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The adjective soft" as used in this
connection slang or not? I must
confess that it is comparatively
novel TO me, and I had to ask Of
a condescending man its meaning in con-
-nection with thirst quenchers.
Perhaps the other sort OF beverages
ARE reserved for hard drinkers.
Whatever the origin OF the term here
and now owe my allegiance to the class
Fof drinks whose name heads this ar
lticle- have sampled "hard drinks. 80
and for hot weather I commend unre-
hsevedy the soft kind, not on the
ground OF teetotaIism, temperate woman
though I am. but because I do not be-
llieve it is possible TO prepare a drink
containing alcohol which does not pro-
bduce heat in those who partake Of it.
On the passage down, the punch or
howl. or whatever you choose to call
ut. may be cooling and seem refreshing,
but by the time 1t has been in the stom-
ach fifteen minutes or less it announces
its presence by a rise of temperature
and a profuse outbreak Of perspiration
which are as hard 10 bear as the orig
gnal heat and thirst one has sought to
queH.
OF soft drinks there are many. and
the total abstainer need not fear Iimi-
tations in variety or in tempting quail
ties.
II 1 cannot quite promise that the
summer viii go through before the
stock is exhausted, am yet pretty safe
in saying that the hot weather viii be
at ar end before one wearies Of the as
sortment which can be mixed by the
woman who has a little knack in this
dine, and who viii take the trouble TO.
cultivate IL
Leading the van. 10 my mind, and
keeping a good distance ahead Of all
the rest. comes iced tea. Those who
have never tasted it at its best may
cavil at this statement. But those who
have drunk 1t when fl has been freshly
made and poured while boiling hot on
Zee. chilled until almost "frappe, anu
served from tall glasses misted with
GOODNESS. viii bear me out In saying
that It is a fair equivalent for the nectar
of the gods.
Thus made. it Is an altogether DIFF
ferent compound from the DRAWINGS OF
the teapot, after these have stood on tbs
leaves until cold That is an extract
Of tannIn, astringent alike to the tongue
and the stomach.
To Make Iced Tea.
For iced tea the water should be fresh
~ boiled, the good old allowance made
of a teaspoonful Of tea for each person
and one for the pot. unless the strong
Ceylon tea is used, in which case The
share of the pot may be withheld.
The tea should not steep more than
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strain ana bottle while warm, not bot.
Tie down and seal the Corks-
Raspberry Shrub Punch.
Add a gil OF raspberry vinegar or
raspberry shrub 10 q quart OF iced
water and stir until wen blended. FIJI
The glasses from which the punch 3
To be drunk with cracked ice. add a
cupfuI Of fresh raspberries. an equal
amount OF banana dice 70 the punch In
the pitcher or the bowl. and pour into
the glasses from this.
Blackberry and Strawberry Vinegar.
These may. be made IN the same way,
and are delicious and cooling summer
drink mixed with water in the proper
ton Of a q sizes 'o5ufuI Of the vinegar
To a glass the water, iced
Mix Iartsr Of a pound Of IN
sweetened pu,verized cocoa with six
ounces of Eranulated sugar and a quart
Of water. Put over the fire IN a double
boiler and cook. stirring constantly.
until the mixture is a thick syrup.
Iced Cocoa for Hot Days.
Take from the FIRE, stir until almost
cool. and add three tablespOonfuls OF
extract OF vanilla. If you prefer the
flavor of the bean, you may boil Il
with the sugar ana cocoa Keep IN a
cooI place and serve in glasses poured
on crushed fee.
Add cream 10 taste. and crown the
toy with a spoonful OF whipped creams
II desired.
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d : : FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK

fash. macaroni. berries and cream, cof-
fee.
Tuesday.
BREAKFAST
Cereal. fruit. kippered herring gra-
ham mullins, tea, coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Beef warmed in tomato sauce, maca-
roni 0eft over, cucumber salad, crack
ers and cheese, tea.
DINNER
Curried lamb. boiled rice. bananas,
young beets, watermelon, coffee.
Wednesday.
BREAKFAST
Fruit, cereal. baked hash, fried musa,
tea, coffee.
LUNCHEON
Stuffed eggs with cream sauce rice
croquettes,i hot burberry lunch cake,
crackers Cheese, Tea.
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IzuzIH CH17z Iar Leo 70

ter OF an hour. pour 1t into punch
bowl on a block Of ice, and just before
serving add quart Of charged water.
Raspberry Vinegar.
Allow two quarts Of raspberries TO
quart of the best cider vinegar. let them
stand together for twenty-four hours
and then mash the berries wen with
wooden spoon OF. potato beetle.
Strain OF the pulp. add two quarts
more berries. and after they have stood
twenty-four hours longer, mash and
strain as before.
Put in two quarts more. ana after
twenty-four hours nave passed, mash
and strain once again
To eacn quart of this allow PIN Of
,,srer and I'VE pounds Of sugar. Put all
over the fire and bring TO the boiling
point. This will raise the scum 20 the
surface.
skim carefully, take from the FIRE,
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Hints for IiOuSeReeDerS

When papering q room, remember
that large patterns and dark colors will
make IL appear smaller while d plain
or striped paper. If a light hue. viii
give an impression OF increased size.
Bran water Is the best OF agencies
for cleaning fine colored muslIns.
Do not scrape a frying pan. II IS
liable afterward TO burn Instead rub
well with a hard crust OF bread and
wash IN not water.
Kerosene exposed to the air viii not
burn brightly and viii form a crust
on the wick after being lighted. there
fore oil cans should be kept tightly
Corked.
Tough meat NAV be made tender by
spTinkhng with vinegar.
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knows that TO eat cream or % arms lls
milk AT the same meal with fresh nsn
Of whatever kind is unwholesome 70
the last degree" was informed, you
perI the lives of the community by
recommending what Is actual poison
Our grandmothers bebeVed tilal 4Ies si
FISH and oysters must not be eaten ana
milk drunk AZ the same meal Now We
bake pickerel in cream and dFencn
boiled cod with cream sauce
This reminiscent vein IS apropos 10 me
anna ently. eccentric formula, forwarded
BY our delightful Southern correspond
ent. She admits that il may ssem cheap
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DINNER
Aiacaroni soup. roast ducks with po-
taJo sturtlng. green peas, young onions,
oakedi peach batter pudding, coffee.
Thursday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal, liver ana bacon, hot bis
cult, tea, coffee.
LUNCHEON.
AIince of duck, French fried potatoes.
blackberry shOrtcake, tea.
DINNER
Cream Of tomato soup, roast shoulder
Of veal, onion sOufhe Ga left over.
Drowned potatoes, spinach, fruit, coffee.
Friday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal, fried parrish, oatmeal
gems, tea. coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Tom Thumb omelets, scalioped spinach
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Sunday.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit, rice boiled in milk. green
rea omelet, water biscuit tea conee-
LUNCHEON.
Chicken loaf, sliced tomatoes, lettuce
sandwiches. iced chocolate.
DINNER.
Cream of squash soup, roast lamb,
mint sauce, stuffed eggplant, lima
beans, boiled corn. peach ice cream, COZ
fee.
Monday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal. eggs poached in milk,
Boston brown bread. toastedi tea, cot
LUNCHEON.
Cold lamb, sliced thin; baked potatoes,
cohee loaf, crackers and cheese, tea.
DINNER.
cantsloupe. pot roast Of beef, sueco-
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that is congenial in your Talks that
feel we are friends and almost chums.
Hence my contrition for past silence
when I might have impaired something
helpIul to at least one member of the
great family.
/ herewith enclose a recipe for che
'eggless brother" which I have long in
tended giving him. I take it his lido
syncrasy remains in fun force? IL be
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Here IS the recipe thus agreeably in
trodUced TO our notice:
Eggless Ginger Cake.
Put q pint Of good syrup into a deep
bowl. sStir in sifted -four until the mass
begins 20 break or to crumble- Add two
large tabIespoonfuIs OF the best lard
ana a good pinch of salt (The lard
must be melted after it is measured.)
Stir in ginger TO your taste, and lastly
one and ore-haf >cupfVls Of boiling
water in which are dissolved three tea
spoonfuls Of baking soda. Bake in a
slow oven from forty-fve minutes to one
hour.
We think the cake much nicer when
spices and raisins are added, but 1t is a
good cake without them
/ have long ago ceased to cavil at any
recipe contributed by responsible
housewife MOdssty in prOnOunCing
judgment upon what appears at the first
reading an incOngruous jumIle Of in
gradients becomes even thu veteran
cook / have In mind a roasting" I
had from a Missouri editor twenty years
ago because I published recipe for
creamed lobste-
when the veriest tyro- N distetlcs
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n UFFER a delinquent TO ease her
conscience by a tardy- contribU-
L ton 10 the Exchange
II is eagerly read b5 the femi-
nine adults OF our household, although
put one of them is a working house
keeper. / myself have been on the re-
tired list for some years, but { am still
keenly interested ia all that makes for
good in the house, and find so much
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has got the better Of ii, others may be
inclined to try it.
DO not despise II because it seems so
cheap and common in its. component
parts.
It came to US from an epicurean
housewife, long years ago, and we
being Southerners Of the Southerners-
ing Yet we use 10 other recipe than
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THF HOUSFM0THFRS FXCFIANJE = = =

and common. have said. that it IS
eccentric Yet I accept without qUes-
tiol her assertion that II is nice .
We all hope that IL viii be followed
by the family recipes with which she
tempts our imagination. Personally. my
faith in family recipes is strong. For
fifty years ] have made mince pies after
a formula beQueathed TO me By my
mother II was a hundred years old
when she began Housekeeping. I haze
never tasted other mince meat that
could compare with il in lusciOusness-
an opinion that is held by every men,
Der of a wide family connection.
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If we could take you through
our establishment, and show you
the vast care and cleanliness
which produce the old original
egg and sugar coated Arbuckles'
Ariosa Coffee, no one could
ever tempt you to change to
any other coffee.
ARBUCKLE BROS. New rOrE
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too tart, add more sugar. Tastes diff
fer very much on this point
Ginger Ale Punch.
Squeeze the Juice from six lemons and
mix with a cupful of graduated sugar.
Put it on the Ice for an hour. Crack a
good-sized lump Of Ice and lay in a
punch bowl over this pour tie lemon
juice and sugar and turn over all three
bottles Of ginger ale
Add TO the punch long-stemmed
punches Of mint, pinching the stems a
little before putting them into the
punch.
Grapefruit Sherbet.
Peel four large grapefruit carefully,
removing the seeds and all Of the bit
ter white skin Squeeze from the fruit
all the juice you can get out, and add
TO * cupfuI Of granulated sugar and
a half aupfuI Of dice Of pineapple.
Let it stand in a cold place a quar-
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Grapefruit Sherbet.

the eggless formula for moIasses OF
ginger cake.
Should you care to hear again. have
other recipes which 1 have used for
nearly half-century, and which are
still considered unapproaChable by my
children and grandchildren.
III c. A (NeW Orleans)
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Saturday.
BREAKFAST.

Saturday.
BREAKFAST.
CantalouDe. cereal. fried pork, with
-ream gravy; stewed potatoes. toast.
tea, coffee
LUNCHEON.
Fish au gratin Ca left-overl fresh rolls,
potctoes heshed and Drowned. lettuce
salad, crackers and cheese. tea.
DINNER.
Lima bean soup. broiled steak. new
potatoes. boiled: summer squash, fried
green peppers, boiled huckleberry pud-
ding coffee.
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e left-over). minute mullins. cornstarch
blanc mango, tea,
DINNER.
Black bean SOUP. baked halibut, egg
sauce; Partisan potatoes. Swiss chard
sliced cucumbers, French dressing; peach
pie, coffee.
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Fruit Punch.

Make a strong lemonade. allowing
fo,.s or five lemons 20 quart OF water
and a tablespoonful Of sugar to each
lemon.
Roll and squeeze the lemons and let
the juice stand on the sugar for a few
minutes before adding the water. To
this add three oranges. sliced and
peeled; one grapefruit, peeled. seeded
and separated into lobes; a sliced ba-
mana, half a pineapple, shredded. and
let stand together on ice for half an
hour.
Just before stfving add a quart Of
charged water. Should the punch seem
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Tea Punch.

Russian Tea Punch.
For this make a quart Of tea, using
four teaspoonfuls Of Ceylon or India tea
TO a quart Of freshly boiling water, two
cupfuls Of graduated sugar. two table
spoonfuIs of orange juice (tart oranges
are 10 De preferred. five tablespoonfuls
OF lemon juice and a quart bottle OF
A7oIlinaris or other good charged water
Put tea, sugar, and fruit Juice togeth-
er in a punch bowl with a big block Of
ice ana pour in the Apollinaris just be-
fore the punch is 10 be served.
The attractiveness Of the drink IS
heig5 tened If cherries or Strawberries
CT raspberries, or. falling these. dice Of
pineapple and orange, swim in the
bowl
About half cupful Of any OF them
viii be sufficient
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Here Is the recipe thus agreeably in
froducpd "a orr notice.
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To Make Iced Tea.

For iced tea the water should be fresh
~ boiled. the good old allowance made
Of a teaspoonful Of tea for each person
md one for the pot. unless the strong
Ceylon tea is used, in which case The
share of the pot may be withheld.
The Tea should not steep more than
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
NEW YORK cH,LpLAeoR.

Gov. Hughes has approved the Page
child labor bill desired by the child
labor committees and the Consumers
League and embodying recommends
tions made in his own first message to
the legislature. The measures pro-
vides that no minor under 16 years of
age shall be employed or permitted to
work in any factory in this state be-
than eight hours in any one day. The
permitted hours are now 6 a. m. to
r. m. The act will not take effect
until January 1, 1908.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

carpenters are expected to feel its
force with considerable severity. When
the bricklayer lays down his tools in
the construction of building the car
penter finds that he is unable to COM
plete his work. Many millwrights will
also be forced to quit. The strike has
already ippeded progress in the COM
pletion of the new county building,
and the finishing of this structure is
row matter of speculation.
Should the strike continue, it is as
serted, construction work will be tied
up in Chicago as it has not been in
years, and idleness in the building
trades will be general.-Detroit Union
Advocate.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
SUNDAY BAND CONCERTS.

The Citizens Street Railway Co. is
figuring on employing band and Civ
ing a series OF band concerts at Ante
lope Park during the summer. If the
company will do this it will not only
profit financially, but will endear itself
to the general public.
The Wageworker wants to have a
band concert in Antelope Park every
Sunday afternoon. The most purintan-
ical citizen will have to stretch an aw-
full point to find objections to the Sun
dan band concert. The interests of the
majority of the people of Lincoln de-
mand them They will be beneficial in
every way. They will furnish innocent
and helpful entertainment for thou
sands upon the only day on which
they are free to rest and seek recre-
alton. The Wageworker hopes the
Citizens Street Railway company will
show it's enterprise and public spirit
by engaging a Lincoln band for a
series of park concerts, and that it
provides a concert every Sunday after
noon during the summer.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.


BY an overwhelming vote Lincoln
has adopted the initiative and refer
endum. Now, if the wage earners of
Lincoln can lay aside personal preju-
dices and petty jealousies and get to-
gether for the common good, they
can have any reasonable and just thing
they want. A stubborn council can
be made to do what the people want
it to do. The wage earners can force
some of the men who have grown
wealthy from the toll Of others to dig
up" to improve the park system, ex-
tend the area lighted by municipal
electricity, extend the area supplied
with city water and enact ordinances
calculated to benefit all and not a
few.
But will wage earners ever lay aside
partisanship, personalities and preju-
dices long enough to get together in a
unanimous demand for something cal
culated to benefit all of them? The
Wageworker sometimes despairs of
ever seeing that day But that is when
it is a pessimistic mood. Again it is
optomistic and believes the day will
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
LABOR'S MEMORIAL DAY.

So far as The Wageworker is ad-
Union is the only union that has set
apart memorial day" upon which to
pay a tribute to departed comrades of
the craft. The Wageworker is very
proud of the fact that this idea orig
mated with the Lincoln union, and that
it was a Lincoln delegate who first
proposed it in an international conven-
ton. On Sunday, May 26, Lincoln
Typographical Union No. 2O9 will for
the fourth time observe the day with
appropriate ceremonies.
The memorial day idea, however,
should be bigger than any one union.
The whole army of toll should have a
memorial day on which every union
man might gather with his fellow un-
ionists and pay tribute to
the memory of unionists gone
before. All of us would be
made better by pausing now and
then to think of the men whose early
tolls and sacrifices for the cause made
the present good state of unionism
possible. Many of the trades unionists
of the younger generation have no ade-
quate conception of the struggles of
the old pioneers who blazed the path
way as far towards industrial free
dom as we have trod. Unionfsm was
not so popular then as now. They
met their hardest opposition from the
men whom they were seeking to ben
eft. They were dubbed traitors" to
the country, anarchists" anything on
the way of nomeclature that was
thought insulting. Yet they pursued
their way. earnest, hopeful and tire
less. To their sacrifices of time and
money, often of home and friends, we
owe more than we can ever repay. 1t
would be little enough for us to Sc.
apart one day in the year to showing
the world how we honor and revere the
memory of the old veterans who
fought labor's cause in those dark
days.
The Wageworker would, if it could,
have "Labor's Memorial Day" as much
of day for general observance by
union men as Labor Day." 1t would
have men of every craft meet on COM
mon ground to pay unanimous tribute
to those sturdy old veterans in the
fight for industrial freedom and equal
fly. The example of the Typographical
Union should be followed by every
trades union, and when all shall have
set apart day, then let all meet upon
the same day, in one common purpose,
and pay renewed tributes to those
who made possible the larger measure
Of industrial freedom which we en-
joy.
Let "Labor's Memorial Day" be a
possibility of the very near future.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
uNloh.MApE RRooMs.

The Wageworker is informed that
there is union broom factory in Lin.
coin. If the manager of the aforesaid
factory will personally call at The
Wageworker Office and make the fact
officially known this little paper will
endeavor to boost his product. But if
the support of The Wageworker is
not worth visit to the office, it isn't
worth anything.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
CHICAGO sR,ckLAvERs STRIKE

In Chicago, Men objectins to Waiting
Three days for Their Wages.
War by labor unions on the "contrac-
tors trust" in Chicago has resulted in
industrial turmoil. The refusal to
pay off the men on Saturday instead of
Tuesday was the main cause of the
trouble.
The walkout is directed against
members of the Mason Contractors
association and it is estimated that
900 bricklayers and 800 hod carriers,
besides granite settlers and derrick
men are idle.
The bricklayers and building Ia
borers refused to sign an agreement
with the Mason Contractors associa-
ton recently, although they renewed
their. agreement with the Master Ma
sons and Builders Association, COM
posed chiefly of the smaller construc-
ton firms in the city. Union leaders
by some of the larger concerns to
drive the smaller firms out of business
and establish trust" and that it is
their intention to stop this warfare If
possible.
Despite disquieting rumors, Presi-
dent M. B. Madden of the Associated
Building Trades asserted that the
unions affiliated with that organization
will stand back of the strikers to a
] man. AS the strike proceeds, union
The wageworker., 1907-05-17
MRS. CARNEGIE HoNoRED.
She Met Gentleman Who Is Credit
to Orqanized Labor.

one wet Gentieman VINO Is Creolt
to Organized Labor.
Referring to the recent peace con-
ference held at the home of Andrew
Carnegie, the Indianapolis Star said:
Zone of the enlivening spectacles at
the meeting of Andrew Carnegie's res
idence was that of Mrs. Carnegie con-
versing with the secretary of the Bar
bers' Union
Perhaps the Star is unused to
mingling in that kind of society, where
gentlemen meet women. Mind you, we
do not mean ladies'" Why refer to
the meeting there of Jere L. Sullivan
and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie as an "en-
livening spectacle?" Mrs. Carnegie is
undoubtedly accustomed to the society
Of gentlemen, and she never met a
more courteous, kindly, polished gen
tleman than Jere L. Sullican, secretary
OF the Bartenders' International Union
When she met him she met a man
not in pair of dancing pumps When
she greeted Jere L. Sullivan she
touched hands with a man who has q
big brain and a big heart. We fail to
see wherein Sullivan was especially
honored by Mrs. Carnegie's greeting
save the honor that comes to any man
whom ho ic normittod to choLo hondc
with a good woman. But Sullivan has
shaken hands with thousands of wo
men just as good as Mrs. Carnegie, the
wives of the men who belong to Sui
livans union and who know him for
his true worth. Perhaps it was nov
city for Mrs. Carnegie, this thing of
being allowed to shake hands with a
real gentleman instead of with the
mannikins of high sasiety." She could
search the "uppah circles" of New
York and Pittsburg society with a mic
pare with Jere L. Sullivan in all that
goes to make up sturdy, strong, true,
patriotic American manhood.
1t makes us tired to read all this rot
about society people throwing open
their homes" to the toilers. Confound
it, where would they get the beauti-
full homes to throw open" if it were
not for the same toi1ers?
"Enlivening spectacle, indeed! Is
it SO uncommon in high society to see
a genuine gentleman like Jere L. Sui
livan that the daily papers must make
mention of the fact and emphasize it
as an 'enlivening spectacle?"
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

A week ago last Monday the work
of excavating for the Kansas City La
Dor Temple was begun. But union men
in Kansas City took an interest in the
temple movement. That explains it.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

If the business men of Lincoln who
are always shouting for the home pat
ronage movement would practice it as
faithfully as the $500 trades unionists
of the city do, they would soon notice
an increased volume of business.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

The Curtis Publishing Co., publish
ers of the Saturday Evening Post and
Ladies' Home Journal, claim to run
an "open shop" printery. The expla-
nation is that the Curtis Publishing
Co. lies. 1t has no union printers in
its employ.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

Charlie Schwab says his company
will build no more ships on the Pa
cific coast until the labor unions re-
duce their exorbitant demands. All
right, Charley. Well reduce our de-
mands just in proportion as you re-
duce your tariff graft. Isn't that fair?
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

Lincoln unionists did not try to run
the water department. But they did
cut some figure when it came to say
ing who should run it.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

1t is not too early to begin prepara-
tions for the proper observance of La
Dor Day in Lincoln! But no non-union
bands in the parade, please.
The wageworker., 1907-05-17

The label of your union is made
more valuable every time you boost
the label of some other union