United labor bulletin., 1911-10-05

they were nine years ago and they are
pleading with the men to keep out of
strike and hold onto their jobs.
The Western Laborer also wishes to
lend whatever influence it has to plead
with the old guard who went through
the awful struggle of nine years ago.
We urge them to get into the breach to-
day and do all in their might to prevent
the striking of even one man on the
Union Pacific road. Don't let it get
started anywhere on the system. Keep
cool Talk the matter over at the sup
per table with the family. Don't let the
Union Pacific road be non-unionized. 1t
pays the best wages of any railroad in
the west. Do this for the wives and
babies and for the union
1t is easy to write up bull con" reso-
lutions providing for strikes, but it takes
money to feed strikers, their wives and
babies
1t may be of interest to Mr. c. E. Hall
OF Denver to know that there is no or
sanized boilermakers' union in the
Omaha Union Pacific shops and has not
been since the strike nine years ago.
What kind of a showing will Mr. Halls
union make in Omaha when the Union
Pacific shop men walk out?
II seems to be an impossibility for
such men as Hall, Crawford and Netter
to let it leak into their bone heads that
the union men of the west are tired OF
paving assessments for strikes and that
it is as near a cinch as death and taxes
that the members of organized labor in
the west will not assess themselves to
carry ON Hartman system shop strike
Everybody who knows anything knows
the machinists are the only Union Pa
cific men who are organized well enough
to finance and carry on a strike. Presi-
dent O'Connen of the machinists knows
it-that's why he refuses to be STAN
peded-
We have had Colorado resolutions be-
fore. They are usually followed by a
strike and then by begging appeals for
financial aid TO save US resolution, hair
trigger, "bull-conning" hungry, square
men, in fiagless, bleeding Colorado
The Halls and Crawfords and Vetters
are the real enemies of organized labor,
not The Laborer. . The greatest victory
for organized labor that it is possible
for the Union Pacific shop men to win
will be won when they abandon the pro-
posed strike and stay on their jobs. If
/ they do keep out Of a strike they will
have something more substantial 10 eat
next winter than resolutions unanimous
| " adopted by the Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly and duly signed by
Messrs. Hall, Crawford and Yetter
We have no apologies 10 offer for our
article of September I'd. We get no
pleasure in seeing men on strike. We
believe In no cause that grows on hungry
wives and babies. We don't want TO see
the Union Pacific shop men so on strike.
We were in the union game before the
| Denver Trades and Labor Assembly was
organized and when some of its present
delegates were wearing diapers. We
printed 226 columns of matter in the in
terest OF the Union Pacific shop strike
nine years ago
We believe our record on that strike
gives the right to advise the men We
fought with in those days, and the
Omaha men know US well enough to
know that If we took a notion to advise
them We would do it, whether they liked
il or not.
We don't care any more about the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly res
olutions than do the members of organ
lied labor in Denver. So far as the
editor of The Laborer is concerned. the
/ Denver Trades and Labor Assembly can
go to he'll.