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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1909)
OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hour 1 to p. m. B. 2118 O St. Both rhont LINCOLN. NEBRASKA DR. GHAS.YUNGBLUT DEWTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. ACTO SMS B&LL4. UXCOLI, REB. HAYBES'S 8T STUDIO B New Location. 1127 0 B Flaa wrk Specialty. Auto iX3o Vaseworkers, Attention We have Money to Loan on Chattels. Plenty of it, too. Utmost secrecy. KELLY & NORRIS l9 So. Ilth St. DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal diseases such as PilM, Fistula. Fissure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD..Special.sL Office, Richards Block. INSTANTANEOUS BED-BUG KILLER If you have need of a reliable bus? killer of any kind, especially Bed Bugs we have one that is Snr6. If ii fails, come and get your money back. It breaks up nesting places and kills the eggs. Put up in convenient, squirt top bottles. Dig DotIlos25c RUCTOETS 12th &Q Wallace LCrandall Repikiican Casdllate for Conty Clerk Asks your Support at Primaries August 17 Fourth annual. benefit Lincoln Cen. tral Labor Union. Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July SO. Tickets 25 and IS cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co. and Frank Zehrung, mana ger. Citver. OKLAHOMA LAW UPHELD. The eight-hour law passed by the first Oklahoma legislature was held constitutional Tuesday by Justice Thomas Doyle of the state criminal court of appeals, thus sustaining Jade J. C. Strang of the county court aad overruling a receut opinion by Attorney General West that the taw was unconstitutional. The deci sion was given In the case of G. L. Byars. superintendent of the J. F. Hill Contracting company, which Is work ing Its employes tea hocrs daily in paving Guthrie streets. Fourth annual benefit Lincoln Cen tral, Labor Union. Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July 3a Tickets 25 and 15 cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co. and Frank Zehrung, mana ger. Oliver. WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN. EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th U, Lincolr. Neb. One Dollar a Tear. Entered as second-class matter April 1. 1304, at the postoffice at Lincoln eb.. under the Act of Congress ol March 3rd. 1S79. Announcements. I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination for county treas urer, subject to the republican pri maries to be held on August 17, 1909. PHILLIP A. SOMMERLAD. 1 hereby announce my candidacy for a second term as sheriff of Lancaster county subject to the decision of the republican primaries, August 17. HENRY V. HOAGLAXD. Clark Dailey. a member of the ma chinists union, is a republican candi date for the nomination of county com missioner. Yourl support will be ap preciated. CLARK DAILEY. I am a republican candidate for county register of deeds. Primaries August 17. First term ANDREW J. MORRIS. Win. C. Severin. the present depu ty county treasurer announces himself as a candidate for county treasurer. He is thirty-seven years of age. born and raised in Lancaster county. Louis Hebner announces himself as a candidate for county treasurer, sub ject to the republican primaries, Aug ust 17. If elected he promises that hj will iv his whole time and atten- ! tion to the office and that it will be conducted to the best interests of the taxpayers. I am a candidate for the office of county commissioner, subject to the will of the republican voters. Primar ies to be held August 17. CARL. O. JOHNSON. V. W. i Mattthews is a republican candidate for the nomination of cor oner of Lancaster county. Mr. Mat thews is asking for a second term. Minor S. Bacon Is a candidate for j .1 - . . w s mwcuuo as jusuca ui uw jmhitc ui the city of Lincoln precinct Mr. Ba con is a friend of organised labor and will appreciate their votes. O. C. Bell, candidate for county clerk subject to the decision of re publican primaries, August 17. Your support solicited. C. E. Morse is a republican candi date for the office of sheriff of Lancas ter county. Mr. Morse has lived in Lancaster county forty years and is asking the nomination to this inipor tant office on his past record. HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. For years on end the Traction prob lem has been a big one in Lincoln. Not only has the city been given in adequate service, but in times gone by the politics of the city, has been permeated with the poison of Traction interests. Time and again the city has been forced into expensive litiga tion in order to get from the Traction company the taxes due and even then it has been forced to compromise. Today the Traction company is refus ing to pay accumulated back taxes and seeks to use this fact to force the city into making concessions. Is there any way to solve this vex ing problem? There is. The solution lies in muni cipal ownership. Lincoln owns her own waterworks system, and there has never been any scandal connected with its manage ment. The system is a handsome rev enue producer to the city, and while paying a profit yearly the consumers are supplied at a rate far less than that enjoyed by any city supplied by a private company. Omaha, supplied by a private company, pays about $100,000 a year for fire hydrant rentals and private consumers pay 35 cents a thousand gallons. Lincoln gets water for fire and sewer flushing par poses free, and private consumers are supplied at 15 cents a thousand gal lons. . Lincoln owns her own lighting plant. and while the plant is young it Is ren dering good service. In due time it will supply commercial lighting, and then it will also be a revenue pro ducer for the city. Owning her own water system and her own lighting system, why should Lincoln not also own her own trans portation system? The history of municipal ownership of street railways in British cities is full of encouragement of this idea. Perhaps no other city in the United States is in a better position to try municipal ownership of its street rail way than Lincoln. There are pecul- iar conditions surrounding Lincoln that make, it an ideal place in which to try out the plan. There is one thing sure municipal ownership of the street railway will not. for it could not. make conditions any worse. How municipal ownership may be brought about is, of course, for the le gal lights to tell us. But certainly the plan is feasible. One thing, however, is sure! It is high time something be done to re lieve the people of this community from the present burden of inadequate service, disregard of public rights, eva sion of just taxes and contempt for public opinion. Lincoln owns her waterworks. Lincoln owns her lighting plant. LINCOLN SHOULD OWN HER STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM. In municipal ownership of public utilities lies the solution of present problems confronting the municipality, SWEAT SHOPS IN LINCOLN. There is a growing suspicion that there could be some radical changes for the better in the conditions of a number of women earning a iivlihood in Lincoln. These conditions are pos sibly outside the pale of the law. for it must be admitted that the labor laws of Nebraska are by no means what they should be. It is possible to prevent employers from working theV female employes more than ten hourp a day, and it is possible to enforce san itary regulations. But there are "shop rules" in vogue that bear heavily upon the women, depriving them of niuea of their hard-earned pay, and subjecting them to annoying restrictions. These things are obviated :ti organized fac tories, but unfortunately the garment working trades are not organized in this city, and the workers in that trade are constantly shifting, render ing organization difficult. Garment factories in Lincoln are constantly advertising for help, yet there is a constant stream of workers coming and going. Few work more than a month or tso. Why this should be the case may seem strange to the casual observer, hut it is not so to one who investigates the matter. The work is entirely upon the piece system. For instance, a girl is en gaged in making apron sleeves at 20 cents a dozen pair. A swift worker may run up three dozen pair in a day, thus earning 60 cents. , But does she get the 60 cents? It is seldom that she gets the full price, for the shop enforces a "repair rule" that deprives the worker of a share of her hard earned money. The finished sleeves are handed to an inspector who "docks" the worker for "repairs." A new beginner is put to work and works a week. She is then laid off and told that she can get her money later. When she shows up to get the dollar or two she has earned she is told that "repairs" and "goods spoiled' more than equal the amount she earned, therefore the shop owes her notning. Another girl has her ma chine and so it goes the manufac turer gets the work done for nothing. That this is what is goingson in Lin coln all the time is beyond question. Tet we constantly hear it charged that The Wageworker and organized labor is preventing the establishment in Lincoln of manufacturing nlants that will materially help Lincoln. The question is: "Does Lincoln want any mere factories of that kind? Here is the proposition. One Lin coln factory pays 20 cents a dozen pair for making apron sleeves a frac tion less than one cent per sleeve. Even this pitiful wage is .reduced "by the repair system in vogue. In or der to make $1.40 a day a girl will have to finish seven dozen pairs of sleeves, or 168 separate sleeves, or practically one sleeve every three min- uts. The answer is that the girls sinipiy can not ao it. let we are asked to believe that snch factories are a good thing for a city. A concrete example: The time slip of one girl formerly emploved . in Lincoln garment factory shows that on one day she made 71 cents working on apron belts. The next day she made $1.30 working on apron sleeves. The total for the two days was $2.51 But she didn't get iL She was docked tour hours and thirty minutes for "re pairs" and 65 cents was deducted from the $2.51. leaving her the magnificent sum of $1.87 for her twenty hours' work 9 cents an hour in a hot fac tory bending over a sewing machine. Then she was laid off and had to wa: ten days and make a couple of trips to the factory before she could get the pitiful wages coming to her. These are facts that can be sub stantiated. There seems to be but one curs for this evil the pressure of public opin ion. The law does not cover snch cases. It can only prevent working over hours and compel decent sanitary conditions in the shops. People who buy the product pf sjch shops are putting a premium on crine. they are helping to send women wrong; they are massacreeing human flesh and human souls. Does Lincoln want factories of i'ia kind? Wear Nifty IWIav'o fvsxvAis A S00-1 Iine o up-to-date styles; in patent kkJ. tan lVien S JXrOraS and gun metal calf and kid; CO OC worth $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00; now P-..rD 1 Q9 ,, Ladies' Tan Calf Pumps; all sizes; worth o AC lO-t- JrairS $3.50 and $4.00; now pso OA Dn!,.n Bronze Pumps; two-hole ties and ankle straps; worth 60 O IairS $3.50 and $4.00; now....... . ipZ.iJO The king of England can not set aside a law legally enacted by parlia ment. An ordinary federal judge in the United States can stop the legal machinery of a sovereign state. Tet we boast of a republic. The day after the Evening News de clared that $1,800 for a city attorney would not get the services of a good lawyer, Mr. Flansburg was appointed and accepted. Not knocking! You'll have to buy your Sunday as sembly tickets on Saturday. But wouldn't it be wicked to play Sunday ball and admit only those who pur chased tickets on Saturday? There are about 250 candidates for' county offices. Those who are union men could be counted on the fingers of the hand of a switchman who had lost most of his digits. The Commercial Club of Lincoln has secured a reduction in the freight rate who make them ought to send the club a vote of thanks. . The state militia is in camp at Ash land this week. A pleasant outing for the soldier boys, and at the state's expense. You'll have to pay for your own vacation. You can legally boycott unfair goods by demanding the union label on all your purchases. They can't send you to jail for demanding the label that is. not yeL Fourth annual benefit Lincoln Cen tral Labor Un:on, Oliver theatre, Fri day evening, July 30. Tickets 25 and 15 - cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co. and Frank Zehrung, mana ger. Oliver. In the meanwhile you are paying your taxes but the Traction Co., is using its failure to pay . its taxes as a ciuo to hammer concessions out ot the city. A couple of Lincoln churches have consolidated their. Sunday services. The man with a family hasn't got time to let up in his work. You have just given $10,000,000 to the general education board but John D. Rockefeller. gets the credit of hav ing given it. Union men should take note of the fact that the magazine called "Popular Mechanics' is printed under unfair conditions. It isn't enough that the candidate have the label on his card. Make him show his unionism all along the line. The cigars made in Lincoln are the cigars that Lincoln men ought to smoke. Smoke up for Lincoln. Lucky for the Traction Co., that there seems no way of applying the "B. T. U." test to its service. And how about paying the entertain ers who perform on the Epworth As sembly platforms on Sunday? A little bit hot, these nights. v but that's no reason why yon should ne glect your nnion meeting. The people who are endeavoring to have the license question submitted k W I I I I I I H .. XI again are in favor of license, therefore they are engaged in a very reprehen sible task. Had the city gone wet it would have been a virtue to seek sub mission of the question a gal" It makes a difference whose ox is gored. The union label on the garment Is a sure sign that the worker who made it received decent wages while work ing under fair conditions. Are you helping? Central Labor Union Benefit, Oliver theatre, Friday evening, July 30. Of course youll be there. The Tuesday after the first Monday in November is the day for labor to make its great parade. V Just a little effort and weH have a "labor headquarters' worthy of the name. Make Labor Day a real holiday. AMONG THE LIVE ONES. (Continued from Page 1.) should take a deep interest in making that share as large as possible. "The Defaulter" will -be the attraction. The Epworth Assembly Is receiving its usual amount of advertising. There is no disputing the fact that this as sembly is one of the greatest in . the country. Nor is there any disputing the fact that a lot of people who work for its manager will not be able to lay up enough money to enable them to camp out there during the time it is in session. It is semi-officialiy announced that the Burlington is soon to begin work on a million dollar addition to the Ha velock shops. When the official announcement comes there win be re joicing all along the line, for it will mean more opportunities for wage earners in this neck of the woods. Haveiock is a mighty important addi tion to Lincoln's suburbs, and there are about 500 mighty good union men who make wages in the big shops there. Doubling the shops in size means a similar increase in the pay roll, and that means prosperity for Lincoln. "I wonder why the Union Pacific built its depot away down here in the bottoms, exclaimed Frank Coffey the other dav. "That's easily explained, answered a friend. "Well, why?" demanded Coffey. - "Wanted it down by the track, of course," was the reply. For the next two minutes the silence was undisturbed save by the merry song of the mosquito. N John Curry is preparing to qualify as the real estate expert of the Typo graphical Union- He has purchased a lot in a Lincoln addition, and has made a couple of payments. Now he has discovered that the addition has never been platted, and that if he sets frut nn fha lnt Iia la narln. r.w la . , , ' . " , a trespasser. As the lot is only 25 Tift wide. Curry says he can jump!... . HARRY G. ABDOTT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Primaries Aooat 17th "1 And Save Your Money rCCCd across it and look ft over while is the air. Central Labor Union benefit at the Oliver theatre, Friday evening. July 30. Admission '25 and 15 cents. Get your tickets now. YcmU have to nurry. the' Unios printers throughout country win learn with regret of the 'death at her home in Colorado Springs of Mrs. Margaret Howell Davis Hayes. 'The death of Mrs. Hayes ou.mJ On Jury 20. She was the daughter of Jefferson Davis. When the Union Printers Home was erected Mrs. Hayes asked the privilege, which was granted, of famishing a room ia mem ory of her father. This room, known as the "Jefferson Davis room was furnished beautifully and fs one of the attractions of the home. Mrs. Hayes took a deep interest ia the Home and the guests at that ha Tea are indebted to this splendid woman for many acts of courtesy aad kind ness. She will be remembered as long as the Union Printers Horn stands. FORREST - MOORE. Among the many candidates to be voted for at the primary eJeetioa to be held August 17, there is ao mam on the republican ticket who is setter known, whose record is cleaner, aor whose fitness for the poeitioa sought appeals stronger to the iateUigest voter than those of Forrest M. Moore, candidate for the office of register of deeds. "Fbrry." as he is familiarly known, was bora in Lancaster county. He is at present a deputy tm the office for which he is asking the omfira lion. and Is thoroughly familiar with the workings of the office. If aoiaa nated and elected, he would conduct the affairs of the office in a creditable manner, serve ao particular class, aad all would receive a square deaL Mr. Moore is a friead to the an who toQs for a daily wage, and any support given him will be appreciated. Fourth annual benefit Lincoln tral Labor Union, Oliver theatre, Fri day evening. July 30. Tickets 25 and 15 cents. Courtesy Grace Hayward Stock Co. and Frank Zehnaag, mana ger. Oliver. A SLIGHT INCREASE. The Burlington announces a increase of 2 cents an hour to the laborers in its employ. The scale has k. , ,.; Hereafter the Burllngtcs laborers who have famines wHI be enabled to live in riotcots comfort a dollar aad a ; half a day. with fiocr $5 a hundred. ; pctatces $1.25 a boahel. chock steak !1S cents a pound, and winter eomiag: , on with the coal trust ia supreme control of the market.
