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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
KILLED CHILD LABOR LAW.
Ohio Circuit Court Declares the State
Law Unconstitutional.


An Ohio circuit court has pro-
nounced unconstitutional the anti
child labor law of that state, which
prohibits the employment of minors
under IA in any factory, mine or other
establishment. The court regards the
act as an unwarrantable interference
with the liberties guaranteed to the
people of Ohio by their state consti-
tuition as well as by the organic law
of the United States.
This decision will astonish all
friends of child labor legislation and
good many legal students of the
questions involved in such legislation
Certainly the precedents are all
against the opinion of the Ohio court.
Legislation restricting child labor and
prohibiting it entirely under certain
ages and conditions has been the rule,
rather than the exception, for num-
ber of years, and decision after deci-
sion from the highest state courts has
sustained such interference with lib
erty" as an entirely valid exercise Of
the police power of the state-the
power to safeguard the health and
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

and Labor. of which l have the honor
to be the superintendent, has been
advocating, with considerable success,
that the IL, 900 churches in our de.
nomination discuss the labor prob
lem on the Sunday preceding Labor
Day. Hundreds of thousands CT
workingmen. besides large numbers
OF employers, have attended church
or that Sunday. to hear the labor
question discussed. 1t has been found,
however, that on account of the fact
that most ministers take their vaca-
ton during the weeks Immediately
preceding the first of September, not
sufficient preparation could be made
to make the most of this opportunity.
1t has, therefore, occurred to me that
the second Sunday in May would be
more advantageous. first, because we
shall have a better chance to get
ready for it. and now, second, because
the American Federation of Labor
has decreed that the second Sunday
ir May shall be observed as indicated
above.
But desire to get the personal
opinion of those who are directly in.
terested, and l shall be glad to have
the readers of this journal write me
very frankly as TO what they think
about having the churches of America
not only the Presbyterian, but the
other denominations as well, declare
that the second Sunday in May
shall hereafter be known as Labor
Sunday throughout the churches OF
America.
Address me at 156 Fifth Avenue
New York.-Rev. Charles Stelzle.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
Temple Boosters
Still Boosting Away

Monday night, owing to the nearness
of Christmas, and the next meeting
will be he'd on December so Unions
that have not yet sent representa-
tive to the committee should get busy
before that time.
H. j. Pickard showed up from the
Plumbers Unicn with the proper Gre
dentials and will take the place OF
former committeeman A. V. White
who has left town. Mr.. Pickard got
the glad hand.
Every member was present at the
last meeting with the exception of
Committeeman Walker of the Bar.
tenders Union, and he sent an excuse
that was deemed amply sufficient.
The committee is planning some
thing big in the way of publicity soon
but until all arrangements are made
and they are now under way-nothine
definite can be announced. But il
will be a three times winner when il
is pulled eff.
Due notice should be taken of the
fact that this committee has been
meeting some ten weeks without a
skip, and the absentees have never
numbered more than two. Chairman
Dickson comes in from University
Place every week, and other members
often pass up social enjoyment to give
their time to the good work. If 7s
per cent of the union men in Lincoln
would boom the Temple project as
hard as the members of this commit
tee have, we'd dedicate the Temple
next Labor Day instead of merely lay
ing the corner stone.
Fremont Leatherworkers Shares
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
AFTER sTILLlNes.
incompetent Public Printer is Having
a Heap Of Trouble.

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a Heap Of Trouble.
The following special dispatch to the
Omaha World-Hearld appeared under
Washington date line on Decem-
Der 16:
Organized labor is actually on the
trail of Public Printer Charles A.
Stillings, who is charged with being
hostile to organizations in the great
printing Office Senator Burkett the
other day presented a resolution
passed by the Central Labor Union of
Omaha, praying for legislation under
which Stillings will have to be re-
moved.
"Some serious charges about the
Stillings administration are made, one
just came to light. Last summer sew
eral hundred people in the bindery at
the big establishment were laid Off
indefinitely on the ground that there
was no work for them. Right after
wards, members of congress who had
business at the congressional library
discovered that it was impossible to
consult bound volumes of recent
periodicals, because these had been
held up at the printing office for a
year or more. There was no SUFFICIENT
force in the bindery to bind them,
and the library's facilities were badly
crippled as result It is charged
that hundreds of tons of unbound
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

Naracong of University Place re-
ceived telegram from Oklahoma an
nouncing the sudden death of her
younger brother. Mr. Irwin. Mrs.
Naracong is the wife of the president
elect of the local carpenters union.
Business Agent Dickson says that
when he is in his Office he often re-
other crafts He suggests that the
local unions give him the address of
their secretaries and information as
to how he can locate men when they
are called for. In this way he can
be of great service to all the unions
while taking care of the business of
his own union
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
ASSESSMENT REDUCED.
Pressmen Get Christmas Gift of Five
Per Cent.

The union pressmen of Lincoln were
sratified last week by receipt of an
official notification that on and after
December 18 the strike assessment
would be only S per cent. 1t has
been 10 per cent. The notice is posi-
tive evidence that the strike is being
won despite injunctions and threats Of
Imprisonment for contempt.
Local pressmen are feeling good.
The benefit list is practically nothing,
and overtime work has been common
for several weeks.
A former member of the union is
serving as strikebreaker in a local
''rattery' He is prominent church
worker who selfishly seized chance
to benefit at the expense of his fel
lows.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
WRONG MAN SENTENCED.
Operator Sentenced for Forgery Par
doned by Governor.

Governor Hoch of Kansas mas
granted a pardon to James G. Jarboe,
a telegraph operator sentenced to the
;penitentiary for forging a telegram on
which he tried to secure transporta-
ton from Dresden, Kansas, to Colo
RADIO Springs. Jarboe asked the
Rock Island for job as operator and
was sent to Dresden. When he got
there he found the job filed, and
nothing was open but night job as
watchman and mail tender. He de-
c1ined and asked for return transpor-
tation, which was promised. He
waited for four or five days at his
own expense, but the transportation
did not come. So he fixed up fake
telegram authorizing conductors to
carry him to Colorado Springs and
name to it. He got as far as Good
land when the operator at Dresden,
mad because Jarboe had refused to
stay, thus throwing the night work
on him, tagged" Jarboe and the
conductor handed him over to the
officers. Jarboe was advised to fight
the case, but declined, saying he was
guilty of forging the superintendent S
naIfe. He received an indeterminate
sentence of from one to seven years.
Now that he is out his first duty
should be to return to Dresden and
throw the switch for the dirty pup of
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

The Wageworker has taken occa-
sion to speak of Richard L. Metcalfes
now famous book, 'Of Such is the
Kingdom" and in it's humble way do
something to add to it's sale. On
merit alone the book should sell by
ment, in inspiration and in helpful
ness it has Rev Charles Sheldon's
I'm His Steps backed off the board
which is expressive even if not in
But there is another reason why "Of
Such is the Kingdom should be boost
ed for fair by union men and women
it is a union made book from kiver
to kiver," and it looks it. 1t is as
pretty as book can be made and sell
for a dollar The man who wrote it,
while not trades unionist by mem
bership-cnly because he is not a
craftsman-is trades unionist in SEN
timent and in practice, When he got
ready to have the book printed he
submitted the manuscript to union
print shops and asked for estimates
It is not strange that two or three
shops employing "free and indepen-
dent workmen" asked for a bid and
offered cut prices. Such shops can
bid low because they don't pay wages
But the author refused to consider
their estimates, declaring that it mad
to be put out by union men. And ii
the International Typographical I'm
ion, the pressmen were members OF
the International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union, the binders
were, members of the International
Brotherhood of Bookbinders, and the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
THE CARPENTERS.
General Organizer MiehIer Works Up
Renewed Interest Here

General Organizer MiehIer Works Up
Renewed Interest Here.
William d. Michler of Kansas City,
general organizer of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, has been in Lincoln for sew
eral days, assisting the local union in
many ways. Mr.. Michler has strength
eIed the lines in many places and has
succeeded in removing several diff
cultias that lay in the way of further
success. The good results of his work
are already manifest.
Mr.. Michler conveys the welcome
information that the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor is preparing to put
an organizer in Nebraska early in the
year for the purpose of organizing d
state federation and putting a number
of local unions into the harness. This
is something that has been long
needed
The meeting of the local Tuesday
night was addressed by Mr.. Michler
and his talk was listened to with grea;
interest and approval. He will go to
Kansas City this week and remain
with his family until after the holi
days, and expects then to return to
Nebraska to do some work in various
cities where the carpenters main
tain organizations.
Brother F1ynt. who has been work
ing in Lincoln for some time, bid ths
boys. goodbye Tuesday and on Wed
nesday started for his old home in
Poughkeepsie. ~ Y.
The first of the week Mrs. Frank
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.
Elects Officers and Winds Up Its
Work for the Year.

Elects OFFICERS and Winds Up Its
Work for the Year.
Capital Auxiliary No. IL to Typo.
graphical Union No. 209 met with Mrs
); e. Worley on Friday of last week
and elected officers for the ensuing
year The officers-elect are as follows:
President. Mrs. Fred w. Nickel.
Vice President. Mrs. J. E. Marshall
Secretary, Mrs. C. b. RICHTER.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. E. Barngrover.
Chaplin, Mrs. G. NJ. Watnan.
Guide, Mrs. f. McKenney.
Executive committee, Mrs. w. c.
Norton, Mrs. August Radebach, Mrs
II. w. Smith, Mrs. Charles Simmons
This was the last meeting of what
has been a very satisfactory year for
the organization. The Auxiliary has
pushed the label with vigor, has en-.
joyed many social good times, and
has added much to the good work OF
uIionism. The organization has moi
been depleted by death, for which the
members are thankful However
death has visited several Auxiliary
homes, and when it did the members
strove to exemplify the fraternal
teachings of unionism by extending
the hand of help and sympathy.
The next meeting will be held on
January 10 at the home of Mrs. Comp
ton, and 1t Is to be hoped that this
first meeting in 1908 will find the
full membership present There is
much work that needs to be done
which the Auxiliary can do. and every
member should try to do her full
share.
committee has been appointed tc
assist No. 209 with the silver anniver
sery ball on February 25.
Have you. any stickers left
Mrs. Tompson, 4O2 South Twenty
fifth street, and Mrs. Peat, 1867 North
1hirty-first street, have been on the
sick list
Mrs. Radebach returned from hel
Chicago VISIT sooner than expected.
Mrs. A. l.. Compton has moved tc
2029 N street.
Mrs. Creal, one OF our fused to be-
members, has had lovely Christina;
present Of little daughter.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

At the nesting last Monday even
ing the Labor Temple Committee took
the first preliminary step in the pub
licity campaign that will be started
soon after the dawning of the new
year Five thousand copies of the
articles of incorporation, together with
a brief description of the plans union
lists have in mind for Labor Temple.
will be printed and distributed to the
general public.
Just to show that trades unionists
in other cities are interested in Lin
coins movement for Temple. Ere
mont Leatherworkers' Union No. 32
bought two shares of stock. Other
unions are cordially invited to do the
same.
The committee decided to skip next
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
WASTING THEIR TIME.
Corporation Promoters Waste Time
and Postage on Wageworker.

Corporation Promoters Waste Time
and Postage on Wageworker.
The IN. OF Publishing Bureau, 119
Nassau Street, New York City, is
wasting lot of valuable time and
considerable postage in sending The
Wageworker it's mess of "predigested
editorial in opposition to municipal
ownership. The stuff comes in the
shape of newspaper clippings and al
legged facts in opposition to the mu-
nicipal ownership of public utilities.
The Wageworker gently fires the
stuff into the waste basket without
opening it. We opened the first
batch or two and that was enough.
The gentleman who collates the
copy" Mr. Grant, has got nice,
easy job, and we congratulate him.
But The Wageworker man is more
than seven years old.
The labor paper that would print
any of the dope sent out by Mr. Grant
needs an editor who is not in the
habit of buying gold bricks and biting
at the paddock game. The IN. O."
Publishing Bureau is expensive, but
the eminent corporationists who are
footing the bills evidently think they
are getting their moneys worth, But
the small amount they invest in send
ing their stuff to this humble little
labor paper is not well invested
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

this behalf shall we invite the several
evangelical denominations?
"4th. How can our courses of min
isterial study in seminaries and con-
ferences, be modified with view to
better preparing our preachers for a
social ministry and for efficiency in
moral reform?"
The following comments may rem
der the foregoing more interesting to
the readers of The Wageworker:
First, the General Conference to
which this petition is addressed is
the Supreme legislative body of the
NJ E. church. 1t meets once in four
years, remains in session for an en-
tire month and represents a constitu-
ency of more than three million men,
bers. There is probably no other body
which can express or influence SO
large a portion of the public senti-
ment except the Federal Congress
and the National Conventions of two
great parties.
Second, The action petitioned for
would touch several SUBJECTS of vital
moment to the laboring classes, such
as the rights of organized labor, the
hours of work, the employment OF
children, the Sunday, rest, the living
wage. cooperation and profit-sharing
and the relation of the liquor question
to the labor question.
Third, 1t should be noted that the
action indicated is not yet taken by
the General Conference but is merely
petitioned for by the Nebraska Con-
ference. Hence it is desired that this
petition be as strongly supported as
possible. Any expression of approval
which may emanate from labor organ
izations or the labor press will be very
helpful to this end and will be regard
ed with great interest and respect by
the General Conference The writer
of this article will be grateful for any
expressions of this kind that may be
forwarded to him and will see that
they are put to effective use.
Ever a friend of labor,
WILLIAM N. BALCH,
1901 So. 18th. st.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20

magazines and thousands of books
that need rebinding are stacked up.
both at the library and at the print
irg Office, awaiting attention, while it
is given out that there is no work for
the binding force. Congress is going
to find out, if possible, what the facts
are, and there may be legislation Of
the sort the unions want. Last ses-
sion it was charged that incompetency
at the printing Office delayed adjourn
ment many hours, to the great disgust
OF members
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
GOOD MAN SICK.

Robert Strain, member of the Bar
bers' Union, is quite sick at his home
in University. Place Brother, Strain
is one of the old union standbys, and
he has host of friends who are wish
ing for his speedy recovery.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
NOT ORGANIZING JAPs.

San Francisco, Dec. 14.-Advices
from Honolulu state that it is denied
officially by the secretary of the Homo
lulu trade and labor assembly that
any representative of the American
Federation of Labor is in Hawaii
seeking to organize the Japanese plan
tation labors into union allied. with
the federation.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
FALSELY ACCUSED.

Charges Against Union Men at Cold
field Were unfounded.
Goldfield, New, Dec. 1S.-The dis
covery was made today that the union
miners or their sympathizers had
nothing to do with the cutting on of
light and power through a break in
the Nevada & California Power COM
pany's wires. Armed repairmen, re-
turning from search for the break.
reported that an ice and snow slide
in the White mountains had caused
the poles to collapse, the impact snap
ping the wires.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
A SURE 90.

1t looks like the Lincoln Labor Tenn
pie would be a go. The Wageworker
is booming it for fair.-Western La
borer
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-12-20
LABOR SUNDAY.

Rev. Charles Stelxie Wants to Know
Sentiment Of Onionists.
Shah we observe Labor Sunday on
the Sunday before Labor Day in Sep
tember. or on the second Sunday in
May, which would being it in harmony
with the resolution adopted by the
last convention Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor with reference to
the observance of that Sunday as
"Labor's Memorial Day?"
For three successive years the
Presbyterian Department of Church
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-14
BLUE IN ARKANSAS.

well, you can just say what you
please about 1t, but the farmers on this
side Of the Mississippi river are away
yonder better off than they are on the
other side" said Mr.. H. c. Strauss,
who is just back after stay Of sew
eral weeks in Arkansas, to the report
er yesterday morning.
The cotton planters Of that country
are as, blue over the prospects as they
can be-" continued Mr.. Strauss, land
the merchants and supply people are
in about the same spirits. talked with
business men and farmers from Texas,
Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas and they all described about
the same conditions, most Of them say
ing that even with the very best Of
weather conditions from now until the
Gotten crop Is harvested, there is not
the possibility Of more than half the
normal crop.
"I spent considerable time at New
port, Ark, which Is located in a cotton
belt that ordinarily produces good
Yields, but it will not do 1t this sea-
son. Last week 1 noticed a number OF
cotton planters in town, carrying
handsful of little cotton plants, just
taken from the fields. inquired what
that meant, and was told a story about
like this:
well, we are up against it. This
cotton is the result Of the third plant
ing, and unless we can secure addi-
tional supplies from the merchants.
we will simply have to give it up and
let the merchants who have been sup
plying us hold the bag. We can't
work out the present crop without ad-
ditional supplies. We will have to
have additional seeds to plant for the
fourth time
Il asked one Of the biggest mer-
chants Of Newport what he was going
to do about the situation, and he re-
piled that they had agreed with the
planters to accept one-third of the
crop as their part of the years work.
You see we can't help ourselves
said the merchant If the farmers had
only offered us a sixth we would have
had to accept that: we are at their
mercy and have to take just what they
offer u.s.
Mr.. Strauss Is glad to be back home
again and while he finds great pleasure
in an occasional visit to Arkansas, and
has many friends out there who are
always glad to see him, he is Of opin-
ion that York county is quite good
enough for him and is quite sure that
the farmers of this section Of South
Carolina are decidedly better off than
are their farmer brothers west Of the
Mississippi.
Mr.. Strauss told about the business
being done by a large cotton oil mill
located at Newport, and remarked
that among other points to which the
mill was shipping cotton seed hulls
was Newberry, Anderson and Sumter
in this state. The hulls sell for $3.50
at the mill.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-14
Judae James AIdrich will preside a

Judae James Aldrich will preside at
the next term Of the circuit court for
this county.
The traffic congestion on the rail-
roads has been relieved and business
is now being transacted with satisfac-
ton. The trains are making very good
time.
Travelling men who have covered a
large portion of the state during the
last two or three weeks, say that the
crops are better in York than in any
other county in the state.
Mr.. e. D. Smith of the South Caro-
limo branch of the Southern Cotton
association will conduct a months
campaign in this state during July, in
the interest of the association. His
York county date is July 9th.
There is some very good cotton to
be seen along the Southern railroad
between Rock Hill and Chester, espe-
cially on the farms of Messrs. ]. B.
Johnson at Ogden, and Mr.. T. L. john
ston at Smiths Turnout. The cotton
on both of these farms has been thin
ned to a proper stand and is growing
off nicely. There are some large fields
on the railroad, however, that have not
yet been thinned to stand. Corn
generally looks pretty poor all the way
down into Chester county.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-14
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The South Carolina Fire Insurance
Agents association will meet in CO.
lumbia next Tuesday afternoon in an
nual session.
- Sculptor Ruckstuhl, who built the
equestrian statue to Hampton on the
Capitol grounds, Columbia, has been
awarded the contract for a $4,000
statue Of Calhoun to be placed In the
Capitol at Washington.
- Columbia State: The Colonial
Danes Of South Carolina offer prize
every year for the best essay on some
subject of colonial interest. This past
year the subject was: Religious Lie
Of South Carolina-1670 to 1775." Com
petition for the prize was limited to
certain colleges for women in the state.
The faculty OF each college was asked
to select the best essay from those
submitted by students Of that college
to represent the college in the compe-
tition. President d. B. Johnson OF
Winthrop has just been informed by
Mrs. Langdon Cheves, vice president
Of the Colonial Danes and now acting
president that Winthrop's representa-
tive in the contest, Miss Grace Dell
James of Bishopville. has been award
ed the prize by the committee Of award
of the Colonial Danes. Mrs. Cheves
asks President Johnson to notify the
young lady of her success with our
congratulations and thanks for the
careful work as we'll as ability which
she has shown in the treatment of the
subject"