A mong the points that Hanna's labor lieutenant, John Mitchell, seeks to score in his endeavor to make it appear that the crushing defeat he led the miners to was a victory, is that, through his insistence, the operators' personnel on the arbitration committee was so changed as to have labor represented on it.
Labor is that element in capitalist society that produces all wealth.
Labor, accordingly, is the element that feeds both itself and the idle or capitalist class. But not yet is that a sufficient definition of labor. It follows that, to yield the smallest fraction of its product to the idle capitalist master is to give up the principle that alone can raise labor to man's estate. It follows that the idle capitalist class has no rights that labor may respect without the instantaneous surrender of labor's case. It follows that an irrepressible conflict rages between labor and capitalist.