The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-10-27
UNION LABEL GIVES
LABOR SQUARE DEAL
Best Weapon of Labor to Promote
Fair Conditions in Work
Shops.
Employers Are in Business for
Profit-They Want to Sell
Their Goods.

Experience has shown the organized
movement of labor that the working
masses, says the Shoe Workers Jour-
nal, being the vast army Of consumers
OF all the products Of labor, can, by
organizing their purchasing power to
promote the sale Of the products of
union and fair labor and to restrict the
sale Of the prodct Of non-uion and
unfair labor, exert quite as effectual
an influence and control over conditions
of employment as by endeavoring to
control the supply of labor at the fac
tory door.
The employer is in business for profit
and If his market is sufficiently res
trlcted, through the demands of organ
lied workers for union-label goods he
will be compelled to give due recogni-
ton to the just demands of his en-
| ployes or go out Of business.
The union label is a concrete express
sion of the desire of the unionists that
other unionists and all sympathizers
Shall be able to discriminate between
the unfair products Of the penitentiary.
the non -unionists, the tenement house
and pest hole, and the product of work.
ers engaged in the same movement
ana showing the same hopes and as
p1rations as themselves.
The growth Of the union label in
recent years is evidenced by the fact
that so many of the trades unions have
adopted union label devices adapted to
their respective trades, and this growth
| is accelerated by support received from
associations of philanthropic persons
VINO see IN the union label movement a.
rational attempt Of labor to better it's
conditions without resorting to costly
strikes.
The wage Garner joins the union to
better his condition, to defend his inte-
ests, to maintain or increase his wages.
and expects other unonists to support
his cause. Hence, it is the plain dutv
OF every member Of organized labor to
exercise due care that the wages re-
celVed as result of effort and sacri-
nee are not squandered upon the pro-
ducts OF unfair labor in other indus-
| tries.
He that is not with us is against
u.s. Is a safe maxim to follow, and a.
member who expends single penny
upon the product Of unfair" labor
mas not only Wronged his fellow work.
ers, but has done positive injury to his
own cause and interests. The onlv
way the members can be sure thew arc
not spending their wages upon their
enemies is to insist that all goods mir
chased by them shall bear union
label. And their duty extends further
TO the extent of influencing tho;r
friends to purchase and tradesmen +o
handle and sell, none but goods bear
ing the union label of the resnect,vo
trades union.
Reductions in wages are Checked
advances secured, hours Of labor short
ened, conditions of labor improved and
many other benihcent results obtained
by persistent agitation upon un,nn
label lines. Nearly all the trades have
their union label in the field: the one
thing needed is the whole-souled IN.
operation of the workers and thetr
sympathizers in purchasing only goods
bearing the trade marks Of oreanized
labor, with which efforts many nf the
abuses they now suffer will speedily
| vanish.
Are you demanding t'union laber
goods? If not, why not?