The Connecticut labor press., 1919-08-09

decreases that no human being would
or could stand, and in general way
the greed of business has set out on a
mission of destruction that invites ar
industrial war between those that en-
ploy and those that earn daily wage
that is bound to bring destitution tc
those that fall under the grim reaper
with desires of money power.
No legislation has been proposed that
is new that would meet this condition
The statutes of the state and nation are
many that are applicable to stem the
onward march of these industrial auto
Gratis, and no one in power is daring
enough to move to place these blood
thirsty barons before the bar of JUS
tice, SO that their cravings for the last
drop of human energy would be de-
feated. Legislative halls are now taken
up with legislation that has nothing to
do with immediate conditions. Men in
public law making life are content to let
this war of oppression go on while the
wage Garner is compelled to submit to
a wage that permits him only TO live in
two rooms i'll many instances with d
family of four, five and six children,
where some of them are sleepingsin i'm
provised beds with planks laid on kitch-
en- sinks and washtubs, in i'll lighted
rooms, and we are trying to. content
ourselves with the doctrine that we are
living in the best country in the world,
and still allow in such an enlightened
land such prodigious conditions to go
on.
The most effective weapon and yet
the most costly for both sides that Or
ganized Labor has is the strike, and in
these late days of political, industrial
and business development instead of
curbing in legitimate way or else
educating to discard this weapon as
means to offset industrial autocracy we
find that there is more and more labor
disputes now than at any time in the
in industry will never solve its ills. The
wage Garner will fight on when attack
ed and the millions that will suffer
through industrial wars will bring such
a deficit to our country IN human
depreciation that its future loss is ap-
palling,
We find great employers of labor
when a new condition comes up re-
fusing to meet the men and women that
have enriched him with their. labor. in
giving him a finished product that
brings him a return for his property
invested and to that man let the well
meaning people of this country say that
if you do not desire to speak to the
human being that works for you that
you from that day on, that society must
know who are the cooperative employ
ers in industry and who are the ones
that desire to tear to pieces that which
God said must not, and to those that
suffer under the arm and mind OF the
oppressor there is but one solution; that
is that any man who has beer so for
tunate as to become an employer of
labor and who uses other than honor
able means in dealing with labor, that
Labor will organize more ST. orgly than
in the past and will assist in passing
full judgment on the record of such
an employer.
Organized Labor will use all hon
orable means to stop the unfair tactics
of the unscrupulous employer of 1abo"
or the legislator that attempts to help
him, and if society in general will not
heed the present evils and affiliate with
Organized Labor to do this there is no
telling. as many predictions have been
made what will be conclusion to an
unnecessary usurpaticn of God-given
authority when it was said, Come all
ye that are heavily laden and I will re-
fresh you"