Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1903, Page 7

— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. The Way Physicians Now Catarrh. Physicland who tormerly depended upon inhalerw, sprays and local washes or oint- ments now use Stuart’s €AuTo 1% one of the most prominent stated thes, tablets contain in pleasant, conven- lens form all of the really efcient and re- llable catirrh remedies, such as red gum, blood ront ana Hydrastin They contain no cocaine or oplate (so common tn liquid catarrh medicines and cough syrups) and they are given to little chiddren with entire safety and benefit Dr. J. J. Reftinger ways: 1 suffered from Catarrh in my head and throat every win- ier and it would hang on clear into sum- er, with stoppage of the nose and irrita- tion in the throat affecting my voice, so that 1 was continually clearing my throat before 1 could speak plainly; it finally ex tendied to, the stomach, causing catarrh of the. stomach. 1 bought a fifty-cent box of Stuart's Ca- farrh Tablets at my druggist's, ecarried them in my pockets and used them regu- Treat larly soveral times a day, and the way in | throat | which they cleared and improved my hearing and general health I consider little short of remarkable. 1 had ne catarrh last winter and spring and know I am entirely free from any eatarrhal trouble whatever. Mrs. Jerome Ellison of Wheeling, writes 1 suffered from catarrh nearly my whole lite and last winter my two children also suffered from catarrhal colds and sore throat so much they were out of school a Iarge part of the winter. My brother, who was cured of catarrhal deafness by using Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets urged me so much to try them that I sent to the drug store and bought a package and 1 am thankful for what they have done for me and my children. 1 always keep a box of the tablets in the house and at the first ap- pearance of a cold or sore throat one or two of the catarrh tablets nips it in the bud and Cstarrh s no longer a household affliction with us. my head and A Shrewd Investor will be glad to know how the greatest accumulation of trust funds in the world is invested. A young man who is just beginning to accumulate and invest his savings will be interested in a booklet that describes the investments of The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. This information is found in “A Banker's Will.” Sent free on application. TS B ia Avpas. First—In A aount Paid Policy-hold First—in Age AR Tue MutuaL LiFe INSURANCE Comraxy oF NEw York, ' Rucmazn A McCuasy, President, Nassau, Ueds . 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Omly Oue,Dollar & Year atarrh Tablets be- | { truly | STRIKING MECHANICS REPLY They Take Issue with President Burt on Piece Work Bystem ESAV IT IS A DELUSION AND A SNARE | | Ar [ Company Does Not In- | tend to Pay Employes One | Cent More Than it is | Obliged to ¥ 1 ok | | The following appeal to public opinion | { has been addressed to The Bee on behalf of | the striking Union Pacific machinists and fs | tven publicity as they request | | ] | - | OMAHA, March 6.—To the Editor of The | B The striking mechanics of the Union | Pacific railway are persuaded that hitherto NDAY, MARCH 8, 1903. side may be wholly willing to make its|the law can provide, to work againet us tenets the standard by which the con- | yes, and against the rest of the great public troversy should be decided. But we might | as well. The citizens of Omaha and -w[ paraphrase the language of she parable of | Nebraska do not need (o be told this by us the laborers in the vineyard and say: “Is | They kmow it. The best legal talent of | it ot lawful for us to do what we will the city and state is retained against them with our own?" If the best skilled me- | and their interests, by the corporations; | chanics are content to work for the same , not because they need it all, but because | wage as the less skilled, who can deay 'they intend that the commonwealth shall their right to 1o so? The better skillod have as little of it as possible free to de mechanics know perfectly well that if they ' fend rights and interests. What is truo | were each to look out ‘for himself ihe of Omaha and praska is true in large | union could not exist, and that if there measure of the nagion. The corporations | were ‘no unfon their wages would /in- can buy, and are buying, city councils and | evitably fall far below the union scale.’ gtate legielatures, and they sit entrenched Bhe World is Not Falr. in the nation’s council chambers to in- | fluence, to bribe and to buy legislation | The rallroads have taught thelr men 10 | which will forward their control of every pool their earninge in order to prevent . p,giness and economic Interest. Yet, when, ruinous competition and the cutting of amig the excitement and hot blood of a Whoteserme. ;h‘l:u:lnv:; l:ld;’:;v,llil'lfl;;‘xv;z strike which they have provoked, some of Talironds are falr to each othor when {hey | OUF number, forgetting cooler, more pru dent counsels, are tempted violen and or provoked, to the cry of lawlessness is raised, every power of the state and is invoked against us consent, in many instances, to take le. than they actually earn, through the oper: tion of a pool in order to prevent a greater nation | they have had the sympathy and good will { of all impartial men in all the cities and | towns through which the line runs, and | outside. They prize very highly that good | will, and they mean to hold it until the struggle ends in the winning of their contention, if it lies within their power to | retain it. At all events they intend to de serve it. They wish, therefore, to reply through the columns of an unpurchased press, to articles which have appeared re- cently in certain weekly papers in Omaha and perhaps elsewhere. These articles bear every appearange of Inspiration from the corporation headquarters; and inspiration, we know, is profitable to the inspired, in this as in other matters. We make no com- plaint, only we desire to direct attention to the fact | It has been said that Mr. Burt and those | higher than him have nothing but the kind Hest intentions toward their employes In oftering them piece work; their only pur pose being to pay every man what he is | worth, instead of paying every man, as | under the present system, the same wage. | They do not intend to lower the average | wage, but only to grade It according to individual ability! | This seemingly fair pretense is false in fact, as any man of ordinary intelligence can see at a glance. Would the officers of the Union Pacific railway, bright and able business men as they are, care fo | plunge their road into a strike that is cost- Ing so much, just for the sake of vaving | the best mechanics more and the poorer men less than they are securing now, without in any way lowering the average wage of the entire body? Whatever any one may think of Mr. Burt, no one can fairly call him a fool, to war od his men for a sentiment that is costing the road heavily, even it he cared nothing for what it is costing the men Mr. Burt has entered deliberately into this | contest for the express purpose of lowe: ing the general average of the wage paid to the employes of the road As to the Premium. But does he not offer a premium, a guar- anty that no man shall earn less than | | be has been earning hitherto, if the men | will only consent to the piece work sys- tem, while he is perfectly willing that the most skillful men shafl earn more? Yes, but again Mr. Burt is not a fool.| That premium offer is a transparent de- | vice, first to get the men to consent at the outset to the piece work system, and, after it had contifiued for awhile, to with- draw it after he has bent the men to his | will. Mr. Burt Is not foolish emough to continue his premium offer for a day longer than it has served his purpose. No sensi- | ble man could expect him to do so. Were {he to continue the premium, so long as he continued it he could not reduce the operating expenses of the road. Indeed, it there were any mechanics on the road who could increase their pay under the plece work system, the increase, whatever it might be, would be at the cost of the road. Mr, Burt, we all know, does not intend to earn his salary by decreasing the dividends of the men who own the road and hire him. He intends to increase the dividends by lowering the operating | expenses. The plece work system is the | method, or one of the methods, by which he proposes to do that. That is to say, | by it he means to lower the wages of the | men. That is one purpose of Mr. Burt and of the men who stand behind bim They know it. We know it. The public ought to know it. But that is not the main purpose. We shall come to that later t Man to Set Pace. But it s sald that plece work is the only fair way; that under its operation every man will get just what he earns, no more, no less. Let us sce. That would be true, or partially true, provided prices were fixed sufficiently high, and maintained, for a skillful mechanic could then make a fair wage, a living wage. But they are not, and even thongh they were, there is not the least probability that they would continue | 0. Let it be granted for the sake of the | rgument that some men might make more than the scale of wages hitherto pald. That tact of itself would work to our disad- vantage, to the prompting of the lowering of the piece work scale for all, because a tew, by superior skill or activity, or both, | could and did make more than the average wage. The more any man made by exces- | sive activity, or by working over time, the worse it would be for him and for the rest of us. He and we would seon be told that what one man could do all could do, that it he could make 50 cents a day over the old scale at day work others could do it If they could not they were either lazy or incompetent and did not deserve wha they were already receiving. The “smart man would be a fool for his labor, for he | ! would set the pace for himself as well as for others. ‘The scale would be cut to bring him to a ‘“reasonable” dally wage Of course, for the rest also. That is the | | ultimate purpose. A corporation \uat seeks | to evade paylng its Que chare of public | | taxation does not entertain the smallest thought of paying its employes one cent more per day than it is obliged to pay. It | is the nature of the corporation to seek | first and chiefly high dividends, whether by evading taxation or by cutting down the | | pay of its employes. We do not here care | time in complaint of that. We only desire the public to consider to waste Unfair to the Corporation. But is it not unfair to the corporation to require it to pay as much to the least skillful as to the meost skillful one? It would be unfair if it were required to pay | any man more than his labor is worth No mechanics’ union requires a corpora- tion either to hire or to retain a man who cannot earn the union scale. The union would very naturally resent the dis- charge of & man for some cause other than incompetence—for pernicious aectivity,” say—but it does not require any corpora tion, or other employer, either to hire or 10 retain any man who caunot or does not | fairly esrn the unlon wage. If he can and | does earn that wage, It cannot be unfair to the corporation te pay it, even though other men can and do earn more. What- | | Sver watatraces there may be in. the fact that the better skilled man receives no | higher pay, under the union scale, than the | less skilled man, the corporation has it in | ]ill power to rectify I} can pay, without | compulsicn, all that the better skilled man | 1s worth more than the other. The uaion does not forbid. But it is not fair to the better skilled man to pay him no more than the less skilled man is paid. Well, we do not feel very much disposed (o bring the bible inte our comtroversy, as nelther | corporation officers, by favoritism and other | | to remember that we are THE SCALP_MICROBE HACRORES | retainit in all its youthtulsplendor. That causes Iiching and HAVEJUST It untortunstely, your hair is thin Dandruft followed by FIAGRED andlifeless and ‘the tel-tale mir- Falling Huir. Gray " rr showslt siresked with gray ‘Hair and Finally A—The Hair RANITONIC HAIR FOOD will Baldness. B-The Scalp. stimulate its growth. make it thick From_Micro-Photograph | C-Microbes. = and strong and restore its natural Copyright, 1899. 55 & SOMORIENS - b They are corrupt- losa by & competitive warfare of rates, why oy (e nation's life at its very source by should 1t be considered unfalr for the i U8 Moo Ot L E O he mak mechanics to do the same thing by the | g A i DES VEO e eh uperation of the union scale? If all the ' '8%® Siving the people at large the poor world were falr, and virtuous. and honest, . Privilege of ratifying their choice at m-’ there would be fio need of pools, or untons, | PO!l%s To & very large extent they select but the world fs ot And rallroads and ' OUF judges to interpret those laws, lest, other corporations Are a very influential | DY Y means, they might fall In recelving part the world just now,.and they par- A Lhelr proper interpretation after their take of a very large part of the worldw | friends in the legislatures have had tifem character, as large a part, to speak modestly | ©PActed In their interest of ourselves, as the unions do. The Better skilled workmen know fully what they do when they are content to work side by | side with lesser skilled men for the same | pay. “Call Us Lawl Yet they call us lawless whenever any of our number fall of seif-control amid ex- citement, and fret and hot blood of a strike! And now for our final and chiefest reason There are many other things we might say for opposing the plece work system. We In behalf of our cause, in this our appeal for do not oppose it be unwilling | fair judgment on the part of the public | that any man among at large. But we have already transgressed | a fair day's work for a the limits of prudent regard for the patience | because we We will only say 1 ause we are should refuse to do ir day's pay, but are certain that under its op-'| Of the public in closing, | eration, as things are, and are going to be, | (AL OUF interests are identical with the | | no man will receive a fair day's pay for a | interests of the people among whom we | | fair day's work. Under its operation the |live. We speud all we earn in the cities labor union will cease to exist: the rule of |42d towns in which we work and live labor will be: “Every man for himself ana | NOB® Of It goes to New York the devil take the Bindmost The spifit [OF Boston, or London, or Paris of rivalry and jealousy, and of rending com- | O ~Berlln, or Amsterdam, to swell petition, will be introduced among us. The | (h¢ Wealth of thorc already wealthy be- | yond their needs, or much, we spend much. good. If we earn It we earn little, we means, will know how to divide us and | ) e i B g sd spend little, and the merchant and the to keep us divided, and to rule over us by [yrogc oot AT, T8 SovEy. 1t W our divisions. They know that, and 80 d0 | sarn much we can Bring up our children we. They know how to divi | h livide leglslatures | ,pqor conditions that will enable them to and courts; and who are we that we could | hove o hold our own amainst the ol b | become manly, useful citizens of our state e Ut land nation. We can afford to feed and omnipotent power of corporate wealth and | ciothe and house and educate them de. :;L-‘”‘I'('_‘:""* _;" I:‘““‘_ !‘:""IY together, | cently. It we earn little we can do none by m‘" ..“"v'_:n;"“fr:;l"“ .‘m;‘ "“h’;:‘lm“"::“ | of these things. Long before we ought o b o 3 g © | do so, we shall be compelled to withdraw s t crafts. ~ |them from school to make them help to cke out the support which we ought to be able to give them, until their bodles and It we were all wise, and prudent, and far | minds are able to bear the stress of hard | seeing, and unselfish, as we ought to be, We | manual labor. We ask not wealth nor | might still be able under the plece work | collego training for our boys and girls system to control our labor and its reward, | But we do seek a fair education and de- | and even maintain our union to that end. | cency of outward conditions for them, both But we are not. And we know it. The cor- | for their own sake and for the sake of the poration managers all over the land know | land that bore them. That, we are con- the weakness of great unorganized masses | vinced, they cannot have under present and of men who are dependent upon their daily | coming conditicns, unless labor can control pay for the support of themselves and their | itself and be able to say to the trusts and children. They know they could play us | glant corporations what their only product | off one against another, and so cut our | shall be worth In the market. It cannot | wages to the starvation point, once the fed- | do that unless it s united. It cannot be, or erated union of workingmen is destroyed. | remain united, under the piece work system. | They say they do not want to be dictated | | to by thelr men. Very well; but they are Seranuis. 1o’ the Deg seeking, at our expense, the position whence | they can dictate to us. We only seek the | jt. Hence the Union Pacific strike and position where we can control our own | struggle. It is a struggle to the death be- craft, where we can be able to say upon | tween the corporation idea and our idea. | what terms we shall dispose of the only | We do not care to send out hard words | property, or stock in trade, we have—our | against Mr. Burt. He is but a power in | labor. The corporations are seeking wealth, | the game of the looming, threatening, glant high dividends. We are only secking such | power that stands behind him; the cor- | réward for our labor as will procure to us | poration against the republic; of the dom- | and our children decent conditions of liv- | inant power and pride of wealth against ing. We may be selfish in‘all this; and in|the soul and lite of individusl manhood. | our stern confiict to obtaln what we are| That contést is stoo stern to justify our | secking, some, many of our number, may | indulging in the foolishness of hard words | be tempted to say and do things which inst the local agents of incorporated | most of us, as well as our well disposed | power. We are here fighting the battle of fellow citizens, will feel disposed to con- | labor everywhere, the battle also, we be- | demn and regret. We may, oftentimes, | lleve, of the republic. If we lose, labor some of us, be tempted to violate law, even | loses, the corporation wins. If the cor- | though obedience to law is our most cer- | poration wins this battle it will move its | tain way to win our cause. But it is well | forces clsewhere to win again, and it will | as yet, but a | Win. If it wins the whole fleld of labor wil, mass of men In this land, practically un- | lle prostrate. And if that happens the days | disciplined, but partially welded together, |Of the republic will be numbered. The age while those whose interests stand opposed | Of the barricades, and of revolution, and | to ours are few, a closely compacted body | Of standing armies, will rise op its ruins. | of men, well trained, and united by the | The “plece work system™ doubtless seems power of unlimited wealth and by the cool, [ Ver¥ simple and very fair to many fair- calculated power of Intellectual and busi- [ Miaded people, but its consequences reach ness training. They can bide their time, | {oF Into the future for evil; for our chil- 4 dren, as well as for the children of those Best Brains in Country. who so jauntingly write us down in fnspired They suffer nothing by waiting. They have | and purchased editorials. Let the spublic | among their number the coolest, most |Judge our cause. Let it remember, too, | caleulating, most patient brains in the | that our cause is their cause, even now, but | land. 1f they lack cunning or coun- |&t'll more so hereafter. The battle is that sel they can, for money, employ the|of corporate greed and pride of power keenest, the shrewdest, yes, even the most | asciust the common life of the republic. unprin:ipled minds, that the profession of ST Not All Wise and Unwelfish. The corporations know that, and we know | KE PRESS COMMITTEE. v THE PEOPLES FURN AND CARPET URE COMPANY, ' MARCH SALE We offer for your consideration this week a vast quantity of merchandise at prices that will appeal to all prospective buyers of house- hold goods. We give below a mere inkling of the good values that await you here. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD FURNITURE ! FURNITURE! 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