A PRINTER "DOPE SHEET'
How many members of the Inter
national Typographical Union care
fully read the financial statement pub
lished In the Journal every month?
And how many of them keep intelli
gent track thereof from one year's end
to : another? Comparatively few,
doubtless.
George Wilson has been making
tome comparative statistics on the
expense of organization, and they
make mighty Interesting reading.
Here are some of them: From June
1, 1904, to May 31, 1905 one year ;
fifty-seven men drew $17,000 for do
ing the work of organization. There
' were organized new unions, includ
ing members of reinstated unions, a
total membership of 471; member
ship lost through surrender of char
ters and suspensions, 420, making a
net gain of 51 members. We paid
$17,000 to fifty-seven men to gain 51
members in the field of organization
less than one new member per or
ganizer, and at a cost of $333 per new
member. "That"B more than It takes
to convert a Chinaman to Christian
ity." '
From June 1, 1905, to May 31, 1906,
eighty men drew pay for doing the
work of organizers, the amount they
drew being $44,000. Number of meo:
bers of reinstated unions 'and mem
bers secured In the formation of new
unions, 500; members lost through
suspension and surrender of charters,
919, making It a net loss of 419 mem
bers. Forty-four thousand dollars to
eighty men with the result that we
lost 419 in total membership.
During the next year, June 1, 1906
to May 31, 1907, we paid $45,389 to
eighty-two men engaged In the work
of organization. The number of
members of reinstated unions and
members secured through the organ
ization of new unions was 621; mem
bers lost through the suspension and
surrender of charters, 1,234, making a
net loss of 631.
. Then Wilson goes back a few years
and digs up some statistics of results
achieved under a former adminlstra
tion. He takes the years 1895 and
1896, when ,Prescott was president.
Id those two years under Prescott the
; sum of $4,269 was spent on. organiza
tion, forty-two men being engaged In
fhA wort, witn tne result that there
' was a net gain of 607 members. Un
der Lynch In two years $106,389 was
' snent in similar work with the result
thatythere'w'as'Ti net "loss of 1,032
members.' In thei month of Decem
ber, 1907, organizers drew $4,700. or
$421 more than was spent in two years
under Prescott's administration. The
Lynch average has been $550 per
union of seven men Just enough to
hold, a charter. ' Under Prescott the
average was $28 per union of .seven
members.
Donnelley the rent for headquarters
at Indianapolis was $75 a month.
Under Lynch the rent is $300 a
month. And the union is not four
times larger under Lynch than it was
under Prescott and Donnelley.
John Marshall has returned to work
after a couple of weeks' sojourn In
the consulting room of an oculist, in
terrupted now and then by Journeys
to Northeast Lincoln health resorts.
The Printerville Pedestrian Club
did a nine-mile stunt a week ago la&t
Sunday, and came home on the street
cars.
Bert Pentzer, machinist at the Star
pisnt, has just completed a hand
some addition to the star building.
it Is about 50x142 picas. It Is also
a handsome specimen of the archi
tectural art. Not.
The Allied Printing Trades Coun
cil met last week and read and ap
proved the proofs of the revised con
stitution and by-laws. Copies will be
distributed among those most inter
ted. The following officers were
elected: President, George E. Locker
Typographical; vice-president, C. O
Jerome, Bookbinders; secretary
treasurer, J. H. Brooks, Pressmen
These three constitute the executive
committee. The label committee, of
which the secretary-treasurer Is chair
man, includes A. L. Compton and
Cbarles Kobalter.
Theodore W. McCollough of Omaha
candidate'' for delegate to the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, is a colonel
on the staff of Governor George L.
Sheldon. This will be interesting In
formation for the socialist members
of the I. T. U.
The silver set is now on exhibition
in Ed. Young's window. It will he
on exhibition at the Auxiliary's "hard
times" parly at Bohannon's hall next
Friday evening.
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During the terms of Prescott and
THE MISSOURI RIVER PIRATE.
While "Viewing With Alarm" the
Present Expensive Organizer Sys
tem of the I. T. U.. He "Points
With Pride" to the Most Economical
Scheme of the Kind on Earth.
From Our Own Correspondent
"I read an item in a labor paper
the other day, said the old Missouri
River Pirate, "in Maupin's Wage
worker. I believe, that while the A.
F. of L., with 3,000,000 members, ex
pended for organizers in January, 1908,
the sum of $5,023.99, the I. T. U., with
40,000 members, spent for the same
purpose, from November 20 to De
cember 20, 1907, the sum of $3,615.
4S. This is 91 cents per capita which
the printers paid in that period for
organization. The writer figured that
Just Think What You
Will Have to Pay Now
Every clothing store in town except SPEIER & SIMON'S has been "hollering its head off" for three months
trying to sell goods if you believe what they say for 25 per cent to 50 per cent less than they were priced to ,
: you during the early fall and winter season. .Now their spring stock is here and you will be asked to pay if you
buy of them 25 per cent to 50 per cent MORE now than they will sell you the same goods for during their "cut
price" sales in July and August.
Our Policy is "One Low Price to All," all the Time
This price is so low that we cannot AFFORD to cut it, and we will not "mark the goods up and down" in order '
to make you BELIEVE that we are giving you a reduction. ; -
ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION
' 'Will not the House that sells its good so low that it cannot afford to cut the price give me better values for'
my money NOW, in' the beginning of the season, than the house that marks its goods so high now that, it CAN
afford to cut the price 25 per cent to. 50 per cent in July and August?" 1 ,
When you have answered this question in the only way that a sensible man CAN answer it, you will come
here and buy your new Spring Suit. v 1 '
S $7.85 TO $20.00
at least 25 pet cent below ptices on the same quality
of goods in the high rent district.
S SDKaKl
Northeast Corner Tenth and O Streets
WE SAVE
YOU MONEY
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
if the A. F. of L. had paid the same
per capita for organizers as did the,
I. T. U. In this period of time, the
Federation's outlay would have ben
$2,730,000. I have read, too, the
lengthy, defense in the last Journal
by George J. Knott of Chicago of the
organizer system, " and while un
doubtedly they have done lots of good
work for the organization, to my
mind, the above figures, if anywhere
approximately correct, indicate that
the work is too costly and that there
must be retrenchment. Why, 'Bo,'
the best organizing staff the grand old
union ever had were the Missouri
River Pirates, those happy-go-lucky
fellows who blazed the way for union
ism and starved rather than sur-
DO YOU BELIEVE IN FOSTERING NOME
INSTITUTIONS? IE SO, GIVE SUPPORT
TO ALL THESE EAIR LOCAL CONCERNS
H. HERPOLSHEIMER
IMFOETMI AMD CtfCa R K
TAILK R OP
Dry Goods, Suits and Cloaks, Furs, Millinery,
omen's FuroUhingi, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Books and
Stationery, Shots, Men's Furnishings, Carpets, Rugs, Drap
eries, China, Cut Glass, Toys, House Furnishing;, Groceries.
EDUCATE FOR BUSINESS
, ' -AT-
LINC0LN BUSINESS COLLEGE
THIRTEENTH AND P STREETS.
J. C. Wood Sc Co.
EXPERT
CLEANERS and DYERS
1322 N ST, LINCOLN, NEB.
WHEN 'WALK-OVERS' 00 Oil
SKSE TROUBLES GO OFF
ROGERS & PERKINS CO.
1129 O Street.
American Order of Protection
. FRATERNAL ORDER ADMITTING MEN
AND WOMEN ON SAME BASIS. GRADING PAY
MENTS ACOORDING TO OCCUPATION. PATRON
IZE THB HOME ASSOCIATION
SUPREME HARBOR. - LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
XErust anb Savings Bank
Owned by Stockholders ol First National Bank.
INTEREST PAID AT 3 1-2 PER CENT
ARMSTRONG CLOTHING Company
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
LINCOLN,
1
NEBRASKA
mm
Sc Paine
(INCOBPOB1T1D)
DRY GOODS
O AND THIRTEENTH STREET!
tender their principles. t Those fel
lows never had their expenses paid
to a convention, unless one of them
in later years, after settling down.
was elected as a delegate. And . I
agree, too, with 'Kid' Shields that
the whole organizer system should
be dispensed with. As he Bays, about
all the unorganized towns have been
organized, and any local that has not
among its own members a sufficient
number competent to negotiate a
scale of prices ought to telegraph to
the next town for the fire department
You see most of these organizers at
the conventions, which, of course, are
always held in organized towns so
there are no 'rats' to organize therel
Then this costly habit of sending
organizers , residing in Toledo to
Dallas, and from Los Angeles : to
Norfolk, etc., while letting the organ
izer see the country and all the boys
en route plays hell .with, the re
sources. The tendency to require the
presence in person at conventions of
commissions, special committees, an.
the like, 1b also a growing evil. One
cr more members of the Childs-Drexol
memorial committee has been in at
tendance on conventions since iSs
creation. The old-age pensions com
mittee, provided for by . resolution at
the Toronto convention, and which
authorization web renewed at Colo
rado Springs, being interrupted bv
the eight-hour strike, was in attend
ance at Hot Springs. There is no
reason why their report could not
have been intelligently explained and
defended by the secretary-treasurer or
president The New Orleans delega
tion proposed at Hot Springs (as they
did at Colorado Springs), that the
convention elect the appeals commit
tee at the first session from among
the delegates. The substitute adopted
was to retain the appointive power in
the president, bat requiring him to
announce the appointments within ten
days after the adjournment of the cur
rent convention. Of course, this
means that the I. T. U. must pay the
expenses of five more men to attend
the conventions. The apprenticeship
commission will also likely be in evi
dence at Boston, and their expenses,
of course must be paid. .
"While the membership is growing
at a normal rate, the organizing and
other kindred expense is increasing
by leaps and bounds, and it will soon
cost us as much to remove printorial
posterior appendages as it does to
convert a Chinaman to Christianity.
Adois!" J. J. DIRKS.
St. Louis.
GAG AMENDMENT WITHDRAWN.
Last week The Wageworker called
attention to the ' proposed postal
amendment that gave the postmaster
general power to refuse any paper the
mails that he happened to take excep
tions to. The amendment ' was intro
duced by Senator Penrose of .Pennsyl
vania, but as soon sea he realized what
it -was he withdrew it. tt develops
that the amendment was introduced at
the instigation of Rev. Wilbur P.
Crafts of Washington, D. C, an over
zealous reformer who is trying to re
form the morals of everybody by leg
islative enactment.
GENERAL MENTION.
Bits of Labor News Gathered Chiefly
With the Scissors. . .
Look for the union label.
The union label that's all.
. If it is not labeled, refuse it
Union made shoes are sold by Rog
rs & Perkins.
Printers' at Newark, Ohio, have
secured an increase in wages of SI
per week.
The Bricklayers and Masons' Inter
national Union, has six organizers in
Boston and vicinity.
Machine operators in the govern
ment priii tery have seni a petition to
congress asking 60 cents an hour.
German printers at Buffalo have se
cured an increase of $1 a week, price
and one-half for overtime, and a two
year contract. ' "
The Missouri supreme court has
decided that city ordinances prohibit
ing the parading of streets by pickets
are unconstitutional,
y The "rump" organization of stage
employes at Fort Wayne, Ind.f is a
thing of the past, and peace is once
more treading the boards.
The 1908 wage scale and working
agreement of Wood, Wire and
SPECIAL PRICE
ON
Chase's Remedies
Blood and Nerve Food 45c
Liver Food . . . . . 22c
Kidney Food 45e
Our Patent Medicines are all
sold at Cut Rate Prices.
We think you will be well
pleased with any buying you do
in our store. Special Sales every
day. Call or write for our pride
sheet on Cut-Rate Rubber Goods
and Cut-Rate Medicines.
Rector's
12th and 0
Low One-way Rates
TO THE
!TJE ST
EVERY DAY ,
March 1 to April 30, 1908
?n to Ban Francisco, Loa Angele. 'Sur
Diego, and many other Calif, points. .
(4(1 to Everett. Belliogham, Vancouver '
and Victoi is, via Spokane.
3Q to Portland and Astoria
(91) to Taooma and Seattle,
au via Spokane.
tQfl to Ashland, Rosebnrg, Eugene, Albany
?OU and Baton, including 80. Pac. branch
v linea in Oregon.
3Q to Spokane and intermediate O. B. A
Union Pacific
For fall information inquire of
E. D. GLOGGON,
Gen. Agent. '
Lathers' Union has been signed by J
the various employer in Boston.
John, S. Bradstreet & Co., of Min
neapolis, proprietors of one of the
largest shops in that city, signed
vp with the cabinet makers for a
union shop and labor conditions.
Orders have been received at the
office of C. A, Manchester, . Milwau
kee, superintendent of motive power
of the Milwaukee road, to prepare for
the construction of 2,500 stock cars.
Work will begin within a month, em
ploying nearly the full force of ' 5,
000. ' Thirty switch engines for the
Pacific coast line are now being built
GOVERNOR 8HELOON HELPS
Silks and Satins Stolen.
The dry goods and clothing store
of T. Friedhof & Co., Columbus, was
robbed of $50 worth of silks and
satins. The robbers escaped, leaving
no clue.
Takes Big-Block of Stock in the Labor
Temple Company.
Governor George L. Sheldon was
the principal speaker at the Brat meet
ing called to consider the matter of
building a Labor Temple in Lincoln.
The words of encouragement he then
uttered had much to do with subse
quent developments. Last Friday Gov-'
ernor Sheldon showed by his actions
that his sympathy was something more
than vocal. He subscribed for one
hundred shares of stock, and said that
that he would take another one hun
dred if it .became necessary in order
to carry the scheme to a successful
conclusion.
Now if the union men themselves
would show the same interest, the La
bor , Temple would be ready for occu
pancy before the first of next year. ,
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