The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-03-16
POLITICS IN PRINTER CIRCLES

Now Asks the ''Vipers'' to Do the Fighting,
But for Gods Sake Don't Mention Our
mes!"-The Same Old Story.
Last August the editor of labor newspaper,
himself printer and union man OF quarter
Of a century's standing, expelled from the
floor of the International Typographical Union
convention at Toronto. lie was sacrificed to
make'a Roman holiday for the administration,
and lot Of delegates, swelled up with the i'm
portance of being named on minor committees,
willingly joined in crucifying this editor, whose
only crime that he loved his union too
well to see it made the victim OF personal
spleen.
Cincinnati Union No. had three delegates
in that convention, and two of them voted to
cxpe this labor editor. The names Of the afore
said delegates We're Donnel and Sullivan. Last
August these gentlemen by their votes en-
dorsed the epithet of "vipers' applied to
the editors Of labor papers that dared to tell
their sentiments. They gleefully rushed in
with sacrifcial knives whetted to a razor edge
and jabbed them into the vitals OF the labor
editor. 1t was great and glorious day, for
were they not getting even with a lot OF bum
editors?"
But it IS different now. Cincinnati Union IS
in trouble. and it is begging those same vlp-
ers' to to the rescue. The Wageworker
is in receipt of communication from the Gin
.cinnati Union asking it to Jump all over
publication known as Men and Women and
roast it to a FRAGILE. This publication is Cath
Ole and the communication winds up as fol
lows:
1--WE request that you give this publication
the necessary write-up, calling the attention OF
members of organized labor. and also those who
are Catholics. to the unfair actions of Men
ard Woman.
eve also request that in complying with
wishes you do not publish this letter as the
write-up. but say what you desire without stat
ing that we have written you
The same old story. Tell the editor to Give
'em hades we II stand by you, and then when
the editor gets in trouble for it make a sneak
and let him take the blame.
There are an gosh awful lot of eminent labor
agitators like that They never give up dol
lar to help a labor paper, and if the editor
doesn't do just as they wish they cruicfy him,
Just like Cincinnati No. helped to cruelty
Shelby Smith But when there is any fighting
to be done they rush right off to the labor edi-
tor and beg him to get the firing line But
for Gods sake don't mention names. :"
What is Cincinnati Typographical Union No.
3 doing. to help Frank Rst make his labor pa
per pays Not blamed thing. On the con-
trary it is doing all it can to hinder him. But
that does not prevent Cincinnati Typographical
Union No. from rushing out and asking the
labor press to give em the devil The edl-
tor of The Wageworker will continue to cheer
fully pay his little old 10 per cent assessment
to help Cincinnati No 3 and all other unions
that are in trouble but he is not going to rend
his neither garment for union that first helps
to expel labor editor and then turns around
and asks the men whom it calls ''vipers to
come to it's rescue, "but for Gods sake don t
mention. our namesn as.-....
Miss Anna Wilson, The Wageworker's first
choice for trustee Of the Union Printers Home,
and a member of Columbia Union, failed of a
nomination. We are sorry-not for Miss Will
son but for the rank and file. We wanted Miss
Wilson nominated and elected. With her on
the board there would be cessation of some
occurrences that are very common when the
board meets. There might be little more at
tention to business and little less attention to
some other things But the "close corporation
seems to have got in its work again.
The Younger generation of printers never had
any experience with the inside ring, commonly
called the "Waneetas. a lot of them never
heard of the gang. and majority OF them do
not believe that it existed 1t has been
pretty quiet for long time but it is getting in
it's work again, just the If you don t
believe it, just look at the nominations that
have been made There is lot to this story
but The Wageworker hash t time to tell it now
If you are in hurry to get it perhaps Shep-
herd of Washington will take the time to tell
you all about it, lie knows
James NJ. Lynch will be reelected president
That s cinch And it is just well that this
is so. 1t ism t good plan to swap horses while
crossing the stream. Lynch has headed mas
terly fight for the eight-hour day. and until that
is settled there should be- change in leader
ship. The Wageworker cheerfully gives Pres
dent Lynch credit for his good work in the
present fight and will stand by him on that
issue until the end. But there are other things
besides this eght-hour fight. and they will come
up in their proper time. The '.vipers'' are go
ing to do little "viping'' when the time
comes. In the meantime, just to show that We
are all standing together on this eighthoul
nrnnnstion. we III make Lynch g rn electinl