The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-11-30
is hoped chat a strong organization can
be secured.

is hoped ohat strong organization car
be secured.
"ITncle Joe" Cannon, ex-speaker OF
the House of Representatives and one OF
the picturesque figures in national po'
litical life, was handed his discharge pa.
pers by the people of the eighteenth
Illinois district on election day, and aft
err March 4, 1913, the angular form OF
"Uncle joe will be conspicuous by its
absence from the floor Of the popular
branch of the United States Congress.
Unyiehing in his attitude toward the
measures for securing labor square
deal, he has at least been consistent in
continuously standing against them,
The storm of popular Indignation, how
ever, which has been gathering for six
years, not only overwhelmed "Uncle Joe"
but carried with it large number of
those who held views similar to the eX-
speaker, but who only on rare occasions
had courage to voice them publicly. La
Dor can well spare "Uncle Joe" from the
legislative halls of our government.
Proceedings have been brought in the
circuit court of Tppecanoe county, La
fayette, Ind, to dissolve the Retail
Clerks Protective association. The pro-
ceedings have been filed in the name OF
the state on complaint of Susie Wolga
mont. The complainant has been an
employee in the general offices OF the
clerks for many years, but through some
is now not employed by
the organization. Miss Wolgamont al
leges that she is member in good
standing of the organization and that
the international union has been acting
as corporation without having been
The complainant asks that
the banks holding the funds Of the i'm
union be restrained from
paying any more money to the officers,
md that a receiver be appointed to take
charge of the property and that the
money be returned to the members. The
ocal clerks union has been involved in
/, strike against department store since
asst August and some Of those on strike |
rave been drawing benefits from the !
organization since that time. 1t is |
strongly intimated that the proceedings |
n court can be connected in some way
WITH LDis UlIHcuilN. ne ul1ctfs Oh tltt 1
Retail Clerks international Protective |
association do not take the filing of this !
uit seriously and are not worried over /
he outcome.
Someone has termed the labor move.
nent the college Of hard knocks" and
We are OF the opinion that no~better
anne could have been applied, as anyone
Tho enters this democratic school will
gree if they apply themselves to the
curse of learning that is furnished,
OF by professors who are learned in the
rts and sciences, but by the men who
ave given the better part of their lives
/ noble effort to aid and uplift their
elbows, morally, mentally and finan-
ally. From the movement his obliga.
on is given him as a member of a
dor union until he ceases his activity
the cause of labor, an ideal is con-
family kept before every man in which
If is subordinated and the good and
elfare of all continually held up to
i'm as the ultimate goal for which the
osts of labor are striving; religious or
ational bigotry is eschewed and woe to
he man who transcends the law OF
Brotherhood and equality. 1t is mainly
: "hard knocks" that men who work
the cause of labor acquire that broad
brit of liberation which is so evident ]
! every hand among the organized
orkers, and it is often the constant re-
iffs of employers when improved work.