The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-12-16

Decn TO ScnOOl DAY IN tnelf lives
Thousands of them have never stood
out of doors and watched the sun rise,
because they entered the mills before
sun-up and did not leave until after
sunset. Their starved little bodies
soon wither and droop, and the grave
yards always look like freshly plowed
ground, SO numerous are the new-made
graves. And starving mothers have
their little ones, because rehhorseless
greed calls them back to the mills to
be ground into fragments for the en-
richment of constituencies capitalists.
These children are being murdered
by scores every day in the year. Muir
dered in the word, and ii there be Il
just God ruling in the heavens there
will be a day of bitter reckoning for
the men who STAY body and soul to
fatten their purses.
This is one of the conditions that
organized labor is working night and
day to remove. Three million tcslers
are banded together to protect the
children of this land and build stronger
the foundations of future citizenship.
They not only have to fight those
who seek to profit by inhuman treat
ment of the little children, but they
must overcome the indifierences OF
those who should be most interested
In the great work. They are confronted
on one hand by the Doodle funds Of
the cotton and coal kings, and upon
the other hand by the Indifference .:
fathers and mothers whose lot in life
is better than that of the fathers
and mothers whose children must toll
their lives away in ignorance and
despair.
Parryism never secured the enact
ment of law for the benefit of those
of whom the Savior said, 'Of such is
the kingdom of heaven" Parryism
never secured the enactment OF
sanitary law regulating milf, mine or
factory Parryism never secured the
enactment of law safeguarding life
and limb Parryism never secured
the enactment of law requiring fire
escapes. On the contrary. Parryism
has opposed every one of these laws.
Organized labor battling against
active opposition and supreme indif-
ference, has secured every such law
upon the statute books.
Did the advocates of the open shop
ever build home for INDECENT and
disabled employees? Did advocates OF
the open shop ever take child out
of u mill and educate it, clothe it
and pay it's struggling parents the
wage it would have earned had 1t
remained at work. Labor unions have
done both. Do Parryites sit at the
bedside of the suffering toiler and min
lister to him in his hours of sickness?
Does Parryism bury the dead toiler
comfort the widow and care for orph-
an? Labor unions are doing these
things every day in the year and
every hour in the day.
Bringing $500 boys up out OF the
Ioisome mines and putting them into
| school is small fraction of the good
work that labor unions are doing every
day Men and women should study
the facts.
There are several labor unions III
Lincoln unrepresented on The Wage
workers subscription books. When
trouble comes they will be the first
ones to ask for support, and they are
the ones that will need it most.
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| Labor unions should more care
| fully cultivate the social feature CT
their organizations. Every organized
craft should have it's auxiliary among
the wives, mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts of the members.
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| The farmer who opposes labor I'M
ions is chump of the first water. The
! farmer is prosperous only when labor
ia employed at remunelative wages.
The open shop means the untitled
| farm.
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the union label you may be rest as
sured that it does not have the blood
and souls of innocent children woven
into it's warp and wool.
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The eight-hour working day is COM
ing, and greedy capital might just
as well make up it's mind to accept
the inevitable.
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If Mrs. Chadwick had been born 2
man she would have made the grand
est old Parryite of them all.
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| Capital has no trouble today in
securing any old kind of injunction
wants.
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More open meetings will help to
maintain the "closed shop"
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LaborinG men should keep away
from the Pacific coast.
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The "open shop" means Industrial