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Show ' . . 7 1 RiLts cf All Chcs cf Ltbcrcrs. The labor situation in this country is becoming more unsettled. A number of strikes are threatened, threat-ened, and there seems to be plenty of trouble ahead. It is a matter of common knowledge that the work-ingman'S work-ingman'S income has not grown in the same ratio 'that his expenses have. In many instances wise employers have raised his. wages, but even then the old balance has seldom been reached. - The work-Ingman work-Ingman receives from the public, when his cause is just, a moral support that used to be lacking in earlier.days. This support is a great nid. . In San Francisco it won the big street car fight for the men last year, and this spring its absence brought them defeat. The public realizes what it can do and is more apt to take sides when it can feel that the laborer appreciates the benefit enjoyed. Let the workingman see to it that his cause is just and, having made lure of that, let him put forth every effort to keep the fight on a high plane. Let him be extremely scrupulous about the rights of his fellow-. fellow-. workman, and of his employer's, as w ell as of his own, and he need not fear the result. , |