The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23

the experience and knowledge required
to conduct business properly.
Talk with a gardener and he will tell
the time of planting. of pruning and
of ruitage. He will tell how some
seeds need to be planted earlier, some
later, some need richer soil, some
more sunlight. This he will do in
language plain and definite.
So the three elements OF business
the employer, the money necessary for
| equipment and to meet the various
expenses, and the employed, can al
ways be described In language plain
and definite by any one who knows
the facts.
There is no objection to any ones
| discussing business in any of its
| phases, so long as he keeps to the facts.
One might perhaps discuss an Office
building and the various efforts that
go to its erection. The one who does
perhaps the most wearing work in
| connection with such building is the
architect. He Is anxious to give the
owner the largest possible disable space
with the best light; to have all its
equipment suitable and to have the
building finished on time.
The ones who also carry a great
contractors. who aim each in his
place, to fill properly his allotted task,
to have his work go forward as It
should. Then II the contractor has
! estimated on the work there is the
added care lest he lose money, as has
so often happened by his having to
pay more in wages and for material
than he had expected. or because
other expenses have come in on which
, he did not count.
When the plans have been drawn
and the contracts let along come the
workmen. 1t may be the mason-the
kind of brick he is to use, the thick
mess length and height OF walls are
planned for him, even the brick and
mortar are brought to him. So with
the other workmen-the!r work is
planned for them. They have no
mental strain nor care when their
work is done, they cease thinking Of
it till they come to 1t again. while the
architect and builder carry the care
and strain Of that building often far
into the night and into the holidays
till the building Is completed.
Now what are the facts concerning
the walking delegates? Ships have
barnacles, there are tick on sheep and
caterpillars on fruit trees. The walk
ing delegates are TO the industries
what the barnacles are to ships. tick
to sheep and caterpillars to fruit trees
They are pests and should be dealt
with vigorously.
We sing sweet land OF liberty" but
is this q land of liberty?
A walking delegate wrote a book to
b. the guide Of his kind. In Il he said
that men must not be allowed to bar
gain for themselves. His words were
as follows; From first to last. from
beginning TO end, always and every
where we stand unalterably opposed
to the individual contract"
With the rapid extension OF our
organization the tendency is towards
| compulsory membership in them, and
the time will doubtless come when this
compulsion will be general"
The very essence, the essential OF a
land OF freedom is personal liberty
yet this man proclaimed that they
had planned to take from men their
| liberty. Now II men are not to be al
lowed to bargain for themselves, who
is to bargain for them2 Why, OF
course, men OF the kind who wrote
the book. Who gave them the au-
thority to prevent men from bargain
ing for themselves? No one; this is
Some years ago a writer described
the walking delegate organization as
"a band OF men who meet in secret
and make rules affecting the pursuits.
the property and the children OF other
men, and then set out to enforce these
rules by destroying property, running
business, paralyZing industries, MAIN
ing and numbering" This is clear and
accurate. BY violence and by crimes
OF various kinds, they take away the
| right of men to bargain for themselves.
The main rule OF the men who run
these organizations is that a man shall
not work without carrying their card
or button. for which he has to pay.
THIS means that a man has TO give
money to pursue his lawful, chosen
vocation-this in a land we call "the
land OF the free"
An employer said to his foreman
why don't you put more men to
work? I need them, and the industry
needs them"
The foreman replied: There are
no more men to be had with cards"
But can you not put a man to work
without a card?'
The foreman replied: "If I should
| he would be in the hospital before
night"
w mere the walking OeleRateS con-
troll a business or an industry, NO
one can work who does not have their
card or button. and they often with
hold cards and buttons from honor
! able capable workmen and give them
to thugs and sluggers. So the owner
is compelled TO employ these base men
when he knows they are put into his
factory or put wherever he has work
to strike down his workmen or him
self whenever the walking delegate
sees At to use them for that purpose
With walking delegates. as In other
lines. there are graduations and grades
of advancements. In railroading men
have started by shovelling gravel OF
driving spikes and have worked up
until they have become former OF a
small number of men. They have had
charge of a department, and so on up
until they have become vice-presi-
dents and presidents.
So with the walking delegates, they
generally start in by telling a work
man that they will knock off his
block" II he works without giving them
money and carrying their card or their
button. Then he rises higher and
stands behind tree or house to point