The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-11
WORKERS IN RUSSIA F. !.
KEPT IN IGNORANCE:
Feared They Might Demand
Their Liberty if Allowed.
An Education.
American Workers Free to Stu
dy. and Learn a Way to
Better Conditions.

SAH~SSe~S@~e
With the awful calamity which be-
fell the Russian working people be-
cause of the fact that they so far
dared as to ask a hearing with his
royal majesty, the Gear, can the peo-
| pie Of our own little United States
stand quietly in the background and
not learn Of the awful lesson that is
now forced On the civilized world by
| the atrocious work transpiring in that
| monarchial empire Of Russia?
The Lack of education of the work.
| ing class and the ignorance in which
they are kept in Russia has been the
| means of the formation of the Siber-
! ian mines-it is there that the royalty
sends anyone who opposes them In
| their tyranical reign.
In drawing our lesson from the aw-
full tragedy we will class the royalty
| of Russia as the employer and the pub
| lie as the working people. We will
| transport them to America and locate
! them in these United States. then see
If our conditions would be any more
| creditable than that of the Russian
| worker. The employer would Cypress
and transport you If you did not ex-
| ert such a power that in our might
| he dare not attempt such an act. Colo
! RADIO, that Russia of America. was
ruled for short time by a car, and
| Russion so far as cruelty and afro
cious deeds are numbered. Our work.
ers, citizens OF these United States,
were transported. We were shot
down, confined to bull pens. Our sis
ters, mothers, sweethearts and wives
were cruelty treated and brutally as
saulted by the paid emmisarys Of the
car af Colorado Then cannot our
sympathy go out in full to the
workers of Russia - in their struggle
for the recognition of their rights
the rights that were given them by
their Maker. Can we, in a country
that Is presumably civilized and its
people have a voice in the making of
the laws, then say that trades union
ism is not the only way that the work.
er may ever hope of receiving that
which is his due. Can you, in justice
to your family, refuse to learn, refuse
to proclaim the right of the worker to
all the craft.
Here we have public schools; In
Russia the worker or the lower class,
as they are called there, are not al
lowed that right, but that we have the
schools does not say the workers here
are learning of their condition and
probably fate if they do not proceed
to adopt measures that will protect
them from such an atrocious act as
that committed in Russia the other
day.
To the world the workers are figured
as illiterate and to those who know
| them best there are a large majority
who are illiterate as regards any,
thing that concerns their welfare. II
not illiterate, then the Indifference
that they display amounts to the same
! thing. Take the member of the union
| who in times Of peace he fails to
learn Of the workings Of his craft,
then when a strike comes and the tur-
! MOL is on they are intelligent ones
! so far as the trouble is concerned and
| it is this class that has always been
| the barrier to the furtherance Of la
boris cause.
Instead of going to their meetings
and learning of the benefit Of organ
lied labor they pay their dues in the
organization and yet they are not
versed with the workings Of the craft
They fail to read their trade papers
for fear that in there they may learn
of something that will interfere with
the spending of their money and their
time in the cornwall barroom.
The ignorance that the people Of
Russia have been held under has per-
mitted of the rule of the tyrants now
| in power. If it were not for the per-
sistent efforts of the few thousands
who have learned Of the benefit Of
un1onism In this country and are try
! ing to learn their more ignorant fell
! low men of those benefits. How long
would the workers here receive a liv-
ing wage? Look at our southern
states. See the children employed
there-too young to go to school and
too poor to go if they were older. Then
I say let us go on and strive to edu-
cate our coming generations in the
power of the worker through their or
ganization of one staunch and solid
| body.
| yet ignorance of the craft that you
belong to is dispicable.
! Then let us go on and learn Of
trades unionism. Let US attend our
local meetings and in every way pos
sible spread the news to the balance
Of the trade so that We may be or
ganized. into one solid organization
SO that when the times comes we may
be able to protect ourselves against
any great oppression of the employing
class. Cacothes Carpendi.
| WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. 8.-Mrs. Frank
Cory was burned to death by an ex-
plosion of a coal oil lamp at her home
tonight. Two hundred dollars which