The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-10-18

The Duluth Builders Exchange this week sent to
every employer and business house in the city pamphlet
copy of the last message, and it the final too,
Of Brown to the Georgia State Legislature in
which he delivered himself vtroc attack organ
lied labor.
The Labor World consratulates the local builders
the keen but arful they have adopted to
propagate against organized labor. We want nothing
better We commend the former governors erratc
the careful analysis of discriminating public.
The trouble u.s. however, the public gets but side
the argument. The daily seldom have anything
to of the great uplifting work of organized labor and
the public hears little Of what trade unions doing
until there is strike. and the reports then refer
only to incidents that accompanied by Violence
Ex-Governor Browns message but reflects the usual
attitude of the who unable to understand the
organization of day society its thoughts
is the attitude of official who would teach the labor
ing his place." and is of nature to nsgate class
feeling.
The former governor, however, makes several ad-
missions that ought to be sufficient to induce every
union man to join the union In instance he says
The unions have forced their up above those
ceived by workmen who have not formed these militant
combinations Tens of thousands Of citizens who
not in the unions confronted therefore, the
fact that the unions levyng upon them to the
extent that they forcing from employers an
equitable proportion the wages paid to the
classes in the State"
This intended severe arraignment of the
trade unions 1t fails in it's purpose. It un-
mstakabe Of the efficiency of trade union
methods. Although the statement comedies that the
unions have secured for their members increased
yet the intermediate this constitutes tax
upon unorganized labor is faacy that longer car
ries weight with thinking and women It is falacy
based upon the old wagesund theory now so generally
repudiaed by the leading economists and statesmen
The mere fact that certain workers receive more
than others does not that the paid them
is tax anybody but indicate that higher
wages can be paid when demands are made effective
Ihat higher wages result in general upft and social
advantage is by all except those made
blind by the avaricous and their satellites of whom
Governor Brown is so shining an exempar
But 1t is matter of common experience that ad
vantages gained by organization shared by the un-
organized as well by the Observation-Disclosures wages
shorter workday, better sanitary conditions cannot be
enjoyed by Isolated groups without sharing in some
measure at least with co-workers
Read, study and analyze Governor Browns message
ana you Will conclude with us-that your heart and
mind are freetha the late of GEORGIA is but
special pleader apologist and sopst for all the in
Aoulues OF private and corporate greed.
And what of organized labor? It will continue ito
humane upft work for all the toers for all the neon1e
Long after Brown and his k shall have been forsotten
or remembered, remembered scorn and contemn+
inc great work OF the organized labor movement will
honored and cherished. . ~.~