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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1908)
MORE OUT HERE. Mr. A. J. Elias figures that Bryan' will have 310 electoral votes. There are thousands of people right 'here in Buffalo who are hoping that Mr. Elias Is a good prophet. Buffalo Progress. THE PRINTERS. Still Receiving Compliments About the 0Sullivan Banquet. The Typographictl Union is receiv ing niauy compliments because of its nccssrul handling of the OSullivan banquet. That affair advertised the nterprise and good fellowship of the Ijncoln printers all over the country. Delegate Lyman returned Monday f:on the Boston convention. He re torts a magnificent time at the social entertainments and the transaction of en enormous lot of business at thts sessions of the convention. He is l-s ppy over the selection of St. Joseph for the next convention. The Labor Day committee is sup posed to be busy with preparations for the bis day. The union meets the day l-efore the big doings, and the con mittee will probably have to report arrangements through The Wage worker and the daily press. THE POOR LITTLE THINGS. Lightning started a bad prairie fire north of Crookston. Xeb this week that raged for several days before it was stopped, but it was finally got under control with the aid of some In dian IKjliCt. MEM'S WEAR UNDERPRICED Shirts that sold for 75c. 33c Shirts that sold for 50c 25c $1.50 Mohair Shirts, at each 75c 35c, 39c and 50c BalUriggan Shirts . and Drawers, each 25c 75c White Unlaundered Shirts, each ...35c Children's Suspenders at, per pair 5c THEM DAYLIGHT STORE We Trust You for Anything Used in the Home Whatever yoa want for use in yonr home will be sold to roe on credit. Your choice oi TAN articles wi'J be shipped oe approve!. Use aor lootHi SI days beire you decide to keep Mm. Then, it satisfactory, pmf a little each Booth. Weaseaathatexactiy Whw person want to make his !)ome mora attractive, bis credit is rood wita n. Save 15 to 50 Per Cent - We are tne lareesl concern ol oar kind h the -world. Oar combuicd capital is f7.aw.uul. Cn ow bocks are mure than iSJ.OUU customer. We own SS mamtnotn retail stores, located in tbe ptincipal cities, and we control the output of a score ol treat factories. Tbtis wo bur and sell at prices which no other concern can compel with. We mrito any sort of com parison. You can return any roods, sent on approval, if yon doa't find a savins of 15 to SO per cent, under tbe lowest prices, cash or credit, anywhere. 30 DayV Free Trial As yon can't come to our store, we send tbe goods to you on approval. Use them a month, and decide bow you like them. Compare our prices with others. If not satisfactory, return tbe roods at our expense. Tbe mouth's use will not cost you a penny. Small Monthly Payment If you are satisfied, you can pay a little each month what you can afford. Take from 10 to 24 months to pav, while you use and enjoy tbe articles. We charg-e no interest and ask no security. You simply buy as we buy on credit and our dealings are all confidential. Four Free Catalogs 3,000 Articles We issue fcur handsome catalogs, showing pictures, prices and descriptions oi -. thimrs (or the heme. Many of tbe picture show the actual colors. Sicnpiv write us a postal and say which catalog you want. Ticy are free, and w pay postage. Furniture and Carpets No. lO shows a new and wonderful liaeof Furniture. Housefutnisiunsrs. Carpets. Hues, Oil Cloths and Portieres, illustrated in actual colors. Also Lace Curtains. Clocks. Silverware. Crockery. Sewimt M achioes. Wash mc Machines. Refrigerators. Baby Carnages and tio-C arts. Stoves and Ranges finht No. 20 siiows tbe whole Empire Kne of stoves and ranges the stoves that save fuel enough to pay for themselves in six months. Columbia Graphophones f--iT No. 30 is devoted to tbe greatest of all talking machines. We send a complete Oiaphopiione outfit, freight prepaid. You don't pay a penny nntil you have tried it ten days. Then send us small monthly payments. Pianos on Free Trial No Money Down r-at,.!- No. 40 shows tbe celebrated Meyer hoS and Beckmann Pianos, from $144.50 up. We send a piano on 30 days' trial, with no payment down. Pay us nothing at all until we convince you that we save you at least fl'JO. Then pay a little each month. m Send ns a postal today, saying which catalog you want Spiegel, May, Stern Co. - - 1323 35th Street, Chicago TOURS To COLORADO and YELLOWSTONE PARK No trip can surpass in pleasure ami health a vacation spent in theRockies. Low rates an in effect every tlay this summer. The splenUd train service, protected by the perfect Block Signal System of the QJ ltd 3 D) dtj PaicoffSc makes it the most desirable route to these fasciuating regions. New and Scsnac I in a to Yellowstone INQCIKK Of E. O. SLOSSON, General Agent Lincoln Motormen Plead With Hu mane Society for Fair Treatment. The street railway employes of Lin coln. Nebraska, U. S. A., are not orga nized. Bear this fact in mind, for ii may helii you to understand soma things that will be mentioned later. A couple of years ago a number of the street railway employes took their n.rve in hand and organized, but the organization lasted Just about as long as that snowball you heard about the one that some fellow tried to carry through Hades on a red hot platter. X'j sconer had the '"brass collars" of the Traction company become aware of the fact of organization than there was something doing. As a re sult of the "doing" several of the weak-kneed men took off their union buttons and declared that they had been "misled." A few of the old men those on the "easy runs" opposed the organization. As a result it soon died. Without organization, and com pelled to accept any old thing handed them, or quit, the street railway con ductors and motormen of Lincoln are the poorest paid and hardest worked men engaged in the business in any city of equal size in the United States. Lacking the nerve to organize and make a concerted demand for fair pay and reasonable hours, it is only nat ural that these men should be per fectly willing to have somebody else fight their battles for them and stand the expense. So it was that they actually and willingli humiliated themselves by asking an organization to get some thing for them that they didn't dare ask for themselves. And this explains why the Humane Society of Lincoln went before the city council on Mon day evening, August 10, and asked for" the enactment of an ordinance requiring the street railway companies to provide stools for the overworked motormen. Wouldn't that jar you? A Humane Society is necessary to prevent conscienceless men from abusing dumb animals and to prevent the abuse of helpless little children. But so far as this paper is informed it is the first time a lot of stalwart mea had to seek the protection of a humane society and ask for something that men of backbone would have se cure! for themselves long ago. Imagine, if you can, the union cigar isakers of Lincoln or any other city asking the Humane Society to beg the city council to compel the manu facturers to provide sio .-Is for them. Imagine, if you can, union leather workers of Lincoln or any other city asking the Humane Society to beg the city council to compel the manu facturers to provide benches for them. Picture to yourself, if you can, the union printers of Lincoln or any other city begging the Humana' So ciety to go before the city council to secure the enactment of an ordin ance compelling the employers to grant decent working conditions tc the printing fraternity! Say. wouldn t you walk a long ways to see a bunch of union bricklayers or union machinists or union pressmen or union anything else begging th Humane Society to get busy and beg the city council to protect them against the employers? O, Fudge! Likewise. O, Heck. To say nothing of Pshaw! The motormen of Lincoln ought to be asaamed of themselves. They ought to have enough self-respect to either get this just concession for themselves or else stand on their feet until they had chilblains and bunions s Mg as a car vestibule. It is all right to enact laws to com pel employers to furnish stools for overworked women clerks, but when it comes to big, strong, stalwart, burly men begging a humane society to in tercede for them well, that is a stunt that is calculated to make us ashamed of tht sex. and as a result is now serving a sen tence of fourteen months in the Cali fornia state prison. When Young was playing traitor to his union he was lauded to the skies by every union hating newspaper in America but they never said a word about him after they were through using him to achieve their own dirty ends. Young is down and out but 'a few weeks ago the International Brother hood of Teamsters held the largest convention in the history of the order. GOOD EXAMPLE FOR US. Sangamon County, Ills., Unionists Play the Political Game. The trades unionists of. Sangamon county. Illinois, in which county Springfield is located, played the po litical game for fair last week. There were two trades unionists on the pri mary ticket for legislative nomina tions. Harry Wilson was endorsed by the republicans and James F. Morris by the democrats. The trades union ists endorsed both and then got out and., hustled. As a result Wilson and Morris were nominated, each leading his ticket by a handsome margin. That's the way to play the political J. W. Dickson is a republican aspirant for the nomination to be state senator, and Will C. Norton aspires to be on the democratic ticket as a candi date for the house. Dickson is a union carpenter and Norton belongs to two unions, the Typographical and the Mu sicians. Both are good men to tie to square, honest, energetic and capable. J. W. Dickson is a republican aspir ant for the nomination to be state sen ator, and Will C. Norton aspires to be on the democratic ticket as a candi- They have been endorsed by the Cen tral Labor Union and should be en dorsed by every local union in the county. On primary day every republi can union man should vote for Dick son AND FOR NO OTHER CANDI DATE FOR STATE SENATOR. On primary day every democratic union man should vote for Norton for repre sentative AND FOR NO OTHER CAN DIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE. In this way tbe nomination of these two splendid nnion men will be assured and at the same time organized labor's strength as a voUng unit will be demonstrated. Keep politics out of your unions, but in the name of reason and common sense, TAKE YOUR UNIONISM INTO YOUR POLITICS. THE DOWNFALL OF YOUNG. Traitorous Teamster Said to be Serving Time In California. Lincoln union men will remember Albert Young, an organizer of the Teamsters' Union who visited Lincoln about three years ago. Young was vice president of the international, and in that capacity served as general or ganizer. His work in Lincoln was not productive of results, his manner and talk not being such as to commend him to the people of this city. Later Young and President Shea became es tranged, and when Shea was put on trial for conspiracy as a result of the big strike in Chicago, Young turned state's evidence and sought in every way he could to convict Shea and other union teamsters. In this dirty attempt he signally failed, and after spending what he got, disappeared. Later he turned up in southern Cali fornia under an assumed name and se cured a position on an ice wagon. union teamster spotted him and called him to account. Young immediately as saulted him with a pair of ice tongs H JTADE IN LINCOLN IVlAD E BY FRIENDS; LINCOLN MONEY EFT IN LINCOLN wsm FILM ( No better flour sold on the Lincoln market. Every sack warranted. We want the trade ol Union men and women, and we aim to deserve it If your grocer does not handle Liberty Flour, 'phone us and we will attend to it. Ask your neighbor how she Ekes Liberty Flour. We rely on the recommendation of those who use it. It 0. BARBER a SON The Lincoln lallca firPaint Co. Strictly Bras ttr? jgS Modern Decorators, Wall Paper, Mouldings, Etc zhimTi! Ait rttst tm TREASON AND CONTEMPT! Dastardly Attack Upon the Integrity of Our Immaculate Courts. The circuit court judge of Bracken county has shown a shameless dis regard for his oath!" The judge has done absolutely nothing to restore order or to protect the liberties of the people." Now what anarchistic union man is guilty of that incendiary language? What greasy mechanic dare thus at tack the integrity of our courts? What loud-mouthed labor agitator is it that thus dares to impugn tha character of a man who S'ts clothed in ermine upon the judicial bench? What walking delegate is it that dares thus to hurl calnmny at our incor ruptible and uncorrupted judges? Off with his head, whoever he is! O, it wasn't a union man at alL It wasn't an anarchist, nor a walking delegate, nor a loud-mouthed labor agitator, nor a greasy mechanic. It so happens that the man who made the aforementioned attack upon a . judge is the present governor of Kentucky. O, that's all right, then! We thought ti was some irresponsible la boring man. If it had been we were going to demand that he be sent to jail for three thousand years for con tempt of court. talk ESTATE I33 Sc2 I3 St. LINCOLN WORKERS UNION UNIONfMSTAKP tkt Shcss C::ring This Step are made by Union Labor and Fair Employers agreeing to arbi trate all differences. Believers in Industrial Peace and Fair Treatment of labor, should ask their shoe dealer for shoes bearing this stamp. The product of Fair Employers and Fair Labor merits the patronage of all fair minded persons. Ask your dealer for Union Stamp shoes, and if he can not supply you, write BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS' UNION 246 Summer St., BOSTON; MASS. The Dr. BenJ. F. Bally Sanatorium Lincoln, Nebraska T For non-contagions chronic diseases. Largest, best equipped, most beautifully furnished. MITCHELL FOR BRYAN. Tells Through New York World Where He Stands This Year. '"In accordance with your invitation 1 wish to state that in my judgment the election of Mr. Bryan would be for the best interests of the whole ration. "He stands on much the better plat form and will be guided by it in the event of his election. Mr. Taft is handicapped by the zealous advocacy f.-f his cause by the predatory rich. Honest wealth and business have nothing to fear in Bryan's election." John Mitchell, in New York World. FAITH IN OUR COURTS. It is now claimed that a few Wall street brokers received an inside tip on the decision of Judge Grosscup and his associates in the &andard Oil case, and got in on the ground floor before that stock took an up ward shoot. Which all proves that faith in our courts still remains un shaken, despite the claims of dema gogues and agitators. Toledo Union Leader. sooeoso3i08oe Your Cigars Should Bear This La be!.. uiuon-mada cr It is insurance against sweat shop and tenement goods, and against disease. ... We carry a complete line of and all union-made goods GREEN GEDICAL C3., Carter ZzZzz 120 North 11th St.
