The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-14
LABOR NOTES or
vide INTEREST
Never Give Up.


come discouraged in the movement and
feels like giving up" The question
arises, What is it that has discouraged
himY What dampened his ardor, stayed
his energies and depressed his zeal? IL
cannot be the power of the enemy or
the magnitude of his task. On inquiry
we find il is the "earelessness and in
difference the jealousy and apathy, and
knocking and fault-fnding" that ex-
lists in the ranks of labor itself, and so
after standing the "gaff' as long as he
could, he is compelled to acknowledge
that he is weary and sick at heart OF
the work and is ready to resign his
"thankless job and take a back seat"
There are few in any walk of life
who are fortunate to escape such mo-
ments of depression" 1t is easy to
to be contented with ones self and the
world as we find il, if our only object
in life is to secure a good position, APP
pear well dressed, gain the applause of
the crowd and be good fellow, out for
a good time; but set yourself to do
any really great and noble work and
you will inevitably meet with opposi
ton, derision fault finding and defeat.
/ This in itself is enough to discourage
I dUlUHts fNtH tHDSt VI bull Jug dtspbSl-
tions. Every time your friend betrays
You, every time your fellow man goes
back on you, every time you are left
to paddle your own canoe" every time
support. assistance, encouragement and
advice is denied you, you will be tempt
ed to become discouraged and disheart- |
| ened in the work, and to commit the |
sin of turning your back on the thorny |
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shut your eyes to everything around you
and in your cowardice give up. In the |
labor movement there is no giving up |
no standing still, no going backwards we
must go forward. onward and upward; /
we must fight for justice and right |
and better things.
If we know our friend. and we think
we do, whose letter caused us to write
this article, he is not made of the stuff /
that easily gives up, that succumbs at
the first trial, that goes down at the
first defeat. Feeling as he does IS the
best proof that he is fitted to do the
work before him, which as one knows,
must be done by someone. He must
remember that for every blessing the
world now enjoys we have to thank
men who felt as he does scores, and
scores of times before success crowned
their Efforts he must remember that
hundreds OF men spent their all in the
struggle and went down unremembered,
unmarked and to unknown graves, think
ing that their whole life was failure
and cheerful only bv the thought that
they did their best, and no man can do
more.
So our friend will find consolation and
satisfaction in knowing that this dis
is a sure sign that he too,
has chance OF making himself worthy I
of place among the brave among those 1
who were just and fair in all things at !
all times, whose steadfastness in the Q
stand they took could not be shaken by I
frowns or threats or sneers. Be brave J
of heart, your work in the labor move
ment is noble works Set yourself to !
accomplish the task before you and you .
will succeed. Remember you are not !
only lettering your own conditions but 9
you are paving the way for future gen G
erations to have and enjoy better things. e
Why. then, should you be downcast and
discouraged? 7
Senator Martin of Virginia has an
bounced that he intends to urge the en-
lctment of his bill to prevent the EN-
,loyment of both husbands and wives
~ the government. BY a cursory in p
Testigation OF the various government II
departments, it is brought to light that !,
he custom of both husbands and wives y
working for the government is common. ~
The bill of Senator Martin has been in u
reduced and will be pressed for the pas d
age upon the ground that husbands
hould support their wives and that
he government should not countenance
he employment of husbands and wives.
A national committee on prison labor o u
proposed by Senator 0Gorman The -
according to the bill would y
eek to provide employment which would al
remote the welfare of prisoners to pre- w
ent unfair competition between prison "
lade goods and goods made by free la ~ ~
or and to obtain, II possible, for de- VI
endent families of prisoners a fair pro- -
Ortion of the prisoners earnings. n
In one form or another, laws Great =
e pensions for mothers have been en-
tied in thirteen different states since
III. These laws. while similar in many
,spects arrive at the result sought to
, achieved by different methods. The
ates which are credited with these laws
e Illinois, California, Colorado. Wash "A
gton, Utah, South Dakota. Idaho, Min ava
,sota, Iowa, Nebraska. Ohio, New Jer
Y and Pennsylvania. In addition. Mis-
ur has authorized Kansas City to
lopt a system similar to the laws i'm
e states mentioned. Wisconsin, with
II any definite legal enactment, has
en- meeting the needs of the mothers
a limited way. and in three other ,
ates city ordinances or the powers be- r;h
owed state boards have established the
inciple of widows pensions. Similar |#'
Tvs are now under consideration by HsHI
ven other states. Esq
The painters and paper hangers in the HIM
v of 0ttumwa. Ia, are on strike and EiIa
E employers have been unsuccessful HIM
securing any competent workmen TO Film
the places of the strikers. A vein HH
humor enters into the situation in ~