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LINCOLN. NEBRASKA
WAGEWORKER
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 IJncoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
"Printers' Ink," the recog
nized authority on advertis
ing, after a thorough Investi
gation en this subject, .aays:
"A labor paper la a far bet
ter advertising medium than
an ordinary newspaper in
comparison with circulation.
A labor paper, for example,
having 2,000 subscribers Is of
more value to the business
man who advertises In It
thn an ordinary paper with
12,000 subscribers."
ONE MORE SHACKLE.
Judge Jones of the federal bench
has just added another judicial
shackle to the limbs of labor. Judge
Jones has officially and judicially de
creed that "employers have property
rights tin labor." In other words,
Judge Jones has judicially decreed
that the employer has a "property
right" in his employe. He says:
"An employer has a property right
in the services of his workmen in his
business. The employer can main
tain an action against anyone who
entices his servant to leave him, or
prevents the servant from working
for his employer. This property right
is protected by the sanction of our
criminal laws also."
It having been judicially decreed
that the workingman has no constitu
tional rights which a federal judge
is bound to respect, it naturally fol
lows that the same power should
reach the conclusion, that the man
'who works for wages is the peon,
slave or chattel of the man he works
for. The next step will be to declare
that when a man once engages to
work for wage he shall forever be
tied to the job regardless of his
v.lshes or his chances for betterment.
Tc just such a condition the wovk
lugmen of this country are drifting
under the present order of things.
Of course- the newspaper that
makes such a declaration is an "apos
tle of discontent," and the working
man who repeats it is a "disturber,"
an "anarchist" and a "labor agitator,"
according to the eminent gentlemen
who profit by the conditions com
plained of. The workingman who ob
jects to being made a chattel is en
joined by a federal judge from dis
cussing the matter with his fellows,
and if he Is brave enough to stand
upon his constitutional rights to free
speech he is thrown into jail without
benefit of the legal protection that is
cheerfully granted to the most hard
ened criminal or brutal murderer.
Now that a federul judge has taken
advanced ground on this question,
the workingman is told that he must
not "disturb our present prosperity,"
and smug-faced ministers beseech
him to "submit himself to every ordi
nance of man" and to "constituted au
thority." If he protests against the
rapid deprivation of his natural
rights and his rights under the con
stitution he is branded as a "dis
turber" and cast into outer darkness.
Is it possible that the Russian peas
antry is making as rapid advance to
ward liberty as American working
men are making towards chattel slav
ery? Judge Jones' decision, if main
tained as good law, will put the Amer
lean wage-earner on a worse basis
than the black man was before Abra
ham Lincoln issued his emancipation
proclamation.
Under that decision, a man who of
fers a good workman increased wages
ov a new job is guilty of a crime.
and the workman who quits one job
to take a better one is subject to
punishment for his Independence and
temerity.
Is it not about time that American
workingmen opened their eyes to the
despotism that is being fastened upon
them under our present federal, judi
ciary?
IrlE ENDORSEMENT OF TAFT.
Is there any significance in the fact
that the Nebraska republican conven
tion which was silent on the question
of injunction, arbitration and the
shorter work day, endorsed for the
presidency the original "injunction
judge," William Howard Taft?
Is there any significance in the
fact that the convention which en
dorsed the "Injunction judge" also ap
pointed as the chairman of its com
mittee on resolutions a gentleman
who insists upon the "open shop"
and refuses to grant the eight-hour
day and recognition of the right of
workingmen to have a voice in the
disposition of their labor?
The endorsement of Wifliam H.
Taft for the presidency by, any con
vention Is an insult to three millions
of wage-earners in this country. Taft
set the pace for the injunction habit,
and the result has been a violation
of every God-given right to working
men. Taft was among the first of
the federal judges to assume extra
constitutional power; the first to set
aside the constitutional privileges of
free speech and the right to peaceful
assembly. His position has been am
plified and improved upon by federal
judges "who have followed him.
And this is the man whom the re
publican convention of Nebraska en
dorses for the presidency and offers
to the wage-earners of this and other
states.
The Lincoln Commercial Club is go
ing to run an excursion to the Black
Hills for the purpose of booming Lin
coln industries. In the meantime the
members of the club boycott Lincoln
made cigars and 'brooms, preferring
to use and sell cigars made by the
trust in, eastern tenements and brooms
made by Lee in the Nebraska peni
tentiary. Now wouldn't that jar you?
If William H. Taft runs for the pres
idency on his record as an injunction
judge he will have 'the cordial sup
port of Carnegie, Schwab, Morgan,
Rockefeller, Harrlman, Morgan, Par
ry, Post, VanCleave and the whole
tribe of union haters. But can wage
earners afford to support a candidate
who is supported by these men?
Judge Jones of the federal bench
has decided that an employer has a
property right in the services of his
employe. Will Judge Jones go the
logical route and decide' that an em
ploye has a property right in his job?
It remains for the unionists of Ok
lahoma to profit by the things they
succeeded in having engrafted in the
state constitution. And the way to
do that Is to keep right on electing
union men to office, regardless of their
party affiliations.
If the Lincoln Journal and Evening
News would make as hot a fight for a
six-for-a-quarter street car fare as
they are making for dollar gas, the
people might be convinced of their
sincerity and set to, work to secure
both.
City Clerk Pratt informs The Wage-
worker that he is not a stockholder
In the Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co.,
and that he has not been since early
in his campaign for re-election to the
city clerkship at the last election.
A Lincoln newspaper whose head
men are heavily interested in the
waterlogged Traction company is
very severe in its strictures upon the
Gas company in which its head men
are not at all interested.
Mindful of conditions in his own
print shop Chairman Hammond nat
urally omitted any reference to the
short work day, the injunction and
arbitration when he wrote the plat
form for his party.
The best way not to assist In build
ing a Labor Temple in Lincoln is to
holler "graft" at the loyal and ener
getic unionists who have put their
shoulders to the wheel.
Will the Commercial Club again
promote Lincoln institutions 'by em
ploying an outside band to accompany
it on its Black Hills excursion?
Our great and good friend, Charles
W. Post, having seized Colliers' Week
ly, is now loudly calling for help in
letting go.
Boost the Labor 'Temple project.
If you will not boost,' at least have the
courtesy to refrain from "knocking."
Lincoln industries can not be pro
moted by pushing the consumption
of penitentiary made products.
The Labor Temple project is mak
ing good progress. It will move faster
if you help shove.
Booming the label beats backing a
boycott. '
If it hasn't got the label, pass it up,
THE BARBERS.
Secure Enforcement of the Sunday
Closing Law in St. Paul.
The barbers of St. Paul have won
two notable victories in their struggle
for an enforcement of the Sunday
closing law, and they are in high
spirits over their triumphs, with the
determination they have already
shown to push the issue to a right
eous conclusion strengthened and in
tensified. One case was that a bar
ber named Leo Horner, an employe
of Thomas M. McCullough, proprie
tor of the barber shop at 320 Sibley
street, whev last Sunday charged
Michael Sears, a visiting Odd Fel
low, $2.50 for a hair cut. ' He was
arrested on the complaint of the vic
tim, and the barbers at once got busy
with a heavy hand in the case. At the
hearing yesterday : Judge Hanft held
him for the action of the grand jury,
extortion being one of the charges
against him, and fixed his bail at $250.
At the same time Mr. McCullough
the proprietor of the shop, was fined
$10 and costs for violating the Sun
day law, and as he was obliged to
pay his lawyer $25 for defending him,
he has found his Sunday outing, or
rather inning, a costly one. Let the
good, work go on, and the barbers say
it shall. The Union.
The journeymen barbers of Tacoma,
Wash., have reached a compromise
with the bosses whereby they are to
receive $16 per week and 60 per cent,
of the earnings of their chairs over
$25.
Bight hundred union barbers in
Chicago have been granted a new
schedule of wages and working con
ditions by their employers.
THE CARPENTERS.
Election of Officers Due at the Meet
ing Next Tuesday Evening.
Next Tuesday evening, October 1,
will be the first meeting of the fourth
quarter of the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, Local No. 1055
of Lincoln. Election of officers for
the ensuing term will be held and
it is earnestly desired that a full at
tendance be had.
Anyone wanting carpenter work
done should remember that it is not
necessary to drive or walk all over
the city to find a man or men to do
the work. The carpenters' ; union
maintains a business agent and a per
manent headquarters just to obviate
that difficulty. ..When in need of a
carpenter just call up the business
agent of the carpenters union. Bell
F2289 or Auto 5601, and the want will
bo supplied without expense or trou
ble. The union will take pleasure in
sending a man to do the work. -
All' members of local No. 1055,
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, are hereby notified to bring their
due books next Tuesday evening for
comparison with the books of the !!
nanclal secretary. This is in com
pliance With the law, and neglect or
failure is punishable by fine. ' Your
due books must correspond with the
books of the financial secretary
Work continues good and the out
look for a continuation is bright.
More new members taken in at the
last meeting, and applications on file.
A carpenter whose religious scruples
would not allow mm to become a
member of the union, found that they
did not prevent him from asking
Business Agent Bly for a union per
mit to work last week. The business
agent couldn't understand such back-
action scruples, so he 'declined to is
sue the permit.
Organizer Wm. Michler, of Missouri,
has , formed new unions at Mulberry
Girard, Manhattan and Dodge City.
. The members ,of the three local un
ions of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America
celebrated the twenty-first anniver
sary of their organization in Lancas
ter, Pa., on Monday evening.
The cities of Tacoma, Seattle and
Spokane are overrun with carpenters,
and travelers are earnestly urged to
stay away from the coast until further
notice.
For a long -time Milwaukee trades
unionists have been talking about
building a labor temple. The carpen
ters of that city have grown tired of
hearing it, and have served notice
that unless something is done by the
unionists as a whole they will build
a temple all by their own selves.
MASHES HIS HAND.
"Jake" Groth, pressman at the Star,
let his hand run in between the cylin
ders of the press the other day. He
left a part of the hand in the press,
but saved enough to use In the future
A Workingman's Viewpoint
(Continned from Page 1)
government that permits, such as un
just and dangerous distribution of the
profits of 'the products of labor.
And he asks: Who has done most
to breed a class of spirit in this coun
try? Who has done most to breed
contempt for and defiance of law
Who is -seeking to enforce the prin
ciple that "vested interests" are su
perior to human rights? If this coun
":vy is drifting rapidly toward social
Isiu as the only means to secure
"equal and exact justice to all, spe
cial privileges to none who is re
sponsible for it?
Again he asks: Is there no other
punishment than fine no adequate
punishment-y-for the stock juggler,
the stock waterer. the trust highbind-
er, the trust fund speculator, the
criminally negligent trust manufac
turer, the corrupter of the public
press, the briber of local, state and
national legislatures, and the exploit
er of special franchises granted for
the public welfare?
He asks in conclusion: If there is
not enough Intelligence, moral cour
age, honesty, manhood, and patrioism
in the United States to put an end
to special privileges, to corporate cor
ruption and abuse of power, to plun
dering 'the people no matter by what
name it is called and to make all
men equal before the law, then is
not socialism inevitable and prefer
able?
Will the present current of reform
carry the ship of state safely across
the growing demands of organized la
bor for socialism, and the lawless ra
pacity of the priviledged classes,' in
trenched behind ealth and politics
until even the humblest citizen can
say with truth and with pride: All
men are equal before the law?
THORNTON WEST.
BUSY BIJOU BOYS.
The unionists who are doing the
work of rebuilding the Bijou theatre
are working like beavers, and there is
Thinking
will not keep your house warm it's
quick action that is needed now. This
isn't April, with the whole summer fee
fore you. If you keep on thinking, you
will wake up some morning with the
shivers.
Order Now
and have it over. Let us send you
eaough to carry you through the winter.
If you order your usual quantity you
will find some left in the spring, for our
kind of coal goes much further than oth
ers. Try us this year and see.
Adam Schaupp Coal Co., 1210 O St.
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FALL SALE of
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Notions and
Dressmaker's
Findings
Our Fall Sale of Notions and Findings which is now
in progress presents opportunities which no woman to
whom economy is an object can afford to ignore. These
quarterly offering include the hundred and o'ne articles
in every day use, but of standard grades and at bargain
prices. ' These sales are made possible by concessions in
part with manufacturers and importers whose lines we
regularly handle ; to admit of special sales that will prove
effective advertisements, not only for their own wares,
but for the departments concerned in their distribution.
A full list of the specials are excluded by space now at
our disposal. 4 ' -
Safety Pins, all sizes, black and white, 3 cards for 5c
Pins, 280 on a paper, 3 papers at. . .'. 1 ...... . . ,.5c
5c Belt Pins, black and white, assorted sizes on paper,
2 papers for ... ..... ...5c
Hat Pins, 6 pins on a card, 2 cards for 5c
Mourning Pins, black and white, 40 count, 5 boxes for. .5c
Wire Hair Pins, 2 1-2. and 3 inches, per packet. . . . . . .lc
5c Hair Pin Cubes, 100 count, 2 for. . . , .'..5c
Rubber Hair Pins, 12 pins on a card, per card. . .... . .10c-
Brass Hook and Eyes, Jap, or Silver, all sizes, 3 cards .
at P . ...... ................. ........ .5c
Hooks and Eyes, Jap, or Silver, all sizes, card. .lc
Needle Emeries, regular 5c size, each. ........ . , . . ,2c
Merrick 200 yard Sewing Cotton, per doz. . ....... . .60c
Basting Cotton, 40, 50 and 60, per doz. . . . .', . .50c
Taffeta Seam Binding, 8 yard rolls, at. . . . . .9c
6 inch Kid Curlers, 12 in a packet, regular 10c value,
at . . 5c
15c Curling Irons at . .' 10c
10c Curling Irons at. .7c
5c Stocking Darners, 2 fori . '. . . . 5c
10c Stocking Darners, Queen, at. 7c
One lot of Feather Stitch Braid, white, and colored,
worth up to 25e per bunch, at 10c
Girdle Foundations, cut on the bias and can be shaped
into any style you wish, each . .15c
15c Dip Front Foundations, each. .1", ,10c
10c Collar Foundations, each. .... ... ..... ..... . . . , . .5c
60c Stitched Edge Tape Measure, 2 for.. ............ .5c
15c Dress Shield, all sizes, at. .... : 9c
a man' working everywhere that a
man can be used. The theatre will
be ready by Ofctober 1, and will be
opened up as an advanced yaudeyille
house. It will not only be one of the
prettiest theatres in the west, but will
compare with most of them point
of size. It will have every modern
equipment, and Manager Gorman de
clares that the attractions will be in
full keeping with the theatre itself.
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
General Apathy Continues to Stalk
Around When the Body Meets.
The Central Labor Union met Tues
day night, with six delegates repre
senting five unions present. No com
mittees reported anything accom
plished since the last meeting.
Several communications were read
and placed on file, and then the dele
fates discussed the situation for an
hour; ! ' "
, vTime was when a meeting of the
central body called out from fifty, to
ninety delegates, representing from
twenty to twenty-five unions. But
that was severaj years ago.
It seems about time that something
be. done to inject a little life and
vigor into the central body.
About Coal
AUTO 3812
H. Herpolsheiner Co.