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The wageworker., 1910-01-22

women and children, and we know
where we can raise the money to pay
Mrs. Robins expenses if the Lincoln
Woman's Club will agree to give her
good audience. Mrs. Robins will
not talk about rugs. either. She will
talk about girls and women with souls
to save and bodies to keep. We hope
the club women of Linco1on are as
much Interested in their sisters who
toll as they are in rugs and tapes
tries.
Elsewhere we give space to the in
dustrial demands made by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in Amer
lea. This council represents about
forty Protestant denominations, claim
ing a III ,mbership of about 42O,0OO,O 900.
A careful reading of this declaration
of principles will convince you that
the church is at last waking up to the
fact that it must help to take care of
the bodies of men and women before
it can begin to take care of their souls
And it proves that the church is rec
ognizing the fact that it must give
it's support to the trades union move
ment If it would continue to hold its
place in the onward march of the
| worlds progress. You will be inter
ested in reading the report.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
ELECTRICAL WORKERS

The Lincoln local is still working
on it's new wage scale, and things
look good We'll be going some by
the time the sun begins to shine on
both sides of the fence says Secre-
tary Mayer.
No. 525 of Burlington, Ia. has
opened it's charter for thirty days, and
as a result of lively work is adding
new members every day.
No. 253 of Cedar Rapids is going
some. Gable splicers have secured an
increase of so cents day. Others
get an increase of % cents. Work in
Cedar Rapids is little dull right now
but the outlook is good. The inside
wiremen are getting ready to ask for
an increase, and of course they expect
OF get it.
No. 1872 of Omaha reports that it is
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
TYPOGRAPHICAL TIP S

Bert Pentzer has been up OF the
Kinkaid ranch, looking after his
fences ard haystacks Bert will never
know how near he came to losing that
handsomely framed picture Of the
home
The annual ball on February % will
be a winner. The committees are
working hard, and as it will be a La
Dor Temple benefit it will be one of
the biggest events in the history of
the local.
Secretary Paine of the State His
torical Society says he will see to it
that hereafter the label appears on all
the printed matter of the Society.
Cedar Rapids, Ia, printers are find
ing another dollar in their envelope
every Saturday now. 1t is the second
jump of dollar agreed upon a year
ago.
Say, how about nominations for in
ternational officers? Is Johnnie Hayes
going to have any competition? Is
James M. Lynch going to have an
other walk-away? Say, we're getting
awfully slow. A dozen years age
union politics would have been boil
ing about this time of the year.
Jerome Jones of Atlanta nominates
Sam DeNedry of Washington, d. G..
for delegate to the A. F. of l.. We
second the nomination. They DOM
| make wires that will carry any more
current than DeNedry carries all the
time.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

getting the town lined UP in good
shape. No. 62, the linemen's local, is
again in the ring and doing business.
The work of organization is being
pushed at a lively rate
All locals in the district are re-
quested to send in before February l
>he result of the vote on the assess
ment proposition. Secretary Mayer
wants to notify all local secretaries
before they send in their February re-
ports.
No. 61O OF Marshalltown, Ia, reports
work slow, but prospects unusually
good. Five new members were added
at the last meeting of the local.
Work in Lincoln is a bit slack now
but not more so than might have been
| reasonably expected at this time OF
the year. The outlook is good, and
the boys are all feeling confident.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

We knew it! we just knew it! EG
Wright of Chicago has had another
attack Of cold feet. After getting a
boom started for president Of the T..
I. U. he performs the same old stunt
of getting out of Lynch's way. He
says he has work to do as president of
the Illinois Federation of Labor.
That's all right. We hope he performs
it, and we believe he has the ability
to do it. But we do wish he'd quit
jangling our nerves by this I. T. U.
presidential symptom.
Third Vice President Smith OF the
l. T. U. was in Lincoln a couple of
! days last week. He was feeling
around about the organization OF the
mailers, but before he got started he
was ordered back to Brooklyn. That's
always the way No sooner do they
| light in Lincoln than they are ordered
elsewhere, and Lincoln is left to work
out her own salvation while putting
up the rer capita with regularity. It's
a long Jump from Lincoln to Brook
| lyn, too.
| The Oklahoma City printers have
| Just signed up with thirty-three Of
fees, including all the newspapers
and secure an increase of 50 week
Mrs. Hertenstein, president of the
International Auxiliary, has succeeded
in putting President Lynch on record
in favor of the auxiliary. 1t took sia
years TO smoke the president out, but
Mrs. Hertenstein accomplished it.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
UNIONS HAVE BIG FUND.

Washington. D. Crank A. Morri-
son. treasurer of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, reported to the ex-
ecutive council of the Federation in
session that the bank account OF the
organization showed a balance on the
first of the year of $153, 3,166. The
amount received during the last quar-
ter was a little more than $36, 900
while the amount expended was slight
ly in excess of $4,000.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
Timely Topics of Interest
Concerning Labor Matters

o. this injunction business is going
the rounds-and we are glad of it!
AS long as it was used as club to
the general public paid no attention
to it. But now, when it is benng used
The people almost solidly demanded
by the public, it is a different thing.
The people almost solodily demanded
a bank guarantee law, and the legis-
lature provided it. But it didn't suit
some bankers, so they easily found
federal judge to put the kibosh on it.
That hurt. Now comes federal
Judge who enjoins the law fixing the
rates that may be charged by surety
bond companies. That hurts some
more. We hope the federal judges
will keep it up until the people rise
up in their wrath and wipe out the
whole damnable appointive federal
judiciary. Just think it over for min
ute. A federal Judge who owes his
position to political favor and who is
responsible to no one but himself, can
nullify the acts of a legislature of a
sovereign state. even though the law
thus nullified is demanded by the peo-
pie of the whole state and applicable
only to the state. He can enjoin gov
ernor from performing the duties inn
posed upon him by the people of the
state. The English Judge who would
try to set aside an act of parliament
would either be fired instanter, in dis
grace, or put in an insane asylum. But
over here we take it as a matter of
course. and have SO taken it until a
federal Judge can exercise more power
than legislature, governor, a con-
gress or a president. Federal judges
can, and do. exercise arbitrary powers
that the czar of Russia would not dare
to exercise. Thomas Jefferson foresaw
this dangerous encroachment of power,
and warned the country against it. 1t
is high time the country profited by
the warning.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
CAR MEN GET RAISE.

New York-The Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company announced a volun-
tary increase in the pay of the 5000
motormen, conductors and other train
men employed on it's lines. The in
crease the ensuing year will cost the
company 100000, it is estimated, Or
one-tenth of the surplus netted by the
operation of the system last year
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

Prof. Lucille Eaves Of the State Uni
versity put her finger on the solution
of the whole question of corrections
and charities last Monday when she
said that the crying need of the hour
was a system of state pensions that
would prevent the separation of chill
dren from mothers whose only crime
was poverty; and a system of indus
trial pensions that would prevent the
squeezing of the lifeblood from the
workers and then throwing aside like
sucked orange. Organized charity,
juvenile courts, child savings insti-
tutes and rescue homes are doing a
magnificent work in caring for the vic
tins of a hellish industrial system,
but what are they doing to remove
the causes? We care for the product
until it is old enough to hustle for it.
self, then turn it loose upon the world.
A little later half dozen men meet
in private office in New York and
frame up scheme. The next morn
ing two million men are thrown out
of work in order to make extra profits
for selfish interests, and the whole
tramp problem is again up for solu-
| tion. We've got our whole reform sys-
TEN on backwards. We must quit
dealing with the effects and set about
! removing causes.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The beneficial effects of the Labor
Temple are already apparent. Every
day sees an increase in the number
who drop in for social chat and a
quiet hour OF recreation. The crying
need of the Temple now is good
library, and this the managers will
endeavor 20 supply. But they must
have the cooperation of people who
are interested in the social uplift.
Good books. good magazines, good
newspapers-all these things cost
money. but money should be no OBJ
ject when the betterment of men is
the object sought. AS the days go by,
and the Labor Temple becomes more
and more the center of the social and
industrial activity of the group of
toll, the good people of Lincoln will
realize that the men who have sacri-
feed their time and their energies in
making the Temple possible have done
a great work for Lincoln.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

sible for one mother to part with her
offspring in order that she NAV edu-
cate the offspring of some woman
she never heard of before. It's a beau
tiful scheme. The only trouble about
it is that the fellow who invented it
ought to have his head bored for the
simples.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

IL is true chat the gas company has
not paid it's taxes promptly, and equal
ly true that the company ought to
come across.
II may be true-and we think it is
that the gas company ought to sell
yas for a dollar thousSad. That
question is awaiting the final decision
of the courts. and pending appeal the
gas company has put up bond to re-
fund the 30 cents thousand now
charged above the dollar rate in case
the ordinance is held good.
But all this has no bearing on the
question of allowing the gas company
to build a holder in the northeastern
part of the city. Those who oppose
granting the company permission on
the ground that the company is in no
position to ask favors from the city
ought to inform themselves. 1t is not
a favor the company is asking. 1t is
trying to better its service. and foolish
indeed is the citizen who throws a
single obstacle in the way. The erec-
ton of II gas holder in the locality
selected by the company will better
the service in large section now
poorly served. and will lessen the bills
of consumers downtown. 1t will give
n better pressure on the outskirts and
reduce the cverpressure in the CEN
trail sections. In this way it will
benefit ALL This betterment means
the expenditure of upwards of $50,0OO,
which will find its way into the chan
nels OF trade. 1t matters not whether
the company intends to serve Have
lock and University Place. The only
figure this will cut will be in the size
of the holder. If the company is seek.
ing to better its service, for heaven
sake let us not throw stone in its
way. And to say that the company is
asking a favor of the city when II
asks permission to spend $4,000 in
betterments looks to this little news
paper like rank fooloishness, to say
nothing of shortsightedness.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The writer. had occasion to visit
oily Johns" Temple this week. 1t
is magnificent building. BIT we ven-
ture to say that If the Labor Temple
Association of Lincoln had been given
the same amount of money that the
University Temple cost, it would have
resulted in ten-fold more good to the
men and women of Nebraska.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

Those who are astonished that Rev.
Mr.. Sillaway should make such sweep.
ing assertions about lawlessness in
Lincoln before he had been in the city
long enough to tell the city hall from
the government building ought to get
wise to the methods of the average
evangelist and the average social re-
former who travels about telling us
how to work reforms. They are al
about alike. Had Rev. Mr.. Sillaway
told his audience that Lincoln was al
least as good as the average city he
wouldn't have been able to argue fol
a collection. So he got off the usua
rot about the wickedness of the city
There is not much difference between
the man who wilfully lies and the maj
who makes charges without knowing
the facts On the whole, we rathe
like the liar the best. AS between th'
man who habitually lies just for thu
fun of it. and the itinerant evangelis
who Is forever telling us how wicked
we are. and how much We need hi
brand OF reform. we applaud mos
the liar. He at least entertains us
Evangelists of the Sillaway type dis
gust us. The only thing Sillaway at
complished was to give the opponent
OF temperance reform new argumen
against the work he pretends to b
engaged in. The fewer of his kin
we have visiting us in Lincoln tn
better off We will be-
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

We haven't heard a word from the
Lincoln Woman's Club about our offer
to arrange for the expense if the club
would invite Mrs. Raymond Robins of
Chicago to address it on the subject
of women in the industrial world. The
offer is still good, But it must be re-
membered that we refuse to pay the
expenses of any one the club may in
vite to talk about "the care of oriental
rugs" We are not interested in the
care of oriental rugs. We are. how
ever. interested in the care of men and
The wageworker., 1910-01-22
CALIFORNIA BUILDING TRADES.

Monterey, Cal, Jan. 17.-Delega,es
from many parts of California were On
hand today when President B. H. Nc
Carthy called to order the ninth an
nual convention of the state building
trades council. The convention, which
will be in session several days, prom
ises to be the most important in tae
history of the organization Employ es'
compensation and employers liability
laws, mechanics and labor laws and
the Asiatic invasion of the various
trades are among the important sub
jects to be considered
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The socialists of Leipsic, Germany,
have struck a great scheme If it is
carried out it will solve the whole
blooming question. The children of
the German socialists will be traded
off for the children of the French So
cialists, and the children of the Eng
lish socialists will be traded off for
the children of the American social
lists. This will result in the oblitera-
ton of race prejudices and make the
organization international in the full
est sense of the term 1t will be so
easy to work out too. The German
mother will be eager to swap off her
darling cherubs and spend her time
in rearing the squalling brats of the
French mother The English mother
will fairly jump at the chance to get
rid of her blue-eyed and angelic off
spring and devote her energies to
! rearing and educating the sloe-eyed
sons and daughters of sunny Italy. It
will be the easiest thing in the world
| to wipe out the mother instinct. to
deaden the mother hearts and para
| lyZe the mother love. and make it pos
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

Last Monday night we saw great
crowd of men massed around the Oh
iver. jamming forward for the purpose
of getting sight of the champion
bruiser of the world-and putting up
from 81 to $3.50 for the privilege.
That was all right, perhaps. At any
rate it was purely the personal busi-
ness Of the men who We're in the
crowd. But we couldn't help thinking
what a difference it would make in
the social and working conditions of
a majority of the men in that crowd
if they were only as anxious to hear
and learn from some one who could
tell them how to better their lot. Less
! than year ago a man who has more
brains than the Honorable James JEFF
offered to tell his fellow workers how
they could enter into their own That
man was Raymond Robins, the great
est orator in the labor movement, the
best brain in the group of toll But
you didn't notice any great crowds of
eager and anxious workingmen jam
ming around to get near him. Robins
spoke to a handful Jeffries displayed
his muscle to as many men as the
Oliver would hold. And yet you are
always hearing lot of workingmen
complaining of their hard lot, and
wondering if conditions will ever be
better for them
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

On the square, now, Mr.. Working
man, wouldn't you be better off if in
stead of giving up two-thirds of days
wages to see prize pug you would
show as much energy in seeking to
learn from a man like Robins how to
make your wages better and your in
f1uence greater? Think it over
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The delegate from the South Om-
aha BARRIERS Union INTRODUCED reso-
luton setting out long list of COM
plants against the two Omaha labor
papers.
Referred to the committee on
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The Omaha plumbers were the only
members of the Omaha building
trades section represented. The Car
Eenters, Painters, P1asterers, Lathers,
only failed of representation, but they
have not even manifested enough in
terest in the Federation to affiliate.
This may explain, in some measure.
the conditions now prevailing in Om-
aha.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

Lincoln eXcelled Omaha in the mat
tre of representation, just as it excels
Omaha in the matter of affiliated un-
ions and general interest in the work
of organization. The Omaha machin-
lists and Omaha printers took the belt
SO far as representation was con-
cerned, each having three delegates.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

or course the convention had 10
pose for picture. It was printed in
the -World-Herald BY the way, the
Omaha papers treated the convention
handsomely
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The floor of convention hall is as
smooth as glass, being used often for
dancing parties. This was RESPONSE
Bile for lot of fun. About every SO
often a delegate would tilt back in his
chair and kerslap! The chair would
slide out from under him and let him
down on the floor with crash Dele
gate Booth took three tumbles in two
days
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

One think was overlooked. The con
stitution provides that all delegates
shall show up fair number OF labels
on his wearing apparel, but the SER
geant-at-arms was not instructed to
attend tc it.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

The blizzard interefered with the at
tendance. It prevented the arrival
of several delegates. Even the young
lady employed to take stenographic
notes failed to show up, and she lived
i'll Omaha.
The wageworker., 1910-01-22

Delegate Hyers of Havelock was
early on the ground, and he had his
invitation to meet in Havelocl1 going
before he lit. He had the able back
ing of Delegates Jonas and Smith, and
it was Havelock from the start.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20
!, NATIONAL LIFE AMONG ANTS
Observations Made Among AnthlIls OF
Wide Area Show compIete Fra
ternIty II Not Confederacy.

To satisfy himself that some
thing resembling national life ez-
listed among separate mounds OF
ants, DR.. Henry G. McCook, author
of can't Communities" made OBJ
servations among 1,7OO anthills scat
tered over a space Of 80 acres. A
small oak branch covered with
aphides and their attendant ants
was placed upon a mound 20 rods
distant. II was thought that if any
thing would incite to hostility 1t
would be the intrusion of members
Of separate community upon feed
ing grounds. On the contrary, the
ants being called from the hill,
came out and mounted the branch
with the usual excited bearing and
then mingled with its original occu-
pants on friendly terms and began
to feed quietly. A spadeful Of earth
was swiftly cut from the mound, and
with the ants, cocoons and broken
cells, thrown into a pail and carried
to a cone so rods distant. After
the first sharp challenge the i'm
ported ants melted away into the
general community as though at
home. From this Doctor McCook
concludes Chat among the myriads
of creatures occupying more than
1,700 mounds, there was a complete
fraternity-if, indeed, they were not
one mighty confederacy. Here wa;
a republic which in the number Of
its separate states-for every mound
was an Independent community OF
ants-and in the multitude Of it,
total population exceeded the most
sanguine prophecy of the future Of
the American republic" -Harper'i
Literary Gossip.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20
Kentucky Fair Dates,

Shelbyville, August 23-4 days.
London, August 23-4 days.
ErlaDger, August PA days.
Germantown. August 24-3 days.
Springfield. August 24-3 days.
Liberty, August 26-2 days.
Somerset, August 30-3 days.
Paducah, August 30-3 days.
NicholasvilIe, August 30-3 days.
Fern Creek, August 80 days.
Hardinsburg, August 30--3 days.
Barbourville, August 31-2 days.
Bardstown, August 3l-3 days.
Tompkinsville, September 1-3 days.
Franklin, September Is days. =
Middlesboro, September 6-3 days.
Hodgenville, September 60 days.
Elizabethtown, September "a days.
Alexandria, September Ga days.
Paris, September "a days.
Florence, September 6-3 days.
Monticello, September 6-3 day.
Hodgenville, September 6-3 days.
Sanders, September 7-3 days.
Mayfield, September 7-3 days.
Glasgow, September IA days.
Scottsville, September 16-3 days,
Horse Cave, September 21-3 days.
Morgantown, September 22-2 days.
Falmouth, September 28-4 days.
Greensboro, October A days.
Bedford, October 7-2 days.
Kentucky State Fair, Louisville.
September l2-6 days.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20
snraYlna Fruit.

Spraying is a preventive and not a
remedy. There are few fungus dis
eases that can be destroyed by spray
ing. but they can also be prevented by
the same operation The damage done
by disease or an insect can be re-
paired only by the plant itself. Such
work as can be done to protect It from
further damage Is about all that can
be done for 1t. Spraying should be done
early and the protection made more
complete before the diseases and In
sects appear.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20
Giant Almalaya Berry.

main canes IL to IS inches long by 10
to IL inches wide, having 80 to 100
blooms and later fruits. Almost all
other blackberries have 10 to 10 The
Giant Himalaya is also excellent for
covering old buildings, walls, summer
houses, etc 1t looks fine trained to a
post In the lawn, tying the canes to
the post. When they reach the top,
pinch them back (say two inches)
they will then branch out and form a
bush or weeping tree, that is a beauti-
full sight in July with its shell pink
blossoms.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20
Delineator For September

"Seveu Times a Servant" Wilt
arouse the curiosity and interest of
all who read The Delineator for
September. The first article in a
series of social and sociological
studies by Anne Forsyth. a college
girl who tried the experiment of
earning a living in the protected
environment" of American homes.
will be found as fascinating as d
piece Of dramatic fiction. Miss
Forsyth succeeds in obliterating her
own personality, and she tells her
story from the viewpoint of the
housemaid. She does not pretend
tC solve the servent problem; she
merely presents pictures Of our
American domestic life as it appears
for the kitchen instead of the draw
ing.room.
The fiction includes "Out Of the
Wilderness" by Dorothy Garfield;
Love and Mademoiselle Clemenee"
by Helen Sterling Thomas; The
Cuttings serial, "The Unforeseen. -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-20

fruithouse filled with the splendid
fruit. The owner of the orchard be-
lieved in spraying and his apples
showed It. The most pleasing feature
of all was to find the annual sprayings
had Ncleared the trees OF scale, not a
trace OF the pest being visible on any
of the fruit, while the trees appeared
entirely free from 1t.
Those who have kept pace with
events and have sprayed their trees
while others did not, are now receiving
their reward. The non-sprayers have
lost their trees, while those who did
spray saved their orchards.