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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1908)
ii Vm Mm in Merig Eton lititini? Is $25 Too Much for a Suit? If yei think so, why ot make a change? Suit Made to Order By a Union Tailor SCOTCH WOOLEN MILLS J. F. GREGORY, Hgr- ISS SOUTH THIRTEENTH NEBRASKA M&fK Wholesale Paper, Stationery and Fireworks 109 rlh Math St. LISCSLI, EES. Phones Auto 1514, Boll 608 USE win Liberty Flour (Made in Lincoln) IL 0. Barber & Son JOHN BAUER Wholesale Uqsgr Des!gr Distributor of Dick fc Bros., Quincy Brewing Co's Celebrated Lager Beer. OFFICE & WAREHOUSE J27-29-3I-33-25 St. 8ti SL, Uatela, Ed. Phones: Anto 1817. Bell 117 When "Walk-Over" go on, shoe troubles go off. Have You Tried a Pair? Rogers Ct Perkins Co. 1125 O STREET CEBXASXA'S SELECT IAX3-VKEAT FLCJ3 Wilbur and DoVill Hills The Celebrated Little Hatchet Flour RYE FLOUR A SPECIALTY .Phon. ua: " 145 So. 9th. LIMCOLI rjTIDRESHER yj TaBCiPir 143 Scalh ToctHi ZUczi LINCOLN, Ft EES. FIRST TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Ouunecl By Stockholders of THe Flrsl National Bank the oink for the wge earner INTEREST PAID AT 4- PER CENT Tenth and O Streets AUTO PHONE 2547 BELL PHONE 254S O. A. FULK, Gents' Furnishings. Hats 1325 O Street KELLY'S IP LUMBER WHT WE OPPOSE ItUUIICTIOtlS Labor injunctions will be one of the issues during; the ccming campaign and it behooves all workers to "book v up" on this usurpation of courts. Here are a few points that will "floor" any defender of labor injunctions: From the foundation of our government, injunctions have been recognized for the protection of property. Sec tion 917 of the United States Revised Statutes empowers the supreme court to prescribe rules for its application. Kule 55, promulgated in 1866, provides that special injunc tions shall be grantable only upon due notice to the other party. Labor injunctions are capitalistic applications of jus tice, masking under a hypocritical love for courts. The labor injunction was invented by Alex Smith, at torney for the Ann Arbor railway in the strike of 1894. It was applied by Federal Judge Taft, who committed Frank Phelan to jail for six months, and since then near ly every court has granted these writs on demand. Labor injunctions are not authorized or recognized by any legislature. Labor injunctions deny workers a trial by jury a right accorded the meanest criminal. Labor injunctions outlaw acts committed at strike times but legal at all other times. Labor injunctions empower the court to act as law maker, judge and executioner. Labor injunctions class workers as property Labor injunctions make no distinction between proper ty rights and personal rights. Labor injunctions rest on the theory that when an ac ' tion by workers injures property, fundamental personal rights can be enjoined. Labor injunctions protect dollars at the cost of a free press and free speech. Labor injunctions disregard the wrongs of workers in a desire to protect gold. Labor injunctions are issued on the sole affidavits of men who place spies in unions. Labor injunctions class the patronage of workers and sympathizers as a property right that cannot be jeopar-' dized by a statement of facts. Labor injunctions still the voice of protest against the grinding policy of unfair employers. Labor injunctions differ from injunctions for the pro tection of impersonal rights. Labor injunctions guess a violation of the criminal code will be committed. Labor injunctions are strike-time "laws." Labor injunctions are not entitled to the respect of a liberty-loving people. Labor injunctions are judge-made laws, thanks to Wil liam Howard Taft. Toledo Union Leader. GENERAL. MENTION. Items of Interest Gleaned at Home and Elsewhere. Worcester, Mass.. trolley men have agreed to strike, if necessary, to sup pen the Providence street car men in any action that onion feels is neec oary to take. " The Metropolitan Vehicular Work ers" Federation is seeking to unite all those engaged in the traffic of London streets, whether working by horse, electricity, steam or oil. A wags agreement for the ensuing year was adopted recently at a con ference between representatives of the steel interests and of the Amal- amsted Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, held at Pittsburg, Pa. The Pennsylvania Railroad has in augurated the rlan of giving publicity to cases of discipline by posting on employes" bulletin boards statements of the offense and the punishment administered The French laundries at San Fran isco have reported that the Japanese laundries are seriously affecting their business and have promised to sup port the Anti-Japanese League moral- y and financially. Thre are 1,123,283 female domestic servants in the United States. The Laundry Workers" International Union is to meet in Indianapolis, Ind., September 29. The annual convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will be held at Halifax in September. Theo Xelson, formerly a stereotyper at the W estern Newspaper tnion, came up from his Gage county farm this week to take in the fair, and also to meet a lot of his old friends. Miss Hazel Armstead of North Bend, Xebr., is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. M. Manpin. Lillian, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. X. Wathan, has been seriouslv ill of rheumatism for several weeks. All unions that participate in the Labor Day parade are urged to be ready to move promptly on time. The admission to Capital Beach on Labor Day will be 10 cents, after noon and evening. W. M. Maupin entertained a party of newspaper ni?n on the evening of August 31, the occasion being his forty-fifth birthday. Watermelons and lemonade formed the bill of fare, topied off with union-made cigars. 100 the label The Wageworker is. took advantage of the oportunity to reach the boys who earn the good money. Right here and now The Wage worker wants to extend its thanks to the printers and pressmen in the em ploy of the Western Newspaper Union. "Doc" " Righter and his bunch of "swifts are also included in the above statement. No better bunch of me chanics is engaged in the printing trades anywhere in this country. They took as great an interest in getting the paper out on time, and in making it a typographical beauty, as the editor himself. To them The Wageworker extends its hearty thanks and its : in cere appreciation. To the advertisers who responded with such libertlity and enterprise more and equally hearty thanks are tendered. And here's hop ing that all good union people will do the right thing patronize the mer chants who think enough of the work ers" trade to ask for it through the columns of a paper that is doing its best weak as that best may be to champion the cause of the tollers. TAILORS BOUND OVER. Accused of Assault But Will Not Be Tried Until Later. Otto Lindstroni, Chris Christianson and X. H. Peterson, union tailors who were charged with having assaulted an imported "scab" tailor employed by Heffley, were arraigned before Justice Stevens last week. The assault case was dismissed and the peace warrant case continued. The story of the assault is so farrial that it is doubtful if the case ever comes to trial. Scared half to death for fear they would be attacked, the "scabs" ran when the union pickets approached and tried to engage them in conversation with a view to urging them to be decent. That's all there is to that story of "assault." The locked-out tailors are quietly keeping tab as the days go by and some of the profits expected to accrue by reason of charging merchant tailoring prices for inferior "scab" work are not material izing to any appreciable extent JUST A BIT PROUD. Wageworker "Swelled Up" over Com pliments for Big Edition. So many compliments have been showered on the Wageworker be cause of its large and handsome La bor Day edition last week that it feels as if it has a right to feel proud. ; It was a mighty fine paper we'll admit it without argument. And it is all due to the fact that the enterprising adver tisers knowing what a good medium Gompers needs no defense, he is the greatest and cleanest leader organized labor ever had. LTnpurchasable and irreproachable he stands for the rights of organized labor, and the great majority of its members will follow his leadership in preference to Van Cleave's or any other union smasher. Sioux City Union Advocate. We are expert cleaners, dyers sad Calabars ot Ladies' end uea- tlenea'i Clotblac of Q kinds. r The Issat arises a specialty. TH2 NEW ratit J. C. WOOD S CO.- AwjC for pricelist. a 'PHONES: Bell, 147. Auto, list, fl 13M N St. - - Lincoln, Neb. tHTHTtmTHHHTT1 DR. GIIAS.YUIIGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. UKOU, IEB. AUTO Sttii BELL 656 HAYCEH'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O Pine nrk m Specialty. A arte 333 Toasted T7hsat FlaEa Th Ideal StiiiiiirFod TJoa't worry abut th sigh prio ad eat heavy, greasy sea oa tbeaa fcoS linnet days. Kat EGC-O-SEE, toasted whole wheat flakes. EGG-O-SEE is better' thae the best meat better to the taste aad ewre aosnsbiag. It's easy to "digest, raswiaiag aad cost inf. Mock cheaper. Apsctuiax- Sa6fjx. Win In i air All Grocers. IP cento back to natare eat:;, dig.ko::? tlU ILEAM AT M0g U A SUIT or OVEnGOAT Cciato Cr&rFcr el A dispatch states that 3.000 miners in Wyoming employed in Kemmerer, Xorth Kemmerer, Diamondville, Oak ley, Glencoe and surrounding camps, quit work Monday upon instructions from Butte. There was no demonstra tions, the men quietly picking up their tools and proceeding to their homes, iiil engineers, firemen and pumpmen are kept at work to keep the mines free from water. At Alger. Wyo., all the men. about 600. stopped work. At Carney. Monarch and Koot, the miners have all suspended work. No Moro Jo Loss From Shccps Back to Year Dcc!i ISSUED DY AUTHORITY OP ' dJavjBL a i I mi MMBk 3 or R2I3TC3E a m WcrldV Croctost Tailors 143 Zzh ita zzz Cleocin