The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-10-04
THIRD TERMER'S
joke ON LABOR
NIandeIs Shows Right 10 Or.
ganlze Is Not Recognized
THE PLATFORM IS SILENT

Noted Lawyer Exposes ths Fl,ms,nsss
ss Premises Made 70 Werkinsmso BY
Perkins and His Candidate, Who
Stands For Private Monopoly.
The new party pledges itself to 20.
cial and industrial Justice and specific.
ally to work INCREASINGLY for effective
legislation looking TO the prevention Of
occupationai diseases. overw0rk. invol.
untary unemploy and other In.
furious effects incident to modern In.
lustry, but nowhere In that
long and comprehensive platform
can there be found one word
approving the fundamental right 0f
labor to organize or even recognising
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 1t Offers In that which
the benevolent and wise corporation
IL prone to administer through Its wei.
fare department There Ia no promise
of that justice which free American
work!ngmen are striving to secure for
themselves through organization In
deed. the industrial policy advocated
ny 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 pronted ut 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 tha. 1t Is the part Of wisdom to
fear It."
The above declaration vas made BY
Louis D. Braudeis before the cODven.
ton Of the American Federation Of
Labor, Massachusetts, state branch. at
Fitchburg. Sept 49,
OF Supreme Importance.
He urges 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 End that there Is
significant omission and that this skill.
fully devised platform TAKES FROM
LABOR MORE THAN 1T GIVES"
Labor Record Of Trusts.
Mr.. Brandels then lays bare the Ia.
Dor record of the trusts. declaring that
'great trusts-the steel trust. the sng.
ar trust. the beef trust. the tobacco
trust, the smelter trust and 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 proper test Of the
efficiency of their capitalistic cOmbina.
ton"
Mr.. Brandeis shows that In 1909.
during the Colorado smelters' strike,
the American Smelling and Refining
company closed its 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
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 It began its operation. its execu.
live committee passed this vote. which
was offered by Charles Steele. part.
ner Of George W. Perkins In the 6rm
Of J. p. Morgan 4 Co.:
''That we are unalterably opposed to
any extension of union labor and ad.
vtse subsidiary companies to take 6rm
position when these questions come up
and say that they are not going to rec
oguixe it-that Ia. any extension Of un.
ion In mills where they do not u0w
exist"
Union Men Not Wanted.
The result was that the bulk OF
American union laboring men IN the
iron and steel industry were made 10
understand that they were not wanted
at the works Of the United States Steel
corporation. Places once Oiled By
American laborers loyal to their union
were given to others. and. an the Stan.
ley committee found. "Hordes of Ia.
borers from southern Europe poured
into the United States"
Hence about 40 per cent Of the uu.
skilled laborers In the iron and steel
business are Foreigners Of these classes.
the profits going TO the steel corpora
tion. Mr. Brandeis declared that the
immediate and continuing result OF
the steel trusts triumph over orgnn-