The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11

method of our own to right our forced wrongs
 It is difficult to understand how two classes, however dependent each may be on the other, whose whole environment
 whole point of view is so totally different
 could be thrown together, in any business relation without thoughtly natural an tagonism manifesting itself at once. On
 the one hand, We have an employer whose whole experience in life has gone to teach
 him the absolute truth of the doctrine of the survival of the Attest. A man who reached his position not because of influence or organizations, but because he was valuable to his employers in do- inS more and better work in his time than could or would be done by others. that by so doing he would go on to sue cess in the game of life, while his fel- lows, who did not keep up to such &
 standard. stood still or went back.
 On the other side, we have a class of men who. after the apprentice days are over, join the union. The union names the wages, hours. bosses and gives
 full direction as to. how the men are
 to be treated. that they may .pot be discharged without due consultation with
 the head of some department of the unoin
 who is at the last the man who deter mines whether or not the offending work
 man must go. However efficient some other man may be, but not member,
 he cannot be given employment. Such restrictions give rise to a constant in- vitation of the employer A resentment against a. set of rules so wholly at va riance with all the experience of his bus mess life. This resentment is reflected in the attitude of the structural worker
 who comes to look on the employer, the man with the money. as an enemy of his and of organized labor. It is not fancy
 from spirit of enmity on the part of
 the actual worker to a feeling that some
 active expression of enmity must be
 shown by the head of the organization.
 Following this thought, money was ap- propriated that needed no accounting for,
 and the executives set about devising the
 best schemes they could devise for the injury of those who did not care for their board of union labor. That the McNa- maras must have had full support of the other executives seems self incident. Else how could these long. mysterious | trips have been accounted for. how ex- | plain the safe stand with explosives, clocks and curious levers by a man or men who were supposed to be paid for work in the executive offices of the union? It seems an anomaly that such a conspiracy could have been developed in this land of opportunity, a land
 where individual merit is so quickly II
 anomaly that band of men could
 have been developed in our midst who
 have felt that dynamite could correct any real or fancied wrongs here in this land of wonders. of tremendous &C., complishments, of results achieved by men or descendants of men who were not doing well in their native lands. for if they had been doing well, in the countries from which they came, they would never have come to our undeveloped and unimproved country. Once here, this matter of class was at once determined by the ability of the individual. This has gone on until there has been developed among us as clearly drawn class distinctions as may be seen in Europe, the only difference being in the matter of form of show ing the distinction.
 The McNamaras have been made to suffer; others will be punished and dynamiting will cease for awhile, but there will be the smouldering hatred toward the employing classes that under the present system will result lin other outrages. Would not such .