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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1908)
WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAVPm. EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postofflce at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act ol Congress oi March 3rd, 1S79. "Printers' Ink," the recog nized authority on advertis ing, after a thorough Invest! gRtion on this subject, says: "A labor paper is a far bet ter advertising medium than an ordinary newspaper in comparison with circulation. A labor paper, for example, , having 2,000 subscribers' Is of more value to the business man who advertises in it thq an ordinary paper with 12,000 subscribers." J J Jl J Jl J Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl j j jljljtjijtjijijtjl OUR TICKET TO DATE. For President t . WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN of Nebraska. For Vice-President JOHN WORTH KERN of Indiana. For Representative, Lancaster WILLIAM C. NORTON of Lincoln. THE LAST APPEAL. The Wageworker is in no sense a ; artisan newspaper. It would today' be supporting the republican nomine for the presidency and opposing the democratic nominee were the condi tions reversed. The editor of this little labor paper has voted for move republicans for president than he has democrats. He is not yet arrived at middle age, as middle age is counted these days, but he long ago threw off the partisan collar, and looks to me ) and to principles rather than to party nominees and partisan affiliations. To him his membership in a trades union W of far more importance than his party affiliations. No man who is an enemy of trades unionism can be a political friend of this newspaper or lis editor. No man whose entire pub lic history is full of enmity to union Ism has, or can, receive the support of The Wageworker. This campaign is not one of partis anship, but it is one of principle. Tho man who works for wages who allows himself to be influenced by partisan ties is foolish. The union man who supports a ticket supported by his industrial enemies has something to learn of trades unionism. The Wageworker is supporting Bryan for the presidency, not because he is a democrat but because he is a friend of organized labor. It is sup porting Bryan, not because he is a democrat, but because his platform declares for principles that are vital to the future of unionism. It is sup porting Bryan, not because he is a democrat, but because he stands for reform of the much abused injunction writ, trial by jury in. cases of in direct contempt, guarantee of bank deposits and election of senators by direct vote. It is opposed to Taft, not because he is a republican, but be cause he is the condidate of every union-hating employer in the country. It is opposing Taft, not because he is a republican, but because he stands for the use of the Injunction as a club to defeat the hopes an 4 aspirations of men who are banded together to secure better conditions, better homes, better lives and a better future. It is opposing Taft, not because he is u re' publican, but because he would deny to the workingman unconvicted of any crime a trial by jury that is guaran teed to the most depraved criminal charged with offense. , For fifteen years Bryan has espoused the cause of the toiler. Not until he was annolnted asthe chosen heir of Theodore Roosevelt did William H. Taft deem the wovkor worthy of'hl august attention. When the men who have been chosen by free workingmen to man age the affairs of their federation presented the claims of workers to the convention which. nominated Taft they were met with scorn and Insolenc "Take your claims to Denver!" was the insolent reply to labor's plea for justice. That was when Van Cleave Post, Parry and other labor-haters had told the republican delegates that "there is no labor vote worthy of at tention." . . ' " Labor's representatives did "go to Denver," and at Denver they were treated like men and their appeal was heeded. Then, when organized labor appeared in open revolt the republi can leaders awoke to a realization of their mistake. Suddenly Taft discov ered that he was the original lover of organized labor; that he laid down the legal principles upon which trade un ionism is founded. Then it was that Theodore Roosevelt, who would have hanged Moyer and. Haywood as "un desirable citizens" without benefit of clergy, discovered that , he had ap pointed Taft as his successor solely and only because. Taft was such a friend of unionism. With bribes of fat office Roosevelt has succeeded in inducing some lead ers of organized labor to play the traitor to their expressed convictions, Taft has gone about claiming that his defeat will mean the death blow of vnionism. ' Will ' all this palvaver, all this jng gling of the records, all this political bribery, all this threat of panic, suf fice to blind the worker to his duty? This" is the time for the union work ers to stand shoulder to 'shoulder. What matters "free trade" or "pro tection" if the worker may be torn from his family and thrust into jail without trial if he dares to exercise Ms rights as a freeman? What mat ters "imperialism" or "independence for the Filipinos" if trial by jury is to be denied the toiler who violates some judge-made law by exercising his rignts as a citizen : wnai mailers all the clap-trap and soft solder of the professional politicians if our unions are to be classed as "trusts in re straint of trade" and our cherished principles of fraternity and love classed upon the sordid level of mat ter and merchandise? This Is not a time to divide on mat ters of political policy it is a time to stand together for our right to organ ize and to perpetuate our guaranteed rights that have been attacked by the injunction route. This is no time for a union man .to talk "democracy" or "republicanism. It is a time to talk and vote for un ionism. A vote for Bryan is a vole for jury trial in contempt cases, a vote for un ion independence, a vote for' equal rights, a vote for liberty. A vote for Taft is a vote to take away our right to a trial by jury, WHAT GRAND MASTER SARGENT SAID. "It has hitherto been conceded that railroad employes possessed all the rights as citizens which attached to the employers, that is to say, that if employers possessed the right to dis charge employes, when It pleased them to exercise such authority, the em ployes also possessed the. right, un challenged, to quit work when' they elected to exercise that right. If a judge of the United States court may abolish this right of an employe, he remands him, unequivocally, to a servi tude as degrading as the Spartans im posed upon their helots and it is this phase of the strike which has aroused Euch intense cencern and alarm.'' vote to endorse .the principle that trades unions are trusts in restraint of trade, a vote to curtail our civic rights, a vote of endorsement of un ionism's worst enemies. Let them threaten panic all they will in case Taft is defeated. Better to go hungry for a time in defense of the right than to eat the tainted bread of industrial slavery. The man who elds his convictions of right in the face of threatened panic is a traitor to his country and to his God. The man who threatens panic in case of his party's defeat is a bribe giver and i:flt to entrust with public office. In God's name,, fellow unionists, let us stand by our unions, even if we must sacrifice our party. Let us show our independence of political ' trick sters : let' us show our detestation of those who seek to bribe us with promises of work and threaten us with privation if we dare think for ourselves. The solidarity of organized labor is on trial. ' If Bryan is defeated becauss of organized labor's action, then good- by to any hope or chance of organ ized labor ever being able to enforce its righteous demands. Next Tuesday is either labor's eman cipation day or the date of labor s thralldom. It is up to you, Mr. Union Man. Under which flag the flag of in dustrlal freedom or the flag of indus trial serfdom? If you are a slave to party you will not object to being the slave of a sys tem. . If you are a free man, with free man's hopes and aspirations, you will obiect to being classed as mer chandise. "Bv their votes ye shall know them!" Great Values in Stylish Winter Coats . $12.50 and up M. JTOutfitterm to bmen m VZTS II II II II II 1 II (ULkJUL lilLVUil li REICHENTHAL 1317 O STREET Splendid Tailor ed Skirts. New Weave & Color. $5.00 and up ' BE SENSIBLE! The manufacturer or any other em ployer of labor who tells his men that he will shut down if- Bryan is elected hurts himself and his cause and makes votes for Bryan. t To the statement that there will be few jobs and low wages if Bryan is elected, we reply that there are a few million men right now without a job and without wages and a large number of them voted the republican ticket. Will they vote that way again? Not if they are sensible. Erie, Pa., Labor Journal. Sale of Women's and Misses' Suits at $20.00 and $25.00 Continues O FUDGE! The Omaha Labor Advocate is ad vocating the election t6 congress of lawyer who never paid a dollar of wages to a union man as against a newspaper publisher who has em ployed union labor "for twenty years, never had a strike, and has paid out over $2,000,000 in wages to union workingmen. Don't it beat thunder? If this country has reached the con dition that the election of a big- hearted, high-minded, patriotic, God fearing Christian like Bryan will pre cipitate a panic, then it is time to make a change. And men who ex press a willingness to die from free dom ought to be willing to take a chance on going hungry In order to achieve freedom. There is just one union man run ning for the legislature in Lancaster county William C. Norton. If you want to be represented by lawyers, doctors, professional politicians ar.d bankers, don't vote for Norton. If you want to be represented by a fel low worker a man who wants what you want and will work for it vote for Norton. The cheapest liars in Christendom are those union printers of other cit ies who have charged Mr. Bryan with being unfriendly '.to organized labor because The Commoner does not carry the label. They know that they are liars and they glory in it. Such men are a disgrace td organized labor. If Taft represents the principles of the VanCleave-Post bunch he certain ly cannot represent the principles of union men. And the VanCleave-Post bunch are very seldom fooled in their estimate of their friends. Taft, the "friend of union labor," sent Frank Phelan to jail for violat ing an order not to prosecute his work of organization and did it on the tes timony of a known paid spy. The man who is supported for high office by such men as VanCleave, Post, Parry. Otis, and their like, is the man who should be fought to a fin ish by good union men. If they can force a panic if Taft is defeated, patriotic men should defeat him, outlive the panic and thus break the "' throttle hold the panic makers have upon this country. If they can force Taft's election by threatening panic, it will- be but step to the establishment of a mon archv by making the threat a little stronger. If they can bring on a panic if they are defeated they have too much power for the good of a free republic. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. Orcanized labor will either stand or fall with the Tesult of the election on November 3. No side issues, no apology will be recognized. You must fctand up and be counted. Choose your side, Mr. Union Man. VanCleave or Gompers; Taft or Mitchell; Sher man or Morrison? Sioux City Union Advocate. v Taft threatens a panic if he is de feated. The coward who believes it should vote for Taft. JUMP, JOHNNY, JUMP! Among the wishy-washy labor pa pers that come to the Advocate office might be Included the Typographical Journal. Wake un. Brother Bram- wood, and tell the members whether to vote for Gompers or VanCleave. Sioux City Union Advocate. Mr. Union Man, won't your vote for Taft look almighty, good to "Buck' VanCleave? Taft called the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers a "band of con spirators." The man who will sell his vote for a promise of work will sell his vote for cash. Stand- by your friends, and admin ister a stinging rebuke to your ene mies. "For God. for and for union." family, for country 1!" We've prepared a most tempting display -of Women's and Misses' Suits at the above mentioned price. . - Among these beautiful Suits you -will find some of the handsomest styles brought west this season. They were made by a leading New York designer, and made to sell at $25 and yet here they are priced to you at $20.00 AND $25.00 Never before, right at the beginning of a season, have you had a chance to buy Suits as good for so little money. See them without delay. . . : . Special Notice to Wage - Workers We want you to come to our store and to show our appreciation we will allow you a 5 per cent re duction on your purchase. . Have you tried ut? If not, this is a good ' time to find out that you can da' better here than elsewhere. ID- PI TO C(l A TTC are reasonably priced at the Fashion. See the KVJr. 1 iJ new, long and short models of Brook, IVfink, Electric Seal, Genuine Russian Poney and Astrakhan. , Fur Sets Mink, Lynx, Fox, Squirrel, Etc. ; " 1 : TWO OF A KIND. Taft and Post Belong to "Unions" That Are Merely Huge Jokes.. 'Grape Nuts" Post says: ' "It may interest you. to know that I was lately elected an honorary member of one of the highest grade trade unions in America the National Association of Stationary Engineers." It certainly would interest us to know of any trade union that would stand for Post, but the N. A. of S. E. is not and never, has been a trades union. It is a hybrid body organized by the employers to vainly attempt to offset the trades union. Post could have become an active member with out trouble. There are many like Fost in it now; in fact, it is composed of both employers and employes, - and the local branch meets in the Stevens building under the auspices of Mr. Whirl. At a recent election one of the most bitter of the union-hating em ployers was elected delegate to the national convention. " What a lovely "trade union" convention with such delegates. ' Furniture Clearance Sale The Clearance Sale in the Fur- . . - ' niture Depart ment has been a great success this week. Many good bargains are yet to be had Dining Tables 3 round 6-foot din- CQ 7C ing table, $10, now. . . . . .4)0. 1 V 1 Round 6-ft. 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