The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-14


and so-called humanitarian policy Is radl-
cally wrong in principle. and must inevita-
bly, result in great injustice as between
Jury to the industries Of the country, tend
ing to bring about general poverty instead
OF general material welfare The profes-
siOnal humanitarian asks you out or the
goodness of your heart TO give your en-
ployes wage that Is higher than the mar
ket rate. You are bes2eched 10 become PM
lanthropists, 10 dole out Charity wages. Tor
strangest things about this urgent appear
OF sentimentalism is that IL Is asked in De-
half OF only those who are banded together
into organizations that have the power To
throttle industry and 10 elect men 90 once.
IL Is asked not in behsf OF your bookkeep-
ers, your clerks and your nonuniontzed COM
mon labor, but in behalf OF the labor trust
that, with demand Ia one hand and q club
in the other. seeks 10 supplant you In the
running OF your factories. You are Ssked
TO put your legs under the table 10 use the
language of Mr.. Mitchell with the profes-
sional agitator and itrouble maker, who
tells you whom you shall and shall net en-
formed in certain ways. and who makes a
proposition that the most inefficient man In
your shop shall be paid as much as that
rare article, the skilled mechanic.
Il have learned gentlemen, that you
have reason 10 know that ! speak the
truth. believe that nearly all OF you have
some knowledge of a man named Dold.
This Dold, am told, is cigar maker who
does not know the difference between
But he saw that the business of profess
sional agitator was g paying one. and SO
he started out tc organize the piano fac
tories. He began with the plants IN chi
before he ran counter an ouensiVe aho
defensive alliance OF eleven OF the piano
arms OF that city TIE empl n,sIS i oi ANY any
sort OF thing they wanted to. but that the
moment move was rnade against any one
po sae Of s'e the aed plants It was no bu
| either. as Dold found out, for IL was not
long until strike was inaugurated az one
and remained closed Cor four months az
| the end OF which time the men came 10
their employers and acknowledged tnas
| they were willing that the plants snouio
be run ty the men who owned them. The
men also said that they had learned that
| their leaders were being paid by piano
| firm not in the alliance to use all their
| efforts to keep the lockout in effect as long
| as possible. This story may or may not be
| true, but things just as strange have hap
| New York and has. IL is said. organized the
| factories there. and IL is further said that
| he is now preparing TO tie UP the plants In
Boston. Now gentlemen, allow me 70 ask
you. do you feel any or those philanthropic
| sentiments stirring In your breasts that
make you want TO put your feet under the
| a trust among employees organized for the
| express purpose of holding you up?
| SOCIAL BRIGANDAGE."
Gentlemen. If any of you are called upon
| to arbitrate with this trust, may / ask you
to keep in mind that you are called upon
| to arbitrate on fundamental rights sup
posed TO be guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton: that you are asked to accept as gos-
pei the doctrine that wages must be arti-
/ ficially determined in order that the ends OF
humanity and justice be subserved; that
| you are expected TO give your sanction TO
| the programme of strikes and violence now
being carried on under the leadership OF
Socialists. and that you are. in other words.
| called upon to become particeps criminis
| in the most dangerous movement that has
the social order?
Gentlemen, the spirit of social brigand-
age is growing apace. The time for silence
| and hopeful representation is past, IL il
ever existed. Now or never is the time TO
| speak out. halt must be called in this
| crusade against those whose only crime
has been thar they have by their brains.
| their energy and their capital built up
a policy of evasion, of compromise. are
| shown in the great development of the
unions and the increasing number OF
strikes. II you give. the agitators an inch
| mand for monopoly or charity wages. what
| ever you please TO call them. breeds a
| whole train of similar demands. The only
remedy in this case Is TO stand firm, TO
put your feet not under the table with
| Socialists and agitatcrs, but upon the
American Constitution and keep them
| there.
but. gentlemen. you cannot make head
| way against this great evil as individuals
| You must organize. The evils of organized
labor cannot be COPIED with except by coun-
| reorganization. The National Association
of Manufacturers has realjzed this fact and
declaration of principl. IS and passed reso-
lutions looking TO the thorough organiza-
ton Of employers all over the country I
xvfch rnrrIH
| They definitely place our organization be-
fore the country as standing for the main
tenance of industrial freedom. The prin-
ciples adopted form simple statement OF
| rights heretofore regarded as valid and
unbeatable. They consist of the reitera-
ton of the right TO contract, the right OF
men TO quit their employment when they
will and the right of employers to hire or
discharge whom they WILL also of the
right of employers to conduct their busi-
ness without dictation or interference:
their right to regulate the quality Of their
| product, and their right TO adopt any just
nsoven Tps rish' nS ,nninr mn ~ EN- EN-
ployment without discrimination against
them is insisted upon. and boycotts. black
proved The association does not attack
the right of men TO join any kind of ar or
ganization they see mt to join, but IL does
deny the right OF any organization TO in
fringe upon the rights Of American citi-
zenship-
Gentlemen, believe in labor union:sm
| out the KING tnat Il DelleNe IN - the KIND
that does not ask for special favors in re-
turn for nothing, and does not seek 10
abridge that free and open field to human
effort so necessary TO the evolution Of the
| race to higher standards of efficiency and
living. Instead OF being a school for So
cialism. the rational unionism that have
| in mind would be school for sobriety and
thrift and for increasing the proficiency
and knowledge OF the worker Instead OF
teaching that employers are the natural
enemy of the worker, IL would inculcate the
| truer idea that the interests of the bust
ness for which they work are identical
the proper spirit the workingman will find
that the road to advancement and higher
wages Is much easier than If he follows
| the bludgeon method advocated by the
walking delegate. When a worker is will
ing TO give value received. he does not ask
| special consideration from his employer
for in most cases the employer appreciates
good man and ties TO him. The workman
; of the right spirit takes what he earns
! like a man because he is entitled TO q, and
he takes pride In knowing that no part OF
ployer or the spoils of labor warfare.
MILITANT SOCIALISM
. But the irrational unionism so preya-
} lent to-day is nothing more than militant
socialism. led by demagogues and profes.
sional trouble makers. Its great principle
. as voiced by Mr. Gompers. is TO get more
! and then get more Its members have Il
dinged and donged into their ears that the
union Is their boss. and not the man that
pays them their wages; that the man who