Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 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 its 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 their 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
be secured by a postal request for
constitution. and bylaws written to
the National Trades and Workers AS
ISOLATION, Kingman Block, Battle
Creek, Mich.
Reader, look carefully into this
great question of the relations of Cap
ital and Labor and its successful 30
luton. The new plan works and
brings results for the members.
I became so favorably impressed
with the trustworthiness and practic-
ability of the leaders of this new la
Dor movement that / gave the Associ-
alton a sanitorium at Battle Creek
worth about 100000 and with about
800 rooms, to be used as a 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
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 ae
from work-people and others, some
from union men recounting their suf-
ferings from union domination and
urging that their cases be laid before
the public.
It will not answer for us to only
sympathize with the poor, the OPP
pressed, those who haven't power
enough to drive of tyrants and re-
sent oppression, we must help them
tie the hands of the oppressors. Amer
leans must act.
Some of my forebears in New Eng
land left comfortable homes, took
with them the old flint locks, slept on
the ground in rain and frost; hungrHs
footsore, and half clothed they grimly
pushed on where the Eternal God of
Human Liberty urged them. They
wove for me and for you mantle of
freedom. woven in a loom where the
shuttles were cannon balls and bull
lets and where swords were used to
pick out the tangles in the yarn.
These old, sturdy grandads of ours
stood by that loom until the mantle
was finished, then, stained with their
life blood it was handed down to US.
Shall refuse to bear it on my Shout
ders because the wearing costs me
a few dollars, and are you towards
enough TO hide yours because some
foreign labor union anarchist orders
you to strip it of?
| have faith that the blood of 1776
still coursing in your veins will Jingle
and call until you waken. Then
Americans will Act" There's Rea-
CON-" C. w. POST.