The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-08-16
THE ORE DOCKWORKERS' STRIKE.

THE ORE DOCKWORKERS STRIKE
The ore dockworkers' strike has been declared off.
1t lasted less than week. OF the poor fellows VINO
were duped by the loudmouthed leaders of the W. w.
most Of them were obliged crawl back to work
their bellies, while others whose pride was stronger
than their need for bread looking for jobs else
where.
It is not an easy for editor of trade union
write about the recent STRIKE
sympathy goes out to the poor worklngmen VINO,
no doubt are underpaid as workingmen when
cost living, of occupation and seasonal en-
poynent conditions are taken into consideration They
were easy prey for such organization the In
dustria Workers of the World, and its leaders lost no
time in taking advantage of them.
Now they are back to work again, and the I. w. w.
leaders declare that there sufficient of their
bers on the job lido whatever work be assigned
to them" Of this be taken as threat to
"Sabotage, which is understood to be strk-
ing job by Gripping the machinery at the ore
docks How far they will dare go in this direction
only the tell, but it looks to like Of
; their characteristic bluffs.
Ore dockworkers should take lesson from their
unfortunate experience The Industrial Workers
of the World a strike Their tactics
been repudiated wherever they have been tried
instance the participants in w. w. strike
have become disguised with what they believed
organization Of labor that they turn against all
operative effort upon the industrial field. But they
should view. Labor's only hope for free
dom is in organization along we'll tried constructive lines
Without organization labor would be ground to atoms
The method of organization followed by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor has far to be the
best for all aborers The dockworkers have been
taught despse craft unionsm and to seek relief
through industrial organization At the time they
eligible for membership in international trade
union pronouncedly industrial in its operation
any labor organization in the world We refer to the
International Longshoremens association which admits
all workingmen who load and unload boats all who
sail harbor tugs the captain to the cook and all
other harbor employees This great industrial union with
record Of achievements, the Duluth and Superior
dockworkers rejected to accept the W. W., with
nothing behind it but wind and failure.
All unorganzed labor must learn that good things
do not come to it silver platers 1t requires time
sacrifice, patience to forge ahead 1t can
expect receive stroke that which required
of organization for union labor achieve Indeed
it is the height of folly for group working
to think of venturing into strike until they
been we'll disciplined in organization having behind them
sufficient treasury to withstand long sege and
than all when they shall have sought and gained
publics good will. When they reach this point they
will find less to strike then when they
unorganzed but recently organized. The best anti
dote for strikes is strong healthy and carefully
aged trade union
The Steel Trust too is not free from the responsibility
of the recent strike Its attitude against the organiza-
ton of it's employees possible such organiza-
+ tons as the w. W. to exist Had local Steel Trust
officials tolerated constructive organization along
union lines at the docks there would be no such
thing as midseason strike. Indeed there would be
no occasion for strikes at ALL and the they
made issue in the late strike be made in equity
to be kept by men who had something to say about
making them which they did not have this instance
The road to industrial peace constructive
organization Of the working classes and by collective
barsaning Through method can it be obtained
or made