Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1920-12-17
- WALKER ANALvzEs
1ons 1osoa MOVEMENT BEFORE
CLEVELAND woMAS's Cloe

-..,-.z.lsnd Ohio. recently. salu tnat
- .,,,ion or closed shop on the part
- workers IN industry Is neces-
o. - :, insure protection in maintain
a. ,1sir means of making livelihood
ne .hs,,seiyes and their families as
% ~ a. they do the things that are
s, and al the same time, assure
.sshiiify of operation In industry on
- hasis that is just or as nearly so
.H' he Intelligence and influence OF
~ sides used in the presence OF
zach other. can bring about that con-
dition. a ~. .ahor
.rsated all capital - was therefore
,.ier IN capital His meaning was,
,ss, labor should be given the first
ssansi6eration. II that is true. then
Sonanse there are no objections to
sanitaIists organizing There are none
.sisaa on the part OF the workers who
re- an the other side of this question:
iahor should have the right to organ
;~s and possibly II is just as we'll to
a,aiyze here, the basis for Lincoln's
s,o,ement.-the reasons which make
necessary from a human point or view
90 we'll as the point of view OF JUS
,ice the right on the part OF the
workers to have union or closed
shop.
"In the first place human labor is
nat like any other article OF commerce
or commodity which can be bartered
or sold, because al the time human
labor Is being done. IL cannot be sep
arated from the human being itself.
Human labor in that sense Is human
lfe-the pulsing heart--the seeing
eve-fhe thinking mind--the nerves
the bone and blood and hesh of q
living being, and that is what Is
meant when we speak OF labor In the
ordinary sense.
Human labor that has already been
done is separated from the human be
ing and can be considered a commodi-
ty and can be bartered and sold with
on, in any way enslaying or restrict
ing the physical liberty of the human
being that performed that labor. Pros.
pectiye human labor can be bargained
for at stated prices and conditions and
the hours mentioned without enslav-
ing or restricting the physical liberty
Of the human beings involved, but TO
compel human being to actually la
bor who does not want to labor,
means enslaving and restricting the
physical liberty of that human being
and treating it like an animal, and
that is the thing that labor.--the hu-
man being that labors, cannot agree
to, that they will not agree to, and no
workers OF AM, nationality on the face
- sba ~>3k oSjr vut
quietly submitted to that specie of
slavery. and no matter what name II
may be given. least OF all, the peoples
on the face OF the earth, will the
American working men and women,
intelligent self-respecting sovereign
citizens ever submit to 1t no matter
what cost they might be required to
pay to keep themselves free from it.
They must have the right to con-
troll their own bodies in their own
way and without the right to organ.
ize and function as an organization,
the American worker would be COM
PEELED to work and live in form of
slavery. or see his loved ones, his
dependents. starve and die,--with the
alternative of course of becoming a
criminal Because in the process by
and through which life itself Is main
tanned by the workers, no matter of
what sex or in what industry or where
located, without the right to organize
tney are as helpless In the face of the
organized employers and merchants,
banking and other financial corpora
tons, as a six months old baby would
De, contending with full grown
trained as an athlete.
In securing a livelihood the work
ers must go through two processes:
one is selling their labor and having
SOLD their labor the other is with the
price they got for it, buying the neces-
sarles OF life, and in the selling of that
iaoor, the employer who buys 1t. has
legal right to. and the rules of So
ciety permit him, to wiring the last
ATOM OF LABOR out of the worker that
ne possibly can. and give him just as
httle IN return for il as possible
uat' regardless of right of wrong, of
does
Just so long as the EMPLOYER does
no' use physical violence he can use
enery other influence to compel the
worker to submit to an unjust bar
esih' Starvation, freezing. privation
~ every description on the part of
uieir loved ones and themselves. and
uese influences can be used on a good
,aa nlah TO compel him to submit to
.ulhss that physical violence would
uessr VET compel him to submit to.
:, me only protection the worker
nas,-the only influence there is that
sees nm any consideration in the mat
ia M al all from them, is his own intel
n.5,h' hce' his own strength, associated
sah.,at aa that OF his fellows and their
asu'iHg resources, to make il cost
tho, employer or merchant, unless
80 agree to do the thing that is
tSal' sh.' otherwise, he is absolutely at
t;ou nat Is not alone true in the ques-
ana .p 9l wages and the cost of liriug.
u ~ t1ese things determine what kind
ara nome he will have-what kind
S'Il quantity of food and clothing he
VIII, ndVe-what kind of pleasure
saIs ole KIND knd OF ecreation-what kind of
SS,ulture-the possibilities of self
MI, opment. and what chances tbere
cbi,s ui oe for a play time for their
,bs ,buen and of their development into
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