The Connecticut labor news., 1925-02-07
Bv WILLIAM GREEN


 President, American Federation of Labor
 Trade unionsm has to it's credit much of solid achieve that there should be today who doubt its sity and it's justification.
 Trade unionism has earned place in the recognized institutions of democratic civilization It has earned the right to allegiance of all workers, the hand while the other hand has earned the right speak for the workers lin the councils of industry Trade ionism has passed the stage has its maturity out of long years of confidence
 That is the movements belief itself and that must be trade mionism's place in the life of our nation
 The trade union movement is movement of service 1t lis which helps get things done where other wise they could not be done at all.
 the duty of every wage to belong to the union of his trade calling and it the duty of industry to consult with the trade unions of that industry point that affects the work of that industry This not merely that trade unions be recognized for the satisfaction of their aims it because that the only to achieve the best results in modern industrial fe The outlook broader than hours and conditions for those mme dately the whole social organization and contempates the welfare of M The nation as whole content itself call itself we'll served until every unit of industry and of workers function at their best and find satisfaction and justice doing
 The rattle-trap factory, operating with halfskied, resentu unorganzed workers national liability which the nation afford and which need have Con tras the sake of good citizenship workshops which the socaed individual contract binds the workers to unques tionng submission and shop in which the trade union pro- for the workers effective voice the determination of all questions surrounding work and wages Nothing affects the patriotic ardor of the citizen the citizens that democracy has into the place where he works must be the best defender of democracy Men will defend those things which into their lives, bringing happiness to them and to their families.
 The comparison between the union and his job and the and the job in which he is permitted to work somewhat like that older comparison of and his home and and his boarding house.
 Such devices the individual contract and the in on used by reaconary employers to hold workers in submission to the edicts that from the front office Such employers feel that to allow the workers to have voice in matters affecting the workshop is to begin down ward toward loss of control loss of discipline and ation. There greater folly less understanding
 The worker of today not go individually to his employer and get justice There many workers and few employers for that It sheer physical mposs b And the employer who thinks he dictate fair terms without consulting his employees just mistaken autocra has been There have been coned slaves under autocra re but there have been good citizens Autocracy and citizenship not coexist either politically lor inoustrialy.
 Trade unionism appeals to workers and employersto all Americans, whatever their station poston-as strucye agency for the promotion of justice industry for the elevation of human lives for the education of the to higher standards greater dignity and to fuller rea zation of the meaning of life and of the meaning of living together in great organized society.