The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-01
WILL ORGANIZE LABOR.
,,.,,ord ii. Caldwell Addressed

rJ II. Caldwell Addressed
rr,des and Labor Assembly.
c., meeting at Labor Hall. at Brough-
and Whitaker streets, last night was
.r,. attended, and was an enthusiastic
..bcring. All of the labor organizations
represented. The meeting was called
or5er by President w. S. Harris of
,5e Trades and Labor Assembly, who
.ro for several minutes on organized
t,r and the union labels connection
.i+, the workingrian. He said that Mr..
,,,r..ri II. Caldwell of Washington, gen.
.~.I organizer of the American Fedora
, of Labor. would address the meet
Wv Mr.. Caldwell will remain in Savan-
nab for several days and will organize a
lH-.,..1 of the federation tomorrow night.
w. will so from here to Augusta.
,1r william j. Winn, local organizer of
.-D Liberation, advised organization for
',s 5etterment of conditions. He said
MAT organization is not for the purpose
:, 6s1tfng the employer, but that it is
.o,uv one Of his safeguards. 1t is not
monaco to him and neither is 1t an. in
"itstion for him to fight.
Nv caldwell was introduced by Presi-
AMI Harris, and among other things,
said
..saI king and coal baron, Pennsylvania.
e., nave the opportunity of addressing my
+,lion. wage workers of the South, so that
~ may make common battle against the
'op1iou oppressor I have been asked,
WI, 10 men organizer 1t is for self
urotrotion. and to wipe out competition.
r,n,netition is very wasteful and cooper
alton is far better. The capitalist organ
Ives SO he can stop wasteful advertising
law off expensive statesmen and stop cut
,ino Drices. At present about the only
,otiv,' competition we find is when, you
sre hunting a job. So the workingmen
1ool; upon the willy capitalist and become
wise and start in to do little organizing
on their own account.
,.you have heard that trade union
;s trust. / will explain the differ
s1ee between them. A trust is
combination of the few to rob
Tho many and a trade union is a combi-
ra.fon Of the many to protect themselves
rom being robbed by the few There is
mn use in crying out to have the trusts
demolished. That is something that will
never be done, as competition always
leads to consolidation In five or six years,
when The trust will have reached its fulG
development by having every industry in
the country under one head, you will hear
the organized workers say in chorus, is
if not better for the whole people to own
the trust and run it in the interest of all,
Than 10 have the trust run the whole peo-
ME for the sole benfit of the few billion
sros?' When they come to that conclu-
sion they will own the trusts and will
raise the wages of every man till he can
nuv an equal amount of another mans
product Then we will have no panics
caused by overproduction, the result of
underconsupption, as now reoccIrs at ever
decreasing intervals.
"The United States statistics show that
the worker receives on an average be-
tween 10 and 20 per cent for producing an
article of what he has to pay at retail
for the same. You can very easily see
that even if he spends all of his wages
he can only buy back 10 to 20 per cent. of
what is produced. The rich people are
getting scarcer and richer every year.
They are unable 10 eat the overproduc-
tion. We see the unemployed working
man eniisting in the army. He goes to
the Philippines and catching the poor
heather by the throat holds him till his
master. the rich man, has sold the goods
this soldier has produced. The mission of
the trade is to bring wages nearer the
prices one has to pay for a. the finished
article and self preservation causes us to
unite With our fellow workers