The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-09
LABOR ISSUES.

One of our idolatrous contemporaries
lately chucked triumphal paragraph
at the Advertiser because Parks, the
convicted walking delegate, had been
sustained by a few labor unions in New
York against Buchanan, bright
American labor advocate, and his con-
servative followers, who discard pro-
letarian models.
Recent news from the Eastern States
explains the short-lived success. The
foreign immigration, mainly concern
trating at New York, and then dis
tributed to industrial centers, is esti-
mated for the current year at million
bodies, with a small percentage OF
souls. The riff-raff of Europe, en-
bracing the class of criminal anarch-
lists that trained the maniac who re-
Gently attempted President Roosevelts
life, as soon as they arrive are draft
ed into the class of labor unions, in
which the influence of Parks and his
allies in blackmail is predominant, and
there they exercise the privilege of
voting in absolute ignorance and sub
mission. The true victory was on the
side Of Buchanan and his associates
who are American in character and
purpose.
land equally interesting and illustra-
tive. Some months ago, speaker at
Metropolitan Hall in San Francisco,
addressing himself to labor unions, ut
tered this atrocious propositions: Re
member that no man in the United
States has a right to invest a dollar in
business except by your consent and
on your conditions" The most recent
attempt to practicable this sentiment
was in the case of the California North
western Railway, an important cor
poration that has cultivated the most
equitable and pleasant relations with
it's employees. When, however, in a
matter of promotion, 1t was instructed
by labor union to discriminate In ia
vor of union man, 1t refused to accede
and adhered to its settled policy of en-
ploying and promoting wage-earners, |
on their individual merits and without
reference to their membership or nom
membership in labor societies. The re-
suit was a strike, which was followed
by the cutting of the telegraph wires,
over which train orders and informa-
ton are transmitted. Under the Cali
fornia law, train wrecking is punish
able, at the option of jury, by death
or imprisonment for life, and, in the
case in question, nearly every element
of this terrible crime was necessarily |
included.
Outrages by a small criminal minor
ity of unionized laborers and mechanics
have produced in New York a deter
mined movement, which has a fair
prospect of success, for legislation to
prevent strikes and to compel the sub
mission Of labor controversies to Of
fetal arbitration. The functions of
walking delegates will cease, when both
lockouts and strikes are prohibited,
and when statutory law supersedes the
writ of injunction, through which only
temporary and incomplete relief has
thus far been secured.
Labor is properly Strengthening its
position all over the world, but many
of the existing organizations have to
be modified. purged of mercenary, cor
rupt, and criminal elements, Invested
of arbitrary features and brought into
harmony with American institutions,
before muscle and skill combined and
associated will constitute an effective
part of our system. Even in Austria
lia the Labor Party, which has been
managed with comparative moderation
and purity, has become so autocratic
in its methods and has so enormously
Increased salaries and the expenses of
government that radical changes in it's
internal economy are not only proposed
but demanded.
In the United States all the legitimate
demands of labor and of capital will be
freely conceded, but neither can sue
cessfully control the government, which
represents mass of human beings,
compared to which all existing COM
binations are a bagetelle, and both, as
the events Of the past two years have
shown, will be compelled to submit to
order, guaranteed by law, and, If and
when necessary, enforced by executive
power,