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LINCOLN, NEfeKASKA, NOVEMBER 1, 1907
VOL. 4
NO. 31
LABOR TEMPLE COMMITTEE.
A BAREFACED LIE.
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A - ADgjjg COUNCIL
Electrical Workers First Union to
Lead Off With a Subscription.
"Mere is one hundred dollars " re
narked O. M. Kudy to Treasurer
Re8S Monday evening, -when the La
bor Temple committee met. "It Is
the subscription of the Electrical
Workers Union for one hundred
shares of stock in the Temple Build
ing Association."
This is the first subscription to
the capital stock received from a lo
cal union, and the Electrical Workers
have a right to be proud of the fact
that they led off In the good work.
The total subscriptions received at
the meeting Monday evening was
9135.
The committee met promptly on
time with Chairman Dickson presid
ing and the following delegates be
sides the chairman present:
Fred Ihringer, Typographical.
Fred Ress, Bookbinders.
Al. Walker, Bartenders.
O. M. Rudy, Electrical Workers.
O. H. DeLacy, Painters.
Alex Weckesser, Pressmen.
Sam'l Chaplin, Barbers.
T. W. Evans, Clgarmakers.
T. C. Kelsey of the Leatherworkers
was absent on account of illness.
Matters have progressed so far that
the committee feels able to cast about
for suitable sites with a view of get
ting prices and terms. By request a
local real estate agent was present
to give the committee some informa
tion. Other agents will be requested
to advise with the committee from
time to time. The committee wants
to "cinch" a site as soon as possible,
belie veing that it will advance the
financial campaign more than any
other one thing. Several suitable
sites have been offered, and the prices
strike the committee as reasonable.
The various locals reported through
their representatives that the circu
lar appeals had been sent out Re
sponses may be expected from now
on. It is believed that these circulars
will be the means off placing quite a
bit of the stock.
A committee will visit the severs"
unions in the near future and appeal
for subscriptions as locals. The sec
retary was instructed to communicate
with the unions and. brotherhoods not
already represented with a view to en
listing their co-operation.
Treasurer Ress reported the secur
ing of a 'bond in the sum of $1,000, and
a warrant was ordered drawn for the
premium.
The committee will meet again next
Monday evening at 127 North Twelfth
street. v
MU8ICAL UNION ORGANIZED.
Another Union Added to the Roster of
Organizations in Lincoln.
Last Sunday morning at 10:30, the
musicians of Lincoln affected a per
manent organization at Druse's hall.
Thiity-six names were put upon the
charter roll and the greatest enthus
iasm was manifested. It was the
pleasure and privilege of The Wage
worker man to be present and assist
In getting the new organization start
ed. The following officers were elect
ed: '
W. T. Plnney, President.
W. R. Skinner, Vice President.
W. C. Norton, Secretary .
.C C. McElroy, Treasurer.
A. J. Bruse, Sergeant-at-Arms.
It was decided to hold the charter
open until January 1 in order to give
all an opportunity of coming in. The
matter of electing an executive com
mittee was left until next Sunday,
when nominations will be made. The
secretary was Instructed to write to
several sister locals for copies of
their by-laws to help the Lincoln local
in framing their own.
The musicians present all showed
a deep interest in the organization,
and it was evidenced that they meant
buslnes from the word go. Some
good union talks were made by the
, members, several of whom have been
members of locals elsewhere and are
by no means strangers to the union
game.
Another meeting will be held at
Bruse's hall at 10:30 next Sunday
morning, by which time the charter
and supplies will probably be on
hand.
The new union will at once elect
delegates to the Central Labor union
arid will have a live representative on
the Labor i Temple committee. To
the new local The Wageworker ex
tends its best wishes.
Mr. Merchant, a
Word With You
About Printing
LINCOLN,. NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 1, 1907.
MR. A. THOUGHTFUL BUSINESSMAN, CITY.
. DEAR .SIR The little business flurry which came upon us so
suddenly the first of this week, while very annoying is not at all seri
ous. But at the same time it should cause every citizen to pause for
a moment and reflect upon a few things. It should cause the un
organized workman who is not protected in any way to give some
thought to the matter of protection against just such contingencies,
with a view to providing his family against want in case he should
be thrown out of work. It should cause the business man to give
some thought to the fact that workingmen who are protected against
such contingencies are better customers than those who are not only
thrown out of work at the first sign of business trouble, but are at
the same time left without resources upon which to depend pending
readjustment of affairs. '
One of the chief aims of trade unions is. t.o provide for its mem
bers during just such times. By shortening the workday work is thus
provided for more men, and this means more' and better customers
for you. By a system of dues carefully, fixed "by long experience
the union is able to provide a fund which enable it to properly care
for the members who are temporarily out 'gf work, or who may .be in
capacitated by. reason of sickness or injury. 'This is not only good in
surance for the workingman, but it is good insurance for the mer
chant. ,i
Let us suppose for a moment, Mr. Businessman, that a majority
of the consumers from whom you draw trade had beeti the 3,000 men
employed in the construction of the "Lane Cut-off." These men are
unorganized, and as a result they worked long hours at comparatively
low wages. At the first sign of trouble these men were discharged.
They are now absolutely without resources, and many of them will
be applicants for charity during the coming winter. Yould you not
prefer the patronage of 3,000 organized workingmen who draw fair
wages, work reasonable hours and have a system whereby every mem
ber is helped by his fellow members in time, of trouble ?
We want to put this matter to you purely as a business proposi
tion. We are not asking for anything more than due consideration of
our claims. As a matter of fact, you can consider our organization
as a salesman representing a great factory which turns out a standard
line of printing. When you buy goods you do so with a view to
meeting the demands of the buying public. All we ask is that you
consider our matter in the same light.
When we offer you printing bearing the label of the Allied Print
ing Trades we are offering you the very best goods in that line that
the market affords. It is manufactured by men who are well paid
and who work under fair conditions. It no only represents the 200
men engaged wholly in the printing business, but it represents 3,000
other men who, while working at other trades, have the same objects
and aims as the men engaged in
ing trades. 4
This label guarantees you a
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
Noevmber Meeting Will be Held at
Carpenters' Hall Nezt Sunday,
Lincoln Typographical Union no.
209 will meet in regular monthly ses
sion next Sunday afternoon, and if
surface indications count for any
thing it will be one of the largest
metings.held In recent years. A big
batch of Important business is slated
for transaction, among other items
being one concerning a proposition
carried at the last meeting and which
is now being opposed by many who
were not present then.
The executive committee will make
a report of its label campaign and will
have some valuable pointers to give
to those who want to take a hand in
boosting the label for all there is in
it. Prom now on there ought to be
a contest among the members to see
who can boost hardest for the label
and use the most "stickers" on the
product of the unfair shops.
There were thirty-one votes cast at
the recent election. The salary in
crease was beaten, but the pension
scheme was affirmed. The bond of
the treasurer was also increased
that is, the local favored it.
Business continues to be good, and
the "stickers" have had something to
do with it.
JACOB A. BAER
Not Suffering Because of Attacks
Made Upon Him in Campaign.
Jacob 'A. Baer will be the next clerk
of the district court in and for Lan
caster county unless all signs fall.
The effort to defeat him by the tax
records will prove futile. That matter
was threshed out during the primary
campaign, and Mr. Baer triumphed
over all opposition. It is true that
Mr. Baer has drawn considerable
g TRADES ffgfifl COUNCIL
the different branches of the print
buying public made up of well paid
money from the county treasurer as
a county employe, but no man can
truthfully say that he did not give
full value in the way of services.
Concerning Mr. Baer's ability and
integrity there can be no question.
His record has been open and above
board for many years. He is gener
ous, and there are scores of work
ingmen in this county who have been
tided over because of his generosity
and kindness. He knows what it is
to work hard; and his sympathies go
out to men who are forced to toil in
field, shop or mart for their daily
bread. He is a believer in trades
unionism, and while not himself a
craftsman his relationship with crafts
men is closer than that of mere ac
quaintanceship, and he knows what
unionism stands for, and he is in
hearty sympathy with its every object
and aim. The Wageworker has no
part nor parcel in partisan politics.' It
doesn't care a fig for party but it
does care for men. It urges the sup
port of Mr. Baer because he is a good
man, a friend of unionism, and capa
ble of rendering splendid service to
the public.
NOVEMBER 18
Date Set by Pressmen to Inaugurate
the Eight-Hour Day.
All locals of the International Print
ing Pressmen and Assistant's Union
have been notified that the eight-hour
day la to go into effect on November
18. In accordance with Judge Thomp
son's injunction no strike is ordered,
but the notice the words "8-hour work
day on the 18th of November, 1907"
are heavily underscored.
The boys do not need an order.
They can see through a millstone if
it has. a hole in it. It means 8 hours
after November 18 or a vacation by
agreement.
men and women instead of a buying public limited to the meagre
wages of hopeless women and helpless children. ,
When you buy merchandise is it not a fact that you buy with a
view to appealing to the largest possible number of customers f Why
not buy your printing with the same view? The Allied Printing
Trades Label represents a buying constituency which spends upwards
of $170,000 a year in Lincoln. This is fifteen times more than the
money spent in Lincoln by the printing craftsmen who are not en
titled to use this label.
As a businessman, which lass would you prefer to have for
regular customers? 1 ' i
This is a question you should ask yourselves.
We warit you to patronize the "printing offices that are entitled to
use the Allied Printing Trades Label. We ask you to do this because
it is only justice to those fair employers who have agreed with us on
the matter of wages and hours. We ask you to do this in return for
our patronage, because your patronage of the fair offices means a
continuation of our present agreeable working conditions, and as
long as those are maintained we are enabled to spend more money
with you in the purchase of not only the necessaries of life, but some
of the luxuries. Better wages and better hours affords us more
opportunities to become home owners, enables us to provide for oar
families without putting out children at work in the mills and shops,
enables to to educate our little ones, and gives us time to do our part
in upbuilding a better citizenship and therefore a better Lincoln.
The label will not ;ost you a penny extra, and it will prove a
business getter. There is nothing more natural than that men should
give their patronage to merchants who evince a friendly interest in
their welfare. We want your co-operation because your interests
are our interests, and our interests are your interests.
The following printing offices are entitled to the use of the Allied
Printing Trades label, a fac simile
on this letter to you. Please make careful note thereof:
Central Publishing Co., 1218 P. 1
Free Press, Thirteenth and N. 1
George Bros., Fraternity Bldg., Thirteenth and N.
., Gillispie & Phillips, 1524 O.
Ivy Press, 224 South Twelfth.
Jacob North & Co., 1118:1124 M.
Lincoln Daily Star, Eleventh and M.
Righter Linotype Co., 126 North Fourteenth. v
Simmons, 317 South Twelfth. . '
Western Newspaper Union, 126-130 North Fourteenth.
Woodruff-Collins Printing Co., 217-219 North Eleventh.
Wood Printing Co., 1033 N.
Vantine & Young, 126 North Thirteenth.
We earnestly invite you to give
the above shops, for the reason that
yourselves, but you benefit our fair employers and benefit us.
We thank you for your consideration of this and former com
munications concerning the use of ou label. Very truly yours
THE LINCOLN ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL.
NOTICE.
The New Century Printing
Office, located in the Free
Press building, and conducted
by Robert A. McCartney, does
not employ union printers and
cannot put the label of the Al
lied Printing Trades on any job
turned out. Due notice of this
fact should be taken by those
who may have patronized this
shop in the - past because it
could furnish the label when
called for.
HOW ABOUT IT, BOYS?
What Have Lincoln Stereotypers, to
Say About This Little Matter?
The Washington Trades Unionist is
responsible for the little item quoted
below :
"More than 90 per cent of the stereo
typers and electrotypers of the United
State3 and Canada are within the
ranks of the union, while in many
cf the larger cities It is not an un
common thing to And' every workup l
at the business a member of the
union." .
What have the stereotypers of Lin
coln to say about this? A year or so
ago they had what they wre proud
to call a "One Hundred Per Cent
Union." By that they meant that
every stereotyper in Lincoln was a
card man. What have they got now?
Oh, they've got the eight-hour, day in
every shop but one, but not. because
of any work on their pt to get it.
They got it because the printers
financed the fight for themselves and
the stereotypers came in on the deal
v.-ithout putting out a cent. The stere
otypers have forfeited their charter.
They have no local organization. They
have been content to just drag along
and enjoy the benefits that toy dla
Also a Few Con
cerning a Plain
Business Fact
of which appears in the headline
your work in the printing line to
by so doingyou not only benefit
not help to secure. They are not
helping in the label campaign, which
means so much to the. Allied Print
ing Trades, which the stereotypers
are in duty bound to affiliate with.
What's the matter, boys? His your
unionism suffered a stroke of loeomo
tor ataxia? Or has it just been pal
sled? ' . ' ;
Wake up and get into the game.
Get that charter - (back without any
further delay and stand forth and
show your colors. This is no time to
be "piking" in the union game.
Capital Auxiliary meets Friday, No
vember 8, with Mrs. J. E. Worley, 2011
K street, at 2:30 p. m. -
READY TO FIGHT.
The American Federation of Labor
has retained the law firm of Ralston
& Siddcns to defend it in the suit
brought by the Buck Stove & Range
Co., James W. Van ,Cleve, president
to restrain the ; organization from
publishing the '"unfair list" and "don't
patronize" list In the Federatlonist. '
ISN'T THIS THEvTRUTH.
, In reference to failures of so-called
.solid business houses it is fair to
suggest that the mistakes of trades
unions are at least not more frequent
and not by any means as ruinously
far jenchli'.g as those of some of the
so-called self-made men, Who solemnly
pose as critics of organized labor on
economic , grounds. Washington
Trades Unionist. .
BOOK CONCERN YIELDS.
The American Book Company
of
Cincinnati, p., has announced that on
November 4 the eight-hour day wUl
go into effect in its factories in this
city and New York.
Paper That Boasts of Fairness and
Independence Wilfully Does Injury.
Apparently . the .- democratic state 1
central comittee is financing several
alleged "union labor" organs in Ne-.
braska, with the object of getting the
votes of craftsmen belonging to the
unions. A democratic politician edits
one of these, and, another which has
just been started at Fremont evident
ly gets its editorial matter directly
from democratic headquarters. It not
only jumps on Ross Hammond and
the Fremont Tribune, but attacks '
Judge Reese, Governor Sheldon, Sena
tor Burkett,' Secretary Taft and other
republican leaders in the state and
nation. President Roosevelt will j
doubtless be the next to come In for
censure. Copious extracts are repro- 1
duced from the editorial page of the
World-Herald to prove that the repub-
Hcan party is an enemy to- the work
ingman. Union labor in Nebraska has
a chance to maintain itself in popular
respect by rebuking those cheap at
tempts to use it as & political stool- '
pigeon, or it can stir up a great deal
of adverse sentiment ' by allowing it
self to be made an adjunct of the
democratic party.' Sensible union
men will undoubtedly resent , the
scheme for delivering them bag and
baggage into the game camp where
railroads and liquor interests have
taken refuge. Lincoln Evehing News:
The above appeared in the Evening
News of , Saturday, October 26, under .'
the head of "Incidentals", on the edi
torial page. ; . f ' ' i
It contains one barefaced folsehood,
and insofar as the article refers to
The Wakeworker and its editor it is
a plain lie; known to be such by the '
man who wrote it unless he is so ig-.
norant as to be unfit to hold a re
portorial or editorial job on any news
paper worthy of the name. .
The Wageworker has never receiv
ed one penny from any committee,
democratic, republican, populist, so
cialist or prohibition for any editorial
utterance or support
The Wageworker has never uttered
a falsehood against any man and then
charged him advertising rates for
space in which to refute the' false-,
hood. .. ; ' j
The Wageworker. has taken abso- ,
lutely no part in the . present state
campaign save to show just what the
republican and ' democratic . conventions-
did concerning matters of in
terest to organized labor. The Wage
worker has not boosted either for
Judge Loomis or Judge' Reese. The
man who declared, 'c by indirection,
that the editor of The Wageworker
is a "democratic politician," gave ut
terance to a falsehood without even i
having a semblance of truth upon
which it' might be based. The declar
ation thathis labor paper Is trying to
swing the votes of the union work
ingmen into the democratic column
is faUe. The . Wageworker has sup- -ported
more republicans for- ofSce
than it has democrats. In the last,
seven years its editor has voted for
more republicans and members of
other political parties than he has
democrats.. '
The insinuation that The Wage
worker is in the pay of the democra
tic state, central committee is out
rageously false; more is it a cruel
libel, and unworthy of any man who '
makes any pretensions ) of decency. '
If the man who wrote the above for
the News will make the same state
ment again, and make it in direct
words instead of nasty insinuations,
the editor of The Wageworker will
undertake the delightful, task of
making him prove their truth in a
court of law. The only asset of The
Wageworker . is its absolutely clean
record. In its efforts to advance the
cause of organized labor, and .10
cheap space filler, will be allowed to
depreciate that asset without a pro
test from The Wageworker. ( 1 ' .
MR. SAWYER'S LETTER.
Hon. A. J. Sawyer, democratic can-
didate for district judge, has a letter
In this issue of, The Wageworker, and '
especial attention is called thereto.
Mr. Sawyer needs no introduction to
the voters of Lancaster county. His
ability and integrity are known of all ;
men. He appeals to you for your sur-
frage, not because he needs the office
but because he feels it to be his duty .
to accept the nomination and win if
he can. 'His election would be a cred
it to the bench and to the district.
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