The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-08-31

10 tne Un1Ons ~nlcn IL UFeeteu
With Commendat1on.
At the last meeting of the Combina-
ton Leaders Union a motion was i'm
med1ately carried, after President
Rockefeller's gavel dropped. to go into
executive session, and the reporter Of
this paper was once more compelled to
dodge behind the big, iron safe when
nobody was looking.
Chairman Rockefeller recognized
Business Agent Morgan. Bro. Morgan
said that his hands. were so full with
strike matters during the past week
that he had been unable to attend to
the organization of new unions of cap
1talists, and had only been able to grab
few railroads, banks and mines while
eating lunch and while other brothers
were reading about the latest horse
race or bali game.
Bro. Morgan explained that he had
many plans in view to win the present
strike. MY plans," he said, may be
summarized as follows:
First. To make big bluff through
the newspapers to dishearten the iron
and steel workers. Our friends who are
in control of the Associated Press are
stockholders in the U. S. Corporation
or allied unions of capital.
Second. To make some of our man
ayers, superintendent and foremen to
go to work, and to transfer them from
place to place to make it appear that
we are doing business, and after the
trouble is over some Of them can be
fired as incompetents.
Third. We will threaten to disman-
tie mills in. the small towns, and thus
force the 'burshwa' middle class. In
order to save their little capital invest
ed in a corner grocery, to withhold
credit from the strikers and in turn
force some of those back to work.
Fourth. We shall silence public
opinion, which is an unknown quantity
by having our friends on the Industrial
Commission, various antitrust leagues
and our hired politicians generally to
talk as long and loud as possible about
passing antitrust laws and to enforce
arbitration, etc. This will put the Junk
heads and those who have their stom-
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"Fifthx The aristocracy among the
| working class is not yet dead. We can
prejudice the ten and twelve dollar a
day men against the two dollar man,
and the former, not desiring to lose
too much wages. will come back.
sixth. We can quietly import men
from Europe, and allow them to walk
around New York for while, and then
bring them into the mills and certain
influences can prevent the immigration
officers from talking. + = .... I'LL. -. . ri.
Seventh. II the worst comes to the
worst we can depend on the courts to
swing injunctions and our state or ma
tional officers to send the militia.
Supplementary to these plans," con-
cluded Bro: Morgan, II might add that
I am developing splendid proflt-shar-
ing scheme, which aims at union of
capital and labor and the solution of
the so-called labor problem. I am
aware that there are still thousands of
workingmen in this country who are
hungering to get rich, and the question
Of exploiting their feMowmen doesn't
bother them. So I am developing a
plan to issue common stock, which is
we'll watered, to our loyal employees
and which, If need be, can be called
in and watered still more. Our faith
full workers will receive beautiful GER
tificates, perfect dreams of the prin-
ters' art, which they can frame and
hang on the wall and can sit and ad-
mire after they return from work and
imagine themselves capitalists. have
found, brothers, that imaginations goes
a long distance specially among those
who want something and can't get it,
Bro. Morgan's remarks were punctu.
ated with applause throughout. Wher
he had concluded Bro. Rockefeller tool
the floor and declared that much of hi.
profits, which were given to him by
loyal oil, mining, railway and othe1
workers, would be cheerfully contri
buted to conduct the present battl,
with the strikers.
Bro. Depew told funny story abou
an Irishman shooting wad in the all
and hitting nothing, declaring that tina
was exactly what he shot at, and sale
that he had assurances from certain
railway brotherhood chief that he woulc
use his influence to strangle the strike
right where it was. (Great applause.)
Bro. Schwab said that the contes
was progressing nicely, and that mos
Of the so-called labor leaders are con
, sentative men and the strike would
not reach into other trades, which view
was also held by Bro. Hanna, bushes.
} agent of the Politicians Union.
Bro. Vanderbilt started to call atten.
ton to the fact that in certain quarters
the strike was aiding to increase the
agitation in favor of socialism, but he
was called to order, the chair holding
that it was not q; political question: