United labor bulletin., 1909-12-31
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
The Dignity of Labor
BY C. Il. LR WIN.
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of adequate requiring safeguard employees only
personal industrial accidents but from personal in
jues conditions and the need of adequate laws reasonably
compensans plain that
legislatures Those who accustomed the
object of and children can
understand why should be required obtain employers h
blhy opinion in this direction be
public has been educated the idea that and
the basis of civilization and that the governmental ideal the progress
humanity. stead of the dollar mark
Employees class legislation They have right
will be enacted and enforced for unless such laws
the broad of the good the greatest number
respected; public welfare must be considered and the
fundamental doctrines of personal liberty must not be violated he no TREND
who for the of obtaining little cheap and temporary popularity
which soesy
that the European of employers liability
only the best for employees but that the long the best for en-
mmb the best for the of and for the
of civilization The difficulty the way OF such legislation this country
the of public opinion
For generations, country capitalists
d by and mpose laws have endowed employed writers of
ability and of and public opinion Nearly
been subsidized by saen wealth preach
the gospel of Nearly all of textbooks political economy
have been by the employ those who called captains of
We send boys high school and college where they read their text
professors innumerable Labor
and which right buy
machinery material market of the
they that the only of the employer
labor which he buys get the of that he can "a, the last expense
himself
The doctrine ha, labor commodity to be bought and
underies the
labor problem This doctrine followed its legitimate conclusion would reduce
to condition OF slavery worse than the AHean slavery the Penod
would buy the labor but the la
ber; and therefore when the b should become disabled from he
could be freely ca" ASIDE and inc labor OF som" heT person ous e
wikeanes this whole political philosophy is be
II
modify We buy material buy machinery but employ The
all of the
whether employers employees The useless members of
idle rich the idle Before much hoped for
protection of the world public
be Nothing of il this world We hear
but industry the whose
and brain has converted material of the manufactured
product Of genius and skill
ago of Mems
p j. Deauh the that
Mr. Duh The senator's objection is based
manhood the basis of civilization that be Judged by
what they and not by what they man! What
sentative manp Surely hearan
able take his less less
pou ne and fortune which his industry
earned
representative feels the nobl, and the best
people opinion
the adcn, of clothes and fortune Let
idea of the thinker Emerson 1T of civil
the kind of out When public sentiment be
will have trouble sound laws for the
Of labor In the let organized labor continue to as'a'e and
yand dream o. until shall become reality
ALL ideal but the perfection of ha, which 1t the highest
ecpdon which be- An ideal is like whose base mnss
phb with the surrounding t but whose summit the sky he only
of labor keep the summit and keep climbing
Organized labor engaged warfare for the rights of Often
when the mind nvounary the great
the days of andsavey agitation the North divided hostile
There those who looked for pbe and there
those who advocated dissolution the Union There others who
ndcabc evil who declared that God
Fort Sump,, united North the
of the Union Cnennau became commonplace example The farmer left
village blacksmith, closed his little nailed
board which udy printed the words Gone the War All past
forth and
for the freedom of alien You struggle
The labor the of humanity itself
,abIhmn Justice the preservation of ead and the civil
nav e humber and more osn task sshtns with BALLOTS instead d @
task less noble The greatest battles fought with ball
& % I, % o % % s raw Emulate % I % 5 Sa of r d @ n @ a1 E. ns d,rnns
thing else but industrial freedom and social United
fall In The hour Of need be
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