United labor bulletin., 1911-10-05
THE VIEWS OF
FEDERATION MEN
Defense of Trades Assembly
in Its Recent
Action.

Editor Kennedy of the Western La
borer, better known as Sadie Mcguire"
and believed to be descended from the
Molly Maguiresl of Missouri river fame,
bids fair to becore famous as an editor
OF an independent labor paper, published
for personal fame and Incidentally to
receive what he may from his venture
at the expense of the labor movement at
large.
Editor Kennedy comes out strong in
his "laborer," saying that a strike at
this time is ill-sdvised and calling upon
the men of opnaha to oppose it: and
when his article is criticized by a cen
trail body with one hundred and fifty
men sitting in judgment. he comes back
with the retort:
60 to helI!"
What manner OF man is this that feeds
through his publication on the prestige
OF the labor movement; that advises the
thousands of toilers that they should not
strike against tbe employers who fur
nish Editor kennedy with free trans
portation over their railroad for ex-
tended trips: that assaults through his
paper officers of labor organizations
without showing cause for such vile at
tacks; that criucises organized labor at
large for its ignorance-and when re
proved. to come hack through his sub
sidized corpora-ion-labor paper with
Go to he'll
The United Labor Bulletin believes
that the Western Laborer has a right to
tell the Denver assembly where it de
sIres the assembly TO 90. and The BuIle-
tin has a righI TO say that the ugly re
tori OF the Lahorer does not disprove
the Righteousness OF the act OF the Den
yer assembly
The Weston Laborer must have
known the Ereat blow il was dealing
when it advised the men against strike.
The men of every railroad in the entire
United States have been advocating the
federated trades proposition for a year:
organized labor at large has come to
know that this system OF organization
is that only which is effective: the Goulo
lines and other roads have already rec
osnized the federated system.
What would the Gould people and the
other roads do at the expiration OF their
present contract if the federated trades
had not endsavored TO enforce on the
Hartman lines the same terms accepted
by the Gould system?
Editor Kennedy we'll knows that in a
city under the jurisdiction OF the Typo
graphical union. of which Mr. Kennedy
is a member. hat when newspapers that
are members of the American Publish
ers' association accept terms with the
7. L. that are more costly than those
which formerly prevailed. and there be-
ing a newspaper in said city which is
not q member of the American Publish
ers' association and which employees
union printers, that said non-memher OF
the association is forced TO accept the
terms agreed 10 by the association Offices
or a strike would result
The same condition should prevail
in any trade The Gould people have
recognized the federation and the Harri-
man people should be made to recognize
the system ioderation in justice to the
competing Gould lines
Then. again, the several trades EN-.
rloyed on the railroads have recognized
their weakness while standing divided
The railroads made contracts with the
trades separately. These expired at diff
ferent times and when demands were
made on the corporations for increases
OF bettermeuts the labor organizations
we're. through their weakness. easily de
feaied.
Thus the necessity of the system fed
Grafton: thus the necessity for recogni-
ton.
But to return to Omaha. we find &C
cording to members of the federation.
that agents OF the railroad company dis,
tributed copies of the issue of the West
ern Lahorer containing the article re-
ferred to far and wide among their EN-
ployes.
If this article was of such value to the
railroad company, then it must have
been of inestimable harm to the system
The Western Laborer calls attention
TO the Boilermakers being unorganized |
in the Union Pacific shops. The 1.aborer !
should have also said that Omaha is one
Of the most poorly organized cities of the |
West, and probably partially due to the
attitude of the laborer.
The United Labor Bulletin believes |
that the position taken by the Western |
aborer should be decried by organized |
labor everywhere. We believe that
writer for a labor paper has no right
at n critical moment. when his advise
would not change the issue one whit. but