WAGEWORKER
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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
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won't handle clothes that" don't come
up to our quality standard and that
we can't guarantee to you in every
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willingness to take small profits on
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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
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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 . '
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CLOTHING
We did our level best to get the
1910 convention for Lincoln, but
neither the' Commercial club, nor any
other business organization, lent us
any assistance. A little co-operation
from the start would have landed the"
1910 convention of the American Fed
eration of Labor in Lincoln. And
Lincoln: has never yet entertained a
convention of more importance, nor
one that would have advertised the
city as a Federation convention
would.
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