The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-10
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Grand Council OF Provincial Working
men as deciding Gin favor of cutting
loose" But at the Atlanta convention.
as usual Canada was fully represented.
It's delegates reporting unquestioned 10y
atty To the International body. In other
leaflets Mr.. Kirby refers 10 The Buck 8
stove and Range companys contest with
union labor as ii IL Were to be un
compromising Hs his own, But The com
pany Is today on friendly terms with all
the unions. He mentions approyingly n
recent attack by the Knights of Labor
on the American Federatio OF Labor.
But 1T This showing OF how hard pressed
he must be- for arguments, trade union
lists merely smile and ask where those
knights ere 10 be found.
In another OF Mr.. Kirby's leaflets,
which contains his address on ranrng tue
presidency OF the Manufacturers associa-
iion Ia 1909, he quotes a magazine I'm
calling attention To the fact that in 1906
and 1907 the international Typographical
union spent So 000. 600 on its eight hour
ground In the first Of these Two years
and in ih" second threw into the same
whirlpool. :. with a doRgcd tenaclty Of a
man who does not know he is defsa ted.
the sum expended. But that clgnt-
hour strike was completely won. When
il began the International TypoSrap pnical
union had $4,000 members: IL has now
5l.00o. These have gotten back in in
creased wages since the strike Was closed
all the sums II cost the union. several
times over. besides enjoying the marked
reduction OF the workday, In most OF his
leaflets. Mr. Kirby, in unmcasurcd terms.
attacks the National civic federation.
But that orga ulZattop gives no indication
OF being cufceblcd thereby.
MIR Kirby in an address took tho side
OF the employers against the shirt waist
strikers. citing with approval the dictum.
the waist and dress manufacturers will
never sign any union agreements" But
they did, the last ono among them
Again. Mr.. Kirby enumerates the number
OF fights the Metal Trades association
claimed TO have won over the Interna-
tional AssoCia tom OF MachiDISts, But
nevertheless. this union appeared al the
Atlanta convention with ga representa-
Tive votes. 90 more than it ever had be-
fore. indicating AN increase OF nearly %
per cent In It's membership In the last
year, Mr.. Kirby seems To regard his IA
Vnritc assertion relative to the proportion
uf union wage workers 10 all tho work
crs OF this country one Of his strong.
est points. for he prints 1t at least a
score OF times in his addresses aud leaf
let's.
In his Goal OF the Labor Trust he
| puts -hls figures thus. The fact that a
paltry 3l per cont OF the workngmen or
| this country, embracing the militant dis
cordant and disturbing element OF So
clety, should be permitted To dominate
over industrial and commercial affairs as
they have done. Is disgrace To Amcri-
can business men and 10 American man.
| hood But where IS the industrial em-
ployer who is making believe that hs has
access 10 labor market in which. as
! Mr.. Kirby elsewhere puts his proposition.
| "9b per cent Of the workers'' "coerce In
! tinidate and brutally prosecute the other
96a per cent? Mr.. Kirby's statements OF
! this typical of the premises on
which he makes his usual absurd deduc-
among the employers In the congress We
nave Imagined, practical men IL they
would be.