The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-01-21
Into a Compact Army for the
impending Fray If they
Wish the Leave Battle Field
Victorious.

The intended suppression of the
labor movement and the attempts
to outlaw all organizations of the
American working people express
ed in the infamous judicial de,
clslon i'll the case of the labor hat
ing BUCK Stove and Range Co. of
st. Louis against the officers of the
American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompcrs, John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison, must be con
sidered by the working people of
this country as a very plain hint
III regards as to what is planned
by the capitalists against them for
the futher preservation of capi.
talistic interests. The latest iudi-
clal venture, which aims at the
crippling of all labor organizations
of>the country, demonstrates CON
cluslvely that the courts Of our
land are acting in common with
the capitalists in order to enable
the latter to continue their arbi-
trary rule rs long as possible and
to curtail the power of the labor
movement, which now at last seems
to be feared by the capitalists.
Whatever face coming events may
have, the working class of Ameri.
ca now has the solemn duty to
prepare for the worst. And to be
enabled to prepare in the proper
manner, nothing is more essential,
as has been so often pointed out
by us, but organization In u2all,
even III the smallest towns of the
country, where as yet no labor or
ganlZatlons are in existence, the
forces of labor must be organized
and the formation Of unions must
at once be begun. In
towns, where during the past
the labor organizations have been
very weak, an energetic agitation,
which must set in Immediately, is
imperative in order to strengthen
Che movement. In short, the
American working class must unite
INTO compact army for the i'm
pending fray, if it wants to leave
the battle field victorious.
We have been brought consider
ably nearer to the desperate but
decisive battle for supremacy and
we shall win this battle, if we are
united. Every separate organi-
ton, which today, while we are
facing this impending danger,
stands aside from the general labor
movement and which does not act
in unison with the great army of
organized labor-it matters not
whether they are knowna as knights
of Labor, Industrial Workers of
the World, or b. any other name,
places upon itself the stigma and
suspicion of wanting to consciously
become traitor to the noble cause
Of labor. Let us do away with the
damnable hair splitting and petty
differences which have kept us
divided for so many wears and
seperate us today and let every
workingman do his best to create
all united movement and have it
then conducted in manner ac-
ccptaDle to all of us. Here in the
United States. where at the pres
cnt time the attempt is made to
put the knife to the throat Of all
organized workers, there is no
longer room for dlsscnsion among
the labor movement. 1t will only
endanger the latter, if unity does
not prevail. The latest vehement
onset on the part of the capitalists
against the organized forces of
labor can hardly be compares with
any preceding attack and it de-
| mands proper defense. All
toilers, be they men or women,
must do their duty in this fight,
they must be on guard now and
for all the time.-The Bakers
| Journal