The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-06-06

Last Sunday was observed as
Printers, Memorial Day by Typo
graphical Union No. see- The incle-
r,snt weather forced posrponement
OF the decoration services in the al
ternoon. but despite the rain some
fifty members of the union and of
Capital Auxiliary No. II assembled at
the First Baptist church and listened
To a splendid sermon On Brother
hood By Rev. Dr. Batten- The ne
cessisy of organization was empha-
sized by the speaker. and he pointed
out the splendid results tnat were
sccruing by reason Of the spirit of
brotherhood that was being fostered
hy the trades unions. That unions
make mistakes was admitted. but IL
was pointed out that these mistakes
were not the mistakes of unionism
hut the mistakes of q fallibie human
ity. The idea of brotherhood pre-,
supposes the idea of fathernood. and
upon this point Rev. DR.. Batten dwelt |
With convincing eloQuence- His ar
raignment of the greed and avarice |
With is numbering, physically and
morally. its thousands in the sweat |
shops. and slaughtering the innocents
by the scores and hundreds in the
mills and mines, was terrific. He
insisted that the true remedy for
these evils lay in arousing in all men
the knowledge of their brotheriy
euty-she fostering of that spirit OF
universal brotherhood that can come
cniy from a knowledge and practical
application of the Fatherhood of God.
The golden rule is the foundation upon
which men should build in their deal
ings with their brothers
The sermon was listened to with
deep interest. and it made profound
impression upon the hearers.
In the afternoon committee pro-
oeeded to wyuka and decorated the
typographical Unions burial lot
Sunday afternoon, June II, the serv-
ices as planned for wyuka last Sun
day will be carried out The union
and auxiliary will meet at the Fra
ternity building at o'clock and at
SIS will take special cars on the
Citizens line for the cemetery L D.
Woodruff viii deliver the decoration
day address. followed by President
Balm of the union Quartette will
sing and the assembly will also sing
one or two familiar hymns. Rev. ].
:, Nickel will invoke the divine bless
ing Then the roster of the unions
dead viii be called and the choicest
flowers laid upon their graves
The old-Sime printers in Lincoln were
grieved early this week by the news
from Sioux City that George C. Nc
Caslin was dead. Mt. McCaslin
worked in Lincoln some eighteen or
twenty years ago. and was AT one time
president of No. sos. For the last
three years he had been a hopeless
paraiytic. but during these years ne
was always cheerful His comrades
cneerei him as only true blue union
lists can under such trying circum-
stances For ten years he was en-
ployed upon the Sioux City Journal.
ard his employers speak of him in the
highest terms He was buried from
the Whitfield Methodist church in
Sioux City. and the funeral was W
Ger the auspices Of Sioux City Typo
g-aphicai Union
The first months assessment of the
International typographical Union
Tor the old age pension fud amounted
- slo.ese1s
St Paul, Mimi. typographical I'm
iSn has decided TO take a hand in
the political game. and special com
nlistee has been authorized to arrange
the preliminaries
Lincoln union meets tomorrow, anc
the important matter of deciding the
lngraham-Ford vote for president will
come up. The meeting promises to
be lively one. and the way parlia-
mentary faw viii be sprung is calcu-
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