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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1910)
Last winter we did the largest cap business in the history of our business, because "We Had The Goods." This year "We Have The Goods" again. Everything that Man or Boy wants in the Line of Caps. Cloth or Corduroy Caps full in band style. A cap for every man at $2, 1.50, 1, 75c, 50c. Silk Plush Caps at . . $2.00, $1 .50, $1 .00. Fur Caps, including the best Seal caps, $18.00 and $20.00 as well as the lowest price fur caps for . . . .... $2.50 ; Boys' Caps, fur in band at $1.00 and. ...............50c. MAYER EROS FILED A DEMURRER. St. Louis Laborer Shows Up. an EviJ That is too Prevalent. :, The other day in St. Louis, a man whom the dispatches describe as a foreigner working for two dollars per day, was sued for an old grocery bill. When judgment was rendered against him, ho immediately filed a demurrer. He did it in a new and dramatic way by calling attention to the fact that he had six youngsters at home. ' You have taken away their brea 1 ' he said to the judge, at the risk of being in contempt, "now feed them yourself. " Here we have a situation. The grocer was not to blame for suing. The judge was not to blame for rendering judg ment. The man was not to blame for being a foreigner or for being able to get such a small, amount for hard work no man an get such a small wng3 as two dollars without working very hard. The youngsters " were not ti blame. In this case the dispatches reourt a remedy which was purely local: ihe judge and others about the court ro.uu made up a ipurse for the fellow. Bvt even that was an isolated palliative and doesn't touch the millions of oth ers in the same fix. Perhaps society is to blame for al lowing such a state of affairs that law cannot be enforced without starving children. Ellis O. Jones, in Life. THINK THIS OVER. In Rhode Island silk and cotton mills wages range from $7 to $9 a week, and over 70 per cent of the operatives are foreigners. This is the way American labor is protected by the tariff. THE GOSPEL TRUTH. The United States government is to store its gold in bulk and not coin much of it hereafter. There is no need for the gold whatever, the paper money issued being cheaper and better, but it will be a long time before we are sensible and smart enough to stop delv ing after gold. Portland Labor Press. TO! L OF CHILDREN Shocking Conditions Shown to Exist In Europe. INFANTS GET NO WAGES. Says the Optimist. There is ono good point about troubles they eat up little ones. . big Expert Investigator Reports That Laws Are Usually Disregarded Many Be , gin Work at the Age of Six Work shops Insanitary. Sensational charges of repulsive con ditions In child labor in continental Europe are made in a special report published In a bulletin of the United States bureau of labor. The report was made by Dr. C. W. A. Veditz, a professor of sociology in George Wash ington university, who made a special investigation in Austria, , Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and It aly. He gathered all his data from of ficial records and sources of informa tion. Child, labor in Belgium not. paldat all, children in5ustrTa beginning wor6 before six years old and child laborers in France drilled, to disappear through trapdoors - at the approach of inspec tors and n generally Indifferent en forcement of the laws through which oinnlnrflPa fin1 it ivi rrn rlrfl4-oTfc1a in r nil- Trk ti nml nnl finoa tmnncail llian tn I - obey the regulations are some of the conditions described i- . : ' The general conclusion Is that child labor laws abroad are In many essen tial respects poorly enforced and. that the penalties imposed for violations are ridiculously small and of. practi cally no deterrent value. The report indicates that in most of these coun-; tries It would be a physical impossi bility for the Inspectors to do more than a fractional part of their work or to do that part thoroughly and that the courts are astonishingly lenient with offenders. ' In Austria child labor is not regu lated in workshops, in household in dustries or in commercial establish ments. A recent official investigation showed that about half the children years old, while a large number be gan before they were six years old. Their pay varied all the way from food and certain articles of clothing to at i A . i l ... n i occupations. A large proportion re ceived from 50 cents to $1.50 a month. In Belgium many violations escape detection. One-fourth of the laborers. unaer sixteen gei no money wages at all or earn less than "10 cents a day. more than half receive between 10 and 20 cents n dnv. find less than one-fiftti receive 30 cents or more. In France, Dr. Veditz says, some of their child laborers in quickly disap- -c xr 0 jf . tection, and the employers offer prizes for the children most affile In that per formance. Among the most frequent nnrl mnof o n-T-n Irlrklo M"CS f tCk . rules are religious and charitable in- otifntinna annh flfi nmli nnn era a In which the children usually get no . wages, u.ks vvui-n.cu viwumc auu -. conditions violating the law; and .the ordinary rules of hygiene. A traffic Vms snrnnsr nn psneeiallv amoncr tha Italian children Imported intd France -in droves for employment mainly In. glass works, brickyards and as chim-v nev sweens and bootblacks. , , Germany's Industrial code' was rec-. nimiiwl na hnvinsr not so much abol ished , child labor as having forced . it : out of the factories into home ludus- In Italy factory Inspection is of so recent date and so . poorly organized " that it may be said to be nonexistent In a large part of the kingdom. In Switzerland conditions do not dlf- fov oaaontinllv -from thoSA in Oorilliinv and France. Telegraphers Moving Ahead. . The Order of. Railroad Telegraphers will celebrate Its twenty-fifth anni versary in June. 1911, and has adopted as a battlecry, "Complete and thor ough organization." Cash prizes to ft MTor Wk will ' 1 M given away during the coming year to those who assist in gathering in new. members.' , This order has shown re markable growth In recent years, and If 1o nntlolnntod fhnf OT0flt results Will 1 1. in" .j". i.-'i " - tha cirlnrvMn! nf thf Infest 1TIOVO- ment for further building up the or-, ganization. , ' Locomotive engineers are balloting oxi the proposition to strike. Twi hun dred thousand rsilroad workers will !' affected if the engineers go out. In recognition of the Increased o:t of living in Italy the pope has re cently. -increased by 25 per cent lh wapos of all the minor employees of the Vatican.
