Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-08-16
AGAINST THE UNIONS.
TRUSTS ENDEAVORINO TO
DELIBERATE LABOR UNIONS.
The Fight on tho Steel Workers Only
the Opening Wedge OF n War of Ex-
termination-Yct tho Labor Leaders
Keep Their Eyes Almost Closed.

The strike of the steel trust workers
is said to have been brought about
by the trust to once for all settle the
labor question. The labor organiza-
lions are in the way of the plans Of
]. Pierpont Morgan and for some time
he has been preparing for gigantic
war on trades unions. The leading
Republican newspaper of Ohio. the
Cincinnati CONCENTRATIONS which
is controlled II not owned by the trust,
foreshadowed the opposition to organ
lied labor in its issue Of June rs, when
1t said THE declaration of the Read
Ing Railroad company against the
unions really masks the intention of ].
Pierpont Morgan TO begin a fight for
death against American organized la
Dor. Mr.. Morgan is a man who believes
in combines for American prosperity,
as we'll as private profit.
"As a matter of principle, one of
the things he is against is the labor
union. 1t is his conviction that it re-
tards the industrial development Of
the people. In the union he sees the
lack of progress in an industrial way
in England. He says that the unions
have prevented the introduction OF
labor-saving machinery there.
''Of' all the investments, Mr.. Nor
gan has the strongest grasp Of the
Reading railroad corporation. 1t is the
basis Of his real strength. 1t reaches
the great coal beds, touches the outer
limits of the steel business, tempts
the grain carrying interests and great
ly insinuates submission to the great
opposition carrying companies. In its
shops, in its train service, along its
tracks, in it's contributing mining
fields, the unions have been supreme.
Until recently Mr.. Morgan has been
disposed to rather encourage this He
is fond of dealing with organizations.
That is his way of doing business. He
prefers to make his deals with the
principals rather than to bother with
a herd of units. That was con-
venience.
Now he is confronted with some
thing greater than an expediency. He
is convinced that the unions are in
the way of the supreme development
Of his enterprises and the full growth
of his own industrial America. AS he
shakes away the hindering tethers of
Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and other
financial princellngs, he feels that he
should assume the full imperial power
which belongs to the enthroned money
king Of earth. That sounds rather
grandiloquent, but it is within the
limits of the facts. Americans are do
ing the producing for the whole world.
That is the call which he makes to the
money lenders and money investors of
the whole world 1t is taking. 1t is
successful. In his mind, he sees the
unions in the way of complete sue
cess of his plans.
"Along with many other gigantic
things which he is trying to do, he
sees it worth his while to try to break
the unions. To man of his strength
and power this does not seem an i'm
possible task The unions are in the
way of American development, in his
mind Therefore they should be gotten
rid Of
"An order is issued to the Reading
railroad president that war is to be
waged against unionism, and that this
war is to gradually extend to such
other corporations as the Morgan in
fluence dominates or influences.
Summed up, he believes that a union
of capital cheapens production and
that a union Of labor is expensive.
"This information is the result of
knowledge of conferences OF various
Morgan men as to the best way Of get
ting attthe union pfbblem. 1t is not
intimated that this Is the only way. 1t
is one OF them. 1t is the beginning"
Thiss should open the eyes of the
laboring man and teach him that the
trusts are his enemy and the Republic
can party cannot, If it would, AID or
befriend him as long as it is furnished
| by the trusts with the money to de-
bauch the people in exchange for the
special privileges and protector grant
ed them.
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