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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1908)
6 OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. . Office 2118 O St. Both Phono I.INCOU. NEBRA8KA KCLE SAM WANTS YOU and thousands of others, who are capable, to work for him Com mon school education, sufficient. No political influence required. teadv employment, highest salar ies, vacation with (nil pay. 3.000 nlnrka nAAdpd for the C- nsUS Olfl A alone In addition to th uxnal 40.000 appointed vearly in the Internal Revenue, Customs. Inetal, Railway Mail and othr branches of the service of the U. S. Also appointments in Philippine Islands and Panama, Full particulars free concern in all positions, salaries, examinations beld soon in evorv state) sample examin ation questions, etc. Address RATIO II JU. CUIESPOIOERCE INSTITUTE, 441 14 UtMHl talk IM( WuklRftM, 0. C. Vagevorkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY & NORRIS I29 So. Ilth St. LICCOLU SKIRT CO. ' ETHEL E. ANDERSON, Pieprktoc. Exclusive Retailers. Manufacturers of K(g-6rads, Ittde-to-lleasure Petticoats 1235 N Street Lincoln ebr. Dutlon & Ward Furnaces, Sheet Iron and Tin Work, Hot Water Heating, Cor nices, 5teel Ceilings and Sky lights, Oeneral Repair Work. r 1 ' i t 2011 0 ST., LINCOLN, NEB. Avto 4598 Bell FS62 Uoloa rmdv. The Best Made. Take no Other Made by CUTTER CPOSSETTE. Chicago ffOVEBNMENT POSITIONS 0 46,712 AppoiDtmcirts pat year. tJoodlife poait trare mad to Ctvil Soi Tiou Dluce durinir the past year. Good life position at fctuo to 91 ,600 per Year. Excellent opportunities for yoon people. Thrtmanrh InatntflUnn h liuall. wriiA fnr niir CtrUIWTMMAniwmiceujent. oontaiBtnirfnll in formation a boat all nrnttunrnt exam tnaU one and quuatiwiu r mnuf uvea 07 ub t ith mttm ..ommution. COLUMBIAN CO" w.ru.urrnM. D.C EARN BIG MONEY- I C I. .CO Instruction for SI II .00 JU I LEARN AT HOMeI Conlte lnaiructltm double entry boofckeeptnfr, free 1 bo other oaUay Oood position, waiting. Dtst I, Chicago BatlnaM Trtlnlna School. CMotoo WA6EW0RKER DR. CHAS.YUNGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. LINCOLN, NEB. ATJTO 84ft BELL CM. WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year Entered as second-class matter April :1, 1904, at the postofflce at Uncoln. Jeb., under the Act of Congress oi -larch 3rd, 1879. . sljljljtjtjljtjljljtjljljt Jl Jl J J "Printers' Ink," the recog nized authority on advertis ing, after a thorough Investi gation 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 thi an ordinary paper with 12,000 subscribers.' J4 Jl Jl J Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jl Jljt jljtJtJtJtJlJlJtJtJl braska ever had enacted an employ ers liability law which was a long step in the right direction. That the law is not wide enough in its appli cation has been demonstrated time and again, and never more forcibly than by the two fatal accidents sus tained' by Electrical Workers of Lin coln this week. The law as it stands at present applies only to railroad men engaged in the actual running of trains. Narrow as this law is, it was accepted by workingmen as perhaps the best that could be secured at that time. The editor of The Wagoworker and others identified more or less with the organized labor movement, ap peared before the house committee having the bill in charge and endeav ored to have the bill amended so as to include other hazardous , occupa tions, but the effort was unsuccess ful. . There are several occupations that are as hazardous as railroading. Among them may be enumerated the Electrical Workers, the Structural Iron and Steel Workers and Cassion men. Doubtless statistics will show that in proportion to numbers the , Electrical Workers lose more men by accident than any other tradesmen. Why, then, should the employer's liability law be limited to the one class? If the legislature of 1909 wants to score a hit with the workingmen of the state it will amend- the employ er's liability so as to "vjsn its scope and include more workers Jn" its bene fits. ' v; . I ' , We are ex part cleaners, dyers aaa lalsbers of Ladles' and uen- C tlaaen's Clothing of all kinds. The taest dresses a specialty. TUB NEW FIRM J. C; WOOD & CO. , AX TOR PRICBLIST. FHONESt Bell, 147. Auto, mi. IMS N 8t - - Lincoln. Neb. n U lilt J4 8t Lincoln. Neb. jj MYDEN'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O ' Pine v rk a Specialty. Atito 3336 THAT "LABOR DINNER." The much advertised arid much talked about "labor conference din ner" at the White House was pulled off on schedule time. If President Roosevelt is proud of it, certainly the rest of ns have no particular rea son for complaint. But Secretary Loeb'a contention that it was a "pri vate affair" does not jibe well with all the talk about it most of which Issued from the White House. It is so clearly apparent that President Roosevelt engineered the whole affair for the purpose of administering a snub to the American Federation of Labor officials who supported Bryan, that it is only natural that organized labor should bo interested. To sup pose for an instant, that President Roosevelt thought that the ignoring of Gompers at an affair of this kind would not be considered a snub is to indict his judgment. But Theodore Roosevelt is nothing if not impulsive, so it is reasonable' to suppose that he acted on the Impulse of the moment when he announced the dinner, and then felt that he had to make good. Doubtless he regretted the action afterwards. As a "labor conference," the dinner must have . been . considerable of a joke. T. V. Powderly, who wrecked the once mighty Knights of Labor by his executive inability, and who has been a federal officeholder for ' years on end, was one of the guests. Samuel Gompers, who has been president of the American Federation of Labor for a quarter of a century, was not in vited. The- most conspicuous labor leaders present were Stone of the En gineers, Hannahan of the Firemen and Morrisey of the Trainmen. These men are really successful labor leaders, but they are in no wise identified with the American Federation of Labor. An other leader present was Inter-State Commerce Commissioner Clark, who is a member of the Order of Railway Conductors. This organization is not affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor. The men who have been most prominently identified with the labor movement during the last decade were not present, some of .them because they were not invited, and others because they resented the at tempted snub of Gompers. Among the missing, ones were Lynch of the Typo graphical Union, Lennon of the Tail ors, Mitchell of the Mineworkers, Sec retary Morrison . of the Federation, Vice President Duncan of the Federa tion and Keefe of the Longshoremen. Just why Keefe was not present is a mystery, unless it be that he thought it best to remain in Denver and help along the cause of disrupting the great organization by opposing Gompers' re election and the endorsement of the political program. Of course Dolan of the Steam Shovel Men's Union was there. Outside of the railroad brother hood representatives there were not as many labor leaders present as there were editors of the Outlook, and there were more lawyers, two to one, than all the rest of the guests combined. As a social function, the dinner was doubtless a great success. But so far as any results beneficial to labor they are likely to accrue by reason of the dinner having been given, unior men who think more of unionism than they do of petty political schemes will have to be shown. A state legislature enacts a law re ducing freight rates and the court de clares It to be unconstitutional . be cause it is "confiscatory." An em ployer arbitrarily reduces ' wages and any court in the land would laugh it self to death, almost, if the employes made the same kind of a plea entered by the railroads. The defeat of "Bill" Mahon for con gress in the Detroit district was not unexpected.. There are too many un organized men in that district, coupled with too many union men who are partisans first and union men after wards, to make it possible to elect such splendid men as "Bill" Mahon to congress. - , People who are interested In , the crusade against child tabor should take notice that an attempt will be made at the coming session of the Nebraska' legislature to .emasculate the child labor law by the adoption of amendments that will make the whole law a farce. SHOULD WIDEN 8COPE OF LAW The legislature of 1907 which, by the way, was one of the best that Ne Here's hoping the 1909 convention of the American Federation of Labor goes to some extreme point of the country. In that event It will be pos sible for Lincoln the center of the universe to make a telling plea for the 1910 convention. Harvey K Garman didn't last long as a labor editor, but when he dropped out of the fold he stepped into a job as a member of the Colorado legisla ture. Gasman is a union man for fair, and here's hoping he will be elected speaker of the house.. - The more one studies the vote cast at the last election the more certain it appears that the labor vote came. nearer to being cast solidly in the in terests of labor than ever before. Post continues to offer, a "thousand dollars" for proof of this thing and that He would better offer it to the woman he discarded after she bad helped him to fortune. There are about 1,500,000 of us who believe that more good will accrue to labor from the Denver convention than from any number of White House labor dinners." Well, Uncle Sammy Gompers is not the only union man who is immune from indigestion caused by over-eating at the White House under the present administration. By the time the legislature meets arrangements -should have been made to present a united appeal for the re peal of the infamous-10 per cent gar nishee law. Nebraska needs the attention of the American Federation of Labor about as badly as any state in the Union. Every time you think of the White house "labor dinner," let it be a re minder that you ought to demand the union label on all your purchases. ' .The Union men who "lays down" at the first defeat never gets anywhere. Let's keep on fighting for right and justice. Great Scott, perhaps they mean to bust the labor movement by laying all wr leaders up with the gout. . 1 ' In one minute a man can act fool 'sh enough to cause him a lifetime of regret. Tiile Fashion Ittoif ie Priei I When the careful and economical dresser finds the place where he can combine the latest in style and the best in wear with the ldwest possible price, is it to be wondered at that he stops there and bestows his pat- ronage? And is it to be wondered at that this store does the' business when it always combines these things the best values for the least money. There are about as many individual tastes in cloth- . ing as there are individual men, and the problem is to best suit the largest possible number of individual tastes. This store's buyers have solved that problem ; to the satisfaction of thousands of men. There is a refinement, a dignity, about the Armstrong Clothing that sets it apart and above the other kind. The "above", is only in style, make, fit and wear not in the price. There is a something about our clothing "verve" it may be that makes it a strong appeal to the neat, careful and economical dresser. "More for the Money, and Better" that's this store's motto. v- from nriEEM to ram Extra good values for the money in suits ' and overcoats from $15 to $40. This wide range makes it possible for us to suit every purse as well as every taste. The full value is in the fabric, the style and the make. " OUR BOY'S DEPARTMENT This is really a big store in itself. It contains more goods than many clothing stores of huge pretensions. Anything and everything for the boys from 2 years old to 1 6. School outfitting is a strong point with us in this department. CI i-KY Good Clothes Merchants BARBERS' OPPONENT ELECTED, i Ex-Representative Eubanks of Cleve land was swept into the Ohio legisla ture on the recent tidal wave. This col ored gentleman was responsible for defeating the proposed bill to regulate barber shops arid provide for sanitary inspection, introduced a few years ago. Eubanks vowed it was a sin ister move of the barbers' unions to put his race out of commission, but he forgot to add that the Barbers' union is alone responsible for present conditions, which the non-union col ored . workers also enjoy. Toledo Union Leader. SAME OLD HABIT. . , From all appearances, the working- men in the east have not gotten out of the old habit of permitting their em ployers to vote them. Uni on Banner. THE LABOR VOTE AT THE EECENT ELECTION. not that of foes ; and since those who depend for a livelihood on the labor of their hands bear the heavier burdens and have less oppor tunity to upbuild their higher being, the men of position and educa tion, for whom they labor, should lead them not more in virtue of their jri-eater ' ability and capital than in virtue of their greater loving "Where production is controlled despotically by capital there may be a seeming prosperity, but the qualities which give sacredness and worth to life are enfeebled or destroyed. In the absence of a trustful and conciliatory disposition the strife between capital, and labor can not be composed of laws and contrivances. The causes from which it springs are as deep as man's' nature, and nothing that is powerless to illumne-the mind and touch the heart can reach the fountain head of the evil. So long as employers and employes con tinue to look on one another as opponents and antagonists, so long shall their relations be unsatisfactory and strained, requiring but a slight thing to provoke the open warfare which is called a strike." The Democratic party has stood for the right; it must still stand for the right. Peace, prosperity and progress-all these demand that justice be done to those who toil. ' .
