The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-10

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tits vicious in principle; and IL it isI vol,
5untary it, can't be- enforced. Still, while
the competitive system lasts, am will
ing to admit that boards of arbitration
can do and have done some good, and
am willing to aid in the work OF arbitra-
tion to adjust labor difficulties"
!, +. ..What is the future for labor?" % asts
Z I'VE look hopefully into the future
for the right is not to be forever on the
scaffold, nor the wrong forever on the
throne The same soulless power, In . the tf'
form of trusts, syndicates and monopo-
lies, that is today squeezing the life cur
rent out of labor and coming their
groans into dividends on watered stock
will soon begin to oppress and grind
the middle classes. The small farmers
and small tradesmen are to be driven to
the wall. The few will be extremely rich
and the masses extremely poor. The few
will have absolute sway and their sub
,lects, the common people, will be sinsah-
ject slavery. Is the picture overdraWn?
Wait and watch!' The grinding, crush
ing, enslaving forces are in operation,
and unless men are deaf as adders and
blind as bats they must see the inevita-
bic result. 53s. \ &. a a:s..
'. .sIf the people are awakened from their
:lethargy. If they can be aroused from
their stupor, the machinery of oppres-
sion and injustice will be reversed there
will be a change of programme and the
reign of right be inaugurated. Liberty
will be preserved in this country at any
cost. If peaceable means do not suffice,
If prudent councils do not prevail, the
plain people will be heard from, and
eI ho
to talk French. %sssgs
{, Respecting our plans for the future,
I have to say that we shall work all the
harder to achieve success. The obsta-
cles that have been thrown in our way
but serve to increase our ardor,
strengthen our determination and inten-
sify our convictions. The recent up-
heaval has demonstrated the necessity
for the solidarity OF labor. Divided and
at cross purposes, labor becomes the
sport and prey of Its II Texp1oiters but
united, harmonious and intelligently di-
rected, it rules the world. The trend is
toward the unifieation Of all classes OF
workingmen and women, sub divided, /,
as may be required, to preserve trade
autonomy yet compactly united for con-
certed action in all matters pertaining
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one after another, are disappearing. In
a few more years Skilled labor will be
a thing of the past, for machinery will
do the skilled work of the world. The
machine continues to take the places of
"a en-. and In the march. ct Invention the
idle increase and the army. will. grow
larger year by year. There never will
be a time in this country when there
will be jobs enough to 60 around. The
competitive system is nearing its close
the death gurgle is ini its throat. It is
dying hard, but it has got to go, for the
Eternal Truth is pledged to destroy
every system not founded upon its Inn
mutable laws. @i.-- .ss-----.s., r~- +.
1--WE propose to change our lodge
rooms into school rooms. We propose
TO teach our members that politics is the
science Of government, and that any
citizen who does not take an active in
iteresl in the politics of his country is
fit only for chain and collar for slavery
and degradation We shall try to co1l-
vince them that. SO long as they vote the
same ticket as their masters they will
forge their own chains and perpet,1-
ate the social and industrial serfdom
of which they complain.
Eve shall first seek to unity and har-
monize the workers of the country. We
shall have no grand mogul as chief to
carry. the organization in his vest pocket,
but we shall have at the head Of this
great organization a congress-, Of repre-
sentaHives elected from the ranks, who
shall have supervision of it's affairs. The
Initiative and Referendum will doubt
less be adopted and we, the people, will
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