Carpenter . is, andalways has been, how to obtain comfortThe prayer, Give us this day our dailybread, is as needful today as ever in thelifetime of the race, and this demand forsustenance is supplemented by the hopeof equity. So long as outward evidencesof aggregated prosperity are present socie-ty is apt to forget or neglect to know theconditions of some of those who contributeto the result. To meet the responsibilityas at present with the labor wing we mustqualify not only as defenders of industrialconditions, but of political conditions aswell. Attend to the matter without delayso that when
Carpenter . is, andalways has been, how to obtain comfortThe prayer, Give us this day our dailybread, is as needful today as ever in thelifetime of the race, and this demand forsustenance is supplemented by the hopeof equity. So long as outward evidencesof aggregated prosperity are present socie-ty is apt to forget or neglect to know theconditions of some of those who contributeto the result. To meet the responsibilityas at present with the labor wing we mustqualify not only as defenders of industrialconditions, but of political conditions aswell. Attend to the matter without delayso that when the call is sounded the dis-cipline as learned in our school of union-ism may prevail to the extent of evolutinga higher and a more equitable politicalcondition that will bring with it a broaderindustrial liberty than that which at pres-ent prevails. If barriers were taken down, and everyable-bodied man given an opportunity toearn a living, most jails would be to let. 19 ®lj0 Qlarp^ttt^r Convention Number. NE of the most ontstaiul-ing prodiictious of thetwentieth century np todate has been the blaseman. With great man-birds soaring to themerry buzz of whirringmotors over his head andmonorail electric trainsshooting by like cometsor meteors it requires something out of theordinary to cause the average man to sit upand take heed. The great labor conventions, for example,used to create a great deal more of a furorethan they do today. Now they are takenrather as a matter of course. Events to belooked forward to with pleasure, of course,but yet nothing like the picnic which usedto cause us to stay awake half the night andthen arise at 5 a. m. to make sure it wasntgoing to rain. Mr. Fred Opper, the veteran New Yorkcartoonist, who is reputed to be enjoying ayearly salary of $20,000, besides pick-ings, not long ago originated a series ofcartoons under the caption, If Sampsonwere only here. While I was looking itsome of these drawings it occurred to methat the series would have been e
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