The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-04-19

they have won in the past. Nor will
they transgress beyond the limits of
legal and strictly industrial warfare.
Not one school of political economy in
any era Of our industrial and CONNER
cial life has advanced the Wage-earn-
ers one jot in their material interests.
It has been the persistent plodding and
sacrifices of the organized labor move
ment which has secured for the work.
ers genral discussion Of their rights
and their wrongs, and has given the
keynote and proven the open sesame
to the student in all the walks of life.
In this era of industrial development
and concentration, the Individual
worker acting for himself is accorded
neither rights nor consideration. His
share in the result Of the product Of his
toll is the desireatu m which depends
upon the generosity Of the average en-
ployer, basis so preposterous that no
reasonable, thinking man can defend it.
Some well meaning persons, and
| others not quite so friendly disposed,
have urged upon the workers compul-
sorry arbitration as a means to end in
dustrial strife. The most pronounced
advocate Of that system in America is
one who, though we'll intentioned, has
in turn advocated as many different
remedies for our social life as the hu-
man mind has evolved, and has writ
| ten successfully to the utter confusion
| of his previously proclaimed theories
Another advocates compulsory arbi-
tration for New Zealand, and while
loud in it's praises, hesitates in his ad-
! vocacy of it's acceptance in the United
States; while the author of the law in
New Zealand recently declared that it
must be either curbed, modified or re-
pealed.
1t may not be known to the advocates
of compulsory. arbitration that in the
fifteenth century there was species Of
compulsory arbitration in vogue in
Great Britain, where the courts deter
mined upon the wages and conditions
of employment.
To the student of history it is an open
book that the workers of Great Britain
in that time were practically enslaved;
that industry was hampered, and only
through violent revolution was
change brought about by which the
laborers were permitted to quit their.
employment at will, and from that
period began by slow and painful
processes the industrial progress of
Great Britain.
Compulsory arbitration is the very
antithesis of freedom and order and
progress. On the one hand it means
confiscation of property; on the other
it involves slavery, and the enforce
ment of either or both would be the
beginning of the end, the death knell
of the Industrial and commercial supe-
riority of America
No one pretends that our present in
dustrial life is the ideal one, but that
it is the best that has yet been evolved
in the history of the world, no sane
man will deny. The organized labor
movement, the industrial and CONNER
| cial advancement to which we have
attained even by our crude methods,
| ought to be sufficient answer to
those who, by a patent process, imagine
they can cur\ all the ills of mankind
in the twinkling of an eye, or by the
| enactment of law
! The point of success and superiority
which we have reached, together with
the bungling which the politicians, mis-
named statesmen, have made of any
| attempt to deal with Industrial affairs.
ought to be a sufficient warrant to all
earnest, right-thinkiT: Americans to
insist that political jugglery ought to
be kept free at least from the industrial
affairs of our people. ~
| Despite the progress made and the
vantage position we occupy. the hearts
of all sincere men yearn for the better
day, when the. Industrial strife and
bitter feelings engenedered by our
economic development may be assu-
aged. In hoping and striving for that
time. it is a libel upon the efforts Of
all to disparage and discredit the sue
cess already achieved. Each effort
made and thought given toward solv-
ing the problems which confront us day
by day are all tending toward the goal
for which the whole past of the human
race has been but one continuous pre-
paratory struggle. ENCOURAGE the or
SANITATION Of the workers; help to make
the path Of progress easier, and lift up
the hands of those who: are endeavoring
to bring about economic and social
progress upon the iines-of least resist
ance, conforming to the very best ex-
pressed thoughts and efforts for &prac--
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