The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-11-24
SUCCESS OF LABOR
ORGANIZATION IS ESSENTIAL TO l.! :
SUCCESS.
Organized Labor is the Promoter ct
Peace and Hnppiness-It Reduces
the Hours Of La NbOr-It IL Discuss
ed by Pulpit, Press and Diplomat
and Really - the Theme of the
Hour.

There are some who say that the
Declaration of Independence is nothing
but a collection of glittering general
ties. They are demagogues. To you
who have nothing but the right to la
Dor it means new spirit and new
thought that men do not live for them
selves alone. 1t stands for all that is
true and noble in man. The men who
signed the Declaration of independence
and many Of the reformers who came
after them We're actual living men, but
who in their day did not have any con-
ception Of the work they were doing
for humanity. We are all making his
tory, and the Importance Of it will be
seen later There has grown up dis
taste for liberty, truth, and many Of
the men who preach it are held up to
ridicule and scorn. That was the lot
of the men who first preached the abo-
lition Of black slavery.
What is our government, either
municipal or federal, but a vast union
in which the people have sacrificed
some of the rights that they may bet
ter protect the rights of others. In
1851 there was a great strike in this
country. Some of the states of the un-
ion were striking for the maintenance
Of the union, but now after it is all
settled. those who We're the unions
worst enemies are among it's proudest
supporters.
Freedom is the right of every man
who wants to work. But what is free
dom to man without the opportunity
to work? There is no excuse for lack
of employment of any man. If one
man is denied the right to work, our
system of government to him is a fail
ure, because it fails to give him what
1t guarantees to the humblest citizens.
THE spirit of commercialsm has be-
come SO rampant in this country that
all else is becoming subservient to it,
The dispatches tell us that in recent
tire in the harbor of New York. when
some OF the passengers jumped from
the burning ships into the water and
swan toward the tug boats in the har-
Dor. crying for help, they were met
with the reply: What will you give
me to save your The spirit of COM
/ me mssreial ism has peco one aa rampantas
to make wolves Of men who were once
humane. Is it not shocking to see that
the dollar is king and almighty and is
placed above man? To the dollar mod
ern society Is bending it's knee in wor-
ship. A few days ago two millionaires
made the declaration that seventy per
cent is not sufficient for their share of
the earnings of their employees There
again is manifest the spirit of the wolf
Two years ago we heard of the ruth
less murder of one hundred laboring
men who were shot down on the public
highway of Pennsylvania by hired
murders. In Pana and Virden in the
coal districts of Illinois, the shooting
OF Workingmen was repeated, and only
Il few weeks ago work1nen in st. Louis
were shot down on the street While re-
turning from a picnic. Humanity
sinks below the scale when weighed in
the balance with the almighty dollar
In Alamaba ten years ago law was
passed making sixty hours the limit
for a. weeks labor for child in the
factories. Two years ago that law
was repealed. and now the people Of
Alan1aba are enduring the disgrace of
sacrificing children on the alter of
mammon. There again is the mani
festation Of the spirit that knows no
right but the right Of money. These
are but few of the Instances where
capital Is arrayed against the rights of
man. 1t is ignorance that makes the
struggle such a dire one. 1t was ig-
norance that induced men to go to ST.
Louis to take the place of strikers
The declaration of Independence
should be amended to read Thou