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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1911)
UNION PROGRESS. Aims of Organized Labor Better Understood. Moore's Range Saves Half off Your Fuel lis HAS WON PUBLIC ESTEEM. Trade Unionism Stands For Mutual Aid and Protection and For the Im provement of Its Membership So cially and Morally. In the last issue of the American Federationist Joseph U. Sweeney, for mer county Judge and ex-mayor of El Taso, Tex., says of the labor move ment: Trade unions in the past few years hare made a remarkable advancement nud hare been partially successful in Impressing upon the public generally the fact that they have not associated themselves for the purpose of conspir ing against the reace of the community and the destruction of property rights. In the past there has been too much of a disposition upon the part of citi zens not connected with trade unions to believe that unions symbolized agi tation and destruction of private prop erty and rights. Unions and their sup lorters and sympathizers never deemed it necessary -or even expedient to un dertake to educate the great body of American people into the supposed mysteries of trade organizations, their objects and desires. The citizen at large had no adequate conception of the policy and principles of unions, but entertained a vague idea that they were organized for the express pur pose of harassing capital, causing tur moil and agitating business and com mercial channels constantly. Recent years have witnessed a grad ual change for the good. The public is beginning to understand that trade unions are organized for the protection of the only product the mechanic, the artisan or the laborer has to sell i. e.. his skill and ability. Incidentally we understand that the trade union seeks to improve the hygienic, financial and social condition of its members and seeks to throw its protecting arm over the modest little homes of its mem bers. Through Its perseverance and influence the families of its members are reaping a benefit which has here tofore been denied them through the lack of Information upon the part of the American public and the greed of interested capita L ' This benefit has been received through the adjustment and standard ization of the scale of wages, which has resulted In permitting the families f trade union members to indulge in some few of the necessaries of life and offer to their children an educa tion the advantages of which their parents were deprived of. Trade unions have advanced so far in their effort toward better conditions. The American people are beginning to understand that they are merely con tending for an adequate and honest return for the labor they perform, a wage which will permit them to main tain their families in reasonable com fort. A distinct area of economic, indus trial and civic progress has enveloped our present civilization, and from Its midst there has emerged and is steadi ly progressing toward a solution a question of principle and policy of the most vital Importance to the great ma jority of mankind, a final solution of which is essential for the future happi ness. progress and prosperity of the entire human family. That question is embraced in the present and future progress of trade unions. , These unions are organized for the ' Moore's Stoves Ahnys Think of it! Fifty cents saved out of every dollar you now spend for fuel. Moore's Range can be run on poor grade coal costing at least two-thirds less than coal necessary for other ranges. The Handiest Stove Ever Built Moore's Controller Damper enables you to control the heat as well as you can control the heat of a gas stove. It is the only coal range having this ad vantage. With all these exclusive advantages the . 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But trade unions go further and seek not only to Improve the financial condition of the laboring element, but to improve the Intellec tual, moral and social condition of their members, protect their Interests as well as those of the employer and thereby confer upon government and society a benefit as distinct and impor tant as any that has heretofore been experienced. COTTON MILL WORKERS. Conditions Under Which They Labor In the South. In 1900 there were a number of un ions of cotton mill workers organized in North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia. Soon after organization the unions began to make demands for in creased wages, the measurement of cuts and for a betterment of other conditions. A number of strikes were had. and the manufacturers combined and promptly closed down their mills. I The workers, unprepared for 6uch tac tics, vrere soon starved into submis sion. When they returned to work it was with the understanding that they would no longer remain in the unions. In some mills notices were posted that no union labor would be employ ed and that operatives who would, not withdraw from the unions would be compelled to vac-ale the company's houses. The unions were completely crushed. As the operatives had no homes of their own nor strike funds or other resources and no opportunity for employment in other mills or in other industries, they were not pre pared for a long struggle, and there was nothing for them to do but to submit to the requirement of the man ufacturers and disband their unions. Where the strikes did not occur the operatives were awed by the failure of strikes in other places and made no demands. The whole movement to or ganize labor In the southern cotton mills collapsed. It is indeed unfortunate that men. women and children, working under such onerous conditions, long hours and small pay. cannot have something done to relieve the situation. It Is the consensus of opinion not only among the people of the south, but of the manufacturers as well that the time is not far distant when they must meet an organized force of working people. The age limit of children is being raised, and the time is gong to come when the law will step in and forbid the manufacturers, not only In the cotton industry, but in every other Industry, to coin fortunes out of the lifeblood of children. PROTEST AGAINST EVIL Labor by New Day Characterized York Clergyman. In observance of labor Sunday the Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan. pastor of the "Fourth Avenue "Presby terian church. New York city, discuss ed in his sermon the conditions that made Labor day possible. "Labor day brings a great question to us." said the pastor. It causes us to consider why so many persons seek after the so called pleasures when from the very earliest times it la only too plainly told that satisfaction and contentment can only be obtained tn work. Tt should be the object of the com munity to consider bow to Improve the work of the masses so that they will become the better satisfied in the con templation of work well done and thus be diverted from the deplorable pleas ures of our day. "Indeed. It is time that the thought less and sinful rise to the duty that they should perform In suppressing the vices that come with great wealth, the whole combined to overthrow the main objects in life. In great wealth there Is no tolL no activity, no ambi tion. "Labor day is a protest against such evils." Blind Man In vent a Musical Instrument An exhibition of a new Invention will be given this afternoon at th reading room and library for the blind by Joseph Gannon, a man who is blind. The Invention is a new harp with vio lin attached, and the strings of bots are set on the same board, which la above ins tea1 of Halnw. as In ordinary harps. San Francisco Call.