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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1910)
WAGEWORKER By Maupin & Hogard WILL M. MAUPIN . . Editor V.P.HOGARS . . . . Manager Published Weekly at 137 No. 14th St., Llncolr, Neb. One Dollar a Tear. Entered aa second-class matter April 21, 1904, at the postoffice at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act of Congress .of March 3rd, 1879. TO LABOR UNIONS. Will you assist us by sp- pointing some one In your union to furnish us with news? The Wagsworker wants to pub- llsh the news of your local, and 4) 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 41 ter and the good feeling among the varloua crafts is more 4t strongly cemented. When this fellowship Idea Is instilled thor 4 oughly among us there is less 41 likelihood of a break In the 4t ranks and It la certainly need sd at the present time. against foreign competition, just read about those palatial flats in New York that rent, unfurnished, for from $6,000 to $25,000 a year; of the big flower bills paid by Mr. Capitalist, and of the cotillion favors that cost Into the thousands. The man "protected" isn't living In the $6,000 flat, nor is he enjoying the flowers, nor wearing the expensive cotillion favors. He's paying for them all, but he isn't getting them. Not by a damsite! Gee, what a lot of E. Z. Marks w are, to be sure! But will we continue to be tbe fall guys? That depends! It depends on whether we are ever going to agitate our gray matter. Are we? Suppose we take a 'day off some time and think It over. LET US REASON TOGETHER. Come on, now, brother wage earner, and let us reason together. It will benefit us If we study things a little more and "cuss" things a little less. We ve heard a lot about "prosper ity" during the last few years, but have we had the right "dope" on that subject? That's the question! Let's see. William E. Curtis has written an article for the Chicago Record-Herald In which he talks about the wonderful "prosperity" of New York City. According to Mr. Curtis that city has 27,285 manufacturing es tablishments, employing 669,000 hands and 74,000 salaried officers. It takes $450,549,300 a year to pay workmen and officials. The capital invested Is $1,529,945,000, and the volume of the output Is $2,248,440,500. nut let's get back to tbe wages first Note that 669,000 "hands" and 74,000 salaried officers drew the sum of $450, 549,300 last year an average of $606 a year each. But you can safely bet that the "salaried officials" didn't work for any old $606 a year. Not much. A nearer guess would be an average of that much a month, but call it $2,000 a year, That would amount to $148,000,000 for the salaried officers, leaving $302, 000,000 for the 669,000 "hands" or the magnificent average of $450 a year, $37.60 a month. My, how thankful those "hands" ought to be for a chance to earn $37.50 a month In a city like New York. But, look again! The "hands" and "salaried officials" produced goods amounting In value to $2,258,000,000. The salaried officials didn't have much to do with it, but we'll count 'em. The men who made the goods got back 20 per cent of it one-fifth in wages. For every dollar that "hands" and "officials" received in wages, capital received $4. The average "protection" alleged to be given, labor Is 60 per cent, yet labor here receives only 20 per cent of the value of the product Who'nell's getting the other 30 per cent of that "protection"? Stop and think, Mr. Wage Earner! It's time all of us did a little more thinking. Tbe capitalist who Is so Insistent that ' American labor be "protected gets $4 while tbe man he so generous ly "protects" gets $1. Mr. Capitalist Is so successful In' "protecting" Amer ican labor that he rides In his private yacht and summers in Europe, while the man "protected" either walks or ' rides tbe trolley cars, and sweats out eaoh day at an average wage of a dollar-fifteen! Does that make you think? Say, don't you think it is time we secured protection against the fellows who are so Insistent on giving us their peculiar brand of protection, and thought a little less about being pro- t-cted from the products of the "pau prr labor of Europe"? That's a place for think No. 2. And after- you have read' about the way Mr. Capitalist "protects" you THE PARK BOND PROPOSITION Organized labor In Lincoln ought to get behind the proposition to issue $50,000 in park bonds, and push It to a successful conclusion. The workers will profit in more ways than one it will provide employment, and good parks will add to the enjoyment of life. The people most deserving of parks, and who most need them, an the wage earners whose toil has mad tbe real estate of this city valuable The people who ought to provide park are the people who have been made wealthy by the increase in land val ues, but they are able to summer in the mountains or at the sea coast The, workers deserve to have ade quate park facilities and privileges. The drones will not provide them unless forced to do so. The men who made the values can force the value holders to come across, How? By the referendum. Mayor Love and ex-Mayor Brown are both in favor of a bond issue for park purposes. They differ a little aa to the amount, hut that can be set tled very easily. Mayor Love says $50,000 and ex- Mayor Brown says $100,000. Suppose we split the difference and make it $75,000! The Wageworker suggests that tne unions take the matter up. It would have the Central Labor-Union take leading part in the campaign. If this matter is attended to immediately it would, doubtless, be possible to refer this matter to the voters at the same time as the referendum on the liquor question. But, anyhow, let's ge busy and com pel an Issue of bonds for the purpose of giving the workers of Lincoln beau tiful parks and playgrounds. Tbe Lincoln Ad Club inaugurated the '.Made in Lincoln" exposition scheme, then turned it over to the Commercial Club. The Commercial Club now proposes to change it to "Lincoln Industrial Exposition."! Why the change? It destroys the very pur pose of the wholo plan. The Central Labor Union is getting into the civic game. It will cut bigger figure, just as soon as your union elects live delegates and insists on their attending the meetings of the central body. The representatives of "vested rights" who now control the United States senate will not have everything their own way If Richard L. Metcalfe is sent to that body from Nebraska. TRADES UNION CHARACTERS. Rev. Charles Stelzle Writes About the Labor Editor's Due. , He is a man of our flesh and blood. uo 8aji iouuw aq 'o3 is Saaq loy the papers that he doesn't sell, and ink cannot make him think when it is spread on bread. It would seem to be hardly necessary to remind ourselves of this very human fact, were it not that most of us have idealized the edi tor to such a degree that we imagine him a sort of an etheral creature whose living among us is a dispensa tion of divine providence, but for whose existence we are not at all re sponsible. And as with all of God's gifts, we have become so accustomed of their beneficence and their comfort, that we rather take them for granted. We become conscious of their exist ence only wnen tney are removea from us, or when there seems to be an occasion for raising a mighty howl. When the paper comes with regu larity, when our names appear in con nection with current events, when we agree with the editorials, when there is no demand for the subscription price then all is well. But if the postman missed out on a delivery, and if our names are misspelt,, and if the editorials indicate some original think ing which shocks our conservative feelings, and if the business end of the paper is pressed home upon us, then, "Oh, cut it rut!" comes the dis gruntled verdict toward an institution which has served us faithfully year after year, and without which the la bor movement could scarcely exist To the labor editor we owe a debt of gratitude which a dollar or two a year cannot possibly repay. He fights our battles. He expresses the aspira tions of the toiler as the toiler himself cannot express it. He is indeed the the voice of the people who wander In the wilderness. For all this, and much more, those of us who believe in his job should stand by him. He cannot always do it single-handed. Sometimes the pres sure become to great for mortal man to endure. There's a limit to human strength, no matter how full of pur pose and power. Therefore when the editor does well, tell him about it, and do it right away. When has asks for his day's wage because he has served you, pay it to him. You'd boycott the fellow who treated you as you do the editor in this respect. In a word do to the editor as though you were the editor, GENERAL MENTION. Chief of Police Malone is making a record. When the women of a city get to writing commendations of a po lice official it is a sign that he is making good. Lincoln Is soon to have "pay-as-you- enter" cars. All right But how about getting some "go-after-you-enter" cars? And some "come-when-you-need-'em" cars? A lot of office-seekers are going to be asked what they may think are very Impertinent questions before long, and they'll have to answer, too. If the men responsible for wars be tween nations were compelled to fight them, we'd have disarmament after the very first struggle. Notion Dept. We are showing an immense line of hair goods in Turbans, Braids, Switches, etc. Turbans from 25c to $1.60 Braids, 28 in. and 36 in., from 2.00 to $3 : Switchs from .59 to $7.50 . Braid pins at 5, 10, 25 and 50c. Toilet Goods Dept. 49c Mens Toilet Set Special 49c Box containing one 25c stick Williams shav ing soap, one 15c cake Jersey cream toilet soap, one metal soap box, one 20c can carna tion talcum powder, 75c worth of A r goods for T"7C Valentines It is about time to choose your valentines and although today the Valentine gifts run more to books, we still show a large assort ment of the good old fashioned Valentines. Valentine cards, hundreds of designs, at lc, 3 for 5c and 5c each. Valentine booklets and .letters at 5, 10, 15 and 25c. Valentine novelties, each in separate box, at 5, 10, 15, 25, 50, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 Lace Valentines, each Books Suitable for Valentine Gifts : v- ' Most of our Valentine Books are boxed and done up with Valentine bands and greet ings, of which we only mention a few. They are all beautifully bound and make the nicest kind of a gift for Valentine Day. . . , ' Riley Books at $1.00 Love Lyrics Songs of Cheer Farm Rhymes School Day Romances at $1.25 Henry VanDyke at $1.20 The Ruling Passion Fisherman's Luck The Blue Flower Myrtle Reed at 1.50 Love Letters of a Musician Old Rose and Silver Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Spinner in the Sun , v Longfellow s Poems, 1. 00 ' Evangeline Hiawatha . The Christy Girl at 1.00 Books at 50c Suitable for Valentines Pictures of Memory Friendship All that's Lovely The Latchstring to Happiness Man and His Mate Glorious Mother Six Cylinder Courtship The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch When Knighthood was in Flower . The Daughter of Anderson Crow The Enchanted Hat The Shuttle New Chronicles of Rebecca My Mamie Rose -The Shepherd of the Hills The Coast of Chance New Fiction at 1.08 The Foreigner .Conner When a Man Marries Rhinehart The Island of Regeneration Brady Mint Julep. . ............... .Martha James Calling of Dan Matthews. .Harold Bell Wrigs The Silver Horde . . . . . ; Rex Beach And, in fact, all the newest books published It's all right to boycott tbe meat trust but what about boycotting the lawmakers who made possible the ( meat trust? The men who profit most from the toll of others are the fiiost active op ponents of old age pensions. Why? The best way to wipe out anarchy Is to abolish conditions that breed anarchy. There is a difference between 'growing up" and "swelling up." This is the shortest month of the year in many ways. A little more agitation for the label would help some. . . Brief Bits of News Picked and Pilferd From Many Sources. Painters this coming spring will get $4 per day in Dallas, Texas. The Wireless is the name of a new woman suffrage daily In New York city. The Federal Labor Union in Ff-t Worth, Texas, gained 158 members in three weeks. What is probably tbe first Japanese labor union ever formed in this coun try was .organized about a week ago in Denver, Colo. The following wages are paid in Dallas, Texas: Carpenters, $4; plumb ers, $5; bricklayers, $6 and better; plasterers, $6, etc. Through the efforts of State Labor Commissioner Joseph S. Myers and his assistant, H. G. Wagner, all state printing in Texas will bear the union label. Members of the Painters' Union in Oklahoma City are hustlers. On Feb ruary 1, 1909, they had 55 members, and now they have over 200. Pros pects bright. E. S. McCullough of Saginaw, Mich., has been re-elected vice president of the United Mine Workers by 25,000 over Frank Hayes,- secretary of Illi nois miners. Maryland court of appeals has de clared, the child labor law of that state constitutional. Open shoppers tried to smash the law so that they might obtain cheaper labor. The unions of molders, metal work ers and mechanclans. in France re cently voted to combine. The new society will be called the Union of Metal Workers and Kindred Trades. . After a long and bitter fight of the Label and Advertising committee of the Typographical Union the San An tonio, Texas, telephone company's di rectory will bear the union label. ,. Four unions have been established in Des Moines, la., within the last three weeks. The four are Cement Workers, Women Day Laborers, Structural Iron Workers and the Building Laborers. The following large circuses are recognized as fair by the Bill Posters' Union: Ringling Bros., Forepaugh- Sells, Sells-Fioto, Hagenback-Wallace, Barnum-Bailey, Buffalo BUI and John Robinson. The strike of the Columbus, Cio, pressmen and feeders for the eight hour day and higher wages resulted in new compromise contracts,' which go into effect January 1st. The eight hour work day is conceded. The Fort Worth, Texas, Trades As sembly changed its laws at its last meeting and hereafter local unions THE L DAYLIGHT STORE wmm with lady members will pay but 3 cents per capita on all but the male members, for whom a tax of 5 cents will be paid. . 1 F. H. McLean, field secretary of tbe Russell Sage foundation, will attempt to organize in Texas an' association which will work in behalf of compul- sory education, and will also attempt to have the child labor laws so' amend ed as to raise the age limit under the law from 12 to 14 years. . ' Judge Wagoner in the circuit court In Galesburg, 111., held that the city ordinance requiring two men on a street car is within the police power of the city, and he fined the company $500 for violating it. The local sys tem is owned by the McKinley syndi cate. The ordinance was passed by the council four years ago. LEARNED HIS LESSON. Dealer 8oaked for Sewing Illegal Label in Pair of Pants. At a meeting of the Industrial Coun cil last month it was reported by a delegate . from the Beer , Bottlers' Union that a member of his organiza tion had purchased' a pair of pants of J. Segelbohm, 914 Main street, after being promised that he could supply the union label. After calling for tbe pants he called Mr. Segelbohm's at tention to the fact that the label was missing. Thereupon the latter, right before his eyes, sewed on a fraudu lent label. The matter was referred to Carl Lindgren, business agent of Tailors' Union No. 64, who, after a thorough investigation, placed the facts before Virgil Conklin," prosecut ing attorney. The case came up for trial before Judge Latshaw of the criminal court Thursday morning, who, after giving Mr. Segelbohm a severe lecture, fined him $500 and costs, with a stay of execution of $450, which the guilty tailor woulU have to pay should he ever attempt' such criminal work in the future. This ought to be a good example to all those who believe they are perform ing a smart trick when they attempt to deceive union men who want union made goods. Kansas City Labor Her ald.' -- : .. -- GREGORY, Tailor Knows how to dress you up and has the finest line of fall and winter goods in the city. : : : : : : : : Pressing a Specialty Your Business Solicited If You Want to Save Money Use CAPITAL COAL Clean, Hot, All Burns Up. Lvmp, Egg and Nut, HUTCIIINS and HYATT COUPoNY EVERY SHOE UNION MADE" HERE Thompson Shoe $3.50 & $4 Handcraft Shoe $5.00 A!IMw"F0a KEK"--UI Rt cn'sDootcry 12th &P Sts. SubscriBe Now, $ I