THE LEATHERWORKERS.
Uittl Trouble at Hastings Amicably
Adjusted Last Week.
Fifteen lent her workers on horse
goods vent out at Hastings. Nebraska,
a short time ago to enforce a de
mand for better conditions. General
President Baker went out there and
succeeded in adjusting; the. trouble in
a very short time. The men returned
to work perfectly satisfied.
Since January three aew locals
hare been added to the Brotherhood.
Madison. Wis.. Knoxville. Tenn., and
Muscatine, la. Several difficulties have
been adjusted and the membership
strengthened in numbers as well as
in enthusiasm.
ljorally work continues to be fair.
with the outlook for better times un
usually bright. The local union is in
good shaie. '
PRINTERS AWAkE IN CUBA.
The work or organizing the printers
of Cuba is progressing rapidly. Al
though Armand B. Rodrlgei. the or
ganiser for the International Typo
graphical Vnion. has been .only a few
weeks on the island, a good-sized
union has been already organized in
Havanna. and another will soon be
formed in Santiago. The Typographi
cal I'd ion of Havanah has 109 mem
bers and promises to be the largest
local union in Cuba by the end of the
year. There are about 800 printers
in Havanah and 300 in Santiago.
Working Trades Unionist.
PRESSMEN SECURE ADVANCES.
Pressmen and assistants of St. Au
gustine have been granted an increase
of 20 per cent. A contract has been
closed for a 15 per cent increase in
Hamilton. Out.; 20 per cent increase
on the newspapers. Columbus web
pressmen will enjoy a 11 per cent in
crease. They have secured a slight in
crease in Eluiira. X. Y.. with the prom
ise of another increase next year. Set
tled the grievance between the web
iiressmen and the Milwaukee Senti
nel.
GOT IT IN THE NECK.
Rand, McNally & Co, Lose Suit and
Are in for Heavy Damages.
"The mills of God grind slowly, yet
they grind exceeding small.' It is
more than three years since Rand, Mc
Nally & Co.. one of the large Chicago
publishing houses, refused to grant the
eight-hour day and locked out its
printers who demanded this conces
sion. The company exhibited the
height of arrogance in the matter, and
since then has been running its plant
largely if not wholly with non-union
labor. It has had considerable trouble
and close observers have been looking
for the occurrence of some big disaster
to its business: for as its output was
below the required standard, owing to
the incompetence of Its employes, the
murmurs of dissatisfaction from Its
patrons have been swelling into a tu
mult. Now the disaster has come.
A few days ago Judgment was ren
dered againts the company at G las
cow. Ky.. for $10,000 in a suit brought
by County Superintendent W. C. Turn
er to recover a forfeit which the com
pany had agreed to pay in case the
books furnished to Barren county
were not as good as the samples sub
mitted. The evidence showed that the
books were far from being up to the
standard of the samples and the judg
ment followed. Minnesota Union Advocate.
GETTING READY.
The "Greenbackers" will not be
seen in official action on the home
grounds until May 12. Captain Fox and
Magnate Green, however, have rigged
up a few exhibition games that will
be worth seeing. The players have
about all reported and daily practice
is being indulged in at Antelope park.
Bonno has not yet shown up. and
Pritchett is still holding off. But Bonno
would not be' missed. Johnnie Jones
will show up late in April, as he has
to finish that term of school in dear
old Highland. The "rail birds" are
perching on the park benches and ge
ing a line on the team. It looks good.
THE BARBERS.
Shop Card Goes Back Into Pretty
Shop on P Street.
The Star barber shop at 922 P
street is again graced by a union shop
card. This is the shop from which
the card was removed " about two .
months ago but it is not under the
same management now. A week or so
ago J. J Simpson, proprietor of the
Apex shop at Tenth and O streets,
bought' the Star shop. He immediately
put "Joe" Long in charge. It took
Josephus about a minute to get the
shop card back, right where it could
be seen from every part of the shop
and a good portion of P street. Then
he got a couple of good union barbers
to take charge of the other two chairs
while he presided over the first
chair.
With the "coming of the gladsome
spring the business is picking up a
bit. In warm weather men do not let
their hair grow so long, and when
real summer comes they shave oftener
in order that they can let their voices
out at the ball games without getting
it tangled up in their whiskers.
The "Greenbackers" have won the
1909 pennant in every union barber
shop in Lincoln since March 27.
who managed to crush the steel work
ers, now has the satisfaction of see
ing the steel workers handed "pros
perity with the reverse English on it."
And the steel workers who were gold
bricked Into becoming shareholders
in the steel trust are getting just what
they might have expected if they
hadn't been easy marks.
Schwab serves notice that if the
steel trust's tariff graft is disturbed
the workers will have to make good
the loss. The big Laughlin-Jones- com
pany has issued notice of a 10 per
cent reduction in wages. "On account
of dull times and tariff agitation." Un
organized workers in railroad circles
are getting the cut. Mill and factory
employes are being handed the en-
s mailed wage envelope. Every day's
issue of the daily newspapers con
tains from a half-dozen to a score of
dispatcher announcing wage cuts.
They told us if we'd vote for Taft
They'd overrun our cup of bliss;
And with the help of tariff graft
Would boost our wages
this
like
up
They landed Taft in Teddy's chair
And now they play the old game
well.
They'll keep again the lion's share
And drop our wages
down
to
zero.
Labor Temple Day,' May 12.
Be a Booster for the Temple.
DOWN GO THE WAGES.
the
Taft and Prosperity Working in
Back Motion Regularly.
Wage reduction after wage reduc
tion, especially in the unorganized
industries, is noted in the news dis
patches. Carnegie the philanthropist
SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCH.
Rev. Charles Stelzle Discusses the
Question of "Meeting Human Needs.
In no city "or country in the world
are the Christians in a majority. The
men outside of the church control the
courts and the legislature, but the pro
gress which has been made is due to
the direct and indirect influence of
Christianity. The church has often
been at fault and in some things it is
to blame today, but no matter how
dark the age, the church has always
been the whitest light in history and
when reform came to the church, it
came from within and not from with
out. To quote from the significant res
olutions passed by the great church
conference in Philadelphia, represent
ing nearly twenty million members,
the attention of workingmen should
be called to the fact that,
"The institution of a day of rest se
cured for the toilers of Christendom by
the very charter of the church has
been defended on their behalf by It
throughout the centuries; -..
That the streams of philanthropy
which supply a thousand needs have
their springs, for the most part, in
Christian devotion;
That the fundamental rights of men
upon which rest the pillars of this
mighty group of commonwealths are
a heritage 'from the conscience and
consecration of men who acknowledge
Jesus Christ as Master;
That the free ministrations to the
Boys' Complete Confirmation Outfits
WE OUTFIT THE BOYS FROM HEAD TO FOOT
' BUT.QIfiuuif.cuncK.
There's only one Boy or Young
Man in the World for Us and that s
the Boy or Young Man who wants
to be well dressed. We fit them
out in Clothes that have the best
wearing quality in the season's fore
most styles. Every garment a Mayer
Bros. Quality which is quality superior
Boys' Knee Pant Suits $3.95 to $10
Young Men's Suits at $5.00 to $5
High Quality Furnishings
and Footwear at Low Prices
WE PUT, THE BOYS IN THE WELL DRESSED LINE
MAYER BROS.
Lincoln's Leading Clothiers
community on the part of tens of thou
sands of churches attest the purpose
of the followers of Christ;
That the Church, while it may not
have accepted the task of announcing
an industrial program, is at heart
eager with the impulses of service
and Is more than ever ready to ex
press the spirit of its Lord;
That in the bluest for the forces by
which the larger hopes of the work
ingmen of America may be most
speedily and fully realized, the leaders
of the industrial world can better af
ford to lose all others than those
which are today and have been for
nearly two thousand years at work in
the faith, the motive and the devotion
of the Church of Jesus Christ."
Of course it will be said by the so
cialist that he is going to eradicate
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' We believe in a comfortable home. This Couch
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Well shaped oak frame, genuine steel spring
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A Dining
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Colapses with one motion, can be
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BENWAY'S
the necessity for philanthropy and
very much that the church is doing
today and has been doing throughout
the ages. But even in this respect the
church has done more than socialism.
However, in the meantime, it has been
trying to alleviate the sufferings of
mankind. While the world has been
getting ready to take an official step
in the matter of securing a larger
measure of justice for the workers, the
church has been ministering to those
whot have fallen by the wayside. It
task it has unquestionably been with
out a peer in all history and for this
task it has unquestionably beenwitb
outa peer in all history and for this
work the church, in all fairseM.
should receive doe credit. Not that
it cares for it particularly, nor is it
demanding such recognition, bat is a
unbiased consideration of the whole
subject these facts should be reck
oned with.
The New
Woman
and
Divorce
By Elisabeth Bacon Walling.
U
1
Why is it that to-day to many more
wives than husbands are securing divorce?
The official census report on Avian
just published shows that two-think f the
915,625 divorces in the last 20 years were
granted to women. The most eommca
ground has been desertion.
The fact that so many more wire
than huslmnds are setnring divorce w proof
neither that husbands are growing in prof
ligacy, nor that wives, because of their
'higher education" and interest in pnblie
affair?, are liecoming more prone to free
themselves from loving and faithful hus
band. One reason why more divorces are obtained by the wives m the
fact that the court usually assigns the children to the mother. While this
is one reason, the chief reason is that woman, by her more liberal education
and by the improved economic situation which now prevails in this coun
try, is better able to support herself. . ?
Xo longer is woman forced by laws, in the making of which she has'
had no part, to continue to live with the brute who beats her, with the
gambler and drunkard who beggars her, th-scrting her in her distress, awl
with the culprit who deceives her, forsaking her for others. Factory, shop
and university have opened their doors to her as avenues of escape. ;
She is no longer denied the right to the wages which she has earned
with her own hands, to the clothing which she lias bought with her own
earnings, to the children which she bears and brings np, amd to her own
body, which under an old dispensation in one of the Xew England states
her husband was privileged to sell to his neighbor.
By her higher intelligence and more refined conscience woman has
come to question her right to cause to be born the offspring of hnsbaodd
who are drunkards and criminals. She is also wondering whether she
should have more children than she can properly educate ami prepare for
the battle of life. She has come to ask herself whether it is not more
fair to society for her to free herself from a relation which must but peo
ple the world with a race of degenerates and weaklings. :
One reason why so many more wives than husbands are securing di
vorces appears in the growing economic independence of women.
Woman is now beginning to realize that her soul
is hej' own. She -is no longer an economic slave. At
one time woman knew that outside of her husband
home she had no opportunity for self-support. Her
property, her children, her wages, her clothes all be
longed to her "lord and master."
When a woman marries a man she gives him her
youth, places her fate in his hands, and nnless she has
a fortune of her own, is dependent upon hint till death
for her comfort and well being. Therefore it is a sol
emn moment in the life of the wife and mother when
she turns her back upon her only refuge from want ;
and while we are not without examples of wives de
serting their husbands for frivolous reasons, it is safe
to conclude that in the majority of cases wh-n wives
desert their husbands the- are following some honest
conviction of conscience and principle.
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