The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-10-23
Buckeye Labor Leader Handles
Bane Of Industrial Problem
With Bare Hands They Fit
Non Union Men to Hold Jobs
Comrades Quit, He charges.

leader OF Columbus, O., while couched
In highly expressive language is to
the point and bears the truth in every
line. -.-, -" @.:.,
~ Mr.. Ameringer depicts a phase of
organized labor's struggle for q fair
deal that Is distressing to every
staunch and far-sighted union man
that comes in contact with such
situation. - s
There are three kinds of scabs-
the professional, the amateur and un-
ion scab. - :
= The professional scab Is usually q
high paid, high-skilled worker in the
employ Of strike breaking and detec-
tive agencies. His position Is that Of
a special officer in the regular non
union army
The amateur scab brigade Is COM
posed Of riff-raff, slum jewellers, rubes
imbeciles, college students and other
undesirable citizens. -~:~
Professional scabs are few and eff
Gent. Amateur scabs are plentiful
and deficient, and union scabs both
numerous and capable.
The professional scab knows what
sake of the long. green only.
The amateur scab, posing as a free
born American citizen, who scorns to
be fettered by union rules and regu-
lat1ons, gets much glory 81, little
pay and when the strike is over an
honorable discharge.
the region where Darwin searched
for the missing link. 80.
The union scab receives less pay
than the professional scab, works
better than the amateur scab and
don't know that he is a scab.
He will take a pattern from scab
pattern maker, cast tt in a union
mold, hand the casting to as mean q
scab as ever walked in shoe leather
and then proudly produce" a paid-up
union card in testimony of his union
ism.
Uses Union Gard As Cloak.
Way down in his heart he seems
to have a lurking suspicion that there
is something not altogether right
in his actions, and it is characteristic
of. the union man who co-operates
flash union card in the face of in
nocent bystanders.
He don't know that a rose under
any other name Is just as fragrant;
he don't know that calling g. cat 4
canary won't make the feline sing,
and he don't know that helping to
run a shop while other workers bend
all their energies in the opposite d.
rection is scabbing. He relies on the
name and seeks refuge behind a
little pasteboard card.
- When strike is declared it be-
comes the chief duty of the ~organi-
zation to effect a. complete shutdown
of the plant: For that purpose warn
ings are mailed, or wired, to other
places. to prevent workingmen from
moving to the afflicted city.
. Pickets are stationed around the
plant or factory; or farbor, to stop
workers from taking the places Of
the strikers. Amateur scabs are coax
ed, persuaded, or bullied away from
the seat Of the strike. Persuasion
having no effect on. the professional
strikebreaker, he is sometimes treat
ed with brickbat shower. Shut
down that plant; shut it down CON-
pletely, is the watchword of the
striker.
''Howdys'' Instead of Stones.
Now while all these things are 60
ing on and men are stopped in ones
and twos. a steady stream of dinner
pail parades pours through the fac
tory gates. Why are they not molest-
ed? Oh. they're union men, belong
ing to a different craft than the one
on strike. Instead Of brickbats and
insults it's Hello, John; hello, Jim;
howdy, jack" and other expressions
Of good fellowship.
You see this is a carriage factory,
and it is only the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Birthstone and Emery
Polishers that are striking. Tho
Brotherhood of Oil Rag Wipers, the
Fraternal Society Of White Lead
Daubers, the Undivided Sons of Var
nish Speaders, the Benevolent Com
p1lation Of Wood Work Gluers, the
Iron Bender's Sick and Death Benefit
Union, the Oakdale Lodge of Coal
Shovelers,. The Martha Washington
Lodge Of Ash Wheelers, the Amalga-
mated Brotherhood of Oilers, ths
Engineers Protective Lodge, the Sta
tionary Firemen, the F. o.: o. L., the
A. s. S.. z. S. Societies have nothing
to do with, the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Birthstone and Emery Pol
ishers. '
Help With Resolutions.
At the next regular meeting. Of
those societies, ringing resolutions
endorsing the strike of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Birthstone and
Emery Polishers will be passed. Mo-
| raj support is pledged and five dollars
worth of tickets are purchased for
the dance given by the Ladies' Vol
unteer and Auxiliary Corps for the
benefit of the Amalgamated Assucia-
ton Of Birthstone and Emery Polish
ers. >';:%'a, ST. 80,
The whole thing is like beating 4
mans brains out and then handing
him a toothache tablet. . :s ',:... H;.l.>>
During a very, bitterly fought
| molders' strike in a northern city tho
| writer noticed one of the prettiest IL
Illustrations Of the workings Of plain
| scabbings and union. scabbing. g.:
: A dense mass of strikers and sym
1 y "a $500. 100 ~ 49,