The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-23
A FAIR QUESTION FAIRLY STATED.

n IAlis ONISliDN ANIL NlhiIbs
Under an Identical caption In the Barometer
OF today sapulpa correspondent osks dis
eusslon OF a fair question which he not only
states in a faiI manner but In an unusually
able and interesting manner. It may be sue
chiefly stated thus:
what is tho difference between labor unions
ana professional. business and vocational as
Boclatlons7
An easy and comfortable way OF meeting
such question would be to dismiss II with
the bald and perfectly true statement that
there Is no difference. But involved In our
correspondents statement OF the case are corol-
larry assertions and propositions which make
such laconic reply unfair and productive OF
wrong deductions.
In the sense that labor unions, or to use tho
term we have adopted as descriptive OF the
LABOR movements as It Is operating today and
which our correspondent suggests indicates
"deep-seated prejudice" but which wo beg him
TO believe does not, the labor olgarchy and the
professional and business and vocational asso-
Citations. each and all seek by combination to
force from the major portion Of the citizenship
OF the republic more than they could otherwise
secure as individuals under normal conditions
and more therefore. than they deserve ther"
combinations goes.
But when one considers the methods en-
ployed and the evident ultimate objective. there
is at once apparent considerable difference.
For instance the oil producers in striking mere
ly strike. they do not attempt to forcibly pre-
vent new men from ntering the industry they
/ DO not establish pick Is TO picket the produo-
Ing regions and they do no; attempt to destroy
nf oil uruducOTa who do not
join their union" and enter into their com
mltments and engagements The same may be
said of the bar association and the medical
societies.
strike conducted by tho professional asso-
Citations. or societies it conducted ns the labor
ollgarchy conducts It's strikes, would operate
in this manner. The ntlgant In court would
stand without counsel. This cannot happen
because tho court may appoint any attorney
90 represent a defendant at bar, and such at
torney is not only compelled TO act, but like
wise must act for mere nominal fee fixed
by statute. Compare that with railroad striker,
abandoning their trains loaded with innocent
passengers. at a way station on the desert; OF
with coal miners abandoning their work witt
the certain knowledge that innocent women and
children are suffering and win suffer for wan
OF the precious fuel they alone can supply; anC
especially compare It with both cases when tn,
rail and coal strikers add TO their acts In quit
ting work the ultmatum that other men will no
be permitted TO take their places and move th'
trains mine the coal,
What would be thought OF the medical asso
citation membership IL its strike" regarding thu
agreement to charge uniform scale or fee
should be coupled with refusal to attend tn
sick and suffering and dying until its scale hat
been signed and put into the form OF n con
tract?
There is n difference, all right; consider
able difference, both In the methods omploye,
by these other unions among the professions
the business element and the vocations, an
those employed by the labor olgarcby, howeye
similar they may be In original intention.
Let The World poiut out here that it is no
the alleged right OF organized labor TO deolar
strike that Is the bone OF serious contention
but the action OF organized labor IN denyin
the right 70 other to take up the tools
has laid down, and IN standing in veiled de
fianee OF government ana In open criticism o
the courts governments sole agency FOR carry
Ing out peacefully the laws mandates
The Worlds apparent "deep-seated prejudice
against the union labor forces is based on thi
conviction: That the labor oligarchy's aims ar
not only political but in eternal conflict wit
the primary principles Of liberty, equality an
freedom, which are the vital truths OF the re
public; that st deliberately seeks TO incucRt
class conciousness the greatest enemy OF a poT
ular government. and that 1t depends on fore
and coercion instead OF merit for It's progres
and the realization OF its ambitions.
Labor is labor, whether It be unionized
not. The fact that a faction OF it is unlonize
ought 70 mean that that particular brand OF labc
is superior to the common brand thus maxim
It sought on merit, precisely as a trade marke
commodity or a copyrighted article. II tn,
was true, II the brand Of the union on a worl
man really meant that such workman
better workman more dependable workms
and a more productive workman, union ms
would be given preference by employers of
S~- lust as the commodity OF merit Is CIV