United labor bulletin., 1911-10-05

LAS far as | am concerned, the Denver |
Trades and Labor Assembly can go to
hell" says Editor Kennedy of the West
ern Laborer.
Recently the Western Laborer, pub
lished at Omaha, Neb, printed an article
from the pen of Editor Kennedy, better
known as Sadie Mcguire" which op-
posed the strike of federated shopmen
now being waeed, and advised the union
men to oppose the proposed strike.
At a meeting of the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly four weeks ago
resolution to which the name of c. E.
Hall of the Boiermakers was signed was
adopted by the assembly. The resolution
called the attention of the assembly to
the article and condemned the paper ano
it's utteranccs. The resolution and the
action of the assembly was published in
The United Labor Bulletin and brought
in return this singing reply from the
Western laborer, which reprints its
original article, with comments on same
and on the action of Denver assembly:
Sadie Maguire's" Retort.
The following resolutions were pre-
sented TO the Denver Trades and Labor
Assembly by C. f. Hall OF the Boiler
makers and were adopted:
Whereas. A copy OF so-called labor
paper known as the Western Laborer,
published in Omaha, Neb., which con-
the Hartman lines in trying to better
their conditions by organizing their
trades into federation and presenting
their wants to the employers; and
Whereas. The Hartman lines are
buying up the issues of this paper and
distributing them among their employees
in order to bias their minds against their
unions; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly condemns this pa
per as an enemy of organized labor, and
copy of this resolution be sent to SAID
paper and be given TO the press"
The very best answer to those reso-
lutions answer that proves The La
borer did not condemn the efforts of the
shop trades OF the Hartman lines in try
ing TO better their conditions by organ
izing their trades into federation-is
the article itself. Here it is taken from
the issue of September I'd, and there is
not one word in it against any union
or the federation:
ITS NOT WORTH THE PRlcEl
Like a flash OF lightning from clear
sky was the sensational railroad strike
talk in the newspapers during the last
ten days. 1t may just be newspaper talk
and In may really be serious. We don't
| know. but on the theory that it is seri-
uus We propose to have our say.
The only strike The Western Laborer
ever advocated was the Union Pacific
shop strike against the introduction OF
the piece system under President Horace
C. Burt just nine years ago. Il was
fight OF the shop men, backed with the
financial assistance of the business men,
the utmost sympathy OF all trade unions.
office men, train men, the newspapers
and the public of the west against Burt
and the directors in New York. The
strike lasted eleven months, the piece
system was abandoned and the unfortu-
nately constituted MIR. Burt passed out
OF the western railroad world
Mr.. Bnrt was succeeded by the pres
ent head OF the Union Pacific. Mr..
Mohler. and the instant he got on the
job the slate was wiped clean of all old
sores and grievances against the men
who we're leaders of the strike and every.
body started in fresh, new and clean.
from Barreclough to Rieheleu. to build
up the old Union Pacific to what it is
today.
Now the newspapers announce that
the shop men on the Hartman system
are to so on strike and list of griev-
ances is printed as justification for a
strike.
This unexpected strike news has been
sc sudden that we had TO pinch our
selves 10 make sure il was not dream
The Western Iaborer does not reach
NAt hl iuS InousdIlus OF L mon
Pacific shop men from the Missouri to
the coast. We never wished it did so
much as We do this week. We want
to help the shop men and their wives
TO do some serious thinking right now.
We have read the list of grievances
as published in the daily papers which
are presumed to have been submitted 10
the officials of the road, and we want to
say that we would not sacrifice the stu
"A nf ,hs in h.
whole mess from the company. except
the demand for an increase of per
cent.
We have seen so much suffering from
strikes that we have holy horror at |
the approach of one. The last strike OF
the Union Pacific shop men will be as
peaches and cream compared with the |
enc that is threatened, should it take |
place.
Nine years ago the men had n good |
cause. They were fighting for princi- |
pie. They We're unanimous against the /
introduction of the piece system. They |
had the moral and financial support OF |
the public. That is why they won. 1t |
sounds like n dream, when we recall it, |
but 1t is n fact that the best business
men of Omaha contributed cash from
month TO month 10 aid the strikers in
1923. The union men of Omaha to n
greater extent than ever before known
weekly assessment of 10
cents per member during all those long.
weary eleven months of strife for the
support OF the strikers and their families.
The newspapers gave the men the best
support ever given to strike in Omaha.
Everything fell into the laps of the
strikers and all the bad luck was piled
onto the broad shoulders of the mis-
guided and mismolded Horace G. Burt
Today everything in, around and about
Omaha is shaped in favor OF A. l.
Mohler's side, The business men will