The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-04-17
WAS RAILROAD STRIKE
ANTI-LABOR MOVEMENT?
Broke Almost Coincident With
Receipt By President of Evi-
dence of Huge Fund and He'll
ish Uses Of It, to Disrupt and
Discredit Organized Labor.
Not Labor Move Certainly.

Not Labor Move Certainly.
The outlaw" strike on the railroads
which for the past two weeks has seri-
ously affected the entire country, comes
at an especially opportune time, fol-
lowing as it did, unknown to its orig
inators, the receipt by President Wilson
of volumes of proof thai such uprisings
are inspired, not by loyal Organized
Labor bodies or individuals, but by
paid agents injected among workers to
start trouble. The attitude of Organ
lied Labor in the railroad trouble
proves conclusively it is not Labor
movement but rather anti-Labor and
therefore condemned.
From the very inception of the or
ganized labor movement the workers
have had to contend with continuous
opposition from the organized employ
ers. who insisted that it was legal and
Just for them to organize, but illegal
for the workers to organize. Ancient
and modern history records tortures
and cruelties of every description i'm
posed upon those who dared to confer
with their fe1low-workers to improve
their condition.
The sad feature of this problem is
that now, as in the past, the employing
class have been able to hire their
lackeys and tools from the ranks of
the workers to carry on their d1aboli-
cal practices, says Machine Shop News
of Newark, N J. Recently we learn
that a series of letters has been received
by President Wilson from Mr.. Ste
phen A. Doyle Ga private detective of
80 years. of Chicago, wherein this de-
1oxyc hor Of he NJ
these hel1-hounds and pleads with
President Wilson to wipe out these pri-
vate detective agencies.
Mr.. Doyle by documentary evidence
shows that the employers who are an
tagonists to organized labor are spend
ing 100000 month to maintain an
army of $4,000 detectives and opera
tives to carry on their nefarious work
to retard and discredit the organized
labor movement throughout the coun-
try Mr.. Doyle is prepared to show
that murder has been committed, build
ings blown up and then perjury COM
mitted by this Shiny crew of reptiles
to put the blame at the door of organ
lied labor and its representatives.
These revelations of this heinous
work carried on by these covered OPP
eratives and detectives has enabled the
membership of many local unions to
now understand why their organization
was involved in strife and turmoil
whenever an effort was being made to
improve their condition 1t has been
shown how these covered operatives
have wormed their way into certain
labor organizations and played the role
of a so-called Red" always on the
floor ready to discredit and denounce
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work. Their favorite pastime was to
undermine the confidence the member
ship had in their chosen represents
tives, N
Unfortunately many members who
are not seasoned in the organized labor
movement and who are members but a
short time are easily swayed by senti-
ment and by reason of this they are
blindly led by those who are the tools
of this Shiny and hel1ish crew of rene
gades referred to by Mr.. Doyle in his
letters TO President Woodrow Wilson.
AS result of these conditions there
very often is a clash among factions
in the labor movement. These fac
tions and divisions are the result of
well-laid plans that seldom arouse the
suspicious of anyone but invariably
result in the weakening of the union
wherein this turmoil exists. Many
times group of men come to the front
as self-appointed leaders and by their
deceiving and lying tactics, their cam
ouflaged propaganda, they muster a
following of the erratics and to the
hearts content of the employers start
in TO divide the organized workers and
with it all have the gall to brazenly
shout workers of the world, unite u
and often offer 81 varieties of unsound
theories why they divide instead of
unite.
In many cases these willing tools of
this crew of reptiles that Mr.. Doyle
exposes you find those who come to
our shores for relief from the arrogant
oppressors of foreign land and after
we open our doors and ask them to
join us and use the instrumentalities
at our command to help us build upon
the foundation laid through the suffer
ing and sacrifice of the pioneers of the
American labor movement, they in
stead start to tear down that which
was built in opposition from the
enemies of organized labor, and when
this is accomplished the enemies drink
another toast to express their satisfac-
ton for the work their hirelings are
doing in launching secession move
mentS, which always results in the
workers fighting among themselves in
stead of fighting, if need be, the enc
mics of organized labor.
Beware of he, or they, who want to
divide or create divisions and seces-
sion movements Don't be deceived
by the erratic inclined who label them
selves "progressives" but fail to do
constructive work. Keep your eye on
they who preach destruction of the
present labor movement for the pur-
pose of experimenting with fy-by-
night movement; it is these practices
and such work that labor's enemies are
paying for.