The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-19

Some months ago Typographical I'm
ion No. 6, of New York offered a reward
of 500 for the best written article of
500 words donouncing the attitude of
the New York Sun toward trade un-
ions.
The offer was widely advertised and
many responses were received, showing
a general and lively interest in the
present fight of the unions against the
rapacious greed of the Sun and the
class of capitalists represented by that
newspaper.
The contest closed Aug. 20, and more
than 200 Of the articles submitted were
found to have complied with the condi-
tons Of the contest. These were SUBJ
mitted to a committee of three judges,
consisting of Messrs. John N. Boeart,
labor editor of the New York Journal;
Joseph r. Buchanan, editor Of labor de-
partment of the American Press Assoc
citation, and ]. w. Sullivan, author Of
Direct Leglslat1on.' THE Initiative
and Referendum" and other works on
economic subjects.
These gentlemen were selected as
judges on account of their familiarity
with labor matters in general as well
as for their experience and discrimina-
ton In literary matters.
None of these judges knew the names
Of any of the competitors, and after
careful consideration they unanimously
decided to award the prize to No. %,
the writer of which proved to be the
Hon. Micheal T. Corcoran Of New York
city.
Mr.. Corcoran Is native of Cincin-
natl, but has been practicinE law in
New York City for the last two years.
He Is widely known and bears high
the Ohio state senate Mr.. Corcoran
helped to frame and pass the present
charter of the city Of Cincinnati. He is
the author of Ohios Free Employment
Bureau System, practical and bene-
fetal labor measure, and his name Is
associated with many of Ohio's wisest
and most conservative laws.
Mr.. CorcOran was graduated from
the College of St. Francis Xavier, Gin
cinnati, at the age Of nineteen and was
Immediately made a professor In the
business department Of that institution
and one year afterward became pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek in the clas-
steal department. He later was grad
natl and, In addition to his law prac-
tice, is valued contributor to, several
magazines and newspapers.
A striking coincidence in connection
with the award of this prize to Mr..
Corcoran Is the fact that he recently
won a prize given by New York
newspaper for the best written appeal
to Great Britain to stop the Transvaal
war. Mr. Corcoran's article follows:
The course of the New York Sun In
it's causeless crusade against organized
labor has been characterized by q NOR
al insensibility and a business imbecili-
ty unprecedented in American journal
ism.
Secretly and without the decency of a
warning, maliciously and without the
pretense of a provocation, the manage
ment Of that paper in August 1885,
prepared and forced upon its corps Of
skilled and faithful employees an UNI
just quarrel for the deliberate destruc-
ton Of unionism among them. The
competency and fidelity of employees
which that very union demanded
could not atone for the spirit of manly
independence which it also required,
and therefore the petty tyrant in con-
troll Of The Sun, pulled up with the
pride of a little bHef authority" re-
solved upon substitution Of a nom
union force whom. dependent and dis
organized, he might intimidate at
pleasure and eventually crush down
to a scale Of wages limited only by
their absolute necessities. The posi-
BILE restitution of men cast aside after
long years of service, the inevitable
disturbance Of an industry until then
harmonious, were unimportant consid-
erations in the estimation of an In
dividual notorious for his greed Of gain