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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1908)
3 VOL. 5 LIXCOLX, XEEEASKA, MAY 23, lsOt XO. 8 WV7A cmu M I S U V L Taught Concerning The Label's Meaning Nearly fifteen hundred people at-tench-d the unioa label eiiibitiou at th Auditorium Wednesday night, and th earnest attention aad words of appreciation uttered afterwards was a guarantee that they bad bee ertertalned and instructed. From the entertainment standpoint it was equal of any picture show ever given ta Lincoln, aad as an object ksson in anion bora it is bound to work great rood to th unrua labor movement in this city. Every label shown upon tie vcrven. and there were nearly fifty of them, was greeted by applause, especially those standing for local anions here in Lincoln. The explana tions accompanying each label mere terse aad to the point, aad the re salts m ill be noticed in the increases! demand for goods bearing tbe label frhown. The Magicians' Vnion furnished a and for the occasion, and its music helped to swell the crowd aad enter tain it while it was gathering. Th centleaaesi leuieaeaiiag the later- national Boot aad Shoe Workers' Vnion. uar whos auspices th ea tertaiameut was given, distributed lit- cra'nr aad handsome and service able souvenirs to the people as Ue gathered. Without doubt it was the largest audience thai ever gather! t Lincoln in the intej-ts of trades anuUm. and It was given much to ;aiak about and act poa Mr. C J. Morrow, the lectarer, has a pleasant voice and the happy fac ulty of saying a whole lot in a few words. As each label appeared upon th screen he explained what it stood for and made aa earnest appeal for the support of the men aad women for whos betterment it stood. His explanation of what th tradV union movement seeks to accomplish was stated ta piaia and simple, but force ful, language, and many people pres ent, who had never given a thought to the evils of child labor anj sweat shops were enlightened as to their dutv to themselves and to their fellows. Mr. Arthar E3phiastone sang four all of them of the popular aad accompanied by interest ing illustrations. Mr. EJphinston ha a e'ear. resonaat voice aad he at cue won the hearty good will tjc big audience. He was compelled to nrtat the chorus of every song he sang. Mr. Hudson, th pianist, is a skilled musician aad his aecom panimeats aad his Instrumental work was complimented highly. He is a resident of Chicago, where he stands high in musical union circles. It was a rare pleasure to near aim bbcl and in putties unionism as it really is before th general public. THE TEMPLE DIRECTORS. Getting Ready for a Publicity Cam paign That Will Win. Th board of directors of th Labo Temple Association met in regular ses sion Monday evening. Th chief busi ness transacted was to arrange for all possible publicity at the label exhibi tion at the Auditorium Wednesday night, acd at the meeting addressed by Miss Haley Thursday night. A com mittee was also appointed to confer with several eminent business men re garding a plan of promotion. This commiue will seek sound advice as to ways and means. The committee appointed to arrange "-publicity meeting asked for a week's further tim on account of the absence from the city of a gentlemaa who has promised to help, and whose assistance is of vital importance A commanicatioa was received from a local real estate firm offering several sites for th temple, thus demonstrat ing th fact that the project is being recognised by business men. even if a majority of nnron men seem negligent in according recognition. Th com munication was placed on file. Th perspective view of the proposed tem ple is being exhibited in Mayer Bros. window this week. At th next nseeting n report of the financial condition of th association will be submitted. At this meeting, too. th "publicity committee'" will submit its report, aad it is important that all directors be present. This committee is framing up something that will attract everybody "s atten tion. THE CARPENTERS. Brief Bits About Knights of Jack Plana and Saw. The Brotherhood of Carpeaters is figuring on a horn for its old aad dis abled members, similar to the Vnion 1 inters Horn at Colorado Springs. Cci. General Secretary Frank Duffey at the carpenters recently visited Colorado Springs ad inspected the ih inters." home, expressing himself as c"iie favorably impressed with his investigation. The carpenters have bout 25eM members, aad SI from e.ich would build the home, while an assessment of 5 cents per member jtr month would more than maintain it. It is not a question of "can" the carpenters do this but only a question of Jo they want to." The United Brotherhood of Car 1 1 nters and Joiners has advanced the -rages in hundreds of localities Mi. Harry Berry, the regular elec-! throughout th country ,and placed I rid an. was called back to Chicago from Fremont Tuesday by the sal rwa that his wife was dying. His absence and the cause thereof cast a gloom over his traveling compan ions. Mr. Turner, a member of the KlecJrical Workers Vnion at Fre- faliy $5MMK) more in pay annually ir the pockets of its members. It has reduced the hours from nine per day to eight in -ISO cities, and from ten pc r day to nine in 791 other cities, not to mtntiea many other localities PRINTERS' MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 31 SuiRtay. May 31. will be observed by Lincoln Typograiihieal Union Xo. 2051, and Capital Aux iliary Xo. 11. as "Printers Memorial day." It was Lincoln TyporaphieaI Union that in atssrttrated the movement whieh resulted in recogni tion of this annual observance by the International, and it is now a part of the general laws of the organisation. On the last Sunday in May of every year, printers all over the United States and Canada, meet to pay a tribute of respeet and love to the departed comrades of the craft. Lincoln printers, assisted by their wives, sisters, mothers a ih! daughters will on that day lay the most fra grant blossoms upon the graves of those who have taken "SO from life's hook, and cashed their final -strings." Following is the program of the morning and afternoon services of the day: SUNDAY MORNING The Union and Auxiliary will meet at the north entrance of the State House, promptly at 10:15. and at 10:30 will proceed in a body to the First laptist church. Rev. Samuel Zane Batten, pastor, will deliver the memorial sermon. Special music will be prepared for this occasion. SUNDAY AFTERNOON At 3:15 the Union ami Auxiliary will meet at Fraternity hall. X street entrance, and at 3:30 take special cars to Wyuka cemetery. At the Typographical Union's burial lot special memorial exercises will be held. Song "Nearer. My God. to Thee". .Assembly 1 "raver Rev. J. Miekel Song '"Jesus. Savior. Pilot Me" Quartette Address L. D. Woodruff Honorary Member Xo. 209 Address J. R. Bain President Xo. 209 Decoration of Burial Lot Union and Auxiliary Doxology.. Assembly Members of the Union and Auxiliary, and friends of the two organizations, are requested to bring lowers to the cemetery. But two of the twelve deceased members buried in Wyuka are buried in the utiiou"s lot. and owing to the distances apart the entire decoration service will be held at the lot. The roll of the dead will be called, and as the name is called flowers will be spread upon the sod. Every member of the Union ami Auxiliary is urged to attend both the morning and afternoon memorial services. A Few Facts Gleaned From the Local Field Did you notice any of the society j pitse and for the interest they dis plays J in handling union-ma? shoes. The display was handsomely ar ranged, and placards set forth the pleasing fact that every shoe in the window bore the union stamp. Aad tee man or woman who could not be suited from the line shown would be difficult indeed to please. vomen at the label exhibition Wed nesday night? Notice any of the women who are prominent in the Woman's club?. Notice any of the Waders in educational work? Well, hardly. Such a trivial mat ter as trying to save children from iitdust rial slavery and brighten the future of those who toil for a daily wage do not appeal to these classes. What's a child slave in comparison with the pressing question of "How to care for and preserve Oriental rugs?" What's the use of wasting time in trying to help a lot of J greasy mechanics when duty de mands the solving of the grave prob lem of possing the impossible and scruting the inscrutable? O, dear, how can you expect us sassiety women to spend an evening ; in listening- to drivel about these j common working people when we must frame up some new social stunt THIRD ANNIVERSARY. that win get as a column or two in the sassiety columns of the Sunday papers? Don't waste time telling us about the miserable little brats who are forced to work in the mills and mines. We've no time to waste on them when Ftdo and Buster and Bowser are demanding so much of our attention lest thy get "teas, or distemper, or are d-tuoralixed by as sociating with these plebian dogs that have no pedigree. These miserable working people ought not expect us to listen to (heir tales, of woe. Really, we pay them for their work, don't you - know? What w want to know is how to preserve our Oriental rugs, not how to care for the unfortunate and the helpless; how to rcise pit d-gs. not how to raise children; - -how to pull off social stunts, not how to study I economics and indGstrialism. That's why a big majority of the women .who attended, .the. label ex hibition WedmjsJay evening were merely the wives of workingmen. Locomotive Engineers A axillary Will Celebrate With Trolley Ride. Monday, May 25. is the third anni versary of the organization of the Auxiliary to the local division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the occasion will be duty cele brated with a troiley rid about the city. The members of the auxiliary and the local division,, together with friends, will meet at the corner of Tenth and O. and promptly at T:3 p. nx. win board special cars aad pro ceed to nal;? a tour of Lincoln and , suburbs. , Complete arrangements have been made for an outing that win be pleas ant and entertaining, and ail mem bers and friends are cordially invited. RAYMOND ROBINS. . The Central Labor I'nion feels greatly encouraged by the success of the two revival meetings this week,- and now is determined to go ahead and keep up (he good work. Aa effort win be made to secure an address from Raymond Robins at some date in the near future. Mr. Robins is admittedly the most force ful exponent of industrial organiza tion in America. A student, an ob server and a thinker, he has no su perior on the platform today - THE PLUMBERS. in whicb it has established the eifht mont. Hied Mr. Berry's place here. I and ntne hour workday. Through the ! and accompanied th entertainers to shortening of hours upward of 20.- j Nnfit all is proposed, there would What the Boys are Doing to Keep Things Moving Along. The St. Louts plumbers have won out. They have returned to work at the scale in force last year, after be ing out several weeks against a de mand from the boss plumbers that wages be reduced 3 cents a day. If every union in Lincoln would ' come through" like the Plumbers t'nion when something calculated to WE DO NOT PATRONIZE BUCK STOVES AND RANGES! A HANDSOME DISPLAY. Enterprising Firm Takes Advantage of a Golden Opportunity. Slayer Bros, were quick to seize the opportunity afforded by the visit of the entertainers sent out by the International Boot and Shoe Workers' t'uion, and dressed up the display endows of their shoe department with the largest and handsomest dis play of union-made shoes for men and women ever seen in Lincoln. Mr. Morrow, in charga of the enter- tainruent, certainly knows boots and shoes when he sees them, and he pail Myer Bros. a. handsome and de served compliment for their enter- THE MUSICIANS. The Musical Mutual Protective Vnion has notified the Theatrical Managers Association of Greater New York (hat a substantial raise in the scale will be demanded at the beginning of the next theatrical year. The managers are said to look upon, the demand as prohibitive. The snion has a membership of upward of 5.000. A BAD OVERSIGHT. John Mitchell, of the Miners, is a gaest of President Roosevelt this week, as one of the ""Five Greatest Americans. Just why the strenuous cne in the White House overlooked another of America's great ones. I do not know, but I wiU leave it to Jerome Jones, "Sadie Magmre or Will M. Maupin that he could have easily made it six if he wanted real greatness. MO WONCV WMtTSCtYCT SMtU. ag IWPQUSEP U TMtS CARD. Kaaaaa City Thursday. Th moving pictures were highly entertaining, and too much praise can not be accorded the general excel lence of their presentation. But, with all due credit to the singer and to th musician, after all ww more workmen have secured ent 1 loyment throughout th country. A strike of carpenters in Spring- Celd. Illinois, who demanded an in- psciniscd more. crease in wages from 14 to 50 cents in hour, was brought to an end last Monday. The men accepted a com th beat of, the entertainment was piomis offer of contractors of 12 wrapped up la th dear, concise and I -uts an hour. The "bench pithy remarks of Mr. Morrow. There 1 a still out Is a deeper purpose than mere en- J Urtalnment behind this enterprise. LET THIS SOAK IN. It is an educational movement, and I- appeals not only to traJes union ists but to all consumers of manu factured products. Mr. Morrow has studied the question of" unionism thoroughly and presents its objects and alma better, perhaps, than any man who has spoken on the subject In Lincoln. Union men of every oafl om a debt of gratitude to the iMternatioaal Boot aad Shoe Workers Vnion for its enterprise in providing such aa unique way of putting th i trades union question before the pub- To the unions wherever this body r earnest unionists may go, The r" ge worker commends their enter- inment aa a magnificent sucesa in Ishiag the demand for the union And It Has, Perhaps You Will Know a Thing or Two. Let this soak in gradually. Don't try to absorb it all in one single gulp, else it may cleg your intellect; The tenter of a house pays -for its niain t ranee, its taxes and a profit (over and above all expense) to the owner, gi the aforesaid renter is handed his walking papers. Even the courts will step in and tell you to vacate, if the evaer so dsires. And when you hear some flute-mouthed politician sibging the sweet song of protection for th property owner "who pays all the taxes, just tell him to patronize a night school until he karns a grain of "old horse" sense. Jacksonville Central Vnion Times. be big doings. The Labor T mule- Plumbers' Vnion averaged a littie over $ per member, cash down, an I The late! exhibition the plumbers averas"d 55 cents a man and promised to help make up my reasonable deficiency. Journeymen plumbers went on strike in Cincinnati, Ohio, last week over the contention of signing up the expired agreement for another iao years as against the proposition rf the Master Plumbers association j fcr one year. The union's object in 1 signing up for two years, as hereto-: fore, is to avoid the annual contra-j -rsy, whica ts bound to spring up each time the agreement expires, bet-Keen the two parties concerned. 1 his seems to be the only hitch and j ol jection of the masters association, j iPhis is to Certify STutt Itac train lcef, a 3t 6 good staaaNoo, of the T-KX3-S-GU. y-CEt fjkof tfc State of u wtirfc to ttw fucohlp h oo office of off .fnio un'tes ifcc jaunKio of laiaraatiaaal Tgpugraptucal Daian. , THIS CARD EXPIRES IM SIX MOUTHS FROM DATE. A VALUABLE SOUVENIR The above is a reduced fac simile of the traveling card issued by Den- and. while they are squabbling over 1 ver Typographical Union No. 49 to it. the journeymen's union is going i I. D. Woodruff, managing partner of around and signing up agreements I the Woodruff-Collins Printing Co. of s ith individual concerns and has j this city. The card is just a quar stpged up with forty-five firms, out j ter of a century old, and was found cf a possible ninety. Twelve of the , a couple of weeks ago by Mr. Wood-forty-five signed up are among the I ruff while going through some old 1 .-gest plumbing concerns in thav j papers. He drew the card and came city. The outlook is very bright for j to Nebraska. He started a weekly ta early settlement in favor of the I paper in northeastern Nebraska and union. 1 ran it with varying success for sev- t eral years. Something like twenty years ago he came to Lincoln and started a job shop in the basement' of what is now the Savoy hotel. While Mr. Woodruff has not been at- active member of the Typograph ical Vnion since he drew his Denver card, his sympathies have always teen with the "boys. This is evi denced by the fact that he has al wsys run a union shop and probably vill be running a union shop when he dies and may that time be far off. The younger members of the Ty Ic graphical Union will be interested in this fac simile. It loc a little strange to see printed thereon te st ructions to the effect that the fore man is the proper person to whom to apply for work. Mr. Woodruff is an honorary mem ber of Lincoln Typographical Union, end will deliver the memorial address at Wyuka cemetery on Sunday. May 31, which has been designated as "Printers Memorial Day."