The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-11-03
The THE UNION LABEL
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CHE THAT IS NOT WITH US IS
AGAINST US.'
The Employer IL In Business for
Profit and If the Organized Work.
ers Demand the Label he Will be
Compelled to Recognize Their De.
What the Label Means.

Experience has shown the organized
movement Of labor that the working
masses, being the vast army of consum-
ers of all the products of labor, can,
BIZ organizing their purchasing power
to promote the sale Of the product of
unions and of fair labor, and to restrict
the sale of the products of non-union
and unfair labor, exert quite as effect
ual an influence and control over con-
ditions Of employment as by endeavor-
ing to control the supply of labor at the
factory door.
The employer is in business for profit,
and if his market be sufficiently re-
stricted through the demands of organ
lied workers for union label goods, he
will be compelled to give his recogni-
ton to just demands of employees or
to go out of business.
The union label is concrete ex-
preston of the desire of unionists that
other unionists and all sympathizers
shall be able to discriminate between
the unfair products of the peniten-
tiary, the non-unionists, the tenement
house and pest holes, and the product
Of workers engaged in the same move
meHt and sharing the same hopes and
aspiration as themselves. The growth
of the union label movement in recent
years is evidenced by the fact that so
many of the national trade unions have
adopted, union label devices, adapted
to their respective trades, and this
growth is accelerated by support re-
ceived from associations of philanthro-
pic persons who see in the union label
movement a rational attempt to better
their condition without resOrting to
costly strikes. --
The wage Garner joins the union to
better his condition, to defend his in
terests, to maintain or increase his
wages, and expects other unionists to-
support his cause. Hence it is the plain.
duty of every member .of organised.
laber to exercise, due care that the Wa;
es received 4as & result &c effort and.
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prO0uCCS or uuE6lE 9AUUOEfR1H UStseA liz
dustries. ""> - at5s
HE that is not with us is against
US" is a safe maxim to follow, and
member who expends a single penny
upon the product of unfair labor, has
not only wronged his fellow-workers,
but has done positive injury to his
cause and interest. The only way
members can be sure they are not
spending their money upon their enc
mics is to insist that all goods pur-
chased by them shall bear a union lab
ell, and their duty tends further, to the
extent of influencing his friends to
purchase and tradesmen to handle and
sell none but goods bearing the union
label of the respective trade unions.
Reductions in wages are checked, ad-
vances secured, hours Of labor short
ened conditions of labor improved, and
many other benef1cent results obtained
by persistent agitation upon union lab
ell lines. Nearly all the trades have
their union label in the field. The one
thing needed is the whole-souled CO.
operation of the workers and their SYM
pathizers in purchasing only goods
bearing the trademarks of organized
labor, with which effort many of the
| abuses they now suffer will speedily
vanish. Are you demanding union
made goods? If not, why ot?-South-
ern Economist.