Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28

Hank to the sound OF marching of workers,
Onward they come with victorious might.
Naught can withstand them,
Naught can disband them,
For theirs is the future; for theirs is the right
Look to the waving thousands of banners
Tlinging their message far out in the night;
Labor comes onward;
Faces the downward;
For theirs is the future: 70 rtheirs Is the right
Hank to the song that's sung by the workers.
Chanting a strain full OF nope ana OF hsht-
Our cause Is glorious,
Our host victorious
FOR ours Is the future and ours is the right
Charities and Commons.
TT sometimes happens that, unwit-
tingly or not, arguments are ad-
= vanced by persons who have no
thought or sympathy with unions,
that for Interpretations and advance
ment bodies of men in the same lines
of Industry or even in the same COM
munity are advised to take concerted
action to bring about desired enus,
which are considered right ana Just,
whether In the civic, social or business
world. o.,
Concentration of forces makes for
strength and the united appeal Tor
remedial legislation is far more apt TO
be given heed by the councilman,
mayor, governor or other person VINO
is applied to for relief. Thus group
of citizens in a certain locality FORM
themselves into an improvement society
and demand of the councilman relleI
from certain existing evils. This oe-
mand, coming as 1t does from q mum
Der of persons, is far more likely TO De
given attention than IL one or Two IN
dividuals requested the same thing De
done.
From tho pulpit in one of the fash
ionable churches in Los Angeles one
Sunday recently the pastor. read let,
ter from working girl, VINO ppotesteu
against the long hours and WORKING
conditions which were forced upon ner
and others. The pastor was asked 10
do something to remedy the eVh, anu
in doing so sounded the keynote OF. or
panized labor. In the course of his re-
marks he said IF n girl, to care
properly for herself and those depen-
dent on her, must enter the arena OF
business she deserves all the respect
and courtesies which she would expeci
to receive If kinder fortune perhillteu
her 10 life in theshelter of her home
under the protection OF rather Oh
brother-
"One of the outrages committed today
is the low wages for when THESE
noble, Industrious, selt-sacrifcing young
women are compelled to work, ana IL
is but adding insult to injury to prac-
tice the tyranny of the slave driver
lash by requiring these already over
worked and underpaid daughters Oh
liberty to work seven days in week.
''These young women have my SIN
cerest sympathy They are right IN
protesting against these truly un-Amer-
lean conditions. They should be better
paid. and they could be II the patrons
of the stores were willing to pay a
trifie more for commodities. 1t IS q
plty they cannot organize themselves
together for mutual protection"
Organized labor Is ever ready ana
willing to help such as these, ana one
of it's cardinal principles Is that NV
ing wage shall be paid that It's mem
hers be enabled to live as respected
citizens should.
Many of those Joined together in So
cieties and associations would resent
The jmputation that they were In q
"union'' to bring about desired ENDS
and would declare with emphasis ano
great display of dignity that they hao
.no use for the unions" But by what
over appellation these societies are
known they remain to all intents ano
nurposes unions, and the objects sought
10 he attained are nowise dissimilar tc
those of labor organizations.
fake. for example, the lawyers. Is
there any union in the land whicf
rnaintains the "closed shop to as grea,
degree as do these men? clerk NUS
serve an apprenticeship or pass stipu'
lated time in study, acquaint himself
with its intricacies and pass critica
examination before he is admitted tc