The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-21
Labor's Destiny


they are here because Of a neces
sity; Labor needs them and must
have them.
All the talk against them cannot
prevent their existence, nor can 1t
stop their development and progress
In these days labor can see that
with labor not united this world
would be in shambles. And labor is
learning the lesson that labor itself
is the only friend that labor has.
Take conditions in Europe.
There tremendous organizations of
labor had been gotten together
Where are they now?
Labor did not govern the countries
at war; labor did not rule the minds
of those in control.
With the result that the naturally
anarchistic tendencies of those in
power brought forth the fruit of an
archy-war, with its brutalities, its
senseless disregard of order and it's
destruction of the results of toll
Not alone must labor organize to
get better wages and hours. 1t must
organize to prevent the wantOn eX-
cess and brutal extravagances of the
alleged better elements. 1t must
protect itself from day to day It
must so organize as to prevent for
all time the destruction OF its work,
it's hopes and it's aspirations.
Throughout this world labor has
held itself too cheap; it has followed
the unfit and unlearned it has CON
sidered the well-meaning, scholarly
person who never worked and never
would, as better fitted to advise thar
to rely on it's own experience for its
guidance.
1t has sought for leaders among
those foreign to it, and has suffered
thereby
The only ones in the world who
cannot hope to make out of disorder
are those engaged in productive labor
All others may win fame, money or
distinction out of disorder Labor
cannot function productivity except
in peaceful, orderly surroundings.
System and order are the laws of
its being, and that is true of no other
class of men. The despoiler thrives
in a lack of system, or order and de.
cency; the lawyer could not exist
without the disorder and lack Of sys-
TEN and sense that makes him neces-
sary; the doctor would be gone if
the lack of order and system that
makes disease were gone.
No matter how much we study and
ponder all come finally to the neces-
sity for the unificaton of labor
| labor united is the hope of the world,
Unions are not mere collections OF
men organized to increase wages.
That is a very necessary part of their
work. They are the school in which
workers shall learn to know them
selves for what they are-not only the
salt of the earth, but the force
which keeps the world going.
The upheaval in Europe has proven
the necessity of all workingmen to
get in line with each other. That has
proven the utter futility of relying
either for guidance or knowledge on
outsiders.
Organize unions, bring them close
together keep them free from the
elements that make for disorder,
have for members only those that
work for wages and see that they
are pfficered, led and directed by
workingmen who work.
No woman can act the mother for
another in giving birth to another
womans child.
SO, likewise, no other section of
humanity can act for labor. 1t must
do its own work and do it itself. Let
every nottingham join with his fell
lows in making the union strong and
effective - Jacksonville (Fla) Art
san.