The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-11-04

who pulls the chestnuts from the fire
for the benefit of the selfish and un-
Iscrupulous employer. He is the hard
headed battering ram selected by greed
to batter down the walls that labor
has erected for it's own protection
against greed and selfishness.
Coward capital insists that the con-
flict is between the slave of the
union" and the ''free and independent
workingman"-the "scab.H And the
"scab" hasn't sense enough to see that
he is being used to do the dirty work
that capital is too cowardly to under
take itself.
Every benefit that labor enjoys to-
days has come through the work of
the labor unions.
Eevry law for the protection of life
and limb in factory. workshop and
ny labor unions.
| Every sanitary law guarding the
health of those who toll at a trade is
the result of labor union activity and
EFFORT.
The "Scab' who can not speak for
the employer, enjoys these benefits
without having the manhood to ac-
knowledge the obligation and bear his
share of the burden. And every en-
ployer who defends the "scab" and at
tacks the union has opposed every
opposed them because they curbed his
greed and prevented him from exploit
ing the worlSingman. The men who
have opposed laws against child labor,
itary conditions in mills and mines,
who have opposed laws compelling the
use of safety appliances on railroads,
who have opposed shorter hours, who
have opposed everything that labor has
sought for its own protection-the men
who have opposed these things are
the men who always speak for tho
"scab." Union men who have secured
all of these blessings for labor are able
to speak for themselves.
Without labor unions labor condi-
tons would be infinitely worse than
bad enough now. The destruction of
the labor unions would remove the
last bulwark that stands between the
toiler and organized greed. the las.
bulwark that defends wives and chill
dren from those who would fatten their
purses at the expense OF human life.
And the ''scab" who can not speak for
himself is lending himself to those
who are seeking to destroy these bull
warks
An esteemed evening contemporary
is throwing some more fits because the
gas company is not doing what the
e. e. C. thinks it should do. In the
meantime the Lincoln Distraction COM
pany's policy receives no condemna-
ton from the aforesaid e. e. c., al
though the Lincoln Distraction COM
pany has a habit of responding to all
appeals for better service by placing
its corporate thumb upon it's corporate
nose and wriggling its corporate fin
gers in derision.
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John E. Miller is the only candidate
fer Office that is receiving the support
of The Wageworker, and he receives it
because he stands for the things ad-
vocated by this paper. The Wage
worker has consistently refused to mix
in politics, although it could have
made temporary profit by mixing. 1t
supports Mr.. Miller because he sup
ports policies that The Wageworker
vas established to support. a
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The man who smokes non-union ci-
gars lays himself open to cancer, small
pox. diphtheria, itch, leprosy, syphilis,
typhoid fever. mango, scarlet fever.
and host of other deadly ailments.
Non-union cigars are usually made in
unsanitary surroundings by filthy and
diseased workmen. The blue label OF
the Cigarmakers' Union is a guar
antee OF cleanliness.
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| If you want to see a scattering, butt
into a political meeting and ask the
| spellbinder if his candidate is friend
ly to union labor and advocates the
"closed shop" The old political par
ties are scared to death lest they be
compelled to take a stand.
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| Owen Wister has hown to the de-
Tense OF the "scab" and calls him 4
brave man." the defender of free
work." and all that sort OF thing. The
best answer to Owen Wister's argu-
ment is to say that Wister is writer
of fiction.
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When The Wageworker's bank &C
count reaches Sos, 900, 900 it will inau-
gurate a crusade that will settle the