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By Wageworker Publishing Co.
Will M. Maupin - - Editor
W. P. Hogard - - Manager
EnMrad second-class matter April 2 1 .' 1 904, at
th postoflke t Lincoln. Neb., under the Act of
ConaraM of Merck 3rd. 1879.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Frank M. Tyrrell.
I hereby aunonnce myself a candi
date for the nomination. for the office
of county attorney on the republican
ticket, subject to the decision of the
voters at the coming primaries. In
so, doing I request the support of all
persona who approve my official acts.
FRANK M. TYRRELL.
Willis E. Reed.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the United States senate un
der the provisions of the "Oregon
plan." I am for tariff for revenue
only, against ship subsidy, for elec
tion of senators by the people and for
general legislation that will advance
fhe common good as against the fur
ther encroachments of "the interests."
WILLIS K. REED.
Madison Neb.
J.. B. Bennett.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
nomination as County Commissioner
from the Second Commisssioner District
subject to tho republican primaries on
August 10. My platform is my offi
cial record for the past two years.
J. R. BENNETT.
THE PARTY PLATFORMS.
Last Tuesday tho four political par
ties of the state democrat, republican,
populist aud socialist met in state con
ventions and built the platforms upon
which they elect to stand. These con
ventions had nothing to do but to
frame platforms. ' There were no nomi
nations to make, no logrolling for fa
vorites to perform. The framers of the
primary law evidently felt that plat
form conventions, such as provided for,
free from the jockeying of candidates,
would enable the parties to frame plat
forms worthy of the name. But it
seems to have been a vain hope. It
would seem that, the two b'.g onven
tions were wrought up over what many
consider a non-political issue to a point
never reached in the old convention
days. VThc prohibitionists could afford
to sit quiet while the two old parties
took eognixance of an issue that they
had long ignored, and the socialist con
vention refused to be sidetracked from
the main issues the issues that appeal
directly to producing masses of the
country. ,N This little newspaper has
never thought very much of the county
option question, believing it a question
wholly apart from politics. But if it
in to be mudo the subject of platform
discussion we oro of the firm belief
that tho socialists have come nearer to
reaching the core of the controversy
than any other political organization.
The '.'liquor plank" of the socialist
party reads as follows:
"Regarding the liquor question now
agitating Hie public mind in Nebraska
we take -the same position taken by
the socialist party in its national con
vention of l'JOS, which is us follows;
" 'Wo recognize the serious evils in
cident to the manufacture and sale for
profit of alcoholic and adulterated
liquors. We hold taut any excessive
use of liquor by members of the work
ing class is a serious obstacle to the
. triumph of our class since it impairs
the vigor of the fighters in the politi
cal and economic struggle and we urge
the members of the working class to
avoid any indulgence that might hin
der the progress of the movement for
their emancipation.
" 'On the other hand we do not be
lieve that tho evils of alcoholism can
be cured by any extension of the pub
lic powers of the capitalistic state.
Alcoholism is a disease of which cap
italism is the chief cause and the cure
lies rather in doing away with under
feeding, overwork and overworry re
sulting from a wage system.'
"Believing ' there are phases of the
question of eoutity option that justify
the county optioniats in their fight for
the right to vote on ell questions for
which they are taxed; that, on the
other hand, the eounty option program
does invado tle right of municipal
ities to control their own affairs,
therefore we contend that the solution
of this question is possibly only through
the initiative and referendum."
For twenty yeaTS the republicans
were in undisputed control of the state,
yet they never gave any attention to
tho liquor question. The democratic
party, always denounced as tho "wliis-
took the first forward step' taken in
twenty ' years. Now comes the repub
lican party as a sudden convert, and
with all the zeal of a new conversion,
seizes upon county option as a "good
enough morgan" to again secure con
trol of the state. The democratic con
vention spent practically all of its time
disputing over this non-essential, to
tho exclusion of questions that reach
dowu to the very existence of the
workers. The populist party was the
ouly one, aside from the socialists, that
mentioned the cause of labor.
The republicans lauded the Aldrich
Cannon tariff; the democrats denounced
it. The republicans said that the Taft
administration was little short of per
fection; the democrats said it was a
dismal failure so far as conserving the
interests of the people is concerned. The
republicans declared for county option
after twenty years of vociferous silence
on the liquor question; the democrats
stood by the Slocum law and local self
government. But what about the real
questions that front every wage earner?
What about the sweat shops, the black
list, government by injunction, contract
prison labor, imported pauper labor
and a thousand other questions that
are knocking for a hearing?
Is it not about time that the produc
ers of the country took a hand in the
political game? Not as partisans, but
as patriots. Not as the bliud followers
of a political fetich, but, as thinking
men who nre willing to sacrifice the
now in order to make secure the
future?
THE LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES.
Some good men have been nominated
for tho legislature in Lancaster county
that is, they have filed for nomina
tion. But you will search the list of
filing in vain if you search them to
find the names of wage earners men
who toil for wage. The socialists have
filed real wage earners, but no one im
agines for a minute that a single one
of them stands the ghost of a show
of election. There are lawyers galore,
insurance agents in profusion, mer
chants, a farmer or two but not a
single mechanic; not a single man who
toils for wage in mill, shop er factory.
The state university will be taken care
of, to be sure; but what about the
toiling men and women who can scarce
ly hope .under present conditions to
save their children from the mill and
shop and factory long enough to give
them a university education? The in
surance business will receive attention
and the wants of the insurance com
bine given respectful consideration.
But what about the toilers who are be
ing crushed between the upper mill
stone of necessity and the nether mill
stone of injunction and blacklist?
Property will receive the usual protec
tion, but what will be done for the pro
tection of the man who grinds his life
amidst the whirring wheels of the fac
tory or the dust laden air of the shop?
Who will be in the legislature to give
thoughtful consideration to such vital
questions as assumption of risks, in
dustrial insurance, employer's liability
and others of equally important nature?
There will not be a single one.
And why? Simply and solely because
the workers huve not yet been able to
emancipate themselves from the slav
ery to party. They have not been
able to free themselves from the petty
and menn jealousies that impel them to
"knock" every comrade who tries to
forge to the front, and accuse every
man of "graft" who tries to blaze the
way. There are enough republican un
ion men in Lancaster county to abso
lutely control the primaries on August
10. There are enough democratic un
ion men in the county to control the
democratic primaries. There are enough
of the two together to elect seven union
men to the legislature if they would
vote together.
But there is not a single union man
not a single genuine wage earner
filed for nomination on either of the
old party tickets, and next election day
we will either have to vote for the same
old list of partisan candidates or re
main nt home. And when tho legislat
ure shall have adjourned without giving
the wage earners any measure of pro
tection and relief we will get together
in smnll groups and "chew the rag"
and whine about "having no show."
Isn't it God's truth?
The Oklahoma Labor Unit has en
tered upon its third year. It is a splen
did force in the war for the industrial
uplift, and grows stronger each day be
cause the wage earnrs of Oklahoma
City are standing loyally by it. The
Labor Unit is a splendid labor newspa
per and wo wish it continued success.
Let's make Labor Day the biggest
day of the year in Lincoln. Everybody
get busy and boost!
By the way, did you ever hear of the
militia being called out to secure for
labor the protection of its product?
Let tho men who make the wars do
the fighting.
Muzzle some of the owners and not
the dogs.
Mr. French, the former union musi-
A Good CIMies
It is now drawing to a close. This Sale Extraordinary will
end Saturday Evening, July 30, and it hate been the great
est sale in our history. There are lots of good things left
and you should supply yourselves while the opportunity re-
Hot
mains.
NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO GET EXTRA TROUS
ERS. YOU NEED THEM- 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT
SATU1RDAY
Lot 1
All Suits that
sold for 30,
35 and $40
$23.60
July Sale on
J Boys
Clothing and
5 Furnishings
cian who "scabbed" on his fellows and
gathered the non-union band that ac
companied the Ad Club to Omaha, says
The Wageworker was mistaken in say
ing that his band was the one that
tried to play ' America" in the Boyd
theatre. The Wageworker gladly makes
the correction and admits that it was
misled by the results of the attempt to
play the national air. .
Noting the fact that a non-union bar
ber shop is conducted in the Missouri
penitentiary at Jefferson City, the Okla
homa Labor Unit says "there are more
kinds of skin games in the Missouri
penitentiary than in any similar insti
tutition in the country." Well, what
else but a "skin game' would you ex
pect in a "scab" barber shop? .
The grocery stores are closed on
Thursday afternoon in order to give tho
proprietors and clerks a mid-week rest.
If the grocers, why not the dry goods,
clothing, shoe and notion stores?
The indications are that Labor Day
this year will be celebrated with great
er enthusinm thatn ever before. Will
Lincoln be in the list?
The Grand Trunk railroad says it can
operate all right if given police pro
tection. Correct! That's the way a lot
of grafters manage to prosper in some
of the big cities.
John Kirby, jr., will please take note
of the fact that Uncle Sam Gompers
and the American Federation of La
bor didn't have to "come back."
The Duluth Labor World calls Pres
ident Taft ' ' Willowy Will. ' ' Wouldn 't
"Billowy Bill" come closer to the
truth?
The deputy labor commissioner lately
visited a Lincoln industrial institution
i
weather wearables in great profusion.
Lot 2
All Suits that
sold for 25
and $27.50
$18.60
Lot 3
Ail Suits that
sold for 20
and $22.50
$14.60
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CLOTHING
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
and compelled fifty-four girls under
sixteen years of age to quit work until,
they had. secured, legal permits. Secre .
tary Clark of. the Business Men's
League should take cognizance of this
outrage and protest against further in
terference with the right of employers
to manage their own business.
We have been asked to print what
John Kirby, jr., said when he heard
about the settlement of the Buck stove
case. We refuse. The Wageworker
never has, nor will it ever have if it
can avoid it, trouble about getting
through the mails.
The Buck Stove and Range Co.'s ac
tion is calculated to make Charley Post
throw another fit in front of the sten
ographer. The best way to bring about union
conditions is to keep boosting the label.
In Jefferson City, Mo., the state peni
tentiary runs a non-union barber shop.
Citizens pay fifty cents a month to
the state and what they please to the
"con barber." There is said to be
more kinds of graft and skin games
going on in the Missouri penitentiary
than in any similar institution in the
world. A counterfeit label has been
traced to it more than once. Even
counterfeit money has been made there.
. The ordinary primary in states where
it is the only way to have a voice in
naming the ticket is not attended by
more than 13 per cent of the voters of
a party. The Republican "assembly"
plan of holding a secondary primary in
Oregon is evidently not being attended
by two per cent of the party voters.
In one county six delegates to the eoun
ty assembly were elected by five men.
In another precinct three men elected
11 delegates.
LAST
Lot 4
All Suits that
sold for 15,
16.50, $18
$10.60
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Clothes Cleaned, Pressed 1 Repaired
- t Gentlemen and - Ladies HATS Worked Over New
or Cleaned and Hocked. Fixed under our Guaran- ,'
tee are O. K. . We have a Dressing: Room and can ' '
sponge and press your clothes while you wait - ' '
TED MARRINER, 235 NORTH 11th STREET
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First Two Doors North of Labor Temple;" Auto 4875; Bell Fl 509
;w Practical Hatter, Expert Cleaner and Dyer,
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All Shoes Without the Union Stamp are Non-Union
Do not accept any excuse for absence of the UNION STAMP
Boot and Shoe Workers Union
246 Sumner
JOHN F. TOBIN, Pres.
Sal
DAY
Lot 5
All Suits that
sold for 10,
12.50, $13.50
$7.60
Mens Odd
pants 1-5 off
Superior
Union suits
1-3 of
or e
Named Shoes' are Of ten Made'
in; Non-Union 'Factories
Do Not Buy Any Shoe
no matter what the name unless
it bears a plain and readable
impression of this Union Stamp.
St., Boston, Mass.
CHAS. L. BAINE, Sec-Tree.
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