The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-17
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Queer thing, but price has to be
paid for just about every worth while
thing.
1t is so in all life, including govern
ment, industrial life and in every hu-
man relation. There are equities
throughout.
1t isn't the thing is entirely simple;
sometimes it seems complicated. Good
institutions generally breed good re-
suits. Freedom brings the blessings
of freedom.
Denial of freedom brings the pen
alties of that denial. Repress and you
generate some kind of dynamite. In
physics they have law covering such
matters. every action brings an
equal and opposite reaction"
The stronger force wins, for the
time being. Heat melts ice, but enough
ice will, when melted, put out the fire
that makes the heat.
Employers, strong for moment,
may deny the right Of organization.
They may repress the natural and
reasonable desires of the workers.
If they repress hard enough or long
enough there will be a back action.
The workers will organize and some
times, in their resentment against
past brutalities and inequities, they
will infict penalties. Life is like that.
X X x
All tyrants have been slow to see
the coming end of their tyranny. That
is axomatic. 1t is plain, on the face
of it. All history shows it. Human
emotions today are about what they
have been always. Natural laws have
not changed.
Today's tyrants have learned little
from earlier tyrants.
There are industrial tyrants today
who think they can go on forever.
In actuality there is no limit to
which humanity will not go in retail
alton, if pressed hard enough and
long enough. Undoubtedly part Of
the inhuman cruelty of the Com
munists in Russia was generated by
the inhuman cruelty of the Cars.
Extremes beget extremes.
Employers who oppose unions
ought to ponder these things. They
ought to learn about humanity and it's
conduct. Just knowing about ma
chimes and markets and money isn't
enough.
If the employers of America, deny
the right of labor to organize sanely
and freely, ultimately the workers will
organize-not so sanely, not so free
ly, but possibly with destructive re-
suits.
A great safety movement has grown
up in the United States. 1t is saving
arms and legs, eyes and faces every
week. 1t is a magnificent thing.
Mostly the safety movement was
started by unions. In many cases
unions and union men are responsible
for safety codes and safety laws, In
Massachusetts, a mason was respon-
sible for a whole big section of the
State safety code.
All over the country unions have
fought for safety. Many of them
write safety provisions into their
trade agreements. They have put
stop to dangerous tools and practices.
Employers used to fight safety pro-
visions because they often cost
money Now they know that safety
saves money.
Many archaic practices have gone
into the discard. Life is constantly
made safer and better.
The trade union movements achieve
ments are to be found on every hand.
Many of them are unrecorded, which
is pity.
But the trade union movement
didn't start out to build a monument
for itself. 1t started out to make life
better and it keeps on doing that.
1t is a living monument, concerned
with life, not with monuments.