The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-09-03
FOR LABOR'S RIGHTS,
wage Farmers Unite For Justice
and Freedom.
BALLOT A POTENT WEAPON.
history OF Labor Proves the Wisdom
OF Presenting Solid Front at III.
rohs-in No Other Way Can Its
Power Be Effectively Demonstrated

"a
Power Be Effectively Demonstrated
1hefe Is no sense for the men in tn.
organized labor movement to attemnt
10 conform their course to the satisfa,.
tloh or all, says Samuel GomDers~ in
American Federationist. The men in tho
labor movement know the course o,,+-
lined. for them and by them. which
time. history and experience have dem
ohstrated to be the wisest and which
results have vindicated.
Now the faddists are, again at worl,
IN their antaSouism to labor's effort to
secure the rights and promote the in
terests of the toilins masses. The
latest attack from this source IL di-
rected against the executive council Of
the American Federation Of Labor in
INSISTING upon the Incorporation in the
Platforms OF the two great political
parties Of labors most imperative ne
cessitles and demands. 1t is quite in
Keeping to find the same trend of at
tack of the faddists in almost identical
language of the Van Cleave-Parry
Iost capitalist press in the abuse
heaped upon the heads of the nep
lhosC devoted to the rights, interests
and welfare of the toiling masses of
our country.
+sOf course we understand that tho
capitalist enemies to labor would have
1t tamely and complacently accept thei,.
absolute domination, rule and tho
edicts OF their congressional and iu-
dicial representatives and mouth
pieces and to endure all the wrongs
and injustice which may be imposeI
upon the toilers
On the other hand, the faddist would
nave the wage earnerS of the country
play politics with them rather than
De up ana doing, ready and willing to
pear the brunt Of industrial and no
Itlcal battle for laborS rights, not in
some dim distant future, but now, now.
There may lurk in the minds of
some that there is another and n bet
ter way than the true trades union wav
by which the toilcrS may secure the
rights and the justice due them, but
not only the past achievements and
history of labor through the ages, but
even the incidents Of this Immediate
campaign. demonstrate beyond the
cavil of IL doubt that the course which
the labor movement of our country Las
taken and is taking IS the wiscst and
From the time of the close Of con-
GTess IN 1906 when the trades unionists
made their campaign, when number
or l;'hor's opponents We're defeated for
reelection to congress and the ma
1orllics of others materially cut down,
When the majority of the dominant
party in the house of representatives
was reduced nearly onc-half. to the
present day there has been one con
tinuous labor campaign. There has
been neither hating nor deviation
from the course which labor markch
out for itself in the march toward
progress and freedom.
What the toilrrS have most TO fear
is the lw"utal stagnation of the pco-
pie When they begin to think and
discuss what labor presents for the
rclncd! OF wrongs. relief from inius-
ticc ana the attainment OF its rights
the present and the future are full Of
hope. II is the rising sun of Il healthier
and Il more Intelligent public opinion
i'll which the workers may place their
faith and their hope for redress and
justice.
The tOiliuS masses of our country
appeal to and have II right to expect
that every workman without regard to
poliii zeal partisan at1ilint ion. hat every
Sympathizer and friend of human lib
ertN. will stand by and cooperate With
the great cause of human freedom IL
understood and eNcmplitied by the
trades union movement. the federation
of the organized workers of America,
the American Federation of Labor.
Let us unite. fcderate and co-opcra tie
to the end that the hunlaniZinG as
piratiouS and influences of the organ
Ted labor movement of our country
may free the workers and in freeing
the workers remove from all our PEG
pie the last vcStigc of political class
oppression and tyranny.
Let the tcilcrS. their friends and SYM
pathiZcrS rise above political partisan
ship ana in the best sense be Ameri-
can citizens. reveriuG the history, mem
DRY and tradition of Washington. JEFF
| ferson and Lincoln and make of our
republic the great commonwealth of
real SovcrcignS and frccmcn.