Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-03

low ana they have dragged back after short while or
long WHILE weary and whipped into the ranks with their
steadier fellow workers.
If compulson has been used by the remaining unions
to hold an occasional body from DETECTION it act
born Of necessity For any group Of workers to
be allowed the freedom to ignore all their fellow workers
and strike out for themselves whenever the spirit wed
the unity that is the only ultimate salvation of the work
ing class; the movement would cease to be movement
and would degenerate into multitude OF mdvlduallst
groups with capacity to conceive OF class conscious
ness and no strength to win class victory.
Possibly there has never been time, during all these
years of Labors struggle in America that the big body
moved as rapidly the minority desired And it. in every
instance such this those who thought they knew more
than the Others impatient at the sowness of the majority
in adopting their progressveness had launched out Tor
there would have been another seeding minority until
they would have multiplied like guinea pigs and today
every shop would have it's 'union, getting cond-
ton for it's members at the expense OF the others
thousand warning groups would have dsntegrated Labor
until their weakness would have attacks from employers
until finally there would be nothing left at all except the
liberty to starve to death. ,
It REQUIRES some restraint for those who think they
know it all to submit to aorty that doesn't see things
they do but they be thankful for this condition. for
has saved them from the humiliation Of separation The
very weight of the backward majority holds them from
falling over the precipice
This justifies the majority in holding the minority
1no 1t 1uSn0S the American Ol
putting down duasm wherever begins For only thus
can solidarity come If the minority is right in principle
it will eventually become the majorty if it is not right
it never will But the battles must be battles OF IDEAS and
the field must be within the confines OF the organization
for every worker must realize that his first allegiance
| to his class.
This does not mean though that seceders should be
punished The old Greek sages that even penal ser
vtude should not be given in the thought of punishment
but only to deter offenders others from repetition OF
their offending. We beginning to see this now in
society," have long since it in the ranks OF Labor
When the Pennsylvania Mine Workers torn apart
by factions and the recognized body eventually prevailed
their first official act to rensate in full benefit all
who had opposed them but who agreed to reobgate them
Selves When the Electrical Workers had fought for
seven years against dual movement that at last collapsed
they received into full fellowship every errng brother
1t is pleasing to the American Federation OF Labor
representative demanding the termination re-
CARDS the employees Of the corrugatng works. tits to be
hoped that Crescent and Belmont lodges will be less
Imagnanimous with every seeding brother.
And it will be than magnamity, it will be self
interest The places in the mills must be filed; will be
conductive to the interests of the union who return
to refuse the places to their fellow unoniss OF week
ago. and them 60 to who did belong who
perhaps, have blacksheeped somewhere?
Every active unonst must be protected In his actv
ity the time will any industry when the active
workers will have been weeded out and then there will be
no union left stand against dualism must stand
against vctmzaton It is easier and sensible to
forgive brother than surrender to enemy.