The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-12-21
ORGANIZED LABOR DEAL BRUTlS
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Using was offered to every labor pa
per in the United States and We were
pleased to note that only four of such
papers accepted it. One was the
''Holier than Thou" Labor Review OF
Minneapolis.
After attacking the privately owned
labor papers; Labor Review then at
tempts to discredit the trade union
movement and a number of interna-
tional unions affiliated with the; Amer
lean Federation of Labor. It shows
by its editorial that it is wholly out
OF harmony with the philosophy Of
the Am erican labor movement: If it's
editor possessed the smallest degrec
OF honor he would withdraw his pa
per as the official organ of the Mn
nesota. State Federation OF Labor. be-
tore casting reflections upon the
movement it ought to represent.
Mr.. Aamlin declares that. because
the carpenters union has a balance
In its treasury of sG1,SO0.69 less than
1t possessed one year ago, that organ
ization is not us PROSPEROUS. nor "a
strong, as it was ore year ago. He is
In the habit Of measuring prosperity
and strength by dollars and cents. so
ne IS incapable OF calculating from
any other standard.
What Is the Truth?
What is the truth about the car
Dentcrs' union:
IN 1912 1t contained 1,419 more
members than it did the year pre-
Vlously. 1t is today in better stand
ing numerically than it has been
IN any year but one during Its ex-
lstence. 1t entered into more trade
union agreements last year than at
any other time since it was organ
lzed. 1T is true that it expended
more money during 1911 than pre-
Vlously. but this is due wholly to
the fact that associations of employ
ers have given it harder battle than
ever before.
Mr. Hamlin makes an attack upon
the plumbers union and attempts to
snow that 1t levied 81 assessment
10 absorb the steamfitters. This is
the srossest kind of falsehood. We
carry plumbers card and we have
paid our dues regularly in that or
ganlzation for 20 years. The only
assessment levied by the plumbers in
the past four years was for the pur-
pose of defraying; the expenses of
the st. Paul convention, and this as
sessment amounted to but $1.O0, Mr.
Hamlin did not say, however, that tha
plumbers union increased in member
snip during the past year by over
1000. '.'
CowarCl1y and Audacious.
His criticism Of the fight of the
Hatters' union has been making to
prevent it's membership from being
mulcted out of $4,000 is as coward
~ as it is bold. IT comes with poor
grace from an editor of a labor paper
TO criticize or condemn the course.
OF the matters in resisting the Ameri-
can Anti-Boycott association in this
great fight, and particularly in false
~ charging Mr.. Gompers ever i'm
pied that trade unions came under
the provisions of the Sherman anti
trust law.
Every person in America who nre-
tends to know anything about this
great legal battle, knows full we'll
~~A' ~oAhpCAS 11dS SCOOQ ike a
giant in his contention that trade
unions did not come under the pro-
visions of the Sherman antitrust law
and the American Federation of La
Dor is making the fight that the court
shall not interpret the: law to define
trade union as a. trust.
dollar His Standard.
The, editor of Labor Review. as We
have said, measures all standard Of
by dollars and cents. He
states that the Minnesota State Fed
Grafton Of Labor is weaker today than
1t was year ago from the fact that
the secretary-treasurer reported to the
Brainerd convention smaller balance
in the treasury Of that organization
than obtained the year previous. IF
he had made comparison of the
financial report of the secretary-treas.
urer to the several conventions of the
State Federation of Labor for wears
past. and he was DESTROYS of pre-
senting only the truth to the readers