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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1910)
STREET RAILWAY MEN y.y i W. 8. JONES Street Railway Men The basis of settlement of the Phil' adelphla strike proposed by the Phil delnhia Transit Co. was rejected by tho Street Railway Men, and it was unanimously voted to continue the strike. Every day sees public sym- pathy growing more strongly on the side cf the strikers. The misrepre' euntations of the daily press concern ing tho Philadelphia strike have been something fierce. Collier's Weekly, abcut as fair a publication as one could hope to find in these days of subsidized dailies and corporation- owned magazines, tells the facts in this way: "1, A transit company, staggerin under banded indebtedness and a past life of stupid public-defying history; 2, A few thousand employes, living through a summer of discontent and as the result, of Insolence to the trav eling public; 3, A weak police force fed by the company and friendly to the strikers, Ihe tools of all factions and the masters of no situation; 4, A seething underworld of wild boys and vicious hoodlums in three sections of the city, careless with bricks and guns and all four groups the products of a politically corrupt city these were the elements which made Philadelphia look like a hotbed of real anarchy. The city was not undergoing a reign of terror. The long schooling of corrupt politics had let slip into momentary acute rebellion a few of its choicer graduates. The Philadelphians were not worried, though they were incon venienced, but the outside -world was amazed and misinformed. "The union men on strike have be haved admirably. The writer visited them down till 3 a. m. in their secret meetings, and there wasn't a single drunken man among the 200 or 300. Their discipline was admirable, their talk decent One man would yawn: "1 got to bed at one o'clock, and had Just four hours of sleep." That man lived several miles away from his car barns, and had been sleeping of nights on a cot one flight over the men s headquarters. There is alwaye some thing rather gallant in seeing a body of men struggling for a cause larger than themselves. And it was good tft bo with those compact, earnest gath erings of men, with not a drop of liquor in them, and no dirty talk passed around, waiting up all night till 3 o'clock of the morning for a brief talk with their strike leader. " 'Keep away from the rum-shops. Preserve law and order. Be good to the public. Stick to your union.' This was the line of talk passed out to them by Pratt and Timothy Healy. "C. O. Pratt, national organizer and spear-head of the present strike, is a highly temperamental person, nervous ly alert, with brown eyes so swift darting as to give the effect of a squirrel. His cascading black hair is shot with gray. His skin is dark brown. The man is like some agile woods creature. He has the personal magnetism of .a matinee actor the sort of person whom women find fas cinating. That flaming red tie of his, starting out in sudden color from a fancy white waistcoat, was like tbe snowy plume of Harry or Navarre to the strikers. Some of them watched it in almost hypnotic fascination. One of them in the Frankford headquarters kept muttering: 'Oh, you red tie.' The company made Pratt a hero by hav ing him arrested for inciting to riot. The particular incident with which the evidence connected him was one in which he was not present. Some of the testimony used against him was faked." In the same issue containing the above Collier's Weekly prints a nim ber of pictures of the Philadelphia strike. Every "mob" shown is made up of boys, with here and there a man looking on, and most of them smiling But isn't Collier's description of Clar ence O. Pratt a "corker"? That's Pratt to a gnat's eyebrow. By the way, wasn't there a Lincoln clothing" bouse that was good enough to furnish the new uniforms for tho street car men? Why was it neces sary for the conductors and motor- men to call at the Fraternity building to be measured by a stranger for un forms to be made in another city and shipped to Traction company head quarters to be called for? And why will those uniforms cost about $4 more than was charged for service able uniforms by Lincoln retail cloth iers? Gee, aren't they satisfied with the $2,000,000 worth of water pumped into the stock without getting a little bit more through the medium of the uniforms the men wil have to pay for? Say, if you imagine for a minute the local association is a "dead one," just take note of the number of men who are wearing the March buttons, and wearing them with pride. asm made manifest. Lincoln has no big boot and shoe factory, but it has several small factories and a number of repair shops conducted by men eligible to membership. Just as soon as all of them can be approached and given a chance to co-operate, a meet ing will be held and application made for a charter. PLUMBERS & FITTERS The Plumbers want it distinctly un derstood that the United Hatters are not the only union who have been mulcted for damages. The Plumbers have felt the iron hand of the judi ciary, too. The New Jersey supreme court handed a lemon to the Plumbers last week, and it was just as sour as the one handed to the United Hatters, although not quite so big. A "scab" plumber named Ruddy, bailing from Newark, N. J., brought suit for dam ages against Local No. 1, United Asso ciation of Journeymen Plumbers, Stcamfittcrs and Steamfitters' Help ers, of that, city, claiming that he was chas,od out of a couple of jobs because union plumbers refused to worKwith him. Ruddy was awarded a verdict for $250. Wouldn't that jar you? The union plumbers were fined for refus ing to work with a man they didn't feci like associating with, and the court held in effect that the much vaunted "God given right to work or not to work" is illegal and deserving of a fine. The next step will be to fling a man Into Jail if he refuses to work when offered a Job" by a man who is unfair, poor pay or unworthy of confidence. Referring to this re markable decision the Cleveland Citi zen says: "Whether or not the judiciary is gaining its ends is for the plumbers and steamfltters, the hatters and all ?other organized workers to judge. The ifacts speak for themselves. The de cisions are rendered, the unionists are forced to 'cough up' their hard-earned dollars, the open shoppers are pleased and the politicians in power, like the Pharisees of old, pass by and mumble something about the tariff and pros perity and a lot of other hogwash. "The best way to continue this high ly satisfactory game for the open shop pers is to holler, and as loudly as pos sible, 'keep politics out of the union," and then abstain from voting or vote either one or the other old-party tick ets. "As events are now occurring, it will not be long until imprisonment becomes general for striking or boy cotting, and the ball and chain will become the reward of those who have eyes and ears and will not see and hear." APPETIZING. Miss 'Caroline Ehlert, nurse of the Chicago stock yards free dispensary, is reported to have made the state ment that or the 60,000 people at work in the stock yards, fully 30,000 are suffering from tuberculosis as a result of low wages and crowded, filthy dwelling places. The workers' lives are sacrificed, the public health is menaced, and the beef trust reaps the profit. Good thing! CONVENTIONS OF 1910. R. W. ROBERTSON Secretary Barbers Union Easter Novelties in Ladies Neckwear and Handkercheif s BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS. Lincoln Will Soon Have a Local of that Craft in Operation. Just because a big shoe factory brought here from Omaha and oper ated under non-union conditions went broke, is no sign that there are not enough "square" boot and shoe work ers in Lincoln now to organize a local of that craft. There are enough, and the work of organizing is under way. One or two quiet meetings have been held and a lot of enthusi- Where the Big Meetings Will Be Held This Year. April 4, St. Paul, Minn., Internation- ail Association of Fur Workers. April 18-23, New Orleans, La., Broth erhood of Railway Clerks. May 2, Philadelphia, Pa., Chartered Society of Amalgamated Lace Opera tives of America. May 9, Louisville, Ky., Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. May , Cincinnati, Ohio, Tin Plate Workers' International Protective Association. May 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, American Federation of Musicians. May 23, Buffalo, N. Y., National Print Cutters' Association of America. June 6, Chicago, 111., International Association of Marble Workers. June 13, St. Louis, Mo., International Brotherhool of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers. June 13, place not selected, Interna tional Ceramic, Mosaic and Encaustic Tile Layers and Helpers' Union. June 13-19, Omaha, Neb., Internation al Stereotypers and Electrotypers' Union of North America. June 13, New York, N. Y., Interna tional Brotherhood of Tip Printers. June 13, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinders. June, third week, Columbus, Ohio, In ternational Printing Pressmen and As sistants' Union of North America. June 27, St. Louis, Mo., International Union of Pavers, Rammermcn, Flagg- ers, Bridge and Stone Curb Setters. June , Kansas City, Mo., Interna ional Journeymen Horseshoers' Union. July 4, not decided as to piace, Amal gamated Leather Workers' XTnion of America. July 11, New York, N. Y., Inter national Longshoremen's Association. July 11, Pittsburg, Pa., International Jewelry Workers' Union of America. July 11, Atlantic City, N. J., Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada. July 11, Washington, D. C, Theatri cal Stage Employes' International Al liance. , :-n July 12, Dover, X. J., Stove Mounters and Steel Range Workers' Interna tional Union. July 16, Springfield, Mass., American Wire Weavers' Protective Association. July 18, Ottawa, Ont., International Steel and Copper Plate Printers' Union. July , Atlantic City, N. J., National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. August 1, Peoria, 111., International Brotherhood of Tteamsters. ; August 8, Minneapolis, Minn., Inter national Typographical Union. August 22, Detroit, Mich., United Garment Workers of America. September 5-6-7, Chicago, 111., Na tional Federation of Postoflice Clerks. September -5, Chicago, 111., Interna tional Slate and Tile Roofers of Amer ica. September 5, Boston, Mass., Interna tional Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. September 6-10, Louisville, Ky., In ternational Photo-Engravers, Union of North America. September G, Bangor, Pa., Interna tional Union of Slate Workers. September 8, Boston, Mass., Interna tional Spinners' Union. September 12, Kansas City, Kan., Coopers' International Union. September 12. Denver, Colo., Inter national Union of Steam Engineers. September 12, Cuea, f!T., Interna tional Union of United Brewery Work men of America. ' September 12, Philadelphia, Pa., In ternational Union of Elevator Con structors. September 12, Streator, 111., Interna tional Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' Alliance. September 13, New York, N. Y.. American Brotherhood of Cement Workers. September 19, Des Moines, Iowa, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. September 19, Rochester, N. Y., In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. September 21, St. Paul, Minn., Broth erhood of Railroad Freight Handlers. September 26, Columbus, Ohio,' Oper ative Plasterers' International Associa tion of the United States and Canada. 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