The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-04-25
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The birds, beasts and reptiles in the
wilds OF the Yellowstone are having a
novel expeniensece this week-seeing "A
real live president for the first time in
their lives.
-Four colonies, six lieutenant CO.
lonels and twenty captains have just
been chosen to serve upon the new
general Staff of the army. This fact
is commented on by many prominent
newspapers, and great satisfaction
expressed at the excellence of the Sc
lection. Not a word is said, however,
about the privates who We're appoint
ed. They don't count. Only the men
who wear the shoulderstraps on
epaulets are worth mentioning. The
real fight ers--those who, stop the bull
! lets, and bear the brunt Of the battle
are the nameless heroes-"theirs but
to do and de-
Wall street does not like the North
ern Securities decision, and refuses to
be comforted. When the bloated CAPT.
talists and stock gamblers are given
a jolt, such as they received in the
| recent decision anent the Northern
Pacific & Great Northern Merger, they
become almost anarchistic in their
utterances. One of their organs says:
"unbridled competition of competing
railroads is not compatible with their
healthful development
There is though, way out even if
| the supreme court affirms the judg-
ment and makes this holding company
| illegal.
Congress cannot prevent, if it would,
! any individual from purchasing more
than majority of the stock of two
competing roads.
The community of intrest sveiw 1
| iNvul1lerable and a way will be devils
! ed for making it feasible.
| And this anarchistic view is express
ed against the decision Of four circuit
judges, covering every point in t he
case presented, even against the pres
ident at whose instigation the suit
| was brought.
Such is the arrogance of wealth. The
| contempt shown toward the law and
| the government has received a deserv-
ed check. This decision goes to the
| very root Of the trusts and should in
measure revive free competition in
| industry and commerce.
We here in the us. are not having
the strike business all to ourselves.
| Holland has had first class strike,
! and from all indications it would have
been a very healthy one had not the
government interposed and enforced
s%pilx~
parliament with such extraordinary
strenuosity, that both the socialists
and labor element stood aghast and
the strike. was declared Off. Then
Italy had i little strikelet too; the
! printers were the disturbing cause A
| few bullets fired indiscriminately into
the crowd; killing a few. dozen, had
| the desired effect, and this strike. too
died $in It's Hill ancy. are not; tie
only strenuous nation On I earth, it
seems, but our strikers are not in
undated by such things as military
! and police, or by threats in the shape
| of unconstitutional laws.
=
Now we have it. Labor disputes are
to be presented before they begin. 1t
! is suggested by one c. N. Carpenter, a
writer IN the April Engineering Maya
| zine, that a labor department be or
gained, which shall have control of
the labor question, settle all disputes
before they reach the acute stage; in
vestigate Unjust practices on the part
of workmen; supervise the wage sy-
stem; adjust inequalities in salaries,
| watch for undue shinkrage in output;
| investigate and install sanitary and
| working conditions
! To be a success, however, the fore
| man. or those in direct charge, must
cooperate with the department.
Beautiful theory, Mr.. Carpenter, and
it might work if you can eliminate
| selfishness and greed on the part Of
employers of labor All the laboring
| men ask is fair play.