The literary digest . BRAKE LINING Guaranteed to Wear One Year Why bother with non-guar-anteed linings? Why wastemoney, time, trouble withordinary lining? Make everydollar count—get brake effi-ciency; get wear; get Y sickness and death. If I die to-moiTowmy wife will receive about £100 ($500)to face the world with. If I live to sixtyand no long period of unemployment orsickness intervenes, I shall have probably£150 ($750) saved. I can retire at thatage A^dth eight shillings (about $) perweek from my trade-union, with a pros-pective other five shillings (about $)a week a
The literary digest . BRAKE LINING Guaranteed to Wear One Year Why bother with non-guar-anteed linings? Why wastemoney, time, trouble withordinary lining? Make everydollar count—get brake effi-ciency; get wear; get Y sickness and death. If I die to-moiTowmy wife will receive about £100 ($500)to face the world with. If I live to sixtyand no long period of unemployment orsickness intervenes, I shall have probably£150 ($750) saved. I can retire at thatage A^dth eight shillings (about $) perweek from my trade-union, with a pros-pective other five shillings (about $)a week at seventy. If my health lasts Ishall work to near the latter age. I have yet to place my children insome trade; this may take the greaterpart of my savings. Twice during my lifetime I haveseen those savings swept away, onceduring the eight-hour strike in 1897-—I was locked out indirectly as a conse-quence of it—and again during the greatdistress of 1906, when I was out of workfor nearly six months. Now, Messrs. Candidates, you seemy reward for a lifetime of toil. I ama skilled mechanic, one of labors aris-tocrats, and have been both prudentand lucky. The great bulk of my fel-lows, the unskilled workers, are infinitel
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