The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-09-29
LABOR LEADERS ARE
DOING WORLDS WORK
They Are Neither Vampires
Nor Parasites-But Earn
est and True Workers.
Their Efforts Bring for the
Workingmen Many I'M
proved Conditions.

Labor organizations are not formed
for the purpose of dispossessing cap
ital of it's rightful possessions, or even
O; that which it wrongfully holds, but
are formed IN the interests OF wage
earners to secure for them better
and more humane living conditions.
Whenever the efforts Of these Or
ganizations to secure what rightfully
belong to labor through the adjust
ment of grievOus wrongs eliminates
III strike which becomes important
enough to become public inconven-
ience, labor and it's leaders are abus-
lively assailed by the irresponsible OF
the clergymen who have commercial
ized their calling and subsidized
Judges barricaded with the mOnstrous
power of injunctions. This but serves
to excite and inflame that portion OF
wage earners already rendered des-
rerate by the cruel wrongs inflicted
by capitalists, the scientific slave
holders of our present era, and to
more firmly impress upon the minds
OF the thoughtful and industrious the
absolute necessity Of organized
strength.
Labor leaders are neither vampires
nor parasites, but able, conscientious
and self-sacrificing men who removed
their trappings and left their benches
at the call of their fellow wage earn
ers as being best fitted to direct the
organized efforts of their union. They
are strong in their convictions, backed
bv every moral right, and courageous
to the point of almost any sccriflce IN
promoting the cause for which they
labor, and when their work In this
direction Is finished they can again
return to their benches and, taking
their tools again, become producers
Of wealth by honest toll, the only way
by which the worlds store of wealth
is added to and which few capital
lists so thoroughly know how to dis
tribute.
It is not strange that against these
men. whose energy, zeal, singleness
of purpose and unfaltering devotion
to labor's cause more than 10 any
thing else is due the gradual I'M
movement gained for the toiling
masses, should be directed the 1rr1t-
able and prejudicial criticism OF prloe
bound capitalists and their ~sycopnan'
tic followeds. Labor unions and laoor
leaders are not sudden flashes whose
forces will be as SUDDENLY spent. !ney
are permanent fixtures, the Logical re-
suit of capitals insatiate demands
here to remain until the future us
covers a more practical and speedlel
method of emancipating the grea'
majority of mankind from wage slav
erv There is no power on earth TO-
dav strong enough to more than tenn
norarily disrupt organized labor. Ii
never again can be effectually dis
membered and rendered powerless
and every local defeat it may suffer
makes it universally stronger. Every
defeat IS a compulsory educator teach
in gthe wage Garner the helplessness
nj his unorganized state. The merc1
less methods employed by capital
during times of strike to gain victory
are the professors of labor's cause ano
do more to drive labor to organize
than all of the printing presses and
vocal organs in Christendom.
The wage Garner must organize
His productive power is already or
ganized by capital for capital, and
there is nothing left for him to or
ganize but his opportunity, which he
organizes in the form of labor unions
Why should not every man who works
end is willing to work enjoy some
rest and trifle of happiness when
the fruits of his labor give 80 much
of both to others? Labors does moi
organize from choice. 1t organizes
from necessity. It. has organized
capital is a great economic institution
the product of progressive civilization
whose economic power If welded II
labor's cause would happily solve
labor's problem. Organized labor will
the organized ballot will yet y1elt
this very power to ameliorate the con
ditons of the masses. Labor will no
then ask where and how it can get {
living, but how best 1t can make tina
living happy.-Shoemak Journal.
Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your res
taurant man that the Bell Phone !
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