The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-07-20
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
TT IS HERE TO STAY.


Collective bargaining is here and it
has come to stay. Only the trades
powerful enough to enforce the prin-
ciple of collective bargaining are get
ting the best wages. Trade unionism
is getting what it demands. Unor-
ganized workers are tagging behind
in raise of pay. The worker cannot
depend on generosity. He is given
nothing. He gets what he can win:
no more.
The individual worker cannot do
much to better himself In combina-
ton with others he can do much.
Therefore they organize. They bring
to bear against the employer. coer-
cion. It is their answer to the en-
ployers' utilization of the Individual
workers necessities to coerce that
worker into acceptance of the lowest
wage consistent with subsistence The
employer appeals to natural law
There 'ain't no such thing in the
situation, with the employer in con-
troll of the job. TO correct that I'M
natural law trade unionism has come
into existence and it will remain until
there comes into action another meth
cd of making natural law natural
Reedy's Minor.
BLOW AT ILLITERACY.
The man or woman who cannot
read and write English is not much
use as a citizen. Most of those who
constitute a peril to our government
are in this class. Education is no
guarantee of morals, but the absence
of any schooling is real source of
danger
New York state has ranked rather
high in it's percentage of illiteracy,
due largely to the great number of
immigrants who settle in this state.
Other states which receive large num-
bers of immigrants have confronted
the same problem-a problem which
is to be met so far as New York is
concerned, by legislation proposed two
years ago by Commissinery Finley,
and enacted by the recent legislature.
These measures are three in num-
Der. The first provides for the train
ing of teachers to give instruction to
llliterates over the age of 49, The
second makes it mandatory for all
minors between the ages of 16 and
Fl who have not much ability to
speak, read and write English as is
required for the completion of the
fifth grade in public schools, to attend
either day or evening classes until
thy have reached that standing. They
may go either to public, private, paro-
chial or industrial schools, and either
day or night, as they wish, but suffi-
cient penalties are provided both for
the minors and for those who have
control fthenl, or who employ them
In violation of the act. to make sure
that they will get the required instruc-
ton. The third bill provides for the
establishment and maintenance in
cities and in union free school dis
tricts of the classes necessary to carry
out the plan.
FATALITIES INCREASE.
According to the reports received
by the bureau of mines from the state
mine inspectors of all states except
Kentucky, 202 men were killed dur
ing February, 1918, in and about the
coal mines of the states reporting, as
compared with 165 in the same states
in February, 1917. During the first
two months Of 1918 395 men were
killed by coal mine accidents in the
United States. This figure does not
include fatalities in Kentucky during
the period stated, for which no re-
ports have been received. During the
corresponding months of 1917. after
eliminating the same state for pur-
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