The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-18

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Il was not wrong for them 10
merge il is not wrong for you TO
ORGANIZED Isn't sauce for the
goose good for the eander? That
is the question. These business
men have never lost any sleep st
all over trying TO keep alive the
old expression competition is the
life OF trade"
Says one man, when asked about
these unions, Il do not believe II
these things. ] believe in every
fellow for himselfv Well now,
let us look at that jest Il moment.
Dom; you know that pats s single
individual against a combination,
one man against a millIOnl Wei,
can he get bis rights? Why never
in the world, any more than a serf
OF Russia can get his. Need he
ask for his rightss Certainly not,
be might as we'll try to put out
Mount VesuVius with q squirt gun,
or 10 turn over a mountain with 3
broom straw; he could not do it.
And so men have organized; men
have united. Why9 Not especially
because they want to, but because
there is but one thing left to do,
and that is 10 organize, because
capital is organized.
Well ssys another, / do not like
so much friction between capital
and labor. Why, I believe that
there ia not half as much friction
as there was before the labor was
organized. Before the organization
of labor, 1t was q disturbance all
the time between the employer and
the employed-personal trouble,
they had II all over the country,
while today We only have an oc-
casiOnal grievance committee be-
for the contractors, and the papers
alI get hold oft aud magnify 1t. II
We take the individual broilS that
arose before the organization OF
labor and compare those troubles
with the broils that have arisen
between organized labor and organ
lied capital, we shall find that
there is more peace and amify be-
tween labo- snd capital today than
ever before in the world.
Then, there is another thing TO
which / wish TO call your attention
and that is this. Suppose that it
had been originally wrong to COM
bine capital (Which do not granD
aud suppose that il had been orig
inally wrong to organize labor.
Conditions have changed 80 that
the thing that might have been
wrong once is right today. For in
stance, you have TO organize as
much today to compete with or
0anizsd labor as organized capital.
/ giveyou that thought if you have
not already received ii-your or
ganization today is as much neces-
sary 10 compete with other unions,
as to compete with capital. For
instance we take can of fruit
lust q can of fruit. We will trace
that can for just little while. In
the first place, the fruit growers
union demands reasonable prices
for their fruit; in the second place
the miners union demandsa living
price for mining the tin, in the
thied place, the tinsmith's union
demands q fair price for shaping
the tine. in the fourth place, the
solderer's nHion demands reason
able pay for their service, 10 the
fifth place, the canner's union puts
q reasonable profit upon this can
of goods, in the sixth place, the
drayman union demands reason
able price for draying to the depot,
in the seventh place, the trucker 8
union demands reasonable pay for
loading it upon the train, in the
eight place, the railroad union de-
mands reasonable prices for hand
ling the goods, In the ninth place,
the iobber's union demands q reas-
enable profit on the can OF fruit,
in the eleventh place, the clerks
union demands proper hours and
pay for selling it. 1t has passed
through the hands OF eleven unions
before the man with the striped
apron comes to buy it, and If he
does not receive union wages, be
likely does not buy it, for the price
10 too high for him, for the price
has increased for every union that
has touched it. Now suppose that
be worked at a price the result of
local competition. Local compe-
tition may bring about almost any
thing. You put q hundred brick
LAYERS in town where ODly ten is
| needed. place hundred carpenters
in town we're only ten can get
work, or hundred of each of the
other occupations represented by
the eight or nine unions here today
and when the babes begin to cry
for bread, q man will nearly have
TO 90 to work, il for only mere
pittance. Let this man try 10 buy
union made bread, be cannot do
lii because the men who have bar
/ died the material entering into It's
composition haze received union
prices and to this man the price