Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-16

to do this line of work, and the intro
duction of the free back shop has been,
boon to the tailor bosses and their
customers by enabling them to give
close inspection upon the work of all
the garments before they are ready for
the customer.
Benefits of Unionism.
OF all the isms and issues and plans
for the relief and advancement of la
Dor that have ever been tried none
can compare with the trade union
plan in lasting and beneficial results
The trade unionist is not content with
Christmas dinner and a promise,
with few boquets thrown in once
year; nor the charitable institution
that deals out measley bowl of soup
with the injunction; nor to spend your
money (Which we haven't got) for H.
quor or for other extravagant things
We want the opportunity to earn de-
cent wages, and the opportunity to
buy our own dinner-not once year
but every day. We realize that the
trade union movement and system of
organization will at least give us the
opportunity to do this. And we fur
Their assert that if the workers would
all organize that there would be no
necessity for the charitable institution
or the charitably inclined. We would
be able to take care of ourselves.
When labor is fully organized there
will be no very rich class and there
will be no mendicants nor paupers.
The soup house will be out of work
and the goody-goods will have to stop
talking and go to work. After all is
said and done the fact remains that
the real simon-pure movement for the
uplifting and advancement and protec-
ton of all the people is the trade union
movement Trade unions increase
wages and shorten the hours of labor;
they protect. care for and enable the
workers, thru them, to care for them.
selves without the intervention of any
other agency, be 1t of charitable
name or otherwise. Speed the trade
union. When the trade union is de-
veloped to the height of perfection
this world will be the better for it's
existence, and made such thru its eff
forts.-Cigar Makers Journal
What Union Means.
| (From the Pattern Makers Journal.l
An exchange says that of all the
strange things that confront sensi.
BILE man in all this world. it is certain,
| ly the strangest to see what meanness
| Is displayed by some members tow
ards their organization Not satisfied
with criticising in and out of season
every move taken for the welfare OF
all the members by the officers5of ths
Organization, they not only do not give
any moral support to the measures
adopted, if they do not oppose them
outright, but they also seem to suffer
kind of tetanus. of the hands wher
4 1t comes to paying dues and assess
ments. and little they realize how
| hurtful such action is, not only to
themselves, but to the organization ir
general.
The true organizations, above an,
Others are the ones that obtain the
maximum of benefits for their mem
hers for the minimum of expense. ant
the four or Ave dollars per year exact
ed as dues Vouchsafes return alto
gether out of proportion to thesamoun
extended. @ftS 2fsM
\ It; is the organization as such tina
Elias reduced your hours of work ant
increased your pay: 1t is the organi
cation that has made it possible fo
you to meet payday with euuanimit,
j and not in fear and trembling lest tn,
9 hoss dismiss You with the remark
"No money this week. hoysi" 1t il
Il the organization that gives your Graf