Montana labor news., 1936-01-16
American Magazine
Graced BY Green

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Ruthless desire for power, whether
through material possessions or from
political control, restricts the develop
ment not only of those subject to this
power, but of those who WELD it. The
material things OF life are intended to
serve as tools to make intellectual and
spiritual life fuller and richer 10
those who desire these higher Levels OF
human living, wealth takes on new
meanings. 1t can create good feeling
and fellowship, unlock mysteries, make
for greater peace and happiness in iv-
ing and working. The primitive desire
for power over things and people will
grow into a service when we learn to
think clearly and feel honestly.
Life brings changing situations and
changing relations. Desire may take
various situations, but always there
must be one controlling ideal in a pur-
poseful life. We, ourselves, determine
that purpose and so condition our whole
lives, giving order and Importance to
all we feel and do.
The desires we follow today deter
mine what tomorrow shall bring US.
WILLIAM GREEN.
Guest Editorial Writer
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The Allied Printing Crafts has had
difficulty with the Crowell Publishing
Company for some time past. The
central Labor Council OF Butte has
been notified by that organization and
by the local allied printing unions that
the publications of this company are I'M
fair to them and should be placed upon
the Don't Patronize List OF the Trade
Union organizations.
Now comes President Green, the
leader of the trade union movement OF
the United States and directly assists
in breaking down the work that these
unions have been attempting to build
up, namely, the withdrawal of all sup
port from these various magazines.
The apparent inconsistency OF Mr.
Green is incomprehensible not only to
members Of organized labor but to the
middle class element, the business men
and executives, who have been made
acquainted with the antagonism OF the
unions TO this publishing house.
An actual happening will illustrate
this better than any other OF
describing it. A true member OF or
gained labor and a conscientious adj
vocate Of all the requests that have
been made by the unions TO do or to
refrain from doing, a certain act, had
this strange experience. Seeing, who
was to him at the moment, a stranger
reading the January issue OF the Amer
lean Magazine, he politely informed
him that the trades unions were trying
to suppress the reading OF the publica-
ton. The person addressed, who by
the way, wa a guest in this country
a sojourner here on a mission from a
foreign government, expressed surprise
and replied
why that can't be SO, the first ar
ticle that l read in this magazine was
an editorial by William Green, Presi-
dent Of the American Federation OF
Labor. Surely the head of the organ
lied labor movement Of the United
States be wrong or you must be wrong.
Some OF us, who are so far away
from the intrigue and the Vaccinations
that go on in the deliberations of the
American Federation of Labor after
reading the article, Desire" by Viii
liam Green, wonder whether he is not
talking about himself when he states
Ruthless desire for power, whether
through material possessions or from
political control, restricts the develop
ment not only Of those subjected to
this power, but of those who WELD it,
Some Of us often wonder if it isn't
his ruthless desire for power or his
own material possessions and political
control that doesn't inspire some OF his
inexplicable actions, and his bitter and
intense opposition to some of the nobl-
est aspirations of the working people
of the United States. We often wonder
if through his W desires, he is not
~obstructing the program Of the Amer
lean Labor Movement.