The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-09-02

of the objects and aims of unionism:
when we discern what it seeks to accom-
complish, then, and then only, can it be
understood why men viii devote time and
money to it.
1t ID very unreasonable for any one
to expect one to have very great inter
est in something he will not take the time
to study 50 he may understand what it is
STRIVING 10 gain Some may view condi-
tons with a feeling of fear and it may
appear to many that the future is over
Swallowed by many dark Clouds but if
this We're true none could be blamed ONLY
those who have stood in the path of
progress and have blocked the law of eyo-
luton for the time being, but let them
beware for 10 and behold the day will
come when they must answer for their
actions They will surely be called to
| answer at the bar of Justice on earth
and the jury will be those who have been
| abused, maligned and betrayed. Their
| verdict will be harsh, cold and exactinp
| as the treatment they have received at
| the hands of those who have used the
brutalized methods in their blindness in
trying to force submission to their will
How IS it that blinded to the
eroncnous crimes committed in the name
OF Justice, who can live within the walls
| OF the seething maeIstrom with it's hide
Gus debauchery when men s lives are Civ
en- over to greed, wheE little children
must suffer the pangs of hunger, and on
the virtuous check of labor is planted
the crimson stain of curse, without feel
he 10 Of Vic. in, hoe
led to believe WAS the land of the free
| and the home of the brave.
The spirit still lives that has moved
the world towards progress; it may for
time be stifed but it cannot be slain:
1t will rise in all of its purity and great
| ness to the needs of a suffering human
ity; it will lie in wait for the oppressed
to soothe the burning and aching hearts
OF those who have been denied the right
to ask for treatment that they believe
they, as men, had the right to ask rather
than to have thought they were suppl
ants living life of sufferange at the
hands of those who believe themselves to
be made of better clay
AS we listen to the rumbling noise that
seems TO float in the clouds of discomfort.
It seems as if we hear the clarion call of
better day coming. To those of the
workers of the world who have studied
he principle of unionism, who have stud
ed It's motives have come to the conclu-
SION that never in the life of man has
here been higher aim or more noble
purpose that is worthy of the time and
sacrifices that have been made for it.
hot
'hirks the duties that fall upon him
trough his being member of it is lit
tie better than the ones who are on the
outside attacking it. Each member owes
as duty to fulfill the trust that has
oecn placed in his keeping, he must re
member that it is not his place to expect
some one to do his share of what bv right
belongs to him. long as we mus.
'eslst the attacks made upon us as a col
.ectIve body we must defend the prin-
lpie for which we stand rs Il collective
orce than can never know defeat. If
We only knew our strength and learn the
BEST methods of using it we could Danish
he evils that confront us so sorclv TODAY.
that we must learn for our condition will
gro" worse as time moves on, the struggle
VIII gro" all the mercer the CONNECT
non between the wage earners narrows it
self in its inability to furnish work for
those who are seeking it We have learn
ID to our sorrow that what was told us as
the truth, was the most despicable and
;owardly lie the towards who told them
I'D so for the glttering gold, thew be.
.rayed every semblance of manhood. wor
shipped at the shrine of the Golden Calf.
but the day is coming when they all must
answer, WHY? Let us face the work we
have to do in the spirit of the brave and
fearless, let us not be daunted by the oh.
stacles which rise in our path, we are
great enough, we are strong enough to
almost stop the world from revolving m.
On its axis. What must we do? Keen in
mind both day and night the work we
nave to do; let us never for a moment
forsake the ship that has weathered so
many storms, but let us hoist sail and
make for port of safely, the harbor of
justice in which liars and malefactors
are barren, where the true and the inst
IAN find comforting repose.
Come brothers, one and all, whether
YOU be union man or not, study our aims.
ask yourselves whether we are driftinr7
Are you willing to sink with the rotton
hulk that is surely doomed to 90 down