Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-05
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lAsOR'S GREAT ADVANCE DESPITE
ATTACK AND OPPRESSICN:
HOW the Right to Organize Has beeh
Won Through Centuries OF opposi-
tiop-Nen Jailed For Daring 10
Meet TO Consider Wages.

Won Through Centuries OF opposi-
tion-Men Jailed For Daring to
Meet TO Consider Wages.
From the statute of laborers, pass
cd IN '.5I and the statute OF appreh
tires. PASSED in 1868 and repealed as
late A. tN13, no fewer than thirty eN-
press St3tuteS were passed in England
down 1, 1S21 which, among other
things. made the association of work
in&mcn criminal
The Very circumstance that so much
legislation intended To b" Suppr"sSlNe
WAS deemed necessary may we'll lndi-
cat" that the progresses began early by
uldr} Eu4IHHL Was= to become the
mother OF labor unions. Where tn"
thirty statutes of suppression We're
written III vain in those years long
past. there were n the close Of 1907
laarr tIafH ;,Hueuf organized working
A.ea in *; Unions
I IS claimed that tsr#Hn5o0 mrnber-
shiP III tHe T}fJea Sj.tcs largely eX-
ecztis= that ef tl5e= atled iStnsdon
nov IN paorortoH to population.
loue7cf iHtu4tr3=ug Britain is much
mere thoroughly af@aljHea#
lsolfaWH@ tho EH@Iab Speaking na
tioH~ i'm ttte Haadfaf- HeeteisAtH and
Importance Of t4etf l8Aar oe2aDjza-
tiqHs. come ttPrGaHN5 Nae.Hoa members;
I ffaHrt.= }earil= ,,uu, ,4u0, AUSTRIA more
tGau 155 aUU5 I5eHU5Ti>5 tFag=s teee#15
lfiHsgtE. over UI0eG3 S8g1tcU. ai.oIt
=8a0a0. Norway. 2i0U1. Switzerland.
about 10000. Belgium hetWeeH 6o.an0
sud- 70eGo. Spain, mote taan =tI45ga=
fin 5zare.s given are gathered frol3
tie 60ol4 'Efrthods q IH0H2tEjat
Ieaee. hy Or. Niraolas Paine Gilman.
iu~t i~@aed by flou@hton AIilliH X CO
I)r Gilman has aimed tg trcat tire
subject II il }astrial peaec=mere com
Praheasieel3 thali et4ep writer's have
,eItt. ;9Hd to MAKE ap III i5alt fof What
be considers ~ surprising laet ol
books. on this vital umter. IL traces
III brief detail the history Of combine
ton among lahoring merI an0 gives an
Interesting reference |" tie times pre-
celing the unions, WheIt masters Vor"
usually thei!' own helpers in sad,
times in Tie ducly Of Ma&d"bulg, f6'
Instance, there were 6Yrar l7SN 1,050
masters 10 ! $50 assistants ard apprrn-
tict.s. ii ,.-:==s7=es, s,..,-..
Al present III tins country labor IS
bette organized than capital II Is
Or. Giilnan.s philosophical view that
an adjustment of the balance in or
gaHizatio' must be ofle Of the methods
of pyos fd}l@ for the permanent set
Ting 5f difficulties for securing the
reasonable ahd fruitful conduct OF
"colloctivo t,5'fgaining"
Borrowing Z figure of speech, the
author says, 80 long as one side IS
as well discipliftd as re@ulas army
and the other no.'t like a home Eaard
there VIII probabis be no permanent
adjustment of the difficulties between
Ghet'
The antiorganization lSTs were sup.
poSs43 10 affect employers US we'll as
employed but "the law l.'s a very
poor vision For employers ae Ahsg to-
gethcr, and employers were .t:yer
fined, much less imptisoned"
As late as 1917 tei1 delegates of the
calico printers of Bolton were jailed
for meeting to consider ttse question
Of wages
In 1872 the central committee Of the
Scottish weaycrs went to prison for
directing Il strike to secure Wages
fixed by q Justice of the peace and re-
fused by employers.
It is we'll, indeed, that we are far
away from such misuses of power and
the law.
For our own country DR.. Gilman con
fronts US with the story of meeting
in Boston in 1872 at which merchants
and shipoWners subscribed a $4,000
fund TO fight the movement for a ten
hour day Horace Mann, Robert Ran.
: t0ul james e. Carter and Wendell
/ Phillips sided with the workpcople.
! Mr. Rantoul defended the journeymen
/ b0otmakers III an important case which
was decided for them in lSl2 and final
" established the right Of Workingmen
to combine
'Irade unionism may have 4 great
! future before it, says Dr. Gilman aft
or deyOting chapters to the various as
poets of industrial peace and war,
strikes, lockouts, arbitration, concilia-
ton, etc. II would fain see that fu-
tlIre marked by deep sense Of rcSpoa-
sibility for large power and by Il tent
| perate employment Of it for the good
Of all classes. New orh " orld