Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-18

eligibility to his service? Are you not
trying to deprive both employers and
employees of their constitutional rights
by setting up test of your own that
is not found in the laws of the state?
Are YOU not drawing the color line
against men who happen not to wear
the blue label. just as it is drawn IL
the south against men whose skin is
black?"
That is the capitalistic cry, but there
is nothing in it. A negro is not to
blame for his color and can not change
it at will The case of the non union
man is different His refusal to join
the union is voluntary. 1t is declar
alton of war against his own class.
| There is Il class conflict in this country
and in every other country under the
captalistic system and class conscious
workingmen know it, They know the
mont union man is the weapon used by
capital in its war on our class and no
true representative of the working class
can be happy and contented while
working alongside of a man who is
a traitor to his class. When the non
union men come in the manly working
men must go out
| Merchants Are AWed.
Every retail merchant in the town
| has an opinion on the strike but not
for publication. Judging from their
| remarks in private, the business and
| professional men generally are down
on the boycott and anxious to see it
| terminated, but who will bell the cat?
| The jobbers and manufacturers say
| the Dubuque Retailers Association
| ought to do 1T. You called on the
company to operate its cars. said "a
prominent manufacturer addressing an
equally prominent retailer, land now
you fear to patronize the cars. The
company is doing its duty. 1t is up to
the retailers to do theirs. They can
break the boycott by taking united
action. If they fail to do it the COM
pany should haul off the cars and keep
them off until the retailers get ready
to assert their independence and man
hood"
Have you been asserting yours"
demanded the retailer. II haven't seen
you riding on the cars"
Il ride as much as l ever did re-
sponded the manufacturer Il have
no occasion to use the cars in going
use them"
That's easily said" rejoined the re-
taller. but why don't you go out now
and spend ten cents in riding up and
down the line just TO show where you
stand?'
Il don't know about this thing" said
another jobber and manufacturer
The people will patronize the cars In
time if things run along as they are
running now. but If the business men
make a demonstration Will not union
labor answer with a, sympathetic
strike?"
Would Close the Factories.
The sooner the better" responded
n third manufactures, I'VE are ready to
close down tomorrow and / know others
in the same fix. The walking delegate
has knocked the bottom out of business
and a good many of us are ready to
suspend for repairs. The socialists are
running this strike and If the work
ing men of the city should find them |
selves idle for few weeks they might
be ready at the end of that time to
assert their independence of these
busybodies and their fanciful notions
which the common sense of the work |
ingmen must reject. The strike lead |
ers themselves know that the work. |
ingmen at heart are against them and
that nothing but tyranny and threats |
of the socialists and of the men the
company doesn't want prevent the ma
jority of the men from returning TO the
service of the company. They con-
fess this when they refuse secret ball
lot. If the strike leaders are honest |
in their protested belief that the men
are out voluntarily why did they refuse
a secret ballot? We have the secret
ballot in our general elections because
it is considered the best method of
an honest expression of sem
timent. If the secret ballot is good
enough for republican government
why isn't it good enough for the trades
unions? The Trades Congress talks
about introducing the referendum to
make our government representative
of the will of the people. Why not
introduce it among the strikers so as to
make their vote on the company's pro-
position representative of their real
sentiment?"
Merchants Are towards.
Il ann against allowing a socialistic
i'oDDle 10 run tHlS tOWI IL we uOn'l lay
up a cent this summer said another
business man, not a retailer, but who
nevertheless declined to permit the use
of his name, land l think the newspa-
pers should take a stand on the side Of
law and order
We'll. hasn't that been done?'
Il don't see that you've said much
about it,
I'VE have condemned violence on
every occasion, have we not? Do you'll
hold us responsible because the bust
ness men are not riding on the cars?
You business men have the whole mat
ter in your own hands. Do you intend
to wait until some newspaper publish
er applies for an injunction to compel
YOU to ride on the cars? Have you
sent a communication to the newspa-
per. calling attention to any method of
this controversy that has not
been discussed"
We'll. l am against anarchy. any
how" responded the critic of the news
papers. land that is what we have in
Dubuque today. Yet ! agree that the
own hands and that they know their
duty SO we'll that no newspaper need
tell them what it is. We have this dis
tresSful situation because the business
men are towards and because they are
divided. Each fears his trade will go
to his competitor If he rides on the
cars. United action by the business
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