The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-10
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THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
Between Employers and the Forces of Organ
 ized Labor

duty among his employees to the reverse of these qualities. and if there Is found change of feeling or attitude among employers towards those organizations of their existence. 1t is due to the abuses and perversions which such organizations have had engrafted upon them. The fact is now and has been for some time forcing itself up- on employers that labor unions are no longer the beneficent agencies which they had been pleased to recognize and encourage in the past, but rather had sessing more features of opprobrium. oppression and danger to the public than could be found in any of the so- called capitalistic combinations now existing in this country.
 Instead of fostering relations of friendship and good will towards em- ployers such as was deemed essential to it's success In the beginning of the spirit of constant irritation, of increas- Ing bitterness. of autocratic dictation and ill-concealed enmity towards em- ployers on the part of the members of labor unions until the wonder Is that there should remain a single grain of toleration by employers for them.
 Not only is this spirit everywhere apparent in these unions towards em- ployers, but there is manifested to- wards fellow workers who do not choose to surrender their freedom, the most intense hostility often breaking forth in crimes against them that | shame.
 But these changes in organized la- Dor can best be summed up in giving g those policies to which the entire | committed and brief resume of what they stand for. These are known by the following terms: The Strike; The Boycott: The Closed Shop; The Union T nh hEI hn I tVraff fraf tTaNr ..f kt,. The Eight-Hour Day and Anti hi june | tion. In these policies there exists a l greater train of evils for the people of the United States than Pandora was | the undoIag of the sons of men. Each one of these Is worthy of a sepa- 1 rate symposium, and on each the en- | tire vocabulary of condemnatory adjec- ttVcs might be exhausted without do- 1 ing full justice to it's possibilities of | evil
 | The strike-This is claimed as one
 of organized labors most sacred rights and one that can be put into full force l and effect, as Samuel Gompers says l With or without cause" and yet this ] is a relic of barbarian and a menace
 to organized society. It is identical in
 prolific progenitor. Given a free ex-
 ercise such as is claimed for 1t, a.~4 i there Is no law human or divine which
 would long hold sway over its votarles
 It teaches in effect that there Is no hu-
 man right, private or public, that or ! ganized labor is bound to respect. this ! IS U source of greater danger to the
 nation than would be the combined ar
 mics of the world marshalled in hostile l array on its borders
 The BoycOtt-This does not differ , in inherent viciousness from the de
 mands of the highwaymen or the knife
 of the midnight assassin. It is a child or hate and envy. a weapon of revenge and Is often wielded with such malig.
 nancy as to transform human bein9 n9s
 into worse than internal demons.
 The Closed Shop-There is but one
 term that can be fittingly applied to
 this. and that is: open infamy! It Ia an assumption on the part of an unofficial