The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-10-27
VS..
UNIONIsM
cascade PRINTING co. OP-
POSED TO UNIONISM ON RE
LIGIOUS GROUNDS - SOME
THINGS THE TYPOGRAPHI-
CAL UNION IS DOING FOR
HUMANITY.

! After series of conferences covering
period of several weeks, the special
committee appointed by the Trades
Council to meet with the proprietors of
the Cascade Printing & Stationery com
pany formerly Halves Book store) were
forced to recommend that the firm be
placed on the Unfair List and the rec
ommendation was adopted by the Coun
cil
Some people imagine that organized
labor is very gleeful every time it can
add some new name to that list. pul
such is not the case. We would like to
see the slate wiped clean of unfair firms,
but not at the sacrifice of union prin-
ciples. The Cascade Printing & Station
cry company controversy offers rather
peculiar case. Religious prejudice against
unionism on the part of some members
of the firm was the rock against which
the argument of the committee spent
itself in vain. Organization of labor
was a good thing in a way, but some
how it couldn't square with the teach
ings of Christ AT least the method In
which present day unionism was carried
on couldn't.
If, as We take it, present day applied
Christianity is the Golden Rule put into
practice, let us see how the Typograph
iqal union-the one in question-squares
with the Golden Rule
This union pensions its aged, buries
its dead, cares for the sick and unfor-
tunate It has established in Colorado
Springs home for its sick and aged
members. One million dollars has been
spent for its maintenance. Figures show
that of the fatal diseases to which print
ers have succumbed tuberculosis has
carried off 81 per cent of the whole. In
the eighteen Years the home has been
in existence, the lives of five hundred
printers afflicted with that disease have
been saved. Upon the first appearance
of that disease the unfortunate printer
is hurried to the home and given every
care that science and climatic condition
can afford, at not one cent of expense
to himself from the time he leaves his
home town until he is discharged cured,
The average monthly sum of mainte
$4l. Can any other institution show
such record? Charity? No. As long
as he is able to earn the printer pays a
monthly assessment out of his earnings
for the maintenance of the home. When
he is no longer able to earn he is taken
care of for the balance of his days, i'll
need be- Proud of their organization
and their home? Who would not be,
1t has well been said of the home, cts
bounty unpurchasable, its charity with
out price" The Typographical union
asks in return that their fellow crafts
men shall come in with them and help
to hold up their wages and hours, max
ing it possible to have this splendid
home and carry on the other benevolent
features.
So in all candor we ask the question.
which comes the nearer to carrying out
the Golden Rule? The printer-call him
ungodly if you want to-who joins with
his fellows to make and maintain all
these conditions, or the printer who
stands aloof and, unconsciously perhaps.
aids the enemies of organized labor to
beat down everything that labor has
stood for and is standing for today?
On one side stands the Typographical
union typical of one thing; on the other
side stands the Cascade Printing & Sta
tionery company, typical of another.
Place the latter on the Unfair List -?
Why not