The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-16

L Amaleamated association, in
his snosotiations and break
with the representatives of the man
aGement of the United States steel
corporation-the attitude upon which
the conference split--was that the non
union workers in the corporations
mills had no rights which were en-.
titled TO respect. AS the Philadelphia
North American, yellow though it be,
Says. in this instance with unexpected
candor:
president Shaffer delivered an ulti-
matum that the trust must leave its
men no freedom of action. No trust
magnate could have been more dcta-
torial He had nothing to offer in
justification Of his extraordinary de-
mand-not a grievance because of pay
or hours or discrimination against
union labor. Apparently his sole pur-
pose was TO create an absolute monop-
oily Of the right to labor in the trusts
mills--a monopoly far more effective
and far more dangerous to individual
rights than that exercised by Mr.
industry. 1t was as if the latter had
asked the United States government
10 prohibit the manufacture and use
of any but the Steel trusts products.
What President Shaffer demanded was
that the trust pass a prohibitory law
against all workmen who saw fit TO
remain outside of his association. The
right of labor to organize was never
called into question by either side.
The cruX of the controversy was the
right of President Shaffer to impose
his own labor orsanzati not upon
the Steel trust, but upon the laborers
themselves"
More and more the spirit shown by
President Shaffer is coming to he the
spirit a the hack of the labor move
ment in America-a civil war among
the men who toll. with the non-union-
ist bounded as pariah and restraints
of law and order ignored in the ef-
fort to club him into the union or into
his grave. There Is today ten times
more bitterness among union strikers
for the on-unionist, whose right TO
live and work in peace is grounded in
the foundations of American liberty
than there is for the employer at whom
the strike is nominally leveled. Very
rarely is the employers personal lib
erty menaced He is free to come and
go when he will. No one tells the
storekecpers they mustn't I'll his orders
for goods. No one pursues him to his
home or pickets the approaches to his
Office. In many cases the employer
personally is well liked by the strik-
ers. They honor him as a man and in
cooler moments recognize in him a
friend, and their strike against him is
largely Pickwickian and professional
Not 50 with the "scab." He arouses
in them the fierce passion OF hatred
and a thirst for revenge. Though
they have laid down the tools that he
Is using and voluntarily abandoned
the employment he is glad TO secure
in order 10 support himself and family,
their ferocity toward him is often un-
governable; the negro slave was not
more subject To cruelty and abuse
There. can be-sooner or later-only
one result to this course of policy
,nauguiated primarily by the men who
found tsades unonism an easy vehicle
n which 10 ride to prominence and
power, 1T will drive into the union
'old thousands of men whose secret
sympathies are opposed 10 such intol-
srance; it viii forfeit the sympathy of
thinking neutrals, and when the furore
sbbs, there will be a corresponding re-
action. Labor cannot fight capital and
.abor bdth The contract is too much.
The United States transport Warren,
which has been for some time in Alas
san waters and is now on its way to
San Fra kcisco, will have on board some
thirty 4leut Indian children bound
from, Unalaska Island to the Indian
school OF Carlisle. They and their
parents have for years had mission
training. The incident marks "a far
cry" fran the times when the poet
Campbell wrote of "the VOLTS long
howl from Unalaska's shore" as the
only characteristic of that portion of
the world then known to civilizat tion.
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The Pan-American officials are