D HOW LAECR HAS MADE PROGRESS IN
A SHORT WO HUNDRED YEARS . . . . . j
CHRISTMAS GIFT!
Organized labor, in its present form, had no existence
prior to the eight :entli century, although previous to that time
there were uprisings among -workingmen in protest against
unjust economic conditions. In ancient times there were a
number of uprisings among the great mass of toilers, but most
of the workers were slaves. Long lists of so-called labor un
ions are given in ancient documents, and stories are told of re
belli ns uid social wars which, in almost every case, turned
out disastrously to the strikers, who were crucified by the
thousands. It is said that Crassus and Pcmpey alcne cruci
fied over 6,000 workingmen on the Appian Way "as examples
of the awful blood-wreaking to be expected from Roman mili
tary justice." Twenuy thousands were similarly massacred at
Enna and Tauromanion. The organization of labor undei
these conditions was manifestly impossible, and this situatior
prevailed for many centuries. Spasmodic efforts were made
from time to time during these years to form seme kind of ar
organization among the toiler, butrecords of these movementf
are unsatisfactory and very meagre. Occasionally the curtair
lifts enough to give us a glimse into the lives of the working
psople as they were related to the matter of co-operation and
union, but, on the whole, few writers care to Speak with posi
tiveness on this question. In the fourteenth century incipien4
"trad2S unions" were formed by workingmen, which strongly
resembled those of the present day. In 1387 the servingmer
of the Lnijn cordwainers rebelled against the "overseers o'
the trade," and latef the servingmeaof the saddlers and the
t lilors took sim'lar action. In 1538 it was reported to Crom
well that twenty-one journeymen shoemakers of Wisbeckhad
assembled on a hill without the town, and sent three of then
n m') t to ri n n n all the master shoe-makers to meet them
in-orisr to insist upon an advance in their wages, threateninf
that "t'iere shall none come into the town to serve for that
wages within a twelve-month and a day, but we will have ar
harme or a -eg of hym, except they will take an othe as we
have doTi."
In 1741 there appeared an essay in which it was re-
marked tnat tne wooi-comoers naa "lor a number ot years
past erected themselves into a sort of a corporation (though
without a charter.) Their first pretence was to take care of
Ihe'r -ior brethren that should fall sick or be out of work;
iid this wis done by meeting once or twice a week, and each
of th?--n contributing twopence or threepence towards the bo
to make a bank, and when they became a little formidable
they ?ive aws to their master?, and also to themselves - viz:,
that.m 'nvi shi iM comb w3l under two shillings per dozen:
HiV.- no mas'er should emp oy any con ber that - was not
he r cVr if he d d, they agreed one a -id all not to work foi
h'tn; and ;C he employed twenty, they all of them turned out,
an I o'tenliimes were not silsfiei with that, but would abuse
the honest man that would labour, and in a riotous manner
beat him; break his comboots, and destroy his working tcolf
They further support one another, in so much that they be
come one Society throughout the kingdom."
Q GROWTH OF TEMPERANCE SENTIMENT 1
IN THE RANKS OF ORGANIZED LABOR n
1
REV. CHARLES STELZLE
D
- "St. Louis, Mo., Nov.. 22.-- Will organized labor-declare for or
aainst tna saloon i Tnat is wnat is troubling some ot the dele
crates who are attending the. corivht.inri ftf the. Arhprirnri FfidAra
tiftn of Tjlhrvr Vi?.tp. Th?vtA is a sfrnrto- nnrlfivi)rrr1-; rrf faaKintr-nn
the subject, although nothing has been said, thus far, on the floor
of. the. Convention with reference to it. But .everybody, knows
that it would remiirfl the harfisfc .mAntinn-rvf the tfmtimrfl nups.
tion to parcipitate one of the hottest fights in-' tfee history of ' or-
TYr -n rsreentcd in the .'convention are .definitely lined
u- C. ..clti-i-. Net oiJy the- brewery -workers and the
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