The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-10-07
THIRD TERMER'S
JOKE ON LABOR
Brandeis Shows Right to Organ,
ize Is Not Recognized
THE PLATFORM IS SILENT
Noted Lawyer Exposes the FllmsInesa
Of Promises Made TO WorkIngmen by
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands for Private Monopoly.

u F-IoWibeh Maut 10 WOrklH8mcn Dy /
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands for Private Monopoly.
"The new party pledges itself to 90.
cial and industrial justice and specific
ally to work increasingly for effective
legislation looking To the prevention Of
occupatlonal diseases, oyerwork, inyol K
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 tie fundamental right Of
labor to organize or even recognizing
this right without which all other
grants and concessions for improve
mant 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 ITS vel
fare department There Is no promise
OF that justice which free American
workingmen are striving to secure foT
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
petuatlon and extension OF private
monopoly from which the few have
ever prodted 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
i party, proposes to dorss.lcate in om
republic. proclaiming, We do not fear
commercial power Certainly organ
lied labor has had experience with the
great trusts which should teach al
+ men that commercial power may be SO
great that it is the part Of wisdom tc
fear f."
The above declaration was made BY
Louis d. Brandels before the conven'
tion Of the American Federation Of
Labor. Massachusetts state branch, al
Fitchburg, Sept IS.
OF Supreme Importance.
He urges a careful study Of the new
pNry platform. particularly its eject
upon labor. noting not only WHAT 1T
1 CONTAINS. but WHAT 1T OMITS,
adding, "When you make that exami
nation you viii find that there is a
significant omission and that this skin.
fully devised platform TAKES FROM
LABOR MORE THAN 1T GIVES"
Labor Record Of Trusts.
Mr.. Brandeis then lays bare the Ia
bor record u the trusts. declaring that
great trusts-the steel trust, tho sug
or trust, the beef trust, the tobacco
trust, the smelter trust and a whole
troop Of lesser trusts-haye made the
determination Of organized labor from
their factories the very foundation
stone OF their labor policy. The abili
" to defeat labor's right to combine
seems 70 have been regarded by th'
trust magnates as proper test OF ths
efficiency OF their capitalistie oomblna
ton"
Mr. Brandeis shows that in 1888
during the Colorado smelters' strike
tie American Smelling and Reaninl
company closed SIS mills where thr
strikers had oeen employed and trans
Z ferred the work to other mills, thu
breaking the strike The United State
I Steel corporation had similar success
8 IN 1901 with the Amaigamated Assc
citation OF Iron and Steel Workers
\ Hud the association been dealing wit
competing employers the result woul
have been differeht The United State
Steel trust was prompt in introducin
> this plan. June II. 1901, six week
q after It began its operations, its eXeeu
ii tive committee passed this vote, whic
.e was offered by Charles steele, par
ner Of George w. Perkins IN the fri
Of J. P. Morgan & Co:
THAT we are unalterably opposed
any extension Of union labor and al
: wise subsidiary companies to take fri
2 position when these questions come u
> and say that they are not going to re-
: ogpize it-that Is, any extension Of III
= ION In mills where they 90 not nc
exist
, Union Men Not Wanted.
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