The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-15
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ress to each other that will enable
Us to solve more easily the problems
that vex mankind and while l pos
sibly could not earn the wages fixed
by your scale if l attempted to do the
work that you are doing, as an honor
airy member of your organization, /
can be a full member, working on full
time, in everything that means the
enlargement of the idea of brother
hood in this country. (Applause) L
am very glad to be here" (Applause).
At this stage of the proceedings
ident-Toastmaster Ingraham pre-
scented to William Jennings Bryan and
George Lawson Sheldon handsomely
ergrossed and framed certificates of
honorary membership in Lincoln Ty-
biographical Union No. 2O9, and as
trey bowed their acknowledgements
and took the certificates the union
printers shouted their applause.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow
Craftsmen said the POSTMASTER, Il
have the pleasure and honor of in
Producing our honored guest, fellow
union printer whose card is paid up
10 date, whose heart is with those
who toll, and who has come halfway
across the continent to be with us
Humphrey O'Sullivan-"
Then came the demonstration of
the evening. AS one man the printers
arose to their feet, clapped then
hands and shouted a hearty greeting.
The other guests and the wives of
the union men joined heartily in the
demonstration, and the tall, keen-eyed
business man who has met and more
than held his own with the financiers
o. the east. blushed like school girl
as ne bowed right and left in acknow-
ledgment of the enthusiastic greeting.
Il don't know, really, whether l
am, myself or somebody else" said
Mr. O'Sullivan, and his rich Irish
brogue sounded like music. IF 1 am
myself 1 cannot reconcile myself tn
this splendid reception, for I'm sure
I've done nothing to deserve it,
The interrupting applause evil
6enced the determination of the
printers to decide that question
themselves, and they proved that the
guest deserved all he was getting
and then some, and plenty. He said
i. was a mistake to announce that
he was member of the notification
committee, but while that might have
teen an honor. it was nothing to be
compared with the friendship shown
him by his fellow craftsmen of Lin
coin. He might not have come had
the object of his visit been merely to
participate in the notification cere-
monies. but when to that function
was added an invitation from No. 20s.
he dropped everything and came. be
cause he never felt better than when
| ringing with the men who belonged
tc the craft OF which he is so proud.
Mr.. O'Sullivan spoke of his long
membership in the union. but mod
estly omitted telling how much he
had helped the organization when it
confronted the eignt-hour situation.
But he did make label talk tina;
brought the union men up standing.
The banks that do business with
the O'Sullivan company must have the
label of the allied printing trades ant
the photographers label on their sta
tionery and checks, or they don't d.
They know it-and the labels ars
there. 1 have never gone out of m!
way to iniure a publisher or an EN-
p,oyer who refused to grant tn
eight-hour day to the printers, but i
che of them got in my way brushes
them aside. The magazines tina
carry the O'Sullivan advertising mus
be on the fair list of the printers
snd they know it"
Mr.. O'Sullivan then made a plea t
OF sanizei labor to stand shoulder I
shoulder in the present campaign. H
told them squarely and fairly tina
their interests demand the election c
Bryan and Kern You may neve
have another opportunity to vote 70
such a friend and advocate as Bryan,
he said. and the banquet room ran
with applause Il am not politician
am not looking for political Office
am merely one of you, a union ma
VINO is trying to advance the pril
ciples of unionism."
As the banquetters sat and listene
To Mr.. O'Sullivan they could easil
understand why he has been a SUI
cessful business man. and they coul
understand why he shows his frien