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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1908)
, r- 0' 3 H TRADES iKiSg?1 COUNCILS VOL. 3 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JUNK 27, 190S XO. 13 CENTRAL LABOR UNION. REPUBLICANS DECEIVING LABOR. crp rrn rp nn7 1 If ll m l Tailors and Plumber Present Grnhr ances and Will Get Support. President Rudy was prevented by illness from attending the meeting of the Central Labor Union Tuesday evening, and Vice President Quick oc cupied the chair. Three delegates from the Tailors" Union were obligated, and mheu they presented their greivance there was an interesting time. It has been two years since the Tailors were represented, but the presence of a general organizer In the city awoke them to a realicing sense of their duty. They explained that until very recent ly their local was so small it could not afford to send delegates. An effort will be made to induce local clothing firms to employ only members of the Tailors' Union as bushelmeu. The central body will help in the good work. Word was received from a firm mak ing union neckwear and Secretary Kates was instructed to notify mer chants and endeavor to get them to lay in a supply. The same is true of leather belts. By Labor Day it is hoped that union men will be able to parade in union made belts and neck ties and other garments, of course. Delegate Plekard of the Plumbers laid a areivance before the body. He spoke in plain terms and cited many instances of open violation of the plumbing ordinances. These viola tions are being winked at by the authorities. It was decided to test the ordinance, and the Plumbers will sub mit proof of the violation thereof and the central body will proceed to prose- rule to the limit. Announcement was made that at the July meeting of the central body the matter oi properly observing Labor Day would be brought up for settle ment. TEMPLE DIRECTORS. ' Storm Cut Short the Meeting, But Good Reports Were Submitted." The Labor Temple directorate met ridiiy evening as usual, but the ap- rh of a storm hurried the direc tum, oui w-nm v iu v.uiv tor Chaplin handed in a big bunch pledges from the Barbers' Union. his hustling organization is doing its part in pushing this great project. The Carpenters announce a plan whereby they will add about JO a month to the Temple fund, apart from their regular subscription and the in dividual subscriptions of members. The Bartenders have levied a month ly assessment of I per cent for the Temple. Chairman Dickson expects to begin active work for the board about July I. When he gets started things will move along rapidly. Two or three big benefit "stunts" are being arranged for. After the meeting adjourned the dele gates laid aside their duties and pro reeded to hold a session as individuals, and there was a tot of oratory on tap. It was worth going miles to near. r' THE BARTENDERS. Come to tb Front Again and Boost the Labor Temple When h comes to boosting for the eaase ot anioeisat nothing seems to discourage the Bartenders. Despite the new rale which has eat ths work ing membership thirty per cent, the loc il union ias stepped forward with an assessment of 1 per rent on earn ings, the money to he Invested in the stck of the Labor Tempie Associa tion. This means a conple of hun dred dollars before the first of the The T to mle not onSy Increases the work of the bartenders, brt it adds aoout an hour a day to their time on duty. ARE YOU A LIAR? After Yon Road This Ask Yourself if You've Lied. I never forget to ask for the union label when mating purchases. It's my business and I never at gleet it- Akron. Ohio. People. DIPLOMATIC "Have yon rot the Injunction pUak for the platform written?" -All finished.--What does it sayT -WelL that's the point. Before any body can discover what It means the election will be over." The Com moner. II 1 Raymond, loMms; One of America's Greatest Orators and Soundest Thinkers will be in Lincoln Seeday, June;. 28th,- 1908 Mro Robins has been secured for two ad dresses on this date. In the morning, by the kindness of Rev. William Balch, Mr. Robbins will occupy the pulpit at TRINITY M. E. CHUKCHI SIXTEENTH AND A STREETS His subject will be "Except the Lord Build theHouse. 99 Services beginat 1 0:45 Sunday Evening, by the kindness of " Rev. Ho Ho Harmon, Mr. Robins will occupy the First Christian Church pulpit at the AUMTOMUM, 8 O'clock His subject will be "The Social Con sciousness of Christ 99 Mr. Robins will be Introduced by Mr Bryan. Everybody cordially invited to attend these services Monday, June 29th, 1908 Mr. Robins will speak at a place yet un announced. See Sunday and Monday Dailies. His subject to be TRADE UNIONS AND THE HOME Every student of affairs should hear this wonderful man. Such an opportunity comes but seldom. I Mr. Bryan's Views of the Republican Injunction Plank. In this week's Commoner William J. Bryan pays his respects to the -injunction plank" of the republican na tional platform in the following words: The an ti-inj unction plank of the re publican platform, as finally adopted. is a transparent fraud. It is possible that the members of the committee were buncoed by some trust lawyer that is the only charitable view that can be taken of it Those who advo cated the plank claimed to be doing it as a concession to the wage earners. and yet if one will read the plank he will see that it is in fact an announce ment that the republican party is un alterably opposed to the laboring man's position. The plank reads as follows: "The republican parry will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, state and fed eral, and will ever insist that then powers to enforce their processes and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We be lieve, however, that the rules of pro cedure in federal court, with respect to the issuance of a writ of injunction, should be more accurately denned by the statute; thai no injunction or tem porary restraining order should be is sued without notice, except where in reparable injury would result from de lay, in which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted." It will be seen that the plank begins with an unnecessary eulogy of the courts. Nobody is opposed to uphold ing at all times the authority and in tegrity of the courts. Nobody is ob jecting to the enforcement of then- processes or to their exercise of their powers to protect life. liberty and property. The plank assumes that somebody is attacking the courts and that the courts are in danger of losing support or of having their powers weakened. There is no attack upon the courts and there is no thought anywhere of interfering with any leg itimate .function of the court. The re publican convention puts up a man of straw and then proceeds to demolish it; it suspects an unholy assault upon the judiciary and its righteous indig nation at once finds expression in a boastful assertion of its innonence of participation in any such suspected assault. This part of the plank was written to give assurance to the peo ple who are opposed to the laboring man's plea. And now let us proceed to that part of the plank which was intended as a sop to the laboring man. It says: "We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in the federal court with respect to the issuance of a writ of injunction should be more accurately denned by the statute. (Just what that definition shall be is not stated.) "That no injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice, EXCEPT WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY, in which case a speedy hearing there after should be granted." Note the words in capitals (EXCEPT WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD RE SULT FROM DELAY), and compare this exception with the federal statute on the subject and yon will find that under the law AS IT NOW EXISTS the the court is not empowered to grant n temporary restraining order EXCEPT "THERE APPEARS TO BE DANGER OP IRREPARABLE IN JURY FROM DELAY." It will be sees that the man who wrote the injnaetion plank copied the statute almost word for word and made the exception as broad as the statute. If the content tion had been frank in the statement of its position it would have quoted the present statute and said that it was in favor of enforcing the law JUST AS IT IS. It would have sana. "Whereas, at present, a court or Judge may grant a temporary or der If there appears to be danger of irreparable injury from delay. there fore be it resolved that we are op posed to changing it." The men who are responsible for the language of the injnaetion piaak max have fooled the rest of the coaa mittee and they may have tooled tfce convention, but they cannot fool the laboring men or the voters in generaL The injunction plank has not event the value of a gold-plated brick for the plating is brass, as well as the interior of the brick. The plank as prepared in advance of the convention by Mr. Tali's fjiends and given out on Tuesday reads as follows: "We declare for sack amend ments of the statutes of piotedaie in (Continued on Page L) Z