Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-02

SO-called unSkllled labor WILL organ-
ize themselves they can bring them
selves I'D to a wage that can be
compared with that OF any skilled la
! Dor in the United States.
Mr.. Phillips at this point attacked
the so-called company unions. lie
declared that these unions were the
result of the work of some four
| handed politician who has demanded
| mat the worker has 10 be treated
with more consideration. Under the
company union the wages have been
increased two or three cents and In
some cases the employees have been
gwen insurance policies, and in SUN
others the employees have been al
loweu to purchase or two shares
in the company. thus winning the
employees from their organizations.
tie urged h men to stanu nrm ana
no. JON the company union.
He next spoke OF h advertise
ments which are inserted in the pap
ers tor men to work in the railroad
Shops. THESE ads he declared say
mat the men are striking because OF
misunderstanding with h labor
board and not of the rail-
road. In a great many cases ne said
the men don't know that the labor
board is controlled by the railroads.
He then told OF the Mitten plan
which was adopted by the Hhiiade.-
phia RAPID transit Co., and how the
men had formed a company union
and purchased STOCK in the company,
the cost OF same being taken out OF
their wages. when the ButIalo strike
took place, the men were called upon
to go to that city and could not re-
fuse, if they did refuse to run the
Buffalo cars, Phillips declared, the
men were preached to by the biggest
outfit of watered stock IN the entire
United States and told hat if they
did not go they could look for an
other job.
He declared that times have
changed, and that the big interests
today recognize this fact, and are
frank to admit that labor can't be
defeated. The Chambers of Com
merce, said the speaker, who have
fought against labor. now advocate
the golden rule. Never before in the
history of America" said the speak
er in closing, did you have a great
er opportunity than you have after
this baptism Of fire, which We have
successfully weathered. Get together
and we will place the labor owe
ment in a position non of us ever
dreamed was possible"
Harold E. Pickersgill, member of
Perth Amboy Typographical Union
No. 65S, stated that he was glad to
have an opportunity to give his OBJ
lection to the Injunction. Injunc-
tions. said Mr.. Pickersgill, are to
remedy a situation where there is
no legislation. He pointed out that
there is no one but the legislative
body that can remedy the defect. If
the legislature does not see fit to
enact the law, why should others?
Mr.. Pickersgill recalled how a man
in Jersey City sued for the loss of
his child which had been killed by
a trolley car and as the child was
not a wage Garner or a support to
the family, all the father was on
titled to was 81. This was the law
and it has not been changed. said
the speaker. No one has any right,
he declared, to interfere with talk
ing as there is no law against it.
AS a member of the political party
which is at the present time in pow
err, Mr.. Pickersgill said he thought
the injunction was a poor thing to
ask for, as it was not based upon
good law.
William NJ. Hallahan spoke to
the men as a union man speaking
to a union man. He declared the
injunction was unsound as it is not
based upon the laws of the land and
went into details concerning the
standing of the union with affairs
of today. He went into details con-
corning the arrest of strikers dur
inr tha naaf 1roar G 1fndap in in 1afinn
proceedings and told of the work
he had done to obtain bond for
them. He declared he was always
willing to aid a fight against the
abuse of injunctions.
J.. v. Rattigan, in opening his re-
marks, said he believed the strike
would have been settled by this
time if the injunction had not been
granted. He told of the wires that
have been pulled by the railroads
direct with government officials in
Washington to do away with the
agreement made by the men and
the labor board. He told of CONVEX
sations hat took place between b.
M. Jewell and President Harding,
and how the President had told
Jewell his agreement must go, but
had nothing else to offer. He also
declared that while the railroads
were able to get anything in the
papers they desired, that statements
from the strikers were eliminated,
but If any slams were coming they
got it. He went into details con-
corning many conferences which
had been held between representa-
tives of the railroads and the strik-
ers and the results which had been
accomplished.
Mr.. Rattigan urged all laboring
men to forget party and vote for
the principal and platform upon
which the candidate is running for
election. He told of Senator Freling-
huysen voting to seal Newberry and
declared 3hat we must get rid of
politics of that kind. In closing, he
said; You have got to get into
politics to protect yourselves. Re
ward your friends and defeat your
enemies"
W. A. McCabe, the last speaker of
the meeting, declared that the para
mount issue was the abuse of the
injunction law. He gave a detailed
account of the in which the
injunctions are obtained, from the
time the employe first makes his de-
maEds upon the employer until the
strike is started and picketing be-
gun. 1t is then hat the employer
turns to his lawyer and seeks an
injunction to stop the strikers from
talking to the strikebreakers and in
forming them of the reason they
have called the strike. said Mr.. Nc
Cabe. He told of the great injus-
tice done by not allowing a trial by
jury and urged the men present to
asw a law that will not allow the
judges 20 take away The :ighls of