People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-16

labor organizations and unions The Home
stead strikers have agreed to accept the new
scale Of wages and all they ask is the recogni.
ton OF their association. This Frick rejects
1t is not wages with him, but freedom from in.
reference.
In other words, the big manufacturers of the
country are on strike against the labor organ
tzations. What is the meaning of this Have
the labor organizations been too exacting?
Have they made themselves offensive BY their
personal interference and their demands:
Surely every honest employer should recog-
nize the right Of wOrkingmen TO organize for
their own good and their own protection. The
men who handle picks and shovels have the
same right to band together that capitalists
have to form combinations, trusts and con-
spiracies
1t must follow, then, that the labor organi-
cations have in some way offended the capital.
lists who employ. The discomfort manifest in
labor circles is not due TO wages, but desire
upon the part Of employers to be free from all
dictation, interference or even persuasion on
the part of trades unions
This is not wholesome sign, but il is well TO
have the real facts understood Its war upou
trades unionism
Yes, 1t is war upon trades unionism,
and 1t will be well for trades unionists
to take cognizance of the entrenched
position occupied by capitalistic monop-
oily and decide for themselves if there
is not a way of taking the fort and
turning the guns upon the enemy. by
judicious and united use of the free.
mans weapon, the American ballot.
As Mr. ]. R. Detwiler happily and
cogently writes in the Topeka Advo.
cate:
In recognition of these facts, il is fitting that
the sympathy and assistance Of all good citizens
be extended to the striking workmen in their
contests against the svarice Of the capitalists
But let us take view Of the contendinZ forces
and their weapons of warfare. Organized labo,
has been rel wing upon strikes, boycotts and
pressure Of public sentiment, while organized
capital has carefully entrenched itself behind
legislative enactments. In preparation fol
the great contest with organized labor, il has
secured absolute control Of the legislative
judicial and executive departments Of the gov
eminent, both state and national Wher
it wishes to enforce reduction Of wages It call.
to its aid an armed band Of Hessians, under tbs
command Of Pinkerton, for the purpose of driv
ing out the American workmen who belong tc
the union and introducing gang Of non.uuior
workmen fresh from the densely populated.
oppressed and poverty-stricken districts Of IN,
king cursed countries Of Europe. Our work
men fiy to arms and repel the Pinkertou invad
ers, the riot act is read and the state militia i
called out not for the purpose Of restoring
peace and arresting the reasonable orraniza
ton of Pinkerton thugs but for the purpose o
innmldating the union workmen. protectin,
capital and crowding down wages through m,
Introduction of non-union men imported from
foreign lands for that purpose Capita
has been Incorporated Our statutes are LOADED
with special legislation in its interests Can
italists are now waging war Of exterminatio,
against labor organizations with view of re
ducing the individual workers TO a state of An
ject servitute. Is there no escapef
All, yes happily the workmen Of our eountr