The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-30
LABOR ORGANIZER
TALKS Of UNIONISM
Joseph Gilbert Insists That a
Broader Labor Organization
Is Necessary.

Joseph Gilbert organizer of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, spoke sun
day In Labor hall to n fair-siZed audi
ence Mr.. Gilbert discussed the subjects
of unionism and Socialism from 4 philo-
sophie point Of view. He held that prac-
tical experience had taught tho laborinR
man that he could not stand alone, that
he must unite with his fellows In order
to obtain strength. He used the Illus
tration that II any trouble should threat
en- the Nation. the Individual man would
not attempt slneIe-handed to settle the
difficulty.
Means Class Interest.
"Unlonism has grown out OF class In
tcTcst,' declared the speaker i give
the lie to tho statement often made that
Socialism Is unionism. IT has grown up
in America; IL has been the evolution OF
thought from men that have realized
their wage slavery
What difference in the slavery wheth-
cr a man Is bought for lifetime or
bought day by day? The principle is the
same.
You haven't got representative OF
labor in Congress today, You go to them
supplicant In 1881 q president OF n Ia
Dor organization was elected to Congress.
in l90J your grent leaders, Gompers and
Mitchell. are as beggars before lawmak-
crs.
The laborers OF America are fast be-
coming peonss they Will have to learn the
futility OF the old system Of organization:
they viii have to stand together for class
interest not craft interest but class.
otherwise they cannot escape slavery.
Says Danger Is Plain.
"If you have nothing but the power to
create and the employer has the power
to cxtort from you the major portion OF
what you cerate, cannot you see the dan
ger2
Those of the middle class are already
alive TO the danger, they, are raising the
Er nf mn iT11 nu-nRrShin "a
borers remain Indifferent and say: oh
let the other fellow have these things
and then wc'll bargain with him
Driven to Corner.
The speaker compared the spirit of the
laboring element TO that of cat that
would run II II could, but fight when
driven to a corner He said that there
was nowhere else to run that the fight
must be made.
I'VE are trying to build up n machine
to wake up the laborcrs to a sense Of
their class interests.
These tools of production that arc now
in the hands Of one class arc being used
by that class in just the same way that a
footpad or robber uses pistol
Talks of Tories.
The speaker declared that the mission
of his organization was the abolition OF
the class that lived upon the efforts OF
the lnborlng man, He compared the
movement TO that instituted By the pa
triots OF 1876 and compared the compro-
missing policies of trades unions to those
held by Tories who advocated peace at
any price. Laborng men, he said. are
just beginning TO learn that they must
act in unison.
This new organization is going to
march on like that force that was set in
motion by the Declaration of Independ-
cnce. the movement that brought forth
new Republic, and this work will go for
ward until another Republic Is born the
Republic of the American workman"
Another meeting OF the Workers of the
World Will be held I'm two weeks