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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1909)
STAR WHITE SOX THIRD BASEMAN GREAT y clear lb STOCK REDUlM In order to sell out all Summer Merchandise, odds and ends and re- SS'SSSS. .10 to 58 Por fait iscoont on Dress Goods, White Goods, Wash Goods, Silks, Ribbons, Laces, Embroideries, Hosiery, Underwear, Domestics, Table Linens, Shoes, Oxfords, Men's Furnishings and Women's Ready-to-wear Garments. 20 Per (gont KsGoart 20 Por Gori ioeauni on Ribbons. Corsets, Fancy Hosiery. Gloves, Laces, Embroideries. on U Dress Goods. Silks. White Goods. Linings. Dress Ginghams, Parasols, Fans, rmbrelas. Collars. Back and Side Combs. Barrettes. Table ". Napkins. Muslin Underwear, Curtain Nets. Game, TJn- . . . . , , . derwear. Bed Spreads and Hammocks. Neckties. Bandeaux and Jabots. Dress Braid and Trimmings. Children's null Hats Half Prico DoiilOStieS Undcrprieod 35 pieces Amoskeag Checked Apron Ginghams in assorted C's One lot of Children fancy Trimmed Mull Hats, in colors Blue. checked. Sale price : U4W Pink and White, worth up to $1.50, to close at HALF PRICE Tabb Oil Gioih 13 i-2c American Prints 4l-2e asasaw waa wawasa aw a saw One lot of American Prints in short lengths in Grey. Blue. il On lot fancy designs Table Oil Cloth, dark colors only, good f -i Black and White, fast colors, per yard . 4C quality, per yard IJ2W SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON ALL PRINTS. I5c belts 15c 9c Crash Touoling Sg One lot of Elastic Belts in Brown, Blue and Black, while they j 10 pieces 18-in, Twilled Shanon Crash Toweling, regular 9c r last, each I3C Sale price, yard 0C 15 pieces 17-iHu, Cotton Crash Toweling. While it lasts, per i yard 4C ft PI 25 pieces 17-in., linen Toweling, regular 10c value. Special "JQ I Wl UCIIUW CJllU LaJUOlIllw Special discount on all Toweling. Tickings, Prints, Shirtings, Denims, Sateen s,Cotton Battings and Sheetings. 25 Pieces 32-in., Percales in assorted colors, regular 10c Sale x 1 , price, per yard O2C 4 ps Qnd Pillow Cqsos 1? pieces good grade Unbleached L. L. Muslin. Special, now ij per yard jC 25 dozen Bleached Hemmed Sheets, full 9-4, 50c value Sale price uuv One lot 36-in Bleached Muslin, our advertiser, same cloth as 7l, hope, regular 10c Sale price, per yard I2C 20 dozen Bleached Hemmed Sheets, full 72x90, good quality. iT , , , , . , , , ... regular price 60c Sale price 4lC One lot 36-in, Silkolines in fancy and plain colors, worth to nl 12Hc Sale price, per yard... O2C Special Discount on all Other Sheets and Pillow Cases. TRUNKS, TELESCOPES. SUIT CASES, OVERALLS, WORK SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, HAND KERCHIEFS, COLLARS AND GLOVES. 917-921 O St. OPPOSITE CITY HALL ON ALL FELT HATS, STRAW HATS, DRESS SHIRTS, MEN'S BELTS, WINDSOR TIES, JEW ELRY, DRESS GLOVES AND BOYS' BLOUSE WAISTS. TRADES UNION CHARACTERS Rev. Charles Steal Writes Entertain ingly of the Business Agent. If he were a fool, he wouldn't be on the Job that is. he wouldn't be there very long. There are lots of people who are all the time trying to have him make a fool of himself. That he doesn't slip up oftener is to his credit. . There's the chap, for instance, who tries, without any conscience, to bribe him. either before or during a strike. A big roll of bills must look awfully tempting to a fellow who never in all his life saw so much money at one time. It's a fine thing that those who really know are aware that mighty few men giTe way to the temptation. But there's another class of men who try to make a fool of the busi ness agent I refer to the labor union men who think that the chief func tion of the business agent is to be a "good fellow. He is expected to "set them up" to the boys when he has won out in a particular proposition, and he is considered a chump if he doesn't do so on general principles, anyway. Meanwhile, he not only spends for the purpose money that should be used in supporting his own family, but he makes himself Just so much less cap able of properly transacting tile busi ness of bis organisation. Why should a business agent be looked upon as a sort of an easy mark simply because his salary is paid by the trades union of which the men re ferred to are members? Why should he be considered a "cheap skate" Just because he doesn't always hand out a dollar when some other fellow is hard :up If the business agent is doing one- half of what the members of the union expect of him he Is doing twice as much as be ought when it comes to a question of earning his salary. Not every business agent earns his salary. Some of them are costly even though the union pays them no salary at all. But if a business agent is making good fifty-two vceeks in the year for, of course, he isn't expected to take a va cation in a quiet, business-like way, keeping the men at work rather than constantly calling strikes instead of using his brain power to settle the dif ficulty without resorting to warfare if he's doing this, he's a pretty good sort of a man to keep on the Job. When the time comes to call a strike and there will come such, occasions hell be in a much better position to win, than if he had previously weak ened his forces through petty strife. just because it was the easiest way out. For anybody can issue a strike order, provided that he has the author ity. It doesn't require much brain power to command men to quit their Jobs. But it demands a whole lot more in the way of genuine ability to keep men on their Jobs and yet have them receive all that a strike could possibly win for them. If war is hell, then strikes are "purgatory." But if men must strike, let's at least give them decent argument for doing so, and then stand by them till they win out. And If they lose, let's stand by the right kind of a business agent, anyway. for he's done the best he knew how. manufactured. When the inspector got through with that rat concern and child-employing shop there was an aggregate of thirty-eight convictions under the labor laws of Ohio, and an aggregate fine of $950 assessed against the concern. The convictions were had under violations of the hours of labor and the employment of children. If all users of tobacco cared at all for the lives of the little girls and boys they would smoke nothing but blue-label cigars and to bacco. Men and women would make those cigars, and the little ones would be in the schools and enjoying the springtime of life. As it is, the peo ple who traffic in the labor of chil dren care nothing about anything but the making of money, and have no compunctions in rolling the lives of little children into the non-union pro ducts which they ask a beneficent but all-too-easy public to purchase.' Discriminate against child and sweat shop labor by taking nothing but what bears the union label of .the organ ized worker." it is absolutely necessary for labor to present a united and harmonious front to the legislature and to the enemies of progress." D. C. Hayes, Chairman Legislative Board, Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, Minne sota. OUR MICHIGAN SHEPHERD. We congratulate Mr. Fordney, con gressman from Michigan. We had not looked to find in congress so brave and patriotic an American. We had not before heard of Mr. Fordney, but apparently he is a man without fear. Facing Joe Cannon and all his re tainers, Mr. Fordney had the hardi hood to declare. "I am the friend of the American sheep." Thanks, we need frienas. New York Daily Call. HOW IT WORKED IN OHIO. Scab Cigar Factory Brought All Kinds of Trouble to Its Owner. Will J. Rohr, in a late issue of The Chronicle, the official labor paper of Cincinnati, tells in a graphic way how a scab cigar factory got' what was due to it in Ohio. Mr. Rohr's story Is as follows: "Recently a deputy factory inspector secured admission to a cigar factory wherein a cigar by the name of "San Felice" was THANKS, AWFULLY! Will M. Maupin, deputy labor com missioner for the state of Nebraska, and editor of the Wageworker of Lincoln, was elected president of the Nebraska branch of the A. F. of L. formed last week. His election as sures the success of the organization. Now, "Watch us grow." Washington Trades Unionise. UNITY OF ACTION SOUGHT. "We also have on foot a move to form a joint legislative board, consist ing of a representative from the State Federation of Labor and the four rail road brotherhoods. I can assure you that this is of the greatest importance to labor, for if we want to get fair la bor legislation we must be united, as ELECT OFFICERS. Boot and Shoe Workers Abolish Ref erendum in Election. The International Boot and Shoe Workers Union at Syracuse, N. Y last Saturday, after abolishing the ref erendum for the first time, elected of ficers in convention. The general of ficers were re-elected. They are: President, John F. Tobin, of Boston; vice-president, Collis Lovely, of St, Louis; secretary-treasurer, Charles L. Baine, of Boston; members of the gen eral" board. T. C. Farrell, Emmett T. Wails, tnd Warren M. Hatch, of Brock ton; Gad Martindale, of Rochester; Z. Lesera?ice, of Montreal; C. E. James, of St. Pau1: George Bury, of Cincinna ti, and Mary Anderson, of Chicago. General auditors, August Wilkinson, of Cincinnati; Minot A. Burrell, of Ran dolph, and Patrick Gillen, of Brooklyn. The convention lasted a week. Purtell, the rather diminutive but stellar third baseman of tha Chicago White Sox, was tipped oft to Manager Jenning of the Detroit Tigers wbea the young man was playing with the Decatur club in th Tbrs-I faagna. Several scouts had looked him over on the strength of hi showing la the box scores of his games. He was In the habit down there. waO playing third, of getting about four assists, three to five pot-oats aad saw or two errors a day, along with from two to four hits sad a stales two. Jennings wrote to a friend in Rockford, Til,, who baa aadsrtakca to keep him posted on the talent in the Three-I league, and tha friend replica that while Purtell was a great young player and of unusual pnsiilaa. h was undersized, not matured as yet. and that ha seeded mora sissisiTat Jennings let Purtell slip and tha next season found him wit's tha Box, Ha has rendered consistent service to Comiskey and looks Bka oa of th 1 youngsters in the game. TWO GOOD PLAYS THAT ARE NOT OFTEN USED Former Baltimore Star Shows Easy Way to Steal. Third with Aid of Batsman. All good, baseball plays are not Toe ing used these days. At least that's the opinion of Jake Stenzel, the former outfielder and for some years a member of the famous Baltimore team. "There is no doubt that the game has gotten better in a general way. and that there are more real good players in the business now than there were 20 years ago. But at the same time some extremely strong plays are being overlooked these days by players who could easily put them through. "For Instance, you don't Bee third base stolen very often, yet it's the easiest steal on the field. All yap have to do is to have co-operation be tween the batsman and the base run ner on second, and the thing can be pulled off nine times out of ten. "The way we used to do it was to have the batsman make a bluff at bunting the ball with a man on sec ond. The 'moment he did this the runner on second would chase for third. The third baseman, thinking a bunt was to come off, would come running forward, leaving his base un covered so that the runner could get there unmolested. Of course, the batsman would not hit at the ball; or striking at it, would aim to miss it. so that there would be nothing to pre vent the runner reaching third. "Another play that you don't see often these days l that of hitting the ball slowly past the pitcher toward second base with men on third and first, and the team on the field play ing back for a double play. We used to pull that off time and again in Bal timore. It's better than the "squeeze play in that a fast man can beat out the tap more than half the time. "I don't know why these plays have been neglected; but they certainly have, and the game would be much better played If they were used oftener." Tom Loftus Back on Job. It now looks as though Jake Beck ley's days as a manager are few. George Tebean announces In Kansas City that he has practically closed with Tom Loftus to take the Kaws in charge, and that the former major lesOTut loader will probably direct the team during the coming series with Toledo. Jake was never seriously re garded as a manager, and his players took his orders as Jokes more or less. But the old fellow is "there" with the ginger, and the club kept up a con stant chatter and was never regarded as beaten. Loftus has never been much of a success as a leader, but he has had a lot of experience and may be able to get the outfit started up the ladder. Hickman Is Cleveland Scout. Charlie Hickman Is one of Lajoie's scouts now. The last bit of work Hickman did for the Cleveland team was the recommending of Pitcher CI urn, a left-handed pitcher who Is set ting things ablaze In the Virginia state league. Hickman's recommenda tions were so good that Lajole hiked himself down for a peek at the won derful southpaw flinger. Several other big league teams are after Clum now, but Hickman was the first man on the field and Lajoie can have the pitcher if he wants him. SOME BASEBALL LOGIC Timing the ball Is th gr secret of successful batters. If a batemai the natural ability to 1 ha might ai to play the , refl of 1 Good hitting. tbaaatarall generally depends C SSV 1 a baa trying player. physical and atal of the ; Whea ) shape his eyes are clear and his brain works quickly. Every pitcher oa every team knows Just what kind of a ban each man can bit. sad Jkrat what will fool him. The man who Is going ahead at a championship clip aseada no help from the crowd, yet ha Is the very one who receltea ail tha applause and credit, who the other fellow, who may be the better player. Is a subject for Jeers and Jibes. Almost any chap with assy ability at all can develop aixs self into a good fielder by gotac out and purchasing one of thoss pillows and wearing a good bole in it. Then all he has to do Is to Judge the bail. ONE OF THE CUB TW1RLERS mmf A V When Ed. Ruelbach fa able to local the plat h is one of tha rsaraaat pitchers In the bwsiness to kit. Haw- ever, it usually takes antil wad In tha season to master hi sufficiently to a ante to pHca aw a tire gam. Kommcrs to Join Giants. CapL Adrian C Ansoa of Chicago, supposedly representing Manager Me Graw of the New York National league club, has closed a deal with President Ruppel of tha Beardstowa association, whereby tha contract with the big outfielder, Konuners, who lad the Illinois-Missouri league fa frafTtag last year, and Is second ia th stand ing issued this season, goes to fa Giants. The consideration for th transfer was not made public 1