The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-09-03
label ADVERTISING.
Methods Employed by the Shoe
Workers Union.
AIDS THE CAUSE OF LABOR.

pcopie Familiarized With the En-
hien,s OF All Unions-Gensral Adop-
ton ct the Idea Would Bring Indus
trial Peace.
Reviewing the results of the label
advertising campaign conducted by tho
Boot ana Shoe Workers union, the
official journal of LIZ. c.aft says:
Our latest method of advertising the
label through the medium OF a travel
ing moving picture show, IS decided
success over $4,000 people have had
presented before them in an entertain
ing way the union stamp ana all other
labels. Women were in the majority
Mt all the lectures, many of whom re-
ceivcd their first impression OF the
label factor in the construction of or
ganized labor.
The performances We're held in large
auuitoriums and thea tiers in most in
stances the local trade councils paying
the expense of the heusc and advertis-
ing. ii is our ambition t. receive the
cooperation of tie other unions next
season so that n common fund may be
created sufficient to place number of
such outfits upon the road.
No union can promote under the
auspices of the labor movement the in
tereSts of its label alone. 1t must pur-
sue broad course of merging it's in
terests with those of the others to the
end that labor shall grow in power in
a solid. general way. There is no 9TH
er way to add to the permanent growth
of orsa niZed labor than to persist in
the endeavOr to secure an ever increaS-
Ing number of the people to demand
the goods bearing the labels, which
Snrovo that they Were made by union
go. .-.I women.
There Is no other way to bring about
permanent peace between employers |
and employees than to force n rccoS- |
milton by each of the rights of the 9TH ;
err to consider and arrange collectively
in their respective associations the
matters which pertain 10 their business
and to arbitrate the differences. The
labels are cmblcms of industrial peace
as their use by an employer proves
that he has entered into an agreement
with the union for his employees, rec
oSnizing the cardinal principle of trades
unionism, collective bargaining, which
has been and is today the chief bone Of
contention between organized labor
and employees.
When the people understand that in
the purchase of the product. OF union
labor lies the power to establis har-
monT and peace permanently in the in
dustries- they Will make the demand
for union label goods and strikes will
end forever. When they know that
the union label Is sign to prove that
childrcn were not worked upon the
goods the schools will gain and the
bn oh
great public realizes fully that the I'M
ion labels distinguish the labor of free,
honest union men and women from
that of incarceratcd criminals convict
competition with free labor will. cease.
tn" workers will he united for higher
wages and shorter workdays. and a
great part Of the problem of capital |
and labor will be solved.
Nor are the ultimate benefits to be
derived by populariziug the union la
ncIS TO inurc alone TO the factory en-
HIoT""S. for the same preponderance
OF trades union sentiment which COM
pei$ the organization of the factory
VIII carry upon the wave into the I'M
Ion The workers of every Dissertation.
assisted materially by that great or
GaniHation of tillcrs of the soil, tho
Farmers union. which has adopted n
label and whose reciprocal action will
further the cause OF trades unionism as
never before.
y decided indica ton that the labor
movement is beginning to conceive
liiAt TO concentrate upon the purchase
OF III" union label goods is the only
method by which to attain organized
power was manifested during the tour
OF our label show by the active COOP
Grafton of the United Mine Workers
ana Carpenters, which organizations in
many instances met the expenses of
opera houses and the local advertising
10 assist IN promoting union label de-
maud. No court will deprive the peo-
pie or the right to select the kind of
goods which they buy and the edr1ca-
u"h winch is best calculated to build
organized labor is that which teaches
that The union label stands for Justice
ana peace an education for the chill
+, dFch' higher plane of citizenship and
morality and a truer type of Christian
li!' anu that the firms that use the
4apei merit the patronage of all who
would have Il brighter future for the
WORKERS, and that the absence of the
union label indicates either indiffer-
'hce 10 or open antaGonism to the
caHSe OF labor and such firms do not
merit the patronage OF any man or
woman who desires to do something
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