The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
THE UNION LABOR VOTE AT THE RECENT GENERAL ELECTION
IN
n j. BRYAN IN THE CON1MONER

O1V1AN
some other win champion of the
impossible for become
with the republican for support democratic
party to adopt platform entirely satisfactory
ciaries of privilege and favori simply suicide
It's record and the record OF its leaders would make
for the democratic party to considerable portion
plutoratc while position
would ID anenate the rank and file Of the party
The hope of our party therefore lies not in demo-
of the cause of the people, but in education
The abong should be strengthened tempa
hone Of M htr th; = + = 80 d % h4 n eaenange or .ne
Save W Who has how - = - an ' SAYING sg nat "a mo one need De
prefer bondage equal may said
that need suffer injustice free country willing
to risk his all in the effort secure justice.
unorganized labor should be taught that
diouby linked those through organa
seeking improve condition of all who toll The
employer should be taught that industrial
between labor and capital possible
of justice and that it deny aboring
legal protection in the enjoyment Of his rights It time that the
large employers forced
hypocrisy in which they indulge when they soude
the protection of They
interested nonunion labor than they labor
They used unorganed labor defeat organized
ing men as ny are TO oppress those VINO are They
themselves the championship Of law
they know that order better be observed by the
remedial legislation than
under the law because Of the absence of needed law
The democratic platform contained ega
lion asked for by the laborng First the creation Of depart
Of labor with cabinet representing
Is this revolutionaryq department.
Labor but ove1shadows labor department.
giving it deserves is used as
laboring say that it
would be dangerous the country that would
class the spokesman pfes
dents councie yet panks
platform which opposed by the large employers
Our platform demands amendment of the antitrust law
cdng the labor from the operation Of that law
this revolutionary? 1t only five that this demand
endorsed by republican house Of the fed
When the Llefed bill before
the introduced exempng labor
the operation of
adopted by of two hundred sixty eight Must
assaied which
Gently endorsed by republican rolcalg
Another plank of platform demands limitation Of the
writ OF injunction that the writ will not be issued in labor dis
unless the conditions justify injunction
if there labor this revolutionary Should
labor dispute be in itself for the of writ of in
labor dispute end already begun when
injury threatened life property? That plank
platform be misunderstood and the republican leaders
constantly
able the proposition which the platform itself pesentd
And what of the fourth proposition namely the demand for
platform specifically endorsed that
vhemng that no ro,an was dmanded In fact s. Is stated bv
who voted the bill who instrumental
that only against it Are
be condemned for endorsing proposition sound and element
that twelve years republican senators dared
argument against its
yet planks platform
the basis of appeal to the preudces Of large employers and
iabor's
party society upon enduring
basis to promote peace good among
the Of the wealth.
Our pay PLATFORM and part entirely har
with the spirit of the of the Presidents Board Of
Arbitration anthracite strike forth
of Bishop Spaulding of the commission:
All their Investigations deliberations
vcon them that if they could evoke confirm
spirit Of good villa conlatory disposition
in the and their employees their relations toward
anoherhey would do better and lasting work than
rulings Fairness
orbeaance good prerequisites
monious
employers and employees are reciprocal Tho
utoff