The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06

your COntrOVerS1 Wnetner they De petty squabbles or nation wide strikes.
 Duty to Public.
 Nowhere do you emphasize. before your members their duties to the gen
 eral public, always do you insist upon
 the rights due them from the general
 public You claim and wield enor-
 nous power-and evade all legal re-
 sponsibility for what you do. Your unions, alone among combinations ln this country, are allowed such un-
 restricted action as you possess. Often we have marvelled at the things you tolerate in the federation. Eleven men
 found guilty of crime in connection with the blowing up of the Los An geles Times, having served their prison sentences, are welcomed back as officers on the payrolls of the federation.
 "The pickets employed in a New York strike prove to be criminals guilty of serious offenses, catalogued in the rogues' gallery. Why does not the federation use all it's resources to run down crime and bring criminals to justice no matter what union IS in volved in any given case?
 The miners strike, hospital needs coal, students dig fuel for the sick, and the truckmen refuse to haul the coal! One miner stays on the job, and the union suspends him for oo years, and compels his groceryman to stop selling him food and his land lord to evict his family! The unions require the owners of a great New York hotel to tear down wall mere 1y because it's style is not approved by the workmenl And the mantels must be destroyed and others erected because he used cement which saved time and moneyl Why does the La bor Movement stand for such ridi- culous and outrageous perverSionS of the rules of honest industry? Above all other human beings you abominate the 'scab.' And yet you never have returned square answer to this ques- tion:s If some men who do not want to work have the right to strike, should not other men who do not want to strike have the right to work?" If it is slavery to prevent strikes, what is 1t to prevent work?"
 Is Its Own Worst Enemy.
 "It is a scanda1ous misrepresenta- tion of the facts, MT Gompers, for you to say that the labor movement today is large body of fighters sur rounded by enemies Labor is it's own worst enemy. The> American public loves fair play. The Ameri ] can people tend to sympathize with the under dog. Yet the people are turning against you because you are not glvlny them square deal.
 Your complex organization has al great number of agents and officers all drawing salaries, and they must justify their existence by making | trouble You check production, put | a premium on mediocrity, stife initia- tive, make waste. Your program is all about high wages, short hours, strikes, rights You say nothing about high output, intensive work, cooperation, responsibilities.
 And MT. Gompers, when publicly confronted with evidence of ruin wrought and wrong done to honest men by your union rules, and asked, if you have any way on Gods earth to correct these evils, you reply: There IS no patent road to the elimination of all the mistakes and errors of people. -. We must be pa -ient. !. This is rough struggle of -he workers for the improvement of heir condition
 "You have built up a vast and mighty machine, MT. Gompers But it las become a portent of Ill rather han promise of good held now in apprehension by the mass of our peo- ole. The way back to public conf | fence is clear. You must clean house You must accept responsibility You l must make the union label symbol ' ,f service. lt
 Better Work Needed. "You must publish statements of I Income and. outgo. You must adopt ( lew watchwords-'Effciency, Better 1 york, Greater production' You must | nake,it plain that any union man who I commits crime will find the union t gainst him. You must ban sabotage. ( lou must cooperate with your em- 'loyers. That way lies peace. Peace a s better by far, for you and all of t IS, than war Make unionizatoin a r of fidelity and good work [ nd what have you to fear from the 2 pen shop? a Perhaps it is too late for you to t hange, MT. Gon1pers But the final f stimate of your career will be cast C n about this mould And we fear hat ere long the great Federation which you have created, and to which | -ou have given more than two score ~4