Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-09-09
appropriate that we turn our thots
for : brief while to thAt great organ
ization, Its labsrs, its hopes and its
destiny. SIS t}$s liza


organized one. Through the opera
tion Of that law one nation becomes
dominant and the other subser Went.
One man becomes the master and
1.-The other the serf.
& This idea of subserviency of one
GLASS to another, continuing through
the long centuries Of time, has been
|crystalized into a social status into
the idea Of the right OF one to com.
mand and the duty Of the other td
Fobey. '5t 81 81
Labor. organization is the one pow.
|er In the land more potent than all
other forces, that is gradually dis
solving that crystalized error that
|ossifed falsehood and is placing all
men on plane Of industrial equality.
Labor organization is making the
ban Of toll placed upon all people By
the edict Of Deity, badge Of honor
and respect.
Since the dawn Of history and up
until within the last half Of q CEN
fury, the laborers Of the earth were
compelled Ito accept for their service
whatever capital saw 1T to give
them; and capital saw at to afford
them just sulioient enumeration g
keep them in existence, holding them
IN poverty that the God Of necessity
enforced his requisitio for the man.
7ual service upon every member Of the
family, from the old man with trem-
bling hand to the delicate child Of
tln1 form, for the mere privilege Of
existence.
B Labor organized and, though often
defeated in Its early trials, 1t never
gave up the battle. A Today its VIC
torious banners wave. triumphantly
above nearly every industrial concern
In. the country. Today organized
capital treats with organized labor as
man treats with man, and labor is
still on the high road toward greater
progress With prudence and moder-
alton and holding fast to its doctri-
nal creed to uplift labor and demand
honor and respect to the toiler, labor
will yetmarch onward to greater and
ever greater trlumphs until the toll
or shallsreap his legitimate share In
the profits Of all8that his labor pro-
duces. That condition cans be brot
about only by education and the ad-
vancemeDt Of labor interests through
the laborers' honest energy and con-
seryatiye ambition and by carrying
On tts battle unde the bannA Of ab-
solute justics and equality to all.
But increased power always car
ries with It added duties and respon-
abilities The demand Tor theTec-
!ognItion Of our own rights carries
with It the recognition Of the rights
.of others. The greatest ally Of labor
organization inits battle for the ad-
vancement of labor interests isS the
publ conscienca and sympathy.
When the public fhlly unde erstands :
dispute its merits and demerits, Its
sense of justice viii always 5pe no
curate. Its sympathy Is always on
the side Of the toll err It Is essen
'tial,s there fore, IA this warfare that
not only the end sought should be
juet and fair but also the means
adapted to secure that end should be
above eli ticisms 81 eproach.
tits to the credit Of these great
organizations that In 9 king their de.
smands they do not satt tempt 90 meaa-
i5ufe Them by the standard of justice
and are eversrea to submit & Them 10
The FILTRATION Of any just and ims
partial tribunal. But of course, ss
long = there IRE human weaknessss
there win. bs found ~ III orgsntsa-
IItions men whose hasty 81 sinconsid deI-
..slts acts win be- 40 SSinjnfy CO the
cause of the org anizatio lon 70 1 which
jjthey slong Ne should neyer, ho1.
eYer, hold T. Rreat oiRanizat ationt Ee.
sponsibls lpIs the xio iolence sof any sinss
gle indtv tvtduaI or of I feW man 3 Who
hsys nave learned tho 6rst great
Isl IA lelf-go yernment nsmely,
seits #M #M Il :|s I 8
Object q On ganizstio q.
Nh What, ttsn. q the object abcr
organ atton Ins i; bfoa ssenSe, itals