Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-09
TO THE WORKERS

TO THE WORKERS
Yesterday the pages that make up the paper
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Jype smeared with black ink were pressed against
the paper and the MAJORITY was born.
The MAJORITY is your paper. You own it.
It will reflect your ideas It Will voice your Cause.
Neither the Politician in or out OF the Labor
Movement can muzzle or mould the MAJORITY.
The MAJORITY was born to serve the Cause.
It does not represent any clique, group or set of
men, nor serve any single loea or point of view It
is newspaper. 1t gives you the facts. With the
facts before you and your God-given intelligence
you can contribute your share towards solving the
problems ahead OF organized Labor Service is
the motto of rhe MAJORITY. To do constructive
work is it's AIM =
Resolutions and protest meetings and conven-
tons all right in their place. but the great rank
and file of the Labor Movement can only reach the
Promised Land by thinking their way out of the
Wilderness No man can be Tree who let's another
man think for nit matters not whether the
other man is Labor Leader or Capitalist.
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and more hopeful lives for men, women and
children.
Recently man was sent to the Insane Asylum
The doctors said he was hopelessly insane. They
based their opinion on the fact that he refused to
help himself
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the men who run the country. Public opinion can
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people want the facts. That-the people do not get
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