The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-26
WAGE FARMERS
UNITE FOR JUSTICE

History Of Labor Proves the Wisdom
of Presenting q Solid Front at the
Polls--ln No Other Way Can Its
Power Be Effectively Demonstrated.
There is no sense for the men In the
organized labor movement to attempt
10 conform their course to the satisfac-
ton OF all, says Samuel Gompers In
American Federatlonist. The men in the
labor movement know the course out
lined for them and by them, which
time, history and experience have DEM
onstrated to be the wisest and which
results have indicated.
Now the faddists are again at work
In their antagonism to labor's effort to
secure the rights and promote the In
terests OF the toiling masses. The
latest attack from this source is d.
rected against the executive council Of
the American Federation Of Labor in
insisting upon the Incorporation in the
platforms Of the two grea. political
parties Of labor's most imperative me-
cessltles and demands. 1t is quite in
keeping to find the same trend Of at
tack of the faddists In almost identical
language of the Van Cleave-Parry
Post capitalist press In the abuse
heaped upon the heads of the men
most devoted to the rights, interests
and welfare Of the toiling masses OF
our country.
OF course we understand that the
capitalist enemies to labor would have
it tamely and complacently accept their
absolute domination, rule and the
edicts Of their congressional and ju-
dicial representatives and mouth
pieces and to endure all the wrongs
and injustice which may be imposed
upon the toIlers.
On the other hand, the faddist would
have the wage earners OF the country
play politics with them rather than
be up and doing, ready and willing to
bear the brunt of Industrial and po-
litical battle for labor's rights, not In
some dim distant future, but now, now!
There may Turk in the minds OF
some that there il another and bet
ter way than the true trades union way
by which the toilers may secure the
rights and the Justice due them, but
not only the past achievements and
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even the incidents Of this immediate
campaign, demonstrate beyond the
cavil Of doubt that the course which
the labor movement Of our country has
taken and W taking Is the wisest and
most promising of the best results.
From the time of the close of con-
gress in 1906, when the trades unionists
made their campaign, when number
Of iabor's opponents were defeated for
reelection TO congress and the ma
1orities Of others materially cut down,
when the majority Of the dominant
party in the house of representatives
was reduced nearly one-half, to the
present day there has been one con
tinuous labor campaign. There has |
been neither hating nor deviation |
from the course which labor marked |
out for itself In the march toward |
progress and freedom.
What the toilers have most to fear
is the mental stagnatlon Of the peo'
pie When they begin to think and |
discuss what labor presents for the |
remedy Of wrongs. relief from injus-
tice and the attainment OF its rights
the present and the future are full Of /
hope. 1t Is the rising sun Of a healthier
and more Intelligent public opinion
In which the workers may place their
faith and their hope for redress and
justice
The toiling masses of our country
appeal to and have right to expect
that every workman without regard to
political partisan afiiliation. that every
sympathizer and friend of human lib
erty, will stand by and cooperate with
the great cause OF human freedom as
understood and exemplihed by the
trades union movement, the federation
Of the organized workers Of America,
the American Federation of Labor.
Let us unite, federate and cooperate
to the end that the humanizing as
pirations and influences of the organ
Ted labor movement OF our country
may free the workers and in freeing
the workers remove from all our pec-
pie the last vestige OF political class
oppression and tyranny.
Let the toilers, their friends and SYM
pathizers rise above political partisan
ship aud in the best sense be Aneri-
can citizens. revering the history. mem
ory and tradition Of Washington, JET
ferson and Lincola and make Of our
republic the great commonwealth Of
real sovereigns and freemen.