WAGEWORKER
of 10 per cent in their wages in order
to locate another cigar factory in Lin
coln. Speaking of a striking telegraph op
erator in Lincoln, a well known busi
ness man said: "I know he would go
back to work tomorrow if he wasn't
afraid of being called a 'scab.' " Well,
isn't that reason enough for not go
ing back to work? ,
"The Man on the Back Seat" "for
the ' Buffalo Progress is a wise guy.
He says: "If employers would pay
as much attention to the old men. as
they do to the new men after a strike,
there would be fewer labor troubles."
Isn't that the truth?
The Buareau of Commerce and Labor
at Washington, D. C., has sent out a
bulletin containing the information
that wages have advanced faster than
the cost of living. And that's the sort
of stuff we pay those "expert statis
ticians" to hand out to us. r ' . '
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WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Consistency would die of loneliness
if forced to live long in the Commer
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Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
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Neb., under the Act of Congress of
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CONCERNING HOME INDUSTRIES.
Elsewhere n this issue will be
found an open letter from the Cigar-
makers' Union of Lincoln, addressed
to Secretary Whitten of the Commer
cial Club, and through him to all
members of that organization. This
open letter furnishes The Wageworker
with a text which it eagerly siezes up
on to preach a little sermon against
this thing of preaching without prac
ticing. Secretary Whitten is to be compli
mented upon his earnest efforts to se
cure new factories and business insti
tutions for Lincoln, even though his
i zeal sometimes outruns his discretion.
Being thoroughly familiar with the
whole matter referred to by the
Cigarmakers in their open letter, The
Wageworker openly and unhesitating
ly declares that the Cigarmakers are
absolutely in the right, and that Sec
retary Whitten, doubtless without in
tention,' has been guilty of doing the
local union a grave injustice by his
accusations. Some months ago Secre
tary Whitten reported that it was pos
sible to secure another shirt and over
all factory for Lincoln, provided the
Commercial Club could guarantee 400
or 500 girls and women to work there
in. He immediately opened a regis-
tration bureau in the hopes of secur-
ing enough applications for situations
to induce the promoters of the new
factory to locate here. And because
The Wageworker entered vigorous
protest against any more "girl fac
tories" in Lincoln, Secretary Whitten
declares that -the deal fell through.
This has led him to call the editor a
"labor agitator" and charge The Wage-
worker with working against the best
Interests of Lincoln. If opposition to
locating "girl factories" in Lincoln
makes the editor of this humble little
paper a "labor agitator," we proudly
accept the name. If opposing an in
dustrial movement which means fewer
American homes in the future, and
mere natural breadwinners vainly
tramping the streets in search of em
ployment; more underpaid girls and
more men not paid at all if opposi
tion to this sort of thing is "working
against the best interests of Lincoln,"
then The Wageworker is guilty, and
it is glad of it
The editor of The Wageworker is a
member of the Commercial Club, and
is in a position to know something
about the sincerity of a lot of its
members who are always "boosting
the home industry" game. It has seen
members demand eastern made cigars
after talking their throats sore for
"home industry," and when their at-;
tention was called to their evident
insincerity sneer at Lincoln made
cigars. It knows a prominent mem
ber who is forever talking "home in
dustry" who refuses to patronize home
insurance companies. It has seen
Commercial Club members who al
wtys boost for "home industry" come
home from Chicago and even Omaha
with suits made in those cities by
tailors not one bit better than Lincoln
teilors. More than 98 per, cent of the
cigars sold in the Commercial Club's
rooms to members of that organiza
tion are made elsewhere, and the men
responsible for this love to rear back
ic their chairs and "promote the home
industry movement." Yet these same
gentlemen condemn The Wageworker
because it refuses to boost Lincoln
made goods which are the output of
overworked and underpaid girls, and
damn Lincoln cigarmakers because
they will not consent to a reduction
THAT LABOR TEMPLE MOVE
MENT. The movement for the erection of
a Labor Temple in Lincoln is rapidly
taking definite form. If a few unions
that have not yet selected representa
tives on the temple committee will
now get busy, there is no reason why
a concerted effort may not be made,
and a Labor Temple erected in Lin
coln and made ready for occupancy
before the close of 1908.
Seven' unions have selected repre
sentatives on the committee, and this
committe is buckling down to work.
As fast as it can it will develop a
definite plan of procedure, and when
it is accomplished it will be submitted
to the local unions for ratification or
amendment. But in order to insure j
success it is absolutely necessary that
every local organization be represent
ed and unanimous support received
from every local..
The great trouble will be experl
erced in formulating a plan that will
be generally acceptable. But even this
will be accomplished in due time. It
will then remain for the unionists of
this community to get -busy and build
the temple. With such support as is
almost guaranteed from the business
community by a representative few,
the unionists should have no difficulty
in financing the movement.
President Clowry of the Western
Union Telegraph company can under
stand why the head official of a great
corporation can express a desire to
have his salary raised from $50,000 to
$75,000 a year, but for the life of him
he can not understand why a tele
graph operator drawing $60 a month
ought to have $10 a month more.
Having failed to strike either oil or
gas in that well, Mr. Burnham and
his associates might try boring for
the gas at or near the headquarters
of a lot of eminent gentlemen who
preach "patronize home industry" and
then signally fail to practice it.
How easy it is to give lavishly to
charity when you can force men ' and
women to work for starvation wages
to make the goods you force the con
suming public to buy ats exorbitant
prices.
Every time an employer of "rat"
printers denounces the Typographical
Union the members of that organiza
tion point to a picjure of their home
at Colorado Springs and smile.
If your union has not yet appointed
a representative on the Labor Temple
Committee, it is your duty to call at
tention to the fact and insist upon it
doing so at once.
You expect to have It handed to you
by your enemies, but it hurts like
thunder to have it handed to you by
those whom you have tried to befriend.
We demand for Senator J3orah of
Idaho a fair and impartial trial any
how, as fair and impartial as he tried
to deal out to "Bill" Haywood.
The taxpayers of Idaho are now
footing the bills incurred by the Hay
wood prosecution in its desperate ef
forts to "bust the unions."
They may possibly put you in jail
for trying to boycot, but they cannot
jail you for insisting upon the union
label.
The secret of industrial independ
ence lies in the unanimous demand
of union men for the union label.
Stand by the striking telegraphers!
They are worthy of all help.
Mail your "telegrams!"
Someone Left Him a Baby.
A baby a few hours old was left on
the doorstep of the house of Walter
Reed, a farmer living five miles south
of sauna. Mr. Reed heard someone
drive to the house in a wagon. A few
minutes later he went to the door and
found a package containing the child
ine man in the wagon drove away
rapidly. The police are investigating
the case, but there is no clew for them
to follow.
Won't Apply on Devlin Debts.
It has been announced by the re
ceivers for the Devlin properties that
the sale of the coal lands and two
mines at Marquette, 111., wfcs not the
property of any of the Devlin compan
ies which are now in the hands of re
ceivers in Topeka. The Marquette
property was Mr. Devlin's personal
estate and the proceeds of the sale
go to Mrs. Devlin and not to pay any
debts of the many companies which
Devlin organized.
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