The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-31

long list of atrocities practiced by La
Dor Trust members on other human be-
ings who cannot agree with the trust
methods.
Now for the better way.
Worklngmen are now organizing in
the old fashioned trades union or
guild" way, affiliated with the Ma
uonal Trades and Workers Associa.
ton whose constitution provides arbl-
tration of differences with agreement
for no strikes, boycott, picketing or
hateful coercion of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolved
from the experience Of the past and Is
the highest order of Trades Unionism
at the present day
Under its laws it is NOT possible for
the Hod 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 settlement
is generally the result.
There Is no strike, no loss Of wages.
no loss to the community and yet the
ialthtul workers get their just treat
ment.
There are many details which have
been worked out by men skilled in labor
matters.
II viii reeomPense any interested man
to know these details which can be Sc
cured by postal request for constitu-
ton and bylaws written to the Ma
tional Trades and Workers Association,
kingman Block, Battle Creek, Mich.
Reader, look carefully into this great
question of the relations of CAPITAL and
Labor and its successful solution. The
new plan works and brings results for
the members.
became so favorablv inn
pressed with the trustworthiness and
practicability OF the leaders Of this new
labor movement that I gave the Assoc
citation a sanitorium at Battle Creek
worth about 100000 and with about
300 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 70 say in defense of the safety and
rights of the common, everyday man
Let me ask you to read again a por-
ton of one of my public articles printed
few years ago:
The people of the world have given
me money enough to spend in these
talks through the papers in trying to
make better and safer conditions for
the common people. whether the Pos
tum business runs or not.
scores of letters have come to me
from work-people and others, some
from union men, recounting their suf-
feriags from union domination and urg-
ing that their cases be laid before the
public.
1t will not answer for us to only SYM
pathize with the poor, the oppressed.
those who haven't power enough TO
drive off tyrants and resent oppres-
sion, we must help them tie the hands
OF the oppressors. Americans must act.
Some of my forebears in New Eng
ldnu leIt comfortable homes took with
them the old flint locks, slept on the
ground in rain and frost; hungry, foot
sore, and half clothed they grinlly
pushed on where the Eternal God Of
Human liberty urged them. They wove
for me and for you mantle of free
dom, woven in loom where the shut
ties We're cannon balls and bullets and
where swords were used to pick out
the tangles in the yarn.
These old. sturdy grandadg of ours
stood by that loom until the mantle Was
| finished, then. stained with their life
blood 1t was handed down TO us. Shall
refuse to bear 1t on my shoulders be-
cause the wearing costs me a few doll
lars and are you towards enough TO
hide yours because some foreign labor.
union anarchist orders you to strip 1t
Off
| | have faith that the blood OF 1776
still coursing in your veins will Jingle
and call until you waken. Then Amer
leans win Act" There's q Reason
G. w. POST.