The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29

| DOrate wealth Is not rear at hanu
| then organized labor would better dis
band
A DAMNABLE OUTRAGE
President Meyer of Telluride is il
legally imprisoned by military torce in
| spite OF the orders OF a civil court Tor
relief. He is not charged with a non
! bailable offense. Yet the supreme
! court OF Colorado denied him ad.nis-
sion to bail pending his application fol
| release on a writ OF habeas corpus.
| Had President Meyer been guilty OF
! most horrible murder he could not
have been treated with more severity.
| But he is not charged with anything
| more serious than being the president
OF a labor union and refusing to be
| browbeaten by the arrogant union
wreckers of Colorado who lave Sc
! cured the aid OF the militia and pui-
| chased control of the state admins
tration. His incarceration is an III
rage, is in defiance of law. and viola
tive of the very fundamentals OF
| American freedom.
| But Colorado IS reaping the reward
| of her subservience to the arrogant
union wreckers. An enormous bill. OF
costs is piling up against her. I1er
trade is falling off at a frightful rate.
Denver. the metropolis of the state, is
suffering worse than it did during the
| strenuous days of the panic wnen
| banks burst on every hand. I hou-
sands CT idle men tramp the streets,
and business stagnation is evident OF
every hond. 1t is a just punishment
! upon a people who sold their birth
| right for mess of capitalistic pot
tage.
The question Of an eight-hour day
was left to referendum vote in Colo
RADIO and carried by majority OF oyar
| $4,000. A venal legislature sold cut
! to the mine owners and the amend
ment was defeated. These venal mine
owners are the same men who are nov
| prating so loudly about rights" and
unions and deprive union men OF lib
| erty without warrant of law. 1t is ali
right for those who are hundreds OF
miles away to advise caution and for
| bearance. but if revolution is the re-
suit of the high-handed outrages per-
petrated upon laboring men in Colo
RADIO. the arrogant mine owners and
the lickspittle Peabody will alone be
to blame.
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e O. Mayfield, known to little folk
| all over the west as Rex NJ" will soon
magazine. Mr. MayfielG is one OF the
best writer's of animal and juvenile
! stories in the country, and we can
| imagine of no better treat for a boy
or girl than a subscription TO his
magazine. He ought to start off with
a subscription list of $4,000. The price
will be so cents year. and the maya
zine will be a monthly. The Office OF
publication will be South Omaha. Neo.
1883
The Denver papers are keeping 81
lent in all known languages about the
trouble in the mining districts. they
have elongated and diaphanous Ell
! torials on every other subject under
the sun. But the explanation is easy.
| The mine owners control advertising.
| while the union men control only in
dividual subscriptions. and doubtless
re ho IN, he no
the papers that do not dare to de-
nounce the outrages perpetrated on
workingmen in the mining regions.
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Advertisers who patronize The
Wageworller are the friends of organ
lied labor. Those VINO do not adyC;'
tise in The Wageworker may be, and
many of them doubtless are, friend:
of organized labor. But union men
and women can aid their cause and a
the same time help The Wageworker
by patronizing those who advertise
in this newspaper.
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1t was in Philadelphia that Liberty
was proclaimed throughout all the
world and to all the Inhabitants there
Of" 1t was in Philadelphia, too
and only few days ago-that tree
speech was denied and men thrown
into Jail for daring to say that the de-
NAL was an outrage.
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The Wageworker calls especial at
tention to the article. The Church
and the Labor Unions" which ap-
pears elsewhere. The article appeared
in the St. Louis Christian-Erangeii