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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1907)
WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN. EDITOR Published Weeklv at 137 No. J 4th 3t., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 104, at the postofflce at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879. jt "Printers' Ink," the recog- jl jl nixed authority on advert)- 0 j Ing, after a thorough In vest I- J j gation on this subject, says: Jl jl "A labor paper is a far bet- Jl jt ter advertising medium than . Jt jl an ordinary newspaper in Jl jl comparison with circulation. Jl jt A labor paper, for example, Jt jt having 2,000 subscribers is of Jl jt mors value to the business Jl jt man who advertises In it Jl Jt thi an ordinary paper with jl jl 12,000 subscribers." J Jl . jtJt.4jtJlJlj!JlJXt SPEAKING OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Of course you want to give your wife or your husband, as the case may be, a suitable Christmas gift. Not necessarily one that is costly in price, but one that will grip itself to his or her heart;" something that will make the receiver glati because it measures in a way the love of the giver. Well, The Wageworker wants to tell you of something that will please any man or woman who has u heart to feel; omething that will just grab you by the heartstrings and drag you back into the bright days of the past when with childish feet ' tripped you along the sunny paths; something that will snatch you back from the precipice of doubts and grouchlness and mental dyspepsia and make you glad that you are alive and have friend's and loved ones about you.' It is a little book little in size but big in contents and results called "Of Such is the Kingdom," and it was written by Richard L Metcalfe of 1 In.n1n nnnlln't 1 Ilil., nAX Hmvuiu, .u c l cumuli l uuy iuu cur ttrial advertising, but is is freely given to him because he deserves it For something like seventeen years, almost, the editor of this humble little labor paper has worked side by side with Metcalfe, he being the chief and the . writer the humble assistant. This seventeen years of close associa tion enables us, we think, to speak officially of the man who wrote the srones in "Or Such is the Kingdom." And when you have read "Met's" book you will know him as the writer knows him, and knowing him as the writer knows him you will understand why he wrote as he did wrote of children, of home, of human sympathy, of di vine love, of the simple little every day things we are prone to overlook in the rush for material things, but which overlooked and then suddenly stumbled over bring the light back to tired eyes, lifts the load from bur dened hearts and smooths down the ' rough places in a path too often rough and stony. You read these little sketches and you just feel like giving up the dollar chase and grabbing fne cnuareu oy tne hand rush off to the nursery to again frolic and be sanely happy again. You read them and you feel your business "hrlvelled heart beginning to swell up and ex pand until it actually feel Ilka n heart again, and you realize how much of Joy you've lost by reason of having forgotten you ever had such an organ. You laugh with the children who laugh through Its pages; you mingle your, tears with the tears of those ' ..who have not yet learned to look un moved upon suffering humanity. You hear again the grand old song as jou watch the gallant old soldier of the book marching bravely and proud ly Into the Valley of the Shadow from , whence none ever comes back. You pay a dollar for the book, and then you get a dollar's worth of enjoyment nn evening out of it for evenings on end, then you hand it over to some body elae who goes throus" the same -?.rerlence. elf, then on Christmas give it to your husband, or your wife, or your Get the book now and read it your son, or your daughter, or your sweet heart. Get It and give it to some body and thus help to spread sunshine and laughter and good will along the way. "Of Such is the Kingdom" Is an Ideal gift book. Take our word for that. We've read it time and again In the manuscript, in the proof, in the book and we expect to read it again and again. Any hook store in Lin coln. And the book was printed right here in Uncoln the type set by union printers, the press work done by union pressmen, and (he binding done by union binders. "Met" would like to sell thousands of copies, of course; but he doesn't need the money half so much as the world needs to know the fine philosophy ? the genial humor, the human tenderness and the divine love that the little book deals cut in unmeasured quantity. HERE'S A BULLY SCHEME. The Dayton, Ohio, Trades and Labor Assembly has a bully scheme. It handles the Labor Day celebration as a money making proposition, then uses the profits to pay the expenses of a course of winter lectures on social and economic topics. The best obtain able speakers are brought to Day ton, and the general public invited to hear them, free of cost. As m educational feature nothing better could be devised. It proves that unionists are seeking for higher ar.d better things. It demonstrates that unselfishness is the basic prin ciple of unionism, and fraternity and equality the corner stones. We wish every city in the United States could and would follow the ex ample of the enterprising unionists of Dayton. Wouldn't we be pushing things in Lincoln if we had a fund big enough to hire a hall about twice a month and to secure lecturers like Louis F. Post, Henry George, jr., Margaret Haley, Mary McDowell, Bol ton Hall, Raymond Robins, Wallace Rice, Charles Steizle, and others? We would be educating the general pub lic along trades union lines, inform ing people what we are trying to do; and at the same time we would be edu cating ourselves and Cod knows we need it. ' The Dayton unionists have set a pace that other unions should follow. We need education and agitation. We've had too much stagnation. President Roosevelt's message was too long and too tedious for the aver age man to read. It contained nothing particularly new or noteworthy, .and made no recommendations of a new or startling character. Organized labor is spoken of in friendly terms, but always in connection with organ ized capital. Some of these days a message of not over two columns will be written by a president, and then a grateful people will feel like making the writer emperor, or kind, or czar, or something like that, for life. Speaker Cannon was re-elected by a unanimous vote of the republicans i.i congress. Organized labor will be handed lemons of a similar kind un til it gets enough commonsense beaten into it to impel It to quit voting for a job lot of politicians and begin vot ing in its own interests. The war tc beat Cannon is to refuse to vote for congressional candidates who will not pledge themselves to oppose thU enemy of organized labor. "Business man's government" has come to mean a government rotten w ith graft and special privilege. Penn sylvania has a "business man's" gov ernment. So has Philadelphia. Min neapolis had it a few years ago. So did St. Louis. Chicago is rotten with it What is needed is an "honest man's" government, and the way to get It is to throw all the partisian political hacks over the transom and vote intelligently. Chairman T. S. Allen of the' demo-c-atic state central committee saya that every dollar expended for print ing by the committee was expended in union offices. True it wasn't much, compared with the amount spent by tl e republican committee, but the re prblican committee spent two-thirds of its printing money with non-union shops. The steel trust demands protection for American labor, then it adds the trrlff to the price it charges home consumers, and proceeds to Import fcreign labor to do the work. The steel mills are full of foreigners who are known by number and who can i-either read, write nor speak the American language. The officials of the Pressmen's Union ought to be in Jail. How dare they exercise their constitutional priv ileges when a federal judge has de creed that they should not Such ar archy must be stopped if we have t thrust every greasy mechanic into jail to accomplish it. Every dollar received on subscrip tion by The Wageworker between now and December 24 will add to the edi tor's enjoyment of Christmas. Now who wouldn't try to make a labor editor happy? Is thare a locomotive engineer in tho United States who believes that the tariff tax on woolens an 1 leather operates to maintain a high rate of v"agE3 for locomotive engineers? Workingmen know more now about "government by injunction" than they did in 1898. Suppose the next campaign should l'ne up with Bryan opposed to La Follette, or Hearst opposed to Hughes wouldn't that make it fairly safe for a man to go fishing on election day? Christmas time is a good time to put unionism in practice. Do your shop ping in the eight-hour day ard give the clerks a chance to learn ,what Christmas really means. It has been so long since Brother Post threw a spasm that we are in clined to believe that the stenogra pher's millinery bill is ruak'ng him save his pennies. f Owing to the fact that laboring men and women made no protest against the "imitation money" the business men and bankers managed to escape a panic. The merchants who advertise in The Wageworker want the trade of workingmen bad enough to ask for it. Do not go where you are not invited Some eastern democrats are talking about Grover Cleveland for president again. Grover Cleveland couldn't gt enough votes to wad a shotgun. Christmas is a hollow mockery to tl.e sweat shop worker. Unionism means putting a Teal Christmas in ev ery worker's heart. ' " v Put a couple of shares of Labor Temple stock in your own Christmas stocking. Christmas is kept with the heart, cot alone with the pocketbook.' Do not forget the tired clerks during the rush of holiday shopping. Your Label is not better than any other man's label. PROPERLY LABELED. Product of The Wageworker Shop an Guaranteed Union Made. The Booster. He todsted in the morning, And he boosted until night; He took no time for knocking, Hut he always boosted right. When something good was started His tongue was quickly loosed. And out he'd go in earnest And boost, and boost and boost .A He bosted for the label, And for the union shop; He toosted arbitration And union "Fmokes" and "hop. ' He boosted while a-Wiking, He boosted while at play;. In fact he kept a-boosting Throughout the livelong day. Aa l when old Gabriel tooted He rose to boost some more And boosted good and plenty On Canaan's fairer shore. His earthly boosting finished ife's boosting bvar there, And on his head's the halo That all good boosters wear. . Of Course. "I pu: my foot down on tbe union lubel b.isiness!" shouted the business agent of the Union Busting Associa tion. 'Huh; so do I," said Squareman as he proudly pulled on his union made shoes and started off to work Are You Square? "Do you always kiss your wife when you leave for work in the morning?" "You bet!" "What do you do that Tor?" "Merely to pay my matrimonial union di:es." - Different. ' ' "We refuse absolutely to deal with any walking delegate!" shouted the chairman of the board of directors. "Well, will you meet a committee of the men?" queried the business agent of the union. . "No; we have turned all those mat ters over to a general agent employed by the associated industrial concerns of this city." Limeick. There was a square fellow named Grabel ' Who said "Well, as long as I'm able To take a firm stand You bst I'll demand To be shown the good union label. Cards. Squire men never go round impugn ing the motives of others. Every knock should hove a "come back." Any blackguard can utter abuse; it takes a gentleman to ignore it. Some unionism is like froth floated to the top on beer. A genuine trades unionist is never se'fish. Carrying a card is no more proof of unionism than a name on the church roll" is proof of Christianity. Christmas for the Men Folks Not Overlooking the Boys. Gifts that are useful as well as ornamental. Tasteful, Correct, Seasonable, Durable, Christmas gifts that will make the Men Folks feel good. c A For Father HAT HANDKERCHIEFS SUSPENDERS COLLARS CUFFS SCARF GLOVES SHIRTS CUFF BUTTONS SCARF PIN UNDERWEAR HANGERS HOSE For Sweetheart HANDKERCHIEFS SILK SUSPENDERS NECK TIES CUFF BOXES FINE HOSE SCARFS STICK PIN TOT I M CUFF BUTT01 THE WISE, Has learned this store is H spirit as well as the satisf We have just the right by the gray haired gran the sweetheart and m r v W' j For Brother HAT HANDKERCHIEFS SUSPENDERS COLLARS CUFFS NECKTIES GLOVES SHIRTS CUFF BUTTONS SCARF PIN UNDERWEAR HANGERS HOSE For Hs HAjr For Wi A.