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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 8, 1907
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LABOR TEMPLE COMMITTEE.
Three Union Have Come to the Front
With Healthy Subscriptions.
Carpenters' Union i.. Shares 115
Typographical Union .Shares 115
Electrical Workers' Union. Shares 128
Individual subscriptions '.. .Shares .349
- Total . . . . : Shares 707
This is the way the Labor Temple
subscription stands to date, without
any organized effort to secure sub
' scriptlons, and without going outside
of the ranks of unionism. This does
not include a large number of offers
of donations of day's wages.' Only
those' who have signed applications
for stock are enumerated In the above
list
The Labor Temple committee met
In regular session last Monday even
ing at 127 North Twelfth street.' The
. following committeemen were pres-
' ent: '
J. W. Dlckaon, Carpenters.
Fred Ihringer, Typographical.
Fred Reus, Bookbinders.
S. L. Chaplin, Barbers.
Alex Weckesaer, Pressmen.
G. A. Walker, Bartenders.
. A. V. White, Plumbers.
O. Al. Rudy, Electrical Workers.
T. W. Evans, Cigarmakers.
Absent, G. A. DeLacey, Painters; T.
C. Kelpey, Leatherworkers.
The meeting was, short but full of
Interest. . Mr. Ihringer reported for
the Typographical Union a subscrip
tion of 100 shares of stock, and Mr.
Dickson reported for the Carpenters
Union a subscription for 100 shares of
stock. Mr. White reported for the
' Plumbers, an additional subscription
for 10 shares of stock, with' notice that
more would come In regularly for sev
eral weeks to come. .
Prior to the meeting a delegation
visited the Clgarmaker's Union and
explained In . detail the work of the
committee and asked the co-operation
of the Clgarmakers. I
It was decided to at once have cer
tificates of stock printed so that the
' work of securing subscriptions could
be pushed. The blank application for
the treasurer's bond was filled out,
and the secretary Instructed to secure
a corporate seal without unnecessary
delay.
Chairman Dickson reported that he
hoped by next meeting to have in
readiness a perspective view of the
proposed Labor Temple so that It
could be used for advertising pur
poses.. ,
The committee on site made a re
port as to options and terms, and al
so reported on a couple of new sites
that had been offered during the
week.
The committee Is enthused by the
progress that Is being made. It por-
U-nds a great enthusiasm for the
Temple project when the real cam
palgn for subscriptions begins. Up to
dnte the committee has confined Its
efforts to perfecting organization and
plans for future work, and it is ex
tremely gratified at the Interest be
ing taken both by union men and
business men. Several business men
have offered to sign applications for
stock, but the committee has preferred
to wait -and demonstrate that the un
ion men of the city are interested to
such an extant that they will give the
, project a big start. When this is evi
denced the committee will proceed to
wage a. general campaign for sub
scriptions. The question Is often asked: "What
Interest will the Temple pay on" the
Investment?"
Of course It Is Impossible for the
committee to answer that question.
But after carefully reviewing the sit
uation the committee is convinced
that It. will pay a better Interest than
a savings bank deposit. If the com-
mlttee can carry out its plans it will
build so as to provide for at least
three atore rooms on the ground floor,
a big assembly room for general meet
ing's on the second floor, and several
smaller halls for union and lodge pur
poses on the third floor. If the store
rooms will bring $75 a month each
that will be $2,700 a year. The big
assembly hall, If rented an average of
once a week will bring In $1,200 a
year. The smaller halls, rented for
union ami fraternal order purposes
should bring In not less than $2,000
a year. The cigar and news stand
concession, blllard rooms, and baths
should bring In another thousand,
making a total estimated revenue of
$6,900 a year. This revenue Is calcu
lated on the minimum basis. Estimat
ing heat, light and Janitor service at
$1,900 a year, $5,000 a year 'is left
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y "A Merry Heart Doeth Good Like a Medicine.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit
drieth the bones."
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that get
teth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the
merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold."
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but when the desire
cometh it is a tree of life."
These proverbs, all but the first
are commended to your careful consideration, Mr. Business Man.
"All work and no play maketh Jack a dull boy." Trades
Unionists want their boys to grow up into intelligent, useful cii
zens. That is one reason why Trades Unions are organized, organ
ization meaning better wages, better working hours, better sanitary
conditions and better opportunities. These things make it possible
for workingmen to provide for their families without putting their
little sons and daughters in the mills and sweat shops. These boys
and girls, well educated and well reared, step out into active Jife
better equipped for its duties and its responsibilities. Therefore
they will become better patrons of your stores and better purchasers
of ypur wares. Think that over.
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit
drieth the bones." Trades Unionism, by forcing better conditions
for the workingman enable him to enjoy some of the pleasures of
life, making him cheerful and therefore a good , neighbor, a better
friend and a still better customer. Long hours, starvation wages
and sweat shop conditions drieth his bones and unfits him for citizen
ship and destroys his usefulness as a customer. Trades' Unionism is
taking the lead in abolishing these bad conditions. Think it over.
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man fhat get
teth understanding: for the merchandise of it is better than the
merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold." The
workingman who, by reason of adverse conditions, is forced from
his bed to his work and from his work to his bed, is barred from
finding understanding. With him life is merely slavery, and n
slave cannot contribute to the upbuilding of any community's social,
moral or business life. Trades Unionism seeks to enable working
men to find time! in which to seek and find understanding, and in
finding it he secures a gain which he must of necessity share with
the business men of his community. Think it over.
which is 10 per cent on an investment
of $50,000. Allowing 5 per cent for
Insurance, taxe3 and repairs, 5 per
cent is left to pay in dividends on
the Investment. These are only ap
proximate estimates, but are submit
ted by a gentleman who has given
such matters a great deal of study.
Naturally as the city grows the ren
tal for 3 tore purposes will increase,
thus adding to the income of the as
sociation. But whether it pays a penny in divi
dends or not, an adequate Labor Tem
ple will pay handsome dividends in
a moral and social way and that
should 'be the first consideration.
OMAHA SEEKS ALIENS.
Applies Immediately to Uncle Sam for
Supply of Strikebreakers. .
Naturally enough Omaha jumped
right In first thing and applied to the
national bureau of labor for some of
the alien laborers promised by that
bureau. We say "naturally enough"
because Omaha claims the doubtful
honor of having the general attorney
of the 'National Union Busting Associ
ation, Timothy J. 'Mahoney, and a
member pf the executive committee,
Euclid Martin. These eminent gentle
men have laid awake o' nights fram
ing up schemes to bust the unions,
and juat as soon as they learned that
Uncle Sam stopd ready to break
strikes or flood the market with cheap
labor they sat up and took notice. .
The press dispatches report that
several Omaha shirt and overall fac
tories are working half forces on ac
count of inability to get sufficient help.
They are extremely anxious to get the
alien .workers promised by the govern
ment bureau of labor. .The dispatches
fail to report one Interesting fact
that these factories are non-union and
pay such miserable wages that no girl
can support herself by working there
in unless she Is so fortunate as to
But a Broken
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taken from the Book of Books,
have a home and thus escapes paying
for board and room. -If alien labor
ers can be secured who will work for
a miserable wage and live just a little
better than' dumb brutes, the Omaha
factories will work full time and thus
be able to undersell the H actorles that
pay decent wages and contribute to
wards the elevation of the American
standard of living. It is not surpris
ing that Timothy J. Mahoney and Eu
clid Martin hastened to take advan
tage of Uncle Sam's generous ofTer of
cheap labor.
NO UNIONISTS.
New Century Print Shop "Manned"
1 Entirely by. Non-Unionists.
Last Saturday C. E. Tates, foreman
of the press room at the New Century
walked out, refusing longer to work
with non-union printers. This leaves
the McCartney shop wholly without
unionists, the shop now being in
charge of what members of the al
lied printing trades call "rodents"
when they want to be real polite.
Typographical Union No. 209 had a
contract with the New Century shop
for the eight hour day, but the pro
prietor saw fit to refuse to abide by
it.
: Lincoln Typographical Union No.
209 points with pride to the fact that
it has never violated a contract or a
confidence. 'n
THAT UNFAIR DIRECTORY.
Adam Schaupp Again Sued by Concern
That Violated Its Word.
Once more that Polk-McAvoy direc
tory deal Is in court. The company
has renewed its suit against Adam
Schaupp to force payment for adver
tising in the directory Issued by that
company. Mr. Schaupp contends that
the advertising was given with the ex
press understanding that the work
Spirit Drieth the
j'llope deferred maketh the heart' sick, but when the desire
cometh it is the tree of life." '
' t)oes any sane man believe that present working conditions
would obtain if workingmen had waited, hopefully, Nf or the em
ployers to make the conditions' better? Within memory of: living
men many tradesmen were compelled to work twelve and thirteen
hours a day for wages ridiculously low. Honestly, how ; would you
like to be doing business in a community where such conditions
existed? Workingmen waited for years, hoping that conscience
woud compel the employers to deal justly. It was a hope so long
deferred that the heart grew sick even unto death. Then -working-men
organized and proceeded to ' battle for the justice so long de
nied them. "The desire cometh," and workingmen are beginning
to li 'e. With-this neAV life comes a better citizenship, and with
that better citizenship comes increased ' patronage .. of your stores.
Thine it over. ' v . ' .
The Allied Printing Trades, made up of members of the differ-
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ent Affiliated unions of the printing trades, are. asking yon to help
in achieving this desire which is the tree of life good wages, good
hour, good working conditions, good homes, good citizenship, good
education and good living. ' , '( .
The way to help is give your
members of the printing trades unions. These shops may be known
by the fact that they are allowed
fac simile of which appears at the
on your printing at least insist
allowed to vise it. Its presence on
getter, because it appeals not only
Printing Trades who spend annually more than $160,000 with Lin
coin merchants, but to nearly 3,000 other union -men' who annually
spend over $2,500,000 with Lincoln business men. ; ' : -v"
Under which flag? ' ; ' '
We want to know our friends so ; we can reciprocate their
friendship: - ' . ' '
We point with pride to the fact that not a single union of the
printing trades has ever broken , a contract with a Lincoln employer.
We defy Lincoln employers to point to a similar clean record. V
We are proud of our unions, proud of our crafts, proud of our
standing before the community, and proud of the community itself.
We want to be of service to the community. !
was to be done by Lincoln printing
shops. That was the agreement made
with scores of customers, and it was
so promised Lincoln Typographical
Union No. 209.
Scores of Lincoln people were led
tc believe thatf the work was to .be
done In Lincoln, but even while this
impression was being given out work
was under way in another city. Mr.
Schaupp, being a believer In home
patronage as well as in keeping one's
word of . honor, refused to pay the
bill presented. Every one interested
in building up Lincoln institutions,
and who are deceived by the specious
promises of this company, should help
Mr. Schaupp In his fight for justice..
ABOUT TO QUIT.
Telegraph Operators Realize That
They Waged a Losing Battle.
,' The indications are that before the
first of next week the strike of the
Commercial Telegraph operators will
be declared off. The operators had
plenty of just grievances, but unfor
tunately they were not prepared for
a strike. They had accumulated no
defense fund of any amount, and they
failed to strike as a unit. The result
was that at the first sign of trouble
the companies began preparing for the
struggle. The operators had practic
ally only one employer, and that em
ployer was in a position to let busi
ness go hang. It was the public, not
the company, that suffered. '-,
, Then the work of organization had
not been perfected as it should have
been before a general strike was
called. Despite all these dlawbacks,
however, the operators put up a mag
nificent fight, land the experiences
they have had will be of invaluable
assistanpe to , them. They have
learned a great deal about what union
ism means, and that is well worth the
Bones.'
printing to the shops employing
to tise the label of the crafts, a
head of this appeal. Demand it
that the shop doing your work is
a job of printing is a business
to the 200 members of the Allied
fight they have waged. ' What they
need to do now is to perfect their
organization, build up a big war fund
and get ready to make ' a concerted
demand for decent treatment at some
definite future date. ' And when they
strike again they want to strike hard
aiid all at once.
TOM JOHNSON AGAIN.
Tom Johnson was re-elected mayor
of Cleveland by an overwhelming ma
jority.' This may be considered a
labor victory, for Tom Johnson has
been waging labor's light in Cleveland
for many years. He has made Cleve
land the best governed city in the
United States.. Two years ago he
turned the controller on the first
streetcar run over the municipal line,
and before he turned it he joined the
Street Railway Men's Union so he
would not be "scabbing" on the job.
Tom Johnson Is all right.
BRAND WHITLOCK WINS. i
Brand Whltlock was re-elected
mayor of Toledo last Tuesday. We've
forgotten what'his political affiliations
are, and don't care to be reminded of
them. He is a worthy successor of
"Golden Rule" Jones, and that is
enough. The more men like Whltlock
elected to conduct municipal affairs
the better off this country will be. He
Is a "square" man, viewed from any
standpoint. ' '
"WANT THE CASH.
Four thousand miners at Danville,
III., struck last Monday because their
wages were hot paid in cash. They
objected to being paid " in cashiers'
checks and bank certificates, claiming
that they were forced to discount
them. Until the companies agree to
pay in cash the miners' will take a
vacation. ,
CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
First November Meeting Will Be Held
Next Tuesday Evening.
The Central Labor Union will meet -
at Bruse's hall next Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock. It has been three weeks
since the central body met, and it Is :
hoped that 'the attendance will be
larger than usual. At the last meeting
the central body took cognizance of
the strike of the union printers in
Fremont and adopted the following
resolutions: . .. - "
Whereas,. The self-respecting print
ers of Fremont - have struck against
the Hammond Printing Co., of that
city to enforce recognition of the right
to. organize,'' and for the shorter work
day granted by ; fair employers in
other cities; and :. -, : ' -.
Whereas, It behooves us as union
ists to stand squarely by the employ
ers who have treated with us fairly v
and have recognized our right to or- '
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Whereas, It was manifestly ' unfair v
for our members '.to work in a shop
that by reason of longer hours and low
er wages was enabled to unduly com
pete with fair employers working the . -eight-hour
day and paying the union
scale of wages; therefore be it v
1 ' Resolved, t That we hereby endorse
the action taken by the union printers
of Fremont in striking the Fremont
Tribune shop, and hereby tender them
our moral and financial support.
Resolved, That we deplore the prom
inence given by the republican party. '
of Nebraska to Ross L. Hammond; the
editor of the Fremont Tribune, be- ,
cause the said Ross L. Hammond as
editor of the Tribune has'taken occa
sion to class labor Unions with the of
fensive trusts -, and - has repeatedly
Hbeled the unions by i charging them
with wrongful and insolent interfer- .
fence with the business of employes, '
thus casting ' discredit upon the mH-.
lions i of wage earners who have or- '
ganlzed for mutual advancement and
mutual helpfulness. - ' . ,
! Resolved, That it is the sense of the
Central Labor. Union of Lincoln, Ne
braska that political recognition of a -union,
hater and open shop advocate
is an insult to organized labor which .
should, and will, be resented at the
polls., 'iV . '
Resolved, That Lincoln Central La
bor Union protest against the ap
pointment of Ross L Hammond to the
office of collector of internal revenue. ;
and that this union 'call upon sister -unions
of all crafts to join In this
protest. -.-, : .l ' 1 N
Resolved, That a copy of this reso
lution he. sent to each . one of -Nebraska's
United States senators and 1
tr. each one of the six representatives
In the lower house of congress, 'and '
that copies be furnished to the press.
OMAHA PRESSMEN STRIKE.
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Men and Women in Omaha Printing
Company Shop Walk Out.
, Every employe in the- press room of
the Omaha Printing company, at Oma
ha went out last Wednesday morning
ti enforce the demand for an eight
hour day., Six of the twenty who went
out were pressmen, and the remainder .
were press feeders, several o'f them
girls..'.-1, -",'v " '"'. ' i '
- Of course the company claims a con
tract until 1912 and is making a great
howl for sympathy. The alleged con
tract Is one signed by Martin Higglns '
while president, of the international '
and upheld by Federal Judge Thomp-
son. The contract was never ratified
by the international. On. the -other
hand it was repudiated by an over- .
whelming vote.
Pressmen and feeders in other Oma
ha shops are also out on strike and
the situation is growing warm. '
WAGE REDUCTION.-
Notice has been posted at the
Houghton,, Minn., offices of the Calu-,
met and Hecla mines of a reduction
of 12 per cent in wages, effective
on December 1. This is equal to the
increase granted the first of the year
and will affect 2,500 men.
Demand
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