The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-11-17
America has no peasantry.

America has no class set anart r,arlr
q, o.. s.a.,,.,. .,.-,s
90 ''''s
apart anu irfeVocapiy hxed as apart
from the great mass of her people.
America has no class from which II ia
impossible to merge.
America is DISTINGUISHED tbrouohout
the world by the high standard OF liv-
ing which the masses Of her people en-
ioy The comparison is sharn and dis
tinct
For this the American trade-union
Ia primarilv resnonsihle America has
no proletariat as Europe knows the
proletariat
In the beginning, this was because Of
the manner in which our country was
settled and because Of its boundless
natural resources II has remained so
primarily because Of the trade
movement.
For this, II for no other service the
trade union movement OF the United
States is entitled to be ranked as one OF
the country's greatest assets, II not,
indeed. as the greatest asset OF all.
The growth Of the trade union move
ment has substantially paralleled the
growth OF the machine or factory svs-
TEN. with the coming OF steam and
the subsequent coming OF electricity
and the use of these agencies OF now
er in the development of factory life,
the tendency OF Industry was to concen-
trate populations in small areas and
these concentrated populations, so far
as possible. at n mere subsistence level
OF wages
Unions Halt Class.
Pm, for ,be trada-unIon novemen,
artering into uoder, Industrial life
cor,bottn, tho evar nrese,t tandencv
of nnn,overs toward n mare suhs,stence
woco co,nb,,irg tboir to,do,cy 70 va.
,otn tho ,o,er o,,,rlo,,r,o,, da,, MT had
ohtoi,ed nrior ~ tho deye,orr,ort ~
factor,, no Auorioo would ho,o hod
a c,,ss 40 dis,,ro,I,, ,,orl,oa onor, ,ro,,,
tbo rest ~ society os apy rnroroap
country
Tho idaa oh,oins IN oore ertopt tho,
,ro1e uniors oro r,ora,, or,ori,a,ion,
Of aggrassion that ,bav are soua,birc
In tho ratura NJ nradoto-v bando ,orr,-
od 70 sooura for +hoir r,ouhars sroh
t6,nrorory advoptages n. NAV he no.
eihlo no r,o+tor what tho oost % er,
r,o,,ore nv ,o ,oo,ot, n, oorron .hoso
vbo nm, =, sbort s,chtadnas. onnoso
tho trodo upioc r,ovement saot aiwoys
10 srrooa ,his ,o,so ,,,,raso,or
rho tr,,., t, ,ho, ,o o,,,or,ao,to,, ,r
A,or,oo ,s hro,dor In ,,a o,t,oo,, a. ~
ter,rto 20 ,,oro Ir,o,,tcort,, H,dorstord
,ho oo,oroI ,oa, 90 az. eootot,, ~ 70 A.
In moro construct,ve,v and ho,n,u,,v
An undarstopd,rg ~ tho structrre ~
t,o Anorfoon rodorotIor 80 r,ohor r,oy
ho ho,n.,,, IN ,ooatro e. a. ,,,aor,,o,S
no ot tic ,ot,vi,iae o,d noIioias THO
sorr, of orgarivotior ororra yhto, tho
,rnorioon 1ohor ,oro,,ont ,o Nil. !.
o,,ao,,,, ,t,,o ~ ,a,,, =, ,o,,rn,,o,, T.,
,,a o,,,too, ,t,o =, - ..-. M,
h,..rioan roaoro,ton -, Iohau =. 49,
.truo,od u,,,h to tonnaot,on -. ,ho
gronnd ora al, nowors nrooood ,rnr,
tho h,.s rnvord ard NOT tror, ,,o ,nn
downward. The smallest unit of or
ganization Is the local union. Local
unions are composed of groups Of peo-
pie working In the same trade in the
same communities These local unions
are affiliated into what are known as
city central bodies or city central la
Dor unions. The city central labor un
ion Is, thus, a representative organiza-
zion composed of delegates from all the
local unions in n city. BY the same
process. state federatons Of la
Dor are formed. In most cities, there
are, in addition to the city central la
bor union, delegate bodies representing
the unions in specific branches Of In
dustry such as the building trades, the
metal trades and the printing trades
Through these representative COM
munity organizations, the wage earners
in each city are brought together and