The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-10
some TIMELY ANSWERS
| TO ERRONEOUS CHARGES
Criticisms and Accusations
Against Trade Unions Ably
and Forcibly Refuted.
Sam Parks Case-Respect for
the Courts-Riotin g-As-
saulting and Other Things.
COmparisOns Are OdiOux,

|
Here are a few facts to offer your
friends who may be opposed to organ
lied labor, for strange to say, great
| many people are opposed to labor
| unions.
These opponents may be divided into
J two classes-frst, the class that opposes
| unionism through ignorance; secondly
the class that opposes unionism because
| the unions interfere with their sell
| fish greed. There is no use trying to
| argue with the latter class. The man
| who thinks with his pocketbook has
! neither heart nor conscience to which
you may appeal. The man who is pre-
| JUDGED through ignorance is the man
you ought to get after
Labor leaders are grafters," says
our prejudiced friend
Tell him that is a lie to start with
Some labor leaders have been untrue to
their trust, we admit There was one
disciple in twelve that proved untrue
one in twelve is a large proportion isn't
it,. That proportion never obtained
among labor among labor leaders and
union champions
They used to print paper at the
Ohio penitentiary. They had to quit
business because they didn't have any
printers in the pen. But they have
tWenty-one bankers in there, and doz-
en- more awaiting sentence. And yet
Their are ten times as many printers as
bankers in Ohio. Now let your OPP
portunity figure our your proportion of
grafters.
20, we'll there was Sam Parks"
ric Do
or until he died. How about McCurdy,
Mccall, Hyde, Alexander, Depew, ct al?
There are 100000 trades unionlsts in
this country. They have cinched one
unionist for grating, and his name
was Parks. The daily newspapers gave
Parks more mention than all the pol
itical financial grafters combined And
yet a Mccall or McCurday grabs off
more in day than Parks grabbed off
in his lifetime. To be consistent you
ought to denounce banking, life insur-
andce and politics because the worlds
worst grafters are to be found in these
circles.
You unionists try to run your en-
ployers' business"
Don't you believe it. We merely in
action Of our business. See? We have
as much right to say what we shall
have for our labor as the employer has
to say what he shall have for the goods
he employs us to make. Anything
wrong about that?
But you won't admit that non-union
man has a right to work"
Oh, go on! Somebody has been stuff
f1ng you. We admit that every man
has right to work just as he pleases.
But We don't work with him unless he
helps us to bear the expense of Sc
curing and maintaining the better con-
ditions Of work which he enjoys equally
with us. Anything wrong or lamar
chistic" about that idea?
But you believe in the boycott"
No we do not. But we believe that
as men having common aim and end
We ought to have the right to dis
cuss peaceably among ourselves and as
| certain just who are our friends.
Haven't we as much right to do that as
union men as we have to do it as
| neighbors? You don't willingly throw
business in the way of our Industrial
enemies7
Out you QeHOH uCe' the courts ana
are anarchists in spirit
That is lie planted in your mind
by designing men. We respect the
courts that respect the law. We have
| no respect for a court that is subsur-
Went to the corporations or is the sur
vile tool Of wealth.. Such court-and
there are many Of them-are not en-
titled to the respect Of any man, be he
| raising all this howl about privately