The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-09-22
MEETS LABOR FRIEND
IN OPPONENTS CAMP
Enthusiastic Labor Opponent
Gives Typographical Union
Severe Roasting.
But He Is Fittingly Rebuked
by Fellow Member in Ma
tional Editorial Meet.

At recent meeting Of the Interna-
tional Editorial Association, held In
Indianapolis 4 member Of that holy
! made vigorous attack upon the Ty-
biographical Union. Hc imagined that
amid such associations he was free
from the possibility cf retort or ad-
verse criticism. but ne was mistaken
for Brother Avery c. Moore, editor Of
the We1ser Word a member of
Lodge 113, and who was subsequently
elected third vlce-presjdent of the as
socfation, resented the gentleman's
attack on organized labor in man
ner which no aalht4 will have the II IL
|SfectT Of making him more careful
hereafter in his reference to the sub
ject. Brother Moore, in replying,
said:
Il wish that my friend from Cali
fornfa had not felt it necessary to
make some of the statements he has
delivered. Surely he does not speak
with del1beration when he says that
tn entire record of the Typographical
Union is one of lawlessness.' But since
the words have been said, I cannot let
them go unchallenged. = I deny the
truth of the assertion, and I deny, too,
that union labor as a whole is tyran-
nical and unprincipled' It was a
union labor mayor, was it not, elected
by the labor votes, who presided over
the stricken city of the Golden Gate
IN the darkest hour that any people
nave ever known? Does the gentle
man from California despise Eugene
Schmitz because he is a member of
'tyrann1cal and unprincipled' labor
union, or is he, like the rest of US,
proud of him as an American citizen,
able and brave? If I remember Alright,
1t was the members of the Citizens
Alliance-wealthy employers of non
union labor-who charged thes relief
committees more for the use of their
automobiles than the machines could
be purchased for in the market before
the great calamity. ,
Gentlemen, my experience leads me
to differ with the delegate from CAL
1fornia. I employ union labor in nv
office, not because it is union town.
but because union labor is the best
labor under all circumstances; because
brotherhood is more likely to render
me faithful service than is the man
who is willing to take the wages that
the sacrifice Of other men has estab-
lished, but is not willing to share in
the effort and the sacrifice.
II accept the eight-hour workday in
my office, as against the ten-hour day
In the office of my. competitors, not
because I have to do so, but because it
pays in dollars and cents and in the
respect and confidence of the men
who work for men. have never found
them 'tyrannicar and I have never
known them to be unlawful"
I Concluding, Brother Moore said:
"The gentleman from California has
quoted freely from . Napoleon and
CROMWELL, but he might have found
greater. inspiration in the names Of
men now living. There is a man here
IN Indianapolis who. has done more
for civilization and for progress than
all the Caesars and Cromwells and
Napoleons since creations morning:
who has brought freedom in the lives
OF more men and happiness into
more homes than have all the wars
OF subjugation, and conquest from
1ssus to the Philippines; his name is
John Mitchell. commend him to the
gentleman from California as the best
loved man in the United States to-
day." =, r. -H - " ~