The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
Another Welcome Announcement
About the Assessment Received.
OF INTEREST TO PRINTERS.

ABOUT tVe ASSCSSTUCnt nCCCtNCOs
Last week the welcome announce
ment came from international head
quarters that beginning on Monday,
Ma: ch 3, the assessment for the
eight-hour day cause would be reduc-
ed to per cent This makes a total
reduction of eight per cent since last
fall. With the unparalleled label
agitation now in progres it is believed
that such a demand will be created
for good printers that the assessment
may soon be abrogated. Since the be-
ginning of the struggle for the eight
hour day Lincoln Typographical
Union, No. 209, has raised and for
warded to headquarters $4,000, in ad-
dition to which it has financed it's To-
cal affairs 10 the extent of about ST.
200. All this has been done in seven
teen months-a mighty good record
for union that averages about -iinety
in membership. 1t means practically
an average of 500 per man in the
seventeen months.
81 Monday. the union men in the Ne
braska Printing Co. shop were puIlei
out, the proprietor of that concern
refusing to sign the eight-hour con-
tract Four men came out. Levy
has robbed the cradle and the grave
to keep going" remarked a unionist
who looked in at the window and saw
the bunch of near-printers who were
attempting to act like real mechanics.
At the proper time the local will
give this shop the attention due it.
The four men who walked out were
speedily placed.
Lincoln Typographical Union met
In regular session last Sunday after
noon, and the session was full of in
: terest. Three new members were ad-
mitted and obligated. The attend
ance was unusually large.
Detroit Typographical Union, not
withstanding long strike and heavy
drain on it's treasury, has pledged
$1,000 to the new Y. NJ. c. A. build
ing in that city. 1t will be the best
Investment the union ever made, too.
uO you tHiuh VI vi
mechanics who have been paying a
10 per cent assessment for nearly two
years walking up and promising to
donate a thousand dollars to a reli-
gious institution? Can you beat a
bunch like that?
w. H. Colescot, aged 76, member
of Typographical Union No. 1, died
at the soldiers home at Marion, In.
diana, last week.
Shelby Smith, who was sacrificed
at Toronto to make Roman holiday
is doing more for the cause than any
half-dozen of the gang that went after
his scalp. Through his efforts one
of the biggest shops in Philadelphia
as editor and publisher of the Trades
Union News, proceeded to get busy
for fair. He went to the unfair shor
that had the contract for printing the
Musical Enterprise and asked it tc
square up. 1t haughtily refused
Smith turned around and secured the
contract for printing the magazine
Now he is after other publication!
that are now printed in unfair shops
II the shops square up he will no
interfere. And this is the man who's,
"scalp" they had to have to salve thei
outraged union honor!
John w. Wise has sued the Lyri,
theatre management for $500 dam
ages. He said he had contract TO
printing the programs, said contrac
having been assigned to him by th'
firm. originally holding it. Manage
Miller is not worrying. The peopl'
who sold Wise contract" had none
They paid Miller SO much for th
privilege of furnishing the program.
Things are looking up in Detroit
Within the last couple of weeks TWEEN
ty-five men working in unfair shop
have voluntarily joined the union 0
left town. The rat" printeries are u
against it worse than ever.
Typographical Unions all over tn
country are already making prepare
tions for the proper observance G
Printers Memorial Day." which
the last Sunday in May. The printer
were the first craftsmen to officiall
adopt such a day and custom.