New-York tribune., 1919-08-26

the strain. the risks nor difficulties
with the management Of a business
nor Of the experience and knowledge
required to conduct O. business prop
arly.
Talk with "a gardener and ne viii
tell the time Of planting. of pruning
and of fruitage. He Will eell how some
seeds need to be planted earlier, some
more sunlight. This he will do in
language plain ard definite.
So the three elements Of business
the employer, the money necessary foI
e,aulp,hent and to meet the various
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 it,
phases, SO long us 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 a building is
the architect. He is anxious to give
the owner the largest poss. ble disable
space with the best light; to have all
IFS cEuipIIGllL suitable ana TO nave
tho building finished on time.
The ones who also carry g. great
burden are the general and sub
place, to fill properly his allotted task,
TO have his work go forward as it
should Then if 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
be did not count.
When the plans have been drawn
and the contracts let along come the
workmen. 1t may be the masOn--tile
kind or brick he is to use, the thick
ness, length and height Of walls are
planned for him, even the brick and
mortar are brought to him. So with
the other workn en--their work is
planned for them. They have no
mental strain nor care when their
work Is done, they cease thinking Of
1t till they come to it again, while the
architect and builder carry the care
and strain Of that building often far
int> the night and into the holidays
TIL the building is completed.
Now what arc the facts concerning
the walking delegates? Ships have
barnaclcs thele are ticks on sheep and
caterpilars on fruit trees. The walk
ing delegates are to the industries
what the barnacles are to ships, ticks
70 sheep and caterpillars to fruit trees
They are pests and should be dealt
with vigorously.
We sing sweet land Of liberty" but
Is this land of liberty?
A walking delegate wrote book to
be the guide OF his kind. In it he said
that men must not be allowed to bar
gain for themselves. His words Wero
as follows: "F'rOm first to last, from
beginning to end, always and every
where we stand unalterably opposed
10 the individual contract
with the rapid extension Of our
organization the tendency is towards
compulsory membership in them. and
the time will doubtless como 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 if men are not to be al
lowed to bargain for themselves, who
IS to bargain for them? Why. of
course, men Of the kind who wrote
<horty TO prevent men from bargain
ing for themselves? No one this is
entirely assumed on their part
Some years ago q 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, paralyzinE 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 them
selves.
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 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 10
work? need them, and the Industry
needs them
The foreman replied: There ere
no more men to be had with cards "
~ >~AA $rNtNAsCb put 'IuaA TO work
without a card?"
-. The foreman replied: "If ] shou1d
ne would be in the hospital before
night"
Where the walking delegates CON.
troll business or an Industry M
one can work who does not have their
.Sard OF button, and they often with
holo cards and buttons from honor
aOls. capable wOrkmen and sive then,
10 thugs and sluggers. So the owner
IS conpellec to employ these base men
"nen he knows they are put into his
factory or put wherever he has work
10 strike down his workmen or, him
sell whenever the walking delegate
sees mt to use them for that p,rpose,
With walking delegates, az In other
llnes' there are graduations end
grades OF advancements. In railroad.
ing men have started by shoyelllnp
gravel or driving spikes and have
worked up until they have become
Ioremen Of a small number OF man
'Ihey have had charge of a depart
lnent, and SO on up until they havo
become vice-presdents and presidents
80 with the walking delegates thev
generally start In by telling a work. @
man that they will knock orr h,s
block" If he works without g4yins