The Washington herald., 1919-08-24

say. Abe" Morriss admitted, except
that you take for instance the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers, Abe,
and 1t Is easy to organize such fellers
into a union because they all perform
the same line Of parts and gets wages
from IS to $40 a week doing 1t, or
somewhere around them figures. but
II We would say, for example, the
passengers on the Chicago and New
York seventeen and Three-Quarters
Hours and Upwards Limited abso-
lutely wouldn't ride on that extra fare
train unless the locomotive was being
run by a locomotive engineer called
Harris Fine, I am asking you, Abe,
how long would 1t be before Harris
Fine is drawing out Of the brotherhood
and insisting that not only should he
get S750 a week wages, but also that
the Chicago. New York, Seventeen and
One-Half Hour and UPWARDS Limited
should be advertised as follows:
The N. Y. c. & - r. R.
presents
HARRIS FINE
in the popular 171a hour limited train
THE NEW -ORK AND C---GAGO
III HOUR AND UPWARDS
LIMITED
Tn other words, Abe, a trade union,
Is organized with the idea that all the
members belongs to the same trade
and wants to be treated alike, but II
one member of the brotherhood tn
sisted that his name should go up in
electric lights on the front Of the
Grand Central Depot before he would
SO much as oil a bearing on the
Poughkeepsie Cannonban Express,
y'understand. and another member re-
fused to pull his train into the Penn
syfvania station unless no other trains
was allowed to be moving at that time
so as to spoil his entrance, under
stand me, then the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers would not be
union, Abe 1t would be a joke, and
no sensible railroad president would
pay any attention to It at all
Then you don't think that a trade
union for actors would be a success?"
Abe inquired.
'Myabe 1t would be II being an
actor was a trade, Abe" Morris said,
but when a man is an actor, he
may have a splendid talent and he
may have just an unfortunate dispo-
sition, but he amt got a trade, and
that's all there is to it,
And, anyhow, Mawruss, even II
the actors did have a union, they
could never run OF successful
strike" Abe said, because II they
would try to tie up the entire amuse-
ment field of the country. Mawruss.
they would never be able to induce
enough sympathetic strikes among
auction pinochle players, phonograph
dealers, mechanical piano statesmen
and golluf club employees so as to
cut off the amusement of the public
to the extent of bringing public pres
sure to bear on the bosses, yunder-
stand. Also, Mawruss. in the event
OF a strike, the Actors Union would
also got to picket seven-handed poker
games. Carnegie Libraries. park band
concerts and the thousands of other
amusements which to the minds of a
great many people like myself has
got the theayter skinned to death,
whether II is run on the open shop
principle or not. Mawruss. Further
more, Mawruss, there is now being
staged for the benefit OF the American
public one Of the grippingest dramas
that this country has ever seen even
for 81 where the non-union leading
man by the name Woodrow Wilson
is single-handed defying lot OF
open shop heavies, which only last
Friday in a big scene with one of
them who is supposed to play the
part Of a Senator from Indiana, the
leading man says: 7 am Just as