Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-31
WHAT ARE OUR "RIGHTs. ;"
Editor Majority

Editor Majority
In answer to the gentleman from Co
lumbus and member of Lodge SIS L.
A. M. who says he has been a member
NIT me to say that such statements
"cuts no ice' with intelligent readers
1t reminds me of the English dude
of organized labor for 20 years, per-
that boosted that he had absorbed the
cream of the Oxford and
Cambridge Universities. An old far
mer remarked that he had calf that
drank the milk of two COWS and that
he was a bigger calf than ever. 1t
Hugo would give his pedigree and
truthfully say that he joined the
Trade Union movement 40 years ago
and have always been a member In
good standing, whenever he was al
lowed to be a union man, would that
make anything he may say or write
of less or more value? The import
ant question is, "Do Hugo and Hen
derson teach economic truths or
economic errors? Lets inquire as to
this. Mr.. Henderson in his letter OF
Feb. 26th starts with the statement
that "Any man has a right to disa-
gree with the views of another" Is
this correct? If so, that right" car
ries with it the right" to put those
views in practice. It(sounds like the
howl of the Post Parry-Van Cleave
& Co. aggregation, and this from a
man who has been member of or
ganized labor fSr 20 years. Has the
Individual maghinst-scrub or other
v;oA,+ RI dico OrQQ with the
machinists and refuse to join their
union? The above named tribe says
yes" Before unions were organ1-
lied men claimed the right to work
where they pleased eff permitted by
the capitalists) and scabs act that
way now. Our labor leaders say
that the union man can not work
where he pleases If by SO doing he
lowers the wages or otherwise Injuries
his fellowmen, that he must merge
his individual interests as a worker
in the larger interests of his class,
p; that through the prosperity of his
craft and class his own is advanced.
Correct. In other words, the union
decides whether he shall work or
not. This vital principle of the indi-
vidual, which involves his very life,
he is COMPEL ed to surrender in the
interest of his class. Post & Co. are
now weeping at the ice house, and
insist that a man has right tosWork
where he pleases. A5
Jack London says, without quiV
er a member of the Capitalist group
will ruin tens of thousands of pitt
| full child laborers and weep maud
fling and constitutional tears over one
scab hit with a, brick.
Gompers, Mitchell and other 'decoy
ducks of the Civic Humlugation
says that man has a right to vote as
he pleases. The workiagman has the
ballot. Election time comes. He has
now to decide if all the workers shall
be ruled and robbed by capitalistic
government. or whether they shall
rule themselves as free men and en-
| Joy the fruits of their labor.
This is the question the laboring man
is called upon to decide every election
day. Has he right to vote as he
pleases? And If pleases to betray
his class and vote for their masters is
he Union man or scab? Has my
fellow-uAionist the right to vote me
into wage slavery and still claim to
| be Union man? Is it not in fact the
rankest kind of slavery? The man
who votes against his class is not an