WAGEWORKER
By Maupin & Hogard
WILL M. MAVPIN .... Editor
V. P. HOGARD ..... Mannfer
Published Weeklv at 137 No. 14tb
St., Llncolr. Neb. One Dollar a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
II, 1004. at the postofflce at Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress ol
March 3rd. 1879.
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
lish 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.
who are always looking for recruits for
strikebreaking purposes.
We earnestly beseech the managers
of the Y. M. C. A. to postpone this
"trade school" idea until it is further
investigated. Mr. Murray, if he is
capable of doing -what he says he can
do, certainly can offer no valid objec
tion to a postponement. We are not
blaming Mr. Murray for trying to work
this little game. He would only need
to secure six or eight "pupils" at $100
per in order to have a pretty soft
thing of it.
AN UNWISE MOVE.
We want to believe the management
of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation acted hastily instead of pre
medltatedly when it entered Into ar
rangements with one J. E. Murray to
attach a "school of plumbing" to the
Y. M. C. A. We can readily under
stand bow such genuinely good men as
those who manage the Y. M. C. A.
would allow themselves to be influ
enced by any proposal that looked as
if It would benefit men, and unless we
have been misinformed Mr. Murray is
tble to put up quite a plausible line
of talk when he starts out to advo
cate the idea of making Bkilled me
chanics out of raw material In the
short space of six months. At any
rate,' Mr. Murray seems to have profit
ed somewhat along those lines in days
gone by, although we are not in
formed as to the profits reaped by the
young men whom he was to teach for
six months and then turn out as fin
ished mechanics.
If the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation of Lincoln is to become a fac
tory for the manufacture of half-baked
"correspondence school" mechanics, it
is high time the skilled workers of
Lincoln were made aware of the fact.
And if the management of the Y. M.
C. A. is to be put into the hands of
men mentally capable of believing that
skilled mechanics can be turned out
In six months, the sooner there is a
change of management the better it
will be for the organization of which
we have heretofore been proud.
Nothing that the Y. M. C. A. could
do would, equal the proposed injustice
of putting some man up and backing
him to turn out competent plumbers
in six months. In the first place, it
will work an injustice to the young
men who may be called upon to part
with one hundred dollars in exchange
for the alleged instruction. Secondly,
it will be an injustice to skilled plumb
ers because it will force them to com
pete with half-baked mechanics who
know just enough about the trade to
drag down a wage scale already in ill
keeping with the cost of living. Third
ly, it will be a menace to public health
to turn loose a lot of incompetents to
look after the plumbing of the city,
If the Y. M. C. A. can father a
"school of plumbing" there is no limit
to its energies along those lines, and
next we will have a school turning out
printers in five months, carpenters in
four months, electricians in three
months, machinists in six weeks and
clgarmakers in ten days. Not that
the trades are capable of assimilation
on these relative terms, but because
if one man says he can turn out a
finished plumber In six months some
other fellow will declare he can turn
out a printer or a machinist In from
ten days to six weeks. It will all de
pend upon the "professor's" idea of
how many suckers he can catch with
a hook, line and bait provided by the
Young Men's Christian Association.
Organized labor has given the Y. M.
A. many evidences of Its sympathy
and support. It Is a poor-return that
the Y. M. C. A. should now turn Itself
Into a factory for the production of
half-baked mechanics who will go out
and break down the wage scale the
first thing, and offer superior induce
ments to those eminent gentlemen
PLAYING WITH FIRE.
The Omaha papers have made the
startling discovery that the Lincoln
delegates to the State Federation of
I-abor convention at South Omaha
next month have been instructed to
work for a prohibition resolution, and
that President Maupin of the Federa
tion has been selected to lead the fight
for it. The trouble with the discovery
is that it is not so.
So far as The Wageworker knows
and it knows every delegate thus far
selected by the Lincoln unions not
one has been instructed for prohibi
tion. And as for President Maupin,
we feel warranted in making the as
sertion that not only is he not going
to lead a fight for a prohibition reso
lution, but he is not himself a prohibi
tionist. With quite a close acquaintanceship
with the methods employed by the
brewery and distilling interests of
Omaha, we are not astonished that
they should seek to use the State Fed
eration of Labor to further their in
terests. More than once we have ex
pressed asntonishment that interests
so vast should rest their case with
men who seem utterly unable to grasp
present conditions! About the easiest
lot of "marks" we know of are brew
ers and distillers when their interests
are threatened. They will yield up
coin to any fellow who says he can,
help them, and they will grasp at any
old straw that may be held out. It
may be that some one has told them
that unless they "cough up" the State
Federation of Labor convention will
endorse prohibition, but if they will
"cough" sufficiently their informants
can defeat the proposition. It would
be just like the Omaha brewers and
distillers to fall for even so coarse a
game as that.
If the liquor interests of Omaha
have a spark of wisdom left they will
keep their hands off the State Feder
ation of Labor. If they only could
realize it, they are playing with fire.
The question of "prohibition" or
license" have no place in a conven
tion of the Nebraska Federation of
Labor. Members of organized labor
have a right to hold whatever opin
ions they please on those questions,
just as they have a right to decide for
themselves the subjects of baptism,
foreordination, predestination, saneti
fication or politics. Their religious be
liefs are their own, and it would be
just as fitting for a few Methodists ,to
commit the Federation to Methodism
as it would be for a few prohibition
ists to commit it to prohibition or a
few "personal liberty" advocates com
mit it to license.
But unless the liquor interests in
ject the question into the convention
it will not be considered. If they do
well, all this little labor newspaper has
to say Is, they will have a game on
their hands that will keep them guess
ing much longer than the convention
is in session. We take the liberty of
warning both sides prohibitionist and
license advocate to keep their hands
off.
Referring to the Omaha World-Herald's
suggestion that C. O. Whedon
would be a strong senatorial candidate
for the republicans, all we've got to
say is that it has been a long time
since the republicans of Nebraskajut
up so able a man for senator as C. O.
Whedon.
It now looks as if the "interests"
were backing away from the scheme
of "busting" the unions by sending
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to
Jail.
To James Duncan, vice president of
the American Federation of Labor:
Beware of a large fat man with a gold
tooth!
It is not yet too late for the Y. M.
C. A. to back up on that little "plumb
ing school" proposition.
In the rush of Christmas shopping
do not forget the union label.
It is the pettiest little Labor Tem
ple in the west, thank you!
Your dollars are needed for the La
bor Temple. Come across!
You should own a part of It yourself.
If you do not, why?
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Christmas shoppers ought tq, do
their shopping before 5 o'clock. - Wo
men who shop until the rush hours
of the evening have no right to expect
that tired mechanics will get up to
give them their Beats in the cars.
We call attention to the fact that
what has been accomplished for the
Labor Temple has been accomplished
by men who worked and gave, not by
men who met and solemnly "resolved."
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