THE HUMAN SIDE OF
THE LABOR QUESTION
IV. AMERICANIZING THE
IMMIGRANTS.
It's a mighty big problem this
question of the immigrant. Coming
at the rate of a million a year, they
threaten to swamp us. Only one
twelfth of ' the population of Paris
Is foreign-born. Less than one-thirtieth
of the people In London came from
other countries. But, according to the
census of 1900, the 3.60 cities In the
United States having at least 25,000
inhabitants, have a foreign-born pop
ulation of twenty-ix per cent, or,
more than one-fourth of the total num
ber of people In the entire country.
This great mass of foreigners is cen
tering In the industrial cities and
towns, attracted by the chance to find
work In the shops and factories. Four
staid old Massachusetts cities have
the largest percentage of foreign-born
people of all the cities in, the Vnited
States, Fall River having forty-seven
iier cent, Lawrence forty-five percent,
Lowell forty-three per cent, Holyoke
forty-one per cent. These New Eng
land cities exceed Chicago with its
thirty-four per cent and New York
wtth its thirty-five per cent.
In history, the immigrant has con
quered nations, not always by force
of arms, but by methods of life or by
force of character; sometimes for
good, but often for ill. The average
Immigrant will make a good citizen
provided that the American ' shows
him how.
But to deal with a man as a "prob
lem," Is at once to set him in open
hostility to your efforts. The immi
grant comes here unconscious of the
stir which he has created among the
social and political economists. He
has come here to make a better liv
ing and . he- generally succeeds, at
least In comparison with his old es
tate. These Immigrants are real flesh and
blood people, with human hopes and
aspirations, with human needs and
human hearts. They are men, and
they must be so regarded.
Perhaps it Is because this has been
recognized by organized labor, that
no other institution s doing more to
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Americanize the immigrant than the
the labor union. The public school
has its place in educating his chil
dren, but he, himself, becomes most
familiar with American institutions
and customs through the labor organ
ization of which he eecomes a mem
ber. Here he. gets rid of his clannish
instinct He comes to know more
about the solidarity of tne human race
the brotherhood of man. .Here his
standard of living is elevated. Here
he learns his first lesson in democ
racy. To the trades unionist, the immi
grant has no romance. Whether he
comes from sunny Italy or stormy
Russia, he is looked upon as a work
ingman, void of all sentimentality.
What no other organization has been
able to accomplish, the labor union
has done, by giving him a bioader out
look. REV CHARLES STELZLE.
THE PRESSMEN.
Only Organization That Can Show
Two International Journals.
The Pressmen and Assistants are
now enjoying the doubtful luxury of
two international journals. A short
time ago The Wageworker reported
that President Berry had peremptor
ily ousted Theodore Galoskowsky from
the editorship of The American Press
man. Now Galoskowsky shows fight.
He claims that uner the terms of his
five year contract President . Berry
can not oust him, so he proceeded to
get out an "American Pressman In
December or rather a number in
January bearing a December date.
President Berry also issued one and
one and one make. two. President
Barry claims that Galoskowsky vio
lated his contract l.y publishing mat
ter detrimental to the organization and
contrary to the policy of the admin
istration. The result is a very nasty
fight that threatens to create a lot of
trouble. Galoskowsky is backed by a
couple of locals in St. Louis and three
or four others elsewhere that fought
the eight-hour day strike and assess
ment and sought to enjoin the officials
from enforcing the new order of
things. Galoskowsky's "American
Pressman" is full of bitter flings at
the administration.
The Lincoln local is standing pat
with President Berry and his adminis
tration, and will watch with interest
the outcome of the fight. Galqskowj
sky announces in his December num
ber that he is out of the editorship,
and fills his journal's columns with
harsh words for Berry, charging him
with highhanded methods, with con
tract-breaking and various other of
fenses to numerous to mention.
GLOVEWORKERS.
Agitating the Question of Organ i:
ing a Local In Lincoln.
t
It may be a surprise to a great many
Lincoln unionists to know that there
are in the neighborhood of twenty
glovemakers engaged at the business
in Lincoln. But such is the fact, and
these glovemakers are rapidly getting
into a frame of mind that will result
in an organization of a local union of
the craft. The matter is now being
talked over, and an effort is soon to
be made to secure the services of an
organizer.
One employer is very favorable to
the organization, feeling that it will
be a big boost for his business in Ne
braska if he can advertise "union-
made" gloves and prove it by show
ing the label.
The attention of the Central Labor
Union is called to this craft. The
central body will find it, a good field
in which to do & little organization
work.
LOOKS LIKE IT.
And now the United States supreme
court, by another five-to-four decision,
has held the employers liability law,
one passed in the interest and for the
benefit of millions of poor working1-
men, to be unconstitutional. It is such
decisions as these that lend plausi
bility to the idea that any law bene
ficial to corporations of one sort or an
other is always constitutional, but a
law to benefit the, toiling masses, and
give them a little greater measure of
justice, is sure to be unconstitutional,
Portland, (Ore.) Daily Journal.
YOU BET IT DOES,
It pleased me to read the paragraphs
from the Lincoln Wageworker's plumb
ers' column. The plumbers and fit
ters' union in Lincoln is the only sis
ter local in Nebraska, and I like td
hear from, them.- Their action in rei
gard to their Labor Temple speaks
good of them. Plumber Department.
Omaha Western Laborer.
all
v LAYS OFF ITALIANS.
John D. Rockefeller has laid off
of the Italians employed on his Pocan
tico Hills estate In New York and will
fill their places with needy residents.
preference being given to .married
men. Three hundred Italians were
discharged and as many resident
izens given work immediately.
cit-
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Because the Management Ooes Not Object to
Unionizing the Line."
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