The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-10-13
LAST BATTLE: COUNTS;
SAYS DETROIT TIMES
Daley Paper of Detroit Sounds
Voice Of Warming to Ar
bitrary Bosses.
Says That When Labor Goes to
Ballot Box Unitedly Capt.
tai Will Lose.

DETROIT, Oct. 1.-THE Times says
today:
If there should be trouble at the re-
opening of the plant of the Ideal Man.
ufacturing company and the police
should not be able to perform to the
satisfaction Of the Employers Asso-
citation, the members thereof have
agreed to discharge every union man
In their employ and employ no more
union men so long as there shall be
trouble in any other plant in Detroit.
This Is the gist Of what has been
given out as the "employers' ultima
tum.'
The employers blame the unions for
the prolonging Of the trouble at the
Ideal plant and are determined to make
reprisals
Four thousand union men must lose
their jobs and remain idle Indefinitely II
smaller NUMBER of other men should
start row at the Ideal plant that the
police can't handle to the satisfaction
Of the association.
It Is always a pleasure to be able
to congratulate the members Of the
Employers Association upon their
wisdom.
This Is no time for such congratu-
lation.
The members Of the Employers AS
sociation have shown no wisdom In
taking such a stand.
Whoever Is leading the association
in this matter Is leading it into trouble
that 1t might well wish to avoid, for
1t will be trouble in which the asso-
citation will eventually be whipped.
The association may win the first
battle-maybe it will also win the Sec
ond and third-but it will not win
the last, and the last battle is the only
one that counts in any war;
None Of us has anything to gain by
deceiving himself in this matter-we
may as we'll look the facts squarely
in the face.
And the facts, as nearly as we are
able to discern them, are these:
Just at the time when labor union
men throughout the country are be-
ginning to believe that they should
seek their future victories by concen-
trating at the ballot box instead of in
| VI SAAS
Employers Association Of Detroit
come along with threat to discharge
in certain circumstances, every union
man In their employ.
Every union man knows the employ
ers would be able, without much diff
f1culty, to fill his place with a non-un-
ion man, as he also knows that shops
once thus made open" to non-union
men would never again be "closed."
In other words, the Employers AS
sociation has taken the most effective
means possible to prove to it's union
labor employees that their unions are
powerless to help them in their hours
Of trial-that their unions cannot even
enable them to hold their own jobs
when individually they are not in trou-
BILE with their employers.
OF course, If the Employers Asso-
citation cares to jam home this indis-
putable fact about the waning power
of the union, the workingmen who
have not already recognized it will
doubtless do so.
But what will they do next?
Nothing in the world Is more GER
Ldlu tHdn ludC tN6y WILL turn 10 the
ballot as the only weapon of defense
and offense that they can hope to
WELD with SUCCESS.
And with labor organized and uni
fed at the polls instead of in the fac
tory will begin the LAST battle with
organized capital-THE FIGHT THAT
ORGANIZED CAPITAL WILL. LOSE
Have the members of the Employers
Association who are trying to demon
strate to their men that their unions
are no longer good for anything
thought Of that?
Have they taken into account the
location Of the field of that last battle
toward which they are now turning
their eyes?
Do they realize that it will not be in
their own factories, from which it is
easy to discharge union men, but in
the election booths in which the work.
ers will overwhelm them as q wave
overwhelms shell on the beach.