her about the affairs that interest him most, it is generally his fault. She is the same woman that he courted. He thought that she was "all right" then. If, in her en deavor to make a home for him, she was compelled to sacrifice, for his sake, many of the pleasures and the advantages- which were hers before her marriage, more than ever should the sympathy and the help of her hus band become hers. ' Full of significance was the answer of a former shop girl, when her friend asked her: "Where are you working?" "Oh, she replied, gayly, "I'm not working I'm married." " She was working harder than ever not for wages, but for love's sake. Rev. Charles Stelzle. DOWN IN (Continued from Page 2) I The crop usually consists of fiiree or four bales of cotton, worth about $50 a bale, a little corn, some vegetables and a lot of wood cut into stove lengths. The stranger from the north, ' especially women, are amazed to see human beings living in the midst" of so much poverty and dirt. Yet amidst it all the southern negro "share' cropper" is the happest mortal o-i the face of the earth. He is as sured of plenty of corn pone and bacon, and for fuel all he has to do is to step outside his door and get all the wood he wants. As for clothing,' they don't need much in summer, and in winter the cast-offs of the white folks suffice. There, is no politics in the race problem down south. The negro must keep the place appointed by the whites. On the trains the negro must be content with the "Jim Crow" car, which is just as good as any except the Pullmans. He must flock into his own waiting room at. the depots. In the street cars he has to "seat from the rear end of the car," while the whites seat from the forward end of the car. At the baseball grounds there is a "colored section" in both grandstand and bleachers. When the circus comes a "colored section" is roped off, and woe betide the black man who tries to seat himself among the whites. ' - v At Benson, the junction between Little Rock and . Hot Springs, there are several lunch rooms. At one of them we took breakfast oh the way home. The negro patrons had to take a rear room. While we were eating a negro man came in and asked if he could get breakfast. r , ; . "Yes, in the rear room," said the proprietor. "Take off your hat." "I'll take off my' hat when I get into " ' began the - negro looking beligerent. "Take off that hat!" shouted the proprietor, reaching for a heavy bowl. "Take it off immediately!" The negro removed his hat and quietly walked into the dining room set apart for his race. "We've got to make 'em keep their place," said the proprietor in an apol ogetic tone, "or they'll soon crowd us to the wall." - . ' Nearly all of the railroad section hands in Arkansas and other statea south are negroes. Most of the loco motive firemen are negroes. In his southern home the negro is a great character study, and the day's visit among the black people will be re membered as one of the greatest ex periences of a memorable week. ' This letter came precious near never being written, all because of a railroad wreck. The writer and hia wife left Hot Springs last Friday morning, catching Iron Mountain train No. 4 at Benson for St. Louis. The train was -three hours late. We should have arrived at St. Loui3 at 7:40 p. m. that day, but it was 2:30 a. m. Saturday before we 'anded at the big union station. Two - mile3 south of Jefferson Barracks, and four teen miles from St. Louis, the double track begins. Our train, in taking the ia-bound track met with disaster. As near as can be determined the wheelo of the tender "rode the switch point" and derailed the engine, mail coach and baggage car. The breaking, of the coupling between the irj.il coach ahead and baggage car' iramediptHiy behind it was all that saved the en tire train from being wrecked. As it was the train, which was going about twenty miles an hour, stopped inside of two car lengths. The mail coach turned almost square across the track and hung teetering over a twenty foot embankment. The baggage car was off the rails, but all the coaches remained on. But the engine turned completely over, rolled down the em bankment and crushed Engineer Pratt to ' death.' The poor fellow never knew what hurt him. Fireman Buster jumped and esacped with some severe bruises and cuts. The porter of the' combination car also jumped and was badly used up. No one else was hurt, and it was several minutes before any of the passengers knew what had happened. Assist ance was sent from St. Louis, the track soon repaired, and, at 1:30 in the morning we were started again. But we left the body of the dead en gineer still crushed beneath his en gine. In the baggage car was the body of another engineer ' killed in a wreck two days before. He was to have been buried in St. Louis Satur day, -and -our. own engineer was to have been one of the pallbearers. ,I-t was a frightfully narrow escape for nearly two hundred passengers, and there were many prayers of thanks giving mingled with the prayers for the dead engineer. Home again, safe and sound on Sunday morning. Then the old grind began. But as we toil along in the . : ' ... ARKANSAS cause of the recollections of a bully good time ! with the old-time friends or the craft amidst the-hills of the Ozark - range, and .. the busy, bustling hospitable little city of Hot Springs. Next week we will try and grind but another letter and tell about some other experiences. Also detail some of the work of the convention. ' "" ' ,' " ' ' W. M. M. The Operators (Continued from Page 2) and after much negotiation an agree ment was reached -that th men re turn to work and the previously prom ised committee would be provided for. The employes returned to work, Mr. Neill leaving for Washington un der the Impression that he had again settled the strike. - i The company, however, placed its women employes' on night work in a remote and disreputable part of the city, wher the Western Union office has been located since the fire, and did many other things to make life unbearable for their telegraphers. A man was then discharged at Los An geles without cause and a strike fol lowed. When Chicago was asked to work with Los Angeles they refused, were discharged and the balance of the men . walked out. . The . other larje cities in turn followed this Action un til at present 15,000 telegraphers are out and- more to come. , :. ' Up to this time the Lincoln telegra phers had not been afTected, butwhen the general strike order was issued by President S. J. Small of the Com- mercial Telegraphers' Union of 'Amer ica, after the companies had absolute ly refused to arbitrate with its em ployes, the Lincoln operators walked out. t The men going out were -Hy-land, Thorson, Elf rink, Carson -and McGee, of the Western Union and Raaalpr of tlhe TVwttiil. Manfler Tfnr- ton of the Western Union has two men, Johnson and Cutter, and Mana ger Wolf of the Postal one, name not known. ' . Both companies manage to get off a small amount of business -by work ing night and day, but are unable to handle anything outside of the state. . While the operators do not expect , managers to go on strike, they be ing under bond to the company, they feel that Manager Wolf of the Postal has been aggressively partisan, mak ing efforts . to secure operators - for . other places and doing all in his power to break the strike. The general situation, according to a local operator, is good. . On the board of trade, Chicago, twelve men are making an effort to do -the work of 300 and at Kansas City eight men are trying to supplant 325. - At other places it -has been impossible to gain admission to the operating rooms, but show similar conditions. A LITTLE EXPLANATION Why Union Printers Handle "Scab" Associated Press Copy, v There may be those among the union, mien of the country who won der why the union -newspaper printers consent to handle the 'Associated Press copy that is now being sent out by .'scab" press operators. The explanation is very simple. The printers employed, on newspa pers that employ only members of the Typographical Union in their, compos ing rooms are under contract. Each local union makes its own contract as to hours and wages,' subject to the ' approval of the international execu-. tive council. In addition to this the International Typographical Union has an . arbitration contract , with the National Publishers' 'Association whereby it is agreed that all differ ences shall be submitted to arbi-tra- -tinn. It is the boast of the Interna tional Typographical Union that i t has never violated a contract. Some months ago the union printers on a giving a chance for settlement by the arbitration board, and walked out of the office. The . management imme diately wired the facts to President Lynch. Thei executive council met at -once and ordered the printers back to work instantly on penalty of los ing their local charter ' and their cards. They went back, the arbitra tion board got busy, and in three days the matter was settled to the satisfaction of all concerned. . ' This is why the union printers con sent to hajidle the "scab" copy. But it's a safe bet that the union printers 1 will lend the striking telegraph ope rators both moral and financial sup port, and. to the limit, too. UNANIMOUSLY' AGAINST IT. The indications are that the Brick layers and Masonspf. the country .have this time voted in favor of affili ation with . the American Federation of Labor, but the vote .has not yet ' been definitely announced. The Lin coln local, however, voted unanimous ly against it. together once more.