The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-04
Third TERMER'S
JOKE ON LABOR
BrandeiS Shows Right to Or
ganize Is Not Recognized,
THE PLATFORM IS SILENT.
Noted Lawyer Exposes the Flimsiness
of Promises Made to Workingmen by
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands For Private Monopoly.

Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands For Private Monopoly.
1.-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
I 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
man are futile. The platform promises
social and industrial justice, but does
not promise industrial democracy The
Justice which it offers is that which
the benevolent and wise corporation
is prone to administer through its 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 in industry-that 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
ized labor has had experience with the
great trusts which should teach all
men that commercial power may be so
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 of
Labor, Massachusetts state branch, at
Fitchburg, Sept IS.
Of Supreme Importance.
He urges a careful study Of the new
party platform, particularly Its effect
upon labor, noting not only WHAT 1T
CONTAINS, but WHAT 1T OMITS,
adding, when you make that exami-
nation you will find that there is a
omission and that this skill
fully devised platform TAKES FROM
LABOR MORE THAN II GIVES"
Labor Record of Trusts.
Mr.. Brandeis then lays bare the la
Dor record Of the trusts, declaring that |
great trusts-the steel trust, the sug-
ar trust the beef trust, the tobacco |
trust, the smelter trust and a whole |
troop Of lesser trusts-have made the |
Of organized labor from |
their factories the very foundation
stone of their labor policy. The abili-
ty to defeat labor's right to combine
seems to have been regarded by the
trust magnates as proper test of the
of their capitalistic combina-
ton"
Mr.. Brandeis shows that in 1899,
during the Colorado smelters' strike,
the American Smelling and Refining
closed it's mills where the
strikers had been employed and trans
ferred the work to other mills, thus
breaking the strike. The United States
Steel corporation had similar success
IN 1901 with the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron and Steel Workers.
Had the association been dealing with
employers the result would
have been different, The United States
Steel trust was prompt in introducing
his plan. June II, 1901, six weeks
after it began its operation, its execu-
i've committee passed this vote, which
was offered by Charles Steele, a part
ler of George w. Perkins In the firm
If j. p. Morgan & Co.:
"That we are unalterably opposed to
my extension of union labor and ad-
rise subsidiary companies to take firm
position when these questions come up
Ind say that they are not going to rec
,gnize it--that is, any extension of un-
on in mills where they do not now
,xist"
Union Men Not Wanted.
The result was that the bulk of
American union laboring men in the