Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-08-22

union" and "non-union," or organ
lad and nnorganized; and if Bro.
Butts we're not sn young he would re-.
member when farm labor was union
ized in the grange, and in the alliance
These we're UNION organic stions, pure
aud simple. They were formed with
view to not only better the financial
condition of those concerned, but also
To bring them in closer touch With
each other in social way, and but few
who cannot remember the grand good
times had at the grange or alliance
plcnics or socinl gatherings. Had
those organizations been successful II,
accomplishing their purposes, would
not every farmer, whether member
of the body or not, have been directly
benefited by the result? We think
so, and incidentally every wage Garner
in the land would have been bene-
fitted. And why did they not succeed /?
Simply because tho same subtle intlu-
ences which arc now striving to pre-
judlce tho farmer against the labor
union exerted itself, and we are sorry
to say with all too much effect, to
create bitterness in the minds of the
laborer against the farmer and his
organization, and having almost
wrecked those organizations they now
turn their attention to the kindred
brotherhood "Qnion Labor" Should
organized labor reach its hopes, viii!
the farmer be benefited or will he be
| injured?
| 1t is an undisputed fact that when
labor is well and profitably employed,
business is good and prices are good;
when labor is idle or poorly paid,
prices are down in corresponding
ratio.
1t in Missouri Valley there are one
Thousand men employed at an average
of two dollars per day they can buy
just twice the necessities and Injuries
of life that they can buy if the average
is one dollar per day. And while it is
q broad statement it is nevertheless
true, that sixty cents of that extra dol.
lar goes to the farmer. Does the
'aborer keep COW or horse, the feed
ctmes from the farm. Does he buy a
harness, he pays the farmer for the
hide from which the leather was made
and he also pays the farmer for the
food eaten by the harness-mnker while
making them. Does he buy car
riage, he pays the man who cut the
wood and mined and moulded the iron
used in its construction, and these
men in turn pay the farmer for the
products of his farm. This is the
reason that when labor is idle or poor
ly paid the farmer feels so keenly the
'shard times" If it would be u benefit
to the farmer to fill the places of labor
with the Cinnamon OF Jap OF any
class of people who can live on refuse
and buy but little, then it would be to
his best interest to seek the down fall
OF union labor But if it Is to his in
terest to see labor prolitab,y employed
thereby maintaining q market for his
products, then it is for him to extend
to union labor the glad right hand of
good fellowship.
Union LABOR is NOT organized against
but in the interest of ALL labor.
Union labor is NOT organized against
the employers of labor. But it is or
gained against injustice, against
greed, against extortion, againsttyran-
ny, against inhamanity and against
oppression, Its organized for justice
for honor and for virtue; for the bet.
terment of conditions both financial
and social, for proficiency in occupa.
ton and for integrity in dealings
among men; for the exemplifying of
that grand principle which has come
down through ages, "Do unto others
as ye would that others would do unto
you"
Unionlabor is NOT organized against
the employers of labor. but against
those combinations of capital which
seek not only to control the wages of
its employees, but to control AS well
the volume and price of its produc.
ton; who, by virtue of owning OF
controlling nearly all the mills making
a certain kind of goods, can, by closing
down for time or running with small
force, decrease the supply and thereby
raise the price. We wonder if Bro
Butts belongs to the union known as
the Editorial Association. IT he does
he should withdraw at once.
Some time ago when the print paper
trust raised the price of print paper
did the paper upon which the Little
Sioux Independent was printed, bea,
the "union LABEL or the "trust label y
When the U. S. steel combine was
formed and everything into the manu-
facture of which steel entered, es
pecially farm machinery, did the
goods bear the union label or the