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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
CHILD LABOR BILL PASSES.
Not a Good Feature Lost, Although
Minor Amendments Made.


House roll No 9, the Clarke child
labor bill, was passed by the senate
on Tuesday, March 26, the vote stand
ing "a to 8. The bill now goes to
Governor Sheldon for his signature.
AS passed the bill lost not a single
one of its good features, although in
Difference to the farmers a few minor
amendments were made. The farm
ers were dreadfully afraid that the bill
as originally drawn would not let
them work the children like galley
slaves if they so desired. Knowing the
impossibility or regulating farm labor,
the advocates of the bill acquiesced
in these minor amendments in order
to reach the greater of two evils
child labor in the cities
The bill prohibits children under IA
years of age working in the beet
fields. Children between fourteen and
sixteen are limited to eight hours la
Dor day, forty-eight hours week. 1t
will rank as one of the best child labor
laws enacted by the states, and will
be wonderful advantage in the work
of enforcing the educational laws and
the Juvenile law The vote on the
bill was as follows, every senator
present and voting:
Ayes Aldrich, Ashton, Buck,
Byrnes. Dodson, Gibson. Holbrook.
King, McKesson, O'Connell, Patrick,
Phillips, Randall, Root, Sackett, Saun-
ders. Sibley. Thomas, Thompson, Will
cox, Wiltze, Wilsey, Wilson-24.
Nays-Clarke. Epperson, Glover,
Gould. Goodrich, Hanna. Latta, Luce.
Thorne-9
1t will be noted that on the final
vote the Lancaster senators, Burns
and McKesson, voted for the passage
of the bill When the bill as up be-
fore these gentlemen opposed it. They
are to be congratulated upon their
change of heart and entitled to credit
for assisting in the final passage of the
bill
The chief credit. for this victory for
humanity is due to the Woman's
clubs of Nebraska. The women work
ed hard-harder than any union men.
Judge Kennedy of Omaha, Judge SUIT
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ton of Omaha, Representative Clarke,
Truant Officer Morris of Omaha, Su-
perintendent Stevens of Lincoln,
Truant Officer Hoagland of Lincoln, j.
E. Baum, one of Omaha's largest
merchants, and others, fought valiant
ly for the bill Union men also lent
their aid. But the chief credit belongs
to the splendid women who took the
management of the business into their
own hands and worked night and day
to take Nebraska out of the class in
which Georgia, Mississippi and Ala
5ama are found, and put it in the class
Of states that have determined to put
a stop to the sacrifice of the innocents
upon the altar of Mammon.
At last Nebraska has child labor
law that means something. Now for
its enforcement.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
A GROWING UNION.

During the year we have chartered
sixty-one new unions, making a total
of 931 unions on our rolls to December
l., 1906. or a total gain of thirty-one
unions. 1t is, indeed, our ambition to
make our roster total at least one
thousand unions by December 1. 1907.
Let the entire membership do it's ut
most to help along this good work,
SO that our hopes may be realized
Bricklayers and Masons
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
LAsoR's NATIONAL PLATFORM.

/. The abolition of all forms of in
voluntary servitude except as pun
ishment for crime.
2 Free schools, free text books and
compulsory education.
). Unrelentng protest against the
issuance and abuse of Injunction pro-
cess in labor disputes.
6. A work day of not more than
eight hours in the twenty-four hour
day.
5. A strict recognition of not over
eight hours day on all federal, state
or municipal work and at not less than
the prevailing per diem wage rate of
the class of employment in the vici-
nifty where the work is performed
6. Release from employment one
day in seven.
Z. The abolition of the contract sys-
tenn on public work.
s. The municipal ownership of pub
lie utilities.
.. The abolition of the sweat shop
system
10. Sanitary inspection of factory,
workshop, mine and home.
IL. Liability of employers for in
jury to body or loss of life.
II. The naturalization OF telegraph
and telephone.
13. The passage of anti-child labor
laws in states where they do not exist
and rigid defense of them where they
have been enacted into law.
IA. Woman suffrage co-equal with
man suffrage, the initiative and refer
endum and the imperative mandate
ard right of recall
Is. Suitable ard plentiful play
grounds for children in all cities.
16. Continued agitation for the pub
lie bath system in all cities.
II. Qualifications in permits to build
Of all cities and towns, that there shall
he bathroom and bathroom attach
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
OTIS RELIEVED.

The California legislature passed
the following laws: Regulating child
labor, eight-hour day for women, EN-,
ployers' liability, voting hours III
creased. eight-hour day for railway
men, ten hours for drug clerks, six
teen-hour limit on railroads. Imme-
diately following this batch of laws
the Los Angeles Times frantically
belched it's: Thank God the legisla-
ture has adjourned Western
Laborer
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29

the membership of the union was 105,-
1SS. The union pays sick, death and
approximation benefits The organ
ization has just presented demand
for an increase in wages of two shil-
lings week, and announces that it
may ask for an additional increase at
News
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
WANT A PIANo?

The Wageworker has for sale a
piano that it secured on an advertis-
ing contract. This is a standard piano,
one of the best made, and will be sold
for just half the regular retail price.
We want to sell it right away. If you
are interested, ask the editor.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
A Rich Union.

The wealthiest labor union in the
world is the Amalgamated Engineers
Society of Great Britain. Statements
just published show that this organiza-
ton possesses funds amounting to over
$3,50O,OOO. Most of this is locked up
in secure investments, which bring in
steady returns. On January 1, 1907,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
A LABOR REPRESENTATIVE.

One of the men organized labor
most heartily regrets to have retire
from the halls of congress is Repre-
senaive Hunt, of Missouri. He was
a real laboring man and carried a card
in the stonecutters' union. 1t is said
that he will go back to the trade
yet he may come to congress again
Washington Trades Unionist.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29

ments in all houses or compartments.
used for habitation.
IS. We favor a system of finance
whereby money shall be issued ex-
clusively by the government, with
such regulations and restrictions as
will protect it from manipulation by
the banking interests for their own
private gain.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
unlonrsrs HEAP DAMN FOOLS

Eastern man: Are those Indians
union men,"
Chief Mudhorse: mo understand.
What you mean by union menu
Eastern Man: "Well, union men
work only eight hours a day"
Chief Mudhorse: Union men heap
much damn fool-Indian work eight
hours a Week."-Puck
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-29
COMING CONVENTIONS.
Dates of Meeting of international
Union Conventions for 1907.

Dates of Meeting Of international
Union Conventions for 1907.
May New York City; Cloth Hat
and Cap Makers.
May Toledo, Ohio; Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers.
May 13--Minneapolis, Mimi; Rail-
road photographers.
May 13-New York City: Hatters.
May 2O-Cleveland, Ohio; Musicians.
May 20-Detroit, Mich; Switch
mems Union.
May 29-Washington. d. c.: Steel
Plate Transferers.
June Newark n. j.; Tip Printers.
June Baltimore: Ladies' Garment
Workers.
June Boston; Marble Workers.
June Toledo, Ohio; Steam, Hot
Water and Power Pipe Filters.
June 17-New York City; Printing
Pressmen and Assistants.
June 2S-Chicago; PAYERS and RAM
mermen.
July Detroit, Mich; Brushmak-
ers
July s-Toronto. Cana; Glass Bottle
Blowers.
July S-Detroit, Mich. Longshore-
men, Marine and Transport Workers.
July S-East Liverpool, Ohio; Oper-
ative Potters.
July 9-Detroit, Mich; Amalsamat-
ed Window Glass Workers.
July 9-Norfolk, Va; Theatrical
State Employees.
July 15-Chicago; Steel and Copper
Plate Printers.
July LIST. Joseph, Mo-; Retail!
Clerks Association.
July 2O-Brooklyn, N. Y; Wire
Weavers' Association.
August Boston; Brotherhood OF
Transfers.
August 6-Rockford, ILL.,. Glove
Workers.
August 12-Philadelphia; Stereo-
typers and Electrotypers.
August 12-Hot Spring, Ark: Typo
graphical Union.
August 13-St. Louis: Shirt Waist
and Laundry Workers.
August 21-Cincinnati, Ohio; Metal
Polishers.
September st Louis; Machinists.
September 2-Indianapolis; Postof-
flee Clerks.
September 3-Chicago; Sawsmiths.
September 3-Eureka, Cal; Woods
men and Saw Mill Workers.
September 9-Indiapanolis: Brick, |
Tile and Terra Gotta Workers.
September 12-Boston: Cotton Mule |
Splnners.
September 16-New Orleans; Bridge |
and Structural Iron Workers.
September 16-New York City; |
Wood Carvers.
September 27-Waldon, n. Y; Pock-
ct Knife Grinders and Finishers
October 6-Milwaukee; Blacksmiths |
and Helpers.
October Chicago, Photo Engrav-
ers' Union.
October bay City, Mich; Ship |
wrights, Joiners and Caulkers.
October 15-Rochester, n. Y: Inter- |
national Car Workers Association.
October 15-Providence r. L.; Unit |
ed Textile Workers.
November 11-Norfolk, Va; Ameri- |
can Federation of Labor.
December 2-Chicago; Bill Posters |
and Billers.
December 2--Chicago; Seamen's |
Union.
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Che Schemes 81 golonel glay

member you must disclose your person
atty"
Not at ALL" Charles answered. 81
can keep it dark for the present, till all
is arranged for. / need only say I have
interests in South Africa
So one morning, on deck, as we were
approaching the Banks, he preached
his scheme gently to the doctor and
Mrs. Quackenboss. He remarked that
he was connected with one of the big
gest financial concerns in the southern
hemisphere. and that he would pay
Elihu fifteen hundred a year to repre-
sent him at the diggings.
What, dollars? ' the lady said, smil-
ing and accentuating the tip tilted nose
a little more. ''Oh, Mr.. Porter, it amt
good enough"
mo, pounds, my dear madam, .
Charles responded. Pounds sterling
you know In United States currency
seven thousand five hundred"
I guess Elihu would just jump at
it." Mrs. QUackenboss replied. looking
at him quizzically.
The doctor laughed.
You make a good bid, SIR he said
in his slow American way, emphasizing
all the most important words, but you
overlook one element. / am a man of
science, not a Spectator. have
trained myself for medical work, at
considerable cost, in the best schools
of Europe, and do not propose to fling
away the results of much arduOus labor
by throwing myself out elastically into
new line of work for which my facul-
ties may not, perhaps, equally adapt
me-"
CHOW thoroughly Americana MUIR
INJURED, in the background.)
Charles insisted, all in vain; Mrs
QuackenbOss was impressed, but the
doctor smiled a sphinx-like smile, and
reiterated his belief in the unftness OF
midstream as an ideal place for swap
ping horses. The more he declined, and
the better ne talked the more eager
Charles became each day to secure him.
And, as if on purpose to draw him on,
the doctor each day gave more and
more surprising proofs Of his practical
abilities.
II am not a specialist he said. 81
Just ketch the lift. appropriate the
kernel, and let the rest Slide
He could do anything, it really
seemed, from shoeing a mule to con-
Quoting a camp meeting. he was cap
ital chemist, a very sound surgeon. a
fair judge of horsefiesh, first-class
euehre player, and a pleasing baritone.
When occasion demanded he could oc-
cupy a pulpit. He had invented a
cCrkscrew which brought him a small
revenue; and he was now engaged in
the translation of a Polish work on the
application of Hydrocyanic Acid to
the Cure of Leprosy.'
Still, we reached New York without
having got any nearer our goal, as re-
garded DR. Quackenboss. He came to
bid us goodbye at the quay, with that
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fashion of the days before Colonel
Clay had begun to embitter life for
him) with a nice American doctor and
his charming wife, on their way back
to Kentucky. DIR. Elihu Quackenboss
that was his Enthusiastically Amer
lean name-had been studying medicine
for a year i'm Vienna, and was now re-
turning to his native state with brain
close crammed with the latest bacter-
biological and antiseptic discoveries. His
wife, a pretty and piquant little Ameri-
can with a tip-tilted nose and the
quaint sharpness of her eountrywomen,
amused Charles not little. The funny
way in which she would make room for
him by her side on the bench on deck,
and say, with sweet smile. You sit
right here, Mr.. Porter; the suns just
elegant" delighted and fiattered him.
He was proud to find out that female
attention was not always due to his
wealth and title, and that plain Mr..
Porter could command on his merits
the same amount of Establishments as
Sir Charles Vandrift, the famous mil
lionaire, on his South African celebrity.
During the whole of that voyage it
vas Mrs. Quackenboss here, and Mrs.
QuackenbOss there, and Mrs. Quacken-
boss the other place, till, for Amelia S
SAKE. i WdS SldO BIC W d. lAOl vi OOclAh
to witness it. Long before we sighted
Sandy Hook. l will admit, l was fairly
sick of Charles twO-stringed harp
Mrs. QuackenbOss and the dispatch
box
Mrs Quackenboss, it turned out, was
an amateur artist, and she painted Sir
Charles, on calm days on deck, in all
POSSIBLE attitudes. She seemed to find
him a most attractive model.
The doctor, too, was a precious clev-
er fellow He knew something of chem
istry-and of most other subjects, in
Guiding, as I gathered, the human char
acter. For he talked to Charles about
various ideas of his, with which he
wished to 'liven up folks in Kentucky
bit on his return. till Charles con-
'eeived the highest possible regard for
his intelligence and enterprise.
That's go-ahead fellow, Sey!' he
remarked to me one day. Has the
right sort of grit in him! Those Amer
leans are the men. Wish 1 had a round
hundred of them on my works in South
Africa"
That idea seemed to grow upon him.
He was immensely taken with it. He
had lately dismissed one of his chief
superintendent at the Cloetedorp
mine, and he seriously debated wheth-
er or not he should offer the post to the
smart Kentuckian. For my own part,
/ am inclined to connect this fact with
his expressed determination to visit his
South African undertakings for three
months yearly i'm future, and / am
driven to suspect he felt life at Cloete-
dOrp would be rendered much more toll
cradle by the agreeable society of a
quaint and amusing American lady.
IF you offer it to him." 1 said, re
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forehead. Could this, too, be a wig?
II seemed very probable.
Even as I thought that thought,
Charles appeared TO form sudden and
resolute determination. With one
lightning swoOp he seized the doctor S
hair in his powerful hand, and tried to
lift it off bodily. He had made a bad
guess. Next instant the doctor uttered
loud and terrified howl of pain, while
several of his hairs. root and all, came
out of his scalp in Charles hand, leav-
ing a few drops of blood on the skin
of the head in the place they were torn
from. There was no doubt at all it was
not a wig, but the Kentuckian's nat
ural hlrsute covering.
The scene that ensued 1 am powerless
to describe. My pen is unequal to it.
The doctor arose, not so much in anger
as establishment, white and incredu-
lous.
What did you do that for, anyway ?"
he asked. glaring fiercely at my broth
er-in-law.
Charles was all abject apology. He
began by profusely expressing his re-
greet. and offering to make any suitable
reparatiOn. monetary OF otherwise.
Then he revealed his whole hand. He
admitted that he was Sir Charles Van
Drift, the famous millionaire, and that
he had suffered egregiously from the
endless Vaccinations of a certain Col.
Clay, machiavellian rogue, who had
bounded him relentlessiy round the
capitals of Europe. He described in
graphic detail how the impostor got
himself up with wigs and wax so as to
deceive even those who knew him init
mately; and then he threw himself on
DIR. Quackenboss' mercy. as a man
who had been cruelty taken in so often
that he could not help suspecting the
best of men falsely. Mrs. Quackenboss
admitted it was natural to have sus-
picions.
Especially" she said. with candOr,
"as you're not the first to observe the
notable way Elihu's hair seems to
originate from his forehead" and she
pulled it up to show US. But Elihu
himself sulked on in the dUmps-his
dignity was offended
"If you wanted to know" he said,
you might as well have asked me.
Assault and battery is not the right
way to test whether a citizens hair is
primitive or acquired
TT was an impIse,'' Charles pleaded;
can instructive impulse"
Civilized man restraints his i'm
pulses" the doctor answered. You
have lived too long in South Africa,
Mr.. Porter-I mean Sir Charles Van
drift, If that's the right way to ad-
dress such a gentleman. You appear
TO nave imbibed the habits and man
ners Of the Kaffirs you lived among"
For the next two days. 1 will really
admit, Charles seemed more wretched
than I could have believed it possible
for him to be on somebody else's ac-
court. He positively groveled. The
fact was, he saw he had hurt DR..
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The Hotel Clerk on Ancestry Hunting

glancing kindly over their heads and
then they back out of the royal pres
ence like a bunch of scary yearlings
emerging from a stock car, and come
home and brag. From what | can
gather. pretty nearly every European
ruler looks like pineapple cheese, or
has an intellect like one, yet there S
always a large annual output of Amer
lean millionaires spending time and
money trying to keep out of the United
States courts and get into the Euro
pean ones.
Them PittsburS plutes must be
easy money" said the House Detec-
tive.
"Oh, l don't know" said the Hot Il
Clerk "If the young gentleman with
the ontray to st. James had only
stopped over in New York and put his
scheme on there. the resulting CORE
spondence would have swamped the
general postoff1ce inside of forty-eignt
hours. or he could have shut his eyes
and picked out any town i'm the United
States that's big enough to have a
horse show. and he'd a-been surprised
al the prompt response accorded Ito his
attractive proposition by the elite of
the community.
You may recall, Larry, that it was
in our own midst, where the lady lately
had the litigation with the gentleman
who tracked down her ancestoE4 cor
her. She wanted to join a new patriot
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sphinx-like smile still playing upon his
features. Charles ciutched the dispatch
box with one hand, and Mrs. Quacken-
boss little palm with the other.
Don't tell u.s. he said. this is good
bye-foreverY' And his voice quite fall
tered.
Il guess SO, Mr.. Porter" the pretty
American replied, with a telling glance.
What hotel do you patronize?"
'"The Murray HILL " Charles re-
sponded.
"Oh. my. amt that odd?" Mrs.
Quackenboss echoed. 1.-THE Murray
Hilp Why, that's just where we're go
ing. too, Elihu!
The upshot of which was that
Charles persuaded them. before return
ing to Kentucky, to diverge for a few
days with us to Lake George and Lake
Champlain. where he hoped to over
persuade the recaleitrant doctor.
To Lake George therefore we went,
and stopped at the excellent hotel at
the terminus of the railway. We spent
a good deal of our time on the light lit
tie steamers that ply between that
point and the road to Ticonderoga.
Somehow. the mountains mirrored in
the deep water reminded me of Lu-
cerne; and LuCerne reminded me of the
little curate. For the first time since
we left England a vague terror seized
me. Could Elihu Quackenboss be Col
onel Clay again, still logging our steps
through the opposite continent?
I could not help mentioning my sus-
picion to Charles-whO, strange to say.
pOoh-pOohed it. He had been paying
great court to Mrs. Quackenboss that
day, and was absurdly elated because
the little American had raped his
knuckles with her fan and called him
"a real silly"
Next day, however. an odd thing hap
pened. We strOlled out together. all
four of US, along the banks of the lake,
among woods just carpeted with
Mrs. Quackenboss called them-and
lined with delicate ferns in the first
green of springtide.
1 began to grow pOetical q wrote
verses in my youth before / went to
South Africa) We threw ourselves on
the grass, near a small mountain
stream that descended among moss
clad bOulders from the steep woods
above US The Kentuckian flung him
self at full length on the sWard. just
in front of Charles. He had a strange
head of hair, very thick and shaggy.
] don't know why, but, of a sudden, it
reminded me of the Mexican Seer,
whom we had learned to remember as
Colonel Clay's embodiment. At the
same moment the same thought seemed
to run through Charles head for,
strange to say, with a quick impulse
ne leaned forward and examined it. I
saw Mrs. Quackenboss draw back in
wonder. The hair looked too thick and
close for nature. 1t ended abruptly, |
now remember, with sharp line on the
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said the Hotel Clerk. AT q compar-
atively early stage of the negotiations
the police broke IN on the well-dressed
young man and took him TO the only
large public building in Pittsburg that
Andrew Carnegie didn't help to build.
l refer to the county Jail But i'm his
apartments they found upward of 300
replies from tie best old iron, steel and
smelling families, and the cop at the
door turned away squad OF letter
carriers that had just backed up at
the curbstOne with a truckload of be-
lated answers marked 'Urgent-in
Haste from the outlying suburban
villas II booked like every prominent
Pittsburger that had succeeded in
trading his union card in the Puddlers'
union for a cOat-of-arms was willing
to pay q handsome bouns for the sweet
boon of appearing at st. James. ] I'M
derstand that it's a splendid thing for
all concerned when a fleshy party from
the middle west and the lady members
OF his household can rig UP like they
We're going to d fancy dress ball and
enter q large. roomy. or English draw
ing room full of ladies in waiting
though l don't know what it is they
wait for unless it's a beauty doctor
and advance to a raised platform on
which stands a regal form measuring
five feet three i'm height and the same
around the center. and they bow low
to his majesty, who favors them by
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ic society which required of the can
didate for membership a royal ancestry
and about $500 in cash. So she wrote
to an expert that did pedigreaslng
and asked for a neat royal family tree,
something suitable for a lady of me-
dunn height and inclined to be stout.
with light complexion and blue eyes.
So he went through the stock and did
his best to find q pedigree that would
match He traced her back through
Henry the Eighth, who was no SLOUGH
of family man himself. to Alfred the
Great | think it was. But when he
applicant rendered the contents of Ter
morgue to the committee on credeu-
tidls, she was turned down. A lady
who enjoyed a straight, lot 10 say alb
rupt, descent from Canute, discovered
that the pedigreaser had rung in a
bum king out of the wrong deck. So
they had a lawsuit which brought out
the interesting fact that we now have
in this republic growing class among
whom the pedigree comes in as the
appendix goes out. We've a progress
i've race, Larry. In one generation the
family legs are seen i'm the original
BLACK Crook chorus, and in the next
the family arms are prominently dis
played over the onyx mantelpiece.
And yit this is the country where
we're supposed to hate emperoTs and
kings and all them sort of things,
said the House Detective.