The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-11

as Influential Perhaps organized Ia
Dor is more powerful than organized
capital The unions control the politi-
cians CT the country. In Albany their
lobby hiss passed thirty laws, giving
union men special privileges over nom
union men, the first of which has been,
ami she lest will be, declared uncon-
stitUti0nal: yet the politicians had to
pass them. The labor unions own the
wage. In the anthracite coal country,
tie school teachers. aggregating over
twD thousand. and going to the school
tlnuS 81 y o'clock, to remain until 5
O'Clock. receive 81 10 day. for only 200
days, less than the miners helper and
less than cre-kalf what the miner him
helf receives; while the priests and the
protestant PASTORS average two-thirds
the miners wage. At present this
country is producing something more
than $1,000 annually per citizen. OF
this the falmer receives less than $500;
the average teacher. physician and
lawyer less than $500: the trades
uniot the carpenters at the rate of S.
day. and the capitalist often an en-
ormous excess. But, owning the wage,
the union also can control the hours.
The aon~union men, who represent so
per cent. of the trades. whose SOILS al
forbidden the right to become arpren-
tees, and whose wrongs are abDte all
ether wrongs whatsoever, justly
plea. Organized capital has deserted
nom union men, Organized labor mai
treats them. And. just as one hundred
soldiers. organized and with a leader.
can scatter a crowd of ten thousand, so
the twenty men out of hundred. rep
resenting organized labor, terrorlze
and browbeat the eighty none-union
men, who are being driven lower, made
more and more ignorant, more poverty
stricken. until at last in their DESPAIR,
they are ready to turn against the cap
italist who will not defend them. and
the union men who maltreat them.
and the country. the protection of
whose laws are refused them.
Now, it stirs wonder that it is neces-
sary to justify the non-union mans
right to refuse to join union. Men
differ on everything else; why may
they not have the right to differ as to
organized labor? There are clergymen
In New York who have much larger
salary than 1 have. And thesesNew
York Clergymen do not belong to my
association. What if l instituted a boy
cot against these preachers? Threat
eying them if they did not stop work
ing at later hours at night than did,
or for writing an article in outside
hours, and If the minister persisted,
what if l should wait at his study
door and pound in his skull with piece
of lead pipe wrapped in brown paper,
as the walking delegate of my minis
terial association, as Mr.. Smith, the
Scotch contractor, was killed at high
noon in Chicago within few minutes
of the City Hall. And what If or
ganized my association TO threaten the
prosecuting attorney and the Mayor
and the politicians with the votes of all
the churches, to secure my acquittal
of murder, as Mr.. Smiths murderer
was acquitted by non-agreement Of
the jury? So.
The union man has a right to decide
how many hours he will work and at
what wage he will work. The nom
uLllUu IIldu has d IiSllI " NCliDSi eANNiJ
consider the reasons for the union,
and also to refuse to join 1t, in his
own happiness and welfare. For every
twenty union men and their families
there are eighty non-union men, with
their families. These laboring men
may hate capitalists, but labor's hatred
for labor burns like flame, eats like
nitric acid. is malignant beyond all de-
scription.
The other day woman representa-
tive of the union visited most of the
families in Plymouth church, asking
us to boycott certain institution, and
saying, IF you will boycott these non
union goods in this line we will boy
colt all non-union goods in your line"
It never seemed to occur to this woman
that she was pulling down four other
poor womens home, and climbing up
upon their bodies. When this woman
first came, I was so innocent as to sup
pose that she had come to~telI me how
labor loved labor, how one union wo-
man loved another nofl-union woman
And she was pitilessly, relentlessly
and tirelessly pursuing the non-union
| women and men. to destroy the market
for their goods. to ruin their factory
and to starve them out.
DR.. Ellis then went on to say that
he was giving "the results of long ex-
| perience, patient study and sifted
| facts and not theory, and gave many
personal experiences. Then he contin-
ued:
Some pulpits have fixed their eyes so
| intently on the wrongs of the twenty
union men that they have no kind word
for the eighty on-union families. The
politicians will not speak; most papers
will not speak. Tomorrow this state
ment will be picked in pieces with some
editors who want to square themselves
with the union, instead of keeping
square with the laws of Almighty God
and their country. Meanwhile, there is
one word that stands: Thou shalt not
kill" There is another word that
stands: "All We are brethren There
is another word that stands: Love
your enemies .$
Far more pitiful the condition Of the
union men in the anthracite. re-
gion. I mention this phase of that
trouble because the commission are re-
| porting on the relations" between, the
mine workers association and the op-
| orators, the non-union men who work.
ed during the last summer having no
standing in the present court of COM
mission. In that region are twenty
4 thny MI hna