The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-02

| That his long leadership, and this
apparent impossibility to fill his place
has gone to his head, and made him
| imagine that he is much greater a
nan than he really is, is undoubtedly
| the case, and accounts for the tactics
he has adopted in dealing with uues-
lions before congress-, where he has
unnecessarily antagOnized men to
whom organized labor must look for
recognition of their demands, and
where labor measures are often op-
posed on account of this very antagon-
| ism, which would otherwise receive
support.
There is no doubt but what ORGAN
lied labor in this country would be
much stronger with a leader who wa,
more in touch with conditions as they
actually exist, and who would bring
to the front the new policies which
sr1fft tfiifteI L,
future progress"
We quote portions of another ar
ticle. a reprint. from the same labor
paper:
"Organized labor. through its lead
ers. must recognize the mistakes OF
! the past if they expect to perpetuate
tthcir organizations or to develop the
| movement which they head. No
movement, no organization, no nation
can develop beyond the intellects
which guide these organizations, ana
iif the leaders are dominated by a set
fish motive the organization Will be
come tinged with a spirit OF selfish
mess. which has never appealed to
mankind in any walk of life, at any
time since history began.
at can be said in eXtenuauon OF
certain leaders Of organized labor thai
1.-THE precarious position which they oc
icupy as leaders has had tendency
to cause them to lose sight OF the Cd
iect behind the organization. Th'
natural instinct in man for power ant
Tosition is in no small measure re
SroneibIe for the mistakes of the
leaders, not necessarily in labo
unions alone. but in every branch .
lsociety. This desire for power an'
leadership and personal aggrandize
ment causes men who have beel
, earnest and sincere in their effort
: lin the start to deteriOrate into mer
: IDolfticians whose every act and utter
: arcc is tinged with the desire TO &c
: ter to the baser passions of the wort
inc majority in the societies or OF
, ganizations and this is undoubtedl
true when applied to the present leat
= ers of the Federation. We mentlo
: the Federation of Labor PARTICULAR
/. lin this article because that, organic
J. Ition is the only organization OF laoe
t which has yet found itself in diret
Opposition to the laws OF the IAN
Q There are other organizations OF !
II Thor whose leaders have made mi
: takes. but they have always kei
! themselves and their organization
e within the bounds of the law and r
If sDected the rights of every other ma
If in considering the rights of theI
a selves and their constituency; Wher
r as, the motto of the Federation is iu
O. the reverse, and unless the leade
If lcOnfOrm themselves and their organ
F cation in accordance with the laws
A. the land the leaders and the organ
- cation itself must be disintegrated al
IS pass into history, for in America t
le common sense in mankind is deVelc
Il ed to A greater extent than in any OF
nj or nation on the earth. and the Poop
IN who are the court of last resort IN II
ne !country. will never allow any SESte
n Ito develop in this country which do
n mot meet with the approval of the n
NJ iority of the citizens of the cot
H. try. ..o,s =.
r the leaders of the Federation by L
cl time. If it has not, the leaders mi
,fD be eliminated. The organization viii
N. they head has done many meritoric
en- things in times past and the peo
do are always ready and willing to
err knowledge the benefits which tn
efforts have brought to their constf
-er ency as a whole, but at the pres
to time labor organizations in gene
The land the Federation Of Labor in !
nc Iticular stand before the bar of pull
the opinion, having been convicted of
of fishness and disposition to rule
pa the people of the country in the in
iCh est OF the few. The people are p
cir ent and awaiting to see If the OBJ
lesson which they have been Tor