The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-02-04
THE LAWYERS UNION.

THE LAWYERS. UNION. 49,.
Walter F. Dacey, we'll known Duluth
attorney, was elected president Of the
Eleventh Judicial District Bar associa-
ton, at the. annual meeting held last
Saturday afternoon at the county
court hourse: He was authorized to
appoint a committee with: members
Of the Range Bar association and: the
Lawyers club Of Duluth to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY Of "drafting a fee
SCHEDULED 20.
Doesn It that sound familiar to work
ingmen' The organizations ..afore
named are the lawyers unions Of
Duluth, the ranges and the counties
Of st. Louis, Carlton, Lake and Cook.
The district bar association is like.
unto the central labor s,iohs. When
the workers started out to correct
the wrongs from which they suffered,
they clipped a page from the book
Of rules Of the lawyers union.
A "fee" is the: lawyers wage.
That s what he depends on as the re-
ward for his: labor. It must be a
living fee else he and his dependents
will want. It must be sufficiently
large to provide for "dull practice"
possible: ill-health and old.age, and
adequate enough at least to maintain
himself and family on a plane in keep
ing with the dignity Of his profession
and the social standing it offers.
The lawyers have a fee schedule,
just as the workers have their "wage
schedules The principle of agreeing
to minimum fee is as essential to
the legal profession as = minimum
wage is to the trades and industrial
occupations. Indeed there is NO diff
ference between them. The lawyer
is worthy Of his hire as much as the
laborer. The big thing about the
worker is that he supports the law.
yer's right to organize and he up.
holds the collective. efforts of ,law.
yers to maintain the high standard
Of their profession. A union work.
or has no more use for the shyster,
non-union lawyer, one who undermines
his legal fellows, than he has for the
labor:scab or strikebrcaker. Both
look alike to him.
How such lawyers as Mr.. L. c.
Harris Of the Citizens Alliance can
reconcile their labor.union destroying
conduct with their professional ethics
is difficult for workingmen to under:
stand~ Indeed, regular lawyers who
uphold the sacred traditions Of their
high profession, seem to be at q loss
to explain.
The Labor World sympathizes with
the purpose Of The lawyers to- fix
a. standard "fec SCHEDULED, The So
called big lawyers who draw fine re-
tainers from wealthy clients and pow
erful corporations, do not need: the
protection Of the lawyers union any
more than the highly skilled workers
depend alone on collective protection.
The union is for the weak rather than
the strong, although it is good for
both. In any event the best workers
may be found in the union as the
ablest lawyers may be found in the
bar association.
Lest the attention of the lawyers
union has not been called. to a recent
Interpretation of: the conspiracy laws
by three-to-two,: decision Of tho Min
nesota Supreme court, its members are
admonished that the tslabor Of a hu
man. being IS an article of commerce
and trade" just as are iron, and tim
Der and coal, and they are advised to
be- mi ghty careful should they some
day find it necessary to reprimand,
discipline, and otherwise punish :: re-.
oellious member, or advise one another
OF a chent-employer who engages a
fee-slicing lawyer. That's conspiracy.
1t is in restraint Of trade. :. -
IT lawyers DO not believe US, ask
Mr.. Harris, he knows. !. -.
ADDING TO MANS LIFE.
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