United labor bulletin., 1912-11-21
The Province of Trade Unions

Trade union organizations have well-defned province
for their operations but they necessarily confined
to that field.
We often outcries against the actions of great
corporations that pay employees
age and give them that
that OF corporations that employ union men,
against those children twelve
and fifteen hours a day seldom hear the deserved
rebuke
There is this The eye of the public is
ever focused the corporations
are harpng their smallest msdeed their en-
ployes before the pubc-partaly account of
this everlasting castigation.
Then there are always those who o make an is
against the hope that they will be
seen and something pressed in palm their hand
that will hush them up time This course NAV be
pursued sometimes by corporations. but when it
some other but raises the former and
there is no stop to the cry originally raised.
This phase of public life becoming patent to the
great corporations of Denver is being paid
to the character assassin attempted backmaer who
now raises his voice in loud
ton
The visit to Denver of one of the executive
board members of the Amagamated Street Railway Mems
union more clearly emphasizes this anything we
could say in these columns. The Committeeman
visited the city, looked over the situation talked prom
nent labor men OF the city. he was ready to
speak for publication he visited and Labor
Assembly and there dwelt conditions of the en-
ployes of street railway cities showing
the scales Of wages and the conditions existing He did
not attack the Denver City Tramway company vtoc
language but when he did speak Denver situation
he said that there was good why Denver
Tramway boys should be unonzed His visit was
distinct departure from organizer that comes
to city and Immediately begins object of
his visit.
There is. of course conditions among the Denver
ramway employees that could be bettered that cond
ton exists in trade. admitted that the en-
poyes OF the Tramway company top wages of
the countryand they unorganized Would IL not be tb
worst of folly to make fight against the Denver Tram
way company to organize employees when they Them
selves admit that their conditions compared IN
conditions that exist tramway lines parts of
the company that are fully organized7
The Street Car Mems organization is certainly con-
Quoting Its anars in businessik way know where
and when to make their campaign organization In
the SOUTH the executive committeeman said the men
Work twelve fifteen and eighteen a day and it is
against these conditions that the exertng
their energies This action Labor organizations
should attempt organization under those con
dtions before they attempt organize employees of
company simply because they not organized
II is. Of course within province of trade Unions
to attempt to organize the employees of such orpos
as we refer 10 above but their position weak when it
is pointed out that children being worked
long honrs in the worst OF factory Labor
should make the under dog by building up
from the bottom it is making the excuse to
better the conditions of the women at the top
Trade unions exist necessity laboriny people
had not been ensaved by the employer it would never
have have been necessary have organization and
since 1t has been begun labor should make its strongest
rights of humanity Let employer who re-
overworked empoye.