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s LABOR UNION DIRECTORY. Following Is a directory of the Trades and I.abor Unions of Lincoln and vicinity. Lccul secretaries are respectfully nsked to report any changes or corrections herein, to tho end that an accurate and convenient directory be maintained. CENTRAL LABOR UNION Meets sec ond and fourth Tuesday evenlnRS, Brush's hall. President, O. M. Rudy, 10.16 G. Secretary. F. A. Kates. 1020 K. Treasurer T. W. Evans, 12S South Eleventh. LABOR TsTMPLE DIRECTORY Meets everv Monday evenlnd. 127 North Twelfth street. President. J. W. Pick son. Univeraitv Place. Secretary. Fred lhrlnger. Sixteenth and D streets, Lin coln. MUSICIANS PROTECTIVE UNION. No. S63 Meets first and third Sunday morn inirs. Bruse's Hail. President. Wm. Pinnev. 125 South Sixteenth. Record ing Secretary, W. C. Norton. 1533 North Twenty-fifth". Financial Secretary, N. A. Otis. 2234 Q. JOURNEYMEN BARBERS. No. 164 Meets first and third Wednesday even ing. Bohanan's hall. President, R. L. Mi-Bride. 1648 Q. Recording Secretary, Rov Ward. 1210 O. Financial Secre tary. Roy Swinker, 1010 O. BARTENDERS' LEAGUE, No. 399 Meets hird Sunday, 10 a. m.. Carpen terr' hall. President. William Brandt. 122S K. Recortling Secretary, Henry Killers. Financial Secretary, H. E. bundean. 1S44 P. LEATr! ERWORKERS ON HORSE GOODS. No. 29 Meets first nnd third Tuesdays. Bruse's hall. President. Fred Lewis. 216 -South Sixteenth. Secretary-Treasurer, Peter Smith, 226 South Eleventh. CIGARM AKERS. No. 143 Meets every Monday evening. 1036 O. President. T. W. Evans. 128 South Kleventh. Secretary, John Steiner. 122 South Tenth. BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD. No. 497 Meets second and fourth Wednes day evening. Carpenters' hall. Presi dent. J. C. Grant. Ninth and U streets. iiecordinK Secretary. P. S. Sherman. 22 p street. Financial Secretary, J. Bockovcn. BLACKSMITHS AND HELPERS. No. 163 Meets first nnd third Tuesday eveniriRs. CampbeU"s hall. Havelock. President. R. O. Wagner. Havelock. Secretary. E. B. Bilson, Havelock. BUILDING TRADES SECTION. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, No. 265 Meets every Thursday evening, 1036 O street. President. C. M. Anderson, 2028 Q. Recording Secretary, G. B. Vennum, 1410 P. Financial Secretary, W. L. Mayer. 2225 Q. PLUMBERS AND GASF1TTERS, No. 88 Meets every Monday evening. Car penters' hall. President, Ed English, 1933 V. Recording Secretary, George Chlpman. S29 North Eleventh. Finan cial Secretary. Charles Burns, 846 North Twenty-sixth. PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. No. 18 Meets every Thursday evening. Carpenters' hall. President, Charles Jennings. 1938 S. Recording Secretary. Wm. Wilkinson. 21.00 N. Financial Secretary, Perry Jennings, 1936 S. CARPENTERS AND JOINERS, No. 1065 Meets every Tuesday evening. Carpenters' hall, 130 North Tenth. PresUlent. F. B. Naracong. 130 South Twem y -eighth street Recording Sec retary. C. H. Chase. 2005 North Thir tieth. Financial Secretary. J. W. Dick son. S17 West St. Paul street. University Place. BRICKLAYERS AND MASONS No. 2 Meets every Friday evening. Carpen ters' hall. President. E. L. Simon. 2245 E. Recording Secretary. P. W. Smith, R. F. D. 14. Financial Secretary, C. H. Meyers. 320 North Eleventh. RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS. BROTHERHOOD OP LOCOMOTIVE EN GINEERS, Division No. 98 Meets sec ond and fourth Sunday. Chief En gineer. J. S. McCoy, 1203 U street. First Assistant Engineer. F. IX Palmer, T2S South Tenth street. Second Assist ant Engineer, H. Wiggenjost, Court House. BOILERMAKERS' BROTHERHOOD, No. 119 Meets second and fourth Friday evenings. A. O. U. W. hall. 1007 O. President. Charles .Peterson. 1402 Jack son. Havelock. Secretary, Tom Duffy, Indiana and Touialin avenues, Have lock. MACHINISTS' ASSOCIATION, No. 898 .Meets nrst Tiday in Havelock. third Friday at A. O. V. W. hall. Lincoln. President. J. A. Malstead. Havelock. Secretary. C. H. Lingle, S29 North Sev enteenth, BROTHERHOOD OP RAILWAY CAR. MEN Meets first and third Saturday nvnins a. va u. v. nau. president, H. T. Sexson. 1S31 North Twentv fourth. Recording Secretary. C. E. Cox. 2T29 W. Financial Secretary, O. P. Ludwig. 1137 South Seventh. BROTHERHOOD OP LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS, No. 179 Meets second and fourth Sunday Riiemwna, a. i. v. nan. Master. H. Kurtx. S21 North Twelfth. Secre tary. J. K. Robinson. 2971 Q. BROTHERHOOD OP RAIL WAV TRAIN. MEN, No. 170 Meets second and fourth Miwiay afternoons. Bohanan s hall. Master. J. D. Andrews. ITS O. Secre tary, D. J. Cooper. 2126 South Ninth. BROTHERHOOD OP SWITCHMEN. No. t0 Meets first Sunday at S p. m.. sec ond Sunday at 2 p. m.. Carpenters' hall. President. IT. S. Swisher tit Sumner. Recording Secretary. George !...- , - . . . -. - - v. r iiiuucuu secretary. PRINTING TRADES SECTION. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUN CIL Meets third Wednesday evening I 2ft rM, Kail . .4 .... 1 - Locker. 12i9 South street. Secretary- ireosuier, j. it. tsrooKS, TOO North ill hi virwi. . TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 209 r.rst Kunoay, 3 p. n tternity ". nwramt, J. K tstln. SOUtl Thtrtiuih I? ...... ; O . . r . Ringaman, 2201 Hoidrege. Financial ingtoo. BOOKBINDERS BROTHERHOOD. IMn. 120 Meets third Monday evening. Car penters' hall. President. C. C. Jerome. ...... --. ocvivuuj irawf' urer. Fred Ress. 1201 B. TEREOTYPERS AND ELECTRO TYPERS. No. 62 Meets third Wednes day evening. Carpenters' hall. Vrl dent. A. E. Small. 2044 South Nine teenth. Secretary-Treasurer, Sam Askea, 22TS Dudley. CAPITAL AUXILIARY. No. 11 Meets second and fourth Friday afternoons at rotoes of numbers. President. Mrs. Fred W. MickeL 1945 South Sixteenth. Secretary. Mrs. C. R. Righter. 2308 Duilley. Treasurer. Mrs. Charles Barn- a rover, Starr. PRESSMEN AND ASSISTANTS. No. 106 Meets first Wednesday. Caroenters' hall. FTesldent. J. H. Brooks. 72S North hJeventh. Recording Secretary, F C. Werger. 1526 X. Financial Secre- . . TV- T . l: .iA V, WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weeklv at 137 No. J 4th St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 11, 1304, at the postofflce at IJncoln, Xeb., under the Act of Congvess oi March. 3rd, 1S79. J j "Printers' Ink," the recog- j jt nized authority on advertis- J j tng, after a thorough investi- J jt gation on this subject, says: Jt jt "A labor paper is a far bet- jt jt ter advertising medium than jt an ordinary newspaper in Jt jit comparison with circulation. J jt A labor paper, for example, J J having 2,000 subscribers is of J 0 more value to the business J j man who advertises in it JA jt thi an ordinary paper with Jt jt 12,000 subscribers." J jK J MR. GOMPERS' POSITION. The attempt of the administration organs to make it appear that Mr. Gompers is trying to "deliver" the la bor vote would be amusing were it not so pitiable an evidence of poli tical fear. Samuel Gompers has dem onstrated his fitness as a leader and his ability as a constructionist. He has also demonstrated that he is pos sessed of diplomatic ability of a high order and a fund of common sense that has kept'him out of a lot of pos sible trouble. The fact of the matter is that Jlr. Gompers has at no time promised to deliver the labor vote" to Bryan and Kern. Mr. Gompers knows full well that he has but one vote he can de liver, and that vote is his own. But after viewing the situation thoroughly, and having posted himself on current political and industrial history, Mr. Gompers has decided in his own mind that the interests of organized labor demand that organized labor support Mr. Bryan, and having so decided in his own mind he is frank to speak his thoughts. His only promise of "de livery" is that he will support Bryan and Kern upon a platform that breathes interest in the wage earners and offers evidence of friendship, good will and exact justice. Mr. Gompers is too smart to pledge the labor vote to any candidate. But being an acknowledged leader in the labor movement it is only natural that -he should exert a wide influence and it is this fact that drives the supporters of "Injunction Bill" and "Jim the Ice man" to misrepresent Mr. Gompers and seek to prejudice his fellow union ists against him. These partisan organs quote some so-called labor leaders as denying Mr. Gompers right to tell them how to vote something that Mr. Gompers never claimed. But he is well within his rights as a free American citizen when he tells them how he thinks they ought to vote if they would bene fit themselves. The so-called labor leader is quoted as saying that "democratic unionists will vote the democratic ticket, and republican unionists will vote the re publican tickeL" If this assertion is true organized labor ought to feel thoroughly ashamed. The thorough unionist is never a partisan in the sense that he will stick to party when partisanship runs counter to unionism and to patriotism. The curse of or ganized labor has been its subser viency to partisanship, its willingness to be used as a tool by unscrupulous politicians. Mr. Gompers has led a movement to put the American Federation of Labor Into the political game not as parti sans but as unionists. He has urged. with some measure of success, that union men lay aside partisan bias and vote for the men who come nearest to representing the hopes and aspira tions of union men and women. He went to the republican national con vention and asked that men who work for wage be put upon the same level of justice as the men who toil not, nor spin; upon the same level as the men who pay wages. His answer was a sneer and the result was a calm ignor ing of the just demands of organized labor. Then Mr. Gompers who is him self a republican went to the demo cratic national convention and asked for the same thing. The democratic convention gave heed to the petition and gave organized labor the planks it wanted, and which it was well with in its rights in asking. Then, when Mr. Gompers says he will cast aside his partisanship and stand squarely by those who have evidenced some re gard for the toilers, a lot of papers having political axes to grind shout that "Gompers says he will deliver the labor vote to Bryan." Why shouldn't Gompers, and every other union voter, support Bryan? Bryan has been their friend. He has fought their battles. He has made the strongest pleas in their behalf. He has appealed to the conscience of the nation and aroused it to a realizing sense that the men who produce are entitled to a fuller share of the pro duct of their toil. He has demnaded equal justice between them and their employers. He has demanded that they be given an equal chance before the courts of the land. His opponent be longs to a party that refused labor a hearing and laughed at its plea for justice. He has jailed union men for doing what they had a perfect right as citizens to do. He stands for the doctrine that "the courts can do no wrong," and says that any man who does not subscribe to this doctrine is guilty of "contempt" and ought to be jailed without even the semblance of a trial. He is the preferred candidate of every union hating employer in the republic. As secretary of war he furnished the American soldiers with uniforms made of British khaki by coolie labor. He inaugurated the evil system of using the writ of injunction in labor disputes, thus advancing the theory of property right in labor an idea as repugnant to commonsense and common decency as the old and exploded idea of the divine authority for chattel slavery. v Mr. Gompers, republican that he is, sees these things clearly, and for that reason he announces that he thinks more of the welfare of his fellow toil ers than he does of any political party and will therefore oppose his party's nominees and support the candidacy of a man who has been labor's friend. The labor leader who would indict or ganized labor of being so silly, after all these years of experience, as to vote for party instead of for home and wife and babies, either is trying to hold the labor vote in line for a pri vate consideration or is so ignorant of conditions that he is unfit to repre sent organized labor in any manner. If, after carefully and thoughtfully studying all the facts any union man votes for Taft and the party which snubbed organized labor, The Wage worker will be content and will re spect that union man's decision. But for the union man, be he republican or democrat, who blindly votes a par tisan ticket without giving a thought to the many facts concerned for that union man The Wage worker has only the utmost contempt. All that Mr. Gompers has done is to urge union men to vote intelligently, and cease being the tools of designing politicians. And by exercising his in telligence Mr. Gompers has come to see that organized labor has an oppor tunity to advance its own interests while helping a staunch friend by vot ing for Wililam J. Bryan. : . The Wageworker is quite willing to support any good union man for office that union men may select, but when union men ask The Wageworker to do this they ought to be willing to help The Wageworker do it. It costs something like $150 a month to run this little sheet, and up to date the union men who are making the loudest holler for help are the men who are giving the least support. Mr. Van Cleave, president of the National Manufacturers Association, a rank union-hating organization, is supporting Taft. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, an organization of union men and women, is supporting Bryan. Under which flag, Mr. Union Man? The state administration of Ne braska is so mindful of organized la bor's protests against the convict la bor contract system that it is willing to continue it if it can get a nickel a day more per convicL But "Sunny Jim" Is a warm enough member to dissolve injunctions issued by imitators of the head of "Sunny Jim's'ticket. The Standard Oil company's fine is remitted. But the union man must go to jail for contempt of such a court. What organized labor needs to do is to send its petitions to Washing ton and send them in boots. Men who thought with their stomachs in 1896 are now thinking with their heads. The election of Bryan will not solve the labor question, but it will hasten the solution. If your union getting ready for La bor Day? If not, why not? Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison are cited to answer for contempt of court by exercising their rights as American citizens. The fine of the oil trust is "remitted a fine imposed for re peated and flagrant violations of the federal laws. Query : Is there money enough in the world to purge thinking men of the contempt they must feel for courts that will act in this manner? Mr. Fairbanks may be an "iceberg" politically, and he is undoubtedly not over-scrupulous in his financial un dertakings as the records will show but he is at least a true friend, a good neighbor and a citizen of public Spirit. And these things, like charity, cover a multitude of sins. It was"Judge Taft who fined and jailed a lot of union bricklayers be cause they decided that it was in jurious to themselves to TJatronize a firm that was antagonistic fo the best interests of the bricklayers. Our good friend "Doc" Bixby says that democrats are a measley lot. Per haps, but a majority of them are dem ocrats from conviction, not because they feel that they have to be in or der to hold their jobs. The Taft banner again swings across O street, just as it has a perfect right to swing. But we have to laugh every time we think of the pinneadedness of the republican leaders who swung it in the first place. The State Journal says organized la bor should wait and hear from Mitch ell. Well, now that Mitchell has spoken, will the Journal advise organ ized labor to follow his advice? If the courts are not estopped from exercising legislative functions, we will very soon have a government by a feueral judiciary appointed for life and self perpetuating. The Standard Oil trust escapes on a bunch of technicalities. AH techni calities are swept aside when a union man is cited to appear for contempt of court. VanCleave, Parry and Post are sup porting Taft. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison are supporting Bryan. Puz zle what should union men do? The idea of property right in the la bor of others is purely a Taft idea. Let's elect our own kind to act in our interests. OUR LABOR EXCHANGES. What Other Labor Editors Are Saying on Current Questions. Only One Reason. No man need be ashamed because he is a unionist unless it is because he is not as good a unionist as he should be. Springfield, Mo., Trades man. Workingmen, Get Off! For president, Wililam Howard Taft, "the father of the injunction." For vice-president, James Schoolcraft Sherman, "ice trust magnate." Plat form: Workingmen, get off. West ern Laborer. A Touching Document. Mr. Taft's supporters should offer as a campaign document a picture of the Cincinnati jail that housed the lo comotive engineer he sentenced to imprisonment for daring to assert his right to refuse to injure his fellow workers. Western Laborer. The Busters Won. Van Cleve's organization repre sented a membership of 3,000; Gomp ers' organization represented a mem bersbip of about 2,000,000. But Van Cleve with his little bunch of union haters won the fight against Gompers and the 2,000,000 members. Spring field Tradesman. Why? A vote for Taft and those congress men who have opposed the reforms labor has asked for is an endorsement of their attitude. Are you satisfied with what they have done for labor? If not, -why vote for them? Detroit Union Advocate. Vastly Different. The injunction plank in the Denver platform was made of different tim ber than the one which was hewed out at Chicago. Kansas City Labor Herald. THE REASON WHY. Three million wage-earners in this country have been greatly benefited by trades unions. The hodcarrier and the teamster, because of the union, have been able to raise wages to $3 a day, while office workers requiring skill and training have been com pelled to work for very much less. Why? Largely because the book keepers and office men have not been organized. V"7 C? II HARDWARE Wy Sljll strops an At Low Hoppe's Hardware. 108 Tlcrih lOIh H & HI . PiflLMJUg 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 & Hald, lOth Street, Opposite Post Office I Burlington Roufo Cigar Factory N. H. C1NBERG, Prop. I ' ! Trade Mark Registered. (Hfn: aue One thing that distinguishes our Cigars is tie superior workmanship and the uniform, high quality of stock nsed in their manufacture. 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