National news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1915-19??, 1915-10-22
GREETINGS


Yesterday the four pages that make up the paper
you are now reading were plain white paper. Lead
type, smeared with black ink pressed against the
paper and the NATIONAL NEWS was born.
The NATIONAL NEWS is your paper You own
it. 1t will reflect your ideas 1t will voice your Cause
Neither the Politician in or of the Labor Move
ment muzzle mould the NATIONAL NEWS.
The NATIONAL NEWS was born to serve the
Cause 1t will not represent any clique group or set OF
men, nor Will 1t serve any single idea point OF view
1t will be newspaper 1t will give 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 NATIONAL NEWS. To do constructive work
is its aim.
Resolutions and protest meetings and conventions
are all night IN their place but the great rank and le
Of the Labor Movement can only reach the Promised
Land by thinking their out Of the Wilderness No
man can be free who let's another think for him
it matters not whether the other Labor Leader
or a Capitalist.
NATIONAL NEWS will be published weekly. 1t
is not being published to make money Every dollar
received will be used to increase the and equipment
of the paper and make efficient the service to the
Cause Of the Man in Overals. The publisher of this
paper is not in the game to make profit There viii be
profits in dollars and cents. This enterprise is not
and will not be money making one The profit we are
after is the profit in better conditions and terms Of
ployment and better wages and better happier and
more hopeful lives Tor men, women and children.
Recently man was sent to the Insane Asylum.
The doctors said he hopeessly insane They based
their opinion the fact that he refused to help himself
This is your paper With it and by it and through
it you can help yourself This means every man in the
Labor Movement. Will you refuse to help yourself?
Every man that knows anything knows that public
opinion makes the laws and selects and elects the
who run the country Public opinion can be reached
only through the printed page. The people want the
facts That the people do not get the facts concerning
Organized Labor Is in part fault We must get the
facts to the people. Therefore NATIONAL NEWS
plans to give facts rather than state opinions There
fore NATIONAL NEWS will have no other creed than
getting the facts to the public.
NATIONAL NEWS asks you to support your own
paper. Watch it grow in size and in usefulness Its
growth depends upon you Every subscriber Is an
owner One subscriber will have the same right, title
and interest in the paper AMY other NATIONAL
NEWS will represent the Cause. It will plan publicity
campaigns 1t will syndicass = othsr newspapers facts
concerning issues that Il vital importance TO the
men who work for q living.
Now Mr.. o., er of the NATIONAL NEWS, we ask
you not to forget that you of the Of tn
paper. We ask to th TX and act 81 this
pap.1. psak Ok N..I14.tAL NEW your paper
work for it your paper Send news to Get every
TI0NAL NEWS.
Ink will be smeared on black type. Black type will
be pressed against white paper every week and the
Postman will bring you copy Of your paper each week
for year fifty two copies and the price will be One
Dollar As the number Of increases the size of
the paper will increase. Every dollar that comes in will
60 into the paper-none will cling to the hands Of the
Publisher CARL z PERSON. Publisher.