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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

Recording Secretary, Mrs. Henry P.
Bailey, East Orange, N. ].
Corresponding secretary. Mrs. r'loI
ence Kelley. New York.
The National Consumers League has
adopted a standard for fair house
employing both men and women. and
this standard snould be the object and
aim of every man and woman inter-
ested in the cause of labor. The stand
ard is as follows:
Wages-A Fair Hou:e is one in
which equal pay is given for work of
the departments where women only
are employed. in which the minimum
wages are six dollars per week for ex-
perienced adult workers, and fall in
few instances below eight dollars
In which wages are paid by the
week
In which fines. if imposed. are paid
into a fund for the benefit of the en-
plnyes.
In which the minimum wages of
cash girls are two dollars per week.
with the same conditions regarding
weekly payments and fines
Hours-A Fair House is one In
which the hours from a. nj. to c p.
m. with three-quarteis of an hour
for lunch) constitute the working day.
and general half-holiday is given on
one day of each week turing at least
two summer months.
In which a vacation OF not less than
one week is given with pay during the
summer season.
In which all oyertine is compen-
stated for.
Physical ConditionsA Fair House
is one in which work. lunch and re-
firing rooms are apart from each
other. and confirm in all respects to
the present sanitary laws.
In which the present law regarding
the providing OF seats for saleswomen
is observed. and the use of seats per-
mitted
Other Conditions-A Fair House is
one in which humane and conSiderate
behavior toward employees is the rule.
In which fidelity and length of ser
vice meet with the consideration
which is their due.
In which TO children under fourteen
years of age are employed.
In addition to making list of fair
dealers" the league is making list
of fair ma lufacturers - and this list
is being increased rapidly. owing to
the fact that TIE league is exerting
growing influence with those who buy
and who desire to further the interests
of workingmen and women. These
are called white lists. and all en-
titled to a place thereon are provided
with a label This label on any ar
ticle means tha. it was made by peo-
pie receiving fair wages and working
in sanitary stores and factories. The
league is also making war on sweat
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
NOT JUST NOW

subscriber who has been OF ma
terial assistance in increasing the cir
culation of The Wageworker, and who
is one of the leading socialists of Lin
coin, asks The Wageworker to publish
the national socialist l>iatform Ife
request cannot be complied with at
this time. The Wageworker is not a
political organ If it publishes the
socialist platform it viii be in honor
bound to publish the republican and
democratic platforms. Space is too
valuable and composition too eApen-
sive. That is--just nov. Later we
may publish all the platforms
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

The Wageworker has not asked any members
of the Commercial club whether the club intended
butting into the plumbers strike.
In the first place The Wageworker was loath
to risk insulting the intelligence of the CLUBS
membership by asking the question. 1t has been
rumored on the street that the club-or a portion
of its membership--was considering the propriety
OF butting into the strike and taking the part of
the boss plumbers 1t may be only The
Wageworker will not believe the Commercial club
is foolish until it has been demonstrated by
actual exhibition.
The Commercial club has plenty to do with
out butting into this strike. 1t can find oppor-
tunities for all of it's activities in looking for
Lincolns trade expansion, in searching for
industries that will employ labor. and in
spreading Lincoln's fame abroad 1t accom-
pish but thing by buttlng into labor dis
pute-TROUBLE.
The plumbers and the bosses will settle this
matter. They always have. This is not their
first little TIM But out of the trouble has grown
an understanding and agreement The Wage
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
OMAHA PAINTERS WIN

The Painters and Decorators Tn on
of Omaha is no longer on strike The
strike was declared Off 'ast week, and
on Monday the men went back to work
for the master painters. Both sides
made concessions. but the strikers won
their main contentious. There was no
disagreement as to wages or hours,
the bosses merely refusing to sign The
old scale and insisting upon the "ooen
shop" The shops are not "open," and
the scale has been signed. In some de-
tails the master painters won out, and
the settlement is satisfactory to ~.
concerned.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

worker could have jumped IN and written lot OF
sensational stuff about the present STRIKE but it is
not in the sensation business. Its mission is to
prevent strife-not to foment it. Its mission is
to cultivate better understanding between en-
poyers and employes-nOt to make each believe
that the other is its enemy. For this reason The
Wageworker has said very little about the present
difficulty in the plumbing business.
But If the Commercial club wants to stir up
strife; if it to breed trouble, if it wants to
endanger the present era OF peace and compare
tive prosperity; if it wants to incur the enmity of
organized labor instead of cultvating it's friend
ship-in fact, if the Commercial club wants to
measure swords with organized labor in this town
it will get game that will keep it guessing.
The Commercial club has done good work for
Lincoln by attending to its legitimate functions.
II can do more in the future by keeping right on
attending to its legitimate functions But just
the minute the organization allows itself to be
used catspaw to pull some other organizations
chestnuts out OF the fire, just that soon it will
to oe a factor in LincolnS upbuilding
The Wageworker does not believe that the
Commercial club will be SO unwise as to butt in.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
RETURNS FRoM,rHE COAST

L. Blake, a well-known Kansas City
union carpenter, is home from a trip
to the Pacific coast. Last November
Mr.. Blake went to the coast because
OF the many advertisements saying
men of all crafts were wanted on the
coast.
Mr.. Blake says the labor field is
slutted and that there are several men
for every job. He says many men are
working for a place to sleep and two
meals day. The feeling is very Bit
ter toward the members of the olti-
zeps' alliance, who we're parties to
the contemplate scheme which caused
so many workingmen to go to the
coast in the hope of securing emp "
ment.
The plans were deliberately laid by
the members of the citizens alliance
to SO glut The market with working
men that the men out of work would
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
THE LIBERTY BELL

The Liberty Bell'' is about to leave
Philadelphia for a tour of the west.
Everybody should see It. Everybody
should take a lesson ana an 1nsplIa-
tion from it. Not only does it tell
what has been done, bu: it tells what
shall be done. 1t rung the knell OF
political despotism, and it should
nerve Americans to overthrow indus
trial despotism. The Dell is danger
ously near mockery when one re-
members that wage slavery worse
than African slavery ever was, exists
in this country today. There are men
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
THINK OF 1T

Tho National Consumers League re-
"orts that it has found in New York
city hundreds of sweat shop rooms
which have no windows or skylights.
and whose only opening IS door lead
ing into a dark hall. he tenant is
compelled to work by seslisht all the
time, and go without breath OF fresh
air save when going after or deliver
ing work. Women WHO are always
hunting for bargains should think
of this appalling state of affairs.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
CONSUMERS LEAGUE
A National Organization
Doing Great Good.
Working to Abolish Sweat Shops In
Big Cities and Secure Good
Wages for All.

A companion Organl alton to tie
Women's Label League is the National
Consumers League, with headqU art
ers in New York city. This league is
organized for the purpose OF securing
equal pay for equal work. shor 4er
hours, sanitary conditi, MS and btt-er
safeguarding OF life. The officers are
as follows:
President, Mrs. John Graham Books,
Cambridge. Mass.
Vice presidents, Mrs. Robert H. Gar
dener. Boston. Mass; Mrs. Frederick X
C.. Nathan. New York
Treasurer. MIR. John oheeley Ward.
jr, New York
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
TO TRADES UNroNIsTs

| TO THE TRADES UNlONISTS. =.
Brothers and Sisters: This circular
is sent you to make known to you the
| true condition OF labor on the Pacific
coast.
The citizens alliance the Califor-
| mia Promotion society," and the ever
ready agents OF the enemies OF trades
| unions-the employment agencies
have for some time been busy Hood
| ing the eastern states and foreign
countries with lying and misleading
advertisements regarding the Pacific
coast, and California in particular.
The transportation companies, eager
for profit, have aided greatly i'll these
frauds perpetrated upon the working
people.
The convention of the California
state federation of labor, hello IN
Fresno, Cal, jan 40, 1904, having in
view the facts of this important mat
ter. adopted the following resolution,
and ordered its circulation among the
workers of the country:
Whereas, Through scarcity of work
there are at present hundreds OF
workingmen in Fresno and thousands
on the Pacific coast VINO cannot OBJ
tain employment; and.
Whereas, BY the false representa-
tions of real estate brokers, railroad
companies, merchants exchanges and
other boomers and promoters, there
is a constant influx of workingmen
from eastern and middle states, often
consuming all their limited means to
reach the coast, relying on the allur-
ing Misrepresentation above referred
to- they expect 10 find immediate and
rcmunerative employment. but instead
they are in the sad plight of strang-
ers without work or money; ana,
Whereas. Said deceit works great
injury both to our brothers OF the east
as we'll as to the overstocked labor
market of the coast; therefore be i:
Resolved, By the Laborers' Protee-
tive Union of Fresno, that we call the
attention of the State Federation of
Labor, now in session III this city, to
this evil, and request said honorable
body to take such action as in .he1r
judgment is necessary to counte1act
this imposition which is working un-
told injury to labor east and west.
This resolution, cmanating from the
Central Labor Body os California, IS
an expression of the sentiments of the
workers. and bring foIcibly to the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

reader the true condition of affairs N
the Industrial field on the Fac. fic
coast.
There is nothing to encourage work.
ing people TO come to California ex-
cept the misrepresentation OF those
who wish to break up the unions on
this coast, Or make a rofit by sup
plying and transporting help for that
purpose. Yours fraternally,
G. B. RENIIAM,
Secretary Treasurer California State
Federation of Labor
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

who will throw their hats into the ar
when they see this bell, and then go
back to their Offices and traffic in the
blood and tears of " COWS and or
phans. Thsre are men who will
cheer when they see it, and then go
back to their Offices and crack the lash
over the bowed necks OF sweat 81 "p
slaves.
The old bell has told us a great
deal If we listen it may tell us a
great deal more
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

City. For printer delegates to the
American Federation OF LabOr-Wil-
liam M. Garrett of Columbia, Frank
Morrison of Chicago. For allied crafts
delegates to the A. +. OF L.-Victor L.
Berger of Milwaukee Newspaper Writ
ers and P. G.. Nuernberger, Chicago
Typefounders' Union. For allied crafts
trustee of the Union Printers Home,
H. H. Rogers of the Chicago Typefoan-
ders' Union, received the high vote.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
CIGARMAkERS

A Herminghaus and Farney Hawk
fishing.
Fred L. Kulper was in Beatrice Sat
urday and Sunday visiting friends.
Frank Smith and Otlo Schulz left
Monday evening for Denver. .hey
will go to work in thar city.
Charles Rose returned to Creston.
Ia, this week. r. W. EVANS
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
GARRICK DEAD

General Secretary Garrick of the n
ternational Painters and Decorate G
Union is dead Mr.. Garrick died at
San Francisco on Wednesday, May Il.
He had been an official of the union
for a number of years and was active
ment.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

The Omaha Credit Bureau is pub
fishing the names of 1000 delinquents
who have failed to pay their bills. If
the dinner pals down that way are
full, then the contents have never
been paid for. The same sort of thing
seems TO be true in the higher circles,
for Dun and Bradstreet do not fail to
remark each week that collections
are bad"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

be forced to fight for living. lie
scheme turned out just as was planned
and there are more idle men in South
ern California than there are at work
and the advertisemert are still
bringing more men to the coast
Kansas City Labor Herald.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
BOGUS LABELS

Look out for bogus labels Articles
manufactured in the Missouri peni-
tentiary are being sold with a bogus
label attached. The st. Louis Central
Labor Union is collecting evidence
against the perpetrators of the fraud,
and have asked that everybody help IN
the work.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
BUILDINC LABoRERs

International Hod Carriers and
Building Laborers' Union held an en-
thusiastic meeting last Monday night
o street. John Mcdonald, president;
Oscar Moore, corresponding secretary;
Walter Swanson, treasu er.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

every retail stores display windows,
IS one of the prettiest sights in vt
Louis to the union man.
1t would look even ettier in Lin
coin, Nebraska.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20
1T IS A PRETTY SIGHT
st. Louis Retail Clerks in
Good Condition.
Employers Well Satisfied and Insist
On Having Their. Clerks Be-
long to the Union.

Not all the pretty sights in st. Louis
are within the exposition grounds.
There is enough within the grounds to
Keen the average sightseer busy TO. a
month-and then not get all OF ii.
But one OF the prettiest sights is not
inside the grounds, ard it cost but a
few cents in Uncle Sans money. How
fona will, perhaps, eve, know. This
sight is small. 1t is Tobably 10X14
inches in size and is in two colors-
white and red. 1t looks something
like this:
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

The very best Country Butter, zoe
per lb. The Butter Store, l43 So. 18th.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-05-20

shops and child labor and is meeting
with gratifying success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
MAunE ADAMS, VOICE.

Those who have seen Miss Maude
Adams in her new play, 1.-THE Pretty
Sister of JOSE or, at least, many Of
them, say that if Miss Adams had not
elected to become an actress she might.
with no little distinction. have been an
opera singer. This may seem some
what strange to those who have seen
Miss Adams in her various plays and
do not know of her musical accom-
plishment. 1t win no doubt be a little
difficult to imagine Miss Adams as a
singer when remembering her in
"L'Aiglon-"
In her new play the part requires
that she sing. and she also executes a
very charming Spanish dance She has
never aspired to be a singer, yet she is
known to have a very sweet. musical
voice which has been we'll cultivete
When about her home, like all other
ladies who are blessed with musical
voices, she naturally sings a great deal,
but never. before has she appeared upon
the stage as a singer.
Long before Miss Adams reached her
present altitude in the dramatic world
she was given splendid musical edu-
cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
Jimnnv Rritt. PhiIosopher.

Jimmy Britt, the clever little Cali
fornia fighter. listens phiIosophically to
the stories of the furore made over
Young Corbett in England Il hear
that Corbett was introduced over there
as the featherweight champion of the
world" says Britt. well. if the Brit
ishers viii stand for a game like that
let 'em have all of it they want.
Il suppose Corbett figures that as
long as we did not fight at the feather
mark the title belongs to himself and
not to me, who obtained a decision over
him. That's all very nice. bat if that is
the case how is it that Corbett has any
right to the title While Terry McGovern
is still on top OF the sreensward2 Ter
~ never lost d fght at the feather
weight limit. When he fought COrbett
both men weighed in over the mark, or
at least Corbett did. If Corbett could
win the featherweight title over weight
why can't 1 do the same? It's a poor
rule that won't apply to more than one
person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
Educational Gymnastics.

The exhibition of gymnastic exercises
will be one of the prominent features
of the physical culture department Of
the exposition. The numbers of the
progra mrne have been so arranged as to
illustrate comprehensively the steady
progression aimed at by educational
gymnastics Beginning with gymnastic
games. the exercises will be selected
for all ages and both sexes increasing
in difficulty to the elimination in work
on the apparatus and in field sports by
the male adults
After the games and calisthenics
there win come, in turn, the marching
and durnbbelI exercises for boys twelve
to fourteen years old, fancy steps and
exercises with hoops for girls OF twelve
to fourteen years. vaulting and eXer-
cises on the parallel bars for the jun
iors of fourteen to eighteen years, fan
cy steps and exercises with oarbeils
for ladies' classes. iron wand exercise,
for seniors over thirty-fve years ant
ending with apparatus work and fiel-
sports for actives of eighteen to thirty
Eve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23

ferent turnvereins. The members of
these German athletic institutions have
risen to a high rank through their
tnoroughness and versatility, and it is
a question whether any other gymnas-
tic bodies in this country can equal the
turnvereins in all around excellence
An army of 5000 turner's and gym
nasts-men and women and boys and
girls giving fancy steps, swinging
dumbbeIls, going through calisthenic
exercises and marching and counter
marching in as perfect unison as if
they were so many automatons con-
t-olIed by the mas ic wand of a NEGRO
naancer VIII present the greatest spec
tacufar demonstration of physical cul-
ture in the worlds history at the Lou
.siana Purchase exposition.
This attractive sight viii be present
ed when this host of turner's from the
cvmnastic societies CT ST. Louis march
'nto the great Stadium at the worlds
Tar June IS and gives q mass exhibit
ton before an audience seated In an
arnphitheater rivaling that of ancient
Greece or Rome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23

The old war horse Jack Doyle now
has a comfortable berth with the Phila-
delphia Nationals, covering first base
Doyle fills a long felt want in Quaker
Vile He is just the sort of level head
ed player that can do a great deal Of
good for team travelling in the hard
luck that the Quaker Nationals have
encountered this year.
First base has become the time hon
cred niche for dead ones" who have
grown stiff in the joints, but Jack says
there is nothing of the dead one
about him. wait till the warm wealth
er comes for good, and III show some
of the youngsters a thing or two" OBJ
serves the veteran. I'm not ready to
be counted out at the present stage Of
the game, and 1 can pound the leather
Just as hard as I could in the days of
yore."
President Potter of the Phillies has
hopes that Doyle viii take on d new
lease of life with his team anG con
siders himself fortunate in obtaining
him from Brooklyn. BEN TANiS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
AN EDITORS WORRIES.

The editor in the some nights stand"
town certainly has his troubles with
the theater men. An incident at hand
called forth the appended editorial in
an exchange:
Last Friday morning q young man with
black hair and eyes rushed into our Of
flee and asked if it was too late to get
an announcement in the paper. we re-
piled by saying we could make room for a
small local. Thus appeared the announce
ment that Faust that great six act
drama. would he played at the Ogden
Opera House Tuesday evening. with gor-
geous costumes. sperial scenery. chemical
effects. etc OF course ne believed what
we saw and thought the trogpe would do
rs it advertised But we were fooled
There were others. Instead oi Faust" it
should have been called Frost" It was
a frost pure and simple. The troupe
didn't play. We arc glad We were not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
WAAr Is EAME7

In Texas theatrical information isn't
as well founded as war history. Not
long since Barney Reilly, who person
ally advertises the jolly Cd potentate
qualities Of King Dodo" for Mr.. Saw
age. was in San Antonio. Talking with
one of the prominent citizens. he re-
marked the success of THE County
Chairman" in New York.
The San Antonio man was delighted
to hear that a native American comedy
had found favor.
WHO wrote the play?' he queried.
George Ade.'' replied Reilly. with
pardonable pride in the mender of the
Sava ge fortunes.
THAT so?" calculated the citizen.
We'll, AIDE and Hal Reid are writin all
the good ones nowadays, amt they?"
observed the man, with confidence in
his tone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23

The pitching staff of the Pirates is
made up of Phillippi, Miller, Veil, Scan
lon, Thompson and Wyatt Lee. Phillip
pi is. of course, the bright particular
star of the bunch, but even he has
failed to equal his past performances
Lever is a member of Barney Drey-
fuss pitching department, but he has
been kept out of the game thus far
robbing the Pittsburgs of the services
of one of the greatest box artists in the
country.
On paper, and including Lever, the
Pittsburgs' boxmen are as able an ag-
gregation as is controlled by any other
National organization. New York prob
ably is closest to ranking higher than
the Pirates in this respect, having
Iron Man" McGinnity, Christy Math-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
The RrooISIxn Boom.

Brooklyn's good showing is not due
to her pitchers. although Pfttsburg's
slump is due to the ineffective ness of
hers Ed Hanlon's Trolley Dodgers
have Garvin, Poole, Cronin, Reidy and
Thatcher in the box. No one of these
men is a player of first class caIiber-
that is, none of them ranks with Hahn,
Mathewson, McGinnity, Weimer, Willis
(Boston Nationally, Phillippi. Chesbro
(New York Americans), Sudhof est.
Louis Americans) or with Dineen. Cy
Young or Tannehil of the Boston
Americans. Iianlon's men have won
because of the first class all around
work of the infelders, outfielders and
batsmen, aided by fairly good work in
the box. Perhaps the Pittsburgs have
not been trained up to the necessary
form. At any rate, something is lack
ing in their game that must be supplied
ere long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23

and long horse, 100 yard run, sixteen
pound shot put and broad jump.
James E. Sullivan, chief Of the phys
ical culture department of the fair. has
made arrangements by which the Ma
tional Public School Athletic league is
to have the use of the Stadium July 4,
5 and s, and the cooperation OF the
schools throughout the United States is
now being obtained William r. Hearst
alone viii give $4,000 in prizes for this
public school athletic contest and Will
send a car load of school children from
San Francisco, another car load from
Chicago and another from New York.
at his own expense