The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-10-11
THE PRESSMEN.
Getting Ready to Battle for the Eight
Hour Working Day.


The Presmen OF the United States
are lining up for the eight hour day,
| and preparatory to the battle they are
about to vote on the proposition to
levy an assessment of 10 per cent a
| week to finance the fight The Press
i men ought to vote the assessment by
.rousing majority. 1t will be the
| best thing they ever done for them
| selves and for their organization. 1t
will weed out the lukewarms and will
| strengthen the unionism of the re-
mainder 1t will be the same notice
| to the United Typothetae that the
| Typographical Union served. The
| Typothetae thought the printers would
tire of the heavy assessment in a
month or two and then would break
up in row. What really happened
is history. The Typothetae is in no
shape to fight another union that is
ready to fight as long and as hard as
the printers fought.
Come on boys. Let the Lincoln
union make it unanimous. 1t will hurt
for a while, but the reward is sure
Victory is assured if you will back
your International officers in their
fight This is the time to lay aside
all prejudices and animosities and get
together for the common good. Plenty
of time for scrap among yourselves
after the common enemy has been
whipped to a FRAGILE.
Several printing and publishing
firms in Chicago, st. Louis, New York
and Massachusetts with national Off
GERS of the United Typothetae, have
brought action in the United States
court asking that the International
Printing Pressmen's and Assistants
Union of America be enjoined from
violating an agreement of January,
1907, by demanding an eight-hour day.
The headquarters of the union are
in Cincinnati The petition asks that
the union be restrained from calling
or instituting strikes or aiding or as
sisting in calling any strike against
the Typothetae or it's members for the
refusal Of the Typothetae or any of
its members to institute the eight
the closed shop at any time; that it
be restrained from melting local
unions to institute strikes against the
Typothetae, from arranging for or
proceeding with a referendum vote by
the subordinate branches of the
Pressmen's union upon the subject of
instituting strikes against the Typo
thetae or members of the Typothetae
for refusal to institute the closed shop
or the eight-hour day, and to enjoin
the union from paying out any money
as Strike benefits and to further the
carrying on of any strike against the
Typothetae or any shops of its mem
bers.
That isn't asking much, is it? And
the Pressmen will find themselves up
against the court before long. The
injunction will be granted. Then the
Freshmen must fight it to the last
ditch. Their liberty depends on it.
They will not be the first ones en-
joined from paying a strike benefit.
This talk about contract between
the union and the Typothetae is rot.
True, former President Higgins of his
own motion entered into an open shop
agreement with the Typothetae, but
this agreement was never ratified by
4 the membership. On the contrary, it
was repudiated at the first opportun-
ity.
Lincoln pressmen have enthusiast
| tically entered upon the label cam
paign outlined by the Allied Printing
| Trades. There will be something do
| ing in the label agitation line pretty
| soon.
/ Foreman Brown of the Free Presse
press room is taking course in en-
| cheering in a correspondence school.
That far-away look in his eyes is
| hereby explained.
L