The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-11-07

mond, Ind, and on Wednesday OF last
week went to the establishment and
broke the plates lot the book with a
hammer-Lahor journal, La Crosse /
Foundation Of Society. ~.
We are beginning to see that it Is
the duty of organized society to pro-
tect the Individual; that when a state
ceases to produce men decay sets In.
The application of the Justinian
code thus produces in modern society
just what it did In ancient Rome. In
putting the dollar above the man, it
exterminates the man.
These are facts that lie at the foun-
dalton of good government. If the
individual is forced by the const1uc-
ton of the law by the court to fall
back upon the old Saxon trial by bat
tie, he should be allowed a nopportun-
ity to carry his fight to it's logical
conclusion. This will teach organized
society that it must listen to his COM
plant and give him legal remedy.
1t capital has the right to appoint
receiver when the corporation VIC
lates its obligations, labor ought to
have the same right. This would go
far towards stopping the issuing of
watered stock and overlooking our
railroads and the corporations with
obligations for the benefit of the priv
ileged few. If the first earnings of
the road should go towards labor and
towards the protection of the public
in keeping up the rolling stock, the
dividends on the bogus stock would
soon be SO small that the stock would
be worthless.
1t will thus be seen that govern
ment by Injunction is not mere
question in the difference of a writ,
but 1t strikes at the very foundation
of good government, and as it is set
tied, we shall have government by
the people or by the corporations
Columbus Labor News.
A Matter Of self.Preservation.
If fair play and equal rights will
hurt the trusts, then trusts ought to
be hurt If nothing less than conf1s-
cation can make as a free and self
governing people, then HE trusts will
have. To be confscaf III This fact
should be as plain Us daylight ( to
every one except the trust owners
and their salaried 1nenials. =.
Every man has q right to all he
can honestly earn. I; r. he pays fair
wages and sells at affair price, he has
right to his profits. II he lnyents a
machine he has right to his royal
ties. It he organizes business for
the public benefit, he has right to
be we'll paid for it. : e T
But no one Individual out of 77,000,-
900 people is entitled to $3.50 min
ute. If that is the monopolists' union
wage, we should refuse to pay it.
The monopolist Is too expensive a
luxury to a nation like ours, where
out of 100000 families, only 4,739,-
900 own their own homes free, and
where the average useful, Industrious
man gets more than$2 a day..
In spite of all the hullabaloo about
SOCIALISM," *'the rights Of property"
etc, this one simple fact is becoming
clearer every day-it is better for
the people to own and operate the
trusts, than for the trusts to own and.
operate the people. Herbert N. Cas-
son, in Springfield Tradesman.
Progress and Growth Of the Union
Label.
The Union Label has been largely
used during the last fifteen years in
the United States, it has only ex,
tended to other countries during the
past five years, particularly Canada
and England.
The object of it's use is to secure
patronage for union shops, and thus
to increase employment for union
men by inducing trades untonists and
their sympathizers to ask dealers for
goods bearing the union label, and as
far as practicable to buy no other.
A union made brand of goods a
dealer may be induced to keep in
stock through mention OF the label by
q few customers. a, ID, =. IA ....
The large success attained in Undue
ing manufacturers Of hats and cigars
to recognize the union In their shops,
in order to use the label on their
goods, Is partly due to the fact that
these two commodities are bought by
men only, and in large proportion
by working men. Gs>s=%z Il: -. ~.
In advertising overalls the Garment
Makers union label is naturally made
prominent; also the printers label on
all kinds OF printed matter addressed
to voters by parties or candidates. =. r.
During the last few years the urg'
Ing OF buyers to demand goods bear
Ing the union label has been pushed
vigorously throughout the United
States, and is now being pushed
throughout the Dominion by adver
tisements in papers and on bill
boards, by small papers published fo1
the purpose, and by Label leagues q
local union united for agitation, tbs
wives Of unionists being interested
and Ii some cases the lady organizer
being employed to travel and estab
iish such leaguesA IIhe Voice, Wi a q !
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Labor Vote Worth somsthing.
The fra ntic efforts of w lliam How.
ard Taft, 4 candi date for5 the presidency
/ Of the United States, TO persuade labor
Of his ind wing love ana affection, and
to hood wink her into accepting hi
stat eraes,ts sthat esiil worked