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WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Vear.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd. 1879.
SjltJIjIJIjIjIJtJtJtJlJt
"Printers Ink," the recog
nized authority on advertis
ing, after a thorough investi
gation on this subject, says:
"A labor paper Is 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
t man who advertises in it
th4 an ordinary paper with
12,000 subscribers."
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Individual subscribers to The Wage-
worker are asked to give their atten
tion to a new ruling promulgated by
the postoffice department. This ruling
prohibits a publisher from sending his
paper to a subscriber who is more
dan one year in arrears. There are
several such on The Wageworker lists,
and they are cordially invited to re
new so that their paper will not be
discontinued. Those who are in ar
rears know it without being individual
ly notified. The Wageworker does not
want to lose a subscriber by reason
of the new ruling, but unless renewals
are prompt The Wageworker will
have to cut the delinquents off in or4br
to preserve its standing with the P. O,
D. -
MR. TAFT IS EXPLAINING.'
William H. Taft, who yearns to be
president of the United States, and
who poses as the residuary legate of
Theo. Roosevelt, has at last designed
to sit up and take notice of or
ganized labor. ,As long as William
Howard Taft was a federal judge with
more power than an autocrat of the
Russias he did not think it neces
sary to take any particular notice of
organized labor save when some cor
poration wanted to use his services to
fetter workingmen with some injunc
tion writs. As secretary of war he did
not deem it necessary to give organ
ized labor a second thought. But when
the presidential bee began buzzing in
his bonnet, and when he was selected
by President Roosvelt for the presi
dential succession, then something hap
pened to call organized labor to the
especial attention of William Howard
Taft. Now he is telling us how dear
ly he loves the worklngman, how nec
essary it is, in his estimation, tor
workingmen to organize, what a good
thing the union is, and what a fine lot
of fellows the mechanics are. All this
has been brought about by working
men recalling the fact that William
Howard Taft is the original "injunc
tion judge" so far as organized labor
is concerned; that he is the man who,
while federal judge, enjoined union
men from exercising constitutional
rights and then sent the workingmen
to prison for daring to disobey his
judicial decree. As long as William
Howard Taft did not need the support
and Influence of the greasy mechanics
they were deserving of scant consider
ation at his hands. - When a (lot of
railroad men asserted vheir rights and
demanded decent treatment, William
Howard Taft threw them into jail
without a hearing. But things are dif
ferent now. Without . tne votes of
these same workingmen William How
ard .Taft stand 8 no more show of be
ing elected president than a snowball
stands of perpetual existence in' the
regions declared by the late Colonel
Ingersoll to be non-existent.
Realizing this. William Howard
Taft Is now preparing to soft solder
the workingmen. He is going to dis
cuss "Capital and I-abor 'and tell us
how pleasant it would be for capital
and labor to become reconciled, how
fine it would be if workingmen would
only organize into unions that would
counsel non-resistance and submission
to the powers born to rule; how nine it
would be for workingmen to forget his
record as an injunction judge and join
hands with the corporations he served
so well in .making him the successor
of Theodore Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft has a hercu
lean job ahead of him this job of
making workingmen forget. He set
an example that other judges has
tened to follow, and the result was
that workingmen have been deprived
of constitutional rights, deprived of
liberty, deprived of a hearing in court
and convicted and jailed without trial
by jury. He established a precedent
that sent Mother Jones to jail for car
rying food to starving miners; that
restrained an aged Methodist preach
er from praying for the souls of men
striking against inhuman treatment;
that thrust behind prison bars men
who dared to meet for their common
good, that held men as bond slaves
to tyrant corporation masters; that
brought out militiamen to shoot down
men whose only offense was a demand
for living wages; that used the regu
lar army to break strikes, destroy
unions and fill hearts with dispair.
William Howard Taft may talk un
til doomsday, but against his specious
promises and his fair words organized
labor will set his infamous record as
an oppressor of the toilers. Against
his praises of organized labor union
men will set his record that only the
record of a Jeffries can compare.
With a LaFollette, " a Hughes or
even a Foraker ready at hand, the
nomination of William Howard Taft
for the presidency by the republican
party would be a gross insult to 3,000,-
000 men who have by organization and
by untold sacrifices made labor toler
able and filled the future with hope
for their children and their children's
children.
READ IT CAREFULLY.
Once more The Wageworker prints
in full the articles of incorporation
of the Lincoln Labor Temple Build
ing association. If you take any in
terest whatever in the plan to erect
a Labor Temple in Lincoln you ought
to familiarize yourself with the arti
cles governing the company" that is
working to that end. These articles
are believed to cover ever possible
contingency and to safeguard every
investor. They leave no possible loop
hole through which selfishness can
crawl and destroy the purposes cf the
company. The smallest stockholder
is assured of full and ample protec
tion, and the largest stockholder is
given no advantage in point of ad
ministration over the man who holds
but one share.
. These articles of incorporation were
drawn by and with the advice of an
attorney who is a friend of organized
labor, and were framed to meet every
possible contingency. A careful study
of the articles will amply repay every
union man and woman in this section
of the country.
If there were no trades unions in
Lincoln there would be a drop of 35
per cent in wages, a 20 per cent in
crease in the hours of the men " em
ployed, and a 25 per cent reduction
in the number employed. Yet there
are some business men who oppose
trades unions.
. 1 .'
. Congress is now trying to pass a
law that will make a strike a con
spiracy punishable by indictment.
There are no union men in congress
save two or three elected in the ex
treme east. There ought to be a hun
dred. The merchant who advertises in
The Wageworker is the merchant who
thinks enough of the trade of union
men to ask for it through a paper that
tries to stand for the best interests
of union men. That ought to -be
enough.
The Lincoln Journal declares with
out equivocation that any man who
denounces Judge Taft in the future
is a friend neither of organized labor
nor of Taft. The Journal, however, is
edited by fallible human beings.
The Rex B. Clarke Co. of Detroit
is no longer an' open shop. It was
closed by the sheriff last week. The
Rex B. Clarke Co. insisted on manag
ing its own business without the in
terference of the union printers.
In Oklahoma a man may not be im
prisoned for contempt until he has
been found guilty In open court by a
jury of his peers. But Oklahoma is a
new state that is trying a whole lot
of foolish experiments.
Senator Knox has rushed to the res
cue and offered an employer's liability
bill. The ancients who presented a
wooden horse to Troy were amateurs
compared with Senator Knox.
The mine owners can work the
children, at. starvation wages, and
when the kids are killed the public
will take up a collection to give them
a decent burial.
The court may restrain you from
boycotting the Buck Stove and Range
Co., but there is no court in the land
that can compel you to buy a Buck
stove or range.
If there is anything else that he
needs to promise in order to win the
labor vote, Judge Taft is willing to
do it if tlie matter is properly brought
to his attention. '
Lincoln trades unionists spend $2,
000,000 a year in Lincoln, yet there
are some merchants in Lincoln who
are so short-sighted that they oppose
trades unions. '
Judge Taft is still explaining, but he
still insists tipon the un-American
idea that a judge may be lawmaker,
judicial, department and chief execu
tive. When, men will sacrifice as much of
time, and money for their unions as
they do for their political parties, the
battle of organized labor will be won.
Judge Taft is not the only poli
tician who has seen a great light
since workingmen discarded the col
lars of the political bosses..
. It is a violation of a court order to
tell you not to buy a Buck stove or
range. But no union "man will -buy a
Buck stove or range. '
Governor Johnson of Minnesota is
rapidly becoming known through the
company he keeps.
The "open shop" is closed to men
who have manhood enough to assert
their rights.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
Comments on Secretary Taft's Efforts
to Square With Organized Labor.
Milwaukee Daily News, Democratic:
In an address at New York on "Capi
tal and Labor," Secretary Taft took
occasion to discuss government by in
junction. While defending the use of
injunctions in labor disputes, he
granted the contention that the in
junction has been abused and favored
the enaciing of a law to provide that
mo temporary restraining order should
issue until after notice and hearing.
He believed that, for appearance's
sake, the judge issuing the-injunction
should not be permitted to pass upon
its violation- that another judge
should be called in to act. But he
opiosed the idea of permitting a jury
to pass upon tlie guilt or innocence
of the enjoine. It would sflTp the
courts of their powers in injunctionai
proceedings, he insisted, and should
not bo countenanced.
Inasmuch as Mr. Taft was the orig
inal injunction judge, his change of
attitude is significant. It seems to
make a difference whether a judge is
sitting secure on the bench with life
tenure of office or has resigned and
is a candidate for the presidency. The
objection to government by injunc
tion is that it denies to the accused
in contempt cases their constitutional
right to trial by jury. Instead of be
ing brought into court .to answer to
offenses prescribed by the laws, the
accused is held to answer for con
tempt of court. The judge makes the
law, then judges, and executes: With
an appointive, irresponsible judiciary,-
such as the federal, judiciary, this as
sertion and usurpation of. power be
comes intolerable in a constitutional
democracy.
It is expecting too much that Mr.
Taft should now demand the suppres
sion of government hy injunction, but
it is suggestive of the popular feeling
against it that he should feel' moved
to confess that it is an- abuse that
needs remedying.
Sioux - City Journal, Republican:
Secretary Taft refuses approval to
the suggestion that persons accused
of contempt of court through viola
tion of on injunction shall b3 given a
trial by jury. In our court system
the court Is supposed to possess the
Inherent right to enforce its own or
ders. To turn such a matter over to
a jury would interpose delay and
weaken the authority of the court.
The secretary, however, acquiesces in
the suggestion that it might be better
that the judge who issues the order
shall not pass upon the qtiestion of its
violation, and impose punishment up
on the violator. While the presump
tion is that any competent and up
right judge would not wilfully allow
prejudice to govern his action, there is
the possibility that the personal ele
ment might involuntarily conflict
with the judicial disposition. At any
rate, the secretary concludes that the
appearance of injustice is contained
in the proceeding as at present ap
proved. He expresses opinion that in
case of allegation of prejudice the
contempt proceedings should be heard
by another judge than the one issuing
the order. His suggestion is that in
the federal courts the senior circuit
judge of the circuit should take juris
diction in such cases. -
From a political viewpoint the sub
ject is a delicate one, but the secre
tary has handled it with frankness
and with evident disposition to re
spect the just rights of labor without
Interfering with the necessary author
ity of the courts. Secretary Taft's
proposal of a statute accurately de
fining the rights of employers and em
ployes in industrial disputes is one
that should meet favor in both classas.
It is a much sounder proposition than
the proposal to restrict the jurisdic
tion of the courts in dealing with any
class of disputes which may be prop
erly brought hefore them.
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