The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-01

stroyed, men murdered and the long.
long list of atrocities practised by
Labor Trust members on other human
beings who cannot agree with the
trust methods.
Now for the better way.
Workingmen are now organizing IN
the old fashioned trades union or
guild way, affiliated with the Ma
tional Trades and Workers Associa-
ton whose constitution provides ar
bitration of differences with agree
ment for no strikes, boycott, picket
ing or hateful coercion Of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolved
from the experience of the past and
is the highest order of Trades Union
ism at the present day.
Under it's laws it is not possible for
the Hold Carriers Union or the Street
Sweepers Union to order the school
teachers or locomotive engineers to
quit work in a sympathetic strike
If any craft finds Injustice, the case
is presented to properly selected arbi-
traitors, testimony taken and the case
presented to the public through the
press. Thereupon public opinion, that
greatest of all powers, makes itself
felt and curiously enough fair settle
ment is generally the result.
There is no strike, no loss of wages,
no loss to the community and yet the
faithful workers get thei:' just treat
ment.
There are many details which have
been worked out by men skilled in
labor matters.
1t will recompense any interested
man to know these details which can
| 10 h1y fol oct f0Y
constitution and bylaws written to
the National Trades and Workers AS
sociation, Kingman Block. Battle
Creek, Mich.
Reader, look carefully into this
great question of the relations of Cap
ital and Labor and it's successful So
luton. The new plan works and
brings results for the members.
/ became 50 faVorably impressed
with the trustworthiness and practic-
ability of the leaders of this new Ia
Dor movement that l gave the Assocl-
alton sanitorium at Battle Creek
worth about 100000 and with about
300 rooms to be used as home for
their old members and the helpless
babies, sometimes made fatherless by
the pistol, club or boot heel Of some
member of the violent Labor Trust"
| Suppose you attend church Labor
Sunday and hear what your minister
has to say in defense of the safety
and rights of the common, everyday
man.
, Let me ask you to read again por'
ton of one of my public articles print
j.. ed few years ago.
The people of the world have Civ
. en- me money enough to spend in
= these talks through the papers in try
ing to make better and safer cOndi
tons for the common people, whether
- the Postum business runs or not.
Scores of letters have come to me
) from work-people and others, some
:, from union men recounting their sui
! ferings from union domination an(
- urging that their cases be laid before
y the public.
i 1t will not answer for us to onl.
>. sympathize with the poor the op
pressed, those who haven't powe
n enough to drive off tyrants and re
: sent oppression, we must help then
tie the hands Of the oppressors. Amer
. leans must act.
. Some of my forebears in New Eng
!. land left comfortable homes, tool
u with them the old flint locks, slept OF
l. the ground in rain and frost; hungry
70 footsore, and half clothed they griml
- pushed on where the Eternal God O
- Human Liberty urged them. The
% wove for me and for you a mantle @
freedom, woven in loom where tn
\ shuttles were cannon balls and blu
T. lets and where swords were used t
pick out the tangles in the yarn.
= These old, sturdy grandads OF our
20 stood by that loom until the mantl
~ was finished, then, stained with thel
80 life blood it was handed down to III
~ Shall | refuse to bear it on my shou
~ ders because the wearing costs N
~ few dollars, and are you coward
y, enough to hide yours because son
~ foreign labor union anarchist ordel
"a you to strip it off?
w. | have faith that the blood of IT
still coursing in your veins will ting
id and call until you waken. The
en- Americans will Act" "There's Re
IT, SOU" c. W. POST.