BLOW ATFREEDOM
Compulsory Arbitration a Peril
to Avert.
Journal only represents a mere handful
j of members in the whole country, but
as an alleged labor paper it will be
quoted in favor of the enactment of
such laws wherever they are intro
duced. Workingmen should beware of the
kiss of Judas.
Oppose compulsory arbitration!
I LUMEEIR I
WOULD TIE LABOR'S HANDS.
Proposed Law Would Make It Illegal to
Quit Work All Such Legislation
Should Be Opposed as Detrimental
to the Workers.
We have previously called the at
tention of the members to the desire
of some employing interests to have
laws enacted which would tie the
hands of labor and make it an offense
against the law to quit work under
any circumstances unless a commission
had first Investigated and reported
upon the dispute.
Perhaps the most noted instance of
this sort of legislation in this country
was the introduction of the Luce
bill, so called, in the legislature of
Massachusetts last year and which is
to come before the legislature of Mas
sachusetts this year on reference, says
the Shoe Workers Journal.
The experience of this union has
proved that in our arbitration contract
we offer a fair basis of settlement of
all disputes with those employers in
our trade who desire to be fair in
treating with their employees, but leg
islation of the character of the Luce
bill would tie the hands of labor in
dealing with employers who are not
disposed to deal fairly with their em
poyees and "who could and doubtless
would take advantage of the delays in
cident to the proposed investigation
and report to disorganize their em
ployees by discharging them one at
a time for alleged "poor work.
We believe most trade unions are
willing to make fair arbitration con
tracts and to live up to them as we
do, but to make them it is necessary
the employers should be equally fair
minded.
The employers who are not disposed
to deal fairly with labor or to make a
voluntary arbitration contract should
not be assisted by a law which seeks
to enforce involuntary servitude upon
the employees of an unfair employer
for a period which may be used un
scrupulously by such employer to
crush the union of his employees.
All such proposed legislation should
be opposed, and our members in Mas
sachusetts and elsewhere are urged to
be on the alert against it wherever it
may show its head and regardless of
any source from which it may profess
to emanate.
There are those professing to cham
pion the cause of labor who will ad
vocate anything the employers want.
A notable instance of this is the
Knights of Labor Journal, which in
its issue of October. 1910. says that
Taft's announcement that the Sherman
law will be enforced against corpora
tions and unions alike ought to satisfy
everybody.
This requires some nerve after the
fight labor made to secure the adoption
of the Hughes amendment to exempt
the unions from such persecution.
The Hughes amendment was defeat
ed, but its defeat caused the retire
meut of some members of congress
who opposed it
The same paper expresses satisfac
tion that the miners are being sued
for $1,000,000 in Westmoreland couuty
and that the American Federation of
Labor is a defendant in Post's suit for
$750,000.
The same paper also editorially sup
ports the enactmeut of laws providing
for compulsory arbitration.
ltls true, that the. Knights of Iibpr
Label Department Officers.
The new officers of the label trades
department are: President, John B.
Lennou of Bloomington, 111.; first vice
president. John F. Tobin of Boston;
second vice president. Owen Miller of
St. Louis; third vice president. J. W.
Hays of Indianapolis; fourth vice presi
dent, Jacob Fischer of Indianapolis:
fifth vice president. T. A. Rickert of
Chicago; secretary-treasurer, Thomas
F. Tracy of Washington city.
Trade Union Briefs.
The sheet metal workers of New
York have come to terms with the em
ployers. The receipts of the United Mine
Workers of America for the fiscal year
ending Nov. 30 were about $2,000,000.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
National Civic federation will be held
Jan. 12. 13 and 14. 1911, in New York
city.
The Woman's Trade Union League of
England, oganized in 1S74. has a total
affiliated membership of about 1S5.000.
The model for the first woman's trade
union was found in America.
Thomas L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, who
is a candidate to succeed himself, pre
dicts that he will be re-elected this
year by a majority twice as large as
that he received a year ago.
The San Francisco Labor council has
passed resolutions denunciatory of the
lynching of two striking cigarmakers
at Tampa. Fla., recently and calling
upon President Taft and others in au
thority for a full investigation 2f the
crime.
Not a Savant.
A Harvard man told at a dinner In
Cambridge a story about ignorance.
"Some sailors were being banqueted
in Philadelphia at St George's hall,
he said, "and a young bluejacket,
pointing to a superb silver caster, said:
" 'Waiter, bring up that 'ere chandelier.
" That ain't a chandelier, the waiter
answered, laughing. That's a cruet.
44 'Well, never mind what it is, said
the sailor. 'Bring it up. We ain't all
been to college.'"
Both Affected.
"Whenever she gets to thinking how
much they're in debt it affects her
nerves."
"Iluh! The way it affects her hus
band is singular."
"How singular?"
"Just singular; it affects his "nerve.
He tried to borrow a hundred from me
today." Catholic Standard and Times.
The Language of Love.
"Has he proposed yet?"
"Not in so many words."
"That's no answer. Proposals never
do come in words. They consist of
sighs, 'hem, haws and gurgles."
Cleveland Leader.
His Wife's Mother, of Course.
Mabel If your grandma has lost all
her teeth, how does she eat? Willie
I heard pa say she had a biting
tongue. Boston Transcript.
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