THE OIllOJpCIPLE
Foundation of All Successful
Government
GOOD OF THE MANY ITS AIM.
Objection to Trades Unions That They
Dsprivs ths Individual of Liberty Is
Unsound They Secure and Maintain
the Rights of Workers.
On Sunday evening. April 3, the Unit
ed Trades nuil Labor council of East
I-lveritool. O., together with members
of oilier organization of that city" and
Wollsvllle. attended services at the
First Christian church of Wellsvllle.
O.. on the Invitation of the minister.
C S. Morrison. A. M.. a former printer.
In the course of his sermon the minis
ter asserted that the statement of C.
NV. Tost that only 10 per cent of labor
Vns organized was u false statement
that more than 20 per cent of the
workers of the country are members
of trades organizations. lie declared
that Christ, the Son of God: constant
ly distillled labor and "in pointing the
way to victory stated the principles
of unionism as the chief means to the
nd." The Kev. Mr. Morrison said In
lart:
The labor union Is not only a legitimate
Institution, hut la of great economic, ed
ucational and moral value, acting upon a
principle or rlRht recognized by both di
vine and human law. It Is not denied
that in the evolution of labor unionism
mistaken, wronits. oven crimes, have been
-committed, but these are not to be charged
to the principle anil purpose of the union,
but to misguided members. Nor is the
labor union alone In these dark vicissi
tudes of development. Civilisation, gov
ernments, even the churches, are not one
whit behind in these matters, as history
well shows. But are they to be con
demned because In their earlier stases
misguided advocates were guilty of gross
wrnnftii and crimes? Neither should we
condemn the labor unions as such. They,
like other great movements for human
uplift, have struggled up to hlither ground
and broader vision and will continue to
do no. 1 would condemn wrongs commit
ted by union men not only because it is
Inherently .criminal, but also because It Is
contrary to the principle and purpose of
unionism and brings reproach upon it
unjustly. However grievous the wronj
sought to be righted, "two wronss never
make a right.' The whole purpose of the
lahor union la to better the condition and
life of laboring people generally. It la
absolutely unselfish. Is it not a worthy
purpose?
Nonunion labor should not conVv-" "-
unions, but should come into '
the house of labor may no;
against Itself and may stand t
rights, not only of walje. but . .r
ment of all conditions. Union principle is
the foundation of all successful co-operation
and government. The objection to
unions that they deprive the individual of
his liberty to act Independently of the
whole body or governing authority la not
aound In social, material or political econ
omy, for that .very principle Is the
strength of our form of government he
votes and abides the majority rule. Lib
erty really only becomes possible through
combination on the basis of majority rule.
The relation of the member to the union
Is like that of the citizen to the republic
It secures and maintains his rights.
It Is charged It stirs up strife. What
government was evur established without
strife? What wrong was ever rlsrlited
without strife? Is the union whollv to
blame? Is the corporation that refuses to
negotiate ftrtr? It la a fact that, dealt
fairly with, the union decreases strife.
It Is charged against organized labor
that It excludes nonunion workers from
employment. This is not an object, but
simply an effect, of organization for their
own good and the general good of labor
people.
A popular objection to labor unions Is
that they oppose strike breakers in order
to force them Into the unions. This Is a
stock argument from the capitalists. Vet
the same principle is the reliance of the
ambitious Sapitalist to force out compe
tition. '
Contrast the motives of the two. Even
If the principle be not the best, the mo
tive of the labor union Is the best, for It
Is to build up all luborers, while the mo
tive of the other la to crush all less for
tunate competitors. However doubtful,
therefore, the method, the moral credit Is
all on the side of the labor union.
Merchants often combine In a written
agreement to control prices and hours of
business. A cut rate merchant steps In
and not only sells his commodity lower.
but works longer hours. The organized
merchant try to Induce him to Join them
on prices and hours, and If he refuses on
the ground that he has the liberty to do
as he pleases the combine does not hesi
tate to punish him vigorously, even to the
extent of putting him out of business
What Is their motive? The good of the
many? ' No; simply the benefit of the few
themselves only and there Is no public
outcry.
When the labor union Invokes the same
principle from a more worthy motive, the
good of the many, there Is a great cry
raised against It aa wrong. Why this dis
crimination? Because all too many pco
pie are willing to fawn upon the rich and
powerful and sneer at and condemn the
less fortunate.
Mr. Morrisou concluded with the
statement that the principles of union
tsm and of Christianity were identical
and inseparable; that the Bible point
ed the way to trades ttulonism and the
solution of nil troubles, labor and oth
erwise. Typographical Journal.
Labor Strikes.
Statistics published in the Imperial
Labor Gazette show that there were
1.347 strikes In Germany In 1908 aloue
against 309 iu England. France aud
Austria had, respectively. 1,073 and
721. Germany, too, had far more
strikes than any other country in Eu
rox in 1901). Of 1,419 German strikes
for higher wages, 255 were successful
4S8 artly so and G70 failed. The Ger
man trades unions disbursed on ac
count of stikes lu 1907 the sum of $3,
C00.0O0. Indianapolis News.
Legal Day In Washington State
Whether paid by the day or by the
month, employees of the state of
Washington or of any political subdl
vision thereof may be worked no more
than eight hours a day, except iu cases
of extraordinary emergency, is the of
fit'lal opinion of the attorney general
rendered to State Labor Commissioner
Hubbard. The question came on as to
whether or not the eight hour limit
applied to persona employed by the
Tucoma street cleaning department.
The
Scrap Book
Yes, He Knew the Timo.
A quiet, bashful sort of a young fel
low was making a call on a Capitol
bill jtlrl oiije evening not so very long
ago when her fa
ther came into
the parlor with
his watch In his
h a lid. it was
about half past 9
o'clock. At the
m o m e n t the
young man was
standing on a
chair, straighten
ing a picture over
the piano. The
girl had asked
him to tix it. As
he turned the old
gentleman, a
gruff, stout fel
low, said:
"Y n u d ; man.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT
TIME IT IS?"
do you know what time It is?"
The bashful youth got off the chair
nervously. "Yes, sir," lie replied. "1
was just going."
He went into the hall without any
Hut, iv miri tikitl. Itlu
hat and coat. The "isX
girl's father fol
lowed hlni. As
the caller reached
for the doorknob
the old gentleman
again asked him
It he knew what
time It was.
"Yes. sir,"
the youth's reply,
"t'ood night:" And
be shot from the
house without
walling to put his
coat on.
After the door
had closed the old
gentleman turned
to I he girl. he shot from the
"What's the mat- house.
ler with that fellow?" he asked. "My
wnlch ran down this afternoon, and I
wanted him lo tell me the time so that
1 could set It." Denver Tost.
The Chainless Mind.
SCternnl spirit ot the chainless mind.
Hnghtesl in dungeons, liberty thou art.
Kor mere tny nabitatlon is the heart
'he heart which love ot thee alone can
Dllltl
And wnen thy sons to fetters are con
signed
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless
gloom
Their country conquers with their mar
tyrdom. And treertom's fame finds wings on every
wind.
Lord Kyron. From "The Prisoner ol
t.'hlllon."
He Didn't Drop.
The great operatic star Siguor Foil
(John Mi-Cormacki when singing in
grand opera iu bis native city. Cork.
hud to sing one of his songs from a
singe balcony. 1 he arrangements
were not very perfect, and the mil u-
ager. fearing the carpenter had not
made the balcony strong enough tn
sustain the weight of the big man,
told off two assistants to hold it up
from beneath. The lengthy siguor was
only half through his song when one
man said in the oilier:
He Jabers. Moike. the Oitalian is
moighty heavy."
'Let's dlirop him. Put. He's only an
Oitalian. aft her all!"
Voice from the slgnor above. "Will
ye, ye divlls. will ye?"
Tare an' 'onus. Tat. but he's an
Oirishuian! Hon Id him up for the
loife of yes-.:"
. An Impossible Name.
Iu the -efl'eraau Market police court.
New York city, several years ago a
man and a woman upon being ar-
ralgued for disturbing the peace told
the magistrate that the commotion be
tween them hud started iu an argu
ment as to what they should name
their baby boy.
"What do you want to call him?"
isked the magistrate of the father,
vbo was employed as a waiter at a
Hroudway restaurant.
"Ludwig." answered the German.
"And you?" he asked the mother.
"Adolph." sighed the latter.
The modern Solomon thought a mo
ment. "I'll tell you what to call him,"
re said at length. "Call him Adolph
i-iidwig."
"Neln. ueiu:" shouted the father.
'Ludwig Adolph, yes; Adolph Ludwig,
cefferl"
The magistrate demanded the reason
for his stubbornness.
"Der reason is der odder vaiters,"
plained the father. "I am Carl Co
Tjleutz. und if we called our leetle boy
Adolph Ludwig Cobleutz every vaiter
'at der restaurant vould see his initials
'tas A. L. C. vich menus a la carte.
and ve don't serf uo a la carte by out
restaurant, only table d'hote."
Getting Back at Him.
The young man was timid, but he
loved the girl so fervently that he mus
tered up enough courage to wait upon
her wealthy father and ask him for
her hand.
' "So you have the Impudence to ask
for my daughter's band. eh?" exclaim
ed the father crustily. "Why, sir, at
;your present salary you couldn't more
than keep her in gloves."
"Well." stammered the suitor,
"wouldn't that be enough?"
, "What: Do you mean to insinuate;
jyouug man. that my daughter would
wear only gloves?"
"Pardon me. sir," replied the young
.man, with sudden courage: "I asked
only for her hand." Ming's Maga
BUILD UPTHE UNIONS
Organize All Workers, Says a
Socialist Editor.
FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM.
Political Action Must Wait Until Wage -workers
Are United Under Union
ism's Banner Robert Hunter Tells
Socialism How It Has Erred.
Robert Hunter iu a recent article,
which we reprint from the Minnesota
Union Advocate, warus Socialist that
they must cease Hgliting trades union
ism if they hope to further their cause
Mr. Hunter says:
We Socialists are fast revising our
views. Indeed, the revision Is pro
ceeding a bit too fast. Yesterday we
were extremists on one side: tomorrow
we promise to be extremists on the
other side.
John O'Neill, editor of the Miners
Magazine, said recently "that it was
idle to talk of political unity while the
workers were divided on the, economic
field.
"It is a consoling philosoph3" he
said, "that tells us all we have to do
is to march up to the ballot box on
election day. But other things are
necessary.
"We must have unity hi the shops,
mills and factories. We must be thor
oughly educated and organized. We
must be alert, must be conscious of
our interests and be prepared ut all
times to resist encroachments.
"Blind protest voting will solve noth
ing. Our emancipation will not come
from the tlcy nor from the manipula
tion of little slips of paper called bal
lots. Get the workers into the unions.
"We are slowly rejecting the theo
ry," he said, "that political action alone
is necessary."
Now. these are the words of a sturdy
Socialist. John O'Neill has fought a
good fight, aud what he says is worth
giving ear to. And we must recognize
the fact that in this case he speaks the
view of thousands of other good So
cialists. We have gone to one extreme,
and now we are on the point of going
to the other extreme.
Now. men aud movements that go
to one extreme are likely to swing
about aud go to the other extreme.
Enrico Ferri used to be 'the most vio
lent revolutionist in the Socialist move
ment of Europe. The other day he
left the Italian Socialist .party to sup
port the new capitalist cabinet.
John Burns was iu his hunger days
a raging liou. Today he Is more con
servative than Winston Churchill and
Lloyd-George, two liberal politicians.
Aristide Briand used to be a violent
"direct actionist." Nothing but a gen
eral strike and insurrection would sat
isfy his revolutionary soul. Today
Briand Is premier of France.
The extremist is an extremist even
when he turns from a revolutionist
into a conservative.
1 do not mean to say that O'Neill is
of this type. Far from it. 1 only
mean to say that with movements, as
with men, extremism is dangerous.
John O'Neill and other Socialists all
over America are beginning to see
that political action will not solve ev
erything. And that is true.
The mistake was made in going to
the first extreme. We ought never to
have said that political action alone
was necessary. We ought never to
have derided the unions, jeered at their
weaknesses or hucUled at their every
mistake. That was the first error and
a terribh on-.'. It was an error the
Germans made at first, although they
soon squared themselves. And It Is
a fact that in no other country has
this error persisted as it has in Amer
ica. And It Is also a fact that if we
continue to persist in this error we
shall create a situation that will put
back socialism for many years to come.
We shall see able aud valiant work
ing class comrades like John O'Neill
abandoning this folly aud turning to
the other extreme. They will then try
to build up nn economic movement,
while ignoring the political movement.
And after going to that extreme we
shall have to come back again after
a few years to the work of building
up a political movement.
Surely it is as possible m this coun
try as it has been in other countries to
have unionists and Socialists constant
ly urge the necessity of both political
and economic unity.
Without both political and economic
unity the working class will remain
hobbled, unable to move with any
force or decision.
The fact is the working class must
build up two powerful organizations
and wield two powerful weapons, aud
those who strike iu unity must also
vote in unity.
We must have Socialists and trades
unionists brothers and comrades iu the
same fight. We must make them
stand together, backing each other
day aud night In the joining battle.
We must allow, the economic move
ment freedom to work out its own des
tiny in its owu way and give it every
support, nid and comfort that lies in
our power. And we must, ask freedom
also for ourselves to develop our own
methods of action, and the union
movement should give the party every
support, aid and comfort that lies In
its power.
The Printers of London.
The annual report of the London So
ciety of Compositors shows the num
ber of members to have been 12,000 at
the end of 1909 and the total funds,
Including the St. Brido street property,
$810,500. Superannuation allowances
(corresponding to the old age pension
of the International Tyographicitl un
lon were paid to 497 members.
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BBIET LABOR BITS.
Little Ones Culled Whila Looking for
Big Ones.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern Railway has increased the wages of
its engineers, effective Aug. 1.
Forty or more caddies employed by
Newport's exclusive society o-rganiza-
tiion went on strike fior a higher wage
wale. They demand an increase from
$1.00 a week to $3.00.
According ito returns made to the Bel
gian Labor department 1.6 per cent of
the 47,511 mem'bers of tae trad'?-unions
reporting were unemployed at the end
of April, compared with 2.1 per cent in
March, and 3.0 iper ient iu April 1909.
The Anti-Picketing 'ordinance recent
ly passed by Ithe Lois Angeles (Cal.)
city 'ooiin.ci'1 will be introduced at the
next meeting of the Seattle, (Wash.)
council, according to Secretary A. P.
Garrison of the Uniited Metal' Trades
association.
Of the $100,000,000 paid out by the
employers in rhe United States ito re
imburss the 'victims of accidents only
$44,000,000 reaches the workmen, and
they, in tarn .pay fully one-half wf this
sum in attorney 'is fees. The remain
ing $56,0K0,000 go to liability compa
nies and lawyers.
THE PLAIN TRUTH.
Bolton Hull, lawyer and author and
son of the late Bev. Dr. John Hall, has
sent an open letter to the General As
sembly 'of the Presbyterian .church, re
buking that Ibody for its attitude in re-
Bard to the Jeffries-Johnson fijjht. He
says in part:
"While in every 'big city young girls
are snatched aiway to lives of slavery,
while all over the land little children
are worked ito death in our factories,
while the monopolies put prices so high
as 'k in crease these shrieking evils, is
at possible that the church can find
nothing more serious to attack than a
prize fight, already sufficiently well ad
vertised?
"I am the son of a clergyman my
self, a member of the Presbyteriaan
Church, and I speak often in the
Churches, and it makes ime sick to see
the petty, ineffective, time-serving
church organizations. Whenever there
is a real fight on against political or
social evil, the churches are sure to 'be
found dragging a red herring across the
rail with a 'crusade' against aome
such horror as Sunday saloons or play
ing craps.
"Religion only makes itself con
temptible by such a bid for support as
nn anti- prize fight protest."
EVENTY-FIVE
of the homes in
now use gas because it is cheap fuel
and always ready.
THIS YEAR'SCON VENTIONS.
September 5-6-7, Chicago, III., Na
tional Federation ot Post Office
Clerks.
September 5, Chicago, III., Interna
tional Slate and Tile Roofers of Amer
ica. V
September 5, Boston, Mass., Interna
tional Brotherhood of Maintenance if
Way Employes.
September 6, Bangor, Pa., Interna
Steel and Copper Plate Printers'
Union.
September 6-10, Louisville, Ky., In
ternational Photo-Engravers' Union of
North America.
September 8, Boston Mass., Inter
national Spinners' Union.
September 12, Kansas City, Kansas,
Coopers' Internationa,! Union.
September 12, Denver, Colo., Inter
national Union of United Brewery
Workmen of America.
September 12, Philadelphia, Pa.,
International Union of Elevator Con
structors.
September 12, Streator, 111., Inter
national Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta
Workers' Alliance.
September 13, New York, N. T.,
American Brotherhood of Cement
Workers.
September 19, Des Moines, Iowa,
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America.
September 19, Rochester, N. Y., In
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Worker.
September 21, St. Paul, Minn.,
Brotherhood, of Railroad Freight
Handlers.
September 26, Columbus, Ohio, Oper
ative Plasterers' International Associ
ation of the United States ana Can
ada, October 18, New York, N. Y., Unit
ed Textile Workers of America.
October 18, Detroit, Mich, Interna
tional Association of Car Workers.
WASHERWOMEN'S UNION.
A -union, of washerwomen Yms 'been
formed at Orange, N. J., with a mem
bership of 300. The officers announce
that the standard of, wages (will ibe
raised from $1.25 to $2 a day and the
hours of labor reduced from nine ito
eight.
Wageworkers
We
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