Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-20
A FREEDOM or LABOR SOCIETY

We have alluded several times In
these columns 10 movement among
working people in England, TO promote
the freedom OF labor. They are organ
ICED for the purpose OF resisting the
tyranny Of unions that endeavor to pre-
vent men and women from earning a
livelihood. who do not choose to join
those societies. a paper is published
weekly In London at 20 Endymlon Rd..
Brlxton. s. w. and called "The Free
Laborer Press aud Industrial Review"
There are branches Of the association
which II represents, in different parts
Of Great Britain and which has been
spreading during the last ten years II
was organized for the ayowed purpose
of aiding in the Liberation of Labor
from injurious restrictions and for Sc
curing to the Industrious the full, fair
and free exercise OF The Right To
Work"
The Free Labor Press, in its latest
Issue. has an editorial on the question
of The rights OF free labor as advocated
in the Deseret News. from which It
quotes freely, and 1t also reproduces
the able letter from Mr., W. j. Silver
which appeared IN the "News' Of August
G. The Press remarks; Probably
there Is no country in the world where
trade-unlonism IL carried 10 such In
comprehensive and absurd lengths as
It is In America" After commenting
on the situation here as explained in
the "News,' the Press has this 10 say
1T appears. then, that the root Of the
trouble la In the arbitrary eudeavor TO
prevent non-union workers from gam
ing a living by their labor-ln other
words, TO compel every workman TO
Join union, pay the dues therein de-
manded, and place themselves under rs
domination. TO effect this the unions
assume to dictate 10 contractors whom
they shall or shall not employ They
use the force embodied on any particu-
lar piece of work. and they choose the
most critical times TO do this when the
act IS likely 10 cause the greatest dam
age 10 the contractor who rs not VIII
ing 10 submit TO their tyranny 1t may
be some encouragement 10 our oversee
friends to know that periodic attempts
10 perpetrate the same sort Of tyranny
are made on this side OF the Atlantic,
which are not only Invariably unsuc-
cessful, but obtain and deserve public
condemnation wherever the nefarious
and ill-adyised efforts are put forth
They are now simply regarded as oh
noXiOus vestiges Of past ana well.
nght obsolete system. Ten or twelve
years ago trades .unionism IN Great
Britain was as abid In It's tyrannic ns-
poet as We find u 10 be today IN the
United states. The same determined
stand was made against that tyranny
as is now suggested by our Transailan-
Tic comrades, and the result is seen in
n gradual but certain shaping and re-
modelling hy the unions Of courses and
tactics more IN harmony with the prin.
ciplcs Of justice and equity ana more
IN keeping with the necessities OF sound
Industrial economics
when the movement was inaugurated
IN England 20 free labor from the des-
potism Of the unions, the charge was
made that It's object was the destruc-
ton u trades-unionlsm, and the conse-
quent injury 10 working people Tor the
benefit Of capital But ten years Of It's
operations have demonstrated the falsi-
~ Of the accusation. and proved that It
has tended 90 the publication and not
the destruction Of the unions on this
point the National Free Labor associ-
alton have this to say In their report
preceding the meeting Of their congress.
which Is TO take place in England Oc-
tober 20, 1909,
Following out It's aim and object In
this direction. the association and IT'S
work have proved that the result or
such publication has been 90 make
trade-unionism stronger and more ac-
oeptable as an Industrial agency and
social force, where those who claim 10
guide Its activities have recognized the
wisdom Of adjusting II to its true and
proper place IN trade. commerce and in
dustry. And II there are still those
who, In opposition 70 principles of ius-
tice and equity, cling tenaciously to the
old folles, the old anomalies. the old
harmful and destructive policy and
false Issues, there is abundant evidence