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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1909)
Fora The Dress Goods Dept. Offers a Friday Special of unusual interest this week. On Friday only we will make you a Man-tailored Skirt from any reptilar priced dress goods in our stock. For making 98c Hemember we furnish all findings, sponge your cloth and guarantee a perfect fitting garment. Goods must be pur chased and measures taken on Friday. Choice of ten up-to-date models to select your style from. . Special Lining Values HG-inch Mercerized Satine, black , Friday, per yard . Wash Goods Bargains A big lot of Remnants of all sorts of wash fabrics in lengths for every purpose. Worth up to 50c per yard. Friday, per yard 5c Friday Bargains in Suit Room Silk Petticoats 4.50, $5.00 and $5.75 values, colors and black. Friday . $3.75 White Lawn Waists, about 5 dozen in all. Vahs, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. Slightly soiled. For Friday . 39c One lot odd pieces dress trimmings, regardless of value, per yard , 10c One lot of colored trimmings braids, the things for schoo! dresses, per yard lc One lot odd colors in Chiffon Veiling, 39c "to 50c, values, per yard 25c II TICKETS THE UDAYLIGHT STORE TO LABOR UNIONS. Will you assist us by ap pointing some one In your, union to furnish us With news? The Wageworker wants to pub tish the news of your local, and in order to do so must have your assistance. It is our aim to give our readers all the la bor news that Is to be had and we wish to do it properly, so that you will be satisfied. By helping us In this way, you not only make this paper more val uable and complete, but your knowledge of what is going on in the labor movement is bet ter and the good feeling among the various crafts is more strongly cemented. When this fellowship idea is instilled thor oughly among us there Is less likelihood of a break in the ranks and It is certainly need ed at the present time. CHARACTER OF DELEGATES. Rev. Charles Stelsle Tells of the Men at Toronto Convention. Each year seems to raise the stand ard of the men who come to the con ventions of the A. F. of L. Those who have been coming regularly, year after year, naturally become more ef ficient because they are more highly trained in the things which make for better leadership. They are more tol erant of others' mistakes and short comings. They are steeled against mere pettiness. They are more op timistic as to the possibilities for the workingman and workingwomen of America and the world. Their grasp of the bigger problems in the indus trial world is larger, because their outlook is broader. Coming into contact with this type of leadership, the younger and more inexperienced delegate catches some thing of their spirit. 'It is' a real edu cation to him. He goes back to his own central body and to his local ' with a vision of better things. He has for the time bejng gotten away from the. narrowness of comparatively lit mm only. , A regular 30c quality. 2ic Friday Bargains in tle things,, and he returns with the feeling that this labor problem is a much bigger thin than he ever dreamed of. Needless to Bay, it pays to send a delegate to the convention of the American Federation of Labor pays the man who goes and the body that sends him. All of the above applies with pecu liar force to the convention now in session in Toronto. Here are come together the picked men in the world of labor. They have risen from the ranks by the sheer force of native ability. They have come up through storm and shock. They have been shown no favor merely because of so cial position, wealth, or family pres tige the things which govern in the selection in other groups. Every man has earned the' place which he now occupies. To such men may safely be entrust ed the destinies of the toilers of America, not that every man is a par agon of excellence, nor that they never make mistakes. But the good sense of the entire body usually prevails and errors are soon -rectified Marvelous is the patience of the delegates as they listen to long-drawn-out discussions which nobody seems willing to cut off, because of the keen desire to give every fellow a square deal. And always does the right side win, provided, of course, that it can prove its case. Sometimes, for the moment, technicalities appear to crowd out justice, but everybody rec ognizes the fact that these men will see tbat wrongs shall be righted, ulti mately, even though the law demands arbitrary action in a particular case. Organized labor need not be ashamed of the men who compose this convention. They would measure up with the men in any other deliber ative body. STRIKE IN PHILIPPINES. Tobacco Workers Demand More Pay and Walk Out to Get It. Since the passage of the Payne Aldrlch tariff bill, which had a favor able effect on Philippine tobacco and cigars, there has been extraordinary demand , for tobacco workers in Ma nila. Most of the factories have been running overtime with extra shifts of workmen in anticipation of a big de- iram Friday Linen Specials All linen Iluck Towels, large size, hemstitched ends with satin border. Special, each 18c Per pair .35c Hemmed All-linen Huck-Towels, large size, special, each.. 15c Large size Hemstitched linen huck Towels, fine quality of buck and a good line of patterns: Tulip, Fluer de Lis, Carnation, etc., special, each 50c 22x44 linen huck Towels, extra heavy quality. Special, each ..35c Greater Basement Bargains Magic Inverted Gas Light complete with half frosted globe, mantle and burner. Friday ...39c Lindsay Best Inverted gas lights, all complete, regular $1.25 kind. Friday bargain 85c Lindsay Fnll-Value Inverted Gas Mantle, 15c kind, Friday, bargain, each '.' 10c 10-quart tin water pail, each ...10c 10-quart galvanized water pail, each 10c Dinner pail, square sliape, lock cover, each 25c 3- quart covered pail, each, only. .10c 4- quart covered pail, each, only. 10c 1-gallon oil can, each, only. 15c Moire Skirtings Full line of colors and worth regularly 35c per yard. Friday, per yard 27c Ladies' Accessories Stock soiled Linen Collars, plain, and embroidered effects also Dutch collars. Values to 25c. To clean up, at, each 5c 2JU; values, per yard 15c Cambric Corset Covers embroideries, 25c values, per yd. . . .19c mand from the United States. The workers have now taken the oppor tunity to demand increased wages, and it is reported that 1,500 men are on strike at the Oriente factory, which is the largest of all the exporters. "HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER" O, it's hands across the border, and it's hands across the sea! God Save the King" you're sinking, we "My Country 'tis of Thee!" Blood is thicker e'er than water, and we know what friendship means. For we've tried each others' mettle Lundy's Lane and New Orleans. So we clasp our hands like brothers as we press the forward track, While Old Glory waves and ripples by ' the side of Union Jack. O, it's hands across the border, and it's bands across the sea! For we've learned to know each other in our wars for liberty. And where'er you see those banners rippling 'neath the vaulted dome You will always find true fighters for the cause of right, and home. By the old Star Spangled Banner and the Red Cross of St George We have welded stoutest friendships in the fires of freedom's forge. O, it's hands across the border, and it's hands across the sea! "Rule Brittania!' "Yankee Doodle!" "Home, Sweet Home" where'er we be! And we carry Freedom's banner 'round the girdle of the earth Till in ev'ry heart and conscience love of Liberty has birth. So it's hands across the border, and it's hands across the sea, While "God Save the King" you're singing, we "My Courty 'tis of Thee!" Will M. Maupin, Lincoln, Nebraska. The above verses were read at the "smoker" tendered by Toronto Typo graphical Union No. 91 to the visiting printer delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention. PHOTO-ENGRAVERS WIN. The strike of the photo engravers of Albany and Troy, N. Y., which lasted three , weeks, has been settled. The employers and strikers came to a Friday U I SAVE your PREMIUM TICKETS satisfactory agreement. The men get an increase of $1 a week in their scale, which is now $21, and a reduc tion of the working hours from nine to eight a day. , CENTRAL LABOR UNION. Short Meeting that Gets Away With Considerable Business. The Central Labor Union met last Tuesday night at Bruse's hall. The attendance was small, but the inter est good. Several important commit tees reported. Delegate Maupin re ported at length upon the Toronto convention. The matter of electing a delegate to the State Federation of Labor con vention at South Omaha on January 4 was taken up. T. C. Kelsey was elected and an appropriation made for expenses and per diem. This was the last meeting to be held in Bruse's hall. The next meet ing, the second Tuesday in December, will be held at the Labor Temple, and it is hoped that every delegate will be present, together with a good ly number of visiting union men. An encouraging report was heard from directors of the Labor Temple Association who were present. C. S. Hoyt was added to the committee to appear before the city council in the Traction company settlement deal. Treasurer Evans was present after an absence of a month, during which time he visited relatives and friends in Ohio and Illinois. HUMPHREY O'SULLIVAN. Rubber Heel Man Invests in Lincoln Labor Temple Stock. A short time ago a Lincoln printer wrote to Humphrey O'Sullivan and told him what Lincoln unionists were trying to do along Labor Temple lines. Mr. O'Sullivan's response was an investment of $200 in Labor Tern pie stock. . You don'f have to tell the union printers of the country who Humphrey O'Sullivan is. They know him to be a staunch friend of organized labor the kind of a friend who goes down into his pocket to prove his friend ship. And they rejoice at every evi dence of his prosperity, for there j isn't a man in the country who de serves it more than this big-hearted, true blue unionist and genial Irish man who has made the rubber heel known the world around. Some of these days Humphrey O'Sullivan will visit Lincoln again, and when he does what the unionists will do to him will be worth remembering for a life 'time. If we had a lot more Humphrey O'Sullivans and a" lot fewer Van Cleaves and Wrights, this world would be a more cheerful abiding place. What's the matter with Humphrey O'Sullivan? He's all right! ' . Who's all right? Humphrey O'Sullivan ! Rah! Rah!! Rah!!! DARNED FOOLISHNESS. Philadelphia Scheme That Would Make Us Look Like Chumps. The Philadelphia Central Labor Union proposes the fool scheme of every union wage earner going on strike for two weeks in case Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison are jailed. What's the use? And if two weeks, why not two years? How would it help the three Federa tion officials if we quit work and let the wives and babies go without food for a couple of weeks? Wouldn't it be a lot better to keep right on working and drawing wages and then give a goodly share of our wage towards pay ing the expenses of an organizing pro paganda? We've heard a lot of foolish plans for furthering the cause of organized labor, but this , Philadelphia proposi tion seems entitled to the prize for mere kinds of foolishness than most of 'em. WILL GO AFTER CONVENTION. Oklahoma City Printers Start Agita tion for Big Meeting. Oklahoma City Typographical Union by the appointment of a committee at their last meeting, to report to the body at the December meeting as to the fasibility of entertaining the In ternational convention for the . year 1912, has started an agitation that may land for this city one of the greatest conventions ever held here. The next convention will be held, in Minneapolis in August, 1910, and if the present plans of the local union are matured, a strong committee will be sent to land the convention here two years hence. Oklahoma Labor Unit. ,. WILL "EVERYBODY'S". SCAB? In transferring Everybody's Maga zine to the Butterick company, it took three shares' of the latter stock to purchase one share -of the former. The cheapness of the Butterick stock is due to the fight the company is making against the International Typographical Union. If this transfer does not bring about the unionizing of the Butterick plant, Everybody's Magazine stock will soon be as cheap as Butterick's and that is miserably cheap, too. Oklahoma Labor Unit. UNION PRINT SHOPS. Printeries That Are Entitled to the Allied Trades Label. Use Following is a list of the printing offices in Lincoln that are entitled to the use of the Allied Printing Trades label, together with the num ber of the label used by each shop: Jacob North & Co., No. 1. Chas. A. Simmons, No. 2. Freie Presse, No. 3. Woodruff-Collins, No. 4. ' Graves & Payne, No. 5. State Printing Co., No. . Star Publishing Co., No. 7. Western Newspaper Union, No. 8. Wood Printing Co., No. 9. Searle Publishing Co., No. 10. Kuhl Printing Co., No. 26. George Brothers, No. 11. McVey, No. 12. Lincoln Herald, No.' 14.' New Century Printers, No. 17. Gillispie & Phillips, No. 18. Herburger, The Printer, No. 20. Van Tine Printing Co., No. 24. IN TORONTO. Labor Temple Has Proved to be 9 Profitable Investment. The annual statement of the di rectors of the Toronto Labor Temple shows that the year's business was profitable one. The receipts amounted to $13,568.33, leaving a balance of $1, 856.18. The assets of the company are the building, $35,888.34: furniture, $7,500. The profits show an unde clared dividend of over 13 per cent The excess of assets over liabilities is $17,309.87. The original allotment of stock has been taken up, and the sin gle transaction of $5.00 for the year closed the final allotment. At present there is no stock on the market, and the company will not issue any more as the stoojc as it now stands Is worth more than double what was paid for it A Jewish labor hall is about to be erected in Leeds, England. LEFT THE TROUSERS ENGLISH 8AILOR WENT TO HIS SHIP IN A HURRY. Turkish Customs Officials Would Not' Bs. Denied and 8turdy Jack Tar Had to Break 8pr1nting Records. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, at dinner in New York, defended the customs officials of the port. 'These Intelligent young men," he said, "in a difficult position conduct themselves adroitly. The stories are false that make them out to be brutal land indelicate. It it were Turkey now! 'In the days before Batoum fell to Russia," he resumed, "a sailor on an English ship lying in Batoum harbor went ashore and bought himself a pair of trousers. He put the trousers on.; HIb old ones were quite worn out, and he told the dealer to throw them away. Then he started forth into the street proudly. t "Soon he met a group of customs officials. They stopped him, and their. chief said: . ' 'Those are new trousers you've got on?' , " 'Yes,' said the sailor. ' 'I just bought them.' "Then,' said the customs ; chief, 'you must pay duty on them.' " 'But I've no money left,' said the sailor. And this was true. His last' copper had gone to pay the shopman's bill. . ! " 'No money?' cried the " chief.1 'That's very bad for you, then. You'll have to leave the trousers with us in that case.' . , " 'But I've got nothing under them,' objected the sailor. : '"Never mind; we won't look,' and the chief and his men all repeated that there was no fear they would none of them look. '"But other people may look! shouted the desperate sailor. "The officials shrugged their shoul ders. ' " 'That, they said, 'is no concern of ours.. "And so the poor sailor was forced. willy nilly, to leave his new purchase behind, and to gallop to his ship as best he could, making up in speed for what he lacked in drapery." Los Angeles Times. Man's Rights . Movement. The man's rights movement is as suming large proportions. There is evidently something in it. "We claim," said a prominent man'B righter, according to the Detroit News-Tribune, "that we ought to have, the right to go down in the kitchen) our own kitchen at any hour oft the day or night." .' Mrs, Hornblower Smith had this toi say: "It can't succeed! The truth! is that the men themselves at heart) don't want it. This movement orig-; inated with a few cranks feminine! men, so to speak, who want to run thfnvo I will Aa nn ' . liiiiii ni.i vuv. That the sentiment, however, hai significance is shown by the fact tha there has just been organized an Anti-man's Rights Order, and thist among the men themselves. The headj of this movement, a slight, nervous looking man, was seen. . ''. "Yes," he said, "it is quite true that we are doing all we can to quell the movement in favor of man's rights It's a burning shame that such a movement should have beea started, in the first place. Why should .jWe men want any privileges,, anyway? My wife has urged me to go into this; thing, in the interests . of ultimate peace, and I am doing ail I can to rej store law and order. We men of the right sort the real backbone of the nation are not looking for trouble. We want rest and quiet and not power." - What the end will be no one knows. Test of Affection. There was once a young man who, was paying court to three different' beautiful damsels. Each was fair, each was sweet, each was charming so much of a triplicate similarity did; they have that he did not know how-to choose between them. So he went tot a wise old man and laid his troubles) before him. "Is there a clock at each .house?" asked the wise old man. "There is." "And what does Esmeralda say when the clock strikes 11?" I "She says the clock Is slow." I i j "What does Eulalie sayT" "She says the clock is just right.' . "And what does Evangeline say?" "She always says the clock is fast." "My son, there is no need for fur ther evidence. Evangeline Is the one that really loves you." Judge. Statesmanship. "Well, they've elected Blingsby to congress." "What! Did that soulless, truckling, low-down politician " "Yes, and he told me he would push your name for local postmaster." "Oh Blingsby? Why, I didn't un derstand the name. That fellow's alt right, and I've always said so. He's got the makings of a statesman Blingsby ! " Lippincott's. Graft. ' "I want you to put in your 'Lost and. Found' column an advertisement like: this: 'Wallet containing considerable! sum of money and papers. Finders wllli keep money; return papers.' " "Don't you think," suggested the clerk, "you had better add .'no ques tions asked?'" "No, hut you may say 'no questions antcrered;' I'm the finder."