Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-11-03


Capitol building. The author was
not satisfied by simply investigating
records found in the libraries of this
country. He made two trips to Eu.
rope, Asia and Africa, where he
delved into the records of antiq uity
by consulting and deciphering the
inscriptions in caves and upon slabs
as well as upon rocks and monu-
mentS.
A list of some of the ancient un.
ions is interesting:
POtters, Deacons (waiters),
Blacksmitbs. Merchants,
COral-wOrkerS, Tent-makerS,
Tailors, Tradesmen,
Ferrymen, Gardeners,
Torchbearers. Stone workers,
ShOemakers. Tanners,
Pipe players, Grocers.
Sailors. Tool-makers,
Shippers, Bag-carriers,
Dyers. Marble-workers,
Carpenters, Musicians,
Carpet-weavers, Silversmiths,
Fishermen, Braiziers,
MaSOnS, Hunters,
Farm laborers, BARRIERS,
Playwrights.
During the Solonic dispensation
600 years b. c., there were wash.
er-women's unions and clothes
cleaners unions at Athens. Piracy
in those ancient days was considered
an honorable business. Scion, at
that center of culture and learning
established q college of pirates, who
infested the Mediterranean Sea and
its tributaries; stored their booty in
their castles and retreats in the hills,
crags and mountains along the coast
of Greece. Uafargue on the Evolu-
tion of Property
This greet law-giver will also be
remembered at or about this period,
abolished all laws for the collection
of debts. Cancelled all mortgages, re.
stored the ownership of the lands to
the common people. from whom they
had been wrested by trickery and
fraud. He saw clearly that the first
great governmental sin was land
monopoly, the instrument OF execu-
tive money monopoly. and lastly class
law as the god that directs the
destiny of the state towards decay
and dissolution. When INTERCEPTED
with regard to the best system
Of government, answered.: ."That
which regards an injury inflicted
upon the meanest individual an in
suit to the whole constitution" He
saved, Athens that she might enjoy
future glory for centuries after his
flesh and bones had become com.
mingled with their kindred clay.
The Solonic dispensation had vigor-
Gus adherents in Italy, Sicily. Asia
and Northern Africa.
Good King Numa, about the year
700, B. c., divided the laborers OF
Rome into crafts and unions. The
merchants were required to form
themselves into organizations; or
ganized metal workers from that
period and later manufactured i'm
plements OF war. Rome prospered
for five centuries while labor unions
we're fostered. Aristocrats disliked
to come in contact with workingmen.
Convicts o! aristocratic birth were
not compelled to perform hard labor,
which was considered . disgrace to
the family.
Ancient Lowly Vol. l, page 38l.
Under the Laws Of the Twelve Ia
bles.. pnblic lands were titled by pro-
letarians.
B. G. 50, through the enactment
OF conspiracy laws at Rome at the
instance of Caesar and Cicero, trades
organizations received q hard blow.
thereafter became more secret, met
in the catacombs, caves and among
the hills and in the mountainous and
secluded places. Undoubtedly, such
conditions prevailed when Christian
ity took such a firm hold of the minds
of men and women. There were or.
ganizations of fishermen, sailors, car.
penters and craftsmen in Gallilee
and Judea.
1t would seem from inscriptions
and historical records. the Apostles
were greatly aided in the propo-
ganda of the gospel through the
efforts of labor unions. The men,
bers practiced communism in regard
to providing a common table among