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8 -sl.?r OFFICE OF Dr. R. L. BENTLEY SPECIALIST CHILDREN nn-s Honrs 1 tn 4 D. m. rav jus O St. Both rhonofc LINCOLN. NEBRASKA DR. CHAS.YUNGBLUT DENTIST ROOM 202, BURR BLK. ai-to sm BELL. LINCOLN, NEB. HAYDEK'S ART STUDIO New Location, 1127 O nam vvk a Specialty. Auto 1534 Vageworkers, Attention We have Money to Loan ou Chattels. Plenty of it, too. L'tmost secrecy. KELLY & NORRIS I29 So. Ilth St. DISEASES OF WOMEN AH rectal diseases such as Piles. Fistula. Fissure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. Ofc, Richards Block. INSTANTANEOUS BED-BIO KILLER If you have need of a reliable bug killer of any kiiul, especially Iknl Bujrs we have one that is SUF6 If it fails, come and get vour money back. It breaks up nesting places and kills the eggs. Put up in convenient squirt top bottles. Dig Bottles 25c RECTOR'S 12th & o Wallace L.Crandall RepafeliCdB Candidate for County Clerk Asks your Support at Primaries August 17 HARRY G. ABBOTT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Prtuuu-w Aottst Kth 17. A. Lloyd Uorscshocr Honn called for and dliTrwal "PHOXKS; Aoto. 1S7S Bell 391 It UtatiMM 420 So. Ilth WAGEWORKER WILL M. MAUPIN. EDITOR Published Weekly at 137 No. 14tn t. Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar a Year. Eutered as second-class matter April ;1, ib04. at the postotSce at Lincoln. 'eb.. under the Act of Congress of Ua-ca Srd, 1STS. Announcements. I hereby announce my candidacy ' for the nomination for county treas i 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. HO AG LAND. Clark Dailey, a member of the ma chinists union, is a republican candi date for the nomination of county com missioner. Your support will be ap preciated. CLARK DAILEY. I am a repubilcan candidate for county register of deeds. Primaries August 17. First term. ANDREW J. MORRIS. "m. 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 Helmer announces himself as a candidate for county treasurer, sub ject to the republican primaries, Aug ust IT. If elected he promises that he will give 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. Mattthews is a republican candidate for the nomination of cor oner of Lancaster county. Mr. Mat thews is asking for a second term. j Minor S. Bacon is a candidate for re-cleotiou as justice of the peace in ! the oily of Lincoln precinct. Mr. Ba- s con is a friend of organized labor and will appreciate their votes. i O. C. Bell, candidate for county , clerk subject to the decision of re publican primaries. August !. xour support solicited. C. K- Morse is a republican candi date lor the office of sheriff of Lancas ter county. Mr. Morse has lived in Lancaster county forty years and is asking the nomination to this impor tant office on his past record. A. L. SULLIVAN, a former county treasurer, is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for that office now and appeals for votes on the strength of his past record. W. T. Stevens, justice of the peace, announces his candidacy for re-nomination by the republican party. The dockets and records of the office are open to all alike and I hope are such as to secure an endorsement for an other term. - TIME TO WAKE UP. It would seem that by this time or ganized labor would be fully aroused to the danger that confronts it. On the one hand special interests that are safeguarded by the government are combining to make the wage earner as much a chattel as the black man was A the first half of the last cen tury. On the other hand the courts are usurping functions never intended for them and are slowly but surely wresting the American worker's birth right from him. In addition to this is the indifference shown by the work ers themselves. Sometimes it seems that the worker is content with three meals a day and a place to lay his head. Given a full belly and a place to lie down, and he I appears to quit thinking of the future. J The- other day a federal judge sus pended the legal machinery of a great I state and declared inoperative a duly enacted law intended to safeguard the little savings of the workers. But the workers have voiced no protest. They are well fed and have a place to sleep. The other day a federal judge ap pointed by the prosecution, acting up on the verdict of a jury drawn by other agents of the prosecution, sentenced to jail a worker in the cause ot labor to the penitentiary for a term of months because that worker, an editor. dared to offer a reward for the kidnap ping of a refugee" from Kentucky jus tice. And the workers whose battle has been fought for years by this sen tenced editor has raised no protest. He rises well fed from his table and unthinkingly lunges into bed. Courts have declared, trades unions trusts in restraint of trade, but the workers, instead of resenting the out rageous lie have kissed the hand that smote them. Well fed. comfortably housed, the workers seem to be con tent. But. what of the morrow. There may come a time when it will be nec essary to skip a few meals. Prosper ous times will not last forever? What of that day when the job is gone, and the union is gone, and all that is left will be a few overlords of creation like Morgan and Rockefeller, and Carnegie and their ilk? You are well fed today, but what of your children in the days to come? Wry longer follow the example of the ox? Why longer be content with a bellyful and place to sleep? Why longer smilingly accept the dole of the overlords? .Why not get together and claim your own? " For God Almighty's sake, Think, THINK! The black slave was in many respects better off than the average workman of today. The slave got three meals a day and had a place to sleep, and if he was taken sick the master saw to it that he was given medical atten tion. The black man was property, and the owner took care of him. They don't think as much of a white worker today as they did of a black worker three quarters of a century ago. The white worker is given a job if he is wanted if not he is told to go elsewhere. If given a job he is re tained only so long as he is able to work. If sickness overtakes him he : is fired. The employer don't provide him with medical attention. If the worker can not employ his own physi cian he must go without unless he happens to be a union man. The mules in the mines are shown more consider ation than the miners. Something's wrong. Ycull believe that the very first time the . pinch of hard times is -felt by you. When you begin missing meals you'll begin thinking, but by that time your opportunity to do will have passed by. Why not think now? Why not show just a litle bit of squirrel sense. The squirrel has a fine time during the summer, but he's got sense enough to provide for the future. The average mechanic, if steadily employed, may manage to save enough to buy a little home, but that's about the liniiL But the employers make enough profit on his labor to build pal aces and travel the world around. ' Why not the worker? But you'll never remedy existing conditions by being content with full bellies and a place to sleep. The ox gets that every day. So does the hog. Why be content with the existence cf the ox and the hog? Wake up! Do your own thinking for a while. Tell the smug-faced and smooth-tongued politician to go to. Study for yourself. Think for your self. Strive to come into your own king dom. Quit thinking with your stomachs and begin thinking with your heads. A CHANCE TO START. All of the candidates for nomina tion have the union label on their cam paign cards. Of course. But is that enough? How many of them have the spirit of unionism in their hearts? O, all of them say they "are friends of the workingman." Certainly! We never lack for friends about this time of year, do we? But what's the matter with making sure? It isn't enough that the candi date have the union label on his card. Anybody can get that printed on his campaign literature and they all do! And we've been falling for it a long time, haven't we? Have we ever stopped to look be hind the card and into the candidate's heart? If we haven't, isn't it time to begin? We have a lot of candidates up for nomination now, but out of the whole bunch two hundred or more The Wageworker knows of only one who is a union man a member of a trades union. That man is Clark Dailey of Havelock. who is asking the republi cans to nominate him for county su pervisor. No one questions Dailey's ability or honesty. No one denies his qualifications for the office. And so far as The Wageworker has been able to learn, no one questions Clark Dailey's unionism. The Wageworker's editor can not vote for Dailey in the primaries. We differ a little in political affiliations, though not in trades unionism. But there are enough union men in Lancas ter county who are affiliated with Clark Dailey's party to assure him the nomination if they will get out and work and vote for him on primary day. And if they'll nominate him well help elect him so far as one vote and the influence of this humble little labor paper is concerned. Let's put one union man in a county office not simply a "friend of the workingman, but a workingman himself. It's high time we began voting as we used to march on Labor Day. It's high time we quit parading our ignor ance and began parading our deter mination to vote together. We have a bnlly chance to start right. Let's seize it. Let's make Dailey's nomination so overwhelming that all the political bosses will have to sit up and take notice. , Come on. boys! When labor begins thinking above the belt line it will stand some show of getting its just deserts. You'll pay more for your gloves un der the new tariff bill, because the duty is raised "to protect American labor." But don't hold your breath un til those protected glove manufacturers increase the wages of their employes. By the way, wouldn't it be a good idea to spot the party that is boosted by the bankers who knocked ont the law calculated to make them guaran tee your little nestegg? The railroads, emboldened by recent court decisions, are now going to try to overthrow the two-cent fare law and the Aldrich freight rate law. All they j have to do is to find a federal judge! who is open to conviction. And did they ever fail? Manager Humpe says the union will not be allowed to run the Trac tion company's business. What Humpe means is that he will not consent to letting the employes have some voice in running their own business. Mr. Humpe is not nearly as big a man as some who have failed to make good their declaration that they would not recognize the union. The Philadelphia Traction magnates said they wouldn't recognize the union of their employes. But they did. And if we are not mistaken some of those Philadelphia magnates were just about as powerful as Mr. Humpe. Now we've got the band concerts. Good! but the workman who has a wife and three or four children has to spend one-fourth of his day's wages going out and back. Old King Faro that's the simplified spelling hardened his heart and wouldn't recognize the Israelitish union of brickmakers. We commend the fate of old Faro to the manager of the Lincoln Traction company. It's a little difficult to edit a local labor paper at a distance of 500 miles. So please don't shoot, the editor is doing the best he can. In the meantime, boost the Labor Day celebration i to make i success. Make your preparations to hear Miss Mary McDowell every time she speaks in Lincoln next month. She's a won der. Perhaps it would help some to be gin at once the organization of "Walk ing Clubs." Asking for the label is not enough. Insist upon it. Labor Day is coming So is Mary McDowelL KRAZY KIRBY. John Kirby, Jr.. the successor of Van Cleave, has advised the member ship of the Manufacturers Association to place a boycott against every local association of the Y. M. C. A. that' permits the labor question to be dis cussed within its assembly rooms. The union smasher of Dayton, Ohio, is more insane than his predecessors, and his friends should insist on call ing in a medical commission. Duluth Labor World. UNION PRINT SHOPS. Printeries That Are Entitled to Usa the Allied Trades Label. - Following is a list of the printing offices In Lincoln that are entitled to the use ot the Allied Printing Trades label, together with the num ber of the label used by each shop: Jacob North & Co., No. L Chas. A. Simmons. No. 2. Freie Presse. No. 3. Woodruff-Collins, No. 4. Graves . & Payne, No. 5. State Printing Co., No. 6. Star Publishing Co., No. 7. Western Newspaper Union, No. S. Wood Printing Co., No. 9. Dairyman Publishing Co., No. 10. George Brothers, No. 11. McVey, No. 12. Lincoln Herald, No. 14. New Century Printers, No. 17. Gillispie Phillips, No. IS. Herburger, The Printer, No. 20. Der Pilger, No. 23. ANNOUNCEMENT We wish to call your attention to the opening of THE NEW IDEAL LAUNDRY cur new Sanitary Btrfltfing at O and Nineteenth Streets. AVe are now ready for business with the best np-to-the-minute modern equipment in the entire West. The active management and srfperintend-ney will be under the direction of 31r. A. E. Evans, whose sixteen years' practical experience in hisrh class laundering en ables us to guarantee the "BETTER QUALITY" of laundry work which may be had at the nsnal priees. Hand Work All our Shirts will be ironed by hand at the priee yon have been paying to have them pres.-ed" with 5-TO pounds pressure to the square inch. Hand-ironed Shirts fit the man they were made for and are not stretched or pulled out of shape to be made to fit the machine on which they may be ironed, and LISTEN, they last as long airain by avoiding the roaeh machine usage. Our Collar and Cuff Department will be the best in the City in every particular. Ironed on a steam heated ironer, which cannot scorch or burn them, and finished by expert operators on the latest devices known to the trade. Saw edges are unknown in onr plant. AYe eannot help bnt please the most fastidious dressers with the "BETTER QUALITY" of this department. Laundry Insurance AYe shall also have an exclusive Flat Work Department where the particular housewife can have the dainty ami expensive Linens finished by hand and will not need an aeeident insurance policy to insure their safe return, so they will be pleasing to use. The additional expense for this elass of work will be only nominal. We also have a Flat Work Department which is "as good as the best and better than thejrest" at regular prices. Our Family Wash or Rough Dry Department will be in charge of 'expert operators and is guaranteed to please. We use only the best grade of supplies ami d. not turn out anv sloppv or half finished work. REMEMBER our motto, "Jhe BETTER QUALITY." Our service is of the best and "we strive to please" everybody, whether they have a small package or a large one. Calls by telephone or mail promptly answered. We have the same number on either telephone. Larn to remem ber by practicing on our number 2C36. TRIAL ORDERS SOLICITED. NEW IDEAL LAUNDRY CO. 19th AND O STREETS A. E. Evans, Manager. First Trust Owned by Stockholders THE 'SANK FOR INTEREST PAID Tenth and O Streets kXKOsosoi-:xo-ic-i-o-i- wm CAPITAL BEACH "Cooled by Lake Breezes" EVERY EVENING AT 8:45 FREE VAUDEVILLE AND Lake View Orcfiestra Concerts SALT WATER BATHING Fresh Water Showers Half Mlc rf Sandy Beach Private Dtuuof Roaoa ofcby Ratfitng Stats far Hsne EXCELLENT FISHING DeSgbtfal Boating and SoBag BEAUTIFUL PICNIC GROVE Parties CardiaCy Invited" IOC ATTRACTIONS 100 Grand Night fHiiniimtiuaa Daacmff Untul 11:15 Admittance to Oaatv Te o & o 9. 1 I Savings Bank of the First National Bank THE WA GE-EARXEl AT FOUR PER CENT Lincoln, Nebraska