Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17

would probably be long delayed but
for the energetic agitation of the ques-
tion by representatives of organized
labor
Perfection Not Expected
"Of course, when organized labor
permits itself to sympathize with vio-
lent methods, with breaches of the law,
with boycotts and other methods of
| undue redress, il is not entitled to our
sympathy. But it is not to be expect
ed that such organizations shall be per
feet and that they may not at all times,
and in particular eases, show defective
tendencies that ought to be corrected.
Zone defect which has been pointed
out has been the disposition of the ma
| jority of members of labor unions to
reduce the compensation Of all men en-
gagged in a particular trade to dead
! level and to fail to recognize the differ
ence between highly skilled and very
industrious workmen and the one less
| skilled and less industrious. ! think
| there is movement among trades I'M
| ions themselves TO correct this level
! ling tendency, and nothing could
strengthen the movement more than the
adoption of some plan by which there
should remain among union workmen
the impetus and motive to be found in
greater reward for greater skill and
greater industry.
Not Allied With Socialism
"There is one thing to be said in re-
spect to American trades uniOnism that
| its critics are not generally alive to. In
| France the trades unions are intensely
! socialistic. Indeed, in some last diff
culties it was plain that there was a
strong anarchistic feeling among them
and that they opposed authority of all
kinds. 1t is also plain that the tendency
toward Socialism in England and Eng
land s trades unions is growing stronger.
! need not point out the deplorable re
! suits 10 this country if trades union
! ism became synonym for socialism.
"Those who are now in active control
of the federation of labor and all the
| great railway organizations have set
1 their faces like flint against the prop.
uganda of socialistie principles. They
are in favor of rights of property and
of our present institutions, and such
remedial legislation as to put working
men in an equality with their oppon
ents in trade controversies and trade
contracts. and to stamp out the monop-
oily and the corporate abuses which are
an outgrowth of our present system,
unaccompanied by proper limitations
''Our friends of the great unions at
times complain of our courts, more pre-
| haps because of decisions in injunction
cases than for anything else. have
already referred TO this articular phase
of litigation, in which they have an in
tercst, but when the subject of the
courts is mentions it suggests to me a
larger field for complaint and reform in
which all citizens are interested and
have right to be heard
Laws Defective
FThere is no subject upon which
1 feel so deeply as upon the neeessi-
| ty for reform in the administration of
both civil and criminal laws. To sum
il all up in one phrase, the difficulty
| in both is undue delay. II is not too
much to say the administration of
criminal law in this country is dis.
grace to our civilization and that the
| prevalence of crime and fraud which
here is greatly in excess of that in the
European countries is due largely TO the
failure of law and its administrators
10 bring criminals to justice. am sure
this failure is not due to corruption of
officials"