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L Y R D C Week Commencing Monday, Mar. 15 One Big Week The Fulton Stock Co. Presents "The Bishop's Carriage" With Wed. and Sat. Matinees Pcices always tho same 15 and 25c Dr. Q. H. Ball DENTIST 1309 O Street Phone Auto 5592 LINCOLN NEB. FITS STOPPEDI ipncc I TRIAL tOTI U' SENT T IlkC Address Golden Cure Co. Hammond, Ind. EARN BIG M0NEY- SC fl.OO Instruction for $ I n.OO JU I LEARN AT HOME I Complete Instruction double entry bookkeeptnff. peninnnthip. buaineee forme. Books, meterinL frcet no other outlay. MooA positions waiting. Dot. I. Chicago Buiirmi Tninlna School, Chicago OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. Offlv 211S O St. Both Phone. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA DR. GHAS.YUNGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202. BURR BLK. SSESff LINCOLN, NEB. MYDEN'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O Fin virk a Specialty. Auto SS6 !v.L PREWITTl PHOTOS Particular attention to work for A O particular people. 3? Special inducements for photos $ A for legislative members. X 6 ft 1214- O St., Lincoln. Vageworkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY & NORR1S I29 So. Ilth St. DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal diseases such as Piles. Fistulae, Fissure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. Office, Richards Block. HOVERNMENT POSITIONS If 48JI2 Appointments pi? I I p0t jmr. 0.KMlhfMumn at iM'j to $!.) per II T''r. KxovlhHit oin-rturiti.- fur toiiiik people. J" Tlwrouirh tiwtrDruon by nuiil. Writo fr our OrUSeoux AiiKMiiHiiient.poiitaiiiiiirfuUinrnrmuUon fthont mil KOTvrontrnt fAsJuiikatuma ami quo5Uuiu x amcii: lent, il b tik t Srntu 1 luiitmunui COLUMBIAN CORKEST. COL1XCI. WASHINCTON.'D. C Notice to Creditors. Estate No. 2529 of John E. Lund gren. deceased, in County Court of 1-ancaster County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, ss.: Cred itors of said estate will take notice that the time limited for presentation and filing of claims against said estate is October 1, 1909, and for payment of debts is May 2. 1910; that I will sit at the County Court room in said County, on July 1, 1909, at 2 p. m., and on October 1. 1909, at 2 p. m., to re ceive, examine, hear, allow, or adjust all claims and objections duly filed. Dated February 26, 1909. P. JAS COSGRAVE, (Seal.) County Judge. By WALTER A. LEESE, Clerk. 43 O. -"V i e B WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN, EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Lincolr, Neb. One Dollar a Year, Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln, Meb., under the Act of Congress oi March 3rd, 1879. HOW THE WOMEN CAN HELP. It is the fortune good or bad of the editor of The Wageworker to bo an officeholder. In that capacity ho is called upon to answer a great deal of correspondence relative to the welfare of women and children who are compelled to work for wages. A number of splendid women in this state, notably the members of the Women's Clubs of Omaha and Lin coln, are taking a deep interest in their sisters who toil in mills and factories, and are exerting themselves to secure better working conditions and wages. These splendid women write to the deputy labor commis sioner about the matter. Hera and now The Wageworker wants to pay a tribute to the Ne braska Federation of Women's Clubs. Had it not been for this Federation there would not now be upon tho statute books of Nebraska one of the best child-labor laws ever enacted. These splendid women succeeded where we trades unionists had failed after a decade of effort. Hut in all candor and kindness this little labor paper wants to give the good women who make up the Ne braska Federation of Women's Clubs a tip a tip thnl will prove more ef fective if acted upon than anything else they can do in the line of better ing conditions for their wage-earning sisters. If you want to drive out the em ployer of child labor; if you want to put out of business the sweat-shop employer who battens on the lifo- blood of your unfortunate sisters; if you want to protect the helpless an'l the innocent if you want to make Conditions tolerable YOU MUST IN SIST UPON THE UNION LABEL UPON THE GARMENTS YOU BUY. The union lt.bel is an absolute guarantee against child labor, sweat shop labor and miserably paid labor. It is a guarantee that the article it F.dorns was made by adult labor work ing reasonable hours for fair wages in sanitary surroundings. Without the union labei there is no such guarantee. If the club women of the country will unite with the trades unionists of the country in demanding the union label, the problem will be solved. Such a united demand will put the sweat shopper and the employer of child labor out of business. The women of thjs great country are primarily responsible for the continued existence of child labor, tenement factories and foul sweat shops. This is a'p true of club women as it is of women who are not mem bers of clubs. Wby do we say this? Because womeu are ""bargain seekers," tind they never think of their unfor tunate sisters when there is a chance to purchase for 89 cents an article that ordinarily sells for 90 cents. And three-fourths of the sweat shops of the country work upon articles thic women wear lingerie, shirt waists, skirts, etc. The editor of this paper 1 as seen children less than four years old sorting petals for artificial flowers. sorting beads foi passementerie, pull ing basting threads and uncardhvi buttons. He has seen sad-faced widows sewing on shirtwaists fifteen Mid sixteen hours a day and never making over $5 a week, no matter how long or how hard they worked. He has seen widows bravely trying to feed and clcthe little ones by making boys' knickerbocker pants for 12 cents a dozen, and corset covers for 8 cents a dozen. He has seen children stricken with scarlet fever lying upon piles of white goods in a foul tenement room; ' has seen, the mothers of these sick children pull the goods from under them, sew the stains on the machine at a wage of less than 5 cents an hour, and then send them back to the sweat-shop employer who sold them to merchants in Omaha. Lincoln. Grand Island all over the country. And then Tie has seen the good " women of Nebraska rush frantically to the bargain coun ter to buy these same goods, into j tne seams or. wmen uas oeen sewn the blood and tears and sweat of hopeless widows and mothers. You'll never see the union label upon garments made under such ter rible conditions. The unian label is an absolute guarantee against it. r Will the good women of Nebraska who helped us get a child labor law now turn in and help us make ef fective that law? Will they help us in our crusade that has for its object the emancipation of the hopeless and underpaid women workers of the country? Will they think .less of bargains and more of humanity for a little while? All the resolutions you may pass will be of no avail. You can investi gate and resolve until Hades boils down to a poultice, and you will not help your unfortunate sisters one-ha as much as you can help them by demanding the union label on the garments you wear. Will you give The Wageworker th' privilege of telling its union readers that the club women of Nebraska are willing to begin a practical demon stration of their desire to benefit their toiling sisters? No. The Wageworker was not asked to run the "Uneeda Biscuit-' adver tising at about one-fifth the rate paid by local advertisers. Nor was it asked to carry it at any price. The Wageworker would not accept the advertising of the National Biscuit Co. It is a "scab" outfit that is not entitled to the patronage of union men and women. The decree in the case of the Buck Stove Co. vt-. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison has been modified, but the three labor leaders are still under jail sentence. The decree of the Govern ment vs. Standard Oil Co. has been wiped out entirely. Federal judges owe their appointments to the corpora tions, not to the people who work for wages. The Omaha Examiner wants to know what Deputy Commissioner of Labor Maupin thinks of the damage caused by rats. The union of which the deputy labor commissioner is a member has no use for rats, and it recently appropriated about $4,000,00 to eradicate the pest. Union men and women are not pro hibited from buying a Buck stove, nor from patronizing a company that han dles the output of the Buck company. But the union man or woman who does so ought to take something to straighten the kinks in their unionism. The courts have decided that in dividual unionists are responsible for damages that an employer says he has sustained by reason of the activ ity of the union. But the courts can't cinch the Standard Oil Co. Congress is in session for the pur pose of revising the tariff in the in terests of the consumersi And Joe Cannon is in the chair, with Dalzell to help him. What the consumer will get will be a swift kick. In the meanwhile you are not sup posed to forget that the Buck stoves and ranges are still on sale, and that no union man or woman is com pelled to buy one. Regardless of the merits of the Douglas Shoe Co. controversy, you will be on the safe side by demand ing and inserting upon the stamp of the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union. The new secretary of commerce and labor is a Standard Oil attorney. The interest he will take in the cause of the toilers will not make him lie awake o' nights. By the wa.-, better hurry up mak ing that demand for the label. Some federal judge will bob up one of these days with an order sending you to jail for demanding it. The legislature has appropriated $60,000 to pay for wolf scalps. Wish it would get the scalp of the wolf that is constantly camping at The Wageworker's door. The promised revival of prosperity is not in evidence. Of course it need not be expected while we are "tinker ing with the tariff." Ever heard that before? It has been declared illegal to say that the Buck stoves and ranges are unfair. Therefore we will not say it. The "insui gents" in congress cut about as much ice as some union men we know. Speaking oi the proposed city char ter ''Beware of the Greeks bearing Gifts." Demand the label is a legalized form of boycott against unfair goods. It is not too early for your union to be talking about the delegate it will elect to the State Federation oT Labor meeting that will be called to meet some time in June. The "Made :n Lincoln" exposition was a winner. And the exhibits of union-made goods were the ones that attracted the most attention. A lot of people who have been hollering for the initiative and refer endum are opposing 'submitting the proposed charter to a vote of the people. Why? Every union man in Lincoln who buys work gloves ought to demand the "Hardy Glove" union made and made in Lincoln. Candidates by petition! Well, Mr. Union Man, start your petition! LABOR TEMPLE COMMITTEE. Will Get Busy Again, and This Time It Will Fight to Win. The Labor Temple directory met last Monday night for the first tiniv! ir seven months. It will meet regu larly every Monday evening here after, and as soon as possible will begin meeting at 7 o'clock. It is impossible to pick a meeting bight that , will not interfere with some director's opportunity to attend a meeting of his cwn union, so an ef fort will be made to meet at 7 o'clock after April 1, and thus give the mem bers of unions meeting on that night chance to attend both. At the meeting last Monday night very little business was transacted. Owing to several misunderstandings barely a quorum was present, and it was , decided to postpone all but routine business until the next meet ing. Secretary Ihringer will notify every director by letter of the meeting next Monday evening, which will be in the office of the deputy commissioner of labor, at the state house. Until fur ther notice the meetings will "be held there. It is sincerely to be hoped that the unionists of the city will take re?1 newed courage and determination and get behind this project. It can be made to win if everybody will boost a little. In fact, it only a com parative few will boost,and the rest refrain from "knocking," the project will be pushed to a successful con clusion. Secretary Ihringer will have his books ready for auditing at the next meeting or the one immediately fol lowing. Those who have already paid up will receive their stock certificates without further delay. Now let everybody take an interest, and let us build a Labor Temple in Lincoln. SMITH-RITCHIE. On Wednesday of last week Mr. 3 D. Smith and Mrs. Ritchie, both cf this city, were united in marriage. Mr. Smith hae been a member of Lincoln Typographical Union for many years and is well known in trade union circles. Mrs. Smith has also re sided in Lincoln for a number of years and has a wide circle of friends. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith The Wage worker extends its heartiest congrat ulations and best wishes. WITCHER0L CREAM Protects the face from wind and weather. It soothes the irritated skin, heals chapped or cracked hands or lips. Nothing like it for an After Shave Cream 25 Cents a Bottle Get a sample of Witcherol. RECTOR'S Twelfth and O. Notice to Creditors. Estate No. 1826 of Adelia P. Grover, deceased, in County Court of Lancas ter County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, ss.: Credit or of said estate will take notice that the time limited for presentation and filing of claims against said estate is October 13, 1909, and for payment of debts is May 16, 1910; that I will sit at the County Court room in said County, on July 15, 1909, at 2 p. m., and on October 15, 1909, at 2 p. m., to receive, examine, hear, allow, or adjust all claims and objections duly filed. Dated March 9th, 1909. P. JAS COSGRAVE, (Seal.) County Judge. By WALTER A. LEESE, Clerk. 49 lCEjjE(:iAL Glad Easter will soon demand a new costume. We are showing "chic costume specials" not to be found elsewhere in the city. Buy your outfit from us and know that "everyone" will not be wearing the same thing as you. ... Our cases now gleam with beautiful little things to set off your dress. If you wish to make your Easter clothes, is it not high time you were selecting the materials? We have them and invite you to let us show them to you. CLOAKROOM Three. Reasons Why mKK ou Should Select IW'S You Easter Suit Now. ffimM, FirstNow you will find all IMflWlm desirable shades. ymm Second Now you will find ropyfx stok unroen m Plli Third Special price induce- - ment for this we;ek. Suits at $13.50 Fine Chiffon Panama, neatly braid and button trimmed, sizes 14 to 18, our regular price $15. CM). Suits at $14.75 Striped Worsted, braid and button trimmed, good values at $16.50. Suits at $16.50 Plain and striped Panama Cloth, handsomely trimmed with pull and soutashe braid, finished with buttons, worth $18.50. Suits at $22.50 Best grade of Shadow Striped Worsteds and Serges, elaborately trimmed with satin and embroider, our regular $25.00 values. Jackets at $4.95 Black Broadcloth and Soft Striped Covert, 32-incli length, trimmed with buttons, a swell spring garment worth $5.95. Children's Spring Jackets, special price, from $1.58 up Taffeta Silk Coats from 28-inch to 32-inch lengths, loose and semi-fitttng, attractively braid trimmed, prices range from $4.95 up to $14.95 About 25 Black Taffeta Eton style, values JJO QCt $7.50, $3.50, $9.95, j-our choice at P-&.ii70. Taffeta Silk Jumper and Waist Suits, kQ QEi $19.50, 17.50, 14.50 values, choice at pl7.J0 $13.50 and 12.50 values, choice at $7.95 Waists Dependable grade of Satin Messaline, made in new plaited effect, ffr , trimmed with buttons, worth $6. 75, special price $U.7J Taffeta Silk Waists at $4 95, $3.95. $2 95 Wool Dress Goods Now is the time to take advantage of this cut on Spring Wool Dress Goods. All our 36inch Wool Dress Goods in fancy and plain, worth XQc 60c, now... tJ7C All our 42-inch Wool Dress Goods in plain and fancy, worth TO $ 1.00, now " AH our plain and fancy Suitings, 42 inches wide, worth 11.25. QQ All our plain and fancy Suitings, 42 and 54 inches wide, C -1ft worth 51.50, now eJleAU Choice Oxfords This store has a display of Spring Oxfords that will in terest every woman in this community. It's going to be a great season for low cut shoes. There is not a good style of Oxfords or Tie that we aren't showing a splendid variety It's a Beauty Show Colors and Black High and Medinm Heel Oxforta. Ribbon Ties and Pumps, etc., every dainty style. $2.50, S3.0O and C3.50. The woman who has taste for fancy footwear will find styles here that will toe the mark of her desire. We fit the feet. 917-921 O St. OPPOSITE CITY HALL