The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-02
TINE PRESIDENT APrLAUDED.
HE Decision IN the Miner Case 1SSsTGeS
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- 6lgnineant change.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: In
finally disposing Of the Miller case. and re-
fusing to discharge that employee from the
Government service upon the demand OF
tho labor unions. President Roosevelt has
done his duty and only his plain duty. II
he had. at the behest and on the demand OF
tho labor unions. discharged Miller, 1t would
have been most fragrant and outrageous
abuse Of power and an unlawful discrimina-
ton against citizen.
Let us hope that this action by the Presl-
dent marks the beginning Of fair treatment
to. and proper recognition Of. the rights OF
that vast majority of the people OF the
United States who do not hold membership
In labor organizations and who do not swear
to support labor unionism in preference to
the laws Of the country.
IL not the primary cause Of our present
and fast increasing business depression the
unfair and tyrannical attitude OF labor
unions and labor leaders?
Until we have municipal, State and ma
tional legislators and executives who will.
by word and act, vigorously and fearlessly
uphold the right Of every man to work
when where. for whom and upon whatever
conditions are satisfactory to himself and
employer. not in conflict with law and
order. our business world will be in constant
turmoil and our social state uncertain.
Any man desiring to work and who il a
law-abiding citizen should be fully pro-
tected at his work and In his home by all the
power Of the authorities, municipal, State
and national. His rights are a. sacred as il
he we're an organization Of hundred thou
sand men.
That man must he member Of labor
union to secure for himself and his family
full protection while earning his and their
daily bread. under conditions satisfactory
to himself, and the peaceful enjoyment OF
an American home. ia as obnoxious to our
principles and form Of government as II he
could only exercise his privilege Of citi-
zenship by becoming = member Of some
special religious order or joining the ranks
Of q prescribed political party.
The labor unions have invaded the rights
of citizens in their opposition to member
ship in the oountry's civil-military defend
ers-the militia: they have used the cruel
boycott to intimidate those who differ with
them. and they have treated contracts as
honest and binding agreements only when
agreeable and favorable to themselves, and
as things to be broken when their fancy
suggested or the contract was not to their
advantage.
What contractor or employer feels secure
in undertaking great business ventures and
assuming business obligations and RESPONSE
bilities when he knows that any contract
he may make with his employees who are
members Of labor organizations may be
abrogated at any moment upon the order
Of a walking delegate or labor leader?
If the demands are now for work day
Of eight hours at certain stipulated rates.
at what hour or day will their demands not
be for work day Of four hours and the rate
Of wage twice what is agreed upon now!
With their non-union competitors brow
beaten and unprotected in their rights, and
their contracts like bubbles, to be broken at
their will, is not the despotism Of labor
unionism the cause Of our shaking, quaking
business depression?
Is not the forcible restriction, by the labor
unions, Of competent and capable mechan-
les and workmen to do only certain amount
Of work and earn only certain amount Of
pay each day Ito bring them to level with
their less skilful and less active fellow work.
men) conspiracy in restraint Of trade?
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Oct. 1. A. b. B.