The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-12-19

Manager Guy Green of the Green
| hackers has given ample evidence
of his friendliness towards union
labor-not by shooting off his mouth
/ and telling what helufa good fellow
lie is, accompanying it with a volume
OF obscenity and abuse-but by quiet
ly delivering the goods At the
meeting of the directorate of the
| Western Association in Chicago re-
Gently a resolution was adopted pledg
! ing the managers of the association
| teams to have the allied printing
trades label on all team and league
printing. Mr.. Green heartily sec
onded the resolution and it was unan-
imously adopted. Last season the
| label appeared Oil the score cards and
on the general admission tickets, but
through misunderstanding of the
facts the label did not appear on the
roll tickets. During the coming sea-
son these tickets, like. all other
printed matter, will come from n
union shop.
Manager Green is willing to go
more than half way in the matter of
handling union made cigars on the
grounds. But when big wholesale
cigar firms take advertising space of
Elm and local manufacturers do not,
re feels that he is in duty bound to
exercise a little reciprocity. But ne
has always had union made cigars on
sale, his "Greenbacker" being an es-
necial favorite. Manager Green IS
rot farming out the concessions at
the ball park, but will handle the
whole thing himself.
What's the matter with the Allied
Printing Trades Council taking a
space at the ball park and advertis-
ing the Little JOKER where every
body can see it and become ac
quainted with it? And why don't the
Cigarmakers' Union double teams
with their employers and advertise
union made and Lincoln made cigars
in connection with the famous BLUE
/
10 pull off.
Mrs. G. A. Walker will have charge
OF the cigar stand at the state house
curing the coming session of the
legislature. This will mean that
every state house visitor who wants
a union made smoke will have no
difficulty in obtaining it. The con-
cession is considered a valuable one,
and everybody in Lincoln who knows
Mrs Walker will wish for her a prof
table return for her work.
The editor of The Wageworker at
tended a meeting in Omaha last Tues
day, at which time number OF peo-
ple interested il social questions dis
cussed the child labor law and other
legislation in the interests of the
wage-earners. Among those present
were Mrs. F. A. Cole, president OF
the Nebraska Federation of Woman s
clubs; Mrs. Ha,leck F. Rose, chair
man of the Fcderation's legislative
committee; Mrs Draper Smith, a
member of the committee; Mrs.
keefe. member of the national execu-
tive board for Nebraska; Judge Ken
4 redy; Professor Graham of the South
S Omaha schools, and the truant officers
t of both Omaha and South Omaha
1t was the general opinion of the
Y confereas taht it would be unwise
e for the friends OF the law to propose
n any amendments, as it would give
some known opponents of the law an
n opportunity to emasculate 1t by
S amendment One weak spot in the
e law is the section relating to child
e cifically. The law seeks to punish
the employer but test case in Lin
e coin last winter revealed the fac'
l. that it was easy to shift the employ
e ment to theatrical agents in the east
thus releasing the manager of tn.
It company and the manager OF the
g theatre. An effort will be made tt
t remedy this defect by the enactment
d of a separate law. thus avoiding the
e danger Of trying to amend the child
labor law.
y The interest shown by the clu'
: women is very gratifying. They have
y seen to it that employers of labor IL
e Omaha obey the law, and have threat
o ened prosecution in number
e cases. The threats, too, have beer
o effective. The greatest difficulty me
H. is in the enforcement of the cigarett'
e and tobacco law. The other day thu
South Omaha truant officer prosecutet
tobacco dealer for selling tobacc'