Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-14
THIRD TERMER'S
JOKE ON LABOR
Brandeis Shows Right to Organ
ize Is Not Recognized.
THE PLATFORM is SILENT
Noted Lawyer Exposes the FIimslnsss
Of Promises Made to WorkInsmen by
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands FOR Private Monopoly.

STANDS TOR Private Monopoly.
THE new party pledges itself to 80
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 III,
dustry,' but nowhere In that
long and comprehensive platform
can there be found one wore
approving the fundamental right OF
labor to organize or even recognizing.
this right without which all othe.
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 it offers is that which
the benevolent and wise corporation
is prone to administer through its wei
fare department. There is no PROMISE
of that justice which free Americal
workingmen are striving to secure 10: 4
themselves through organization. In.
deed, the industrial policy advocated
by the new party would result in tn.
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 oI
which the people have, in the past
fought 80 many valiant battles. Tha
cursed product Of despotism, the new
party, proposes to domesticate In ouI
republic, proclaiming. We do not feal
commercial power Certainly organ.
lied labor has had experience with the
great trusts which should teach all
men that commercial power may be 30
great that 1t Is the part of wisdom to
fear It."
The above declaration was made by
Louis D. Brandeis before the conven.
tion Of the American Federation of
Labor. Massachusetts, state branch, at
FitchLurg, Sept. 18.
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
significant omission and that this skill.
fully devised platform TAKES FROM
LABOR MORE THAN 1T GIVES"
Labor Record Of Trusts.
Mr.. Brandeis then lays bare the Ia
Dor record Of the trusts, declaring that
great trusts-the steel trust, the suR.
ar trust, the beef trust, the tobacco
trust, the smelter trust and q whole
troop OF lesser trusts-have made the
determination 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 q proper test Of the
efficiency OF their capitalistic combina-
tion."
Mr.. Brandeis shows that in 1899,
during the Colorado smelters' strike,
the American Smelling and Refining
company 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 AmalEamated Asso.
citation Of Iron and Steel Workers.
Had the association been dealing with |
competing employers the result would |
have been different. The United States !
Steel trust was prompt in introducing
this plan. June II, 1901, six weeks |
after II began its operations, its execu. |
tive Committee passed this vote, which |
was offered by Charles Steele, q part
ner Of George w. Perkins in the arm
Of ]. P. Morgan q Co.:
That we are unalterably opposed to |
any extension of union labor and ad. |
Wise subsidiary companies to take firm |
position when these questions oome up |
and say that they arc not going TO rec |
ognize it-that 10, any extension on un.
ion in mills where they do not rhow
exist"
Union Men Not Wanted.
The result was that the bulk OF
American union laboring men in the |
Iron and steel industry were made to
understand that they were not wanted
at the works Of tho United States Steel
corporation. Places once filled by
American laborers loyal to their union
were given TO others, and, az the Stan.
lev committee Iound. ."Hordes of In.