The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
MAKING MONKEY SHOWS

of the steel strike for the labor or
ganizations, is making a monkey
show OF the rights Of the laboring
people. That Is the eternal trouble
with the unions wherever the rights
OF labor are disputed with capital.
| This leader sat on witness stand
before a committee OF the united.Stat-
es senate Thursday and declared that
$50 day was a mere plttance for
steel laborer. He maintained that
the steel laborer being pauparized
and Ill treated by serving bad hours
in the mills. Skilled steel workmen
are drawing as high as $50 day in
the big steel mills, according to in
formation which is coming ut of the
conflict.
To be sure, the great army of work.
men are not getting that sort of pay,
but they were working contentedly
and going along with this great in.
dustry,-five hundred thousand Of
them, through the war period. salts
fled with what they were getting. In
came the agitators unionizing, ter
rorizing, and presenting appeals cal
culated to unbalance free thinking
men who were making a living and
working practically as they pleased.
Unions deserve better management.
Labor has no power that does not
come through the union. 1t Is the
laborng mans strength It Is the
laboring mans privilege to negotiate
for his own and his fellows better
ment through his labor organization.
We hold that as long as the labor
union serves that purpose by orderly
AMI lawful procedure, no fault can be.
laid a; the labofing mans door. He
Il, d right to leave his place il he Is
dissatisfied with his wages, his hours,
OF treatment. He has right 70 leave
In ost as an individual ras an or
2. i7ation when conditions do not
suit.
But when the agitator strikes into
the heart of peaceful industry,
where workmen draw $50 day and
appear satisfied. where the agitator
makes orderly men join in blood
shed to stop these workmen, it turns
an enraged world against union labor
John Fitzpatrick did more in his tes-
timony before the senate committee
yesterday, to destroy favor in the eye
of the public for union labor than
union labor can build back in years.
Commentators have already declar-
ed that Bolshevism is here. Is it not
true? How can 70 uread anything
else into your conclusions when you
hear this man testify?
Do you believe anything could have
been done to avert the strike in
the steel mills? Union labor has
good name to care for. Let them not
forget that a The agitator has nc aim
except to make trouble. He has
nothing at stake. Union y ibro deser-
YES better Unless sane men are
placed at the head of the unions, un.
less union affairs are handled with
justice to all interests, those whose
hopes are conferred in the strength Of
the unions will lose all their rights,
for nothing but justice will prevail in
the end Right is the only thing that
will stand the jolts and crises of the
ages. The labor union may be pow
er, but its usefulness is circumGrib-
ed, its doom is sure, so long as its
operations are directed by the infer
nal agitator. The millions who be-
long to union labor organizations de-
serve better management of their
interests. Where they get it, the
rights off the laboring man will be
secure.
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