Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-03-29

dressed the people of Helena
March p and 23, at the Auditor
ium. The lower floor of the Au-
ditorium was comfortably filled
on each occasion. DIR. Hagerty is
one of the best known Socialists
and industrial unionists in the
United States, and was brought
into the state by the Butte Mill
& Smeltermen's Union to deliver
a series of lectures on the sub
jects above mentioned.
Federal Labor Union, of Hell
ena, brought him to the city We'd
nesday night, March 22, to speak
upon Industrial Unionism, and
the Socialist local engaged him
Thursday night to lecture upon
Socialism and its relation to poll
tics.
"rhe world is moving" said DIR.
Hagerty, ''to a more perfect form
of labor unionism than ever before
in its history"
Before unionism can accom-
plish any lasting benefits for the
people il must be organized upon
a scientific plan. The present
form of craft organization does
not meet the needs of labor. When
men are united upon craft or trade
lines there is no real cohesion.
The late subway strike in New
York may be taken as an illus
tration. The engineers and other
crafts went out on strike, but the
men in the power house depart
ment staid at their posts and
helped to create the power that
carried the "strike-breakers" into
the city to take the places of their
fellow union men. Capital to-day
knows no craft or dividing line.
Here is unity of purpose in
every detail of its operating
mechanism and it is because la
Dor is divided that the strike
breaker and the scab take.a union
mans place. The railroad union
man hauled the scab and the
thug into Colorado. The a. +. of
L. itself is nothing but huge con-
glomeration of disorganization as
it is at present conducted. ITO
take the place of this unscientific
and motley method of present la
Dor organization said DIR. Hag-
erty, I'VE must organize every
worker in America into industrial
unions"
Most European countries to-
day are organized industrially in
stead of following the haphazard
and ineffective plan of trade
autonomy.
Next June there will be held in
the city of Chicago national
convention composed of indus
trial union advocates for the pur-
pose of perfecting a national or
ganization. 1t is proposed II
model such an organization upon
a Federal plan similar in admin
istration to our national govern
ment, where each state can have
jurisdiction over its own local
questions. Every industry will be
organized into unions, instead of
every craft. The department of
mining will include in its local
unions every person engaged in
the operation of mines who shall
be a wage Garner. There shall
be a department of food stuffs for
instance. Those engaged in the
tobacco industry, for example,
shall be organized on the tobacco
industry plan; warehousemen,
teamsters, packers, sorters, cigar
ette, stogie, and cigar makers. La
borers in tobacco fields, clerks,
etc, shall all belong to one union.
The employers of packing houses,
-four mills, sugar rehneries,
dairies, bakeries, breweries, dis
tilleries, etc, all belong to the de-
partment of food stuffs.
Then we have the department
of agriculture, of mining, Of
transportation, of building, Of
manufacturing, of public service,
and Of distribution. The indus
trial scheme is to organize the
employees of each of these depart
ments according to their indus
trial relation instead of their craft
relationship.
aUniversal economic evils,
said the eloquent lecturer, "can be
eradicated only by universal
working class movement. Sucn
a movement of the working class
is impossible while separate craft