The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-03-31

brogate the right Of another.

abrogate the right OF another.
There are providentially imposed
limitations upon all rights. Otherwise
they would be absolute. and an ahso.
lutte right can not exist permanently
cut Of Heaven. II the character aud
uses OF an organization had nothing 10
do with right to existence. lynchiny
parties might be organized witf. ,aoral
impunity; and civil statutes, deprived
Of a base, would be ineffective and
short-lived. Even the sacred right of
life. liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness. for the securing Of which all
law Is instituted, can be and often is
forfeited because of it's abuse.
The confusion arising from the OPP
Grafton of the principle OF collective
bargaining seems to be general and
Is very difficult to dissipate. Those
who directly profit nest rom the ex-
ercfse Of this right construe it to mean
that they may bargain with their om-
ployers through any represe tarives
whom they may choose or who may
be gratuitously furnished fer the pur-
pose by those IN the organization hav-
Ing higher authority. The rejection
of this Interpretation is usually met
with the protest that the principle of
collective bargaining itself is deried
Most &C not all those holding a con-
trary view would be willing to recog-
ntze the principle by dealing with
their own emplo yees collectively thru
representatives voluntarily chosen by
them out of their own number and
without outside suggestion or intcr-
Terence; but they are now willing to
bargain for the labor of their own
employees through representatives out
side OF their employment. They predi-
cate this position upon. the SUPPOSE
ton and belief that their own en-
ployees have sufficient INTEL igence for
the purpose. that an, alien dictatorship
Is not necessary. and that they are
themselves better friends to those
whom they employ and are more UNI
selfishly interested in their welfare
than can be foreign agents who live
upon the tolls they arbitrarily take
from those whose labor they sell
These sharp differences in the UNI
derstandfng Of moral rights are the
real basis of Industrial antagonis,ns
They have grown as our Industrial
processes have multiplied and beet me
more complex. and have been highly
accumulated by the sordid uses to
which they have been nut by indus
trial parasites parading in the CURSE
of friends to the toilers. So indus
triously have laborers been remind
of their rights by political and ecc.-
homie buccaneers that obligation as
an important item in the program of
life has been almost lost sight Of A
large portion CT the wage earning
masses has been indoctrinated with
the idea that work was sent upon man
as a curse and that only those who
work with their hands are to po re-
garded as working men. The idle life
has been held up before them as the
only happy life. They are made tc
believe that their employers have lit
tie or nothing to do except to draw
dividends and play golf.
The thousands of men in America
who derive material profit from strife
and employees un-
doubtedly constitute the chief obstacle
to the establishment of harmony and
goodwill in the industrial world. The
overwhel ming majorities Of botw~ en-
plcyers and employees are essentially
honest and would generally enjoy mar
monious relations except for the assid-
uous meddling OF outsiders. Ninety
five per cent of all men who employ
labor have themselves been wage
earners and hive earned their promo
lions by hard work and sacrifice c'hey
know the Wage-earner's viewpoint
much better than the wage Garner does
or can know theirs, and the average
employer of labor is very naturally
the best friend his enlnloyes have fut.
side their own family circles. May
the time soon come when the public
will recognize these facts and will by
the pressure of an reused sentiment
force into productive employment the
professional d'sturbers who live only
upon the sweat of others brows. Then
and then only can and viii there be
peace in the world of industry