The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION
 JOIN ANTI-UNION RANKS
 FORGETTING THE FOREFA TIERS
"We're Better Than Thou" Policy Expressed By President General Who Forgets Cor Seems to) That Her Ancestors Also Fought for
 Industrial as Well as Political Liberty.

Not satisfied with the endorsement oi l Cincinnati, that organization of Royal ests which pretends~ to RUN this country l (and at times has) the anti-union crowd has now enlisted the ID. A R." moi
 Daring American Redbloods" as their , 1, ancestors were, but the Daughters ot l the Revolution. The freedom there an | cestors won is not good enough for the present generation apparently, 1t IS too much for Mrs. George Maynard Minor, president General short time ago
 writes as follows, under the caption
 ''Unionism Has Become Tyranny yin America"
 We have been dafting away from
 the spirit of the constitution of the On1- ted States. The things that have been
 happening in this country this summer
 area shame and disgrace to America. They should make Us ask ourselves what
 we Americans can be thinking of, to per
 nit such things i'll a civilezd and Chris tiaf land What has become of our yaunted sense of morality, our sensitive
 ness to justice, our libee under law They are troden under the heel of union
 ism run mad, while the arm of the law
 and order seems paralyzed with a
 strange fear, and the public looks on with a stranger and more alarming ap- athy.
 Strikers desert their trains and leave innocent passengers marooned for days ill the burning deserts of the West, en- dangering their lives from heat and ex- posture. Others dynamite a West Shore train killing women and babies, trains are ditched by the pulling up of rail spikes; other are bombed; property is destroyed men are assaulted and slain for exercising their right to work; oth- CTS say frankly they are afraid to work
 for fear of being shot; terrorism pre- vails, and all this because a few union leaders, without cosc1ence and without human decency, are attempting in the name of labor, to throttle the entire country, and tramp1e under foot all in terests but their own It is highly signi flcant that at no time has any union or or any labor voiced condemnation or
 repudiation of these outrages-at least not so one would notice 1t.
 In short, labor has become the slave of its leaders The honest and honor
 able laboring man no longer has the | liberty to work as he chooses, as guar | anteed him and all men under the con stitution of this country And why? Because many who are elected to up l hold the principles of the constitution seem strangely hesitant about enforc- ing the law. Unionism has become a l tyranny, setting itself above all law.
 In proclairning the right to strike
 these laWless leaders violate the still
 more sacred right to work, no matter
 who or how how many suffer from their selfshness. It is high time to repeat those memorable words of Calvin Coo lidge when governor of Massachusetts There is no right to strike against the
 public safety anyWhefe at any time. 2
 Courageous words, with the spirit of righteousness America back of them applicable not only to the Boston police strike, but also the striking miners and
 railway men, for are they not also strik-
 ing against the public safety" and the very life of the nation?
 When organized labor uses the union
 as an instrument or excuse for organiz-
 ed lawlessness it sullies the once fair
 name of unionis1n- right of labor to
 unite for beneficial ends-with the bad bad stains of its misdeeds. One of the needs for the hour is to maintain the | moral fibre of the nation in the face of present tendencies.