The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-09-10
ORGANIZED LABOR IS
ON SIDE OF HUMANITY,
Ever Struggling and Working
to Secure the Full Rights
of Man. :.
Brutality Of Employers Gave
Birth to Unions Million
aires Despise Labor.

Ever since the corporations got hold
t,of the coal elds, says the Bismarck
(Mo) Banner, the practice OF workinxf
boys without regard to health, eduoa-
| ttons, or morals has been In vogue.
| After number Of years Of agttation
and legislation the curse is being wip-
ed out to an extent in some of the
more progressive states.
Like every move to get the CALLING
yoke Of capitalistic greed Off the neck |
OF down. -trodden and defenseless labor,
this agitation for the abolishlng oe
labor slavery has it's inception in !
the trade union.
The capitalist class are In the fields
OF industry for no other purpose than
that of piling up fortunes.
Fortunes can only be piled up by
exploiting labor.
The nearer labor can be kept to the
starvation point the bigger the capi-
talist's profits, and the more fstupen-
dous the fortunes.
Most of the stock in the big,corpora-
| tions is held by heartless parasites
| who despise labor, and the institutions
would tear the puny babe from the
| skinny breast Of half-starved mother
| and force it into the mine, the factory
| and the sweat-shop to slave its, life
away for a pittance in order tof pile up
profits for stockholders and interest
for bond holders.
Nearly every state In the Union has
been compelled to enact stringent laws
| to protect its children against the
ravages Of these capitalfstic beast of
prey.
! The enactment of these laws could
not have been secured, SO bitterly were
the opposed to greedy capitalists,
had it not been for the herois efforts
OF organized labor.
Disband the trade unions; today, and
Tomorrow every one Of these labor
laws will become a dead-letter.
| The introduction Of steam power
and labor-savlng machinery into Eng
land at the beginning Of the past CEN
tury resulted in the most irhhunan
abuses of the working people by the
capitalist class. The adult workers
were displaced and, in the.language of
an able historian, the bodies and:
souls Of tender infancy, of children,
.lNeres snatcheds.. from the cradle tozbe-;
come. .cogs:, and: wheels for few
months in some huge building, and
then thrown away, worn out, andy USE
less. II was the conversion OF the
blood OF babes into capital. as the
spider converts the helpless insect
caught in It's web into a power that.
enables it to spin other nets; or. as the
tiger by Its feast of flesh gathers
strength for new forays"
| It was this brutality on the part OF
capital that brought into existence
the modern trade union. For 500 years
prior to this the right Of workman to
combine for the purpose Of obtaining
higher wages or shorter hours was
denied in England by stringent laws.
TO form a union was a crime. It
would be crime in America to-day II
the lords of capital could write the
codes, and they would write them
were 1t not for the grand army OF
trade untonists for standing In solid
phalanx between capitalist greed and
| poverty slavery.
! Modern capitalism is but a. sprout
from the old tree Of greed, avarice,
and debauchery that flourished in the
old Roman Empire when every man.
woman and child who worked was an
ab5ect slave, bought and sold as cat
tie, penned up like hogs, scourged
with whips, and in many instances
when grown old and useless to be torn
to pieces for the pleasure Of the das-
tardy parasites, who laughed, ate,
drank, jested, and had a jolly good
| IN }ha
| left those poor, unfortunate producers
Of wealth in their gaping wounds and
dying agony without so much as one
plying glance or re7norseful thought.
Every page Of history is blotted
with the woes of those who toll and
these woes are always inflicted by
those who do not toll yet live in splen-
dor. A lazy, greedy, horde of inhu-
man wretches have always feasted
while workers famished. We have an
element in the millionaire circles to-
day who are just as villainous at heart
as were the senators and soldiers Of
Rome, and their number is rapidly
increasing. They have no more re-
gard for person who earns his bread
by the sweat Of his brow than they
have for a common cur, and they. live
sunnptupusly without thought of
pity for those who struggles and die
in poverty and misery. sss zes# !
It is an indisputable fact that had 1t
not been for the vigilance Of labor or
ganizations during the past century
the conditions Of the working people
would be most wretched throughout
| the entire world.
ar xnir
duty. your utmost to maintain, and
advance the interests Of toiling hu-
manfty through organization and edu-.
cation? -, .x,.
II not why not? . r =
r The recent TRADE against organized
labor in the advertising columns Of the
daily press, by the emanufacturers*o OF an
/ alleged substitute for coffee and some