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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
GOMPERS TALKS STRAIGHT.
Declares He Would Assert His Rights De-
spite All Despotic Judges

President Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation Of -abor in Chicago last week,
and while there made characteristic speech
before Typographical Union No. 16. The
meeting was held in Bricklayers' hall and was
attended by nearly 1000 printers, and Presi-
dent Gompers paid particular attention to the
outrageous decision OF Judge Holdom i'll the
injunction case brought against the local
Typographical Union.
IF | am enjoined things which I have
constitutional right to do, will maintain my
rights and ignore the Injunction, he declared.
The remark greeted with cheers.
The decision of Judge Holdom is one OF the
most contemplate utterances ever spoken
from the bench" said Mr. Gompers IF Pres
ident Wright is guilty of the charge of trying
to induce men to wreck the machinery in the
Donohue plant he should be indicted and given
a trial by jury of his peers, instead of being
taken into court and punished at the caprice
and whim of prejudiced judge.
This fight for the shorter day he said. SIS
universal throughout the country, but the em-
ployers still assert that the printers cannot
have eight hours. 1t has been two and one
half years since they were given warning that
eight hour day to be established in the
printing industry. and still they assert that
they have not had time to meet the changed
conditions. 1t is the old story-they damn us
if we do and they damn us if we don't. | am
more confident at this moment than | have
ever been that the printers OF our country will
never again return to a nine-hour day. Do
they think that progress crab-fashion: ::
Prejudced and subservient judges to-
day doing more to create anarchy, contempt
for the law and for the courts, than any other
agency. 1t is time for American wage earners
to get busy They will never be free until the
courts are free.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
TALKING OF SHERLOCK, JUNIOR.
His Investigations in Lincoln Watched With
Interests by Unionists Elsewhere.

Will NJ. Maupin is the editor OF the Lin
coin (Neb.) Wageworker, and he is something
of live man as well. Recently he started to
investigate through his paper the real attitude
borne by local unonists toward union labels
and union-made goods. What did he find?
Now, gentle reader, what do you think he did
find? The representative of his paper found
almost everything and everybody wrong. He
started out among the union printers and found
them using 'scab' coap, wearing 'scab" hats
chewing "scab' tobacco and smoking "scab
cigars and tobacco. That's as far he got
but it was far enough TO make him wish to go
no farther. Is it any different in Lincoln, Neb.,
from what it is in Chicago. ILL.,. ST Louis, Mo-,
st. Paul Mimi, or any other large city in the
United States. with the possible exception of
San Francisco: Not a whit! Physician, cure
thyself. If men have the courage to go out
and 'scab' openly and VIGOROUSLY in the print
ers' any other trade-arc they th- only un-
clean ones? Pluck the mote from your neigh
boris eye while looking for the beam i'll your
neighbor's eye.-St. Paul Union Advocate.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRIES.
The Wageworker's Editor Invited TO Address
the Wonan's Club of Omaha.

ntting. the editor OF The Wageworker will
address the Social Science department. of the
Omaha Woman's Club the subject of en-
ployment of and children in the in
dustrial world. The invitation is the result of
an ,"open letter. addressed to the Lincoln Wo-
ago, the letter being based on an address made
before the State Federation of Women'ss Clubs
by representative of the National Consum-
ers League.
The Wageworker at that time called the at
tention Of Lincoln's club women to the fact
that the trades unions were doing more to
protect women and children who were forced
into the industrial field than all other agencies
combined. 1t will be the aim of the editor,
when he appears before the Omaha club to
point out reasons why the women should lend
their aid to the trades unions in the effort to
reform industrial conditions
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
EL1oT's HEROES" START THINGS.
"Scab" Miners Attack Union Representatives
and a Pitched Battle is the Result

Goldeld. New, Jan. 27.-jack Gineau lies
dead in the morgue at Tonopah tonight and
George Cole, member of the legislature from
New York county, is shot through the
the result of pitched battle between union
and non-union miners at Cliffords, on the Man
haitian road Sheriff Tom Logan this evening
placed eight non-union who charged
with precipitating the trouble, under arrest and
brought them to Tonopah tonight under a
strong guard to prevent lynching. AS soon as
the news of the shooting reached Goldfeld
Sheriff Carberry assembled posse to go to the
of the trouble
George Cole, who was for years president
of the Delamar Miners Union. with COM
mttee Of union s1aiaeTs went to Cliffords, the
scene. of a strike, to interview miners charged
with working for less than So, the union scale
A man named Pitts is said to have opened
fire, shooting Cole through the arm and Gineau
through the lungs. A hand to hand battle en-
sued, which concluded with the escape of the
non-urlion men, who for a time dehed the citi-
zens' posse. The arrival Of Sheriff Logan up
on the scene resulted in the recalcitrants giving
themselves up.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
FACTS ABOUT CARPENTERS.
Total Membership of 1927, and Paid Out
Last Year in Benefits $1S5,60220

Frank Duffy, general secretary of the Unit
ed Brotherhood 'of Carpenters and Joiners. in
his annual report shows that there are 1859
local unions of the brotherhood in the United
States, Canada, Porto Rico and the Hawaiian
islands, with total membership of 1927. A
large number of members were thrown out OF
employment for several months through the
severity of last winter, and it is estimated that
fully $4,000 members became delinquent. The
great revival in the building industry enabled
these to get back to work, and all have
paid up and are again beneficiary members.
The benefits paid in the last fiscal year
1.51O claims amounted to &1S5.6S2.2O The
ockouts during that period was S75,44037.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE.
Sympathy for Striking Brethren No Excuse
for Violation of Solemn Contracts.

The strike of union housesmiths in New
York threatens to bring a sympathetic
strike among other building trades. If such a
sympathetic strike means the violation of con-
tracts entered into between employers and en-
ployes. we protest against it. Let the employ
ers commit all the violations of contracts
Unions can not afford that sort of thing A
contract once entered into by trades union
should be as inviolatc the laws of the Medes
and Persians. For a trades Union to violate
a contract is to incur the enmity of the gen
eral public-somethng that man or no un-
ion can afford.
We wish the housesmiths of New York sue
cess in their efforts to maintain the closed shop
and secure better wages and conditions But.
they will not be helped and other trades
ions will be injured, by any strike that means
the violation of contracts already entered into.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02

other member of the Chicago union was fined
and sentenced to Jail. Notice of appeal has
been given and Chicago Typographical Union
No. 16 may be depended upon to fight the usur-
patton of Judge Holdom until hades shall have
boiled down to poultce.
The Omaha Injunction is about the worst
that ever happened. 1t is such a fragrant dis
regard OF public privileges that even people
not i'll sympathy with unionism should pause
and consider it. Judge Sears actually enjoins
the union printers from writing letters to the
employees of the unfair printing firms Think
of it-a jim crow judge of the district court
taking jurisdiction over the United States
mails. Judge Sears is Jerusalem pony. Just
such Judges Sears responsible for the
growing contempt of the people for our courts.
Locally everything is moving along nicely.
Work has been unusually good for this season
of the year, and the boys are not worrying
about employment. The Typographical union
meets next Sunday, and among other business
will complete arrangements for the twenty
fourth annual ball of the organization. Messrs.
Maupin. King and Turner named
committee to arrange for this anniversary. The
committee met one evening last week, together
with committee from Capita! Auxiliary and
named the following subcommittee:
Finance-Maupn Ihrnger. Coffey.
Printing-King, Sam North, B. A. George
Reception-Turner, Bustard. Greenley, Mar
SHALL Howe, MeSdameS Norton, smith, Barn
grover. Sayer, Ihringer.
Floor-Bustard, Simmons. Bostrom. Leaden,
Brenner, Nickel Of. W.. Nickel q. E.), Pent-
ger. Wathan. Dobbins, McVicker.
Door--Sayer. Peat
Check Room-Huckins Reiger, Wilson.
The ball will be held at Fraternity hall on
Thursday evening February 90 and music will
be furnished by Reids orchestra, two members
of which are members of Lincoln Typograph-
ical Union. Refreshments will be. served, this
feature being in charge of Capital Auxiliary
No. II. Tickets ST per couple, extra lady so
cents The above arrangements will be Sub
ject to the approval of the union at Sundays
meeting.
Last weeks Colorado Springs Labor News
conveyed the information that the wives of
Colorado Springs union printers had just or
ganized auxiliary with twenty-five charter
members. The president-elect is Mrs. Sam A.
Hoon. who was the first president of Capital
Auxiliary No. II. Mrs. Hoon is Jealous and
active worker. and we congratulate the Colo
RADIO Springs Auxiliary on their first presiden-
tial choice. Mr. Hoon has been working in
Colorado Springs for several months. There
are no better union men in the |. T. L. than
Sam Hoon.
Capital Auxiliary No. II celebrated its third
anniversary at Bohanons hall last Friday
evening, and it was the most largely attended
social in the history of the organization. HI.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02

w. Smith officiated as master of ceremonies
and introduced the speakers. Mrs. Norton,
president of the organization made neat lit
tie speech in which she welcomed the visitors
and explained the objects of the Auxiliary.
President Greenley of the Typographical I'm
ion said he would tell why the Auxiliary was
good thing if it were not for the fact he
couldn't talk all night. Several musical selec-
tions were rendered, and short addresses given
and then the rest Of the evening spent in
social pleasure. A luncheon served by the
Auxiliary
President Greenley. Vice President Peat
and Executive Committeeman Bingaman went
to Omaha last Sunday and visited with the
Omaha union.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
LINCOLN LOSES A GOOD MAN.
]. R. Hunting Leaves to Accept Better Posi-
ton in the Effete East.

For the past year and half Mr.. ]. r. Hunt
ing has been manager of the new business de-
partment of the Lincoln Gas & Electric Light
Co., but he has been called higher, and leaves
soon to take the management of the gas COM
panys business at Lebanon, Pa. MIR. Hunting
has demonstrated his friendship for organized
labor on every possible occasion. and his de-
parturc from Lincoln is to be regretted He is
thorough business man, and under his man
agement the new business of the local company
increased wonderfully. Pleasant affable and
always husting, Mr.. Hunting has proved him
self a business man and has won a wide circle
of friends among unionsts in Lincoln.
The Wageworker wishes Mr. and Mrs.
Hunting every possible success in their new
home, and congratulates Lebanon and her peo-
pie on their acquisition
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02

Office was beginning to assist the Typothaete
in substantial manner, twenty employees az
compositors and pressmen), the best in
the Office put their hats and walked out.
This occurred Friday of last week. Just now
the Times is busy looking after it's own
troubles and instead of proving serious OBJ
stacle to the eight-ilour movement in Los An
geles, it is in the unexpected position of look
ing for IMP to handle it's own work. This is
old trick, of course, in the management of
printers strikes, but the writer does not recall
single instance in the history of the I. T. y.
where it has been played at a more opportune
moment and where the damage to the enemy
has been more disastrous.-LaborC Clarion.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
BUILD A LABOR TEMPLE NOW
Lincoln Craftsmen Can Do It Easily if They
Will Set Their Minds Upon the Task-Why
Business Men and Employers Generally
Would Help the Work Along-Only Hustle
and Confidence Necessary to Win.

With upwards of 1000 union men drawing
good wages regularly, and with a liberal and
progressive lot of business men, Lincoln ought
to have a splendid Labor Temple 1t would
advertise the city. it would be an insurance
against labor troubles. it would tend towards
making wage earners settle down, and it
would be vast benefit to every interest in
the city That nothing but talk has been ac-
complished thus far is discreditable alike to
the unions and to their members Every un-
ionst recognizes the necessity All hope
that something will be done in the future.
And all with whom this labor newspaper has
talked have expressed willingness to help.
Then why not quit talking about it so much,
and get down to business?
A good start is half the task We'll begun
is half done
Not only would Labor Temple be good
financial investment. but it would he good
moral investment. The city needs such pub
lie building. The workingmen need such
central place of meeting
Thirty-five thousand dollars is ample for all
needs Half Of it in cash will insure the COM
pletion of the building. The rental will pay 6
per cent on the balance, per cent to the in
vestors and provide sinking fund.
A stock company with capital of S35,000
divided into 1000 shares of Sj each. should be
organized at once officers elected and stock
subscriptions opened up. Five thousand of
these shares should be snapped up by loyal
union men in very short time The other
two thousand need not be issued at once, but
doubtless could be and disposed of outside of
the unions.
The Central Labor Union should have car
red this matter out long ago. but has not. 1t
should get busy right away. The Central La
Dor Union meets next Tuesday evening, and
every union man interested in the Labor
Temple project should be there to start the
ball rolling.
Let's quit talking and get busy!
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
IABBED GEN. OTIS HARD.
Los Angeles Union Lands on Solar Plexus of
Chronic Union Halter.

Word comes from Los Angeles that the un-
ions on strike in that city ior the establish
ment of the eight-hour day (the affiliated
trades standing together in that place)
have won the advantage of drawing first blood
from the enemy. AS part Of the Typothaete
program it arranged with the notorious
Times establishment to assist the various
struck Offices by loaning men and executing
orders for work that could not be delayed Otis
has always endeavored to keep large force
of employees in his establishment, giving steady
work to the best men and only enough to those
of mediocre ability and ro~Apprentices to en-
courage them to hang -o@--.N NatN<ally, an es-
Enlistment of this charactefsaAa be of
great help to the Typothaete IN of
trouble. Just at the moment when the Ines
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
A WISE APPOINTMENT.
American Federation Appoints a Woman Or
ganizer for Industries Employing Women.

Miss Gertrude Barnum, daughter of Judge
Barnum, Of Chicago, has been appointed gem
eral organizer for the American Federation of
Labor, being the first woman ever appointed
to such a position. Miss Barnum will devote
her attention to the industries in which wo-s
men and children are employed, and win col
1ect facts and statistics bearing on these in-
d,istries.
There is splendid field of usefulness for
woman Of Miss Barnum's ability and energy.
She has made study of this branch OF indus
trialism, and has been college settlement
worker for some time.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
HOW 1T CAME OUT"
Augusta, Ga, Chronicle Printers Walk Out
and Associated Press Reports 1t.

and Associated Press Reports It.
The morning papers of January 81 contained
the following dispatch:
Augusta Ca. Jan. 30.-The Augusta
Chronicle issued paper as usual today, al
though every union printer walked out last
night"
To be sure it did This is day of reprint
copy and boiler plate" But the Chronicle
did not get out .as usual despite the Asso
ciated Press dispatch. Instead of being full
of local and telegraph news it was full of mat
ter set up as time copy and plate matter pur-
chased at so much per running foot. A saw, a
malet. box of quons and ton or two of
pewter plates. and any man get out daily
paper. But not "as usual.
The bluff of the Chronicle and the Asso-
ciated Press will not work. The printers are
on to that game "as usual.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
DELIVERS AN ULTIMATUM.
Miners Must Have an Increase of Wages or
There Will Be No Agreement

John Mitchell, president Of the United Mine
Workers of America, speaking on behalf Of his
union, said last Wednesday that there must be
increase in wages or there will be no agree
ment
This looks, like trouble The mine owners
have declared that they will not grant an in
crease. They are very emphatic in this as
serton
Conferences have been in progress for a
week or more, but to purpose. The miners
are asking but 5 per cent increase that being
the amount of the reduction two years ago} At
the present time it looks like big troubleA in
the coal regions.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN.
Gripe Nuts Post Running Lew Dockstader
Very Close Race.

On the eve of the annual convention Of Il
Citizens Industrial association at. ST. Lo,
c. w. Post issued statement to the press th4.
brands him the peer of Lew Dockstader,
Ezra Kendall or any Of their kind C. w grave:
ly announced that his association was formed
for the purpose Of helping the labor unions and
strengthening them. He made the further state-
ment-without cracking snile--that num-
Der of trade unions were seriously considering
the advisability Of joining the Citizens Indus
trial alliance Kobably he thinks to Kill the
unions by kind IS. Isn't it funny what
man will say under the influence of
Postum ?7-T ypo 1ical Journal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
TURN TT DOWN.

The Lincoln Directory for printed City
made to the allied printing trades that
Lincoln Advertising made chat The Lincoln
City Directory
oioaed They should
directory Lincoln printing Office
back them their
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
The BIBLICAL GREAT DIVIDE
The Early Christians Did Not Practice Com
naunism as It is Taught BY Modern Adher-
ents of That School-What They Really Did
Preach and PrsGtiee Was Brotherhood-
Rev. Charles stelzl%a Regular Weekly Ser
mon for Wageworker Readers.

Communism is peculiarly attractive to some
men. In most cases it appeals to the fellow
who you'd like to adopt for his motto: .All
yours is mine; all mine is my own
Unquestonably, there are noble features in
connection with this social system. 1t has at
tracted some great minds 1t has. however. al
most invariably been a failure when put toaa
practical test Where it has succeeded, it has
been due to strong moral Oh religious senti-
1nent.
Some reformers who advocate communism
insist that Jesus Christ endorsed their system
because it is said in the Acts of the Apostles,
with reference to the early church, that Meth
said any of them that aught of the things
which he possessed was his own, bur they had
all things common They also declare that
the frequen. ausion to common table in
the history of the early church proves that this
condition existed quite generally among these
Christians. AS matter of fact in most in
stances the reference is clearly to the com
munion table, which has to do purely with
religious service: It is true that during the
earliest days of the church a form of COM
Irnunism practiced. It is forgotten by those
.ho interpret these scripture texts teach
that conlnunism is incumbent upon all
nj that even during this almost ideal period
WI it was practiced by the early Christians,
thu \he church recognized the right Of private
prdPvrty, as was manifested in the case Of
AnHtas When this man tried to deceive
PetV4 by bringing only a. part of the money
whiY he had received for his property, deelar-s
ing chat it was the whole amount the apostle
said to him while it remained, was it not
your own? You were not under obligation to-
sbring this money to me, thus plainly indicat
ing that this was purely voluntary arrange
ment
Furthermore, those who entered into it were.
OF lone heart and one sou;' it was limited to
"they that believed namely, the Christians.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02

strike carrying plugs of scab tobacco; another
union shouter who selected by choice a Gre
mo- cigar. and still others equally guilty OF
patronizing scabs. And yet it would offend
these gentlemen very much to be told they are
injurng the union movement almost much
in buying scab goods the scabs who make
the goods-Streator Trades and Labor Gazette.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
WHAT SHERLOCK FOUND.
Illinois Labor Paper Draws Moral From the
Great Detectives Work.

The Lincoln Wageworker has secured the
services OF Sherlock Holmes, jr., to make the
rounds of union shops and investigate the Un-
ion Label question He heard one union spout
cr boasting of his unionism under Stetson
hat another matchmaking scab facory
across the street while washing his hands with
scab soap olhers who boastei OF their willing
ness to pay 10 cent to support the printers
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02


The past week has been a strenuous one in
printing circles. In Omaha Judge Sears grant
ed the Typothaete injunction restraining
the union printers from doing anything but
breathe, and mighty little of that They are
restrained from talking to rats restrained
from offering them inducements to quit their
meanness. restrained from soliciting business
if the union printer happens to be running
little job shop of his own. The injunction is
temporary and made returnable on February T.
Otherwise conditions in Omaha remain about
the same. 1t seems to be a still hunt all
around.
In Chicago there has been lot of things
doing. Injunction Judge Holdom has had a
chance to play even" with the union men who
have been grilhng him for his subservency to
the Parrytes, and he took full advantage of
it. Without trial he has found President
Wright of No. 16 guilty of contempt of court,
fined him 500 and sentenced him to Jail for
thirty days President Wright denied
jury. trial. had no opportunity of presenting
evidence and was railroaded through to salts
fy the offended dignity of 2x1 judge. An
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-02
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NEWS

A Great Week in Printing Circles-Omaha
Printers Enjoined and Chicago Printers
Sent to Jail, and Still They Win-Lincoln
Typographical Union No. 200 Will Cele-
ruary 22.