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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
GOOD FOR FENNESSY!
Gets Big Boost From Union Buster
Otis Of Los Angeles.

SStS OI GOS Nu9SiCSs
The Los Angeles Times says: tom
Fennessy, the blatant walking delegate
of the printing trust-than whom no
more perniciously active nor pugnaci-
ously meddlesome strike purveyor ex-
lists in Los Angeles-is being doomed
for 'trusty' of the trusts boneyard in
Colorado. No greater dis-organizer of
the peace than this worthy has existed
in the annals of California That he is
true type of the incompetents he
represents is manifest by the utter
abandon with which they follow him
in his diabolical effort to coerce the
employing printers of this city to pay
nine hours wages for eight hours
work. This man Fennessy possesses
genius for deviltry in organized form.
He is veritable Beelzebub in this
City of Angels, and, like his prototype,
could destroy the peace of Heaven
itself. His followers swear by him
because he is the embodiment of their
hellish demands, doing everything and
anything the boys desire. He is from
the ranks; the rankest of the rank.
If his election as 'trusti' will remove
him from our midst, for once we can
truly say we regret we cannot help
him along. When he is gone, long
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
he Man With q
The ssMuck Rake. -

Some men are so constituted that
they cannot see all sides of even the
simplest proposition. This is often so
not because they are insincere nor be-
cause they desire to be contrary, but
it Is due to the fact that previous en-
vironment or training has taught them
to take a narrow view of things.
To the eye specialist, man fire.
quently seems to be all eye. The shoe
maker is most concerned about mans
feet The architect wandering through
the great exhibit sees only the strength
and the weaknesses OF the buildings.
The machinist notices, principally, the
engines and the tools.
But there is another kind of mar
rowness which is almost objectionable.
The narrowness of the specialist may
be excused, but that of the pessimist-
we'll, it at least deserves our pity. Re-
Gently, our attention has been called
to the "muck-rake." Read again that
story of Bunyon's Pilgrims Prog
gress, in which is told the incident of
the man who was so taken up with his
filthy occupation, that he failed to see
just above him the most beautiful
things.
There is good in every man. In most
cases there is more good than even his
best friends suspect. But his enemies
are searching for the evil, and man
usually finds what he looks for 1t is
not surprising, therefore, that the best
intentions sometimes meet with con-
tempt and opposition. This has its
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
STREET CAR STRIKE AvERTED.
Omaha Street Railway Employees Win
Their Main Contentious.

Omaha Street Railway Employees Win
Their Main Contentious.
For a couple of days last week Oma-
ha was threatened with street car
strike that would have paralyzed busi-
ness. But the employers side-stepped,
the employees lodged, the business men
argued and common sense prevailed.
There will be no strike. The men get
readjustment of the scale, better
conditions and recognition of their
union.
There were numerous conferences,
and every conference was marked by
good will and disposition on all sides
to be fair and reasonable. The great
est rejoicing among the men is over
tie fact that their organization was
recognized by the conference. That's
enough to make the MahoneyMartin
bunch of union busters jump in the
river.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
If They Only Would.

If some of the union men would take
as much interest in getting members
into the union as they do in the vari-
GUS lodges they belong to, the unions
membership would be greatly in
creased. We know two good union
men who were so anxious to get a
brother unionist into lodge that they
made out the application papers,
signed them and paid the initiation fee.
They are now wondering whether their
friend will pay them the amount of the
initiation. How many of them would
do this to get man into the union?-
Easton, Pa, Journal
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

dens, and garment workers, more than
any other class of skilled workmen
and women are the victims of this
vicious and un-American system. We
are fighting it because it is beastial-
izing our mothers, our wives and our
children. Our organization can do much
as an organization, but unless the peo-
pie who believe in fair play, honest
wages and sanitary conditions come 10
our aid, we can never win a complete
victory.
There is just one method of wiping
out the sweat shops, and that is to
patronize the union label The mother
who insists that our label appear on
the suit she buys for her little boy, is
doing her share towards preventing
the boy of some other mother from
being sentenced to life OF unrequited
toll in a foul sweat shop and a tear
less funeral and a grave in the potters'
field. She is helping to give honest
employment under fair conditions to an
adult man Or woman and to drive ou,
the awful evil of child labor. If we
could impress these facts upon the pub
lie mind with enough force, we would
soon drive out the sweat shops and
have our children in the schools in
stead of the mills and the tenement
workshops"
On Tuesday evening Mr.. Stearn de-
Ii. cred a label talk" to the Carpen-
ters' Union, and on the same evening
addressed the Central Labor Union.
Wednesday he visited many Lincoln
business houses ard acquainted him
self with conditions. His stay in Lin
ccln was necessarily short, but he was
promised to return in the fall, or send
some one. else, and take the lead III
an active propaganda in the interests
Of the label. He reports two or three
business men who express themselves
as favorable to an organization of the
retail clerks, and several business men
who will increase their stocks of la
beled goods and push them out instead
OF holding them back in order to sell
something else.
Mr. Stearn is we'll acquainted with
the work he has in hand, and there is
nc doubt that his visit in Lincoln will
result in much good to the unions Of
the city.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
stride toward peace will have been
made in this community"
A FATAL OBJECTION.
One of Bolton Halls Little Fables
From Real Life.


From Real Life.
Labor was wild He found his work
very hard, his head was swelled, and
he didn't know his place, and he was
unreasonable and violent; so they took
him to the Social Reform Clinic, and
considered his case
When he was stripped, an iron col
lar appeared embedded in his neck,
and Doctor Lord explained that many
years ago, when Labor was a child of
wandering habits, he had put the col
lar on him, and that it had never
seemed to do him any harm. He said
also that, anyhow, there was plenty
of room for Labor outside of the
collar.
Doctor -Legis suggested compulsory
arbitration to decide what was really
Labor's place. Doctor Ateower said:
Il think that to shorten his days would
lengthen his life" Doctor Malitia
said that his system needed stimula-
ton. Now" said he, eff we could get
him Into a fight, SO he wouldn't think
about his own condition.
Doctor Boness said a share in the
profits of exploiting would do Labor
good.
Doctor Status said an old age pen
sion would help Labor very much if he
lived long enough, but that if he should
die sooner, what he needed was an
Association for the Reduction of Fu-
neral Expenses.
"a law against sweating" said Doc
tor Statute. ''And against drinking"
said Doctor Prohib; 'if he didn't
drink ne wouldn't sweat" "And
against gambling and other excite
ments,' added Doctor Nosey. Not
forgetting" said Doctor Vigilant, "a
grades).''
"Whyenot remove the iron collar?"
asked an orderly.
MY friends" said Doctor Conservi-
ia, I'VE have had many excellent sug-
gestions here today from my learned
colleagues; all of which we will try
again, if the patient can be kept quiet;
but we are not here to consider the
revolutionary theory of this Radical"
So they discharged the orderly. La
bor had another fit that night and cut
Doctor Conservita's throat-Life.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
A "sCAB" CIGAR.
The Wageworker Apologies HumbIy
for Having Advertised 1t.

The Wageworker owes an apology TO
every union man in the country, ana
espectiolly to the union cigarmakers,
fer having advertised a "scab" cigar
in it's Friendly List Edition" On
the rear cover page on the left hand
of the stalwart union man, will he
found the advertisement of the Royal
Highlander" cigar. There were two
reasons why this "scab" cigar adver-
tisement slipped in: The Royal High
landers is the name Of fraternal in
surance company having headquarters
in Lincoln. The name Of the cigar
led the publisher to believe-and very
naturally-that it was made in Lin
coin. and therefore union made. Again.
the advertisement came in at the last
minute and was secured by solicitor
who was criminally negligent because
be did not ascertain whether the cigar
vas union made.
The Royal Highlander" cigar is q
"scab" cigar and under no considera-
ton should it be smoked by any union
man or friend of unionism. If the
Capitol Cigar Co.. the firm handling
tie cigar in Lincoln, and who gave
the order for the advertisement, VIII
present ether the contract for the ad-
vertisement or the receipted bill, the
money will be refunded by the pub
Usher of The Wageworker.
The management of the Royal High
landers owe it to themselves and to
the, union members of that great Dr.
ganization, to Immediately disclaim all
responsibility for this "scab" cigar and
tcke immediate steps to have it either
made by union men or the name
changed AS it is now the cigar will
antagonize union men and women and
have bad effect on the fraternity.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
Boosting For The Good
Old Label of Unfonfsna

S. J. Stearn, of Chicago, a prominent
len, and general promoter of the label,
was in Lincoln several days this week
Mir. Stearn is travelling over the coun-
try in the interests of the union label
in general and the label of the United
Garment Workers of America in par
ticular. He is on his way back to
Chicago after an extended trip to the
Pacific coast, and reports a gratifying
growth of the demand for the union
label by union men and women
81 am taking great interest in
the organization of the retail clerks"
said Mr.. Stearn 81 find that a lack
OF organization among the clerks hin
ders us very much in our efforts to
advance the labels OF al trades. If we
can get the clerks interested in union
ism we have made a long step for
ward"
In his investigations in Lincoln Mr..
Stearn found a lamentab1e lack of un-
ion made clothing on sale. He de-
clares that this is due to two rea-
sons-the failure. of union men to de-
mand the label, and the inclination
of clothing merchants to slight the
labeled goods in order to sell some
thing else.
II wish 1 could tell every mother
and father of the conditions in the
sweat shops in which thousands of
garment workers are employed by un-
fair contractors. But would not dare
to- tell one-half the truth to mixed
audience. 1. would hesitate to tell it to
an audience made up wholly of men.
The horrible immortality, the foulness,
the disease, the filth that exists in these
sweat shops where the daintiest lin
gerie; the finest skirts and waists and
the daintiest of clothing for children
is made in almost past belief. When
we hint at these things unthinking
men and women charge us with draw
ing on our imaginations in order to
advance the interests of our union.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. We are fighting these condi-
tions, not in the interests of our Or
ganization wholly, but in the interests
OF the poor, starving victims of sweat
shop greed. Our trade, more than all
others, is carried on in these iniquitous
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
TWO TRANSFERS.
And the Difference Between Them
Shown by Their Actions.

And the Difference Between Them
Shown by Their Actions.
Teamsters in Lincoln just now fini
plenty of employment on the excava-
tions for new buildings, and 1t Is in
teresting to watch the men who drive
the teams, either to the wagon or the
scraper. Last week We saw teamster
who is not a member Of the union, sit
on heavily loaded wagon and bru-
tally beat his team to make it pull the
wagon from under the dump and up a
short and horribly steep grade. The
poor horses strained and struggled
their best, while the brutal driver
lashed them with a heavy whip and
cursed like a pirate. When the load
was on the street the horses stopped,
fianks quivering, knees trembling and
nostrils blood-red.
On the same day, on another job,
we saw a teamster with a union but
ton bring his team out from under the
dump and up an equally steep grade.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
A SAD BEREAVEMENT.

Last week The Wageworker an
nounced that Walter Brown, foreman
o: the Free Press press room, had been
suddenly called to Chicago by the ill
WagewCrker reports that his mother
passed away shortly after he arrived
at her bedside. Mrs. Brown was 63
years of age, and the immediate cause
of her death was pneumonia, although
she had for several years been suffer-
ins, from heart trouble. Mr.. Brown
will have the sympathy of his fellow
uEionists in his great bereavement.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
COURT UPHoLDs UNIONS.
Legal to Peacefully Persuade Non
Union Men TO Come Out.

Legal to Peacefully Persuade Nom
Union Men to Come Out.
Members of labor Unions may use
peaceful persuasion and argument to
irduce non-union workmen to leave
the employ of persons antagonizing
the unions, and to unite with their un-
ions, so long as no contract is violated
and no violence or yelled threat is used,
and the parties accosted are left free
tc act, by going on with their work or
joining the union, which would mean
to quit
The above is concise syllabus of
the decision handed down by the Su-
perior Court in general term yester-
day, in the matter of the Iron Molders'
Union of North America against the I.
E.. E. Greenwald Company, taken up on
appeal from the finding of Judge Hosea
in special term. The opinion was
ris, Judge Harry M. Hoffheimer and
Judge William Littleford concurring in
supplemental opinions The case of
the Greenwald Company against the
striking iron molders has attracted ma
tional attention in the labor world, and
the decision of the Superior Court has
aIxiously been awaited by organized
labor throughout the country. In tho
evidence adduced it was shown that
the men had been peacefully induced
to leave the employ of the Grenwald
company and join the ranks of the Iron
Molders' Union, who took charge Of
them transportation to Cleveland, O.,
from whence they came.-Potters Her.
aid.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

I;ut he never used the whip, never
swore an oath, and he not only did
not ride on the heavy load but he put
lis shoulder against the wagon and
pushed. He encouraged his team with
pleasant words, and when the load was
on the street he pulled them down,
then walked around and patted them,
talking to them all the while as if they
we're little children. When he was
ready to go he shook the lines, and
the horses stepped off without pro-
test.
It's dollars to doughnuts that this
pretty we'll illustrates the difference
between the union and the non-union
drivers as rule the world over.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

compensations, for opposition puts a
man to test, which not only brings
out the best that is in him, but it
develops the finer virtues. The fellow
who handles the muck-rake-he who
slings mud-will find that he has
soiled his own hands. And in most
cases it will be discovered that the
filth failed to reach his mark.
file among workingmen are often too
ready to believe a lie concerning the
men who for years have been fighting
their battles, sometimes during periods
when, to be known as an "agitator'
meant only hardship. The thousand
and one victories vanish in the con-
temptation of the single error-granted
that the story of the enemy is true.
There is need in the labor move
ment, as in other movements of a
breadth of spirit which will seek to
know the best things about men, and
not the worst.
This was the spirit of Christ. To
Peter, who knew only too well his own
fickleness, Jesus said: "Thou shalt be-
come rock'-sturdy, strong, firm. So
He dealt with men, always. Never
excusing meanness, for He had only
words of contempt for the hypocritical
Pharisee, but seeing and loving the
good that was in men, He made even
the sinner realize that in Him might
be found friend and brother, who
was tempted in all points like as he
was, and yet without sin.-Rev.
Charles Stelzle.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
GOOD WORK.

The presidents idea is that if man
looks upward and onward while he is
welding the muck rake the work will
proceed on more elevated plane. A
practical man who has ever had to
stand over a stable boy knows that
the only way to WELD a muck rake
is to keep the eyes on the muck until
i. is out of the way. The result of
some muck raking in the senate will
be seen in the result of the railway
rate bill as it was seen in the passage
OF the pure food bill. The senate has
tecome at last little more afraid of
the people than it is Of the corpora
ticns-Sioux City Union Advocate.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
PLUMBERS ON STRIKE.

Nashville, Tenn, May 6.-Sixty-five
union journeymen and union plumbers
employed in nineteen shops will strike
here tomorrow for higher wages. The
union is affiliated with the Nashville
council of the Structural Building
Trades of America, and any attempt
of the employers to work non-union
men will result in all the unions in
the alliance quitting work, the men
declare.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.

Memphis, Tenn, May 9.-The sew
enth biennial convention of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers met here this afternoon in
the Grand opera house. The sessions
weeks and many important matters
will be disposed of. The city is deco
rated in honor of the delegates and
visitors. Today's session was called
to order by Chief Engineer w. F.
Stone and was merely preliminary
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
UNION MEN IN POLITICS.
Time That Unions Consider This All
Important Question.

Trades unionists are generally
agreed that the time has come for the
unions to participate in the elections
as unions. The method of participa-
ton is likely to cause some difference
of opinion, and in some cases may re-
suit in the unions failing to secure
that which might be theirs.
When the question of the method
comes up, there will be, first, the de-
mand of the socialists that the unions
shall ''go into politics" through the
socialist gate. And so insistent are
the advocates of that cause, so skillful
in the presentation of their theories,
so entirely earnest and apparently sin
in many cases of their carrying their
point and in lining up the trades
unions OF locality for the socialist
ticket. In some communities even the
election OF socialist candidates to leg
islative and even congressional seats
may result.
In other locations political parties
will be coquetting with the unions for
more carefully than ever before with
a view to satisfying the demands of
the unions-before election. The unions
will be called upon to carefully avoid
the Endorsement of any political party
that merely offers a platform accepta-
Bile to union men. The candidates
must be acceptable if the unions are
to gain their desires. A man in a leg
isiatiye Office who has failed to sup
port the measures demanded by organ
ized labor should be carefully remem-
bered. The men who have been open
ly hostile or secretly treacherous to
the interests of organized labor should
be opposed, no matter what his plat
form, his promises, or his party.
But President Gompers advises that
the unions shall secure, wherever pos
sible, the election of members of the
unions to legislative positions. In the
Federationist for May he says:
Elect clean cut, straight out
trade unionists to congress and
the state legislatures wherever
you can, and never waver in your
unionism."
Again, referring to those who have
been tried and found wanting:
Defeat labor's known enemies,
even if you have to elect those
who are not straight labor men.
If we can not use the other man
as a staff to lean upon, for tenn
porary purposes he may be just
good enough to use as a stick to
beat the enemy"
1t is time that the unions commence
the consideration of these questions
Philadelphia Trades Union News.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
1T WAS A MISTAKE.
Barber Shops Still Remain Open the
Same Old Hours.

Last week The Wageworker an
nCunced that hereafter the union bar
Ter shops would close at p. m. in
stead of 7:30 p. m. The announce
ment was made on the strength of a
notification to that effect by COM
mittee of union BARRIERS who called at
the Office.
The announcement was premature.
The half-hour was clipped off at a
special meeting, and restored at the
next regular meeting after a warm de-
bate.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS.

After an interval of some five years,
the building trades in Chicago were
again disturbed by strike on the End
one of the largest of the May-day
strikes. The immediate cause of this
strike is wage dispute, the men de-
manding SIS for an eight-hour day, and
the contractors offering $3.50 for four
months and $3.50 for the remainder Of
the year. The men voted for the
strike to 1. In behalf of the strikers
demand it is said that the average of
life in the trade is only ten years
Chicago Public.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
TRUST CIGARS.

According to circular issued by
President G. w. Perkins, of the
duction of cigars in the Philippines
amounts to $500, ,OOO, 900. and the wages
paid in Manila vary from rs to 81 cents
a day. OF the seventy-nine cigar fac
tories in Manila, forty-eight are owned
by Cinnamon, who employ Chinese
coolie labor, and with the exception
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

trick, and it cost them less than a
hundred dollars. When the bosses re-
fused to sign up the men quietly went
to contracting on their own hook, and
left the bosses up in the air Then
came the conferences and speedy
agreement. The union men made one
concession. They promised the bosses
they wouldn't tell the Business Mems
association how badly they had been
licked.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE.

Boston, Mass, May cit was an
nounced at the headquarters of the
cigar makers union tonight that ar
rangements were complete for the
strike tomorrow of cigar makers to
enforce a demand for an increase in
wages. 1t is thought about 1,2O0 men
will go out
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

o. two, the other factories are owned
by Europeans. Union workers should
remember all goods sold in stores of
the United Cigar Stores Company are
trust, scab, coolie and child labor
goods.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
OMAHA PAINTERS WIN.
Score a Splendid Victory and Make
One Little Concession.

The painters and decorators of Oma-
ha whipped the unfair employers to
standstill, Notwithstanding Tim Ma
honey and his union busting bunch OF
business men got behind the employ
ers.
1t took the painters and decorators
less than three weeks to turn the