Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-14
TEE Observation-Disclosures OF SOME
CRITICS.

a number of contemporaries, whose in
telligence should do them greater credit,
and who find pleasure in Analysing by false
processes the views of this journal, and of
which evidently pleasant occupation We
have no disposition to deprive them, have
expressed their surprise at the course of
the RECORD. UNION in, as one has chosen
to phrase it, "indorsing the theory Of
labor strikes" We may dispose Of the
whole lot in single response, even at the
risk of unduly gratifying them in making
any reply at all, by simply saying that the
RECORD UNION has done nothing of the
kind. Its position regarding the theories
Of strikes is well known, and has been con-
sistently maintained these many years. In
all that is right, and for the advancement,
elevation, and intellectual and material
betterment of the condition of the work
ingmen of the country, the RECORD UNION
has been, and now is, and ever will be, the
unwavering friend of labor. Unlike a
number of its more boastful contempt
raries, it has not feared to warn the work
ing classes when engaging in proceedings
that were ruinous to their own interests,
and destructive of the opportunities for in
dustry. It has been the unfaltering advocate
of the amplesE recompense for skilled and
all other labor, and no men realize this more
thoroughly than the artisans and skilled
laborers of California. This Journal has
had the courage of its convictions, and has
neither truckled to so-called labor agita-
tions fostered by crack. Drained, ol-hardy
and self-appoinsed leaders of the working
men they have deluded from time
to time for the purposes of arrant
demagogy, nor has it held a
position, or uttered a word, that
in the slightest degree would detract from
the independence of the workingman, or
his right or ability to command the highest
possible wage or most exalted social posi-
ton. When the workingman was right,
the RECoRD-UNIoN has not stood in awe of
his oppressors, nor left him to fight his
battles alone. When he was wrong it has
had the honesty to tell him SO and with
emphasis. In%he case of the telegraphers,
for instance, it saw hard worked, insult.
ficiently paid and eorely oppressed class of
skilled laborers, whose offers for arbitra-
ton had been contemptuously spurned,
and whose long suffering patience had been
tried beyond the limits of common endur-
ance. It saw in the resistance made to
their efforts to regain something of the in
dependence of which they had been robbed,
a aerious interruption Of one of the ave.
nues of intelligence, and the greatest in
convenience TO the public service. It re-
cognized the injustice done these people,
and also their Fight to cease to labor /; II
applauled their manly protest, and in
dorsed their fair and equitable demands.
We have no idea whatever that we can
convince our anxious contemporaries that
he is the fool only who imagines that the
virtue of consistency is found in always
sailing with the wind, or pursuing path
because it is well beaten. The RECORD.
UNION is for the right, and for the
dignity OF manhood at all times
no honest journal viii subscribe to
less = and whether this declaration
leads it to oppose or to support
strikers" is matter of not the slightest
consequence, and concerns it no more than
the shallow opinions of such of its con.
temporaries as cannot understand why it is,
that having condemned some silly labor
agitations, and exposed some demagogic
agitators, it should not, per force, frowr
upon all labor movements.