The wageworker., 1910-02-26
TYPOGRAPHICAL TIPS

I Despite every effort of the executive
in the Journal, the mortuary benefit
plan was killed too dead to skin. 1t
struck the sober and Industrious print
ers as too easy for the ne'er-do-wel1s
The steady man paid the benefits by
putting up a too large share of the
assessments.
Charley Govan, member of ''Big
Six" is The Wageworker's preferred
candidate for vice-pesident But the
printer-editor of The Wageworker is
not going to throw any campaign fits
this year. After the lemon handed
| by New Orleans last time, and with
Reilly of Dallas the insurgent candi-
date this trip, The Wageworker is go
ing to take to the woods.
Charley Barngroyer has shaken the
dust of Loveland from his feet and is
now subbing on the News-Times at
j Denver.
Frank Kennedy came down from
, Omaha Saturday nignt and visited
Will L AO Wd6CWOl hCI ldullly. Cuuudy
he visited the Labor Temple and got
his eyes full. He says it is the great
est ever.
Floyd Mckinney is in Oklahoma
City.
Our good old friend, J. ]. Dirks of
st. Louis, is grieved because several
labor editors will not forget and for
give Reilly for his stand on the Shelby
Smith question at Toronto. We'd do
almost any old thing for Dirks, save
and except overlook what lot of
putty delegates did at that convention.
Reilly says he stood by Smith until
Smith plead guilty on the floor. We
are sorely afraid that Reilly is trying
to cloud the issue by drawing upon
his imagination for his facts.
| Charley Fear ought to be- elected
delegate to the American Federation
of Labor, but we fear he is doomed to
defeat. The trouble With Fear is that
he has fool habit of doing his own
thinking, and does not lack the cour-
age to say what he thinks. He demon
strated this at Colorado Springs when
he fought singlehanded and alone for
la needed reform in the Home manage
ment. That fight made Fear a
marked man around international
headquarters. With Fear and DeNe-
dry on the delegation the invitations
would be that all would not be char
l yo,nn nf or
Despite Frank Morrison's throw-down
of the labor editors at Toronto, we
are still for him. But just wait until
we labor editors can get crack at the
swelled head of one Jim Duncan. What
we'll do to that mutt will be plenty
Billy Bustard is rapidly developing
into a billiard shark, and when he
isn't playing he is dreaming of the
time when he will make Willie Hoppe
look like a two-spot at the 1871 bali
line game.
:, International headquarters recently
! wrote to ascertain how the American
Homestead stood. That paper is pub
lished monthly in Lincoln by Charles
w. Bryan, and it is union from every
standpoint. The advertising manager
, is member of 2O9. The Homestead
is gotten out from the Western News
paper Union shop.
Lincoln Typographical Union ough
to get into the game and file protes
, against the proposed increase in pos
tai rates. The proposed increase will
mean an added expense of several mil
lion dollars to the publishers of thi
.country, and they'll have to get evel
somewhere. And the wage scale i
the first place they'll figure on.
The Catholic Printing Co. of Du
buque, Iowa, has come into the uniol
fold. 1t has been non-union for TWEEN
ty-ive years.
On February 1 the l. T. U. passe
the $4,000 mark in membership. TIL
: official count was 5O,2S1.
The annual ball Wednesday nigh
was a success. The attendance G
printers was larger than usual, and tn
:, total attendance up to the usual mari
The committee in charge looked afte
every detail and left nothing undOn
to add to the pleasure of the guests
The grand march began promptly a
9 o'clock and was led by Governor an
Mrs Shallenberger