The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-10-28


ton it, the campaign literature avoids
all reference to unionism, although it
talks at length about 1.-The dignity OF
labor and local committees warn To-
cal speakers against mentioning the
labor question.
Union men are to blame for this Ii
they were doing their duty they would
make every candidate, every spellbind
er. every committeeman come out into
the open. But the candidates are
hedging They want votes from
both unionists and Parryites They
hem and haw, they splutter and evada,
and attempt to carry water on both
shoulders. And union men so right
ahead voting for party instead of vot-
ing for their families.
The result is that the men with the
money control elections and have an
immortal cinch on the public officials
elected. Union labor holds the balance
OF power, and if it would intelligently
WELD that power it could enforce it's
rights and curb the greed of capital.
At the next meeting of the Round
Table Mr.. Charles H. Morrill, is going
to discuss the question of socialism.
Nh. Morrill, does not know the dir
ference between socialism and anarchy,
or between socialism and communism.
therefore his discussion will be much
more amusing than instructive. We
in the city of Lincoln who can meet
Mr.. Morrill, at any time, anywhere, and
make him look like a monkey in the
discussion of any economic problem
now confronting the people of this
country. And if Mr.. Morrill, will agree
to meet and discuss any of the ques-
tions. The Wageworker will pay for
the hall.
The republican and democratic con-
ventions in Nebraska rent their neither
garments in their efforts to please
the travelling men. Both nominated
travelling men for secretary of state
and about all the enthusiasm thus far
displayed in the campaign has had its
foundation in the fact that both parties
are tearing their shirts to secure the
travelling mems votes. But neither
convention nominated a union crafts
man, and neither party is paying any
attention to the union vote The moral
Of this little story is that union men
ought to get together and make their
votes count
Are you patronizing the merchants
who advertise in The Wageworker:
That's one way to show your union
ism. Buy of Wageworker advertisers
and tell them why you do it. In this
way you will help support your labor
paper.
The union man who wears non-union
shoes and clothing, smokes non-unioa
cigars and takes no interest in the
meetings of fks local is a worse enemy
to unionism than the man who never
Joined the union.
The Western Laborer continues to
shout, I'VE must trust Roosevelt" The
Wageworker still insists that every
union man should study for himself
and trust only his own calm judgment
You have one more chance to regis
ter. If you fail to register and lose
your vote you are not as good a citi-
zen as you should be, and you can not
be poor citizen and good union
man.
The old Roman geeZer we'll known
in mythology, who had to wear the
shirt which caused him such awful
agony, may not have, known it. but the
shirt was made by non-union labor.
! When American citizens take as
much interest in good government as
they do in football, there will be some
hope of securing the reforms that all
concede are sadly needed.
| IL you are q uulOu HAL anu dllON
your wife to sweep the house with 4.
convict-made Lee broom, we hope tn ,
dust win choke you until you grow
black in the face
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There are whole lot of union men
| who show far greater interest in the
welfare of the Filipinos than in the
welfare of their fellow unionists in
the United States
Forty years ago the per capita ex-
pense OF the government was 81. To-
day it is 81. The men who work for
wages are the men who pay the diff
ference.
The election of Folk in Missouri
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