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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1907)
mWW liMEVli TO lffljU6l80IKte WIRE UBUUUB!IUUiy)IR:J 1 w....-. . .. .-.-l .. -ri;:rii .1 '. ' .. ' -.'I 'i. .l... - i ... ...... i i i i i. i i .5 nn rTN 70.1 vS J 11 f 1 J 1 T HI U J Kl U M U i F"-'KI TTriT TTji nlSitfij , ii J. C Wood & Co. EXPERT CLEANERS and DYERS 1322 N ST., LINCOLN, NEB. Nebraska Paper & Bag Company WHOLESALE Paper, Stationery and Fireworks 109 North Ninth Street LINCOLN, NEBRASKA AFTER A LOSS YOU NEED THE MONEY Friends may sympathize; We pay cash. A Home Institution which PAYS PROMPTLY FARMERS & MERCHANTS INSURANCE COMPANY THE OLDEST STATE COMPANY. ESTABLISHED 1885. Fire, Lightning and Tornado Insurance SSSSi T a mutm d " Qurter Do""r' HUTCHINS 5 HYATT CO. COAL and WOOD 1028 0 STDEET ARMSTRONG CLOTHING Company GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS - J LINCOLN, I NEBRASKA Miller & Paine (INCORPORATED) DRY GOODS O AND THIRTEENTH STREETS PROTECT YOUR NODE Instruct Your Agent to place your Fire and Tornado Insurance in the Weston. Firo Insurance company ; Home Office 201 So. 11th Si Both Phones. W. H. England, Resident kgmi. A PURELY NEBRASKA COMPANY, Kl E L L Y S THAT'S ALL Both Phones IfM IN St. EDUCATE FOR BUSINESS AT LINCOLN BUSINESS COLLEGE THIRTEENTH AND P STREETS. Roseine Oil... A pure Pennsylvania Oil and sold by an Independent Company. MARSHALL OIL COMPANY, Lincoln, Neb. XErust anb Savings Bank Owned by Stockholders of First National Bank. , INTEREST PAID AT 3 1-2 PER CENT V ARE YOU LOOKING... . PHD The Bttt Return on Your Savings? - rUll Asslstanoo In Buying a Homo? LET US POINT THE WAY. riDELITY SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 1301 N ST. FRATERNITY BLDO. . American Order of Protection A FRATERNAL ORDER ADMITTING MEN AND WOMEN ON SAME BASIS. GRADING PAY- , MBNTS ACOORDING TO OCCUPATION. PATRON IZE THE HOME ASSOCIATION - - - - -SUPREME HARBOR. - - LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. WHEN 'WALK-OVERS' GO J)N SHOE TROUBLES GO OFF ROGERS & PERKINS CO. 1129 O Street. H. HERPOLSHEIMER IMPORT ERS AND CjC3. RETAILERS OK Dry Goods, Suits, and Cloaks, Fars, Millinery, Vomen'i Furnishings, Fancy Good, Jewelry, Books and Stationery, Shoes, Men's Furnishings, Carpets, Rugs, Drap eries, China, Cut Glass Toys, Ho-jse Furnishing, Groceries. JOHN BAUER WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER Distributer of Dick & Bros. Quiacy Brewing Co's Celebrated Lager Beer mom sit Office 9ol O St., Lincoln farmers attb fiftercbants J5ank FIFTEENTH AND O STREETS. Capital Stock Surplus and Profits -' $50,000.00 5,460.49 Deposits Total Resources $202,090.66 269,561.15 3 1-2 PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Rido On iho Vhito Cars; Why? Because, 1st. The Citizens Bail way Company is owned by oar own people: 2nd, this Comntov sells S tickets for 25c. and 10 to school children for 35c: 8rd, it pays its taxes and obeys the laws and ordinances. Because the Management Does Not Object to Unionizing the Line. ' A PRINTER "DOPE SHEET' When the poet wrote: ."The bloody, bloomin' sparrow went up the bloomin' spout; The bloody, bloomin' rain came down and washed the sparrow out. The bloody, bloomin' sun came .out and dried the bloomin' rain. And the bloody, bloomin' sparrow went hp the spout again," he took no note of evolution, which, fortunately, perhaps, like the mills of the gods, grind so slowly as to be weil-nlgh imperceptible to the un dipped optic. Indeed, the growth of evoiitlon.is so dellbarate that those of our membership who have been biiociseu at me euici oi me recem con vention anent the demise of local au tonomy havs failed to note the gener al movement, country wide and world wide, toward centralization, or co-op eration. As long ago as 1896 the I. T. IT. recognized this law of manifest des tiny in the adoption by Its chosen rep resentatives at the Colorado Springs convention of that year of the follow ing language embodied in the annual report of the then president, Mr. W. B. Prescott: "It has been well said that dis content Is the mother of progress, and those who fondly muse and enunciate tha delusion that our past achieve ments testify to an lnvincibleness and therefore change Is unnecessary, are the most dangerous of all within our ranks. They differ from the regenade and marplot by preaching the insidi ous, pleasing and consoling philosophy of Idleness, advancing the theory that there is no need of improvement, con sequently the drudgery and patnstak ing efforts of our lawmakers and self sacrlficine local officers should eo for naught. ' In an intelligent discontent, controlled, coupled with a determina tion to Improve ourfaysteni of organi zation, so as to adequately meet pos sible aye, probable contingencies. The absolute necessity and general de almoat unlimited capital to support it in times of stress and danger is evi denced by every local union that be comes Involved In difficulty, even though it may have previously scouted the Idea. In their direct distress mem bers look to the parent body for suc cor and help, irrespective of their for mer views on 'local autonomy.' " When we call to mind the weaken ing war that has been waged in our union between those who favored cen tralization for offensive and defensive purposes and those' who opposed that view the showing Is a remarkable one. It demonstrates that, unconscious though it may be, our members, or many of them, are realizing that this is an age of concentration in all walks and phases of life. We have well nigh ceased to negotiate with indi vidual employers. They are either combined by means of joint stock com panies which know nothing of the amenities of life and worship Mam mon exclusively, or by the more loosely ' jointed combinations known as 'Publishers' Associations,' or Mas ter Printers' 'Societies.' Irrespective of what may have been the primary ostensible justification for the organ ization of these bodies, it is an un doubted fact that their mere existence provides the machinery by which con siderable numbers of men can be mo bilized and large sums of money raised for the purpose of adding" to our discomfiture. The members of those organizations having had their -business sense quickened on contact with the commercial world, appreciate what working men generally, and it seems to me, printers especially, have yet to learn that power is. the god of industrial battles, and power means discipline and the possession of am ple if not practically unlimited funds. The medium of revival of the au tonomy issue has, of course, been the arbitration agreement between the I. T. U. and the A. N. P. A. Whether it has - been the desire of the member ship to aid in national growth of the evolution of industry, or not, is, of course, mere conjecture. The mater ial fact remains, however, that this is the effect. And, being a thorough be liever in the science of evolution, it is far from my desire or intention to attempt to enjoin the operation of the laws of nature. Rather my purpose is to direct attention to things as they are. Evolution affects the activities of the I. T. U.t where the issue is called local autonomy vs. centralization, in much the same way as it does the re lations between the states and the fed eral government, whence arises the term "states' rights vs. centralization." The line of demarkation is, natur ally so faint as to be well-night in visible. And this will remain the case until the transformation is complete. . As to the states, it must not be forgottoi ciiat the constitution, noblest evidence of man's freedom though it be, was made more than a century ago, when, its framers had no insight Into the changes of one hupdred years of evolution. Hence, the constitution will of necesity be remodeled to con form to the changes of time. And so it is with the organic law and scheme of government of the I. T. U. As at present constituted this is a federation composed of several hun dred units in the form of local unions. But it is not yet a deliberative body. Like the states, the - locals have cer tain rights, which they may exercise so long as that exercise does not in fringe upon the rights of other locals. Hence, in accepting the arbitration agreement, you - tell the locals that they may exercise their right to make and maintain local scales until the ef fpit to do so jeopardizes the safety of the 'othar locals. Then they must stop. It Is the application of the in terstate commerce police power. It may not be what you want, but it is what you have accepted. And. whether you wanted it or not, or like It or not, it Is what you must accept in due time. Collective bargaining by a local union leads inevitably to national collective bargaining. And this carries with it the imposition of the duty on the na tional officers formerly exercised lq cally which 13 the concomitant of the local autonomy transferred. The fail ure to recognize this inevitable law has caused most of the trouble. In time we will all be members of the I. T. IT. In fact, with uniform laws, all' of national manufacture. Then will be one scale. Meanwhile the wrong font referendum and conven tion forms of legislature will be rem edied. In the place of the convention there will be the initative (which we have now in the Incomplete form of the convention) and referendum. It Is not sufficient to lay at the feet of the officers the waif of discontent If the law, in its present state of evo lutionary imperfection, is productive of abuses, send your best talent to the conventions. If these general officers appear to asume the roles of auto crats well, you have the power to ask the question and have it answer ed adequately; "On what meat does our Caesar feed that he hath grown so great?" By all means let us remem ber that a general can be no greater than the solidarity of his army makes him. "Render unto Caesar that , which is Caesar's." True science never resorts to surgery until gentler means have failed. You have a vote. Use it!' J. J. DIRKS. St. Louis, 'November 5. Secretary-Treasurer Bramwood has been seriously ill for some time. Vice President Hays Is acting secretary. The assessment will be cut to 1 per cent on 'November 24. While, the printers are. reducing their sess ment to the vanishing point, President Van Cleave of the "Union Busters' As sociation Is still calling for that $1, 500,000 "war fund." It is to laugh. George N. Wilson of St. Louis, dog gone him, who claims to be a" good viper and a member in good standing of the B. O. O. Z., has sent his par capiter to THE executive committee at Omaha instead of to the Most Worshipful Secretary, which is us. George Wilson, dog-gon,e him, is here by notified that his charter la revoked unless he apologizes on his knees to the Most Worshipful Sacretary; who is alone eligible : to receipt for per capiter. The Most Worshipful Secre tary, which is 3till us, has framed up a scheme whereby he can enforce his mandates, THE executive council to the contrary as usual. If we catch Wilson v vlplng pending a settlement of this trouble there'll be hellapoppin' The executive committee of No. 209 can not wage a label campaign all by itself. It must have the co-operation of every member in order to win vic tory. Now is the t-ime to use the "sticker." DRESS PATTERNS. , New York Typographical Union, No. 6, states that the following patterns are fair: McCall's. Independent Peerless. , i Pictorial Review. Union Dime. Paris Modes. Economy. Home Pattern Company. ' All the Butterick. patterns and pub lications are way up on the list of scabs, and should not be allowed In any workingman's home, especially If he is a union man. . , : A ten-twent'-thirt' theatrical conv pany at Fremont last week made a feature of a child actress aged about 7 years, 'but only for one night. The central labor- union invoked the child labor law. and the little one was al lowed to rest while its parents made the living.. This is the right thing to do. The child's parents are members of the company, and if ; the two, of them cannot make money enough to support themselves and their , little one, they ought to seek some other avenue of employment.. ooooooooooooooo LYRIC THEATRE POLITE VAUDEVILLE Lincoln's Popular Playhouse. Prices Balcony 10c, Lover Floor 20c 0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOffi0C 000000OffiO000 Matinee 3:00 P. 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