South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-27
ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE ADAMSON

We hold no brief for organized labor. 1t owes US
nothing and we owe it still less When a political
party however is prejudice against the labor
movement because. after years OF continuous num-
buggng that has discovered itself and de-
ines to be humbugged any longer position is that
it is at least entitled square deal The present
effort Of the republican party prejudice unorganized
labor against organized labor transferring the afec
tons OF its humbuggery that the organized ele-
ment has and refuses to be further duped
moves us to this explanation.
Organized labor is unquestionaby. at rock bottom
selfish. confirm the pretense of its enc
mics however that is wholly that the selfish
ness rests exclusively with the leaders, that the leaders
are .grafters" or that their followers are simple
tons At the top, organized labor is of the most
phanthropic institutions that the modern world has
produced and leaders the movement frequently
and at heart as well head, highly concerned and
active socioogists using the organization Of labor
accomplish their sociological ends. The selfshness
creeps in more particularly the bottom than at the
top II is the individual vvorkingman who joins the
union first of ALL to pay and shorter hours
for himself others within his brotherhood whose
6rst thought himself of his brotherhood second
and perhaps, the body of American working
men. not at all
Organizers of the lar,r movement on the
have always had the welfare great body Amer
lean workingmen first mind using the individual
member the union, then city. and
national ORGANIZATIONS means TO their ultimate
The operations OF these members these locals the
city state and national declarations. always
been ideal very little that has been accomplished
in the progress travelled along ideal paths.
Hlunders have been committed from standpoint OF
the public welfare. among estmable institu-
tons as organizations Of bankers, manufacturers.
grocers butchers. and half guess sometimes
lawyers. doctors. and possibly cergymen. OF
newspapers and editors exempt 1t is always the
other fellows which wrong selfish, tyrannical
and putting public bum. Il am always
orthodox and you heterodox," as BENJAMIN Franklin
used say.
Unorgauzed labor having Numbered into its
ears just by republican orators-and Charles Evans
Hgghes-that the railway brotherhoods held congress
up the point Of a pistol secured some special
legislation Tor their particular beneht,-a benefit in
which outside those particular unions con-
oerned participate
Nothing said by these republican orators-and
Charles Evans Hughes-about the number of times
that congress has been up point Of pistol
By the American wooden manufacturers. and other
special interests demanding protection Of their indus
tries by high tariffs threatening the country with
panics dire caames If such protection were
not vouchsafed
We are supposed be TOO blind to see that these
same republican orators-and Charles Evans Hughes-
are this very COINS about the country
threatening the whole American people fguratively al
point pistol sort OF calamity should
not the republican party be reestablished in power
Rut these other threatenings up and return to