The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-12


ture of the last teamsters' strike. and
what 1t looked like. A driver In the
front seat, exhibiting a gun; with
him uniformed policeman, while on
the back of the wagon two men were
seen with rifles, ready to shoot with
out notice. Did the teamsters hire
these men? No! They were hired by
the team owners association to defeat
the teamsters' strike. They are re-
sponsible. The thirty men killed dur
ing the teamsters strike were not
killed by the teamsters. The crime
should not be laid to their door, but
rather to those who hired the scabs
| The other day the papers through
out the country announced the fact
that the great industrial battle.
which was waged in the city OF New
York, was ended. 1 am referring to
the cloakmakers' strike, which lasted
nine weeks. Some Of the newspapers
also disclose the fact that about 1000
of the striking cloakmakers were
evicted and that about $4,000 of them
were on the point OF eviction. Mind
you Mr.. Post, those men were on the
point OF starvation, not because they
are organized as a trust" as Won call
them not to maintain high wages. but
because they were forced into IL.
What were the conditions before the
strike? They were as follows: A
cloakmaker was subjected to work
twelve to fifteen hours a day. had to
pay for the use of the electric power
received pay whenever the sub-con-
tractor saw At, and IL he didn't see
Mt then never mind--he didn't have
to. What are the conditions after the |
strike? No sweatshops! no contract
work at home; electric power free:
nine hour day. Saturday five hours. |
The former conditions are those which |
call forth q strike. People do not |
strike for the love of 1t. The strike |
Is the last weapon employed by work. |
ingmen when conditions become un-
endurable. Who does not remember
the last butchers strike? 10000 men
were involved in it. What was the
cause which actuated 10000 men TO
lay down their tools and thus face
starvation? The average pay of the
in the stockyards was IL
cents an hour Is it any wonder that |,
strike? l could cite more
instances of this kind for the benefit
OF Mr.. Post. Maybe he will find out
what kind of a trust organized labor
Is.
Now for the solution of the prob
em. Here is what Mr.. Post is offer
ing US:
Now for the better way.
"Workingmen are now organizing in
he old fashioned trades union or
guild way, affiliated with the Ma
ional Trades and Workers Associa-
Ion whose constitution provides arbi-
ration Of differences with agreement
or no strikes, boycott, picketing or
hateful coercion of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolved
rom the experience of the past and is
he highest order of Trades Unionism
1t the present day.
Under its laws 1t is not possible for
he Hod Carriers Union or the Street
SWeepers Union to order the school
eachers or locomotive engineers to
luit work in a sympathetic strike
IF any craft finds injustice, the case
S presented to properly selected arbi-
rators, testimony taken and the case
presented to the public through the
PRESS Thereupon public opinion. that
nd curiously enough a fair settlement
S generally the result
There Is no strike, no loss of wages.
10 loss to the community and vet the
workers get their just treat
nent.
There are many details which have
'een worked out by men skilled In la
Tor Matters
What could the widows and orphans
# the 400 miners killed in a West
'irginia mine a year ago arbitrate
nth the mine owners? Or what &
Guild the widows and orphans of the
90 miners killed at the st. Paul mine
n Cherry, ILL.,, arbitrate? To be sure
hey were not killed by the labor
rust The Cherry holocaust, also the H
v. Virginia disaster was the result
t an utter disregard by the mine
perators Of all precautions that tend
o protect the. lives OF the miners.
Ehen such precautions cost money.
'peak of arbitration to the man who
working for Is cents an hour, or
the miner who goes down into the
owels of the earth, who kisses his
vie goodbye probably for the last
Inc. Arbitration was tried in Aus
radia. AS to its success the many
trikes Is evidence enough.
To sum UP he adds:
Il became so favorably impressed
nth the trustworthiness and prac-
liability of the leaders of this new
abor movement that / gave the Asso-
iation sanitorium at Battle Creek
yorth about 100000 and with about
n hn
heir old members and the HELPLESS
abies, sometimes made fatherless by
ne pistol, club or boot heel of some &
lember Of the violent Labor Trust, "
Yet this same gentleman has sued n
ne Typogra phical Journal, the organ
the Typographical Union, for
$4,000. Mr.. Post claims that that
utilization charged him with manu-
lcturing breakfast food from peanut
lells. Now Mr.. Post gave 100000 u
one labor organization to be used
3 home for their helpless babies
lade fatherless by the pistol, club,
to- of the violent labor trust, at the
ime time trying through legal chan
els to obtain $4,000 from another
dor organization which is supporting 81
home for their old and consunp-
We members in Denver, Colo, Think
1t, $4,000 from the pockets of the y
Dor printers; and yet Mr.. Post dares
J pose as labor friend. But enough
this. To cap the climax, Mr.. Post
as this to say: b
THE people Of the world have given
70 enough money to spend in these
Llks through the papers in trying to 81
AXE better and safer conditions for IS
lA common nenpIe whafTaer tba ror 60