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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1910)
Lincoln product, and the loyal Lincoln girl will gently drop a hint to that effect. s By Wageworker Publishing Co. Will M. Maupin - - Editor W. P. Hogard - -, Manager And while the wage earners of incoln are buying Lincoln made If Yot Wart To Be k Class A products ,the business and profes sional men ought to see to it that all of their mechanical work, building and otherwise, is per formed by residents of Lincoln., Let s stand together for Lin The Good Clothes Show coln for Lincoln workers and for Lincoln products. fHE WAGEWORKER. Eatorvd u aaeond-dan matter April 2 1. '.1904, at dt pottofltcaat Lincoln. Nab., under tha Act of i of March 3rd. 1879. THE LABOR INJUNCTION The injunction issued by Judge Hunger against the striking boil ermakers of Lincoln calls renewed attention to the abuse of the in junction writ. But what's the uset The same sort of attention has been called to it times without number, and yet the workingmen who are the victims show no signs of resentment. They will doubtless continue to pursue the same old course politically that is as sure to bring along the same old results as the sun is to rise and set tomorrow. Judge Hunger is not to blame. We are to blame. "He who would be free must himself strike the blow. THE APPOINTIVE FEDERAL JUDICIARY IS THE GREAT EST MENACE TO LIBERTY. Either the federal judiciary, ap pointed for life, must be abol ished, or liberty of thought and action will be lost ! The fathers of the republic lit tle dreamed of the power they were putting into the hands of the federal judiciary. Had they known then what we know now, there would be no such thing a federal judges appointed for life, with power to annul laws, enact laws by judicial ruling, overrule the constitution and violate the bill of riohls. And the longer we put off cor recting the mistake the fathers made, the harder it will be ta make the correction. Judue Hunger, or any other federal judge, can be removed on ly by death, resignation or im peachment. And while he occu pies the bench he can, if he to elects, annul every law enacted by the legislature or by congress, deprive individuals of the consti tutional rights, set aside the rul ings of other courts in short, ex ercise a more despotic power than any czar or kaiser would dare ex ercise. ' And we who prate so loudly of our liberties and our willingness to die to preserve them, stand around like a lot of dummies and give the vicious system the sanc tion of our continued acquiescence. It is any wonder that falliable men yield to the temptation to exercise despotic power when it is not denied themt We hope that federal judge will continue to reach out and grab authority until (we either rise in our wrath and wipe the whole system off the face of the earth, or we see the folly of wast ing time and money in the elec tion of legislatures avid eon greases and simply permit the federal judges to be the whole thing. INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION Thee are fifty thousand people in Lincoln who should have made an extended study of the indus trial exposition just closing at the Auditorium. Many thousands did, but more should. It was an eye-opener as to the rapid progress of Lincoln along manufacturing lines. This really a big manufacturing cen ter, and it is growing as such with wonderful rapidity. But it would grow even faster if Lincoln people would cultivate the habit of buying home pro ducts whenever possible. Ever pound of flour consumed in Lin coin ought to be ground in Lin coln mills. Every cigar smoked by Lincoln men ought to be made in Lincln. Every Lincoln build ing should be painted with paints made in Lincoln. Every insur ance policy, fire, accident and life ought to be carried m Lincoln in surance companies. Lincoln peo pie should sleep on Lincoln made mattresses, and when our loved ones are laid away their morta remains snouia do enclosed i? Lincoln made caskets. The Lin coin Bwain who takes his best girl a box of candy .ought make sure that the candy is CAPITOL, REMOVAL. All this talk about taking the capital from Lincoln is a huge joke. The more seriously some people take it, the broader the grin on the face of the Lincom- lte. When the state house is located elsewhere than Lincoln, pigs will bty-flying, the Missouri river will be flowing up hill, babies will b-i born with whiskers and the Platte river navigated by 20,000- ton battleships. He who believes that the capital will be taken from Lincoln because Lincoln peo pie want a clean city while others want the capital city to be a wide- open town, mistakes the char acter of Nebraska people. Now that the capital removal proposition has served its pur pose of securing added notoriety for a politician and furnishing a topic for editorial fulminations from pens more used to wntingj defenses of ' personal liberty than to editorials favoring civic cleanliness, let us have our final augh over the huge joke and turn our attention to more seri ous things. An occasional wage increase is announced in big type. The next days increase of foodstuffs is not announced at all, but the wage earner has no difficulty in ascer taining that his wage increase will not begin to cover the in creased cost of living. If it is the business of your un ion officials to transact the busi ness of the union, it is your busi ness to see to it that they attend to their business, and to do that you must be as active in union af fairs as our officials ought to be. Gee, but it 's hard to buckle down and write brilliant editor ials after four days of fraternal fellowship with one s editorial friends. And Mr. Kirby's picture again adorned the cover page or 'American Industries" this month. Mr. Kirby made a speech. The Havelock "scabs are at perfect liberty to do a lot of things that Havelock residents are enjoined from doing. The United States Postoffice department needs copious injec tions of business sense and. com mon, sense. , The striking: boilermakers ot Havelock have not yet been en joined from reading The Wage- worker. If you think the state at largo don't like Lincoln, just watch the country weeklies for the next month. Mr. Van Cleave is dead after years of fighting the labor unions, The labor unions still survive. Omaha really ought to begin laughing about it instead of -dodg ing and making a holler. "If your competitor talks about you, put him on your pay roll." We are advertised largely by our fool enemies. THE BOILERMAKERS. Judiciously Hampered But Still Firm In the Union Faith. By the kindly assistance of the courts and all kinds of money, the Burlington has been able to make a fairly good pretense of keeping Us force fli the boiler shop at work. Now that the "scabs" have the protection of the courts from something that never threatened them,, they are growing awfully chesty; and are very insulting, knowing full well that no matter how much they may strive to insult and abuse; the strikers cannot resent it without being guilty of "con tempt." It Is, perhaps, -a good thing for the taxpayers, that no Judges have as yet undertaken to send a man to jail for successfully keeping his con tempt concealed. The company bought a hotel in Havelock and in this way the "scabs have managed to And a boarding you had better come here for your clothes; garments such as the most critical of you all can -wear without any doubts, are what you get here. There is a style and quality about our L. WileS & Company's Union Made Suits Which makes you feel at ease when wearing them, and no matter what your taste may be, we can satisfy you perfectly from this great line of Spring Suits. If you are interested in what you get for your money you had better see them. , ' . In our four strongest lines at $10, $15, $20 and $25, you get popu lar priced suits, but they are in the exclusive class if compared with others. The very best Cloths are here for you, priced from $27.50 to $40. You can't buy better clothes; no matter how much you pay. Come and see them. Good Clothes Merchants Lincoln's Largest Exclusive Clothing Store for Men, Young place. Otherwise they would be on the streets as Havelock people d :- clined to house and feed them The sleeping cars and dining cars have been removed, but the Greeks and Italian laborers are still housed in filthy and unsanitary shacks. Tp date the company has' imported 500 "boilermakers" to take the places of the 140 strikers, and now. haa. fully six or seven men who really know something about the trade. The 'other twenty-five or thirty are mere 'jokes from a mechanic's standpoint, f- The Btrikers show no signs of breaking ranks, and they are confi dent that in good time they will win their fight. ' ' TWO BEERS, EIGHT HOURS. A Little Wage Agreement That May Contain a Moral. The employers of brewery workers in Washington, D. C, have made a concession to their employees in the matters of hours of labor. They have granted an eight-hour day. In return the employees have made a conces sion. They have agreed to take not more than two drinks of eer during the eight hours. No wave of temperance reform on the part of the brewery management, however, is responsible, but a wish to get a full measure of work out ot the employees. Before and after working , hours it is agreed the em ployees can drink all ttitfe beer they want. THE BARBERS. Making Little Noise But Getting to the Front With Organiatlon. The Journeyman Barbers' Union of Lincoln is not much given to tooting its own horn, but when it comes to quiet, but effective work along the lnes of organiatlon it is willing 10 have its results compared with those achieved by any other organization. On the first of the present month Sec retary Robertson hung up shop cards in five new shops that had signed up with the local. At The 'same time he added fourteen new names to tac muster roll of the organization. Nor is the work being allowed to la, Some more shop cards will be hung inside of the next couple of weeks, and eight or ten more names added to the membership rolls. Every year the barbers lock the doors and hSve a "sneak day" all their own. Their wives load up baskets with good stuff, and the employers are invited to go along. Then ... the "whole boilin' of 'em" hie away to some grassy and wooded vale and spend the day right. ., It is getting along toward that time of the year when the barbers begin thinking about their holiday, and the indica tions are that it will arrive inside of the next thirty days. ' SMILES AND KIND WORDS. "A smile can do wonders, and a kind word can do wonders. Two smiles can do more than one, and two kind words can do more than one kind word. It comes down to a simple problem of arithmetic. If one smile and one kind word may serve to make one tired heart hap py, how many tired hearts can a dozen smiles and a dozen kind words make happy ? The problem is simple. Don't be stingy with your smiles and your kind words." NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. KNOW ALL MEN BY. THESE PRESENTS: That we, the under signed. Will M. Maupin, Ernest L. Grubb, and Wilson P. Hogard, all of Lincoln, Nebraska, do hereby mutu ally agree each to the ofher and do hereby make, execute and assign the following: , ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the corporation is "The Wageworker Publishing Com pany," with its location and place ot business in said city of Lincoln, in said state. 2. This corporation shall commence business on the date of this instru ment and continue for a term and period of ten (10) years, unless soon er disssolved by process of law or otherwise. 3. The general officers of this cor poration shall be a President, a Treas urer, and a Secretary and Manager, who shall be elected annually and said officers shall constitute the Board of Directors. . 4. The officers . for the first year shall be Will M. Maupin, President; Earnest L. Grubb, Treasurer, and Wil son P. Hogard, Secretary and Man ager. 5. The purpose and purposes for which this corporation is formed is to do a general publishing and print ing business in Lincoln, Nebraska, and this corporation is empowered to g WD buy ' and sell, lease and rwn all real and personal property incident to and necessary to the prosecution ot Its general business. 6. The capital stock of this corpor ation shall be five thousand (5000) dollars, and the same shall consist of one hundred (100) shares, each of which shall be of the par or face val ue of fifty (50) dollars. , Twenty (20) shares of such capital stock has bean issued to each of the parties hereto upon actual payment therefor at par, and the remaining two thousand (2000) dollars of capital stock shall be treasury stock and shall be sold only at par when so directed by a majority vote of the shares of capital stock already issued. ( 7. Each share of capital stock is sued shall be entitled to one vote and no proxies shall be allowed, and transfer or sales of stock shall only be made upon the books of the secre tary and signed by the vendor there of. 8. The Board of Directors shall meet for the transaction of business on the call of the President and of such meetings all stockholders hall have due and . legal notice. The Board of Directors may provide for the appointment of such additional offi cers as may be deemed necessary. The above mentioned officers . and directors shall be elected by majority vote of the stockholders on the first business day of each year succeeding the date of- this instrument 9. These articles may be amended by a resolution Betting forth such amendment, the same to be adopted at any meeting of the stockholders ot which all shall be notified and- by a vote of at least two-thirds of the stock of said corporation then out standing. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have set our hands this 2nd day of May, 1910. WILL M. MAUPIN, President. EARNEST L. GRUBB, ( Treasurer. ; WILSON P. HOGARD, Secretary and Manager. State of Nebraska, Lancaster Co. ss. Personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for said county and state, Will M. Maupin, Earnest L. Grubb, and Wilson P. Hogard, to me personally known to be the per sons who. executed the foregoing In strument and each acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed. C. C. HTJSTED, 7-4t Notary Public. mmpainiy Men and Boys. I- UNION BARBER SHOPS. When you enter a barber shop, a-je that the union shop card is in plala sight before you get into the chair. If the card is not to be seen, go else where. The union shop card is a guar antee of a cleanly shop, a smooth shave or good hair-cut, and courteous treatment. The following barber shops are entitled to the patronage of union men: v. ' Geo. Petro, 1010 O St. J. J. Simpson, 1001 O St Geo. Shaffer, Lincoln Hotel. 1 ' C. B. Ellis, Windsor Hotel. C. W. Lafler, Capital Hotel. E. L. Scott, Royal Hotel. A. L. Kimmerer, LIndell Hotel. ' C. A. Green, 120 No. 11th St. - W. G. Worth, 1132 O St E.'A. Woods, 1206 O Bt. Chaplin & Ryan, 129 No. 12th St. Bert Sturm, 116 So. 13th St. 3. B. Raynor, 1501 O St. ( . Wi H. Barthelman, 122 So. 12th St J. J. Simpson, 922 P St. , E. J. Dudley, 822 P St, 1 ' Lundahl & Warde, 210 So. 13th St. Frank Malone, Havelock. . C. A.. Hughart, Havelock. Bell 1478 Auto 1916 B. E. Large Job Stereotyping 249 North 11 All Work Promptly Done Rush Orders a Specialty MONEY LOANED oa household goods, pianos, hor ses, etc; lone or short time. No charge for papers. No interest In advance. No publicity or fil papera, We guarantee better tec ma than others make. Money paid immediately. COLUMBIA Loan go. 127 south 12th. Lincoln Printing Go. 124 South Elxtbnth Auto. Phonb 8062 , Will Save Ton Money on Any Kind ef Printing Call ua.