Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-09-06

and no organization, whether trades
union or corporation. whether indus
trial or non-industrial, can endure
or permanently amount to a social
force if it does not harmonic with
wise and enlightened public. opin-
been over-occupied with material
things, and have neglected to watch
the play of the social forces about
us. But now we are awakening
from that indifference: and every
form of organization representing
an important economic, political, or
social force must undergo a closer
scrutiny than ever before
think that the next quarter of
century will be important polit-
ically in many ways; and in none
more so than in the labor move
ment. Not only are the benefits of
labor organizations more clearly un-
derstood than ever before, but any
shortcoming or vice displayed in
connection Herewith is also more
clearly understood and more quick
ly resented The public is growing
more and more to understand that,
in contest between employer and
employee corporation and
trades union-not only the inter-
ests of the contestants, but the in
terests of the third party-the pub
lic-must be considered. Anything
| like levity in provoking a strike, on
the one hand or on the other, is
certain more and more to be resent
ed by the public. Strikes are some
times necessary and proper; some
times they represent the only way
in which, after all other methods
have been exhausted, it is possible
for the laboring man to stand for
his rights but it must be clearly
understood that strike is matter
of last resort. Our social organ
ization is too complex for us to fail
| W COuuCluH UHOSC WIZ,
with levity or in spirit of wanton
brutality, bring about far-reaching
and disastrous interference with its
/ normal processes. The public SYM
pathizes cordially with any move
ment in the direction of a good
standard of living and for moderate
hours of employment q personal
ly, for instance. cordially believe in
an eight-hour day, and in one day
in seven for complete rest). Where
men and women are worked under
harsh and intolerable conditions and
can secure no relief without
strike, or, indeed, where the strike
is clearly undertaken for things
| which are vitality necessary-and
then only as last resort-the pub
, lie sympathy will favor the wage
workers; but it will not favor them
unless such conditions as these are
fulfilled. Therefore, it is becoming
more than ever important that the
labor movement should combine
, steady, far-seeing leadership with
discipline and control in it's ranks.
Dishonest leadership is a curse any
; where in American life, and no.
where is it greater curse than in
lesson which l would rather teach
: to my fellow Americans than any
ether it is to hound down the dis
I honest man-no matter what his
+ condition-and to brush aside with
: impatient contempt the creature who
| only denounces dishonesty when it
4 is found in some special social stra-
: tum. There are dishonest capital
lists, dishonest labor leaders, dis
Q honest lawyers and dishonest bust
1 ness men; dishonest men of great
d wealth and dishonest poor men; and
: the man who is a genuine reformer
O will ecline to single out any one
s type for exclusive denunciation, but
: will fearlessly attack the dishonest
: man as such, whenever and wher-
s ever he is to be found.
s For many years | have been
;. more or less closely associated with
f representative leaders of labor I'M
, ions. Some of these men are among
my close friends. whom | respect
and admire as heartily as | do any
any men in America. There are
some of them to whom | go as free
ly for assistance and guidance, for
aid and help, in making up my mind
how to deal with cur social prob
. lens, as | go to the leaders of any
= business or professions. | cannot
" pay too high tribute to the worth
and integrity of these men--to theii
sincerity and good judgment as
leaders. Bat no movement nc
len dprshin however earnest auf