The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-10-21
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securing better terms OF employment for
he whole laboriug community. What the
capitalist, who is the employer of labor
must face, that the organization of
labor, the labor union, is a permanent
condition in the industrial world. 1t has
come to stay You have heard the in.
dignant expression of the manager of
some great industrial enterprise, that he
did not propose to have the labor union
run his business; that he would deal with
his own men and not with outsiders.
The time has passed in which that atti.
tude can be assumed with any hope of
SUCCESSFULLY maintaining it. The wise
manager of corporate enterprise will re.
ccire the leaders of labor unions with
courtesy and respect and listen to their
claims and arguments as they would to
the managers of any other corporate en-
terprisc with whom they were to make an
important contract, affecting the business
between them
This is the opinion of Judge Taft,
President of the United States and maker
of judges. He is first quoted rs Judge
of the United States, and then as Presi.
dent of the United States. Who is rights
But, we had hoped that one question
was reasonably well established in this
country; that of freedom of speech; but
1t seems not. 1t appears that this whole
great subject must be gone into again
in order to re establish the rights of the
citizens to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness; and so in the Nations Cap
itol at this hour we find that the liberty
of certain leaders of the hosts of labor is
placed in jeopardy merely because they
exercised the right as we understand it,
guaranteed to them under the Constitu-
ton 1t is not question of the personal
liberty of the President of the American
Federation of Labor, of Mr. Mitchell and
Mr.. Morrison; it is question that in
wolves the very life of organized labor
through out this country and through
its various qualifications bringing into
question and imperiling the rights of the
toilcrs everywhere in the Union and ont
of it. If Mcssrs. Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison are sent to Jail, you need no
longer concern yourself about the open or
closed shop. All shops will be closed in
upon the workers of the United States.
closed and BOLTED and above the door
will be written in letters of blood; NO
HOPE
1t is splendid fact that we cannot be
placed in chains without putting manaclcs
upon the hands that enthrall us. s'Thc
more liberty you give away, the more you
have yourself. There is room in this
world for us all, for our thoughts. Out
upon the intellectual sea there is room
for every sail, and in the intellectual
air, space for every wing A Judge
that exercises right that he emphatically
denies to others is n disgrace to the bench
and the profession; he is of the sort that
is rapidly bringing the American courts
into disrcpute and drawing upon the bench
the just rebukc of the Chief Executive
OF the Nation. t<Most of us are con.
WINGED that ours is the best government
on earth, but we all know that whlie
there is much that must be held sacred.
must be preserved, there are some things
that should be destroyed We must pre.
serve the good and destroy the bad.'' We
all want a good government; we all want
to live i'll Il land where each citizen shall
receive equal and exact justice in fact as
well as IN theory; we want to live under
n flag that will protect every citizen who
holds the law to be supreme and guarantee
to him equal share in the control of the
government; where poverty is upon an
with wealth n-so- far as the en-
forccnent of law and order is concerned:
where the hut with its calico and cotton
receives the same splendid loyal homage
as the palace with it's silks and purple;
a country where manhood is worth moro
than gold and character of greater value
than great riches. country where the
coal miner can think as much of his man.
hood as the millionaire does of his wealth
a government that will stand between the
weak and the strong, between labor and
capital, between the individual and the
corporation, between want and wealth.
Many of our ancestors came to these
shores dwarfed with the serfdom and
hunger of the old world, broken in spirit
by the tyranny and caste of their op
pressors, and yet, we, their children, born
of liberty and love, have grown symmetri-
cal and fair, intelligent and free, tillinp
the fields, mining the crags of iron and
mountains of coal, making the furnaces
TO roar and the ovens to emblazon the
heavens, creating villages and towns.
building cities by the magic wand of the
sons OF toll: filling the streets with n
ba,