The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-06-13
ABOLISH THE PRIVATE ARMY.

The private army is utterly unAmerican and utterly
of place in the twentieth century. There is
legitimate need for maintaining it, If there IL trouble
keeping the the county authorities appeal
the state and the state, if unable to perform the
task, assured the help the federal government
But that is not the commonly taken in big
labor disputes great employing concern fills its plants
mines with immigrants, too ignorant and unused
to American manners to think Of organizing. They
isolated, kept in bondage to company stores" and
guarded against possibility of falling under the influence
of the walking delegate. Time passes, and the Amer
lean spirit reaches them; they learn too much they
discover that other workers somehow treated BETTER
they into touch with the labor organizers they form
union, and begin to be turbulent, which il to say
that they begin and understand and better
treatment and conditions.
1t becomes necessary to be rid of them Disturbances
fostered fight develops between employers and
employees The employer rghtousy sets himself up as
the protector of the rights of labor the right of
to keep out Of the union they like refusal
to recognize the union; effort to drive the union
of the camp; armed guards imported and in due
the Objectionable labores who have got
teligent to be easily manageable driven
horde, fresh from eastern Europe ASIA
shipped in to take their places.
Pretty nearly always it is the armed guard, the
private army that does the dirty work at the critical
point. 1t at Houghton it in the earlier
Colorado and Utah wars; it the present Colorado
If the best authenticated reports may believed
The private army is the institution should be abol
ished There is quite enough of feudalsms flavor in
this country now without the deliberate organization
of mercenaries to yhole to obscure
and bec1oud issues to make private where war
fare serves the purpose of private interests.
All: the way from Homestead ."in 1892, down to
Colorado today it has been the same story. 1t was
reported from West Virginia last year, and was one
of most dsgraceful chapters labor history of
the country 1t has been in accounts OF Penn
sylvanias mining warfares it the basic story
OF the horrors Of Zegler ILL.,, few years ago. It was
the crux Of the Western Federation of Miners strugle
probe almost every of the dsgracefu ouburss of
capitaabor violence and the Hessian guard will be
found. =:
If the business of organizing hiring and using armed
forces were made treason; there would very presently
become day in which such horrors Colorado presents
today would be Observation-Disclosures ID. c. Times.
S The trade union has right to question member
ABOUT his political convieton has it the right to
prescribe to him what party he shall belong outside
the trade union. If the trades unions know nov, ia
practice this degree of tolerance both sides their
I future will be- satisfactory and useful H.. Ill
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery
by the doubling of our and the dividing Of or grief
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