The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-19
Is Close Friend Of John Nit
chell and Colleague of Presi-
dent of Gompers on Execu-
tive Council Of A. r. Of L.
Is successful Diplomat Of
Marine labor.
Contributes stirring article on
Question of Sympathetic
Strikes, Where Integrity of
Union is Involved in a. Trade
Agreement or Joint Bargain
Contract.

the palace windows Of the French king
hundred years ago, and history tells
why there was no apparent discomfort
preceding the French revolution.
I'VE live in an age of unrest and
ambitious discomfort, and I glory in
the fact that plodding hopelessness and
despair is no part of the universal
spirit Of wage earners in our land.
"Anarchy has. been termed the move
ment of despair, and it's high priests
certainly bear out this assertion. La
Dor shall never be content until it can
satisfy its material wants in a decent
manner. nor will the final development
Of the human race be attained until
the terror of the poorhouse and an old
age of want, misery, and sufferings
are no longer the ghost that haunts
the worker. Matthew Arnold puts it
thus: Ones old age should be tram
quill, as childhood should be playful.
Hard work at either extremity Of life
seems out Of place. at MONDAY the
sun may burn and men labor under it;
but the morning and evening should
be alike calm and cheerful Wrongs
and unjust practices that today strut
as. vested rights are rapidly losing
their brazen front Of impudence. This
change is due to the spirit of progress
sive unrest, injustice still roams the
land but not In the open, as of yore.
Better Condition Of Children.
"A mans natural ambition, and the
one deepest in the mind Of every par
ent, is to make the condition of his
children better than his own. He
thinks, plans, and tolls to give to them
such opportunities as were denied him,
and 1t is the fruition Of the labor of
love for the father and mother to feel
that their sons and daughters are bet
ter equipped to fight the battle Of life.
because Of the ambitious unrest cited
by our critics.
"still other critics, notably those
manufacturers who band together to
keep up and, boost prices. and these
hysterical journals, with their absurd
and unreasonable criticism Of modern
industrial life, have tables prepared
z c1Sto. show. contra st slsetween
the standard Of life 81. the foreign Ia.
borer and the American standard of
life. Some even cite comparisons as to
how much better we fare today than
our ancestors did century ago. Still
another evidence of unrest.
Whether the condition of the toiler
have changed for better is a question
philosophers for long time, but the
factis that we are not dealing with
questions q century or two old, but
simply trying to meet the conditions
of modern Industrial existence. Men DO
not live in the past. They merely look
back, and 1t is present industrial con-
ditions that the wage worker holds re-
sponsible for his wrongs, rather than
the empty consolation of jollying him
self that he was not born at an earlier
period. We all appreciate our good luck
and fortune In being here at present
But this phase of industrial life is only
raised by the superficial and unthink-
ing and requires no answer"