Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-21

Is that every man should lay down his tools Sup
pose every man that Is working at useful labor
In the United States at this moment laid down his
tools Th,r" Is not treasury In the world that
would support thes. men for week. aud with all
your unions thrown together. you could not sup
port them FOR one week These men hsNr not got
the supplies of fooistuff and II you should remain
on a strike for 30 days, until the a,ailahl. food
ran out you would do tn. big unions in the
past have done. scab another. trade 5obs
and 20 back To work at less wage. and in such
a depiorable condition 1t would take a genera
tion In order to reorganize the labor mos enent Of
this country"
Delegate Pickett of the carmen spoke ON the
question and stated that he had made clos. stu'iy
OF the labor situation and had come to the o"neld-
sion that whatever might be In the future for In
dustrial unionsm the time had not Yet arrived
that the system Federation the Canadian Pa
cifc had taken six years to perfect that II Is true
as has been pointed out by previous speakers that
there has been depression for something like u
months which has made the men more or less de--
perst- and they will clutch at anything that sug-
gests "A remedy solution of the diffcul be-
setting them. but that to those who have made a
study of the question this proposed resolution did
the System Federation In existence now and pre-
vious TO this time has enabled the leaders OF the
Jealousies and had worked for the common good.
and that time and energy should be devoted en-
tireiy TO building up these system Federations.
Delegate Perry OF the machinists endorsed the
remarks OF of the previous speakers as to the
one big union. and stated that he did not believe
the time had yet come for abandoning the present
form Of organization and that the only way to
Judge the by the past. and referred
the history OF the n. *. L. and the knights oS
Labor. lie stated that while granting TO every
their constitutional right to follow tn. dictates
of their own conscience. he wished 10 record
as being opposed to one big union
Delegate McGnlivray Of the machini.ts argued
that he could not understand why any one would
want a better Industrial organization than exists
under this present form, and that when perfecte ed
through the respective district federatons every
thing would be accomplished that could be desired
In the OF an industrial organization. with pos.
sibly few more Officers being the only difference.
that the line he represented there had not been
n strike In ever seven years and the different
crafts got along harmoninusy. He endorsed what
bad been said in regard To one big union. that II
were advocating the thing at this time. but that
II IL came to vote. a. the active workers In such
a movement were always on the job in the lodge
room. the thing might go through and prove Ia
be IA white elephant He urged seeing what could
he done with the federation plan which had Just
been started and was not yet perfected
Delegate Troa-t Of the switchmen stated that he
desired to speak. not a member OF ths commit
tee but as one of the rank aud fiir and was Of
III. opinion that the resolution should go before
III" rank and fie. mat there was an unrest all
over tn" country. and that hV submitting this
proposition To the rank and file. While II might
not he worded aute night. he believed the unrest
would be set aside for once and all In TIA" labor
voted down at the ratio OF 70 per cent I" 10 aud
II would Xiii industraiism which was on It's last
iess, that he had hal experience IN the Labor
maA ement and believed that federation was the
only solution. that he hoped that the daN that
he ever got ON platform to advocate industrial
I'm In the strietest Of the word thai MS
tongue might h. sealed the roof II his nIolia
pel.Eate Mallory OF the carmen orpe.ci fhe
resolution as having tendency L. tear ioN u h.i
had been 50 long mateftalizlnE. that tte fedora
iion sun In Its infancy and had camel ma d
in ihr last few years that there WI mn an "a.
flaur belonging Ia different rraft~ With whom -
hal served uttt" over tire months LA Al 4
futl obtain federated contract With tho Kan
t1iy southern AMI While theN dtffsrsd at tune
during that period On classification nf Hofk. t.
dan th"y stood on, and that Ia tn matter oi
taking up= grievances II Wa- impossible - dts-
tlugHish the line between trHft Art TIA, othef
President johnson of the maehnt~'s ststea thA'
tn. delegates should he ahl. dtfts le-
tween "onc biz union" and the hlr auzsnz thai
slnh uuinn the knights Of ia,h't. atth the
raudls-Surk maker. tn t,amstet.. IT, slrar max
/ ant the mechanical trades all m"rEsi ~ouli uoi
81 anywhere. he asr.ed that thu 6taft fn"s"nsn nj
VA the m"xt scitniifie movement a. The tim II
vas tnanguratsh bat because Of thaf ftst = do
uat mean that should stand ~4lll ani q mok kt
tora art. that great deal OF the dts. antrnt ln
thc fhnr movement and outside - tn i z.,r NOV
NJ has heeu individual craft aetlHt tsla+1lez-
- tfght of tie Other fellow 80 ~ kt-
suEBH and Estuug benefits at tn .NutHss ai
aft sush a. tn tranNpertataa sf.Hf# vhi.h
#.faat,H the sentiment that there =sff thtHl
/ Urnfr Nlth thr federated movement IT, -fa5e'
/ - .rz"nr who had been inlett Al al ntfi
o.r knrw that IN Industrial values thu tal heri