The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-26
REPORTS FROM NORTHERN PART
or BRITISH ISLES ARE
r NOT REAssuRING.
Discomfort IS GROWING
No One Knows lts Origin, but Il Is
Believed INSTRUMENTATION of
Union Members 10
~ One Cause.

London, Sept. 25-All over the
North Of England, Scotland and in
Wales there are menacing reports con-
corning the great labor war A wave
OF unrest seems to have passed over
the industry Of Great Britain. No one
precisely knows why in SO many sep
arate centers the same spirit Of dis
content should find such angry dis
position. The fact la, however, unmis-
taxable and very disquieting, and the
pessimists are predicting that this fall
will see cessation OF industry tnat
win paralyze the industrial activity of
Lancashire, Wales, the north and the
whole Of the shipbuilding industry on
the Clyde, Tyne and Weir.
The most serious features of the
threatening disputes is the evidence
which seems to be accommodating of
the growth of an insubordination on
the part of the members OF labor un-
ions. The real trouble is not so much
between employers and employed as
between responsible officials of un-
ions and groups of workmen who have
refused to abide by the bargain col.
lectively entered into in their behalf
by those whom they have elected to
represent them in an arrangement
with the employers.
Ii has been very extraordinary
revolution of public opinion that has
wrought in the last thirty years in
England. | can well remember the
time when to. be trades unionist was
to be regarded as next door to being
an anarchist and revolutionist Today
trades unions are recognized univer.
sally as being one of the most con-
servative elements In the body poll
tic.
Trades union leaders In this coun.
try are men. whether in parliament or
out of it, who have won universal re.
spect. Instead of being anarchistic or
revolutionists they have disciplined
and organized the laboring masses and
have produced type Of what may be
called industrial statesman who have
character. intelligence, elearness of
judgment and good feeling, and who
will compare favorably with any class
in the community.
Hence it is with profound alarm
that the public has heard of the grow.
ing tendency of dsloyalty to the un.
ion. The federation of employers
meets the executive of the trades un-
ion and in friendly converse arrives
at an agreement which is entered in
to on both sides by mutual consent
with the express assurance on the
part of the unionist executive that the
collective bargain thus arrived at will
be Loyalty carried out by all the mem.
bers OF their union. But again and
again in the last few months groups
of unionists have mutinied ana drop
ped. work. This has peen done so
frequently that the federated employ.
ers have been compelled to issue no
tlce that unless the collective bargain
is carried out, they would be COMPEL
ed to meet a partial strike with a
general lockout.
II seems to be admitted that the
trades union leaders are fully alive to
to the gravity of the situation. I'm
less the spirit of sectional revolt can
be checked and guarantees provided
for the carrying out OF the collective
bargain trades unionism will be dis
solved and one of the great forces
which the good sense and the organ
izing capacity of our industrial classes
have created will disappear. The pros
pect before us In that case Is so Sc
rious that there is a universal desire
on the part OF all classes that the au
thoriry Of the unionist executive may
be .e-established and that we may be
spared long, harassing, costly indus.
trial war which can only have one re-
suit.
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