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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1910)
"' SETBACK ' FOR UNIONS. Colorado Court Declares Anti coercion Law Invalid. The Colorado anti-coercion law, en acted twenty years ago, which pro vides that no employer shall discbarge an employee because he belongs to a labor union or attends labor meetings, has been declared invalid by Judge Sullivan of that state. The law, regarded as the strongest In Colorado for the protection of la bor unions, has never before been at tacked. The decision resulted from a suit brought by Labor Commissioner Brake against McNeill Bros., operators of a coal mine at Cameo, who dis charged and evicted twenty-three men In their employ. This decision is one of many that shows the Inequality that labor suf fers in the administration of law. This decision grants to the employers of Colorado the right to blacklist work Ingmen who belong to labor unions 01 take any part in their work. But, on the other hand, the United States su preme court denies to labor the right of a defense through the boycott, which is the most effective weapon that labor has to meet its opponents who use the blacklist. Such a decision favors the employer at the expense ol the workingman and is a decision in the interest of one class to the disad vantage of another and is therefore a class decision, against which labor protests and . which it is seeking to remedy through labor legislation that President Taf t declares is calculated to give to labor unequal privileges. The laboring man and the trade un ionists ask only equality before the law. but if the courts declare the blacklist to be legal and the boycott to be illegal the laboring man does not get equality before the law, and no amount of sophistry can conceal the fact. Professor George G. Groat of the Ohio Weseyan university in a recent address on labor laws declared very justly ''that the interpretation placed on labor legislation by the courts fre quently operates so that the employer is able to turn the constitution into an Instrument of inequality."' And the decision of the Colorado judge is a case in point. A Royal Apology. King Edward VII. was never at a loss for a quick, suitable answer. One day be was coming around a street corner on one of his periodical walks In London when he collided with a very stout person, who, ieoing near sighted, did not recognize the king, took him by the lapel of his coat and gave him a tongue lashing. "Do you know, sir," finished the Irate man, "that I am a member of the London council?" "In that case I beg your pardon," replied the king, "for I am only the king of Great Britain." v Just the Other Way. Rudyard Kipling was once visiting at a country bouse at which Miss Dor othy Drew, the famous granddaughter of Mr. Gladstone, then a little girl, was also staying. She was sent out into the garden with the distinguished author. Later on, when the other grownups joined them, little Miss Dorothy was asked, "I hope you didn't bore Mr. Kipling?" . "No, but he bored me frightfully," ; was the unexpected and resigned re ply. Wait a Bit. , Guest Look here. How long am I going to have to wait for that half por tion of duck I ordered? Walter Till somebody orders the other half. We can't go out and kill half a duck. To- TTViTI Tl TTV V i V IMauM: Pep This week we offer three very special values in plain and fancy cotton blankets that will pay you to take advantage of. 100 Pars Fancy- Cotton Blankets r 66 x78 inches, good 2.00 values, for, ......... 00 P" These blankets are in good weight and come in very pretty broken plaids in pink, blue, , gray and tan with white ,:. Special Price pr.' 1.65 75 Pairs Good Weight Cotton Blankets e 72x80 inches, regularly worth 2.00 pair, for. v. . P These blankets have short thick nap in German finish that are excellent for warmth arid wear large enough for a double bed........... ..............Special Price 1.65 Pr. 100 White Cotton Flannel Sheets We have just received another shipment of these popular bed sheets with short thick nap on both sides will wear well and are easily laundcied, size 72x90 inches Let us show them to you. 72x90 inches, each $1.00. s , ( Fine Woolen Blankets We show a very complete line of fine woolen blankets in white, gray, tan end fancy plaids at per pair $5.00, 6.00, 7,50, 8.50, 10.00 and up to 20.00. : Second Floor A Daring Horseman. The famous John Myltou once gal loped full speed over a rabbit warren "to try whether or not his horse would fall." The horse did fall and rolled over Mytton. who. with good luck, got up unhurt. Shortly after lie attained his majority Mytton gave a dealer an order for some carriage horses and went to see what the man had got foi him. He put one of the lot in as tan dem leader to "try" It and with the dealer at his side drove out on the highroad. As they drove Mytton in quired if "the horse were a good .timber Jumper, and. the dealer giving a doubt ful answer to a query he did not ex pect in respect of a harness borse. Mytton instantly said he must "try", him. Forthwith be drove at the turn pike gate which barred the way before him. The horse cleverly cleared it. leaving the wheeler, the gig and its occupants on the take-off side. Won derful to relate, neither the borse nor the man was hurt. The gig. however, stood in urgent need of repairs. Lon don Stock Journal., Too Rich For Hia Pocket. After the war with Spain a party of Americans. Including Colonel Becker of Detroit, went to Cuba on a tour of Inspection. They had with them a negro messenger named Frank. One day Frauk got into a place where they SPECS A L 1 LW 21 JLLJ 11 All 1L& J o sefl ices and cakes o'ti the Prado. iii Havana, and bought . a plate of ice cream. That was 20 cents. The wait er handed around some cukes. Frank took a few. The cakes were passed for a second and a third time. On each occasion Frank, helped.' himself liberally. Then he called for bis check.' It was $1.80. American. Colobel Heck er and some friends, who were at an adjoining table, heard Frank yell. "What is the matter. Frank?" asked the colonel. ' "Why didn't you stop me '" sobbed Frank. "Why: didn't you stop me? Doan you know dis yer nigger could eat enough of dis yer stuff to bank rupt the hull gov'ment?" Philadel phia Saturday Evening Post. . . A Curious Remedy. Perhaps the most curious remedy for seasickness ever prescribed was that arranged by Sir Theodore Mayern for the English princess royal when she crossed to Belgium in 1042. Cinnamon, coriander, anise, ambergris, musk and sugar were to be made up into Ion;; tubes for her to munch on the voyage: a plaster of balsam of Peru, gum nuis tich and laudanum was to bevapplied to the pit of the stomach, and in addi tlon she was to inhale the comforting vapors arising from a hash of toast, 'orange and citrou peel, roses, lavender and cloves mingled with wine, cinna mon water and elder tiower vinegar IHE WAGEWORKER. I : : ; ; -r : . -', ' ' ; i Entered ai second-clas3 matter April 21, 1904. at the postoffice at Lincoln, Neb., under the Act of Congress oi .March 3rd, 1879. , ' Enlightened.. "Hefore I married." said Mr. Hen peck. "I didn't know what t meant So support a wife." "I presume yon know now." "Yes. indeed. 1 looked up the word support' in the dictionary and discov-. pred that one of Its meanings isi'en dure.' . Knows What's Coming. Hewitt - timet Is discharged about every Saturday uiglit. Jewett Yes. during the week he' feels as if he were between two fires. New York Press. Nothing is law that is not reason. Sir Johti Powell. V