The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16

union NIQntS EOT1oStoOs
BY the course which it has pursued
in connection with the recent strike
on the Southern Pacific railway, the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Eng1-
neers has forfeited all right to recog-
milton as a labor organization. In the
enforcement Of a narrow, arrogant and
brow-beating policy it has invaded the
legitimate and recofnized field Of a
sister organization, and allying itself
with strike breaking agencies and a
grossly subsidized press, and pervert-
ing its own members into scabs, it has
sought by methods as unsrupulous as
such an alliance is degrading, to ac-
cOmplish the purpose of its wolf1sh ag-
;gression.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, long since realizing that
it can not depend upon merit or the
glory of past achievements to per-
petuate its existence and being anx-
ious to save itself from extinction, is
seeking the cooperation Of railroad
companies In an endeavor to recruit
it's rangs by a system of coercion that
is as unjustifable and un-American
DIS H. Is ptdL1U1C Will I1lc UdS1C
principles upon which organized labor
and human liberty in general are
founded.
3. Of L. e. Betrays Labor.
At the cost Of lending It's influence
in helping to defeat the very ends for
which it processes to exist, it will ptlr-
chase the support of any power that
will help it to accomplish that object.
Thus for years past we find B. Of l..
e. representatives in an official capa-
city as such appearing before commit
tees of various state legislatures in
opposition to measures the enactment
Of which has been sought In the in
terest Of railroad employees or Of labor
in general-the most fragrant and
shameful instance of such prostitution
being the recent strenuous, though
laughably futile efforts they put forth
to defeat the New York employers
liability law. Again we hear of B. Of
T.. E. officers offering to withdraw
their demands for certain concessions
sought by their constituents, if rail-
road officials will, in consideration Of
such a surrender, give their organiza-
ton a monopoly on engineer repre-
sentation by recognizing that order as
the only medium through which the
grievances of engineers, personal and
otherwise, can be adjusted.
In the Southern Pacific strike, how
ever, the B. of l.. E. has appeared in
a new role of infamy for, in addition
to directing it's members to become
strike-breakers themselves, it has de-
liberately entered the field as a scab-
employing agency, as witness the fol-
lowing advertisement appearing in a
San Antonio newspaper during that
trouble:
Employs Strike Breakers.
WANTED-Reliable men for position
Of locomotive hremen on Sunset
lines. Good pay and steady work.
Apply at office Of superintendent or
master mechanic or to any engineer
on these lines. H. F. Anderson, SUI
perintendent.
Thus, after the B. of L. F. and e.
men had left the service of the rail-
road company in response: to the
strike order, it was safe bet for q
scab to approach any engineer remain
Ing In the company's employment and
ind in him a friend and brother; for,
in the art of scabbing no strike break
er ever existed who could, Guido the
B. Of L. e. people either in efficiency
or Industry. They not only took the
places OF our engineer members on
the S. P. but fired and hustled and
even supplanted the poor cinder- pit
| man, who threw up his job rather than
submit t6 the. communicating deerada-
ton Of working or associatinE with
| scabs. =.
Natural to Scab.
These heroes 60 may, under one
pretext or another, seek to justify
their course in the Southern Pacific
strike; but whatever their defense may
| be they have, demonstrated the facility
with which they can turn strike- break
ers and show their relish for the oc-
cupation. There is an element in the
| B. of L. E. that takes to scabbins
! as naturally as a duck takes to water
They scab on the rail and in the leg
1slative halls, and there is hardly any
act that constitutes. a violation: of or
ganized labor ethics, or principles, tc
the performance of which they will
not descend under the influence Of 8
railroad officials hynotic smile or NOD
/ A fable tells us that once a vol
and lamb were drinking at the same
stream. Such was their :. position
that the water ran past the wolf -ant
4 I towards the lamb. The wolf, on OBJ.
1 serving the lamb, progressed to- be.
come very angry and imperiously de.
4rnanded, How dare you disturb tn,
y water q. that !, am drinking 2, The poo
lamb, trembling with fright. hulnbl.
respond ed, 81 could not possibly ilav,,
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