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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1909)
WAGEWORKER c By Maupin & Hogard WILL M. MAUPIN W. P. HOGARD . . Editor . Manager Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th I St., Llncolr, Neb. One Dollar a Tear. Entered a a second-class matter April 21. 1904, at the postofflce at IJncoln. Neb., under the Act of Congress 01 j March r.rd. 1S79. THE NEBRASKA FEDERATION. The Nebraska Federation of Labor win meet iu annual convention in South Omaha on January 4, 1909. This, will be the first meeting of the Federation since Its permanent organ ization, and there is every reason why every local union In the state should be represented. ( Recent de velopments roint conclusively to the fact that If free labor is to receive tho full measure of Justice that is its due, it must force that Justice from a reluctant legislature. The la bor laws of Nebraska are primitive and in .poor keeping with the Indus trial progress of the state. The Ne braska Federation of Labor's first duty U to teach the politicians of Nebraska that organized labor the labor not connected with farms is a force that must hereafter be reck oned with. While cheerfully admit fug that the basis of Nebraska's wealth Is agriculture, a lot of peo ple need to be taught the great truth that the farmers of America can not prosper unless the wage earning pop ulation gets a square deal. The more men that are employed, and the better the wages they re ceive, the tnore demand there is for the products of the farm. The farm er of Nebraska needs to be taught that his interests are closely en twined with the Interests of the wag earners in the mills, the factories and the shops of Nebraska. The official call for the Federation meeting will be issued in a few days, and will give each local union defin ite information as to the basis of re presentation. The coming convex tion must frame up a plan of legis )atlve action. The old hit-and-miss way of asking for legislation and quietly taking the medicine doped out to us will no longer suffice. If the wage earners of Nebraska get Justice from the law making body they must pet it by a show of voting force. There must be a well defined plan of politicnl action, ancf the money must be forthcoming to carry It out. There must be method In our efforts here after. The time for begging Justice Is ended the time for demanding Jus tice is at hand. For these, and for many other reasons, the forthcoming convention ought to be largely at tended, and every unionist in the state represented by live delegates from his craft. The time for concerted action along legislative lines has come. BOOSTING THE TEMPLE. The interest manifested in (he Tem ple movoment Is indeed gratifying to the men who have been faithfully promoting that enterprise for the past two years. At this writing it looks like the first hurdle has been leaped, and that the course is now compara tively clear. Of course there is much iij.rd work yet to be done ere the Ttnnilo is an assurrcd and perman ent fact. But the indications are that the Interest already aroused will suf fice to bring success. Those who have given the matter careful cons'deratlon well know that the Tomple project is one calculated to increase tho moral, social and In dustrial benefits of the workers. It means as much for Lincoln as a whole as it means for the craftsmen themselves. It means as much to busi ness interests as it does to Industrial interests; as much to the spiritual growth as it does to the social growth tf Lincoln citizenship. . This la not a matter in which wage earners alone are Interested. It is a Tuatter that should arouse the lnter- , est and enlist the support of every cltiien who Is anxious to secure a "higher etandard of citizenship in this good city. Now let ua all get together, put our collective shoulders to the wheel "and push the Temple project over for a touch-down. THE RIGHT OF APPEAL. ' While Gompers,' Mitchell and Mor- rlson were appealing from the deci sion of Judge Wright in that famous , injunction case, they were fined for contempt of court, the allegation be , Ing that they had violated the in- junction. In his annual address Pres ident Gompers complained bitterly ' against the sentence pending appeal. , And yet In the electrical workers' case President Gompers and the cred ' entlals committee of the American 'Federation" of'Labof were guilty of T IS VERY difficult these days to procure clothes that you can sell for $ 1 0 and $ 1 5 that have style and quality and other good features that you find in high priced clothes, and in order to do so we have to sacrifice our profit; we won't handle clothes that" don't come up to our quality standard and that we can't guarantee to you in every respect. Our buying power and our willingness to take small profits on moderate priced clothes enable you to always get good clothes values here at any price you wish to pay. ARMST House Coats Lounging Robes c the Identical thing that President Gompern so roundly denounced. The charters of two state federations and nineteen central bodies have been re- yoked because they seated delegates from the "Reid-Murphy" faction of electrical workers. Immediately these bodies filed appeals, and many of them sent delegates to the Toronto convention to present their side of the rase. Did Gompers and the cred entials committee recognize this right of appeals? Not at all. These dele gates were refused seats in the con vention, denied a hearing until such time as the laws committee saw fit to summon them, and these delegates were compelled to cool their heels on the outside. They were denied the floor in their own defense. The court of, the District of Columbia acted not one bit more arbitrarily or unjustly than did the credentials committee of tle Toronto convention. Whilo the appeals of these bodies were pending, common Justice the kind of Justice that Gompers, Mitch ell and Morrison are demanding de manded that these delegates be at least given the floor to explain their case. Their charters should not have been revoked fu the first place. At the, very time that these charters were being revoked in order to force McNulty-Collins electrical bodies up on a majority of the Industrial cen ters, tho McNulty-Collins faction itself was not entitled to recognition for the reason that it was suspended .by reason of failure to pay dues to the American Federation of Labor. Yet, the constitution that worked automat ically to revoke the charters of other affiliated bodies didn't w,ork at all in the case of those trimmers, Messrs. McNulty and Collins. If the time has come in the American Federation of Labor when the constitution works automatically in the interests of the executive council" and falls to work when working would be against the Interests of the executive council, It would De well for the rank and file to be made acquainted with that fact. And if fact it is, there must be a speedp remedy. It illy becomes labor leaders to plead the right of appeal In their own case and deny it to the rank and file. The American Federation of Labor convention is held with open doors. The National Manufacturers' Associa tion, wishing to work under cover and In secrecy, holds its sessions behind Closed doors.- Organised labor has RQNQ GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS nothing to conceal; organized capi tal has everything to conceal. Our Canadian cousins forget politi cal affiliations when the interests of labor are at stake. That is wjiy the Dominion of Canada has labor laws that are abreast of the times, instead of being a generation behind as ours are. Think it over. Lincoln needs municipal lavatories! When we can. get rid of Jurisdic dlctlonal fights we will be in better shape. By the way,' the label on the Christ mas gifts you purchase would help some. As usual the bogy man of "social ism" was kept constantly before the delegates to the Toronto convention. One feature that was not presented at Toronto was that of Jere Sulli van. and Rev. , Charles Stelzle in a wrestling bouton the platform of the convention. Wait until Sawdust Post writes his impressions of the Toronto conven tion. He will throw so many fits that the ex-stenographer will be kept busy wiping the blood-flecked foam from his lips. The man who imagines that the labor movement in America means nothing more than better wages and shorter hours needs to inform' himself. Those are merely incidents. The editor craves, the indulgence of his readers this week. It is hard to edit a paper seventeen hundred miles away, under a foreign flag and after an absence of ten days in which he has not even seen a news paper from the United States. -! - The Wageworker wants a live cor respondent in every local Inion of Lincoln and Havelock. And The Wageworker will make it an object to these correspondents to furnish the live news of their organizations. Come on, boys! 1 ' A little of the sympathy wasted on convicts would be of advantage if bestowed on honest workers who are struggling against adverse conditions. Convict labor contracts put a prem ium on crime. , . j . ' SUITS AND OVERCOATS At these prices you'll find our suits and over" coats of appealing strong types of value. They are much better in style, tailoring and quality of fabric than sold at the same price elsewhere. We specialize lines and know comparing them with others. 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