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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1909)
UNIOH MADE STUFF. Ground Out By a Card Man in The Wageworker s Own Shop. The Real Thing. 1 care nt for the man who spouts Of aaionistn daily. Nr for the man who loudly shouts And tells about it gaily. . Give me the man whose card is clear. And who is there with greetings Of folio ship and kindly cheer At all the union meetings. There". lots of men who pay their dues . Who never sweat their collars B;Mtins unions, but never lose A chance to raise loud "hollers." Small ise have we for such as they; They fail us in foul weather. Give us the man who's there each day His fellows meet together. Heir's to the true blue union man .Of courage tried and steady; Who'll help in every union plan. Whose boost is ever ready; Who's always "Johnny on the spot" At v'ry union meeting Whose uuion record bears no blot We bid him kindly greeting! However. " 'Reading maketh a full man. " quoted Gibberly. ""Majbe it does." snorted Bibberly. "but I'm not going to ever offer no such fool excuse to my wife." Explained. "I understand that Slimnierly told you he had the itch." "No he dida't. What he told me was that he had to scratch like th devil to make his wages cover his family ex- ' peases." Cards. Talk about "protecting hides the workingnian's hide is free property. Everybody takes something out of it If you rent from another man you are not a free agent. Organised labor suffers quite as much from ignorance as it does from oppression. A whole lot of men use the words "personal liberty" when they think about '"personal license." The man who opose6 trades unions Is either ignorant or selGsh perhaps both. God pays no attention to the man who claims to love Him. but fails to exhibit any love for his fellowmen. A clear card and a clear conscience work well together. on Horse Goods is reported good in this city, and the local union is re ported to be prosperous. T. XKelsey has been elected delegate to represent the local at the State Federation of Labor. A SWEEPING INJUNCTION. A Chicago Judge Prohibits Everything He Can Think About. Judge Julian W. MVick in the Chi cago circuit court Thursday issued a blanket injunction against the As sociated ' Building Trades at the re quest of the Chicago Mosaic & Tiling Co., and fifteen other concerns. The Judge considered the still fur ther extension of his order to prevent any union organization or officials from levying any fine against members who might refuse to obey strike or ders or other orders issued by labor officials. It was finally concluded, how ever, that no ruling of any sort by a supreme court as yet offered a pre cedent for such order, and the clause was stricken from the writ. The order specifically forbids any attempt to induce other firms or in dividuals to refuse to furnish material or labor to the employers whose men are on strike, or calling upon any em ployes for the purpose of inducing them to leave the employ of the complainants. was one of the . first, to concede the eight-hour day to the carpenters, and has never worked the longer day since the shorter day was instituted. He employs only union carpenters, and has steadfastly adhered to that rule ever since the carpenters asked for the closed shop. . It is up to anion men to say whether they will vote for Tyler, the oponent of the eight hour day, or for Tom Harrison, the man who observes the eight-hour day and employs union labor. . The result ought not to be in doubt for a minute. Tom Harrison ought to poll the votes of all the workingmen and especially all of the union men in the city. If he does he win win in a walk. GENERAL. MENTION. JUDGE FAVORS UNION LABOR. THE BARTENDERS. "Sitting Tight" and Waiting to See What the Result Will Be. The Bartenders are merely holding on and saying nothing. They are tak ing no active part in the campaign. If :So closing carries they will still be in the game it prohibition carries they will have to make the best of it If prohibition wins, about fifty men will be thrown out of employment, four-fifths of them heads of families and many of them home owners. Charley Benson, who will represent the local at the Minneapolis conven tion, is figuring on a private car. He has offered to share it with W. T. Pin ney, who will represent the Musicians at Minneapolis at the same time Ben son represents the Bartenders in the same city. Benson will furnish the car if Pinney will furnish the motive power. G. A. Walker has been elected dele gate from the local union to the State Federation of Labor. Orders That None Other Be Employed By Receiver. FORT SMITH. Ark., April 22. Judge J. V. Bourland issued an order of court here yesterday that is probab ly without precedent. In appointing R. A. Young receiver for the Hiawatha Smokeless Coal company of Coaldale, Ark., he ordered that the receiver em ploy none but union men in the mine, or sell it. Judge Bourland is judge of the chancery court, and at a ban quetf the Arkansas state federation of labor here some months ago stated that he would never grant an injunc tion against a labor union in the in terests of a corporation. BACK FROM COLORADO. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd McKinney have returned from a pleasant visit of a month in Colorado. The Colorado Springs Labor News' correspondent irom tne t'nion rnnters Home re ports a visit from Mjr. and Mrs. Mc Kinney. , TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. i It A vote for W. T. Pinney for alder man ia a vote for a union man who will not forget his unionism if elected to office. OMAHA GARMENT WORKERS. Seem to Have Won Their Contention After a Long Struggle. The Garment Workers' Union will hold a mass meeting at Labor Temple on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. All persons employed in the garment making industry are cordially invited to attend. All locked-out members of the local, excepting two. are now working and this practitally finishes the contro- rsy between the anion and the Nov elty Skirt company, so far as the ami atei unions are concerned. The lo cal will, however, continue to prose cute their cause until they have gained every contention for which tbey were fighting. The demands which the union made have now become the establised cus tom, not only with the Novelty Skirt company, but with every firm in Omaha- employing this class of labor. So that within a few days the union will announce one of the grandest vic tories that has ever been accom plished in the local movement Om aha Labor Advocate. Sunday's Meeting Important and Should be a Big One. The meeting of Lincoln Typographi cal Union Monday afternoon will be one of the most important held in months. Candidates for local offices and for delegate to the annual conven tion at St. Joseph will be named. The election will be held about the middle of the month. Because of this it is expected that the meeting will be one of the largest in recent months. The Freie Presse has ordered an other machine and it is expected to ar rive almost any day. The Claflu shop at University Place has received its machine and the same is now in position. W L. Ford is working at the State Printing Co., shop. Will M. Maupin has bought a home at Thirty-third and Q streets. Mrs. Will Bustard is recovering from her recent illness. Sam Webster is back after a month or six weeks of rusticating in the wilds of Council Bluffs. He indignant ly denies that he was a "Mike" for the Maybray gang. Among other business to come be fore Sunday's meeting is that of ap pointing a committee to make ar rangements for the proper observance of Printers' Memorial Day. which will be the last Sunday in May. " Mrs. Frank Coffey is expected to arrive in Lincoln the latter part of this week, and Mr. and Mrs Coffev will make their home at 115 South Seventeenth. THE LEATHER WORKERS. Business among the Leather workers Brief Bits of Local and National In terest for Busy Readers. Vote for the high school bonds and assure the payment of $200,000 of wages to Lincoln workingmen. A vote for the high school bonds is a vote for Increased opportunities for labor. Robert Malone never loaned money J to unfortunate men and women and charged them 10 per cent a month. Can another candidate for mayor say the same thing? And that proposed prison labor con tract was "squelched." A vote for Fred Kind in the Sixth ward is a vote for a man who is a friendly "Injun." W. M. Maupin is in North Platte to day on business for the state. He was in Kearney Friday evening and ad dressed the Sixth district Federation of Women's clubs. Labor's Memorial Sunday services at the First Baptist church next Sun day evening, week. Sermon by the pastor. Rev. Mr. Batten. Pittsburg street-Tail way men have voted to strike unless their request for an increased wage and recognition of the union is granted. Butterick's patterns are the product of "scab" labor. This ought to be sufficient reason to wives .of union men. Fifteen years ago the average wage in the steel' mills was s-i.2u per day and the average wage of bitumin ous miner was $2. Then the steel workers were organized and the miners were not Today the average wage of steelworkers is $2.10 and the average wage of the bituminous miners is $2.S0. Now the miners are well or ganized from the union standpoint and the steel workers have been all shot to pieces. Find the moral. Omaha Teamsters Union is taking on new lite. Lieven members were initiated last week. The teamsters of Lincoln ought to get busy and reor ganize. The new cells in the Chicago city jail will be constructed by union la bor. A Cincinnati manufacturer was re cently fined for unlawful use of the blue label c the cigarmakers' union. He paid. Baltimore garment workers are on strike in the Schoneman shop.' Schone nian poses as the "pants king" of the country. Chicago piano movers have won their strike for an increase of $1 a week. The Scranton (Pa.) Bolt & Nut Co.. has posted a notice of a 10 per cent reduction in wages. Three hundred men are affected. The Carpenter Steel Co., Reading, Pa., has given notice of a 10 per cent wage reduction. McConway & Torley car coupler manufacturers at Pittsburg, are work ing their factory half time. The Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal are unfair to organized labor. You know what to do CONCERNING JAMES TLYER. Candidate for Water Commissioner Opposed to Eight-Hour Day. When the union carpenters of Lin coln were trying to establish the eight hour day, one of their most strenuous opponents was James Tyler, present water commissioner and candidate for re-election. At that time he was su pervising architect of the Funk build ing, and he fiercely opposed the Idea of making it an eight-hour job. He said ten hours was not too long to work, and he further said that the eight-hour move was an obseacle in the way of prosperity. The commit tee from the carpenters finally went to C. O. Wheedon, trustee of the estate, and laid the matter before him. Mr. Whedon listened courteously, investi gated the claims of the carpenters, and then made it an eight-hour job. T. P. Harrison, who is a candidate for water commissioner, and who is a republican, as Is Mr. Tyler, is one of the fair contractors of the city. He THE AD CLUB. At its regular meeting at- the Lin den hotel last Tuesday evening the Lincoln Ad Club went on, record against the proposed prison labor con tract Suitable resolutions of pro test were drawn and a committee presented them to Governor Shallen- berger Wednesday morning. CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Enters Emphatic Protest Against Pro posed Prison Labor Contract The Central Labor Union met Tues day evening and went on record as vigorously protesting against any fur ther extension of the prison labor contract system in this state. A com mittee was appointed to submit the protest to the board of public , lands and buildings, and did so Wednesday morning. The high school bond proposition was discussed pro and con. and con siderable time spent in talking about the site. It was decided to elect a delegate to the State Federation of Labor at the second meeting in May. Labor's Memorial Sunday will be observed on the evening of the sec ond Sunday in May. The services will be held at the' First Baptist I An InportiK Tin . If one time is more opportune than another to furnish the home, that time is now. Spring goods are in and from the Window Shade to the Parlor Suite we have for your approval select designs in the most pleasing finishes of all lines of house furnishings. Price is a primary object with you. This has not been forgotten. We pride ourselves on the low price at which we can furnish you the best quality of goods. One visit will convince you. Our prices talk for themselves and you can see them they're in plain figures. (Our new passenger elevator is now installed in front part of Carpet Department a weeded improve ment and one which we hope will meet with your appreciation.) A China Closet of Merit A most extensive line of dining-room furniture is shown at our store Tables, Buffets, China Closets and Chairs at most reason able prices. A China Closet of solid oak, quartered frame, 34 inches wide, GO inches high, nicely finished in golden oak, and an ornament as well as a necessity in C-l O 7 every dining room. Price, with plain foot P Others from. $15 to $75 EXTRA SPECIAL 54 Mahogany Rockers A beautiful, stylish rocker, splendid quality and exceptional merit Purchase?! as a clean-up from a large eastern factory at 50 per cent discount. A regular $10 rocker, which we anticipated selling as a special at $i.50, bat bare - decided to put on sale tomorrow at less than factory cost. Cushion of chase leather, with best steel springs; back of chair is a genuine mahogany veneer. three-ply; front and back posts one-piece construction. QC pxss (Not over two to one person.) Our price tomorrow Carpets and Draperies This week has seen the arrival of new patterns in the famous Artloom Hugs. If you anticipate the purchase of something extra good in a Wilton, this make will appeal to you. Woven of finest worsteds, in harmonious colors and Ct4.? II A designs, it cannot be equalled at the price. 9x12 at tPxJAi BRENLIN The best shade cloth manufactured. A Brenlin shade keep out all light. Does not crack or wrinkle. ACsouTEtr me MEAT. KNVtSTKiATK IT. Hardware Dept. Specials Broken Line of Enamel Ware at One-Half Off 40c Coffee Pots -. 20c I 2oc Stew Pans 50c Coffee Pots 25c j 30c Stew P; 40c Tea Pots. 50c Tea Pots. .20c .25c 35c Stew Pans. 40c Stew Pans 13c 15c 18c 20c Also ice-water pitchers, rice boilers, deep pans, cuspidors, cups, etc., all at One Half Off. This line is a pretty blue and white, and is cheap at regular price. BEMfWAY church, and the memorial sei-mon 'will be delivered by Rev. Samuel Zane Batten, fraternal delegate from the Ministerial Union to the central body. It is probable . that a member of a trades union will also speak on that evening from the pulpit of the church. The label and home industry com mittees are framing up a "stunt" that promises to make a lot of people sit up and take notice of the label game. Several candidates for office who are known to be unfair to organized labor were named in the meeting, and it will be seen to that their records are made known to the union men of the city. James Van Cleave has resigned as president of the Union Busters' organi zation. His partners evidently did not like the kind of advertising Jeems was getting for the Buck stove outfit. LABOR'S MEMORIAL DAY. Rev. Charles Stelzle Offers Good Sug gestions for Its Observance. The American Federation of Labor has decided that the second Sunday in May shall annually be observed as labor's memorial Sunday. For five years the Presbyterian department of church and labor has been observing ''Labor Sunday' on the Sunday pre vious to Labor Day, but in order to bring the celebration of this day in to harmony with the general plan of organized labor, the day was changed to the second Sunday in May. This year labor's Memorial Day falls on on Sunday, May 9th, and I have just written to the ministers of the 11.000 Presbyterian churches in the United States requesting them to discuss some phase of the labor question up on this occasion. Labor Sunday has been made a calendar day by our department. We believe that, just as Memorial Day and the several "birthdays'" show our appreciation of those who ren dered patriotic service, and just as the church's "holy days" do honor to those who served mankind spiritu ally, so labor's Memorial Day should be observed by the churches in hon or of the millions of toilers who daily serve mankind in the humbler places of life. It should be given a wider scope than the recognition merely of those who have passed away. The day should be made of such significance that tt win encour age those who are today engaged fa the task of uplifting oar coam hu manity. Workiiwrnwn wfH tiros have an opportunity on this occasion ! demonstrate their interest ia the great labor movement which may swas so nitich to the working people of Ameri ca. A special souvenir pragma has been prepared by the Presbyterian de partment of church and labor, of which thousands of copies have al ready been sent, upon request, to those who expect to observe the day. In many cities the central labor bodies have accepted invitations to march to the church to listen to the address and to take part in the special ex ercises which have been prepared. The plan has the hearty endorse ment of some of the most prominent labor men in America. May I snggest that the workingrnen in every city respond to the appeal of the ministers who expect to observe this day and if no Invitation has. as yet, been Ltsued to tbem by the local minister, it might be a good plan to encourage him to observe the day by requesting him to conduct such a service.