The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-12-15
IKE MARCoSSoN'S PIPE. DREAM
By Liberal Whiffs at the Dope He Sees Some
Wonderful Victories Already Accomplished
by the Union Busting Observation-Disclosures
the Pipe Goes Out Isaac Will Wake Up and
See Things in Different Light


In the December of the Worlds Work." a
magazine published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
Isaac +. Marcosson has a long article entitled
The Fight for the Open Shop. To read the
Marcosson Effusion one would imagine that
the unions were already out of business. The
article is so full of palpable falsehoods, rife
with erroneous assertions and so permeated by
prejudice that it can be of little help to the
union busting crowd. If the union snashers
can not find any better literary genius than
MarcossOn to secure publicity for their cause
they are in bad shape indeed.
According to Marcosson the Transfers In
ion of Chicago is only mere shadow of what
it was According to indisputable facts the
Transfers Union of Chicago is stronger than
ever Mr.. Marcosson goes into detail con-
corning the Employers leaning association
and explains that it is corporation organized
by members of the Chicago Employers asso-
citation, among them being Montgomery Ward
& Co., Marshall Field & Co.. and others. He
says that this teaning company has made the
Transfers Union very humble and destroyed
its power for harm or usefulness to the team
sters themselves Then he says that this COM
pany has $50 teams AS there are 35 900 team
sters in Chicago often wonders how much
effect little bunch of 80 scab teamsters can
have on such huge organization. Clearly
Mr.. Marcossons pipe has good draught And
then he quotes the managers of the Employers
leaning association saying: I'VE could
do three times as much business if we had the
teams
Well. Montgomery Ward and Marshall Field
together are worth $3O0O00,0 600, and both
are stockholders in the company doubtless
they could raise money enough to buy few
more teams. Why don't they do it, Clearly
Mr.. Marcosson isn't half earning his money.
In another place Marcosson says: Take the
clothing trade, one of Chicago's largest indus
tries. for another example. Three years ago
all the shops were closed. Now they are all
OPEN
Mr.. Marcosson is evidently superficial OBJ
server or else a very untruthful man. The
clothing shops not all open. kohn Bros,
one of the largest manufacturers of clothing
in the United States, are located in Chicago,
and their shop is union from cellar to garnet
IA closed shop. Mr. Marcosson let his pipe
go out for minute or two
Then this veracious chroncler refers to Gen
cral Otis of the Los Angeles Times. They all
do He quotes Otis as saying of the strike on
the Times: 1T not for wages but for
the control of our business and the domination
of property.
The same silly old lie. The men struck be-
cause Otis arrogantly refused to give them
any voice in the disposition of their labor And
as long the printers can herd most OF the
1ong-taed rats in the Otis office the Inter
national Typographical Union will not worry
much Most of the rats in the Otis
shop and as Los Angeles is 500 miles from
anywhere the aforesaid rats not doing
anybody any particular harm, least of all the
Typographical Union.
Marcosson says that organized labor is now
on the defensive instead of on the offensive.
We are willing to leave that to the Typothaete.
He further saws that "the labor agitator has
been taught to respect the law" Labor union
lists have always respected the law-they have
refused to respect Venal courrS.
He tells about the schools opened by the
Typothaete to teach girls how to run typeset-
ting machines. He neglects to tell what an lg-
nominious failure every one OF these so-called
schools has been. He fails, too to state that
while member after member of the United
Tyrothaete has deserted that organization, not
one Typopraphical Union has been false to the
cight-hour day cause.
AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Marcosson's article
is so full of falsehood and Misrepresentation
that it is actually humorous when 1t pretends
TO be serious.