The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-08-31

Cler&ymen

stroyed men murdered and tne long,
Iona list of atrocities practiced by
[abor Trust members on other hui
man 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
tionaI Trades and Workers Associa-
ton whose constitution provides arbi-
tration of differences with agreement
for no strikes, boycott, picketing OF
hateful coercion of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolved
from the experience of the past and is
the highest order of Trades Unionism
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
lpress. 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 thu
faithful workers get their just treat
ment.
There are many details which hav'
been worked out by men skilled il
labor matters.
1t will recompense any intereste
man to know these details which ca
be secured by a postal request for col
stitution and bylaws written to tn
National Trades and Workers ASST
, citation, Kingman Block, Battle Creel
: Mich.
Reader, look carefully into thi
great question of the relations of Cal
ital and Labor and its successful s.
luton. The new plan works an
brings results for the members.
l became so favorably impresse
with the trustworthiness and practic
bility of this new labor movemel
- that l gave the Association a sanito
ium at Battle Creek worth about S40t
600 and with about 800 rooms, to /
used as a home for their old membel
' and the helpless babies, sometim,
made fatherless by the pistol, club
boot heel of some member of the vic
ent Labor Trust
:. Suppose you attend church Lab,
Sunday and hear what your minist
has to say in defense of the safe
: and rights of the common, everyd;
man.
Il Let me ask you to read again a pc
ton of one of my public articles pri1
o ed a few years ago:
l. The people of the world have gi
l. en- me money enough to spend
o these talks through the papers in tt
ing to make better and safer conf
lions for the common people, wheth
o the Postum business runs or not.
/. Scores of letters have come to n
# from work-people and others, son
il from union men, reeounting their 81
d ferings from union domination al
urging that their cases be laid befo
y the public.
II 1t will not answer for us to on
,. sympathize with the poor, the oppres
ed, those who haven't power enou,
n to drive off tyrants and resent oppre
sion, We must help them tie the han
of the oppressors. Americans mu
o act.
i. Some of my forebears in New Ell
1t land left comfortable homes. to-
with them the old flint locks, slept
If the ground in rain and frost; hungl
o. footsore, and half clothed they grim
,e pushed on where the Eternal God
{. Human Liberty urged them. Tn
al wove for me and for you a mantle
freedom, woven in a loom where I
h. shuttles were cannon balls a
IN bullets and where swords were us
lg to pick out the tangles in yarn.
r. These old, sturdy grandads of OF
n. stood by that loom until the man
ly was finished, then, stained with tn
life blood it was handed down to
n Shall refuse to bear 1t on my shou
Id ers because the wearing costs me
few dollars, and are you cowai
IN enough to hide yours because so