The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-21

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never take q long-term lease ON 1t
under any circumstances.
Battle Must BE- Won. 800.
The idea is to win this battle with
as little real inconvenience to your
selves as possible. A wise discrim1n-
alton against such buildings costs you
nothing. There are plenty Of other
buildings in your own town where
you can spend your money. And yet
such discrimination would mean the
complete effacement of the whole
movement to overthrow labor organi-
cation.
But in order to do this greatly need
ed work your union label leagues
must be kept up and your enthusiasm
kept alive.
Use Good Judgment.
Remember that brains win. The
people who attempt to enrich them
selves by robbing labor are so lily
informed as to believe that prosperity
at least for themselves-can be
built up on wage reductions, the same
as the slave owners of the southern
states once believed that they could
make the south rich with negro slave
labor. But the north was on the wage
system and grew rich while the COM
merce and business Of the south Ian
guished, because they lacked the, sus-
tanning power of "a great volume Of
wage money moving in steady tide
through the channels Of industrial and
commercial activity. So the south had
a comparatively few plantation own
esf~o IN, %r4
On their verandas and pointing with
gold-headed canes at their. possessions
of land and slaves, while everybody
else was poor and the cities grew with
exceeding slowness.
Therefore, when the war Of the re-
bellion took place the south was infe-
rior in both population and wealth AMI
suffered defeat-and from that day to
this the curse Of the south has been
it's low. wages, resulting in slow
growth, while in the north where
wages were twice as high great cities
have been built, rivaling the much
older cities Of London, Paris and Ber-
lin.
Curse Of Low Wages.
Wherever the policy of building up
prosperity on low wages and long
hours has been adopted, it has proven
to be a dismal failure, blight upon
business as we'll as upon labor, and a
general curse to the public. The pro-
position to attract growth to the head
of Lake Superior by attacking organ
lied labor-and thus also attacking the
homes Of the people-is absurd. and
shows inexcusable ignorance Of the
hi story of this country.
And to the ignorance Of this attack
there is added the malice such as per-
haps the snake has when in it's rage it
sometimes turns and buries it's fangs
in it's own flesh. And to the ignor-
ance and the malice there Is also add
ed degree Of the vain pride of mag
mary superiority, which is we'll typi-
fled by the gorged and swollen wood
tick on a dogs back proud Of the mag
nitude Of its inflated pod.
Methods That Will Win.
But with all of this It is we'll to-. be
patient and to remember that we can
not win by matching. malice against
malice, but by setting in operation
those mighty forces of discriminative
buying and patronage which would
soon put to rout those who would de-
spoil US. Remember that this contest
cannot be won with club and brickbat
and damage to property. The adher-
ents of any cause who reckon riot to
be source Of strength, are beaten in
advance. Discriminative buying and
loyaltye=to the union label will easily
win greater victories than were ever
achieved by any kind of unlawful at
tack or spiteful reprisal.
And let the husbands. the brothers
and the lovers set the right example by
wearing union label clothes and al
ways demanding the label on all
| manufactured commodities The un,
| ion man who does not do this is worth
less to the cause and is a hindrance
to the progressive enlightenment Of
his country,
And above all else let organized la
Dor endeavor to keep justice on It's
side. He who would use the tremen-
dous power Of organization to ride an
Industry to death and impoverish the
owner and employer is a rascal at
heart, and unless firmly checked by
the wiser and more honest members
| Of organized labor the resulting reac-
ton will be speedy and bitterly dis
appointing to all who work. Undoubt-
odly organized labor has sometimes
! been Influenced by noisy and unprin-
cipled agitators into doing things that
were not right-but even 40, for each
time that labor has been wrong the
entrerched corporate interests have
been wrong a. thousand times. There
are corporations which have violated
the law many times every day for the
past 20 years or longer-every time C
somebody's hurt. But they do not
propose to go out Of business on that
account-and neither do we propose ia
go out Of business.
And let us make no mistake as to
the vital influences which we need for
our upbuilding and our defense. Re-
CARELESS of devils and hyprocrites-o1
whom there are plenty-we need the
church and the school as the most
powerful instruments with which tc
form the everlasting ,defenses OF labor
because theN% build up character and
dispel ignorance. These defenses w