The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-07-20

was pricked last month through the
strikeof the employees In the National
Cash Register company, at Dayton, O..
This company worked its employees
eight hours a day, had tasteful lunch
rooms in its factory, furnish I'd meals
at a very low price, placed reading
lecture and music rooms, libraries,
! bathrooms and shady walks on its
grounds at the disposition Of its per-
| sonnet, arranged for every comfort
imaginable, in short turned its fac
| tories into model establishments. The
| managers made kind of gospel out
Of this. Representatives. of the, firm
had to work for the adoption of this
plan wherever they went on business.
and it found hundreds Of admirers and
fmitators among the manufacturers
throughout the country. ,,..-~T H.
The scheme was largely advertised
in the press. What was not talked of,
however, and done nevertheless, nay,
which forms an essential part Of the
plan, is, that these employees we're to
be content with, what their philan-
thropic masters found suitable for
them. The food served, The books,
newspapers. and lectures to be. read,
the music to be played. the walks to
be trod, the clothing to be worn, the
associations with which to mingle were
all more or less carefully selected and
surveyed by the far-sighted employers
Of these weal cared for toilers. {
q ~ ho
company named found it necessary, in
spite Of all the luxurious comfort
among which they were employed, to
form a union. Others joined, and the
company having become aware O fthe
movement discharged number Of
them, letting the rest know that no
trade union would be tolerated..
The men directly affected (wood-
workers) went on strike. The rest Of
the employees, about 1000, followed. In
few weeks the company had to recog-
nize the right of it's employees to organ
lie, and the privileged classes saw
with amazement. another scheme to
keep the wage earners forever in SUBJ
lection crumble in the dust.
While trade unions advocate clean
and healthful workshops as being of
advantage not alone to the employee,
but to the employers as well, they con-
slider this the least part of their pro-
gram. They demand for the workers
not alone material we'll being, but the
freedom for each to do with his own
(Which is the full proceed of his labor)
as he pleases. They are striving to
obtain for the laborer the shortest
and progressive nation. They demand
a wage allowing the toilers to satisfy
their appetite according to their own
taste and fancies, to have a. home
where each can have his own BATH
room, where he can read his own
books, keep papers suited to his own
manner Of thinking, and from whence
he can. undertake walks or pleasure
trips according to his own likings.
Bats are taking their Wrapping flight
after the darkness of night has set in.
The bakery owners awake to make use
of an idea, as a rule, when it is set in
the dark ny .AAethe4s on4.. or exploded
altogether. That the National Biscuit
company has announced that it is
about to fix up a park near its bakery
in Chicago, ILL.,, for the exclusive! use
of its employees. What a noble philanz
thropy. The company is praised to the
sky by some of our trade papers (or-
gans Of the master bakers) for this
and for many other liberalities toward
its employees. Yet in nearly all of it's
factories union men are carefully weed
ed out and the rest submit sullenly to
conditions which they hate in their
hearts, but which they have not the
courage to alter by joining their union
and asserting their manhood. This is
especially true Of Chicago, Ill. In no
other city the park plan is to be estab-
lished because the National Biscuit
company has nowhere else superfluous
land at its disposition. AS far as the
girls employed by the trust are con-
cerned we may be sure that some of
those getting paid 50 week and less
will have to find other resources be-
sides to keep their bodies and souls to-
gether. These will. therefore, have
little time to spare for promenades in
the park of the dividend clipping stock
holders, their employers.
Apropos the stockholders scheme
among employees is said to be given up
by the National Biscuit company, it
having been unsuccessful. So one plan
after the other Is being weighed in the
scales and found wanting. There is but
one way for the wage-earnefs to pur-
sue, and this is organize into trades
unions, stand shoulder to shoulder in
manful struggle for a. brighter fu-
ture, for more freedom and higher
1ustice.-Miners' Journal
SUPPORT OF THE FAMILY.
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