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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
THE REVISED CHARTER.

The proposed charter as it finally
comes from the committee is an inn
rrovement on the bill as originally
drawn. but it still lacks bit. The
Wageworker believes that 1T voices
the sentiments of practically every
union man in Lincoln when it enters
objection to the May election date.
1t Is true that one of labor's repre-
sentatives on the committee voted
for the May date, but this was be-
cause he was led to believe that 1t
was too late to fix the date in April
and have the bill passed at the present
session. Personally he favors the
April date. The objection to the April
date may be well founded so far as II
applies to this year, but it can GER
tainly be arranged to mold the election
in May this year and in April here
after. The April date is unfair and
unjust. and unless provision is made
for an April election after 1909, organ
lied labor will be warranted in OPP
posing the measure.
The proposition to have the COM
missloners serve for a nominal salary
is a pipe dream of lot of idealists,
and The Wageworker is opposed to
any plan that does not provide for an
adequate salary for the commissioners.
Frank NJ. Halls remark that the labor
ing classes woult be adequately repre-
scented under any conditions sounds
good, but the chief objection to it is
that it is untrue. The men who toll at
mechanical trades for livelihood can
never be adequately represented by
lawyers, by art experts or by men
who openly declare their opposition
to unions and insist that they would
Just as soon buy convict-made goods
as to purchase products made by free
labor. Mr. Hall is good citizen ac-
cording to his lights, but what he does
not know about the needs and desires
of the wage-earners would make a
much larger library than the legal col
lection he now has on hand. The
commissioners should be paid good
wages, and they ought to give their
entire time to the work. If they are
going to be figureheads we might just
as well continue the present unsatis-
factory system.
The tax levy amendment is COOL
one, and so is the amendment putting
the park system in the mayors de-
rartment. AS whole the charter bill
is probably as near satisfactory as 1t
is possible to draw any instrument OF
the kind.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Fire Chief Clements wants the fire.
rlen of Lincoln to have little time
off and a little more money. There
is no more reason why a fireman
should work twenty-four hours a day
than there is that a policeman should
walk beat twentyfour hours a day.
The firemen are entitled to better
wages, ami they ought to work in two
shifts. If the city can not afford it
the city ought to do without fire pro-
lection.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
UNFAIR PUBLICATIONS.
A Handy List That Good Unionists
Should Carry About

Trade unioEists and their friends
should remember that they are not
obliged to purchase the publications
contained in the following list. They
are produced under non-union condi-
fused their union printers:
The Reliable Poultry Journal, Quin-
cy, Illinois.
All works of the Werner Company,
of Akron, Ohio.
The Saturday Evening Post and
Ladies' Home Journal, the product of
the Curtis Publishing Company, Of
Philadelphia.
Century Magazine, Bookman, Smart
Set, ST. Nicholas, Worlds Work, Black
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Cat. Monthly Magazine, Men and
Women, the Housekeeper, AMI Lippin-
colts Magazine.
All of the Butterick patterns and
publications are produced by non
union labor.
Good Housekeeping, Farm and
Home, Orange Judd Farmer, New
England Homestead, American Agri-
culturist and Current Events, printed
Ey the Phelps Publishing Company,
of Springfield, Mass.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
of the Brotherhood, their families and
their friends are cordially invited.

of the Brotherhood, their families and
their friends are cordially invited.
Each member of Division SO is ex-
pected to lend his efforts to make
this ball a success by purchasing at
least one ticket, and endeavoring to
sell others. The proceeds of this ball
will be devoted to promoting a union
meeting to cover two days, the latter
part of June, 1909 at which Mrs M. e.
Cassel, Grand Vice-President of the
Ladies' Auxiliary to the B. of l.. E.
will be present with her noted Euter-
pean chorus of thirty ladies from Co
lumbus, Ohio, giving exhibitions in
|minstrelsy. songs and other diversions.
Grand Chief Stone and other grand
officers, are expected to be present
at the union meeting.
Tickets for tn: ball will be 81 per
couple, and may be applied for
through ]. H. Hyder or through other
members of the committee.
J. F. DUFFY,
Chairman.
H. WIGGENJOST,
Secretary.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
UNION BARBER SHOPS.
information as to Where You Can &c
Your Work Done Fairly.

Your Work Done Fairly.
Following is list of the union bar
Der shops of Lincoln, the name and
location being given:
Gus Petro. 1910 o street.
w. A. Jackson, 1901 o street.
w. E. Myers, Capital Hotel.
C. A. Green, 120 North Eleventh.
Geo. Shaffer, Lincoln Hotel.
J. B. Ramer, 1901 0 Street.
E. A. Snyder, 1906 o Street.
A. L. Stern. 116 South Thirteenth.
A. L. Kemmerer, Lindell Hotel.
Chapman & Ryan, 1877 North
Twelfth.
knight and Parmenter, 1872 South
Twelfth.
H. C. Leopold, Fraternity Building.
Frank Malone, Havelock.
E. A. Wood, Havelock.
C. B. Ellis, Havelock.
Windsor hotel, c. B. Lewis, Prop.
Apex Barber Shop, J. ]. Simpson,
Prop, 1901 o Street.
JV. Masully barber shop, 1914 n st.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
DEATH AND DISABILITY ROLL OF
RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
CONTINUED from page ~

safe operation. Freight trains are
dangerously short-handed. Two men
for almost a mile of cars, and some
of cur trains reach almost that dis
lance is not a safe way to run freight
| trains, yet it is done. the men can
not work safely when switching. One
man must do the work, one man must
be back with the flag, and if anything
out of the ordinary demands attention,
the man who gives it his care must
take chance of neglecting something
| else. Railway managers will not ad-
NIT this statement, but it is true and
| every railroad man in train service
On slow or way freight will confirm it.
Expert neurologists do not hesitate
to declare that long hours in positions
of great responsibility are likely to
result in brain strain, paralysis, cpl
lepsy and nervous prostration. Men
who are worn out, mentally and
physically. cannot be trusted safely
to perform the responsible work pc
culiar to the train and engine service.
The railroads, aware of these facts.
start men cut on trips they know
will consume anywhere from twenty
four or more hours. A law limiting
railway men to sixteen hours continu-
Gus service was bitterly opposed by
the railroads and though passed it will
be fought by them through the courts
before it becomes fully operative.
The railways of Europe operate with
a yearly casualty list that ought to
make us realize what can be done.
They employ three times as many
men to the mile as our roads do and
no one can deny they contribute to
safety. With Our railways, it is the
practice to meet every increased cost
of operation by a reduction in the
operating force.
| We have had many wrecks; we will
have many more, but if the public will
rouse itself to demand the employment
of more men for engine and train
operation. more men for track and
equipmen. Inspection the adoption of
block system, safety in speeds ac-
cording to the condition of track,
corresponding degree of safety allow
ance between the weight placed on
the rail and the rail itself, and the
employment of as many practical men
as are really needed, the results will
certainly show in safer railway opera
ton.
The American railway managers
are, as a rule, practical railway men,
They are capable and understand their
business, and it is not entirely their
fault that affairs are as they are 1t
is the fault of the financial system
that demands dividends first, for if
the managers cannot get financial re-
turns that experts theoretically show
the boards of directors they ought t.
get, they will be sidetracked to make
room for the men who think they car
The railroads have made money
They ought to be made to use some
of 1t in practices and appliances that
promise safety in train operation and
the minimizing of railway disaster
D. L. Cease Editor The Railway
Trainmen, in Charities and Commons.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

It's all right to stand around and
holler about the injustice of sending
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to
Jail, but what ale you doing towards
keeping them? Ii takes money to pay
legal expenses.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Johnnie Pringle. the Pittsburg labor
editor who Dan Keefed on the Amer
plan during the last campaign, has
landed outside the breastworks. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has recalled his po-
litical appointment.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Perhaps Judge Frank Hall will
agree to represent for nothing any
wage-earner who may happen to have
occasion to engage in litigation.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Workingmen have got about a belly
full OF this thing of being represented"
by lawyers, merchants, doctors, manu-
facturers and political idealists.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Draw on me for $1,000" was what
Jere Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of
the Rartenders' League wired to Sam
uel Gompers. Jere always was in the
hurry-up column when it came to
boosting for unionism.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

year ago only a few thousand
people knew that Bucks stove and
ranges were unfair Now millions
know it, and that's what is hurting
Brer VanCleave
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Ringing resolutions" may be all
right in their way, but they don't
weigh much. A checi4 for goodly
amount will do Gcmpers Mitchell and
Morrison more real good than resolu-
lions long enough to reach from Alpha
to Omaha.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

pardon implies the commission of
an offense. Men VINO stand for liberty
commit no offense save that of stand
ing out against tyrants-judicial and
otherwise
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

You can buy Buck stove if you
want TO, but if you want to it is be-
cause your unionism is suffering from
paralysis.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

The miners have put up $4,000 to
help Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison.
What will the printers do? They
have an interest as printers in Frank
Morrison. And the cigarmakers have
an interest in Gompers.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Send your mite to Frank Morrison,
secretary American Federation of
Labor, Washington, d. c., and then
you can go out and "cuss" Judge
Wright with a clear conscience
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

The Union Musicians have set a
record for annual balls in Lincoln,
and now We'll see some of the other
unions going some to equal or excel it.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

When Sam Gompers accepts a par
don for doing what he believes he has
a right to do, Hades will have boiled
down to a poultice
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
Division No. 90 Planning Big Things
for the Organization.

The annual ball of Division SO, B.
of l.. E., will be held in the Auditorium
at Lincoln, on the evening of Febru-
airy 90. 1909, to which all members
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

peal from Justice Wright's Infamous
decision.
Come on, brothers! What are you
going to do about it?
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-02-06

Entered as second-class matter April
Il, 1904, at the postofice at Lincoln,
Neb., under the Act of Congress OF
March 3rd, 1879.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01
More Lights for Alaska

The department of commerce and la DOT, in its annual report, will ask con gress to appropriate the sum of S8O,OO0 for 8 more adequate lighting of the waters of Alaska This is for a con tinuation of the work for which S60.OO0 was appropriated at the last session Of congress.
 The sam asked by the department is extremely modest in view of the actnal necessities of the case. There are no bodies of water anywhere in the world traversed by SC great volume of tou- mage aunually which are so inadequate ly protected by lights and other aids to navigation as the waters of Alaska. There is not fishing village on the Atlantic seaboard which, in ita harbors and the approaches thereto, is not bet ter protected iR these respects than Is the case with harborS iu Alaska, which are visited daily by ocean steamships carrying large nun bers of passengers and great volumes of freight.
 According to the statistics furnished by the department of commerce and labor, there depart from Puget sound 60 ports in Alaska an average of thirty two stea amships every month or rather more than enc day Commerce, in- cluding shipments gold and ores, be- tween Alaska and Puget sound, aver ages in value upwards of S20,Q00,0OO a year. Yet there are great stretches of the waters between Puget soand and Alaska'S ports traversed daily by ves- sels carrying valuable cargoes and hun- dreds of passengers which are without any lights ac all Navigation of the in- land passage to the ports of Alaska which should be as safe and easy as to traverse Long islaud sound, is beset with peIls which require the most exact knowledge and the highest skill on tRe part of pilots in those waters to avert, because of the absence of proper lights. The greater part ot tde many cas0alities in Northern waters which have occurred are d0e to the neglect of these waters by the government.
 Congress should, at the least make such 6 provision as the departnent has recommended, which will help some. bat which is far from what &he protec- tiou of commerce oR this NostherR coast reQuires.-P.-L
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody,

The cable office at Hadley has been discontinued.
 A Ketchikan saloon was robbed three times in a week.
 The Metlakahtla Indian band is plan uing a visit to San Francisco. Ltnemen are stringing wires from Kaltag to the new Iditarod country. 1 Dr. Story, of Ketchikan, is reported to have been captured by Texas widow.
 : Wireless communication has been es- tablished between Peters burg and Wrangell.
 ] The government road from Haines inland is said to be impossible during ] the winter season.
 First Lieutenant Walter Jones, of the Thirteenth infantry, has been given command of the cableship Burnside i John Kalhalla, a fisherman, oom- mitted suicide at Juneau last Friday night by shooting himself with rifle.
 Army engineers want congress to potlatch another fifty thousand dollars 1 for the completion of the St. Michael canal
 Godfrey Chealander has resigned as member of the civil service commission of the city of Seattle. and will visit Sweden.
 1 Curtis Upp, the first boy of the Daw- son school to pass the examination for admission to the Toronto university, was born in Seattle in 1894.
 The Pittsburg Dick Creek Mining Go. is constructing a ditch p miles long, from Quartz creek to Dick creek, @ tributary of the Kougarok.
 Energetic citizens of Wrangen have installed 12.horse power gasoline en- zine in an Indian canoe, which will be used to carry passengers up the Stikine river.
 Maj. w. P. Richardson, president of the Alaska road commission, says that there is S46, 900 available for the work of completing the dog trail from Knik station to the Innoka postofice. It will be entirely constructed next year, and when completed will shorten the mail route to Nome about twelve days.
 Capt. John c. Calbreth, of WraugeIl, still adheres to the theory that salmon will eventually return to the stream where they were matched, there to spawn and die, But while some fish experts claim that they will return in { four years, the captain claims that they do not return until the twentieth or twenty.first year. He established 8 hatchery at McHenry inlet nearly twenty years ago and is still waiting for his first fish to return.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01
Poetry and Prose

"What a beautiful sight it is, Mrs. Bates, to see your two little boys al- ways together" the sammer 5carder exclaimed, in ecstasy, CD tke approach of Bobby and Tommy Bates, haad in hand. "Such erotherly love is as rare as it is exquisite"
 Mrs. Bates nodded in pleasan& assent ~ told Ezry," she said, athat they're as insep'r'ble as 8 pair O pants.'
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

Sea fariug men are marveling at the trip of the swo masted freighting schooner Silver Wave, which reached the Sound ou the I7th, - days cut from Nome. Her captain and crew were all inexperienced in the work of the sea, yet the little ship came through storms and tempests without harm, and in record breaking time.
 In the report of Lieut.. E. 4. 5eunet, . U. s. A., attached to the signal corps operations of the Department of the Columbia, which was submitted to ! Col. R. E. Thompson, chief signal of fcer of the department, for transmits. sion to Washington, a recommendation is made for the establishment of three new wireless stations in the Yukon ter rjtory of Alaska. The locations are fer KaItag, Holy Cross Mission and Fort Yukon, where, it is represented, wide field of usefulness can be Gl!ed.
 The CordoVa chamber of commerce has invited the Seattle chamber to CO., operate with it in the effort it is mak ing to secure larger appropriations to@ the construction of traiIs and roads iu Alaska, and has forwarded d resolution jt has adopte6. The resolution cites as evidence of the effect of read SRd trail building, a statement that before Che Valdez and Fair banks road was constructed 20 cents per pound was paid for the transportation of supplies to Copper Center, distance of 100 miles, whereas the freight rate is DOW approximately cents per pound; alsor that the time of the transmission of the mails from Valdez to Fairbanks has been reduced from sixteen to seven days.
 Federal goyerBment employees of the Yukon residing at Dawson made 6 strenuous fight against the aesessnent of the court appeals adding their names to the tax roll for income. Un- der the direction of Acting Coy. Wilson and Assessor Lithgow the government made determined sta9d and refused to allow the protests. The judge of the territorial court particularly resisted che matter and is lighting his own case before the board. The board will tax mounted police, judges and all ether federal employes, allowing only tbe customary exemption of S1,700. There is some talk of carrying the case to the supreme court of Canada, but it is feared the costs of Sighting will be tee heavy.
 Mr. Thomas R. Shepard, veil known Nome attorney, recently arrived in Se attIe on the revenue cutter Thetis after visit enroute to the Pribilof islands. During his st&y at Pribilof island and in conversation with the officers of the Thetis, Mr Shepard learned facts about the Alaska seal industry which caused bim to state that the U. s. gov ernment is not enly paying out more money annually in protection of the sesl herde than it receives 8rem the North American Commercial company for the exclusive right to seal in Alas kan waters; but owing to the fact that mother seals are killed and the yoUng consequently perish. the se&l herds aue being exterminated and the seals in large numbers are leaving the Alaskan rookeries aud seeking shelter in the islands Of the south Pacific ocean
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

If yo& need stoves, ranges, hardware 6inware, furni6ure or anything in Che line, buy now of Feusi and save some money and also get a free chance in the drawing for the seven beautiful prizes.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

The Walden grand iury, unable to &nd grounds for the charges made against Corner Judge Reid, recommend that the matter be taken up by grand jury at Fairbanks.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

Mir. H. c. Strong informs the Daily Miuer that it is his intention to make freight rate of four dollars per ton on general merchandise as long as this rate war lasts. If the Northiand can get the business it will remain in the service, but if it's former patrons deem it wise to give their business to the other companies, it, of course, will necessjtate laying off the independent boats. When the Independent boats are gone, it is certain that the public will be mixed for the amoant it cost to pat them out of the feld.-Ketchi- kan Miuer.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

Among ether things that Mag. Rich erdson hopes to accomplish this winter while 6ownin Washington Is aE amend ment to the mining laws of Alaska, so Chat the owners of mining claims may have the option of actually doing the required annual assessment work to the value of SI00, or payiog Chat amo3nt ia cash. The law does not now pernl5 such cash payment iu lie@ eff actual assessment work. Ike also proposes that the mining law be amended requir- jug an annual payment of S5 on each claim, the money arising from the fund &h9s raised te be t2rned into the road funds, aa accurate aecoant being kept of the total sum thus contributed in each recording district, this money to be expended, if needed, under the di- Cection ef the commission, in t6e dis triets eoutributing it. This is equiv alent, in general terms, to the miners lioense formerly required by the miR- ing law of Canada In the event Of claim owner paying Sl0G into the treas Rry in EeR Of assessment work, this sam shall iuelode, under May. Richard sons plan, not only the recorders fee
 but also the annual 1S5 on the elsim af- 6eeted. 1t is not contemplated that the work done in constructing trails and roads in any recording district shell be limited to the totad Of the S5 assessments paid thereins but this sum will be supplemented, when necessary, by a draft on the genaral naad fond.
Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

Describing Cattie-raising experiments in Alaska, Prof. c. c. Georgeson, special agent of the department of agriculture, says of the government cattle herd on Kodiak island: "We now have herd of sixty pUre Galloway cattle of all ages, and these cattle are not housed in winter, hUt are given access to Opea sheds in which they are fed. We are striving by our experiments to perfect a dual purpose COW for Alaska, by which mean beef and dairy COW combined. The Galloway is pre- emineutly a beef breed, bat occasjon- ally we 6n6 d good milker among them. Cur aim is to maintain the beef qaali
 ties and at the same time develop the milking qualities, and 1 am confident this can be accomplished to a moderate degree The Gallaway breed was se- Iected because it is the hardest known to exist. Nature has provided the Gal loway COW with coat of long hair, which has been developed Undey the conditions they have been bred ia southwestern Scotland for 250 years rast- It is a region with & climate similar to that of the coast reRious of Alaska. The Galloway have nc horns ard can be handled and shipped with
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Douglas Island news., 1909-12-01

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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-02-24
BeeChW0Ods Pastor
Wins Cash Prize
Sermon Appears in the March
Number Of The Delneator
Magazine.

The March number OF The Delineator
is Of especial interest to Beechwoods
and Reynoldsvllle people. 1t contains
sermon written by Rev. George a.
Hill, pastor Of the Beechwoods Presby-
terian church, on 1.-THE Child Mission" !"
Last summer the Delineator, which is
conducting Child-Rescue Campaign,
offered prizes for sermons to be
preached on that subject or along the
line Of the American homes. The SER
mons were to be preached in the home
churches, after which the manuscripts
were submitted to the department in
the Delinedt0r which selected the prize
winners. Mr.. Hills sermon won the
second prize $500, and the sermon is
published in full In the current number.
Mr.. Hill chose for his text, IA little
child shall lead them," from Isaiah 116,
and dwelt at length on the prevailing
decrease OF families. He condemns race
suicide In the strongest terms.