The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-14
A FAMILY AFFAIR.

The Springfield Republican, which is a
Cleveland organ, points out with great
force of argument. couched in language
of entire calmness and sobriety. that the
question that remains for settlement at
Homestead is not merely Pennsylvania
quarrel, but family affair which con-
Germs the whole of u.s. The work
men allied In trade union have forbidden
all non-union men TO take the work from
which the union men have been dis
charged, and today, even in presence of
the military, these union pickets sur
round the town and exclude ali persons
whom they may suspect are non-union
men.
The employers undertook to garrison
their works with armed men to protect the
uon-union men they meant 10 set to work.
The employers undertook to maintain the
right of non-unionists 20 labor and en-
ployers 10 hire them. The right to strike is
sacred, but not a whit more sacred under
free government than the right of any
and all men to work for wages that other
men have refused TO accept. The old
forty years ago. always recognized the
right to work on the part of
a non-union man as sacred as the right
to strike; the modern trades union.
led by Burns and Tom Mann. is re.
sponsibie for the doctrine that a trades
union has right TO exclude a non-union
man from accepting work that a union
man has refused. Under the promise of
the American constitution and the pro-
lection of the American dag the rights of
the non-unionist and the employer are
just as sacred as the rights of the unionist
laborer.
This right has been denied by Illegal
violence, and in face of the presence of
the military that right continues to be de-
MED by the rioters. No non-unionis.
laborer can be employed in the Carnegie
works until society interferes On this
fair statement of the existing situation
the Republican, utters the following
weighty comments:
suppose the government OF PENNSYLVANIA
allows the unionst workmea 70 hold the ground
AMI exclude from thu field all non-uuiouIsrs
under penalty OF bodily v!olenee-then whate
hen, III that case, organ zed society has al
lowed a trafe union 20 deprive portion of its
citizens of their guaranteed aad fundamental
rights. In test case il has sanctioned ths
ca m 81 private society 10 absolute asspo;lsrn
over the men OF particular handicralt All
handicraitmen, all laborsrs, msy be compelled
10 jon these societies, - obey sir commands
to work or stop working, o. prevent other men
from working 81 the oehesr Of ;heir chiefs-ana
this under penalty Of starvation Thai Is the
measure ot power over the individual which the
commonwealth yields 90 the trade union society,
If he permits the Homestead wo-Amen TO hol9
the position they now hold. II makes the con-
Cessl0n in Difference Ia "a act Of mob vio .e,ee
II surreaders oaio-e the rides ard the burning
OIL ~ the rioters a. truly a. the PnSsrtous S7,-
rendered. Ii sbttcatcs one Of is chief ffne.
uoas-tho protection Of Is citizens in the frsa
right oj labor-siussy o. co leetivelv as thew
mas pre- or. AMI hands Them over 20 the swsv OF
4 set % se,ret societies. Il does this eoueG Nv
the Violence Of feg thousand angry men
Arc tie people Of Pennsylvania are the MAJ
pie Of tAe United states prepared 10 taus shtl.
cate. i they are no. there IS oaly enc course
t. 10 pursued
We have been teaching our children 70 ylo-ifv
the star snd ssE pes, Now let Us see what thu
stars aa1 strips stand tor. The country look. 10
Pannsy..auia 70 do her duty.