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WA6EWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
TROCslmggcOUHCIV
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 Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
Jt "Printers' Ink," the recog-
Jt nlzed authority on advertis-
Jt Ing, after a thorough investl-
Jt gation on this subject, says:
Jt "A labor paper is a far bet-
Jt ter advertising medium than
Jt an ordinary newspaper in
Jt comparison with circulation.
Jt A labor paper, for example,
jt having 2,000 subscribers is of
jl more value to the business
Jt man who advertises In it
Jt thi an ordinary paper with
jt 12,000 subscribers."
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THE LABOR TEMPLE.
Every day The Wageworker is
asked, "What about the Labor Tern-
pie?"
Just be patient, brothers. The mat
ter is working out to a proper solu
tion. The mere fact that a concerted
action has been begun is in itself
promising. After three years of agita
tion without tangible results, a com
mittee has at last been brought to
gether that shows every indication of
being interested to 'the point of sac
rificing time and money to push the
project along. A project as big as
this cannot be launched i in a day.
There are a thousand and one things
to provide for, and the committee is
providing these things as rapidly as
possible. The men who have the
matter in charge are enthusiastic, but
conservative. They may be trusted
to safeguard the interests of the in
dividuals as well as the unions. Their
first concern is for the qause of labor.
The committee needs help, and this
help is easy to give. It need not be
money at this time. But the help
can be of a moral nature. Talk labor
temple among yourselves. Talk it
with your butcher and baker and
grocer. Talk it in your churches.
Talk it at home and on the job and
on the streets. Be optimists always.
Don't slur the great organization by
saying. "O. we haven't got brains
enough to handle such a big proposi
tion." Just make up your minds that
it can be done, and then do it.
As rapidly as the committee pro
gresses The Wageworker will keep
the world of labor organizations In
formed. Everything will be done in
the open. It is time for the "back-.
c&pper and the grouch to taice a
back seat. If you can't boost, for
heaven's sake don't knock!
CALLED TO ACCOUNT.
Elsewhere will be found the facts
relating to the suit for libel brought
atrainst C. W. Post by Colliers' Week
Ths man Post has been shooting
olf his mouth a whole lot lately, and
v was only a question of time when
ho would be brought up with a round
urn. The fact that he was the pos
sessor of a big bunch of money de
ceived him into believing that ho
could say what he pleased without
being amenable to the laws. He will
know better when he is through with
Colliers' Weekly.
If the courts continue their policy
of holding trades unions responsible
as organizations, Post is likely to get
few more doses of his own medi
cine. If he can hold unions respon
sible in court, then unions can hold
him responsible, and in that event
he will be called to account for some
of his libelous and brutal charges
against individual unionists and unions
as organizations. There are two sides
to every question, and this eminent
practlctioner of (the "affinity" fidea
may find himself so badly tangled up
on one side of the question that he
will not have a chance to monkey any
with the other.
GOOD FOR RDYER!
Deputy Commissioner of Labor Ry
der has served notice on the local
theatres that "child acts" will be
barred under the new child labor law.
He furthermore serves notice that he
will see to the enforcement of the
law.
Good for Ryder! A whole lot of
lazy parents have lived in fatness on
the precocity of their helpless chil
(lrtn, and it is time that this class of
cattle be' forced to earn their own live
lihood and let their children have th
advantages of an education.
The attention of Commissioner Ry-
der and the local truant officer is
called to the fact that there are a lot
of boys under school age and inside
the inhibition of the child labor law
who are driving delivery wagons and
delivering messages in Lincoln.
Give the boys and girls their play
time and their school time. They will
find it hard enough to make life's
fight even when equipped with a good
education and a physique strong and
rugged from plenty of healthy play
time in childhood.
Of course organized labor will tear
its shirt for both of the Nebraska state
tickets. There is not a union man
on either ticket, state or county, so
far as we have been able to learn.
Once more the union voters have
pulled political chestnuts from the fire
for the delectation of the politicians.
Railroad Commissioner Clarke pulls
through for the nomination by a
meagre plurality. His defeat would
have been a disgrace to the unionists
of Nebraska. And as it is they arc
entitled to no credit for his nomina
tion. The trouble with organized la
bor is that it is too prone to forget its
friends.
If The Wageworker contains no
news about the union of your craft
the fault lies with the union, not with
The Wageworker. Every local is cor
dially invited to appoint a "press
agent" to send in items of interest
about the craft. We want 'em.
Unionists should bear in mind the
ct that the Bijou theatre would have
been ready before this if Manager Gor
man had not insisted on having every
lick of work done by union men.
The way to stand by your friends is to
stand by them. .
A lot of Lincoln merchants are try
ing to "build up Lincoln institutions"
by refusing to handle a Lincoln made
broom, preferring to "build up Lin
coln institutions" by handling brooms
made in the penitentiary.
Organized labor will make more
rapid advances when it devotes more
time to boosting its friends and less
time to knocking on its enemies.
Some employers insist on "running
their own business," but' deny to ithe
workingman any. voice in the manage
ment of his own business.
Boost for the Labor Temple. You
will not be guilty of violating your ob
ligation if you work a little over time
at the boosting game.
The willing horse is usually al
lowed to pull the most of the load.
That's as true in local unions as it is
ia transfer work.
The machinists are the last to dis
cover a grafter in their ranks. The
'grafter" in labor ranks is worse than
a plague.
When Collie'r proceeds to collect
that judgment the stenographer will
have to curtail on her millinery bills.
It Is your duty, as well as your
blessed privilege, to call for the union
label every time you make a purchase.
A union card rests uneasy in the
pocket of a coat that does not bear
the label.
There is no virtue in a card that
dees not carry a current dues stamp.
The best way to boycott unfair
goods is to Insist upon the union label.
OUR BRIGHT EXCHANGES.
The lack of confidence in Wall
street is but a lack of confidence in
a confidence game. Erie Union Labor
Journal.
No country can contain too many
piosperous consumers. Therefore, let
he workday be shortened and
the wages raised. Baltimore Labor
Leader.
Bawl them out they deserve it if
they sit still in a meeting and silent
ly acquiesce to any action taken by
the union which they do not intend to
keep inviolate. Seattle Union Record
John D. Rockefeller says he works
for tne public. Ail right enough, ex
cept the "for." Sioux City Union Ad
vacate.
It is becoming a fad with the rich
to take walks in the rain. It is about
all that if left to take. Zanesville
Labor Journal.
A .New York bricklayer fell six
stores, and then indignantly struck a
man who wanted to call an ambulance
for him. He evidently feared they
would operate on him if they ever
got him into a hospital. Bricklayer
and Mason.
A FOE OF LABOR.
Chicago Record-Herald Gives Parry a
Stinging Rebuke.
When .it comes to a discussion of
the labor question, Mr. D. M. Parry,
of Indianapolis, knows perfectly well
that none can be quite right but him
self. He is an employer of labor, and
he is not at all slow in urging that
capital must be protected by special
taws, and that It is necessary for cap
italists to stand shoulder to shoulder
in behalf of their rights. The same
plea for special legislation or protec
tion, the same sort of organization on
the part of labor, is, to Mr. Parry,
only to be considered because the
labor men have numerous votes of
which both political parties are afraid.
Mr. Perry seems to overlook the
fact that the ballot was designed large
ly for the purpose of allowing the
people to express their will in a legiti
mate way. It is a privilege which
no one would deny the laboring man.
He says:
"Do Mr. Bryan and Mr. Beveridge
address themselves to the labor ques
tion as I have stated it? No. They
would not dare do it. The union labor
man is a voter a very hard voter to
please, and still harder to keep
pleased. But, horror of horrors, if
h: isn't pleased there is the fatal roll
cf the political enemies of labor edi
ted from day to day by Mr. Gompers."
There is truth in this, but it is a
truth of which labor ,need not be
ashamed not nearly so ashamed as
the capitalistic employers of labor
should be at their enormous contribu
tions to campaign funds, in order that
they may secure special favors in the
laws.
Where capital is concerned, Mr.
Parry is very tender. Capital Is his
fetich. He thinks that the country's
prosperity is due entirely to the
beneficlent use of capital, which, em
ploying labor on its own terms, has
brought immense fortunes to its
owners. "Destroy the present capital
in this country, and four-fifths of the
people would certainly die of starva
tion," he says. Destroy the present
labor in this country and capital would
be useless and idle, is a proposition
equally sound.
The labor question is not one to
v hich the contributions of interested
pleaders like Mr. D. M. Parry can
dd anything. Organized labor has
sometimes used its new-found power
unwisely; capital has often do so, and
with far less excuse. All the right is
not on one side, nor all the wrong
on the other. The labor question is
only one of the governmental and in
dustrial problems to the solving of
which the true American spirit is ad
mirably adapted. But Mr. Parry is
contributing nothing to that solution.
EVER SEE DE NEDRY7
If You Have You'll Catch the Point
of the Joke.
Wall M. Maupin, of the Lincoln
Wageworker, last week, published
bully picture of Frank Kennedy, of the
Western "Laborer, and refers to him as
the "oldest labor editor, in point of
service, west of the Mississippi, and
the handsomest labor editor in the
country, bar one, whose name we re
frain from mentioning because of mod
esty that cannot be overcome." Don't
FALL AND
Looking for Good Clothe at a moderate price? That's the kind
we sell. Neat, dressy, well-fitting and serviceable clothing at prices
that appeal to the careful and economical wage earner.
Ten to Eighteen Dollars
You'd pay more for the same goods at other places. But even at
this price we make a reasonable profit. The profit we make, how
ever, is not nearly as great as the saving to you.' Ve can demon
these facts if you come in.
Union-Made Goods
Lots of them. 'Work Clothes, Hats, Shoes, Shirts, Overalls, etc.
WE CHALLENGE . COMPARISON IN THESE LINES.
worry about that Maupin, if you had
just dropped a hint I'd given you per
mission to mention my name, but I'm
obliged to you for your consideration
just the same. i
THE FRATERNAL DELEGATE.
Minister and Workingman Bringing
Union and Church Together.
Recently Rev. Charles Stelzle, who
has charge of the Bureau of Labor De
partment of Home Misions, for the
Presbyterian church, requested one
editor of the Wageworker to express
an opinion, concerning the results of
an exchange of fraternal delegates be
tween Central Labor Unions and Min
isterial Associations. The following
reply was sent by the editor: .
"The exchange of fraternal dele
gates between the Ministers' Associa
tions and Central Labor Unions is no
longer an experiment. , It is a demon
strated success both from the stand
point of the chaftsman and of the -minister.
The minister, by the very na
ture of his education and calling, with
drawn in a large measure from asso
ciation with workingmen, finds a new
inspiration for his - service for the
Master in learning at first hand' the
needs of the workingman. " The work
ingman, prone to cynicism by reason
of adverse' fortune, learns that his un
ion is but a physical demonstration of
the teachings of the Nazarene.' -
As a result, these two great organi
zations, the Church with its moral up
lift, and the Union with its social up
lift, are growing closer together. In
my own home city of Lincoln, the
presence of a ministerial delegate at
our central meetings is always warm
ly welcomed, and he is always called
upon and listened to with interest and
profit. By reason of this better ac
quaintanceship trades unionists have
been invited to occupy pulpits to ex
plain the objects and aim of union
ism, with the result that our unions
occupy a higher place in public esti
mation. The Church and the Trades
there's one make of high-grade
clothing with the union label
Kohn Bros.
there's one place in Lincoln
where you can buy these clothes
"Mayer Bros.
WINTER
Union need but to know each other
to join hands and go forth to a grand
victory for humanity, and this is be
ing brought about by the exchange of
fraternal delegates. Viewed from the
standpoint , of selfish advantage,
trades unionists should and do wel
come the plan. It gives them a new
and, fertile field in which to sow the
good seed of union sentiment which
Is, after all, but the simple Christian
doctrine of 'doing good' ".
DEBS REINSTATED.
Eugene V. Debs has been reinstated
in the B. of L. F. He was expelled
from that order when he organized
the A. R. U. in 1892.
NOTICE, TO CREDITORS OF THE
HOME CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY
In the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern Division of the
Eastern Judicial District of Missouri,
Louis F. Algrem, et al., plaintiffs, v.
Wm. B. Sullivan, et al., defendants,
No. 6454.
Whereas, by order of the above
mentioned count in the above cause on
the 3rd day of July, 1907, the under
signed, .William. JU; Watkins was. ap-i
pointed by said court receiver of the
Home Co-Operative company and the
atsets of said company were placed
in the hands of said receiver in trust
foi the benefit of all those adjudged to
be creditors of said company; and
Whereas, the said receiver has been
authorized by said, court to publish
this notice to all creditors and con
tract holders of said company;
Now, therefore, all such creditors
or contract holders will please take
notice that all claims against said
Home Co-Operative company must be
filed in said court on or before the
2ndjday of December, 1907, and that
any claim not presented on or before
said . last mentioned date will be
barred. W. L. W ATKINS, Receiver i
Jefferson City, Mo.. " 25-5t
, LINCOLN. NEBRASKA