The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-07-27


The peculiarly brutal outrages at
Herrin, ILL.,. furnish but another illus
tration of the criminal tendency of or
ganized labor as it now functions. This
tendency grows out of the theory that
any man has a right to employment.
The fact is that Gompers has no more
/ right to demand employment of Gary,
than Gary has a right to demand that
GOmpers furnish employment to him
When this truth is accepted, a better
basis will have been established No
man has a right to a job except under
contract which means a mutual
agreement between the parties inter-
ested. Industrial crime follow closely
upon the pernicious and illogical
promise that labor is not a cOmmod-
ty;" that labor can not be bought and
sold; because he who sells his service
is not the subject of barter. A sale of
the man himself would be slavery; the !
sale of his service is a legitimate bus
mess transaction. Service is bartered |
sold or exchanged, either for the pro- /
duct of that labor in which the worker |
employs himself and disposes of his |
product when he may, or to another |
who pays money for the service and !
undertakes to dispose of the product |
so as to effect a return of his invest
ment and a profit when possible The
hope of profit is the usual incentive
for investment of the wages paid. In
either case not the man. but the SER
vice which he sells is a commodity
The insidious propaganda that labor
is not a commodity has a diabolically
Interior purpose which strikes at the
root of government. That purpose is
to make it possible for organized la
Dor to create a labor trust through
which it can control all employment
If labor is not a commodity the an
thrust and conspiracy laws do not
apply to its activities 1t may,
through the combined action of many,
10 things which two or more persons
nay not join in doing as to commod- I
ties without being guilty of conspr- il
cy. In other words upon this theory e
he mob may do everything except in
ommit crime without liability and Il
nay create conditions which make it il
impossible to convict the actual Grim b
nails, when the usual and almost in a
vitable wholesale slaughter and de-
truction of property follow ~
Organized labor demands a result "
hitch can only he secured through la.
rhine; demands the acceptance of the In
ries which make immune from the el
" oil Of tho rra1fr,i,o,.,- ,,,.,,,,,, so A..
n crime and by the very number of
lose who take part in the criminal -
cts makes conviction impossible. -,
irst, organized labor by concerted 60
,tion Conspiracy orders a strike -,
hich can not succeed except by pre- or
'nting all others from doing the work 20
hich the strikers abandon -.
Second. when others undertake to
'rform the work. they are called -
cabs" and subjected to such indig- ~
ties as are designed to prevent them -,
ON working which indignities in the ~
erin case did not stop when the
IN had been murdered. Third, in
1st cases the power of organized la 'n'
r. its influence on juries it's threats ye'
fAoAtADN " Alit NDuIlSt prevents
eviction for such crimes and, in ma
oh rare instances as a conviction is ing
'ured, a nation wide propaganda is ac'
'ried on to secure pardon, and to ex- he'
e the sympathy of the public upon sh'
ground that the conviction was De
amed." and that the so-caned vic T
is being "railroaded" to punish diff
Mt to satisfy the powerful enemies pro
organized labor. The reader will the
all the cases of Haywood, the Nc A
maras, Mooney and many others. out
hese conditions are the rule in the 9th
duct of strikes Organized labor pris
avs attempts to justify itself by pro
ng the blame on strikebreakers feel
mine guards. And who are these TO {
MeT who are trying greet