Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-14

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aud towns ne this country during the
II,s. ,-a,, T., f,o. ,a,y annnlovers have
MA f.r ,,or.a a,nariarcas In some
casas ,hev have bean shot and their
nropartv dastroyaa
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rarad go, -, r.,,fa,a INT tho
,,,,ssas - 49, ,,s.,,,, ~ t,a citias have
.ts, s,fya,.aa Ta,,a for instance the
case of The min, wagon drivers union
tn tha oi,y az chicavo 1'his union
s,ruc, agains, makjnp two dt,lfyeri IS
of milk n day and altho the board %
Wealth authorities and same of the
nawsnarers nIaadad With the union
an account If tho praat mortality tina,
was occa stoned among the babies Of
Chicago by reason Of their being able
70 ret milk onI, once aay and be-
cnuse of its being stale and unwhole-
| some when thay ,id pot II this union
refused to modify its rules of deliye.-y,
| We have recently seen a great street
railway strike in Chicago, which COM
| PEELED three hundred thousand people
to walk to and from their work for
!. two weeks, during which the mobs
Of the union prevented the car lines
| from being operated. This strike was
undertaken to compel the company to
grant the union absolute power over
It's employees. The company was asked
to give up its right to discharge men
without the consent of the union and us
| right to employ men who did not De
long to the union. This demand OF the
union Is what IS known as the demand
FOR the closed shop.
might go on and give many similar
instances of what unionism means.
but 1t would be merely tiresome du-
| plication OF the same old story of the
attempted exercise of authority by I'M
ions that is unauthorized by the laws
of the United States. The farmers may
sympathize with those who labor in the
cities, but they certainly can not SYM
pathlze with the methods of organized
labor, and 1t is against these methods
THAT the employers Of this country ar:
now organizing.
| Employers are as class only ton
| glad to be able to employ men at a liv-
| ing wage and SO long as they can make
| a fair profit they will Increase the
number of their employees. But they
| must object to their men combining
for. the purpose OF compelling them
to hand over all their profits. II the
| farmers were also compelled to sub
NIT to the closed shop principle they
| would also object to the consequent.
penalty of having to part with all their
| earnings. The farmers as a class ar
| compelled to abide by the laws OF sup
| ply and demand and they have gone
on the principle that the more they
| raise the richer they would become.
Why then should they give favor to a
| movement among the laboring people
| of the cities and towns which has for
| its objects the performance Of as little
| labor as possible ana the holding up OF
all the rest of the community for wages
| to which they are not entitled A num-
Der Of great concerns in this country
| have gone into bankruptcy in the last
year because their unionized employees
refused to give an honest days work
i for their pay.
MANY unions have either expressed
| or have MISUNDERSTANDING that their
| members shall do only so much work,
| and IL any OF them exceed this limit
| they are fined or expelled from the un-
| ion. which means in most cases the loss
1 of their positions. AS a general pro-
position organized labor holds that the
LESS men do the more there is for other
men to do. As proposition upon
which to base human conduct this is
tust az ,dotic as would be the PROPOSE
,ion that the less any one farmer pro
| ducad the more fhere would he for
o,her farmers to produce. There is no
! necessity for the people of this gener-
alton 10 worry about other people not
having enough tn do. There is In fact
M umit IN the amount Of work that
| can ha done in this world. the only
tronhIe heinr that there are not enough
men 10 do II. II ought at least be
clearly evident that the less that is
nrodnced the less there Is to divide.
rharefore this idea that the way ia
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