The labor standard., 1919-03-01

port in the next issue of your publi- cation?
 every truly yours,
 "LEON J. QUICK,
 "Editor Croton- Harmon News"
 THE WALKING DELEGATE
 We give herewith report unani- mously adopted at the last meeting of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation entitled, "The Walk ing Delegate and the War"
 There is in this country an organ ization that has maimed and murdered thousands of the finest and noblest workmen, that has murdered the fore men and superintendents and owners of factories, has murdered policemen, sheriffs and other officers of the law, that has defied the courts, that has checked the growth of cities, paralyzed industries, dynamited bridges, burned roundhouses, railroad cars and fac tories, has misplaced switches, and destroyed costly machinery. ..
 In Los Angeles men were working in conformity to all the laws of the land but were not giving money to the heads of this organization, so they sent some of their number to Los Angeles, dynamited a building and killed nineteen men.
 In East St. Louis men were work ing in full conformity to the laws, but they were giving no money to the heads of this organization, SO their houses were burned, their children, their wives and they themselves were murdered. s
 Over these awful crimes committed by. his kind the most prominent walk ing delegate in the United States gloated. This walking delegate prates of his loyalty, but a man who gloats over such crimes as these has no honor, no loyalty, no love of country, no patriotism. .ea
 Another prominent walking dele gate said at dinner in New York city that they had filled the hos pitals with the wounded and strewn the ground with corpses.
 The men who are at the head of the organizations that dc these evil deeds give themselves high-sounding titles such as president of the brotherhood this or brotherhood that, president of the international this or international that, president of the federation this or federation that, but the words that describe them generally the words, Walking delegate. sSs4 M sil N
 The way the walking delegates in huence legislators is by having lob bies. The walking delegates maintain at Washington the largest, most bra zen and most vicious lobby that ever cursed country.
 Under the influence of this lobby Congress went lower and lower until it came to the four years preceding our entrance into the war when our country sunk to the lowest depth of it's legislative degradation. During these years Congress passed laws to please this lobby that drove our ships from the seas, during these years. Congress passed laws to please this lobby that crippled the railroads. But for laws so passed, our railroads would have been fully equipped and in the highest state of efficiency at the out break of the war.
 z How is it such an organization should be allowed to browbeat Con- gress, have respectable men serve on committees with it's leaders and have it's leaders appointed on commissions
 "The chains that really bind human ity are chains the links of which are abstract words" The word labor per verted has bound the members of Con- gress and others in slavery. One of the perverted uses of the word labor is found in the expression, Conflict between Capital and Labor" Capital is money, labor is work; there can be no conflict between money and work. The word labor is still further per- verted when it is used in place of the word workmen or the word employed and when it is used to designate an organization.
 If the newspapers and other publi- cations would refrain from using the word labor in ways it should not be used, if ministers, college professors and others who believe in truth and justice, who believe in law and order, would stop talking about the rights of Labor" and talk about the rights of men, the walking delegate organ 4L6tlOItS W4LAA LAlElI GN1AS WOuiu NulCh- ly pass away.
 The expressions, Conflict Between Capital and Labor,"s% Organized Labor" and the rightsaof labor start nowhere, lead nowhere, ,Sdescribe noth- ing, explain nothing. Yet by their being repeated thousands and millions and millions of times by the unthink- ing they have become the buttress of evil doers in the commission of their crimes and in their invasion of the rights of others.
 There is no subject easier to un- derstand if men will give little time to it than the rights of men.
 The foundation thought of our country is the freedom of the individ- ual. There is set of men who as sume to take away this right.
 It is the right of a man to do an honest days work. Yet these men ,,oa, Sha1l do on1xy fhn anon11uf |