The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-18

are wearing union made shirts and
collars? Not one in ten. They can't
find the union made articles in Lin
coin and therefore quietly submit to
being forced to take the "scab" goods.
The merchants have learned that the
unionists will not go to the trouble
of walking an extra block or two for
the union made article, and so they
will not handle the union made goods,
preferring to handle the non-union
Last week the editor of The Wage
worker took a shoe dealer to task for
not having a larger line of union made
shoes for women.
I'VE can not find them," said the
merchant.
The editor Immediately pulled out a
list of manufacturers who make shoes
for women and put the label on the
shoes, and said:
Whats the matter with looking for
them in the right placer"
There are a score of firms manufac-
turing ladies' shoes and putting the
label In them, and making shoes of all
grades and prices. If the shoe dealers
of Lincoln will not put in full lines of
labeled shoes, let us join together and
buy our shoes somewhere else. If we
will do that for ninety days we'll have
the shoe merchants of Lincoln search
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looking for the kind of shoes we want
to buy.
Less than two weeks ago union
man in Lincoln tried to buy a union
made dress shirt. He could not find
one in the city of Lincoln. He found
"scab" dress shirts in plenty. He
wrote to a friend in Omaha and got
the union made dress shirt inside of
union men will send away for the
union made goods they can not buy in
Lincoln, it will not be three months
before it will be easier to find the
union made article than it now is to
find the "scab" article.
The pocketbook nerve is mighty
sensitive thing. When it is hit two or
three. times the owner gets busy to
protect it. Let us quit talking about
it, and go to hitting few mercantile
"pocketbook nerves"
| 1t is safe to say that there are 5000
cigars smoked in Lincoln every day,
and that $500 of them are "scab"
made-made in the tenement factories
of the east by Chinese, children. con-
sumptives, scrofulitics and syphillitics.
II the union men and union sympa-
thizers would simply quit buying ci-
gars Of dealers who refused to help
push union made cigars, they would
have the dealers making hot-foot to
the Lincoln manufacturers. But the
dealers Is wise. If he can sell thous-
and "scab" cigars at 35 per cent profit
instead of a thousand union made ci-
gars at 25 per cent profit, he'll push
the "scab" cigar to finish.
The $500 union men of Lincoln can
reverse present conditions If they will.
Are you game? Are you willing to
go to some extra effort and make some
personal sacrifices in order to advance
the sale of union made goods? If you
are, join the Union Buyers League
and get busy. Call your fellow union
lists attention to it, Ask him to sign
it. Cut out the coupon printed on this
page, sign it, giving your name and
street address in full. AS soon as $50
worker they will be printd, and the
list added to week by week. An or
ganization will be perfected, meetings
held and a systematic label campaign
begun and pushed to finish.
The Wageworker is going to lose
some advertising business by this cam.
paign, and it doesn't give continent
tai The Wageworker is one news
paper that Is not edited in the bust.
ness Office AS a matter of fact, The
Wageworker has no business office.
If 1,5OO staunch union men will get
into line with their subscriptions The
Wageworker will gleefully tackle the
job of showing up few business
firms that make heap talk about
their friendship for organized labor
and discriminate against union made
goods for the purpose of pushing
"scab" goods at a wider margin OF
profit.
Sign the roll and get to work!