The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-02-11
Magnificent Address by Senator
Beveridge Before New York
Typographical Union.
HONEST LABOR WILL YET
BE MASTER OF WORLD
Child Labor Denounced as Burn
ing Disgrace, and Our Na-
; :tion's Blacklist Shame.
Snecial to Labor World.

NEW YORK, n Y. Feb. s, 1s11-
"Oreanized labor in this country IS
a fac.. it is as imperishabAe as the
government itself, and When the sun
of that better day Of labor)s estate
rises above the horizon OF a worm
of avarice, then will this nation ana
all nations enjoy their inalienaple
right to peace everlasting" said Al.
bert ]. Beveridge, the United States
senator from Indiana, before the
Big Six. Typographical union.
The theater was crowded and many
nersons were forced to stand in the
rear. Union labor was there strong.
and whenever a telling point was
sounded by the orators, the workers..
who, by their. cooperative efforts
make it possible for the production
of the colossal dailies, applauded
with vigor and overflowing entf4usi-
asm.'
Injustice to Workers.
The occasion was the anniversary
of the birth of Horace Greeley, first
president of the union, and referring
to the illustrious dead Senator Beve-
ridge said:
pie of this nation that a shorter work
ing day would be for the betterment
of humanity" said Beveridge. THAI
dear old statesman and publicist was
shocked at the class injustice OF
working men and women. Greeley
fought for the establishment of a
tcn-hour day, but in the present gen
GRAFTON in almost fifty trades there
is an eight-hour day, fixed by en-
ployer and employe, and the conse-
quence is that there are better homes
among the workers, more time for
music, for recreation and for love
that unquenc1sb1e element in human
lives that feeds the world and nakes
ff4t-pessibll ri Tor synit a ne to be
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"Greeley was one of the greatest
Of the American champions for the
W ,rking class. L think that all STU
! dents of economics and social condi-
tions in tn. whole world agree that
th> blacklist shame in the twentieth.
century is child labor. 1t is a crime
against the dignity of labor, for every
child laborer is taking away from an
able man his bread and butter and
NOThlHS IOI p1LtdHCe. IL lS d SI4AAS
against society, because every year it
pours into the life of our cities weak
ened men and women.
Child Labor a Shame.
mo government, no social order,
can take away from our children their
divine birthrights. Horace Greeley
declared in 1850 that the state has
right to see that the brains Of the
younger generations are not ruined
by excessive labor. Child labor then
was a pleasant summer dream as
compared with its black shame Of to-
day. What would he say today if he
saw our sweat shops, our factories
and our mines, where little children
are melting their delicate lives in a
crucible Of shame for the greed and
profit of rich men? These places
stand out upon our modern civiliza-
ton as brazen monument to man.
mon.''
Senator Beveridge said that the
workers must reach their highest goal
of industrial achievement to better
the present social order by advanc-
ing like an army--step by step. The
gentleman from Indiana even went
SO far as to predict that the day will
come when the workers Of the world
will be the. equal in the highest sense
of the non-productive class.