Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-12-20
IN THE WORLD
Of LABOR
The Week Among The Work
ers, And Items OF Interest
For Working Men.

UuIy W0s pouO vAoOO uuAO"AOVo Seu u~S
to enforce their demands 80 long ~
they refuse as q class to enter poll.
tics
The American Federation Of Labor
at its last convention resolved that 1t
was not desirable to engage In pollti-
cal action and expressed the belief
that the methods they now employ
were quite sufficient to secure all the
improvements We desire or need.
At tue recent session Of the Yer
mont Legislature two bills were intro
duced which, had they passtd d, would
have made 1t q crime to strike, or use |
the Boycott. i
Nothing more than this Is needed
to show the utter helplessness OF 10.
Dor organisations unless prepared to
take political action a. we'll a. econ
omio.
Those who framed the Boycott law
recently introduced have made mis-.
take and overshot the mark, 80 the |
bill was killed, but who knows how
soon another may be preparea equally |
effective against labor organizations !
and .ess tyrannioal towards the gen. |
eral public.
Surely the laws Of Vermont are
severe enough already against combi-
nations Of labor.
A Rutland company has commenced
case against q union there for strtk'
ing ard thereby damaging their bust.
ness, laying their damages somewhere
about SlO, 600 or 312, 900. They have
also, understand, attached the prop.
erty Of the employees.
When court will entertain such an
action 1t is evident no fursher legisla.
tion Is necessary against labor and
should the company succeed 10 thus
crushing their employees union BY tho
Law courts the trade unionists Of Yer
mont will have TO buckle on their
armor for the political field or sit
down tamely and submit to enslave-
ment.
Some time ago remarked IN these
columns that had the Boycott bill
passed 1t would have been crime to
stop one dealer and patIonize another,
and conspiracy case would have been
made out against the men who told
one another Of any dealer that adul-
terated his goods
Touching this point New York
paper recently employed experts to
analyze the various articles in the
menu of an ordinary days food. The
following table gives the result OF the
researches, the poisons being placed
in parenthesis.
BREAKFAST.
Smoked beef (borax) stewed In
cream (boracic acid).
Cod fish cakes (borax).
| Milk (formaldehyde).
Maple syrup Consisting Of glucose
preserved with sulphuric acid).
Sausages (borax).
LUNCH.
| Clam broth (borax).
Cold tongue (fuoride and borax)
Jam (Saiicylic acid).
/ Cider (salicylic acid).
| DINNER
Cocktail with cherries preserved
with sulphuric acid.)
Hamburger steak (sulphuriteS
Tomato catsup (tenzoic acid and
aniline dyes)
Claret (salicyl'c acid).
In connection with this incident {
writer on the London ''Clarion'
drops like Sllas Wegg into into poe
try
, Tell me not In mournful numbers,
Unrelieved by Cheerful gleam,
. That the food inspector slumbers,
And things are not what they seem
. In the fierce commercial battle,
Q In the keen purs uit for "dlv,"
+ One must mulder folk like cattle,
t One M lst poison men to live.
!, Let US, then, be up and doin'
= Anybody while it pays:
;. Rectitude-the word spells ruin
y = Honestys on ancient crazs.
!. Every successful effort by tt
\. working classes to improve their c0l
ditions has resulted In permanel
good to the whole Of society.
Every opportunity offered for II
creased education, for iqcreased Int
. lengence to the mass Of the people II
r. creasas the sum total Of human ha
piness and adds to the material con
e fort the mental and physical 10
d pfovement of oil .classes. This ID
n we'll recognized and 50 generally o
" mitted that all men today, Of wha
v ever social position, unite to do ho1
.. or to the memery OF past reformer
Tho great founder Of Christianity
Vus Of the most notable example