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LABOR UNION DIRECTORY. Following Is a directory of Hie Trades and Labor Unions of Lincoln and vicinity. Lccal secretaries are respectfully asked to report any changes or corrections herein, to the end that an accurate and convenient directory be maintained. CENTRAL LABOR UNION Meets sec ond and fourth Tuesday eveninjre. Brum's hall. President. O. M. Rudy, lrt3S O. Secretary. F. A. Kates. 1020 K. Treasurer T. W. Evans. 128 South Eleventh. LABOR TeMPLE DIRECTORY Meets everv Monday evening. li orth Twelfth street. President. J. XV. Pick son. University Place. Secretary, Fred lhringer. Sixteenth and D streets, Lin coln. MUSICIANS PROTECTIVE UNION. No. 63 Meets first and third Sunday morn ings, Bruse's Hall. President. Wm. Pinnev. 125 South Sixteenth. Record ' ing Secretary, W. C. Norton. 1333 North Twentv-Hfth. Financial Secretary, N. A. Otis. 2234 Q. Meets rtrst and third Wednesday even ing. Bohanan's hall. President. R. L. McBride. 164S Q. Recording Secretary. Kov Ward. 1210 O. Financial Secre tary, Roy Swinker, 1010 O. BARTENDERS' LEAGUE. No. 399 Meets .hird Sunday. 10 a. m.. Carpen ters" luUL President. William Brandt. 1225 R. Recording Secretary, Henry Killers. Financial Secretary, H. E. bundean, 1S-H P. LEATHER WORKERS ON HORSE GOODS. No. 29 Meets first and third TuesJavs. Bruse's hall. President, r i t ,ta o 1 5r,nK Sivtonrh fi- ...1MenM. Vntow Smith Souili Eleventh.' CIGARM AKERS. No. 13 Meets every Monday evening. 1036 O. President. T. W. Evans. 12 South Kleventh. Secretary. John Steiner. 122 South Tenth. BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD. No. 97 Meets second ana iourm weanes t:iv pviti i n ir; Curwnters' hall. Presi dent. J. C tJrant. KTnth and U streets. Recording Secretary. P. S. Sherman. ji p street. Financial Secretary, J. Bockoven. BLACKSMITHS AND HELPERS. No. 163 Meets first and third Tuesday evenings. Campbell's hall. Havelock. President. R. O. Wagner. Havelock. Secretary, E. H. BUson. Havelock. BUILDING TRADES SECTION. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, No. 865 Meets every Thursday evening, n3t J street. President. C. XI. Anderson. 2028 Q Recortiing Secretary, G. E. Vennum. 1410 P. Financial Secretary, W. L. Mayer, 2--a vj. PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS. No. 8 Meets every Monday evening. Car- renters nail. President. Jd English. 1933 17. Recording Secretary, George Chipman. 329 rtorth Eleventh. Finan eiai Secretary. Charles Burns, $46 North Twenty-sixth. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. No. 18 Meets everv Thursday evening. Carpenters halL President, Charles Jennings. 19S8 S. Recording Secretary. Wm. Wilkinson. 2100 N. Financial Secretary, Perry Jennings. 1936 S. CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. No. 1055 Meets every Tuesday evening, Carpenters' halL 130 North Tenth. President. F. B. Naracong. 130 South Twenty-eighth street. Recording Sec retary. C. H. Chase. 2005 Xorth Thir-1 tietn. financial secretary. J. w. JMck son. 317 West St Paul street. University Place, BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS No. 2- Meets every Friday evening. Careen ters halL President. E. L. Simon, 2245 E. Recording Secretary. P. W. Smith, R. F. D. 14. Financial Secretary, C H. jjeyers, z.v .ortn Eleventh. RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE EN GINEERS, Division No. 98 Meets sec- ona and fourth Sunday. Chief En gineer, J. S. McCoy. 1203 U street. rtrst Assistant Engineer. F. D. Palmer, ssoutn Tenth street. Second Assist ant Engineer, H. Wiggenjost, Court Mouse. , BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD. Na. 119 Meets second and fourth Friday eveninira. ji. . u. n. nail. 1UU7 J. nresinent. -narles Peterson. 1402 Jack son. Havelock. Secretary. Tom Duffy, imiiAim ujiu lousuia avenues, lliive JOCK. MACHINISTS' ASSOCIATION. No. 698 Meets first Friday in Havelock. third rnaay at a. u. w. nail, Lincoln. President. J. A. Malstead, Havelock. oecreiary, v. n. ungie, k: jNorth Sev enteentn. BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY CAR MEN Meets first and third Saturday evenings, a. . u. w. nail. President. H. T. Sexson. 1631 North Twenty fourth. Recording Secretary. C. E. f. A-uawig, list soutn seventh. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS, No. 179 Meets second and fourth Sunday afternoons, A. O. V. W. hall. Master. . ..... . i.i .1. iwruub oecre- lary, J. itoomson. 2SJ1 w. RROTHERunnn nc dam uivtoku MEN. No. 170 Meets second and fourth Sunday afternoons. Bohanan's halL Master. J. I . Andrews. 1.36 O. Sec re ury. u. j. iooper, zizi south Ninth. BROTHERHOOD OF SWITCHMEN, No. v jseecs nrst cunaay at n p. m.. sec ond Sunday at 3 p. m.. Carpenters' hall. President. 17. S Swlalwr Til Sumner. Recording Secretary. George - Am-. cmttncim secretary, PRINTING TRADES SECTION. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COLIN CIL Meets third Wednesday evening. varpemers nan. fresiaent. G. I txleor. 1209 South street. Secretary Treasurer. J. H. Brooks, TOO North .xinin street. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 209 .Meets nrst J-unuay, 2 p. m.. Fraternity i ij.iM'iii. j. tt. cam. l -U south inirtietn. !coraing Secretarv. H. W Kingaman. 2201 Hoidrege. Financial recretary, . m. HeDoard, 1527 Wash iiisiuu. BOOKBINDERS' BROTHERHOOD, No 120 Meets third Mondnv eveninir Car. penters' hall. President. C. C. Jerome, torn tnn sixteenth. secretary-Treas urer, r ira ra:ss, 1 -VI li. STEREOTYPERS AND ELECTRO TYPERS. No. 62 Meets third Wednes day eveuing, t'arpenters hall. Presi dent. A. E. Small. 2044 South Nine teenth. Secretary-Treasurer, Sam Asken, ::.s Dudley. CAPITAL AUXILIARY. No. 11 Meets second ana tourtn Friday afternoons bomtn of members. President. Mrs. Fred W. MickeL 1945 South Sixteenth Secretary. Mrs. C. B. Righter. 2308 laidley. Treasurer, Mrs. Charles Barn & rover, zsia Starr. PRESSMEN AND ASSISTANTS, No. 106 Meets first Wednesday. Carpenters' hall. President, J. H. Brooks. 72S North Eleventh. Recording Secretary, E. c " erger. financial secre tary, W. D. King, 2030 M. WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 1, 1&04, at the postoffice at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act ot Congress ot March 3rd, 1ST9. jt "Printers' Ink," the recog- jl jM nized authority on advertis- J ina. after a thorough in vest i- J 4 gatfon on this subject, says: Jt "A labor paper Is a far bet- J jt ter advertising medium than jH an ordinary newspaper in J jt comparison with circulation. Jt jl A labor paper, for example, Jl Jt havlna 2.000 subscribers is of S Jt more value to the business J jM man who advertises in it Jt jt thxi an ordinary paper with Ji jt 12.000 subscribers." Jt Jl J Jt Jtjt Jtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjtjt LABOR AND THE INJUNCTION. The Wageworker desires to call particular attention to the two in junction planks published on page one. The one plank is from the demo cratic national platform adopted at Denver, the other from the republican rational platform adopted at Chicago. Republican leaders claim that their platform plank on the injunction ques tion will be satisfactory to working- men who are not asking for judicial license to do violence and assume special privileges. They claim that the request preferred by Gompers, Mitchell, Duncan and others was. for a plank that would wink at disrespect and disregard for the court. This claim is unfounded. Organized labor is not asking exemption from judicial procedure; , neither is it asking that it be granted special privileges with held from other citizens. But it is asking that organized labor be not held subject to court proceedings that would not be instituted if a party to the contest did not represent organ ized labor. In other words, organ ized labor merely asks that the courts hold to be legal any act of a union man that would be legal in case the doer of the act were not a union man. Organized labor only asks tnat it be put upon an equal footing with ethers and not made a special class for special action on the part of a court. And again, organized labor is demanding and rightfully that the injunction he not used in an indus trial dispute where it would not be ued were the industrial question not involved. Organized labor is not ob jecting to summary punishment for contempt of court in cases wherein the contempt is committed in the presence of the court although the power to indefinitely imprison for contempt is a dangerous power to give into the hands of any man. But organized labor . is opposed to im prisonment for constructive contempt merely upon the say-so of prejudiced witnesses and without a chance to prove innocence. The republican platform Injunction llank means simply a continuance of the present system of injunction whereby the injunction writ has been prostituted from its original In tent and made a club in the hands cf conscienceless men for the heating of defenseless toilers. The democratic platform -plank stands for something definite for re lief to the toilers from the injustice wrought by the injunction writ in the hands of unjust judges, relief from the un-American system of jailing for contempt without a hearing or the semblance of a trial, and an equal chance with the rich and the power ful. Organized labor has the highest re spect for the courts of the land, but it is warranted In feeling the utmost disrespect for certain judges who have brought reproach upon the ju d.ciary by their subserviency to cor poration masters and their disregard o the fundamental rights of the weak end the helpless. Whatever disre snect there exists for the courts, It is founded upon the actions of the courts. The Wageworker asks every thoughtful workingman to carefully study the two platform planks as they appear side by side on page one. MM 55 THE GREAT DIFFERENCE. When Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, John Mitchell and other men prominent In the organized labor movement went to Chicago to ask the republican national convention for a declaration that would give the toilers some hope, they were treated with scant courtesy. They were al lowed a half hour before the resolu tions committee, and even then they were constantly interrupted and an noyed. Xot one thing that they asked for in the name of 2,000,000 union men was "granted, and the injunction plank adopted is a meaningless plati tude that will deceive no workingman who has brains enough in his head to grease a bicycle hub. At Denver Gompers, Morrison, Mitchell and the other, labor leaders were courteously received, granted all the time they wanted and given every opportunity to present their case in all its hearings. The result was an injunction plank that meets with their hearty approbation, and which cen not be successfully attacked by any man who is willing to be fair with himself and his fellows. Upon the meaningless republican pianfe stands a candidate who won rublic recognition because of his abuse of the injunction writ at the expense of men battling for fair treatment and a decent wage. Upon the thoughtful and fair democratic plank stands a man who lias been the earnest champion of or ganized labor and the rights of the workingmen to an equal show beftTre the courts. It will not be difficult for the thoughtful union man to see the great difference between Chicago and Denver. When a lot of capitalists oiganize n trust for the purpose of increasing their dividends they are hailed as 'financiers." When a lot of railroad tmployes organize to prevent action that will result in a decrease in their already meagre wages they are de nounced as "tools of their employers. l"unny old world, isn't it? In West Virginia a federal judge enjoined organizers of the United Mine Workers from riding on street CErs carrying non-union miners. And organized labor is accused of "dis respect for the courts" when it pro tests against this abuse of the in junction writ. The Lincoln union man who landed a good municipal job on the strength cf being a union man, and then al lowed his card to lapse because he was "no longer working at the trade,' ought to study up the definition of the word "ingrate." Colonel "Bill" Price of Lincoln an nounces that he is a candidate for the democratic congressional nomina tion. We have it on good authority 'nat Colonel Price is against the ship subsidy graft so ably championed by Representative E. M. Pollard. Under the primary law union men who affiliate with the republican party have it in their power to force the nomination of two or three good union republicans for the legislature- Get busy! " If Mr. Taft were still on the bench he might jail us for contempt in re fusing to vote for him. That woulj not be a strange step in the injunc tion progression. We'd have given a dollar or two if John P. Altgeld had been at the Denver convention to make a few re marks upon the Cleveland resolutions. And that Taft banner which fell across the O street trolley wires was made and hung by non-unionists That may explain why it fell. When VanCleave read the injunc tion plank of the Denver platform he went out into his back yard and Bucked to beat the hand. What shall its avail a union man to spout unionism 364 days in th year and then vote against ua:onism on the 365th day? Having driven the g. o. p. elephant frantic Mr. Roosevelt will soon turn his attention to African elephants. What tickles us is to hear a Phila oelphia republican complaining about the corruption of Tammany. The lemon handed organized labor at Chicago was followed by a ripe, juicy melon at Denver. It's awfully hard to respect a court that has no self-respect. There are no "keep off the grass' cn the Fairview lawn. While Mr. Taft was secretary of ar a contract was let for the manu facture of khaki uniforms for the American soldiers. The uniforms were made of British khaki by coolie abor. "Protection to American industries and American labor!" Rats! ! ! The Wageworker can name a half- dozen union men right here in Lan caster county who would be better congressional timber than any yet mentioned by either of the two old rties. And this is not intended as compliment to the union men, either. The Central Union Times of Jack- onville, Florida, has entered it? hird year. It is one of the livest wires connected with The Wage worker shop, and here's hoping it will enjoy increasing prosperity as the years roll on. I. J. Dunn, the young Nebraskan who nominated Bryan at Denver, is a lawyer now, but the money needed to send him through law school was earned as a stereotyper with a union card in his pocket. It rather irritated one union man who attended the Denver convention to hear the eulogies pronounced upon the man who forced workingmen to accept injustice at the point of fed eral bayonets. Mr. Taft is going to "judicially dis cuss the Denver platform. - But he is no longer in a position to send to jail any of us who express our contempt for his "judicial utterances." The Utica Oberver, which has twice opposed Bryan and supported the re- l.uhlican ticket, is now supporting Pryan. And Utica is the home of Jim the Iceman. Labor Day in Lincoln! Hammer labor's enemies by reward ing labor's friends. Labor's emancipation proclamation must be written at the ballotbox. MERELY IN PASSING. Good Union Dope Manufactured by Men Who Play the Game. i Divided They Vote. The whistle has blown and each man takes his place , To toil for the world at a death-deal ing pace. Each movement is skillful, each brain is alert," While they patiently work in th factory dirt. Just look at that picture and then make a note. That united they sweat, but divided they vote. The machines and the belts and the shafting are still And not a wheel turns there's -a strike at the mill. A strike! Every workman has sol emnly vowed To stand by his - mates till their ' claims are allowed. 'Tis a brave thing to do, hut don't fail to note That united they strike, but divided they vote. The sun brightly shines, as there passes along In holiday raiment the Labor Day throng Each man is decked out in his Labor Day best ''Labor omnia vincit," the banners attest, 1 Yes, labor may conquer,, but never, please note, While united they march, but divided they vote. ' Ellis O. Jones. Ca-ds. A lot of union men regularly pay dues for a year and then vote to make it useless. A union man clad in "scab gar ments is a walking advertisement of damphoolishness. When organized labor iearu3 to distinguish the difference betweep a lemon and a melon, politicians will sit tip and take notice. The man who declares he has noth ing to - arbitrate makes public con fession of a weak cause. " The label on a candidate's card is no sure sign of his interest in the workingman. Insistent demand for the label is tetter than the boycott. Politics in the union may be bad, l.ut there is only good in unionism in politics. Explained. "What makes Mike look so sad?" "He's been Tafted." "What's that?" "His wife has restrained him from going down town after supper." f"7 Oil HARDWARE, STOVES, SPOBT- O nll ING GOODS, RAZORS, RAZOR W UF COII STROPS AND CUTLEBY - At Low Hoppe's Hardware, 100 ncrlh ICIh n. Cz are truely wonderful stones nothing at all like the ordinary immitation diamonds as brilliant as the real diamonds. See them, you'll be surprised and delighted. Henderson Sc Hald, lOth Street, Opposite Post Office Burlington Roufo Cigar Factory N. H. CINBERG, Prop. (Mflpi) Trade Mark Registered. (--. enl aizej One thing that distinguishes our Cigars is the superior workmanship and the uniform high quality of stock used in their manofartnre. We invite yon to patronize this home concern, and guarantee joa Cigars as finely made and of as good quality as any goods turned oat at a similar price by an Eastern concern. We sell to retailers and jobbers only. If you are not now handling oar goods, send ns a trial order. Burlington Routo Cigar Factory 205 North Ninth Street, LINCOLN, NEB. Cook With Gas Light With Electricity Lincoln Gas and Electric Light DEMAND The Vagevorkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY & NORRIS I39 So Uth St. Prices mam MANLTACTtRERS OF HIGH GRADE CIGARS ONLY LEADING BRANDS, lO-CENT: Senator Burkett, Bariinjetoa Route LEADING BRANDS, 5-CENT: Havana Fives, Burlington Route Hot Weather Cvmjvrt Co. UNION LABEL LIL'COUJ SKI3T CO. ETHEL E. ANDERSON. PntrttM. Exclnsre Retailer. JSamctmt.Ua n at Kigl-Grade, Hiie-ti-Measire Petfieaats 1235 X Street. - - Lincoln, iebr.