WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAVPIN. EDITOR
Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress of
March 3rd, 1879.
HOME PATRONAGE.
In presenting its annual "Home
Patronage Edition" The Wageworker
desires to thank the friendly merch
ants and business men who have co
operated, and to bespeak for them,
at the hands of organized labor, a
hearty patronage. If organized labor
would go a little stronger on the game
of boosting its friends, and spend a
little less time in knocking its ene
mies, the results might be more
gratifying. Every time we "knock"
on an opponent of organized labor we
advertise him to the thousands who
are also opposed to organized labor.
At the same lime, sorry to say, or
ganized labor is just careless enough
to keep right on patronizing its op
ponents. With posslblv two or three excep
tions the business institutions of Lin
coln are conducted by friends of organ
ized labor at least4 the are conducted
by men who are not opposed to organ
ized labor. But the merchant to whom
organized labor patronage Is given is
the merchant who asks for that pa
tronage, seeks to encourage it and
uses his best endeavor to get the kind
of soods that organized labor wants
to buy. There are a number of such
merchants in Lincoln, and their in
vitations are usually found in The
Wageworker.
GERMAN CARP AND HUMANITY.
It ro happens! that the gentleman
who edits tals humble little labor pa
per Is the deputy commissioner of
labor for the state of Nebraska. The
latter fact gives him an opportunity
to eather some statistics that may be
used in his editorial Capacity.
The Bureau or Lnbor and Industry
is allowed $4,00t a year to meet every
expense, including salaries.
The Game and Fish Bureau is al
lowed Slt.500 a year.
The Labor Bureau has to do with
men, women and children.
The Game and Fish Commission has
to do with suckers. German carp and
turtle dove.
For every dollar allowed by the
state to safeguard human life, investi
gate social conditions and enforce san
itation, the state spends three dollars
on the suckers, the carp and the
turtle dove.
The state gives the Nebraska Poul
try Association a thousand dollars a
year so the chicken raisers can get
together, exhibit, their fowls and rea
son together for the uplift of the Buff
Cochins, the Black Langshans and the
Minorcas. When the deputy labor
commissioner asks for $500 a year to
assist the wage-earners of the state
In holding an annual meeting where
they can exhibit their crop of boys
and girls and talk about subjects of
vital interest to the tollers, he Is met
with the charge of being extravagant
and told thst the state can not afford
to Increase its appropriations.
Nebraska's industries have quad
rupled during the last fifteen years,
but the I-nbor Bureau is allowed less
help and less money than was given
it. fifteen years ago.
The state spetids $300,000 a year in
the interests of farmers by providing
for a state farm school, experimental
farms, fairs, institutes, etc., but not a
dollar for work that would be equally
beneficial to the wapp-earners. Yet
' the wage-earners are half as numerous
as the farmers.
It must be cheerfully admitted that
not a dollar too much is spend in the
Interests of the farmers. But it must
also be admitted by any fair-minded
man that not nearly enough is spent
in advancing the Interests of the wage-
earners.
The present deputy commissioner is
striving to have this wrong corrected,
and he is receiving the support of the
wage-earners. He Is also getting
plenty of "knocks" aud a lot of ex'
hibition of Indifference towards the
needs of the wage-earners.
Perhaps the wage-earners haven't
been insistent enough upon a recogni
tlon of their rights.
oppose Sunday bass ball for the
workingmen and women, but who put
in a goodly part of the Lord's day
playing golf at the Country Club.
Married, In Lincoln, Nebraska, on
February 15, 1909, Mr. Lincoln Trac
tion and Miss Citizens Railway. The
Wageworker extends its heartiest con
gratulations to the contracting parties.
Also to the community.
It Is easier for a corporation senator
to dodge around the constitution into
a presidential cabinet than it is for
a workingman to get within gunshot
of justice when injustice means profit
to the other fellow.
The Sunday base ball bills have
been killed. All right. Now let us
have a law prohibiting our ministerial
friends from eating yellow-legged
chickens that were killed and fried
on Sunday.
The helpless carp, the weak Buff
Cochin, the paralytic Minorca and the
paretic pig must be looked after.
Working men and women will have
to look o"t for themselves and their
children.
Dollars coined from the blood and
6weat of toil are not fit to pension
the professors who are well paid to
Instruct the children of today.
Now that we are to have a guar
antee tor the depositors, let us have
a guarantee that the man who is com
polled to borrow will not be gouged to
death.
Mr. Carnegie might ease his con
science a bit by pensioning the widows
and children of the workingmen
slaughtered at Homestead.
Say. early this spring would be a
good time to meet in Lincoln for the
purpose of organizing a state federa
tion of labor. Yes?
"Ol" Sam" Gompers Isn't talking like
a man who is not going to plead for
executive clemency.
The Humphrey Saturday half-holi
day bill ought to be pushed to tho
limit.
You seldom year of a man with a
union card in his pocket applying at
charity headquarters for help.
Patronize your friends and let your
enemies sink into the abyss of the
unknown.
The name "Douglas" now stands for
a non-union shoe. Bear this fact in
mind.
Labor will nt-ver secure a redress
of wrongs until it unites solidly in
demanding its rights.
And now for a genuine revival of
the demand for the label.
Now will the street railway men
wake up and organize?
Give a helping hand to the Glove
Workers' Union.
CAPITAL AUILIARY.
Capital Auxiliary will meet with
Mrs. G. M. Watham, 1744 Garfield St.,
next Wednesday.
Ask your dealer for the "Hardy"
work glove. XTnion Made, and made in
Lincoln.
BREAD AND BUTTER PROBLEM."
That is a problem that interests
every wage-earner, and that is why
every wage-earner should seize the
opportunity to hear it discussed by Dr.
LeRosignol of the State University at
Grace M. E. church, Twenty-seventh
and R streets, Sunday evening. Spe
cial music will be provided and the
workingmen and women of the city
are most cordially invited to attend.
The attention of the sheriff is called
LINCOLN PAINT AND COLOR CO
Lincoln, like many other western
cities, has kept pace in every in
stance with the great developments
and commercial advancement that has
characterized the west during the past
decade. In many . instances, she has
even outrun those who were formerly
leaders. Her business men are amoni?
he most enterprising, progressive and
able in this country and in almost
every line of trade Lincoln's, busi
ness may point with pride to estab
lishments that are second to none.
In tills review we wish to mention,
especially, an establishment that has,
through the excellence of its products,
and conditions of its management,
done as much as any one concern and
more thnn most for the domestic
good of this city and has been very
Instrumental in spreading the name
and fame of Lincoln throughout the
entire United States. This firm is
the Lincoln Paint and Color Co. which,
besides being one of the largest manu
facturing concerns in Lincoln, has
the distinction ol being the largest
paint factory west of the Mississippi.
The importance of this concern and
the amount of business done by them
is little realized by the majority of
Lincoln's citizens. They have branches
in almost every state in the west, but
the main manufacturing plant and he
home offices of this company are
situated in Lincoln.
Lincoln feels a certain sense of
pride in this company as being one
of her largest business enterprises
which, by reason of its fairness of
business methods and the excellence
of its products, is rapidly growing to
be one of the foremost factories of
Its kind in the United States. On
many occasions the management of
this company has: manifested a most
friendly interest in the cause and is
entitled to the hearty co-operation and
support of the great masses that toil
for daily wage. This firm believes in
good organization, when properly con
ducted and in .compiling this list of
Lincoln's most substantial business
concerns we; wish to give this com
pany prominent mention and insist
that our readers, when making pur
chases of auything in this line, de
mand that It be the output of their
home- manufacturers. The Lincoln
Paint and Color company have one
feature for the benefit of I heir em
ployes, which is absolutely unique.
This is a relief association, governed
entirely by the employes and financed
jointly by the employes and the com
pany. Membership in this relief as
sociation is In no way compulsory.
This association was started three
years ago, large: as an experiment;
however, the original plan of this re
lief association has proven to be most
excellent, as very few changes were
necessary. This association has paid
out, in sick benefits, to its members
since its organization, over five hun
dred dollars and in many other, cases
has offered assistance to its members,
which could not have otherwise been
obtained.- This is, to our knowledge,
the only organization of this kind ex
isting in the city and we suggest to
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(HD LACES an unequaled opportunity before you. It's a sale of the zigfyt
J- kind embracing the tight kind of Clothing. T?e prices now are less
than wholesale cost. We make this sacrifice in order to clear out all
lines of winfez clothing. Evezy season must begin with bland new goods.
Timid merchants cannot understand tfyese aggressive methods of ours.
Entire Stock of Four Divisions. Let Facts and Figures Talk.
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Ct 11 fi S fC rfricC f ouiincst ftf II k the price of the high
S II VJ SuitS,OvercoatsandCrav- VV jU grade Suits, Overcoats,
Jilil enettes. These are the JjjjJlHV and Cravenettes, such as
1 best clothes made; better other stores would call
ft . than other Lincoln stores "best" their best-our
sell at any price formerly they were second best they would price them at
priced at $40.00, $36.00, $30.00, $27.50. $35, and $30; our formeTprices were
$25, $22.50 and $20.
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Ht is the price we ask for an un- TTT '. , , ,
VU usually good lot of unusually ft I"1 J? Tc pMce Sl S001 or
iJi) jl good Suits, Overcoats and S httie money Suits, Overcoats
Cravenettes. Bear in your fjflJ and Cravenettes. Even low
mind the best the others have priced clothes must be "good"
at $25 and compare them with those at thw store. ( While others
that we formerly sold at $18, $16.50 and wee afking $12.50 and $15 we were
$15.00. , selling these regularly at $12.50and $10.
firm stroii Clothing Co.
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS.
our readers that it is an -organization
which might, with profit, be installed
by employes in ether business houses
throughout our city.
DEPUTY SPANGLER HAT CO.V
(Union-Made Gloves.)
Lincoln possesses no more respon
sible and straightforward concern than
that of the Deputy Spangler Hat Co.,
whose establishment is located at 227
229 North Ninth street. The firm have
established a high reputation in this
section of the country, based upon an
unusually active and successive busi
ness of several years standing. They
not only do business in Lincoln, but
their goods may be found throughout
the entire west. They handle a most
complete line of Union-Made hats,
caps, etc. A special feature of this con
cern that we wish to particularly call
the attention to of every citizen of
Lincoln, and especially the union
men, is the fact that they operate in
connection with their hat business a
leather glove manufacturing establish
ment that is fast gaining an enviable
reputation, for high class work
gloves. This company manufacture
and place on the market the famous
"Hardy" work glove. In our last An
nual Review we told our readers that
this concern was willing that their
employes form an organization, and
during the last year the organization
has been effected, and their shop is
now unionized and the Glove Workers'
label is being used. This is the only
Union glove factory in the state of
Nebraska, and the Union men of Lin
coln and throughout the entire state
should insist that their dealer furnish
them with the Union-Made "Hardy"
Glove. One of the fundamental prin
ciples of organized labor is to patron
ize their friends, and our members
that have occasion to buy work gloves
should remember this. This glove not
only bears the Union Label, but is
without doubt, one of the best articles
in its line that is being placed on the
market. Mr. Union Man, let the word
"Hardy" be vividly impressed upon
your mind, and when purchasing the
next pair of work gloves call for this
brand, and by so doing help boost a
Lincoln concern that -has on various
occasions shown their friendliness to
ward the man who toils for a daily
wage.
LINCOLN GAS AND ELECTRIC
LIGHT COMPANY. '
The lighting and fuel supply has
been one of the greatest problems that
modern cities have had to solve and
the result of the last quarter of a
century's experience has seen great
strides of development in gas and
electricity. The Lincoln Gas and Elec
tric Light Co., whose offices are lo
cated at 1323 O street, has solved
the lighting and power ' question of
Lincoln for many years to come. This
company, with its most modern system
of power generation, can supply this
city for many years with the best
light, he&t and power taht modern
ingenuity has yet devised. Its capa
bility in this line is shown by the
splendid and efficient service that it
now gives in manufactory, store, office
and homes in every part of the city.
For convenience and cleanliness the
electric light rivals all other illum
inants. Al electric lighted store is
most alluring and attractive, and the
greatest danger of disastrous con
flagration is eliminated. An electric
sign in front of your place of business
is always busy burning your name ana
business into the minds of the pass
ing hundreds. The electric light
makes your home bright, pleasant
and healthful, and is a safeguard
against fire and burglars. It is also
useful and economical in a hundred
other ways. What you will save iii
redecorating and painting your home
every year will largely pay for your
light bill. The Lincoln Gas and Elec
tric Light company is a public bene
factor in every sense of the word and
has done more to advance and better
the condition of our city than any
other single interest of a quasi-public
nature. It has been a boon alike to
those of means and to the great
masses of people who toil for subsist
ence, for to them the lighting and
heating problem is one of vital im
portance, and each year sees them
adopting electricity in their homes as
a matter of economy. The gentlemen
at the head of the Lincoln Gas and
Electric Light company are men who
have spent their yeai-s in the work
of development of the light, heat and
power service of our city, and to them
is a great share of the advancement,
of our city due. Few cities, if any, in
the country have gas of so good a
quality supplied as we have here and
this we owe to the careful efforts of
the above company. This company
has spent many thousands of dollars
in the extension of pipe lines, etc.,
and have been a foremost factor in
supplying comfort and economical
heat to thousands of our property
holders. It Is the aim of this com
pany to keep fully abreast of the
times and give the best service it is
possible to give at all times. They
have always shown their friendliness
toward our cause at all times, and our
members are numbered by the thou
sands that patronize this company.
The Wageworker takes pleasure in
giving the Lincoln Gas and Electric
Light company prominent mention in
this our annual trade review edition.
Kat at Elam's.
Brothers Fight Duel.
Charles and Joseih Wood, of O'
Neill, brothers, aged respectively
twenty-one and thirteen, fought a
duel with a revolver and shotgun
Monday afternoon, during which each
received painful injuries, but neither
was fatally hurt. Both gave them
selves up to the authorities. The fight
resulted from a quarrel over affairs
on their farm. Charles Wood received
a load of buckshot in the face at long
range and his brother has a ,bullet in
his body.
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