The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-10

to be able to employ men at living
wage and so long as they can make fair
profit they will increase the number of
| their employees. If there is j considerable
chance, however, of the men combining
in an effort to compel the employer u
hand over all his profits. then men are
not going TO be anxious TO embark in
| business. and industry must lansuish.
The farmers have never formed a union
| TO limit the amount of soil to be titled
and there are so many of them that 1t
is impossible for them to combine for
one purpose of Withholding products from
the market until .hey could forcs unrea-
sonable prices from the consumer. As
a class they are compelled to abide by
! the law of supply and demand and they
have gone on the principle that the more
| they raised the richer they would be-
! come. Why should they favor a move
ment among the laboring people of the
| cities and towns which has for it's OBJ
| jects the performances of as little labor
as possible and the holding up of all the
rest of the community for wages to
which they are not entitled. \ number
gone into bankruptcy in the last year
| because their unionized employees refused
| to give an honest days work for their
pay. In the case of one shipbuilding con-
Germ they are said TO have gone To sleep
| with their hammers in their hands and
when eXpostuiated with they declared
that their union protected them from
discharge Many unions have either ex-
pressed or tact understandings that their
members shall do much work. and
if any OF them exceed this limit they
are fined or expelled from theu MON,
which means in most cases the loss of
! their positions. As a general proposition
/ organized labor holds that the less that
men do the more there IS Tor the other
men 10 do.
As proposition upon which 10 base
human conduct this IS Just as idiotic as
would be the proposition that. the less
| any farmer produced the more there
would be for other farmers to produce
There is no necessity for the people of
| this generation to worry about other
people not having enough to do There is
in fact no limit to the amount of work
that can be done in this world the only
trouble being that there are not enough
men to do it. 1t ought at least he
clearly evident that the less that is pro-
duced the less there is TO divide. There
| fore. this idea that the way TO make
everybody rich is to make the world
poorer Il about as foolish a doctrine
MS every entertained py supposedly ra-
/ tioual beings Yet organized labor in
its blind faulty refuses to see the truth,
and as one OF it's main objects is 70
make the world poorer far from being
! a movemer. to benefit labor it has ne
| come an organization Tor the promotion
of idleness, inefficiency and thriftleness.
| 1t has become more. It has become
organization that in its efforts TO compel
/ the country TO furnish its members with
| a good living irrespective OF the work
! they do defes the law and threatens the
very stability of our government T.
/ declares In one breath that every man
! has a right TO sell his labor 70 the best
! advantage. and that consequently heh a
"a right TO combine with others IN order
/ { oObtain better terms for his labor. while
! in the next breath it denies the frst
part OF this proposition. and says that
men do not have the right IS individuals
J
/ their labor. And it seeks 10 prevent tn
/ individual from making terms that ap-
pear the most advantageous To hims>it
Z by the commission OF outrages which are
So frequent IS u become an old story.
Neither organized labor nor any other
/ organization IS entitled in this country
/ TO a license TO violate law. ard especially
IS such Violation 20 be condemned when
/ the reason for It is that OF cxtortinr
! something for nothing.
Wages must o. regulated b. the law
+ 81 supply ard demand the same as the
/ prices upon farm products OF any other
commodities The Law OF supply and de-
mand assures fair return for services
/ rendered and affords a reasonably stable
basis for the conducting OF Industrial
/ enterprises.
II wages are fixed IN accordance with
/ the ideas Il men as 70 what they should
/ receive. there would Re no limit 20 the
demand upon employers. and couseq uept-
+ ly 10 man in business would be able
I % calculate What he can Do from year
/ 20 year Eighty-dve yer cent of the peo-
1 pls who sel their labor depend upon
the law OF supply ard demand 20 rexu-
| late the price they obtain There e n
| reason therefore WHY the remaining NJ
! teen per cert consisting largely e IN
/ skilled worknle- should b permitted 20
| raraIyze business IN their EFFORTS 70 make
! themselves superior 20 this IaN q sugpiy
8nd deu1szd- Il J. perhaps rot generally
understood thai the wages ~ .f1ea h.
+ organized labor a. TIRE result q i1s on
/ siausht upon the law and order are pad
I ID, ~ capital but - unG-Gzuized labor.
/ But such = The case - far a. capital Be-
/ concerned the only @Geet n the uus17-
{ = &c disturb business conditions ana o.
I restrict INDUSTRY Capital refuses - a.
I low labor T. make irroaGs uqor g. T.
the wsEe advances cauuot - chzrse5
+ 'sa - tke consumer iu The form ~ h-sh-
+ cr r-irves foT th~ co-1u odifies JTDIpcei.
I tl,e1 ~. men NTH the czritsi wifl g a1t
Z @ Business II tne cCusurner car - nlase
! 20 pas. hozeF@r, ~ se.t ea--iU-e a. tra-
pioy rnea 50 ionz 81 he eatsizs q fair rr,-
( ~ ard 70 longer Nos the raisrs p
| prices co-zpslis some people u x witE-
CIT the cozEodities psg,zCes Eho wers
| formerly able to purchase TIE sazc- sa4