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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1908)
LABOR UNION DIRECTORY. FtoDwnc la a directory of h Trad and Labor Unions of Lincoln and vicinity. Lccal arcrstartea are resnertfuHy asked to rort any caangeo or correctKma bMrta. to the cod that aa accurate aad con rat feat directory bo maintain!. rKMTffil LABOR UNION Meeta and and fourth T!f evenlnga. IKWi haM. Preeideat. O. 3. Rudy. iM i fjfwmr. K A. Kates. Mi K. Treasurer T. W. Evans, liS Soutn Eleveaia. - labor TfMpir DIRECTORY Meeta nwr Monday . If Nona mh cfnuV PimJmL J. W. Ick son. lniwraaty Ftae. SSecretary. Fred lhrincer. Sixieeotn. aad O street. Lin coln. MUSICIANS PROTECTIVE UNION. No. j drt firs and third Sunday mora-lira.-. WIJ President. Wnv Pudh. 1 Swita Sixteeata. Record- Twntv-fifth. Flnaacud Secretary, X. . A Otis. SiS Q- WAGEWQRKER WILL M. MAVPCL EMIT. Published Weekly at 137 Si 34th St, Lincoln. Neb. One Dollar a Tear. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS. No. Meta flrst and third Wednesday even inr. Bohanaa'a halt. President. K- L. VoBr.e. IVS Q. Recordinic Secretary. R Ward. Ill tX Financial tary. Rev Sataker. 11 tX B1DTFNDERS' LEAGUE. No. Meeta Urd Sunday. 1 a. as.. Osrpen ina' hall. President. William Brandt. 1 ii R. Rncordins Secretary. Hanry Enters. Pinanciai Secretary. H. H. Sundeaa, ! P. LEATHERWORKERS ON HORSE GOOOS. No. PS Ms first and Uurd Tuesday. Brush's halt IVesident. v.i 1 I4 S.ith Sixtirentn. Src nNrr-TiMMier. Peter Sat-.ta. South ESeveolfc. (-m&armakkrs. Na. 1H3 Meets M.wxtT ereninc l Oi President. -r w KniiSL lis South KSeventa. Secretarr. Joan Seiaer. li- Soutn Troth. Entered as second-class matter April 1, 1904. at the postoSice at Lincoin. Xeb, under the Act of Congress o4 March 3rd, 1ST. o js J Ink." the recog nized authority or advertis ing, after a thorough investi gation or this subject, says: -A labor paper is a far bet tor advertising medium than BOILERMAKERS BROTHERHOOD, Na. S7 Meets second aad fourtn Wednes day aveninss. Carpenters' sail. Prs deat. J. C tSrant. Ninth and l" streets, iecordinir Secretary. P. S. Slvernvta. ,r; p street. KmaneiU Secretaiy. J. Sockdveo. BLACKSMITHS AND HELPERS. No. ttS Meeta tirst and third Tuesday eveninics. CamreU's hail. Havetec. Prestdent. R. O. Wa-rec. Havutocfc. K. B. Ifiisoa. naveoc. BUILDING TRADES SECTION. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS. No. a Meeta every Thursday erenina. las O street. PresidenL C M. Aaderson. Si$ Q. RecordiaB Secretary. G. K. ennura. 141 P. Financial Secretary. W. Uayer, ii V. PLUhiSERS AND GASFITTERS. W -Hlwa every Momtay cvenms. Oar renXers" IttU. Preaadent. Ed EmcMsh. IsSS t. Recordins Secretary, Uvonca Ohinaun. Srs Xorth Kierenth. Finan cial Secretary. Charica Burns. M North Twenty-sixtii. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. No. IS Meets every Thursday evenina. Carpenters faalL President. Carles Jenniars. S. Recording Secretary. Wm. WiUtinsoo.- II N. FlnaacW Secretary, Perry Jenninss. S. ordinary nevwpaper in with circulation. A labor paper, for example, having 2.000 cubecribera is of vahM to the busmeas who advertiaes in It than an ordinary paper with 12,000 J jl jtjt jt) Jl jl Jt J J J J J Jt J Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl J Jl RAYMOND ROBINS. Raymond Robins will be in Lincoln, Sunday. June 28. In the morning he will occupy the pulpit of Trinity Meth odist church. Sixteenth and A streets. In the evening, he will speak at the auditorium, the First Christian church congregation and pastor having kindly consented to let him occupy the time of the evening service. Monday even- tng he will speak in some hall yet to be selected. Raymond Robins is one. of the great est men in America. There is no finer orator on the platform than he. Net another man in America knows men better nor is more fully ac quainted with their needs. He has a message, and he appeals directly to Meets every Tuesday evenins. j the hearts of men and women. Carpenters ball. 13 -North Tenth. President. P. B. Xaraconje. 1J South. Tweuty-eihtb. street. Recording Sec retary, C H Chase, North Thir tieth. Financial Secretary. J. W. EHrk son. 217 West St. Paul street. University Place. BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS No. I Meets every Friday eveainir. Carpen ters' hall. President. K. 1 Simon. E. Recordinir Secretarr. P. W. Smith. R. F. IX It- Financial Secretary. C H. Meyers, 1? North Kleventa. RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS. BROTHERHOOD OP LOCOMOTIVE EN GINEERS. Division No. Meets sec and and fourth Sunday. Chief Kn aineer. J. S. McCoy, lias I" street. First Assistaat Kmeineer. F. IX Palmer. IS South Tenth street. Second Assist ant atsiaeer. H- Wlsseajoet. Court House. BOILERMAKERS BROTHERHOOD. No. tie Meeta second and fourth Friday evenings. A. tX U. W. halL 17 O. PreaideaL Charles Peterson. It J Jack son. Havetoc. Secretary. Tom Duffy. Indiana, aad Touaaua avenuea. Have-ax. MACHINISTS ASSOCIATION. No. CM Meeta first Friday in Havelock. third Friday at A. X l W. hall. Lincoia. Prosaient. J. A. Malstead. Havelock. Secretary. C H. Uncle, SS North Sev- BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAV CAR. MEN Meeta first and third Saturday "wnwa -a- . .. w. aau. rreaaleat. H. T. Srasoa, 1CS1 North TTtreaty founh. Recording Secretarr. C K. Cox. 27 W. Finaacial Secretary, ti P. Ladwic US! South Seventh. BROTH ERHOOO OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS, Me. 17S Meeta ateond aad fourth Sunday afternoons. A. O. C W. haiL Master. n. ana. kti Korta Twetrtaw tary. J. K. Robinson. 2n Q. There is no one in all this republic whom Th Wageworker would rather introduce and commend than Raymond Robins. . The workingman who fails to take advantage of an opportunity to hear him, misses one of the great est opportunities of a life time. His name is not yet a household word in America, but that is because his work has been among the poor and oppressed. But it will be as well known as that of Bryan or Roosevelt. for he is leading a crusade that will bless and benefit mankind. Wherever he speaks he leaves an impress for good, and his second audi ences are always larger than his first. A man of independent means, he lives frugally in order that he may de vote more and more of his ability and his money to help those who are in need. Ho could live in a mansion and have his private yacht; he lives in cottage in lower Chicago so as to I near the poor and tho thus ever ready to be their friend and helper. Ministers of all denominations glad ly offer him their pulpits. Union la bor welcomes him as one of them. He is always an honored guest when he ps tnsido a union room, and ho ts always invited to power to enforce their processes and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. Well, what of it? Every food citi sen stands pat on that proposition, and the republican party has na patent on it. That is pure gulf, and the man who can he deceived by it ought to submit to a head-boring operation tor the simples. -We believe, however, that the rules of procedure in federal court, with re spect to the issuance of a writ of in junction, should be more clearly de- fined,- Want to make it a little plainer that a common, ordinary working man has no constitutional rights which a federal judge is bound to respect, eh? "That no injunction or temporary rostra inins order should be issued without notice, EXCEPT where irre parable injury would result from de lay, in which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be granteC O fudge! That's the law now. And that little word "except" is just where the workingman gets it in the neck. The Van Cleaves and the Parry 5 have only to claim danger of "irreparable injury, and the worksngroan is re strained from daiig a dozen things that the constitution says he may le gally do. But to go back to the bctannins of this wonderful plank. "The republi can party win uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts." If by that the republican managers mean that we must accept a decision of the supreme court as a political rule, then we dissent. If by that the republican party means that we must forever and a day abide by a decision of the supreme court, and accept a de cision from that tribunal as infallible. we dissent. And if for this we are called an anarchist we turn for the defense of our position to one whom not even the most radical opponentof organized labor will call an anarchist Abraham Lincoln. On June 25. 1S7, at, Springfield, IU Mr. Lincoln, in speaking of the Dred Scott decision, said: -We let this property ( Dred Scout abide by the decision, but are will try- to reverse that decision. Somebody has to reverse that decision, since it is made, and we mean to reverse it. and we mean to do it by peaceful methods. The supreme court of the United States, in the Danbary hatters case. has decided that a trades anion is a trust within the meaning of the Sher man law. -ORGANIZED LABOR IX THIS COUNTRY MEANS TO REVERSE THAT DECISION, AND MEANS TO REVERSE IT BY PEACEABLE METHODS." The courts have decided that the possession of a union card makes il legal the doing of an act that would be perfectly legal if the performer ol that act were not the possessor of a union card. ORGANIZED LABOR MEANS TO REVERSE THAT DECISION. AND MEANS TO " REVERSE IT BY PEACEABLE METHODS. - Organized labor has made r up its mind to do several things, and this determination will not be changed by any "soft solder planks nailed into a platform by designing politicians. "r -. Taf t. says Wade Ellis, the man who wrote the platform. And that's the reason the injunction plank does not suit the workingmen. Well, it is better that 300 convicts should be idle than that 300 or 300 free men should be forced into crime in order to furnish bread for wives and babies. G rover Cleveland is dead. . So are a lot of workingmen who were killed while trying to enforce a demand for decent treatment during the Chicago strke. K the decision in the Daabury hat ters case is not reversed, another four years will see the end of trades unionism except it be in secret. The child labor law will be emascu lated at the next session of the legis lature if orsanized labor does not stani guard over it- Sunny Jim" the Iceman." Sherman? Nit! "Jim Merely as a pointer to our demo cratic friends we venture to remark that they are Koine; to have an al mighty interesting ime trying to find candidate for governor who will make even a showing in the race against George Lawson Sheldon. BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAV TRAIN. MEN, No. 17 Meeta second and fourth Sunday afternoons. Bohanaa'a hail. Master. J. TX Andrews. O. Secre tary. IX J. Cooper. JJJi South Ninth. BROTHERHOOO OF SWITCHMEN. No. 120 Meeta first Sunday at S p. nv. sec- 000 biimh ax 2 n. a .-aroenters Sui Ray. J. TJ. S. Swisher. T7 Recordma Sfdeurr CiMmmm ruiacai secretarv. sua TX If you miss hearing Raymond Robins you will have missed hearing one of the best and greatest men in this re public. And next Sunday tot not row. June 26 you can hear Mm without y and without price. Those vrl hear him Sunday moining will want to hear him Sunday evening, and all who hear him Sunday will be determined to him Monday. PRINTING TRADES SECTION. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUN CIL Meeta third Wednesday evening. Carpenters' halt. President. G. K. ocaer. isct Souta street. Set Treasurer. J. H. Brooks. T North inia TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. No. Meets first Sunday. S n. nv. Fraternity nmu. 1 iisaiw. j. k. uata. isa South ininma.- itecoramg secretarr. Ii w tsngataaa. X2el Hotdrece. Financial r. u. Heboard. li; Tnai BOOKBINDERS BROTHERHOOO, No. US Meeta third Monday evening. Carpenters- hall. President. C C Jerosaa. !! Sooth Sixteenth. Secretary-Troaa- tna ttess, xf. TEREOTVPERS AND ELECTRO- i vf ens. roe. Meets third Wedneo- any ovenins carnenterar deat. A. K. Sanaa. M4 South Nine teenth. Secretar; Aakea. Dudley. CAPITAL AUXILIARY. Kond and fourth Friday afternoons at home of taembera. PreatdeeL Mrs. Fred W. Mtckei. ISi South Sixteenth Secretary. Mrs C B. Rizhiar SSM Dudley. Treasurer. Mrs. Charles Barn- graver. XsJa PRESSMEN AND ASSISTANTS. MS Meets first WtdaMdu. Carneatera' tuUL PreaMent. J. M. Brooks. TS orta Eleventh. B srdtng Secretary, K. i - onrer. is f-tuancu W. IX King. SsM M. Not being prophet. The Wage- worker cannot fortell just what the Denver platform will say on the ques tion of injunctions, but it will venture this statement: The Denver platform will at least say something that means something. THAT INJUNCTION PLANK. The eminent politicians who framed the -injunction plank for the repobli- a catkmal platform deceived only themselves. It suits neither the Van Cleaves and Postites nor the uni Nt of tho country who want some- think definite. As a specimen of "high- faaltin' writing it may be entitled to some consideration; as a declara tion of a principle it is as weak as dishwater. "The republican party will uphold at an times the authority and integri ty of the courts, state and federal ' WeU, what of it? That is only what every good citizen does and will at all times do. Nobody is thinking of denying the authority or questioning the Integrity of the courts. The in tegrity of some men who occupy the bench may be open to question, how ever, without subjecting the question er to imprisonment for lese majesty providing be is out of reach contempt proceedings. And will ever insist that the Ths republican injanctioa plank Wahoo: Uo c!l At Low Prices HARDWARE, STOVES, SPC3T CIS G002S, RAZC3S, RAZOR STROPS AKD CUTLEBY - Hoppc's Hardware, IC3 Hcrfi .C3 H & El. eiMBDEB are truely wonderful stones nothing at all like the ordinary i rami tat ion diamonds as brilliant as the real diamonds. See them, you'll be surprised and delighted. Henderson & Hold. lOt hi St t. Opposite Post Office There may be some question whether the constitution follows the flag, but there's divil a bit of doubt that the supreme court decisions fol low the election returns." Mr. Doo- ley. Not a word in the Chicago platform about trial by jury in cases of con tempt. But why should any regard be shown for a common workingman's constitutional rights? Hear Raymond Robins Sunday, Jan 2S Trinity Methodist church in the morning. Auditorium in the even ing- James Schoolcraft Sherman is the president of the TJtica, N. Y ice trust, and "the richest man in Utica.' REPUBLICANS DECEIVING LABOR. (Continued from Page 1.) the federal courts with respect to the use of the writ of injunction as will, on the one hand prevent the sum mary issue of such orders without proper consideration, and on the other, will preserve undiminished the power of the courts to enforce their process. to the end that justice may be done at all times and to all parties." It will be noticed that in this plank the declaration in favor of amend ments comes first and the declara tion in favor- of preserving undimin ished the power of the courts to en force their process comes afterwards. In the plank, as adopted by the con vention, the declaration in favor of the courts comes first and the dis cussion of a change in the law comes afterwards. It will also be noticed that in the first draft of the platform the pledge is that the power of the courts "to enforce their process shall be preserved. In the plank adopted by the convention this promise is en larged and elaborated. In the original platform amendments are favored. In the platform adopted by tho conven tion there is no suggestion of an amendment, they only ask for a more accurate definition of the rules of pro cedure. In the original plank the aim of the party was to "prevent the sum mary issue of such orders without proper consideration," whereas in the plank adopted in the convention an ex ception is inserted that nullifies the promise because ten exception leaves the subject just as it found it. If the demand of the laboring man is unreasonable, why did not the con vention say so? Why did it resort to deception? The republican party will find that an honest course would have been safer than the dishonest course pursued. The fraud which the convention at tempted will not mislead anyone be cause there is time enough between now and election tat everyone to find out the facts. Secretary Taft is known as the father of government by injunction and his speeches in - Oklahoma last year gave conclusive proof of his ad herence to the position taken by him on the bench. He is still in favor of the use of the writ of injunction in labor cases and he is opposed to trial by jury. In a speech .delivered in New York last winter he said, in response to questions, that the law ought to be so amended as to give a bearing before the injunction was granted and even consented that the hearing for tempt should be before a different judge front the one who granted the injunction, but when he came, to pre pare a plank for the convention he did not go as far as he went in his speech. The plank that went before the con vention as his plank was so weak that it amounted to nothing, but it was even then too strong for the conven tion and the convention adopted a plank which not only does not grant any concessions to the laboring man but really emphasizes the position taken by large corporate employers by nurbng anatnema at those who are suspected of a desire to modify the law relating to injunctions. This is the treatment received by the wage earners from the national convention of the republican party. If this is the position of the party before the elec tion, what reason has the laboring man to hope that the party win do better after election? iBjJIIiipr lijUil Gurimgtcn Rcato Gijcr Fcotcry N. H. CINBERG, Prop. MANtTACTtVERS OF HIGH GRADE CIGARS ONLY Trade aUrk Reaiderea. LEADING BRANDS, lO-CENT: Senator Buritett, Bariinzton Roate LEADING C.nAK35, 5-CENT: Havana Fives, Burlington Roate SBBC) One thins? that distinguishes our Cigars is the superior workmanship and the uniform high quality of stock used in their mantrfartore. We invite you to patronize this home concern, and guarantee yon Cigars as finely made and of as good quality as any goods turned out at a similar price by an Eastern concern. We sell to retailers and jobbers only. If yon are not now handling our goods, send us a trial order. Burlington ncu3 G13CT Fcstiy 205 North Ninth Street, LINCOLN, NEB. We will respect the courts, but hanged if well accept the doctrine of Judicial infallibility. CADDDdOong Udfl? Annoying;, isn't it, to have to start a fire wifh wet kindling fhcse'clays? Awful, too, isn't it, the vray the stove smokes these damp, windy days? Lots of extra work, isn't it, scrubbing the mud out of the Litchen after tracking to the coal house and back? x Ohiatt's Di3 Msg? Sign your own emancipation proclamation from servi tude to wet kindling, smoky stove, nauddy kitchen and back-breaking coal cartage by rnstaTrrng a Gas Range and using Gas for FueL Cheaper than coal and the clranrrt fuel known. Not a bit of waste about it. You get the use of every bit you pay for. Always ready no waiting for the coal man. Muddy roads never prevent the dcCrcxy of Fuel Gas. Four thousand satisfied customers in Tinonrn ase the tecomti-nadatirMS we offer. wVD srU you the Gas Range cash or payments at bargain prices, install them and connect up the gas. and at the end of the year you have paid out less luusiey than you would have paid to run the old coal oaolcstove. And you have saved an iiifinite lot of work and worry. Don't take our word for it ask your ndghbor who uses gas. WeTI abide by the verdict. A fine Ene of Gas Ranges, Water Heaters, Lamps, Irons Fans, Etc Open eveoxngs qf your y.m(!ju das cDDliO EDecHirSc LigCutt (Dn. Douglas of Massachusetts? Gray of Delaware? ' Mitchell of Illinois? There's a fine trio. Now. If the democrats do not pro ceed to do the damphool thing! "The injunction V plank suits Mr. union wage scale is but mini- backstop to the rear of which an employer cannot go, but there is nothing to prevent a su perior workman from demanding and receiving a wage commensurate with promise because the exception leaves be so recognized by employers of la bor, and then the up-to-date contrac tors will have the best mechanics and thereby be more prosperous. Zanes- ville Labor Journal. DEMAND The UNION LABEL V7cgcr:ftcrs,A1tali:a We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY &NORRIS Lao So. lit St, 1235 X Street. - - IJiarofn. Neer.