The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-10-07


striking.
But when the union says to the steel
company, "You must hire none but men,
bers of our union" it is going too far as
it thereby attempts tot set aside the very
rights guaranteed by our constitution TO
every man, woman and child in this
nation.
Labor organizations have had the SYM
pathy of the public in their endeavor to
better living, working and wage condi
tions but these organizations have become
drunk on their own power until today if
their slightest demands are not granted,
they do not hesitate to jeopardize the very
safety of the nation to gain their point.
The pubic has seen the danger in the
threatened railroad strike when our coun
try was at war, it has seen it in the ship
yard strikes during the war and in count
less other strikes to enforce arbitrary de-
mands during the nations peril. 1t has
seen the menace growing and has now
witnessed the workmen in the steel indus
try reject even the Presidents request
that they withhold action until after the
conference called to assemble in Washing
ton early in October to try and establish
a basis of Cancellation for all industrial
disputes.
The nation as a whole is face to face
with a radical labor autocracy which
threatens to crush and destroy with as
ruthless a hand as did ever German mill
tary autOcracy.
If labor unions cannot exist without
denying the right Of working, to man
who does not belong to some particular
union, or without demanding that an emf
ploye hire none bur certain specified un-
ion members it is time this class of unions
were eliminated else they will destroy the
very foundation principles of this govern
ment
If man can be forced to join cer-
tain union or class organization before
an employer is allowed to hire him, it is
only step further until he can be forced
to Join designated church or p litical
party as a condition predecent to getting
a job. 4,
Ours is government for all the people
not for any class or privileged few.
When handful of labor dictators de-
mand the right to tell man where and
when he can work and an employer whom
he may employ, it is time that honest lab
oring men as well as every other citizen
with the best interest of his country at
heart, expresses his best disapproval of
such acts.
The Boston police strike showed to
what lengths these labor dictators would
go and the public received its first real
taste of what to expect if such policies go
unchecked
The issue is clean cut in this case. If
the u S. Steel Co can be forced to hire
none but employees of certain union. il
will be but short time before every
workman in this nation must swear all,
glance to some particular organization
before he can get job and his allegiance
to that union would have to come before
his allegiance to the Union of the Unite!
States as has been clearly proved in the
management of the railroad unions, the
shipbuilders unions, the attempted police
union and numerous others during and
since the war.
One thing is sure, the unions are ignor-
ing the greatest force in the world, the
force of public opinion.
Menaces of general strikes, industrial
tie-ups, helplessness to thuggery, do not
make us afraid; they make us angry.
The Kaiser learned his lesson; the
unions must learn theirs.
n N n
THE TIME is HERE
The time is here to draw the line be-
I tween labor unionism and labor radical
ism and revolution Labor radicalism and