The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-23

are on equality before the law in this re-
spect.
ga successful suit for damages would prac-
tically disrupt the organization. If all the en-
ployers Were absolutely honest, the lncorpOra-
tion of the union might be insisted upon, but
for the reason given, organized labor is nat
uraly cautious about taking step which
would bring it practically no advantages while
it would lay itself open to the assaults of it's
enemies.
1.-The right to run one S business as he pleases
must have its limitations. Great changes in the
conception Of personal property rights have
come part OF the democratic evolution. In
some respects a man run his business as he
pleases, but in other respects public opinion,
and frequently matter of employment, it is be-
ing recognized that there two parties in
stead of one. A man may do as he pleases only
so far as that liberty does not injhre the we'll
being of his fellow man. One may not set
fire to his house, may he exercise that
privilege which might injure somebody else''
A discussion followed, and each minister who
spoke the paper first expressed himself as
being wholly in sympathy with the views of
the writer.
81 am in sympathy with the writer de-
cared Rev. N. S. Haynes in his three minutes
discussion OF the paper. why is a non-union
man deprecated and called a scab2''
GA non-union man is allowed in places
to work with union men, 80 declared the writer
of the paper in answer to the question of Rev.
1alneS. IL anSefS the union man TO nave a
scab take his place at machine for this rea-
son. 1t is for the scab. as well for the bet
terment of the working men, that union is
formulated. When scabs take the place of
union men they cause, in many cases, the union
men to lose the strike
''It is my duty" declared Rev. j. L. Mar
SHALL jr., in his discussion of the paper. 'tto
look after men, that are members of union,
and to see that they Christians, and to also
that they given work. | should do this
in the best way [ 1t is the duty Of all of
ministers to look after union men and help
them in any way possible to lead better life
good Christian men. 1t is my opinion that
there should be organized Christian labor
union, that ministers should do as
much as possible to connect the unions with the
church.
sit would not be wise STEP" declared Mr..
StelZle, 'to make the unions Christian organ
Hations The labor question in the last analy
sis is moral question.
Several other members Of the association en-
tered into discussion of the paper.
Rev. Mr.. Batten made short and earnest
plea for fairness and justice. When they had
the trolley strike in Brooklyn Rev. Mr.. Barrons
preached sermon denouncing lawlessness and
demanding that it be put down with a strong
hand. l wrote and told him to preach another
sermon denouncing the lawlessness of the troll
ley company and the dishonesty of the men con-
trolling it. And l told him that if he did not
do it he was false to humanity. false to God
and false to himself
Several ministers spoke on the paper, and all
were strong in their endorsements of it. Mr..
Stelzle said it was the most consistent minis
terial union meeting he had ever attended, be-
cause it had confined itself absolutely to the
paper.