The weekly examiner., 1901-07-06
THE POWER OF LABOR.

CTS of North America are united in one organization.
 Organizer Dilcher of the giant coal miner in the United States can be made to stop work at once.
 One hundred thousand men engaged in the production of steel are already closely united for defense and progress.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor, urges wider and closer organization, stricter adherence to union rules and concerted effort for shorter hours of work in those great capitalistic associations.
 On every side is indicated the percep- tion of the fact that the wealth of a nation consists in the strength of labor.
 There are in the United States 16,- 100000 working voters and 5O,OO0 mill Honaires, of whom many are not vot- CTS.
 Leaving out all question of power, there is not the slightest doubt that the interest of the 16,OOO,OOO should be considered rather than that of the 5O,0OO.
 And there is not the slightest doubt that the interests of the 16,OOO,OOO at present are bound in all cases to give way when the 5O,0OO demand it.
 Superficially, from the brute force point of view, everything would seem to be on the side of the 16,OOO,OOO and against the 50,O00.
 Take the Workingmen out of this country, and property now worth hun aNf fNo in day.
 The coal mines are worth endless mill lions because there are workingmen to dig the coal.
 The steel industry is capitalized at $1, 100, ,OOO,0 ,00O because there are work ingmen to make the steel.
 Without these workingmen the mines, the wheatfelds, the factories, would be worthless.
 Apparently workingmen have only to organize, have only to realize their strength, in order to take for themselves as much as they choose of all of which their labor is an essential part.
 But stronger than muscle is intelli- gent concentration. A handful of men can take the prairies of the west away from 1O,OOO,0OO bisons because the men can think and plan and the bison cannot.
 A handful of millionaires can take the products of the mine and the bags of wheat away from the 16,OOO,OOO working voters because the million aires think and plan on a complicated scale and the workers do not.
 The millionaires were poor men yes terday. They are millionaires today, first, because they are selfish and, sec ond, because their brains work we'll.
 It would hurt the country a great deal to take away the workingmen. It would hurt it almost as much to take away the 5O,OOO selfish millionaires whose brains and energy devise means of making labor fruitful, of making the average lot in life more satisfac- tory while at the same time taking more than their share.
 Organization is good, and even now with average intelligent management it should reduce working hours to eight.
 Devotion to the union and to union rules, even when shortsighted, is nec- essary, for it produces solidarity and checks the extreme selfish brutality of higher intelligence.
 But real knowledge is the essential thing.
 When each of the 16,OOO,OOO voters knows as much, thinks as hard and as clearly as the 5O,OOO millionaires, there will be no labor question and no capital question.
 Organize, Messrs. Sixteen Millions. stick together, get all you can, since more wages means better chance for your children.
 But endeayor to work and vote for education.
 The emancipation of the 16,OOO,OOO depends on the education of the chill dren of 16,O0O,OOO families.-New York Evening Journal
 How to Mend Gloves.
 Gloves should never be mended with silk thread. When a seam in a glove starts, sew it with cotton thread to match the glove fin sha6N