WHAT IS A "SCAB?"
This is a question that very few people can answer. The word "scab" is freely used in times of strike, and is regarded as a highly opprobrious epithet. But nobody seems to know
the reason why. A leading Labourite in Masterton w as asked the meaning of the term yesterday. He said that a "scab" was a person who left employment in which he was engaged to take employment which should be filled by others. Very well; if that is a "scab," there can be-little to be ashamed of. The man who goes to work to preserve the country from chaos, and homos i'rom desolation, even though he surrender other employment to do so, is a patriot in the highest sense of the term. He should be proud to be a "scab" in such circumstances. But what of the man who will not himself work, and who refuses others the right to do so, when tho lives of innocent women and children, are at stake? What is lie?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 November 1913, Page 4
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172WHAT IS A "SCAB?" Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 November 1913, Page 4
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