The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-28
DULUTH YOUNG WOMAN
~. TALKS ABOUT UNION
Very Properly Contends That
Unionism is the First Step to
Success.
Supports Her Position BY Argu-
ments Of the Most Conclusive
Character.

The following communication from 4
talented young woman Of this city,
clearly shows that we men have not
by any means, a monopoly Of the many
complex questions necessary to be con-
sidered, in making a correct analysis
Of the causes underlying the trades
union movement.
Duluth, March Is, 1908.
TO The Editor of The Labor World:
Unionism Means Success.
1t cannot be denied that unionism
means success wherever it is found.
and if not, why did the people in the
early history Of this country find it
absolutely necessary in the year Of
1854 to form colonial union.
Early Colonial Unions.
It was simply because one colony If
left to it's own weak-self could only
totter in existence and be sure to make
trouble for the others. Another reason
is that it required all of the colonies
to pull together in one uniform way
in order to be strong and wise enough
to compete with other nations. That
being true, one humble wage learner if
he starts out unprotected and alone
can never successfully compete. with
capital, and he is sure to make trouble
for those who are working for his good
and their own.
If the French alliance, drawn up in
America in 1778, was to inspire
the Americans with new courage,
strengthen their financial standing ana
teach them to refuse all overtures for
peace that did not recognize the rights
Of the respective states, then what
does the trades alliance mean to all
tradesmen?
Opposition and Motives.
Who was first to kick about the
early colonial union and French alli-
ance?
1t was England, and what was her
reason?
1t was because she feared the Amer
leans would get strong and wise
enough to compel her to recognize
their rights.
That is why capital in some cases
kick about unions and the alliances
Capital Necessity.
Capital is needed, but it is useless
for any one person to start out alone
in trying to compete with it.
England became of great value to
the United States after she learned to
recognize it's citizens as men and not
as subjects, and so will capital be OF
great value to the wage earners when
it learns to recognize laborers as men,
and not merely as manufacturing
TOOLS
Let your own judgment tell you
non-un1onists that when you turn
down a labor union capital is clucking
up its sleeve for the same reason that
England did when she found some Of
the colonists who were opposed to a
colony union.
Blindness Of Some.
Some people say they can't see any
good in labor union, but If they can
not 1t is because they don't want to, or
because they are too ignorant to real
lie it's meaning, while others do not
care to better their condition or that
of any one else,and the beings who
try to teach us government reform by
assas1nating our presidents and a
chief of police now and then.
England and some of the colonists
could not see any good in colony
union until they were taught to see it.
People have been known to say
the union laborers are too dissatisfied
with conditions, but what about the
employers?
Contention Of Employers.
They are dissatisfied because men
refuse to coin good United States
money for them without a fair show.
What is the cause Of unionism?
1t Is the result Of oppression, ambit-
ion and desire for prosperity.
That being fact, any person or
persons who are guilty of being a
would-be labor crusher are evidently
opposed to seeing ambition and pros
perity in his fellowman.
Part of Wisdom.
Let wisdom teach you would-be Ia
Dor crushers that the only way to kill
ambition is to wipe out history and the
knowledge OF just God, and not until
then will you accomplish your selfish
desire Not until capital has learned
to consider a fellowman as man to