The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-06-03
HOW 1T WILL WORK OUT.

Eject men tnat Will carry uulou
cards" will be the slogan of the
american Federation of Labor.
We gather the above startling in
formation from the Worcester, Mass,
Labor News. We hadn't been feeling
well for several days prior to read
ing the above pronouncement, out
when we read it wesjust sat back AMI
had such a bully laugh that we've
been feeling good ever since.
Catch me voting for that stiff"
Let a union man become candi-
date for office, and instead of get
ting the unanimous support of his
fellow unionists he will get knocks"
from a big lot of them. You know it's
the truth! Insane jealousy of the sue
cess of others Is one of the curses
of the labor movement. The minute
one man shows signs of rising above
the level and becoming a leader and
the knockers" who never do any
thing but knock" get buster than a
hen with one chicken.
Hes a grafter!"
Let a union man start out determ-
ined to promote some plan calculated
to benefit the whole body of organized
labor, and Immediately there will
come forth a yell of CRATER" from
the same old bunch. You know IT'S
the truth!
Take your local labor paper, for i'll
stance. Its editor fights your battles
in season and out of season-and 20
date we've failed to learn of a single
labor paper editor who has grown
rich at the game. But let that editor
say something that you don't like, OF
advocate some policy that you op.
pose, and Immediately you forget he
good that he has done and is trying
to do. and you get out your little ham
mer and hammer away to beat all pos
ing and paying for the daily papers
that throw the hooks into organized
labor at every opportunity. You KIN Nv
it's the truth!
Elect men that will carry uniun
cards!"
1t is a joke? The possession Of 9
union card ought to be valuable as
set to the candidate for office, but is
it? Look at the record right here in
Lancaster county. At the most con
sentative estimate there are 5000 vot
ers In the county who carry union
cards. Within the last six years nine
union men have been candidates FL
the legislature. Did we ever elect
one? Not one of them ever polled one
half as many votes as there are unior
voters in the county, and certainly
each one of them received some votes
from voters who are not union men
There are perhaps $50 or 800 insar
ance agents in Lancaster county, vel
the insurance ring is always repre-
scented in the legislature. Why? We'll
when an insurance capper runs fol
the legislature every blooming insur
ance agent in the county gets out an:
legs on him. And they always see tt
it that they have one of their owl
kind on the ticket too. How abou
union voters? In the first place if on:
of their number gets on a ticket it Il
by accident. In the second place, in
stead Of union men getting out ant
boosting for him ,they-or a lot {
them-get out and begin yelling
CRATER" or perform some other spe
cies of knocking"
You know it's the truth!
The union candidate may stand 70
a thousand things you stand for, bu
IL he happens to differ from you il
one single little thing, no matter no,
non-essential 1t may be, you fight hir
to the finish. you impugn his motive.
you cast reflections upon his honest
of purpose. and you hint that he !
mot on the level"
What's the use of beating about tn
bush? You know that what we've sa,
here is the honest truth. And the pol
tical manipulators know it is til
truth. for which reason they don
give O tinker's dam for the so calle
labor vote.
ELECT men that will carry unio
cards!"
Mighty fine advice, and it read
well in print, or sounds well on tn
floor of the union.
But that's as far as 1t goes.