The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-07

aSm for him, which would carry the delegates off their feet, and result in his reelection.
 That his long leadership, and this apparent impossibility to fill his place has gone to his head, and made him imagine that he is much greater a man than he really is, is undoubtedly the case, and accounts for the tactics he has adopted in dealing with questions before congress, where he has unneces- sarily antagoniZed men to whom or ganized labor must look for recogni- tion of their demands, and where labor measures are often opposed on account of this very antagonism, which would | otherwise receive support.
 There is no doubt but what organ ized labor in this country would be much stronger with a leader who was more in touch with conditions as they actually exist, and who would bring to the front the new policies which organ lzed labor must adopt if it expects to even maintain it's present standing, to say nothing of making future progress"
 We quote portions of another article, reprint, from the same labor paper:
 "Organized labor, through it's lead CTS, must recognize the mistakes of the past lf they expect to perpetuate their organizations or to develop the move ment which they head No movement, no organization, no nation can develop beyond the intellects which guide these organizations, and if the leaders are dominated by selfish motive the organization will become tinged with spirit of selfshness, which has never appealed to mankind in any walk of a fit11n esiy, h bir+@
 Tt can be said in extenuation of cer- tain leaders of organized labor that the precarious position which they oc- cupy as leaders has had a tendency to cause them to lose sight of the object behind the organization The natural instinct in man for power and position is in no small measure responsible for the mistakes of the leaders, not neces- sarlly in labor unions alone, but in | every branch of society. This desire for power and leadership and personal aggrandizement causes men who have been earnest and sincere in their ef- forts m the start to deteriorate into | mere politicians whose every act and | utterance is tinged with the desire to cater to the baser passions of the l working majority in the societies or | organizations and this is undoubtedly true when applied to the present lead CTS of the Federation of Labor. We mention the Federation of Labor par 1 ticularly in this article, because that organization is the only organization of labor which has yet found itself in direct opposition to the laws of the land. There are other organizations of l labor whose leaders have made mis- takes, but they have always kept them- selves and their organizations within the bounds of the law and respected the rights of every other man in con- sidering the rights of themselves and their constituency; whereas, the motto of the Federation is just the reverse, and unless the leaders conform them selves and their organization in accord ance with the laws of the land, the leaders and the organization itself must be disintegrated and pass into history, for in America the common sense of mankind is developed to a greater extent than in any other nation on the earth, and the people, who are the court of last resort in this country, will never allow any system to develop in this country which does not meet with the approval of the majority of the citizens of the country.
 This must have forced itself upon the leaders of the Federation by this time. If it has not, the leaders must be eliminated. The organization which they head has done many meritorious things in times past and the people are always ready and willing to acknowl- edge the benefits which their efforts have brought to their constituency as whole, but at the present time labor organizations in general, and the Fed eration of Labor in particular, stand before the bar of public opinion, hav- ing been convicted of s-lfishness and a disposition to rule all the people of the country in the interest of the few. The people are patient and awaiting to