The record-union., 1894-07-27
DEBS AND HIS WORK.
Comments Upon 1t by Leading Eastern
Papers.

In so far as workingmen are interested
in a return of better times and of condi-
tions that will insure steady employment
at fair wages, Mr.. DebS has proven him.
self to be the worst enemy of labor in the
United States. s.-Indianapolis Journal.
The attempt of Debs, in the name of his
new American Railway Union, to para
lyze the transportation interests of the
country, is an utterly inexcusable act OF
violence. Debs is striking. not at the
railroads alone or chiefly, but at other
labor organiZations.-Lou Post.
1t is amazing that sound and level
headed labor should have intrusted the
management of its affairs to man who
cannot manage his own thoughts, temper
or tongue.-Chicago Journal.
No grievance that organized labor ever
had OH account Of the oppression of cor
porate power ever equaled that it now
has against Debs for his destructive mad
ness. Honest labor cannot afford to stand
by Debs.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
This is not fight of labor against capi-
tal 1t is criminaIly injudicious attack
of certain forces of organized labor
upon every other kind of labor and upon
all popular interests in ommon.-Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
We must insist upon viewing this
strike not as contest between the rail-
roads and their employees, for it has gone
beyond that, but deliberate war upon
the people Oh the United States, and upon
their institutions and laws.-Indianapol
News.
No organization can stand before the
American people under the burden which
the managers of the American Railway
Union have placed upon that association.
Boston Post.
We do not think that organized labor
can afford to take the position of ASSAULT
ing the peace and prosperity of the Ma
ton. But that is what the cauSeless and
illogical leadership of such men as Sow
ereign and Debs brings them to.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
If the strikers would stop listening to
mischievous and irresponsible leaders,
and exercise the privilege of thinking for
themselves, they could not fail to see that
their position is one which they cannot
afford to occupy, and that they are doing
the cause of labor much more harm than
good.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr.. Debs and Mr. Sovereign are likely
to do the cause of labor more harm than
any two men who ever lived.-Albany
Journal.
In all this it is we'll to remember that
not one in a hundred Of the strikers to-
day in idleness has a grievance to be
avenged or even complaint OF personal
wrong which should be righted. They
have gone out under orders from certain
recognized leaders, and would gladly re-
turn at any moment were they permitted
peaceably to do so.-Newport News.
The strikers are losing not only their
own wages and standing heavy drain to
support the dictator and his crowd of
henchmen, but they are entailing loss of
thousands upon thousands on numerous
other wolkmen who are not members OF
their union, and who have not The most
remote connection with the strike except
as involuntary sufferers. Tri-
bune.
Men who burn trestles, break up trains,
spike switches, take possession of yards,
or attack men exercising the God-giyen
right to work, must be apprehended and
brought to justice, no matter what money
and force be necessary to this end.-De-
troit Free Press.
Debs has excited the lawIess classes in
activity. The agents of mischief whom
he has set at work are not in many cases,
even members of the Railway Union.
His strength is recruited from the habit
ually vicious and criminal classes, ma
rauders, hignwaymen and outlaws, who
would be slugging peaceful citizens at
night on the streets If they were not en-
gagged in mob work at the scenes OF rail-
road disturbance.-Chica Herald.