The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-24


agent admission to your premises. You
also may refuse to listen to the work
mans plea for employment in your of
fee or shops. You mny dismiss him
with or without cause, and he has no
redress or right to complain. Not only
you deny him employment, but you
may put him on black list and notify
others not to permit him to work. One
OF our important courts has affirmed
the legality of the black list, but it does
not depend on judicial sanction for its
efficiency. If one man has the right to
refuse work to q petitioner two mon
have the same right, and by the same
token lie may be dcbarred from q
chance to earn wages In every shop OF.
Office in the land. When such is tho
fact-and who darcs dispute it?-it IS
childish to talk about the sacrcdncss of
the right to work. Work Is a privilege
not right 1t is something TO be
granted, not to be demanded"
But you said moment ago that n
labor union had no right to prevent n
man from obtaining work at s,,cl,
wages as lie was willing to accent"
protested Judge Sawyer. "IIow do
you reconcile that statement with what
you have just said?"
THE labor unions are more or loss
tyrannical monopolics formed as II do
tense against social and Industrial con-
ditions which are inherently wrong"
answered Colonel Monroe. t"rhcy >vrrc
not organized until it was realized that
the right OF man to work had bcCh
aDrogatcd. Except for possible cdu-
cational value these unions are utterly
selfish, and many of their methods
are in the abstract absolutely indc.
fcnSiblc. They are as savage as thr
conditions which bred them. What
thcy Know Of battle craft was learned
on the fields of Industrial warfare
The chains they fastcn on others were
Fashioned for their limbs. The rights
which they deny to others were denied
to them. They mastered the arts OF
cruelty In an ancient and respectable
school, the university of competition.
Ihe slave will ape his master. When
Weaflcd and wounded capital erected
the ramparts of monopoly on the
heights above competition and from its
'N''NSoN IOihN l'pNINNl llclCllcSS SDOt
ana shell into the ranks Of those WHO
remained outside, few Of the work
crs realized that there was chance
through imitation to secure TO thcm.
selves certain selfish and material ad.
Vahtagcs. If monopoly be right, the
labor union Is justiliablc If combina-
ton for gain over ones fellows he
right, labor unions are right If the
maSslng of money for the accumula-
ton OF money be Il fair cXpcdicnt. tho
massinG of labor for the accumulation
Of Jobs is logical sequence"
despite your cloqucncc. the fact re-
mains that the labor unions have 10
right to discriminate against those not
members of their organizations" de.
clarcd Judge Sawyer.
"Ccrtanly they have no such right,
as have already said. but 1t is evident
that they have the power and the in
to use IT," said the colonel.
we have no right to be In this post
Office after hours, but we are here.
You Informed me this afternoon that
the treasurer of the United States has
Favored your bank with deposit OF
Pi''oOO III cash taken from the funds
OF the government. on which money
you pay not Il cent OF interest. doubt
If he Las any right 10 make such de-
posit or you any right to accept IT, but
Doth OF you have the power, ana that
ends the matter for the present at
least. 1T Is right that Il man should
pay taxes on what he possesses. 1t Is
within his power to cvadc his Just dues
by perjury or misrepresentation. Not
n day passes but thousand rights
are tfamplcd under foot by might.
Rights are thcorcticul; power is prac-
tlcal. We talk OF our rights; we eXci-
else our powers. Let us come down to
the plane OF the nonunlon man, for
whose rights you are so much CON
ccrncd. If he wishes them respected
he must use other methods than he has
yet employed. But l cannot see that
he has lost any OF his prerogatives
through the success OF trade unionism.
He has always been compelled to ask
for job. All that has occurred I'm his
case is change of masters. Formerly
he was forced to obtain the consent OF
nm individual employer. The isolated