The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-10

he could not get job, even as under car
| penter. Then he moved again and Cd
tanned work AS teamster. Then the team
sters' union Threatened strike. Then h
got a job on the street. but the DELEGATE
| thrcatencd the Aldermen, and again h,
! was without work FIR year his clot he
grew more ragged, his face more gaunt
his family sank luWer and lower. An oil,
/ employer, representing n union shop, from
time to time secretly gave his something
I one night, cra2cd with want. he assemble,
his Children. killed them eli in turn Gu
his wife's throat. and killed himself Oh
| the bitterness with which labor pIrsues
not wicked capital, Int poor and helpIe-
labor And. strangely enough, cvervbod,
| Is terrorized. Some pUlpits have nNeC
their eye, 30 intent Y on the wrongs of IA,
| twenty union men, tnat they have no kline
word for the eighty non-union families
| The polii l. ians v i'll not speak; most paper
/ will not ~ eak. Tomorrow this statement
| will be rickei in pieces with some editor,
! who want to sql are themselves with tn,
! union, Instead Of keeping square with TIA,
! laws Of Almighty God and their country
| Thou shalt not kill. There Il anot her
word that stands: All We are brethren
! There l. another word that stands: Love
your enemies
Harmon, iriful the condition of the non.
! union men in the anthracite region
mention q is phase of that trouble, be-
! cau-e tn commission are reporting on the
| relations 10 tween TN mine workers as
| ISOLATION and the Operators. the non-union
! men. who worked during the past summer
! having no standing in the present court
| Of commission In that REGION ar. $4,000
! men who have been working or irving
| To work. Now the rich operators have
! deserted th m; they cannot az ord TO hire
! troops, since l"v must pay dividends The
| 100000 union men have deserted tn, m for
hay in h.s Ia L.. h..
convention: II the operator, do not with
! draw IN" nOn-union men. We will kill them
| And having received not single word of
! rubuhe the union men went home TO make
| their word fact The first night they
! dvudmitcd a dozen houses in az many
Villages In score Of colleries, non-linion
men were brutally assaulted. The bis
b y of union men in the schools were or
E'iniled 70 pound the children OF non-union
men. The wives Of the strong class hurled
epithets az the wives of the weaker class
and now that three weeks have passed bv
having been shamefullv deserted by the
operators. they are left 10 the brutal niercies
Of the union men lct these non-union
men are chiefly American. they have fam
lies, they have homes hev had : met hing
At stake, they wanted 20 work, tu,.y NAV
have been foolish and mistaken, but they
had right 10 live
Twice duri' the past two MOTHS |
have gone quietly into the coal region.
Two weeks ago | couyersed with some nom
union irou there One was an old soldier
had been IN the mines for forty years His
son for nearly ~ long. He had earned
$50 month for y'ar-. All summer they
had carried rev ,vers. and been in daily
peril Of clubs. I stones. and poison. and
at last, worn out with the nor'ouS strain.
they had felt compelled 60 a e; irde"d.
most of tn" non-uuion men have already
gone. In one little Catholic church the
hatred burned even more intensely Hsv-
ing hated the rou-uHion brother in the life
that now is IL eNte d I'll to the life that Is 10
come, These Catholics believed in a literal
he'll On Sunday morning when the old
priest began TO celebrate mass. the miners
interrupted the service They insisted
that they would leave the church unless
he put out the two non-union men. Be-
cause of a mistaken judgment they would
deprive these non-union mon Of bread
eternal as well as bread temporal, ard
send them 10 he'll hereafter And 70 the
honor of the old priest be il said. that before
the union men stalked out, a. they did.
they heard the Ten Commandments read.
with some notes and annotations
Twenty years ago a poor foreigner
landed In New York and began his work.
He SET one ambition before himself-to
educate every one OF his children. He
determined 70 lose his life to save his
children; he torsook the saloon. the hall
where his fellow workmen congre gated:
he rose up early and sat up late; 70 keep
his children studvng. he opt them IN the
common sch, o. and the high school; not
content with one sunday school and church
he sent them 10 two Sunday schools and
To every church service. His sons climbed
70 positions Of Influence and wealth. every
one OF his daughters became teachers In
the city's schools. One dav this foreigner
and his wife disappeared from their little
house in the tenement region. and went
10 live on an avenue with a son who had
been admitted 10 the bar.
This man used his strongest child as q
means upon which to climb upwards. The
family has passed within twenty years
from the bottom round, industrally, To
the top round lie solved the h or problem
by the schoolhouso and the c lurch. and
he solved it In twenty years. Suppose he
had listened To the labor leader, who told
his men at the beginning of the strike to
buy gun, suppose he had spent all his
Sunday afternoons "a most Of our laboring
and the beer garden, in idle discussion OF
their wrongs II would have taken half a
dozen generations to have materially
the condition OF that family. The
republic offers royal road to success
to every working man And though he. be
along the highway ned with FREE, schools.
free churches, free lecture halls, sOCia
settlements The need Of the hour is to
keep the children in school. instead OF
taxing tnelN Out AZ thirteen 70 put them IN
the shop or store. The Roman Emperor
Marcus Aurelus lived on bread and milk.
for what could be Obtained now for 10 cents
n day. But the laboring man wants treble
that for his beer and tobacco, and 40
makes his children wag" earncrs at twelve,
and doomS them TO- drudgcly the long life
The WY to double the wage.
therefore, il to quadruple the Intelligence"
"A certain uiion limits the outpu, Of it,
men very severely. Some time 90 IN my
own house, two Of these men fiji shed the |
limit of their work al half-past II. Tn,
head man returned at hall-past / and
smoked clay pipe until hi l. past 3 Thei
the second man returned aid smoked lii
pipe until 5, Neither man did stroke Of
work from hali-paSt II until 5, because the
u.ion forbade him. Both men were hu-
inflated; one was bitter. He felt that lac
was a bcggar, and rcbcllcd against tRkiI G
q wag" that h. felt he had TO, earned.
Il believe that man loved his work.
wanted 10 come early, wanted tO stay late,
and TO skimp or slight it hurt him like a
blow. AID III all these labor uIlIoI.s there
II this smoulderu rebellion. Alas for
these +, litiCal confidence men and labor
a gltators, who ar, teachh & their workmel
to give the least possible work tn get
the most possible wage A woI kmai's
reward Is not IN his wage, il is H. the con-
scioushess Of having done good work
Was Niton's reward for Paradise Lost'
IL the SAG he received? Did the soldiers il
the late war. who worked for SIS north,
strike for higher "" ges Just before Gettys-
burg? Was DR. NJ rton, workh g a life
time TO discover chloroform, unhappy