Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-10-10
THIRD TERMER'S
Joke ON LABOR
Brandeis Shows Right to Organ
ize Is Not Recognized.
THE PLATFORM IS SILENT
Noted Lawyer Exposes tho FIImsiness
of Promises Made to Workingmen by
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands for Private Monopoly.

THE new party pledges itself to so
cial and industrial justice and specific
ally to work increasingly for effective
legislation looking to the prevention of
occupational diseases, overwork, invol-
untary unemployment and other In
furious effects incident to modern in
dustry,' but nowhere in that
long and comprehensive platform
can there be found one word
approving the fundamental right of
labor to organize or even recognizing
this right without which all other
grants and concessions for improve
ment of the condition of the working
men are futile. The platform promises
social and industrial justice, but does
not promise industrial democracy. The
Justice which 1t offers is that which
the benevolent and wise corporation
Is prone to administer through it's well
fare department. There is no promise
Of that justice which free American
workingmen are striving to secure for
themselves through organization. In
deed, the industrial policy advocated
by the new party would result in the
denial of labor's right to organize.
"The new party stands for the per-
petuation and extension of private
monopoly from which the few have
ever profited at the expense of the
many and for the dethronement OF
which the people have, in the past,
fought so many valiant battles. That
cursed product of despotism, the new
party, proposes to domesticate in our
republic, proclaiming, We do not fear
commercial power Certainly organ
lied labor has had experience with the
great trusts which should teach all
men that commercial power may be Sc
great that it is the part of wisdom to
fear it."
The above declaration was made by
Louis d. Brandeis before the conven
ton of the American Federation oil
I Labor, Massachusetts state branch, al
Fitchburg. Sept. IS.
! OF Supreme Importance.
! He urges a careful study of the new
party platform, particularly it's effec
upon labor, noting not only WHAT II
/ CONTAINS, but WHAT 1T OMITS
adding, when you make that exami
I nation you will find that there is {
/ significant omission and that this skill
| fully devised platform TAKES F'RON
LABOR MORE THAN 1T GIVES"
Labor Record Of Trusts.
Mr.. Brandeis then lays bare the la
Dor record of the trusts, declaring tina
great trusts-the steel trust, the sug
ar trust. the beef trust, the tobacco
trust, the smelter trust and who'll
troop of lesser trusts-have made tn
determination of organized labor fror
their factories the very foundation
stone of their labor policy The abil
ty to defeat labor's right to combin
seems to have been regarded by tn
trust magnates as a proper test OF tn
efficiency of their capitalistic combine
ton"
Mr. Brandeis shows that in 1S9!
during the Colorado smelters STRIKE
the American Smelling and Retinln
company closed it's mills where tn
strikers had been employed and tram
ferred the work to other mills. thu
breaking the strike. The United State
Steel corporation had similar success
in 1901 with the Amalgamated ASS
, citation OF Iron and Steel Worker
Had tho association been dealing wit
competing employers the result woul
: have been different. The United State
1 Steel trust was prompt in introducfn
$ this plan. June IT. 1901, six weel
after ii began its operations, its exec
1 tive committee passed this vote, whic
. was offered by Charles Steele, par
ner of George w Perkins in the fir
of j. p Morgan 4 Co:
"That we are unaiterably opposed
any extension of union labor and a
| wise subsidiary companies to take fir
e position when these questions come ,
and say that they are not going to re
ognize it-that is. any extension of u
a ion in mills where they do not nc
exist"
II Union Men Not Wanted.
d The result was that the bulk
II American union laboring men In t
j. iron and steel industry were made
;. understand that they were not want
; at the works of the United States Ste
corporation Places once filled
Is American laborers loyal to their uni
Is we're given to others, and, as the Sta
ley committee found "Hordes Of
"a borers from southern Europe pour
Ia into the United States"
ir Hence about so per cent, of the !
:. skilled laborers In the iron and ST
business are foreigners OF these ella
:" es, the profits going to the steel corp
alton. Mr.. Brandeis declared that =
immediate and continuing result
the steel trusts triumph over org