The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-08
THE MARINE TROUBLE.


cles is in no sense an ordinary strike,
but a manly, God inspired protest
against oppression and wrong.
The Lake Carriers efforts to make
abject slaves out of their employees,
and reduce them to state OF servi-
tude that would disgrace slave
driver of ante-bellum days, cannot be
tolerated by an enlightened people in
this day and generation.
What business is it of the Lake
Carriers whether an employee is a
member of the Odd Fellows, Labor
union, the Baptist church, or any other
lawful organization, so long as he
does the work we'll, for which the Car
riers employ him, and is in all other
respects a devoted and faithful en-
ploye.
When the Lake Carriers arrogate to
themselves the right not only to con-
troll the time and talents of the men
in their employ, but also to control
their souls, and dictate to them what
society or organization they shall at.
filiate with in civil life, the employees
would be unworthy the name of men
did they not protest.
Is it not the bounden duty of every
good citizen, to call a halt on men
and measures, that breed anarchy in
our nation Tyranny, oppression, law
lessness and deviltry, on part of men
who may own and control ships, are
just as reprehensible, and demand re.
straint and condemnation, just as
much as does lawless conduct on the
part of drunken sailor, or booze
i. laden lumber jack.
Indeed, the ship owner deserves the
greater condemnation; for it is to be
presumed that his environment offers
fewer temptations for wrongdoing
The fact that his transgressions
against society and American princi
pies are more subtle and refined, does
rot mitigate his offense a single par
ticle. A virulent poison may be less
spectacular than club, but not q
whit the less mischievous.
The policeman can protect society
against the rowdy law breaker, but
who can measure the danger to ou1
free institutions that turks beneath
the insidious and inhuman methods oil
men in good clothes, outwardly re
dned, seemingly respectable, but who
in their dealings with, and treatment
Of, employees outrage every precep
of law human and divine. Ravenine
wolves whom the accident of birth, OF
more often blind chance, or oftenel
yet, INSCRIPTIONS appropriation, has
invested with means and made then
BOSSES
1t is high time that public senti
ment everywhere, and more especially
IL Duluth, was aroused to the un
aggregation of cold, inhuman snobs
known as the Lake Carriers Associa
ton, sought to perpetrate upon thei,
faithful employees. Don't let there b.
any mincing of words in expressin,
the condemnation.
The suppression of the infamou.
tonnage tax measure is an example
of what public sentiment can accom-
plish when thoroughly aroused in tn,
cause of right and justice. What il
the matter with our business me,
again bestirring themselves, an,
bringing their influence to bear upo]
the Lake Carriers Association, and b,
an overwhelming, all pervading publ
sentiment force the aggregation t,
cease oppression and wrong doing
treat employees fairly, and exact n
surrender of manhoo d or citizenship
as a condition precedent to employ
ment on ships? $500. :.
The Labor World is always con
sentative in discussing questions a
issue between employers and EN-
go ployes, but the Lake Carriers, in thi
instance, have forced the issue to
point at which forbearance toward
"a them, on part of the labor press
( ceases to be virtue, and ,the .aegre
cation of men who conceal their iden
. tity beneath the name Lake Carriers
Association must be brought befor
Z the bar of public opinion, their iden
: tity made known and their direlee
& tons exposed. If they don't wan
Il this done let them recede from thei
unrighteous demands and suuar
@ 4> themselves with the law of righteous
" ness towards their employees. 1.
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