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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1910)
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Lincoln Printing Co. 124 South Elkvknth Auto. Phonk SMS Will Bare You Money ea Any Kind f Printing Call na. A SWELL 8IGN. Say, but that is a well sign! This is the remark that the writer has heard many times in the last week, referring to the sign on the front win dow of the Wageworker shop. We are a bit proud of the said sign ourselves and justly to. The, work was done by David Manrose, better known as "Joker" and bears the label of course. , THE STAR UNFAIR. Has Filled Its Press Room with "Rat" Pressmen and Assistants. The Lincoln Dally Star has refused to recognize the Pressmen's and As sistant's Union, and has filled its press-troom with '"rats," several of whom are suspended members and others who deliberately, "ratted," lured on by promises of being "taken care of" by the management. The Extra Specials 500 Men's Dress Shirts 1 Q at each 1IC Ladies' and Children's Hose per pair - - oC. Embroideries and Laces a per yard - - - - - - - - C 200 Boys' Suits qq at, each - f OC Grand Dry Goods Company 10th and P Streets ELECTRICAL WORKERS About midnight of 'Thursday of last week, shortly after the forms of The Wageworker, had' been closed, the Electrical Workers settled their dif ferences with the Licoln Gas & Elect ric Light Co., and on Friday morning the force returned to work. The. settlement was mutually satisfactory, which means that they are of no par ticular concern to the public. - The Electrical v Workers : did not get all that they demanded, but in the main they were successful in their content ion, and Manager ' Adams expresses himself asvery4Mnell pleased with the outcome.'''- -'V- .'. When thfi tiaffrs o.limhed into the wagons Fridayniorning and started out .to work, after a three-weeks' ces- sation, Manages Adams remarked with a beaming smile: - " ' ' "That looks good to me!" ;t And it looks good to a lot of us. The Electrical Workers . gained one point which may interest- the public. They struck for -. a "specified scale, which provided for ah increase, and they were successful in maKlng the point stick. They returned to work at the old scale with the agreement that inside of ninety days the'4 scale would be the one demanded. Nine hours will constitute a day's work, and other conditions have been settled Satisfactorily. The imported strike breakers have been sent back. Of course the Gas Co. is no longer on he unfair list. ' - ;; The Wageworker is in receipt of a long communication from Peter W. Collins giving his side of the contro versy in the ranks of the Brotherhood. We have given Arbiter Duffy the space he asked for, and this, we believe, is as far as The Wageworker is called: upon to go for that side of the contro1 versy. For that reason and several others we must decline to give the Collins epistle space. One of the rea sons is that we wouldn't trust some' men as far as we would throw a bull by the tail, and among that number is one Peter W. Collins. We admit that we may' be prejudiced. But we hold to the opinion that if Peter W. Collins would quit taking snuff, one McNulty woud quit sneezing. And The Wage worker is bound to confess that, it is getting just a bit weary of this Elect rical Workers controversy. It don't look good to us. With no desire to butt in on the work : of the arbitrattion committee, The Wageworker believes the following is the only solution. Let every official of the Reid fact ion and every official of the McNulty faction write out their resignations and place them in' escrow in the hands of President Gompers. Let every dollar of funds held by both factions be withdrawn from bank and placed in the hands of Treasurer Lennon of the A. F. of L. Then call a conven tion of Electrical Workers to meet in Lincoln, Nebraska, or some other cen tral point, only delegates from regu larly constituted locals' in existence on April, !, 1910, to be entitled to re presentation. Let that convention elect a new set of officers, no official of either faction at this time to be eligible to election. When this is done and the officers-elect duly bonded, let President Gompers turn over to them the machinery of the Brotherhood, and Treasurer Lennon the funds. Something like this will have to be done, and the faction that refuses to accept such a chance to settle he whole unfortunate mess will not be entitled to sympathy or support, in the estimation of a big lot o'f consis tent and loyal unionistts. , There has been altogether too much "horse play" in this controversy, and it is due to a lot of individual union ists and to the labor movement as a whole that it be settled. "I've got so much work on hand I can't take the time to tell about it," said President Hanna when asked lo say something about the settlement of the strike. ' President Hanna was one of the strikers, and when he and his associates went back to work they found all kinds of labor stacked up for them. The Wageworker congratulates the Gas Co. on getting back such a hust ling lot of fellows as those strikers. It means a lot to the company to have good "boosters," such as those boys have been, working for it. Organizer Perrin has returned to Iowa to look after some needed work at several points. And the Labor Temple is again all lit' up with "juice" furnished by ihe Gas Co. ' I -1 The Husband Explains TYPOGRAPHICAL TIPS The' mother of President James M. Lynch died at her home in Syracuse, N. Y on" March 28. The sympathy 6l the entire membership of the I. T. TT. will go out to President Lynch in un bounded measure. The Maryland legislature has enact ed a law requiring the label of the Al lied Printing Trades on all the print ing done for the sttate. There was oractic'ally no opposition to the pass age of the bill. Here's another tip for Xfbraska. On April 14 the following shops In Lincoln were entitled to the use of the label of the Allied Printing Trades, having signed up with the Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union and other unions of the print ing trades- ' Wageworker Publishing Co. " Kuhl Printing Co. McVey Printing Co. State Piinting Co. Western Newspaper Union. Claflin Printing Co. Press Publishing Co. Superintendent Charles Deacon ol the Union Printers Home is in- the east, delivering a series of illustrated lectures on the subject of the Home. tie-up with the manager of another daily paper that would gladly knife the Star to death don't look good to union men. The Journal-News man agement loaned the Star manage ment a "rat" or two to help out, and to date the Star has managed to get out a little late, but after a fashion. Because of its action the Daily Star has been declared unfair to orga nized labor. There is no ' "boycott," mind .you. You are simply notified that when you continue your subscrip tion to the Star you are patronizing an institution that is giving a lot of your fellow unionists the worst of !t. If you don't know what to do under those circumstances it's up to you to take a few instructions m genuine unionism. But there is no "boy cott," mind you. LOTS OF TIMES. Ever listen to some fellow whose influence has secured him a fairly good position talk about labor unions and how impossible it is for them to succeed and Jhow they lose every strike. It is pitiful to listen to some one who does not know anything about the movement at all. The fact of the matter is that not all strikes are lost; there are a great many more won than lost, but the boneheads who just keep track ot the lost ones pass over those that are won. Labor unions do not care to strike but if forced to do so they are on the job every time, and if de feated is only a temporary defeat, for tney start out again to Duiid up stronger to fight for better condi tions. The weakling who has all kinds of fault to find just keeps pushing his hot. air and the movement keeps on Just the same. Rochester Labor Jour nal. PAINTERS & DECOR ATERS Workingmen and women are be coming m. re au 1 more intcrcs'i-4 in organization of the working class, not only along economic lines but politi cally. We do not mean that they are in favor, exactly, of . taking the "un ions into politics" or take politics in to the union,' but they are beginnmg to think mighty seriously about using all of their powers, in their struggle against exploitation. The Sunday at ternoon meetings of the Lincoln Eco nomic Educational League is draw ing a constantly increasing audience She threw the letter on the table and looked over at her husband. That's just like a woman," she said. - Anybody would suppose that I had been trying to do her a mean trick from the tone of her letter, and I thought I was doing her a favor." He went right on reading the news paper, devoting the rest of his atten tion to his coffee. Don't take enough Interest in my affairs to read the letter, I suppose," she went on, getting dangerously near the teary stage. ' "Well, you needn't. then." You just tell me what's in it, dear," he said. "That will be sufficient.". She seemed mollified and picked up the rejected letter. . , I can tell you what's In it," she went on. "It's just in answer to what 1 wrote her about the flat You know Jenny Smith told me that she would always like to take this flat off our hands if we were tired of it; that she had never seen a flat anywhere so good; that she would regard It as a great favor if we did let her know and that she wanted just such an apart ment. ..-'..-' 1 did that and now she writes back that she Is very appreciative of my offer, but that under the circumstances - she thinks she will not be able to take It off our hands, much as she would like to be of service to us., She writes as if I had implored her to rent it as a great favor to me. ' That's ' just the way with people when you ask them to do what they have said they are very anxious to do once they get the idea that they are doing you a favor. It's just the same thing that happened when I asked the Joneses if they wanted my cook.' Every time they came to the house last winter they used to rave over Emily. They would be so happy If only they could get such a cook, they said. Yet when I wrote to them that we were giving up keeping house and that they could have her If they want ed her they seemed to be actually embarrassed about the matter, as if they were having a servant forced on them willy nilly. He had not indicated any great in terest at the beginning, but listened more attentively as his wife's narra tive proceeded. Then he put down the paper and began to talk himself. Don't ycu remember the time yon bought that old side table at auction and Mary asked you to let her have It if you ever wanted to sell It?" She nodded. : ; "Don't you recall also how patroni zing she was when you told her you thought you might let her have It be- cause you didn't want to crowd your dining room? Surely you have not for gotten bow she tried to wriggle out of taking it just as if you were deter mined to hold her to a bargain." ' She admitted that she had not for gotten a detail of this transaction. Then she also admitted how provoked she had been when her cousin Helen had asked her to give her the refusal of her old horse Sally if she decided to sell her when they went to town in the autumn. "Then how can you," he asked, with these things fresh in your mind. put yourself in the way of being pat ronized again in such fashion? You ought to learn that what they do not possess often seems very attractive to persons . so long as it remains the property of others. It is quite a dif ferent thing when It becomes attain able to them. "It almost invariably happens that they have ceased to care for it and it Is only human nature for them to give themselves the satisfaction of showing the owners that they are now in possession of the situation. So remember that trait the next time yon offer to anybody a similar kindness.", 'A Monkey Trick.- Curator. Raymond L. Ditmars, of the New York zoo, was praising the intel ligence of monkeys. "A Philadelphia man," he said, "was hurrying out Powellton avenue one afternoon when, all of a sudden, an organ grinder's little monkey dropped dead. The poor grinder's grief was pitiful. The Philadelphian, touched., gave him a half dollar and hastened away.' "An hour later, returning through Market street, he saw the same organ of earnest, thinking working men and grinder, -ana, just as he passed, the who are beginning to realize ""i "f "T, ppeQ aeaa- ""J"? The lecture is illustrated by eighty lantern slides and a reel or two of moving pictures, showing every phase of the work and the life of the guests of that magnificent institution. What's the matter with getting Superinteu- dint Deacon to give Lincoln a date on his way back to Colorado Springs? The action of two, perhaps more, members of the Typographical Un;on in doing the work of pressmen after the pressmen had gone out on strike against unfair conditions calls for drastic action. It calls for something more than mere1 reprimands, too. The union printer who deliberately "rats' on a fellow craftsman who Is trying to secure decent wages and conditions deserves to be handed a package that will make him stagger to carry. The package that should be handed the recreant members of 209 would serve to make other members in the future mighty slow to commit the same of fense. .... The matter of organizing a Mailers' Union, a department of the Typo graphical Union, will be undertaken In a short time. One of the big employees of mailers has already declared that he is just a little bit more than win ing. women, that they will have to think out and work out their own emancipation. The subject for discussion, Sunday grinder's grief was even more pitiful than before. "The Philadelphian gave a loud laugh. The grinder, recognizing him. at 3 p. m., April 17, is, "Why the laughed, too, but made no motion to Populists Failed." While we have had return the half dollar." two very able sneakers the two Sun- Hava nasr hfl "Workers University Two Sides to Great Actress. audience will be glad to know that wa8' on Wright will occupy the rostrum next STTnS1 Sunday. Good music. All are wel- notized Into passionate emotions by come. O. U. free. Ladies especially invited. A. W. hall. 1007 O St. Admission THE LEATHERWORKERS No change in the local situation, but there are signs of a break of the employers all along the line. The great E. M. Jones Saddlery Co., at Ok lahoma City "came across" early last week. Twelve smaller establishments the sight of the drop curtain and the boards, says a writer. In iter home she was, at all events to the casual ob server, more than a thought too much a mere mother and British matron, loving to be seemly and of good report, hut In the tower of an unimaginative nature. Had she not been an actress ghe would have made (such an ob server might have said) ah Ideal in the same city signed up. . Other bishop's wife. breaks from the ranks of the Manu facturers' Association are - reported, The Lesson. Freshman Is this lesson lor the weekt but to date not a single break is re ported from the ranks of the Leather- workers. Professor No; for the strong. Uni versity of Texas Coyote.
