The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-10-19

Custer county il :. day or two with a
view to selecting a farm and making
arrangements to settle down thereon.
| Henry Bingaman was in Plattsmouth
the first of the week, and while he was
absent Charley Turner tore the Inde-
pendent mill" to pieces and put it
together again.
There has been woeful scarcity of
machine subs in town for several
weeks, and two or three good Job men
could have had all the work they
wanted.
Will Norton has purchased a home
in northeast Lincoln and moved there.
| in.
Mass meeting of workingmen, c. l..
U. hall, 1884 o street, next Thursday
night Be there!
Arthur Bowman dropped into town
one day last week and was immediate
ly drafted for service in the Nebraska
Farmer office.
Edward Buckley, member OF Big
Six" New York, has been nominated
for the legislature by the democrats
lof the twenty-eighth assembly district.
His election is said to be cinch.
Four years ago John J. Eagan, mem
Der of the Bricklayers' Union, was
elected by the democrats of that dis
trict and made splendid record IN
the legislature. The Independence
League has endorsed Mr.. Buckley
The membership should turn to
page 47S of the October Journal and
let the figures thereon printed printed
soak into their gray matter. The in
lternational paid 1888 for weeks rent
Iof the Temple theatre an old, and
lcilapidated frame structure, then paid
a janitor $25 for his services, $40 for.
chairs to seat it, and $77.65 for the ia.
bles used by the delegates and officers
The Lincoln auditorium, a modern
structure, may be rented a week for
$3.50, with all chairs, janitor service,
etc, thrown in-and the Lincoln audi
forum is three times as big as the
Temple theatre Another item
shows that the sum of $76O.71 was paid
for expressage on nine trunks and four
boxes from Indianapolis to Col
orado Springs and back, an av-
erage of something like $5S per
trunk and box. Yet there were eight
clerks taken from Indianapolis to Col
orado Springs, and they could prob
ably have checked most of the stuff
in those trunks. The tidy sum of
$76O.n would almost pay for a freight
train from Indianapolis to Colorado
Springs. Vice President Hays shows
up with an item of $196.75 as balance
of expenses to Colorado, Springs We
were afraid to look and see what the
| first allowance for expense was. The
Out West Publishing company was
paid $1,33S71 for publishing the daily
proceedings. The proceedings make
121 pages of the Journal This is $11
per page, which would seem pretty
fair price for the probably 1900 or
1 1000 copies furnished. Eight clerks
| were taken from headquarters at In
Il Indianapolis to attend. to the clerical
/ work of a convention consisting of less
II than 225 delegates. In addition there
i was reading clerk and two or three
Il Iemployes appointed from the Colorado
Il Springs union at salary of $25 a
/ week EACH Last year the attendance
/ at the Nebraska Press association was
i upwards of three hundred, and it was
/ in session two days. A full steno-
i graphic report was made and printed,
! and the total expense, including the
\ secretary's salary, was $225. Had it
/ been in session three times as long the,
| total expense would have been less
| than the express charges on mine
/ trunks and four boxes to and from Col
! orado Springs" The printed proceed
| lings of the Nebraska Press association
| make at least SO per cent of as much
| matter as is contained in the published
| reports of the Colorado Springs meet
| ing. Yet 1000 copies of these printed
| minutes cost $125. And 1t didn't re-
/ quire any eight clerks to get the min
\ utes in shape for the printer, either.
/ The expense account in the Journal
shows $50 paid for a room at the Ant
| lers hotel for meeting presidents of
H striking unions" The room must have
II had about seven baths and toilets in
II Iconnection-and dumb waiter. But
II $76O.71 expressage OF mine trunks and
II four boxes!,' Surely that is typo
II graphical error. A Lincoln man last
II week received from Yokahoma, Japan,
II a shipment of goods weighing 4,540
II pounds. The total freight charges
h from Yokahoma to Omaha and from
Il Omaha back to Lincoln were only $74
II But the International Typographical
II Union is rich. The per cent brings