WAGEWORKER
By Maupin & Hogabd
WU.LM.MAVPIN . . Editor
W. P. HOGARD . . . . Manager
ttmered b uttcuua-clasa mutter A(r.
SI, 1904, at , the postofflce at IJncolr
Neb., umler the Act of Congress o
March Srd. 1S79.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
If the supporters of the non-salaried
commission plan of government want
an object lesson, let them turn their
gaze on the school board. The mem
bers of the board of education are un
salaried. They give their time to the
work because they are "self-sacrific-iug,"
because they are "imbued with
civic pride." And what is the result?
Well, if anybody is proud of the re
sults in this city at the present time
then they are almighty easy to be
made proud. All snarled up over a
site for a new high school; embroiled
in an unseemly fight over fraterni
ties; schools full of fads and destitute
of many essentials; turning out gradu
ates who can read Latin and define
tho attenuated continuity of a sun
beam, but who would most likely spell
Christ with a "K" and God with a
little "g." If there is an institution in
Lincoln that needs the guiding hand
of well paid business men, or women,
it is the public school system. There
is altogether too much flap-doodle and
maudlin idealism about the public
school system, anyhow. What it
needs right now, both in its manage
ment and its curriculum, is common
sense. It is being run altogether too
much to 'oologies, 'otanys and 'ome
trys, and altogether too little to read
ing, writing and and arithmetic. If
the management of our public schools
is a sample of the results of the un
salaried and "unselfish" devotion to
public welfare that some gentlemen
are now talking about, then let us
steer as clear of it as possible.
the Christian religion falls to the
ground.
The would-be masters of the indus
trial world would best be careful lest
the resentment of the workers against
injustice and wrong be carried beyond
the point of sympathetic striking.
Some of these days the industrial
giant will awaken to a realization of
his own strength, of his own rights.
When that day comes he may not be
content to divide the results of his toil
with others; he may insist upon taking
it all, and seeing to it that he who
produces nothing sha" have nothing
to consume. He has been pretty well
cowed in days gone by, but he is not
yet wholly a slave. Even the lowly
worm will turn, Va the turning ever so
Ineffectual. But if ever the industrial
giant, despairing and resentful, shall
turn upon those who are persecuting,
then God save the country from the
results.
The sympathetic strikers of Phila
delphia are heroes. They are deserv
ing of all the plaudits belonging to
those who sacrifice self upon the altar"
of common humanity.
The sympathy of the entire citizen
ship of Lincoln will be extended to
Mayor Love in his affliction. The loss
of one's mother Is a bereavement
greater than any other,' especially if
that mother has been spared until her
children have reached middle age. A
lot of us gray-haired boys who have
buried our mothers since we asumed
.life's responsibilities will know . full
well what Mayor Love now suffers,
and from every one of us there comes
a word of sympathy and comfort.
The railroads furnish cars for the
express company and carry express for"
one-eighth the amount, pound for
pound, charged for carrying the mails.
On top of that the government pays
an exorbitant rental for the us of
the mail cars. Any wonder there is
an annual deficit in the postal department?
During the last fifteen years freight
rates have been reduced more than
one-half, and the railroads are paying
larger dividends than ever before in
their history. During the same time
the price Uncle Sam pays for carry
ing mail has been reduced less than
5 per cent. Of course there's a deficit.
THE SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.
The esteemed Lincoln Journal,
whose editor often undertakes to dis
cuss industrial topics, declares, anent
the Philadelphia situation, that (Sere
is no moral justification for the sym
pathetic strike. We greatly fear that
the editor of the Journal has learned
of the union game through a course of
correspondence school instruction in
stead of in the shop. It is not often
that the sympathetic strike Is justifi
able, and it should never be resorted
to until all other means of solution
have failed. But in its last analysis
the sympathetic strike is as heroic as
any other sacrifice thai can be made
in behalf of common humanity. We
wonder what would become of the in
fant republic in the dark days of the
revolution If France had not gone out
on a sympathetic strike with the
struggling American colonists: And if
ever there was a justifiable sympa
thetic strike it was the one engaged
In by Uncle Sam when he arose in his
wrath and forever put an end to Span
ish cruelty and Spanish extortion in
Cuba. Turn it whatever way you will,
the Tank-Spanko war was nothing
more nor less than a sympathetic
strike on the part of Uncle Sam.
What did it matter to William
Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips
and Owen Lovejoy that some white
men in the south were holding negroes
In slavery? The sin was not that of
Garrison, Phillips and Lovejoy. The
negroes would have been in bondage
to this day if it had not been for the
sympathetic strike of the old abolition
leaders, and they kept stirring things
up until the oppression of the bond
slave was ended forever. Yet, when
the workers of Philadelphia strike in
sympathy with the white slaves of
Philadelphia grafters and boodlers and
politicians, we are coolly informed
that there Is no moral justification for
their act. Good Gold Almighty, how
long must workers submit before they
are justified In taking the remedy into
their own bands? Did the erudite
editor of the Journal ever read in that
sociological treatise called the Bible
a certain little passage which says
"Bear ye one another's burdens"?
Must the bodcarrier fight for common
Justice all by himself because the
bricklayer is well content? Must the
team driver suffer and sacrifice all
alone merely because the printer is
well employed at good wages? Has
the carpenter nothing In common with
the plasterer, or the pressman nofaing
In common with the plumber?
iso morai jnsuncauon ror a eympa
thetlc Btrlke? If that Is true, then
there is nothing in vicarious sacrifice
and If there is nothing in vicarious
sacrifice, then the whole scheme of
There are several hundred union
men in Lincoln wno reiuse to suu-
scribe for The Wageworker, but who
would holler their heads off if The
Wageworker ' carried Post's ads in
order to help pay publication bills. Itt?
that sort of union consistency that
helps men like Post.
Perhaps the Traction company
would receive a greater meed of sym
pathy from the workers of Lincoln if
it would show a more practical sym
pathy for the aforesaid workers. We
suggest this little matter to President
Sharp in all kindness and sincerity.
If the Traction company is unwill
ing to pay $2,500 a month for the use
of the streets, we opine there would
be no difficulty in forming a traction
corporation that would gladly pay it
for the privileges the Lincoln Traction
company now enjoys.
Of course it's some cheaper to let
the' sun and the wind clean the mud
from Lincoln's streets, but at the same
time it is just a little tiresom and dis
comforting to wait for the work to be
done that way.
For the life of us we can not refrain
from having some doubts about the
authenticity of that Sodom and Go
morrah story as long as a city like
Philadelphia is allowed to exist.
A union hater talks about ice
bouses. We opine, judging from cer
tain .marital incidents that we have
read about, that he is better versed in
the subject of assignation houses.
A lot of democratic managers are
once more engaged in the dellghtfu'
task of "throwing Bryan overboard.''
They are the same fellows who have
so often "buried Bryan."
Maybe you would have a better un
derstandlng of the union Question If
you wore union made socks and did
your thinking under a union made hat
Refusing to buy non-union goods is
nothing more nor less than a sympa
thetic strike. Are you striking sym
pathetically?
O, go ahead and build on the Dav
enport tract, and let us turn our at
tention to other civic matters of im
portance!
Are you studying up the commission
plan of municipal government? If you
are not, you are not doing your union
duty.
Funny, isn't it! Canada with a pop
ulation less than the staie of New
York carries second-class mall at one
Dressing in good form and good taste does not mean that
you must spend a lot of money or wear the extremes of fashionable attire.
The important things to consider are: That
your clothes fit well, that the color and
pattern of the cloth are suited to you, and that the cut
should be stylish and the right cut fop your" peculiar
make-up; than the smaller things, such as the collar,
cravat, shirt and hat must be of good quality and good
taste. n ;
In selecting our spring stock we have
considered all these things and have such
an extensive showing that it is possible for every man
who comes here to get the right clothes, the kind that
will place him among the correctly dressed men, and
you will find that no matter" what you choose to pay,
the styles and tailoring in every garment will be correct
and that the quality is the best your" money can buy
anywhere.
Spring Suits and O'coats
$10.00 to $40.00
A r oi s trong Cloth in
Company .
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
...
fourth the price charged by Uncle
Sam, carries it over a sparsely settled
country and yet makes a profit. But
Uncle Sam, charging 300 per cent
more for the same service, says he
does it at a loss.
United States Bureau of Labor re1
ports wages for telephone girls vary
from a highest monthly average of
$36.96 in New York city to $22.40 In'
Nashville, Tenn. In some of . the
smaller cities the average goes lower,
particularly in the south.
Holler like' hyenas now, and then
vote the ticket the bosses put up.
That's the way to never get anywhere.
THE LABOR PRESS.
Why?
But about this whole business of
judging labor unions why does every
body guage us . by our worst points.
whereas they themselves expect to be
judged by their best? Chattanooga
Labor Leader.
Much Better.
If those large employers of labor
who gain a reputation for generosity
by giving a comparatively small
amount of their immense profits to
charity would only put more money in
the pay envelopes of their employes
how much better it would be all
around. Duluth Labor Leader.
place where union men expect every
other union man to demand ffieir la
bel and at the same time they ignore
the other fellow's. Portland Labor
Press. ,
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MAJORITY FAVOR A STRIKE.
Teddy's Great Sin.
Honored and revered by the Ameri
can people as no man since Lincoln
has been, Teddy Roosevelt has, never
theless, one political sin to answer for.
It Is a big one and its name is Taft.
Minnesota Union Advocate.
Horrors!
What's the matter with Roosevelt
and Longworth for the Republican
presidential ticket in 1912? Fort
Wayne Labor Times-Herald. ,
Firemen and Engineers Want Addi
tional Concessions.
Unless the railroads of the west,
northwest and southwest make addi
tional concessions to their firemen
and engineers, the men will go out on
a strike "to compel the granting of de
mands for higher wages and improved
working conditions.
This is the ultimatum of the em
ployes as expressed by complete re
turns from the "strike vote" recently
taken by the men of about fifty rail
roads in this section of the country.
A committee representing the mem
bers of the brotherhood of locomotive
firemen and engineers, which has been
in session ' in Chicago since March 1,
counting the ballots, completely fin
ished its task and gave out the official
figures. According to the announce
ment a trifle more than 86- per cent of
the union employes of the railroads
were opposed to accepting the offei
of the railroad managers' committee.
O. L. Dickeson, speaking for the gen
eral managers' association said:
"I can see no cause for alarm con
cerning this situation, as the brother
hood is an intelligent class of men and
it is not likely that when an arbitra
tion case just settled has given one
class of organized labor improved
working conditions and shorter hours
the firemen are going to reject the
managers' proposition to arbitrate un
der a government law which was put
through at the instance of organized
labor.' The managers expect to meet
the ' firemen's committee , as agreed
thirty days ago and we look for noth
ing but an amicable adjustment of all
differences." ':
Play Fair, Boys.
The Bakers' Journal goes after the
union printers of New York for buying
scab bread. The label on union bread
bears the label also of the Allied Print
Ing Trades, but it is alleged that at
but one restaurant among the Hun
dreds patronized by printers in. a par
ticular section of the city would the
union label be found on the bread.
The city of New York is not the only
Any Kind of Skirt
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Remember this is the very Highest
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ARE SUY
The Socialist women of Lineal Lin
coln will give a banquet and dance,
at A. O. O. U. W. hall, 1007 O St., Sat
urday evening, March 12th. All friends
of labor are invited A good time is
assured. Admission and supper, 25c.
Dancing 25c a couple.
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