The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-30
MARKHAM Club Socialists
Editorial Committee.
KATE s. HlllIARD.
e. A. BATTElI.
ROY E. SOUTHWICK.


tured their pampered carcasses down
pit-will give no heed
Arbitration.
They try Wade's wretched Arbitra.
ton Court, and bump against capi
taliet judge. too well-fed and clnss
bound TO understand or trouble about
tho conditions OF the common miners
Then, when the favorable moment
comes, they so on strike. Who can
blamc them? Who is there with q
spark of spirit who would not do as
they have done?
II they don't like their job, are they
( not entitled to leave lt2
The right to Knock Off can not be
denied. 1t is impossible to legislotc
II out Of existence. 1t is like the
right to breathe-so personal and in
innate that no law can abrogate il.
Acted upon with unanfmity, IL IS
moreover the greatest power that
Labor wields. Once let the workers
grasp what unity means to them. and
arbitration court may be given the
so-by.
There are cases In which It Is al
most impossible to obtain Justice by
legal process. and the case of Labor
struggling with It's exploiters is one
OF them, The whole social system is
based upon the exploitation of labor.
That is why the unionists of Great
Britain and America will have nothing
10 do with legal arbitration, and year
after year defeat its proposers by over
whclming maJoritlcs at their con
crosses.
Unity, and unity alone, will givc
the workers what they demand and de-
serve, The right to "knock off Is so
powerful that when threatened unan-
inIously II is the most conclusive OF
arguments and frequently convInces
without It's being necessary TO trans
late the threat into action
Labor Was Before Capital
We had an illustration OF that In
Bundanba this week, when the miners
by their organization dominated tho
situation there. and thwarted cap-
ituljst plot An attempt was being
made to get Bundanba coal for the
New castle trade, and the miners took
prompt steps TO stop It,
Let single pound of coal be TAX
en- from here to the strike districts" T"
cease work"
They dictated the terms upon which
they would continue to cut coal dur
Ing this crisis. and the oolllcry propri-
etors had no option but TO accept
them
ut seems to me" said one OF the
bosses bitterly. when some reference
had been made TO "employers OF Ia
bor"-"it seems to me that labor is
employing capital"
Unfortunately this IS not true. and
the root of the whole mischief lies
there. Labor ought 10 be employing
capital, and most of the evils of soci-
ETY. arise from the unnatural condl~
tIons which make capital the employ
er of labor. In the words of wise
old Abraham Lincoln. Labor was be-
fore capital"
superior the servant. because we have
made the created the master OF the
creator, that Industrial troubles and
their consequent social evils afflics
us.
Society will one day realize this
fact 1t Is even now slowly percolat-
Ing into its brain. A strike such as
this will hasten the process. and
bring nearer the time when the rot
ten system that makes money the en-
ployer of men Will be brought to an
end. and men will become the employ
crS of money.
The unity Of labor is the way out
and the way onward-Brisbane Work.
CT.