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The Delta independent., 1910-09-02

Willy not Mrs. Crawford Hill for
chief dog catcher of the new society
wOlnens dog pound of Denver?
The Delta independent., 1910-09-02

Eating roasting ears seems to
have been a great fad the other day
at Loveland when over 10000 ears
were consumed at the barbecue at
that place.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

report that Duncan objected to read
any thing that had the name of "Jim'
Eagan, of the Toledo Union Leader,
on it. Eagan was the delegate of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor and
was denied seat because the Ohio
Federation had ignored the demand of
the executive council to unseat the
Reid Electrical Workers delegates.
The proclamation was not read to the
convention. The members of the In
ternational Labor Press Association
Indignantly refused to let Jim Duncan
or any other high brow" of the Fed
Grafton. censor their membership.
Three weeks ago the secretary-treas-
the proclamation to Secretary Frank
Morrison with the request that it be
printed in the Federationist. A letter
from Morrison conveys the informa-
tion that the proclamation was turned
over to President Gompers, editor of
the Federationist. We are waiting
Every week the labor press is asked
to publish lot of matter sent out
from the headquarters of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. 1t costs
money to set type. If the Wage
worker had published all that the ex-
ecutive council asked it to publish
during 1909. the composition would
have cost something like SIS. In pay
ment for this the American Fedora
tion of Labor offers the usual "heifer
dust" resolutions of support for the
labor press, and then refuses, through
its officials, to give the organized la
Dor editors hearing before the con-
vention. On the editorial desk of The
Wageworker is a spindle, and on the
spindle is several columns of copy"
sent by the executive council. And it
is going to remain there or be dumped
in the waste basket when the spindle
is full, unless the Associations procla-
nation appears in the Federationist.
AS secretary-treasurer of the Associa-
tion the editor of The Wageworker
has no advice to give the members on
this matter. But as a brother editor
it asks them to follow suit.
When the Association was organ
lied it was decided to make the initia-
tion fee and the 1910 dues $3.50, pro-
vided application was made within
three months. Notice is hereby given
that after March I, 1910 the initiation
fee and first years dues will be in
creased to SIS.
| The secretary-treasurer is now in
communication with several big firms
looking towards the making of some
profitable advertising contracts for
the Association membership.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

bear their just share OF the expense.
1t Is possible to so arouse local pride
as to make Lincoln one of the big
cigar producing centers of the coun-
try. The local cigar dealer who does
not push Lincoln made cigars Is stand
ing in his own light. The Lincoln
smoker who does not buy Lincoln
made cigars in preference to the tene-
ment made cigars sold by the United
Cigar Stores company is not doing his
duty as citizen. It Is time for every
body-especially Lincoln cigar manu-
facturers-to wake up.
The Cigarmakers' International
Union of America has just closed one
OF the most prosperous years In its
recent history. In 1909 there was
distinct gain in membership, and as a
result the receipts were increased. A
further result was an awakening of a
new spirit among the rank and file.
During 1909 the gain in membership
was 1000. In 1908 the expenses of
the international exceeded the re-
ceipts by nearly $4,000, but in 1909
the receipts exceeded the expendi-
turs by upwards of $4,000.
It takes four languages for the Off
cial organ of the cigarmakers to reach
the membership.
T. w. Parker. a member of the Lin
coin local and president of the Cen
trail body, has made up a nice little
list Of subscribers for The Wagework-
er. Every cigarmaker in Lincoln
ought to be on the list.
E. w. Brooks has gone to Beatrice
to work.
Business is slow for the cigar
makers at present.
The cigarmakers are going to get
busy at their next meeting and get
something started to help trade.
The Commercial club is taking up
subscriptions to help home industries.
They can help the cigarmakers some
by clearing up their cigar case at the
club rooms and filling it with home
made goods.
Golden promises don't count with me-
Business has got to come our way;
can keep buster than bee
Giving some union a lift every day
T. w. PARKER
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
ELECTRICAL WORKERS

diced in favor of the McNulty Collins
faction. Well, Joseph conceived the
idea that he could beat Joe Sken,p for
the secretary-treasurersh of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Paperliang-
ers and Decorators. But Josephus
now has another think coming. Skemp
left him at the first quarter post.
Talk about hard luck! "Jim" Han
lon, union Electrical Worker of Buff
falo. N. Y, recently went up against
live wire and was so badly burned
that he was laid up in a hospital for
weeks. When he recovered he went
back to work, but before he had got
in full week he fell from a pole and
broke both legs.
President Reid has just secured the
first closed shop agreement ever
signed by Electrical Workers in De.
troit.
President Reid has just made the
astonishing discovery that Philadel
phia is the greatest rat" breeding
place in North America. Gosh all
hemlock! Any of US union printers
could have told him that at any time
during the past twelve years.
The strike at Ell Paso, Texas, has
been won. The town is CLOSED" now
with an eight-hour day and 81 scale
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
BITING SARCASM.
Striking Tin Plate Workers Will Show
Difference in Banquets.


Striking tin plate workers of the
American Sheet and Tinplate company
in Pittsburg district have been in
vited to attend the banquet of their
fellow strikers to be given at Bridge
port, Ohio, next Saturday night. All
who can get car fare and one cent ad-
mission will go. The admission fee
of one cent is to pay for oil for the
torches. The banquet is to be take
OFF" of the recent swell banquet given
by the Carnegie officials at Pittsburg,
which Is said to have cost 500 per
plate. The starving workmen who have
been on strike since July L. offer the
following bill of fare:
Watercress, crackers, peanuts, smok-
ing tobacco, cob pipes and river water
Instead of having gold fish, human
or otherwise. swimming in pools the
strikers will have snowballs in dinner
pals otherwise empty.-San Antonio
Dispatch.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

The social dance given at the Tenn
Pile Thursday evening by the local
Electrical Workers for the benefit of
the Temple was success in every
way. The only trouble was that there
were more people ready to dance than
could well be accommodated in the
small space at the disposal of the
Temple management. The Musicians
Union donated the music and the en-
tire proceeds OF the social were
turned over to the Temple associa-
ton. The committee having the af-
fair in charge is to be congratulated
upon their success.
The arbitration board will meet at
Springfield, Ills, on February Is. and
resume negotiations looking to peace
between the two factions.
Joseph Tazelear, member of the
Painters and Decorators Union, and
an organizer of the American Fedora
ticn of Labor, was delegate to the
Toronto convention. He was men,
Der of the laws committee, which con
sidered the case of the Electrical
Workers. He touted for the executive
courcil from the first, and before the
committee had been in session five
minutes he demonstrated beyond a
doubt that he was intensely preju-
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

There may be some labor editors
who imagine that the International
Labor Press Association has "died
a. bornin'." Never were men more
mistaken if they have been seized
with such notion. The association
is alive. prospering. and has promise
of big things. True the membership
is growing slowly-but surely. To
date twenty-seven members have been
enrolled. Secretary Treasurer Mau-
pin will next week send to every meni-
Der cut of the associations label,
which is found at the head of this
department this week, and which VII!
be found at the head of the editorial
columns hereafter. Smaller labels
will be provided for stationery in n
short time.
Every labor editor in the United
States and Canada has already re-
ceived copies of the associations con-
stitution, it's "proclamation" and per-
sonal letter from the secretary-tre1s-
urer. The objects of the association
are legitimate--to secure better busi-
ness at more remunerative prices; to
insist upon something better than
"hot air" resolutions from intefna-
tional conventions of the crafts and
the American Federation Of Labor; to
cut out the advertising fallir; to in
oil hv,N
gin a more thoroughly organized press
system OF reaching the consumer OF
union made goods.
The secretary-treasurer has re-
Gently noted several labor papers
making sarcastic comment on this
thing of "hot air" resolutions i'll sup
port of the labor press. Strange as 1t
may seem, a number OF these papers
have not yet joined the Association.
They ought to be getting into the
game right.
At the Toronto convention OF the
American Federation of Labor the as
sembled labor editors issued prccla-
nation and asked that it be presented
to the convention. The request was
denied. and an effort is now being
made to shift the responsibility. The
facts are these.
The editors appointed a committee
to present the proclamation to Secre-
tary Morrison with the request that
he have it read from the platform.
Secretary Morrison handed it to Vice
President Duncan, who was in the
chair. Duncan handed it back and
Morrison gently laid it upon the table
That night the committee made in
uuiries and Duncan said that Morri
son was responsible. The committee
went TO Duncan, and returning with the
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
THE TEMPLE DIRECTORATE.
Regular Monthly Meeting Held at the
empIe Monday Evening.

The first monthly meeting of the
board Of directors of the Labor Tenn
pie Association was held last Monday
evening. Heretofore the board has
met weekly, but hereafter will meet
but once month, leaving the bulk of
the work to the trustees.
President Chaplin having been re-
tired from the board it was necessary
to elect trustee in his place, and al
so select new presiding officer. r. l..
Mcbride, the newly elected represen-
tative of the BARRIERS was elected to
to the board of trustees, and immedi-
ately elected president.
The matter of opening the billiard
room on Sunday was informally dis
cussed and the trustees instructed to
inquire as to the law 1t is felt by a
majority of the board that allowing
stockholders the privilege of the bill
lard room on Sunday, just as the Com
mercial Club and fraternal club rooms
are open on Sunday, will be apprecia-
ted by the workers and will result in
good in more ways than one.
Manager Rudy was instructed to Sc
cure estimates on the probable cost of
adding the third story to the Temple
building.
Several bills were allowed, and then
followed a general discussion as to
ways and means" The matter of fur
nishing the library went over for a
time to give opportunity for better in
formation as to the cost.
For the first time the Musicians
Union was represented by a director
and Director Bingaman appeared for
the first time as a director-at-large.
The attendance was fifteen, the largest
in the history of the association.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Sunday afternoon meetings OF
the Lincoln Economic Educational
League are beginning to attract a
good deal of notice. This Is a work
ing class movement, intended for ex-
tension of economic knowledge to
working men and women. The leagne
hopes to make these lectures a
Workers University Extension" in
tact as well as in name. The meet
ings begin promptly at 3 p. m. and
close at o'clock. The program for
Sunday, February 9Th, is as follows:
Music-"The Marseillaise," Mrs. F.
J. Webb.
Tenor Solo-"If I Only Had the
World to Give YOU" Frank r. Webb.
Lecture-'Whither Are We Drift
ing?" Clyde J. Wright.
These meetings are held at A. O.
u w. hall. 1907 o street.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

longer doubtful. Another meeting will
be held at the Temple next Tuesday
evening, and all laborers not now affili-
ated with some union are requested to
be present and hear what Federal
Union means and learn what it can
accomplish for the now unorganized Ia
borers.
President Coffey of the State FEEDER
alton presided at the meeting Monday
evening, and he and several other
trades unionists talked about the ben
efits of organization. But the best
talks along organization lines were
made by colored men. They are eager
for it, and they are in dead earnest.
Those present at Monday nights meet
ing will see to it that practically every
unorganized working man is notified of
next Tuesday evenings meeting.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
THE CIGARMAKERS

The United Cigar Stores company
has announced that it is about to in
wade Lincoln, and it is given out that
the new store will be at the corner
of Twelfth and o, in the new Ganter
block. This corporation is one of the
biggest in the country, but it is not,
as some imagine, a branch of the
American Tobacco company. 1t is a
corporation by itself, but it is big
enough to practically control the cigar
end of the tobacco trade. 1t has un-
limited capital and the best sales sys-
tenn ever devised. It does not handle
union made cigars, but handles every
known kind of ''scab" tenement house
cigars and factory cigars. 1t cuts
prices and it gives coupons. Wherever
it has gone it has taken firm root 1t
win out in Lincoln
Local cigar manufacturers have
heretofore contented themselves with
allowing the union cigarmakers to do
about all the boosting that has been
done for Lincoln-made cigars. Instead
of organizing an advertising propa-
ganda themselves, the manufacturers
have been content with complaining
because they were not given proper
support" If the entry of the United
Cigar Stores company will have the
effect of waking local manufacturers
up and inducing them to move along
proper lines of publicity, it will be a
good thing. This thing of building up
'home patronage" is a matter of edu-
cation. People must be taught the
good effects of standing by home in
|stitutions. There are five or six cigar
factories in Lincoln, and if the men
who conduct them would wake up,
display a bit of enterprise and spend
a little money in educational work,
they need not fear any grave results
from the competition of the big cor
poration. But the union cigarmakers
must not be expected to bear the bur-
den. They have spent dollars in
boosting for Lincoln made cigars
where the manufacturers have spent
dimes. The Wageworker is quite will.
ing to warrant that the union cigar
makers will join hands with the man
ufacturers in an educational cam
paign, and that the cigarmakers will
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
SURE, MIKE!

Speaking of the International Labor
Press Association the st. Louis Labor
Compendium says:
Mon tam potentia sua guam negli-
genta nostra!'
You bet your life! We don't know
what it means, but if the Labor Com
pendium said it. then it goes with US,
and don't you forget it. Wed ont giva
tivac ounc il any more. That's fiat.
We are tired of trying to pay compost
tion and press bills with hot air sup
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
CENTRAL LABOR UNION

opp ,osing the Idea by the adoption of
the following resolutions:
Whereas, There is a movement on
foot in certain quarters to establish in
Lincoln system ofo mail boxes on
street cars, ostensibly for the better
service OF the public, and
Whereas, Such a system would not
tend to better service already excel
lent and superior in most respects to
other cities of the same size, but
rather tend to lessen the opportuni-
ties for the employment of more men
in the mail service, and
Whereas, There is grave danger
that the pretended interest in the well
fare of the public is but cover to
insure federal Intervention in case of
labor disputes; therefore be 1t
Resolved, By the Lincoln Central
Labor Union. representing the allied
trades union of the city of Lincoln
that we protest against the proposed
placing of mail boxes upon the street
cars, urging in furtherance OF this pro-
test the following cogent reasons:
Under federal court decision rend-
cred during the now famous American
Railway Union strike. backed by fed
eral bayonets, an arrogant corporation
was enabled to defeat labor's demands
for just wage and conditions by hav-
ing the postal laws SO ridiculously
stretched that even Pullman sleepers
attached to trains carrying mails were
declared to be, per Sc, mail cars"
A street car carrying mail box
becomes in effect mail car" and
should the street railway employees at
any time become involved in contro-
versy as to wages and hours, they
could at once be put under federal in
junction and thus restrained from the
exercise of their American rights and
privileges, process already resorted
to entirely too often in industrial dis
putes.
Street car collection. of mail would
result In further decentralization of a
service already inadequate by reason
of greater delay in the running of cars,
end impose another hardship upon men
|already overworked and underpaid.
Mail boxes in street cars would give
the cars absolute right of way, fur
ther emphasizing an already existing
evil.
Resolved, That this protest against
the proposed plan of street car mail
collections be spread upon the min
utes of this body. and that copies
therefor be furnished to the press of
the city.
The usual number of bills were al
lowed. Under the head of good of
the order" several good short talks
were made. The committee appoint
ed to visit the unions and urge better
attendance of delegates reported that
it was making the rounds, and the bet
ter attendance at the meeting demon
strated that the committee had been
busy.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
ATTACKS ON SUNDAY LAWS.

Senator Schulz, of New York, has
(by request) the old propo-
sition to create a commission to exam
Dor on Sunday. Labor regards this as
a disguised attack on the laws prohib-
iting work on Sunday. 1t is Senate
bill no. 13. and referred to finance
committee.-Rochest Journal.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
GODS TRUTH.

What we ought to strike at first.
and strike at hardest, is the bottom
monopoly, the parent of all. Men
lived without gas and electric light
ing. Men lived, drawing their water
from wells and springs. before water
works Men lived without railways,
the telegraph and the telephone. Aye,
men have lived and could live again
without money. But no man ever
lived, no man ever can live, without
land.-Henry George.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
ISN'T IT THE TRUTH?

Once upon time a tariff was placed
on steel, so the American workingman
would not have to compete with pau
per labor" of Europe. The effect of
the tariff has been to make paupers of
our American workmen, and from our
of the European workman.-FortS Scott
Sentinel.
The wageworker., 1910-02-05
FEDERAL UNION ORGANIZED.
First Meeting Held at Labor Temple
Last Monday Evening.

The start of a Federal Union was ac-
complished at a meeting held at the
Temple last Monday evening, at which
time a score of building laborers met
and signed up. So far only the build
ing laborers have been approached,
but the scope of the organization will
be enlarged
The desire for organization was man
ifest to splendid degree, and that a
The wageworker., 1910-02-05

Well, Lincoln is pretty wet right
now, anyhow.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-18
ME AL-1~x


dicular. The lake is 1000 feet deep.
Crater lake and its environs. includ
ing Pos square miles. have been a ma
tional park by act of congress since
1902. Recently railroad connection has
been established. so that this marvel
Gus phenomenon Is easily accessible to
the tourist.
Mount Shasta is in SislSiyou county.
Cal. the county whose name 1t Is pro-
posed to bestow upon the new state
This mountain. 14.442 feet high. pos
scsseS features of interest that belong
to no other big wart on the earth's face
Shasta is not properly peak 1t be-
longs In the Sierra range Sierra means
saw toothed That describes Shasta.
The mountain Is long and has several
depressions like the space between gil
gantic saw teeth. OF one might say that
1t has humps like a monster camers
back. The top and sides are clad in
perpetual snow.
Around the base of Shasta and far
up its cragey slopes Indians and white
men have grappled In death struggles
year after year. Later the gold seeker
came and pitched his tent along the
slopes or In the outlying forests Then
came tho lumbcrman's AK, and one Of
the large industries of the region today
is that of cutting and floating logs.
ROBERT DONNELL.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-18
In a Crowded Land.

A correspondent in Shantung. China,
writes:
1T is increasingly obvious that the
destruction of life by the great famine
OF 1S77-S has been more than repair
ed There never were so many people
to the square inch as now; never was
there less for them to do at home and
never such high prices for everything
bought. If one full half of the popu-
lation could be bodily transported to
Manchurin or to Mongolia they might
in five years OF even in three recover
themselves and ever after live COM
fortnbly- But. being unable to carry
on their backs the graves of their an
cestors. they refuse to go except in
driblets. and the problem of over
crowding gets steAily worse. Almost
all OF the workers In the African gold
mines have returned. and the result.
on the whole. has been small but
nutritious stream OF foreign silver ir-
rigating the most obscure villages.
Hundreds of families have been saved
from ruin by this timely aid-'water
to fish In dry rutland thousands
more would be glad to go. but the op-
portunity has come to an end"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-18

In Uncle Joe as an angel with wings OF
denounce him as devil with whiskers.
whether you honor the Insurgents as
possible saviors OF their countrys lib
critics or anathemat!ze them as traitor
to their party, that thirteen majority
against the speaker on roll call IA
stupendous political fact that stares
you in the face. And suppose the d.
vision should fall upon Friday
New Jersey to California.
BY reference to the list of the thirty
thunderers printed herewith you will
observe that the insurgent movement
is not merely Kan9ns cyclone. though
the head and front q the offending
halls from Wichita and another mem
her from the Sunfowo tate. Edmond
III Madison of Dodge Citv. is In line.
The insurgent representatives hall
from twelve Of the Republican stntes
New Jersey has Its Fowler. who not
long ago engaged In an open letter
contest with the speaker which splut-
tered red fire California is on the
list Massachusetts has two insur-
[ gents Wisconsin has six-more than
half of its members Minnesota has
four Iowa has six. Nebraska has
three. Ohio home of the president. has
two North Dakota has one. and farofi
Washington has another.
II appears, In fine. that therc Is
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-18

to these insurgents II he exercised the
samo prerogatives. which arc de-
nounced by the laundering thirty as q
species OF czaristio absolutism unin-
tentially engrafted upon our body poll
tic
Cannon's Crown of Thorns.
These insurgent members are thirty
thorns in the flesh OF tho speaker,
This is the number OF them as already
reflected in votes but Victor Murdoch
tells mo that there will be moro at the
very first opportunity to express In
surgency sentiments on the roll call.
Should any curious person. Just ns
an exercise in simple arithmetic. de-
sire to understand why Speaker Can
non smokes his cigars at an extra up
tilted angle 'ust now let him - a 1T
tie figuring There are 391 members
In the house The Republicans num-
Der 219 the Democrats l72 From the
219 Republicans subtract 30 insurgents;
result 1S9 Republicans left. To the
172 Democrats add 80 insurgents: re-
suit 2o2 Democrats. Anyhow. they will
vote that way on any proposition tc
press the thorn crown moro tightly
about tho troubled brow of I'm 10 joe
Did you hear anything 1rop?
There you have fatal thirteen ma
jority against the speaker already in
sight No matter whether you believe