some for and tears is surely a heartless process � as heartless as it is natural and the human family for all its wonderful record of adventure and achieve new law of development ment has not yet succeeded in avoiding this process that it is incapable of doing this is not to be not only is it capable but the whole of society is in that direction all the social forces are driving man on to a time when the old law will be there is no escaping it save by the of and quite it is inexorable it is inexorable because the common man demands it the twentieth century the common man says is his day the common man s day or rather the dawning of the common man s day nor can it be denied the evidence is with him the previous centuries and more the nineteenth have new law of development marked the rise of the common man from slavery to and from to what he bitterly terms slavery he has risen never was he so strong as he is to day and never so menacing he does the work of the world and he is beginning to know it the world cannot get along without him and this also he is beginning to know all the human knowledge of the past all the scientific discovery experiment and invention of machinery have tended to his advancement his standard of living is higher his common school education would shame princes ten centuries past his civil and religious liberty makes him a free man and his the peer of his and all this has tended to new law of make him conscious conscious of himself conscious of his class he looks about him and questions that ancient law of development it is cruel and wrong he is beginning to declare it is an let it be why should there be one empty belly in all the world when the work of ten men can feed a hundred what if my brother be not so strong as i he has not wherefore should he hunger � he and his little ones � away with the old law there is food and shelter for all therefore let all receive food and shelter as fast as labor has become conscious it has organized the ambition of these class conscious men is that the movement shall become general that all labor new law of development shall become conscious of itself and its interests and the day that witnesses the of labor they triumphantly will be a day when labor the world this growing consciousness has led to the organization of two movements both separate and distinct but both toward a goal � one the labor movement known as trade the other the political movement known as both are grim and silent forces and unknown to the general public save in moments of stress the sleeping labor giant receives little notice from the press and when he uneasily a column of surprise indignation and horror new law of development it is only now and then after long periods of silence that the labor movement puts in its claim for notice all is quiet the kind old world on and the masters their in complacency but the grim and silent forces are at work suddenly like a clap of thunder from a clear sky comes a of industry from ocean to ocean the wheels of a great chain of cease to run a quarter of a million throw down pick and and outrage the sun with their pale faces the street of a metropolis stand idle or the of machinery in vast dies away to silence there is alarm and panic and stalk forth there is new law of development a cry in the night and quick anger and sudden death peaceful cities are by the crack of and the of machine guns and the hearts of the shuddering are shaken by the roar of there is hurrying and the wires are kept hot between the centre of government and the seat of trouble the chiefs of state gravely and advise and of states there is of and of troops and the streets to the tramp of armed men there are separate and joint between the captains of industry and the captains of labor and then finally all is quiet again and the memory of it is like the memory of a bad dream new law of development but these strikes become things to date from and common on the lips of men become such phrases as the great dock strike the great coal strike the great railroad strike never before did labor do these things after the great plague in england labor finding itself in demand and innocently obeying the law asked higher wages but the masters set a restrained from moving about from place to place refused to and by most barbarous legal methods punished those who but labor is accorded greater respect to day such a policy put into in this the first of the twentieth century would sweep the masters from q new law of development their seats in one mighty and ihe masters know it and are respectful a fair instance of the growing of labor is afforded by an recent strike in san the and were completely working at any and all hours for whatever wages they could get a representative of the american of labor went among them and organized them within a few weeks nearly two thousand men were and they had five thousand dollars on sit then they put in their demand for increased wages and ter hours forthwith their organized the demand was denied and the and union walked out all organized stood back new law of development of the owners in s with them and willing to aid them if they dared and at the back of the and union stood the organized labor 