The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18
True nwardnesS ExpOseI.

BY some inadvertance this part if TRUE
lnwardness Exposed was left out of the
last issue and it therefore left what was
inserted rather fiat
The writer of the editorial in the Pen
ny Press wishes for two laws: The one,
that shall absolutely compel every en-
ployer TO submit any difficulty arising be-
tween him and his employers, to arbitra-
tom and the other law, that any man or
woman who strikes for higher wages shall
be sent to Jail for striking Such laws
are possible only in such despotsms as
the ancient Persian and Turkish empires:
and if it is possible to enforce them, it
means death of liberty and a life of abso-
lutte tyranny
No law can be SO framed as to force
person to operate his plant against his
will in any country under the SUM- To
enable the government to do this the right
of eminent domain must be exercised and
the plant become the property of the gov
eminent This is socialism. Is the editor
of the Penny Press a socialist? To deny
the workngmen the right to quit work
| under the penalty of being sent to Jail is
to exercise power that even the German
empire dare not exercise.
The most hopeful sign in this country
that we are to become a free people is that
we are uniting in large masses and fight
ing in such manner against the aggreS-
sions of accumulated wealth, that corpora
lions, syndicates and foreign shylocks tina
have fastened their clutches on the threats
of the people are driven to their last ditch,
venal press trying to create prejudice
and divide labor THOS. H. LUCAS.
This was denied publication by the pub
fishers of the p. p. in the following letter:
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June 80, 1884,
Dear Sir: l have your letter of recent date
commenting upon an editorial appearing in
this paper with reference to the strike at
Dali
do not think you could have read my ed-
torial with that care commonly character
istic with yourself or you would not make
this criticism of the same. The position of
the Penny Press concerning this strike can
be summed up in very few lines:
"a That the men were working at Pull
man for less than living wages, is undoubt-
eddy true and so admitted by this paper.
ca That their demand for higher wages
was correct and just from every stand
point, is further admitted
(3) That when the Pullman Company re-
fused to advance their wages their offer
of arbitration was not only right and
proper but in accordance with what has
now come to be1thee accepted method of
settling difficulties And. lastly, that when
the Pullman Company refused arbitration
it was the right and privilege of the men
to strike and exercise every right and au-
thority which they had to obtain justice
from the company with whom they We're
employed
1t is at this point where the Penny Press
ceases to follow or sympathiZe with the
present situation. fWes claim that it is an
act of great injustice and improperly to
compel the people of Minneapolis and the
Northwest in general,uas well as the seven
roads running east and half a dozen rum
ming west to be tied up, turned out Of
business when no grievance can be claimed
against anybody IN this part of the coun-
try, and when every railroad thus tied up
are submitting to every demand made by
it's employees, or demanded by the A. r. u.
The proper course. it, seems to us, would
have been to have ordered the strike at
Pullman and in the Pullman shops every
where, and if the A. r. L. were not strong
enough to do that at the points named,
then they should wait until they become
strong enough by reason of more COM
pete organization al the Pullman shops.
Everybody would have sympathized with
this position, and it would not have been
many weeks before the Pullman Company
would have been compelled to submit their
case to arbitration. The present methods
adopted compels millions of innocent people
and hundreds of railroad companies against
Wnom there is not a particle OF grievance,
to submit to this great wrong in order that
right may be obtained for 2.UO0 or 3,e0O
people at Pullman. This position, 1t seems
to me, is wholly untenable, and ought lot
to have been adopted in the first place,
and the sooner it is abandoned the better