The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-12

strikers place. Nobody objects to- his
working anywhere else. II he does not
wish to join the union he need not. but
inasmuch as the union Is making a
fight for the ultimate welfare Of his
own children, he ought to have man
hood enough not to take strikers
place. Yet he uas an abstract legal
right to do it, but when whole bodies
Of men are wrought up over q matter
affecting not only their happiness, but
their very existence, 1t Is sometimes
hard to get proper consideration for
abstract rights.
During the revolution the colonists
preached political freedom, yet the man
who opposed them was In danger Of
being hanged. -
During the civil war our constitution
guaranteed freedom Of speech, yet
when q man talked for the South he
was thrown in Jail, while II in the
South he expressed sympathy for the
North he was lucky If he was not
lynched. The truth is that this talk
about the right of a non-union man to
take a strikers place is hardly ever
versed with many and never heard one
make it. They always admit that they
ought not to have done it, but plead
that they needed the money, etc.: This
talk generally comes from the hang
ing-on class, which Is never happy
except when basking in the smiles Of
the powerful.
But I wish to suggest to organized
labor that to attack scab who takes
a strikers place is not only violation
OF law but it Is foolish. for it does not
hurt the employer. It does not even in
convenience him. He does not smoke
one cigar less on account Of it, #
dozen scabs should be killed, he simply
gets other hirelings to take their place.
What cares. he for widows and Or
phans?" He may be morally RESPONSE
bic for having placed scabs in a posi-
ton where they get hurt or killed, but
he will not support their widows and
their children.
In stead Of this organize your force in
such manner as to make the employer
feel little of the unpleasantness Of a
strike. - go. -
Send committee to his house before
breakfast to urge him, in a respectful
manner, to arbitrate; let it follow him
to his Office; send another to his club,
and the next day repeat the program;
and II the committee is dubbed and
sent to Jail, send another. Also, where
1t is practicable, send a committee of
women to wait on his wife and urge
her to use her influence to secure ar
bitration. If the employer leaves town,
telegraph to the organization in the
community. to which he has gone to
wait on him and urge him to arbitrate.
You can thus by peaceful methods get
results quicker than by killing scabs.
Again, let me say, violate no law.
wrong no man, move along peacable
lines, depend on justice and the prog
ress Of ideas, and you will not only
walk over the graves Of your enemies
but you will insure the emancipation Of
your children. #
Remember that great az are the
things you can do through organizai
ton, they are, after all, in the nature
Of. palliatives. You can secure living
wages. You can secure sanitary con-
ditions. You can secure respectful;
treatment. You can secure reduction
| Of the hours of labor. - g." 80
Without a. reduction In the hours Of
labor all Of the machinery in the world
Will be a curse instead Of q blessing
to large section Of the human family.
because it will give to a few men the
power to exploit the many and throw
thousands out Of employment.
But after all is told, the laborer cam
not reach the full stature Of independ-
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shop In which he works. And this con-
dition can only be brought about by
public ownership of monopolies or some
form of mutual association, or both.
NEW MORNING WILL DAWN.
Finally let me say that new order
Of thought is abroad in the land. While
! at the top the corporations are strang-
ling justice and robbing the people:
underneath there is growing and rap
idly spreading a general demand for
more equitable conditions.
An entirely new literature which
| breathes the spirit of human brother
| hood is filling the land. The pen of the
age is on the side of humanity. Only
| the hired scribblers for the press and
the capitalistic magazines are on the
other side.
The intelligent men and women who
have not been purchased, and whose
souls are free, are standing with their
faces toward the morning and singing
new songs of liberty. And no man OF
the nineteenth century did more to
bring about this new era that the great
Henry George.
These higher ideas will In time shape
destiny and crystalline into new insti-
tutions.
They will give to the world new
age and a new civelization. A civilza-
! ton In which the hand of toll shall not
be robbed of the fruits Of It's owl,
labor.
| The immediate future seems dark
with much tribulation, but the firelings