The wageworker., 1910-01-15

Resolved, That the incoming law
committee be and they are hereby in
structed to prepare and present to the
next session of the Nebraska legisla-
ture a bill licensing and bonding en-
ployment agencies.
Committee reports favorably.
Adopted.
Proposition No. 23.-(By Delegate
Coffey)-"Whereas, 1t is recognized
by all good citizens who are students
of sociology and economics that the
well paid workman is a better citizen
than the underpaid workman, and
Whereas, The great state of Ne
braska, rich in her varied resources
and unequalled in her productivity,
should set an example to employers of
every class by being herself a liberal
employer, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Nebraska State
Federation of Labor go on record as
opposing the policy of parsimony that
has resulted in keeping this splendid
state back, compelling it's officials to
work for meager salaries and looking
for cheap and underpaid workmen to-
perform the work that must be done
for the various state institutions and
departments. We have especial ref
erence to the policy of the state board
of printing. which policy has resulted
in inefficient service and the poorest
kind of work. AS an example we would
cite the fact that the biennial reports
of the different branches of the state
government are supposed to be printed
and bound and ready for the guidance
of the members of the legislature
when they meet at the capital to pro-
ceed with the work of enacting laws.
The bids for the binennial reports
which were to have been submitted
to the legislature which convened in
January, 1909. were let in April, 1908,
and under the policy, niggardly and
unwise. of the state printing board,
were let to Offices wholly incompetent
to handle such work. Said binennial
reports, with one or two exceptions,
were not ready for the legislature,
and in some instances were not deliv-
cred until months after the legislature
adjourned Therefore, in view of this
situation, be it
Resolved, That we demand that the
policy of the state printing board be
changed, and that the printing of the
state of Nebraska be let to the best
bidder, and that cheapness no longer
be the chief merit of the product pur-
chased by the great state OF Nebras-
ka.
Resolved, That We demand that the
state printing board hereafter seek
the best, not the cheapest regardless
of serviceability, and that it give every
preference possible to those employers
who pay decent wages and exact only
"a reasonable number Of hours work
per day. w.
Committee reports favorably.
Adopted.
Proposition No. 24.-(By Delegate
Guye)-"Whereas Experience has
demonstrated that the interests of the
wage workers can only be served by
their own efforts, politically as we'll as
industrially. economically and educa-
tional, and
Whereas, Our greatest and most eff
fective force, as citizens, lies in the
independent use of the ballot, there
fore be it
Resolved, That we hereby urge all
trades unionists and their sympath-
iZers, to vote Independent of party af-
filiatiOns whenever and wherever it
tends to serve or promote the inter-
ests of wage earners generally, to the
end that we may be able at all times
to rise above the time worn custom of
party yoke
Committee reports favorably
Adopted.
Proposition No. 25.-(By Rcsolu-
tions ee)-"Whereas 1t is a
healthful, humane and economic as
well us a divine principle that the
toiler should be released from employ
ment at least one day in each calen
dar week, therefore be it
Resolved That the Nebraska State
Federation of Labor commend the
Omaha BARRIERS Union No. 212 for
their effort to secure release from en-
ployment at least one day in each
calendar week.
Resolved, that the State Fedora
tion of Labor recommend to it's legis-
lative committee the perfecting of an
amendment IL such an amendment be
needed, classifying barbering as labor,
and working as barber on Sunday as
under the inhibition of Sunday labor"
Adopted.
Proposition No. 26.-(By Resolu
ton Committee)-You committee on
resolutions recommends that the leg
islative committee prepare bill pro-
viding for arbitration of all disputes
between employer and employees, each
party to the controversy choosing an
equal number of arbiters.
Adopted.
Proposition No 27.-(By Resolu-
tions Committed Public
service corporations have secured
valuable franchises from the people
free, and
Whereas, Said corporations water
their stock many times in excess of it's
actual value and declare dividends on
the same in violation of law, and
Whereas, Said corporations become
part of powerful combines for the pur-
pose of controlling legislation, crush
| ing labor unions and defying the whole
| people, and
tions refuse their employees the right
to affiliate with organized labor and in
many instances attempt to force them