The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Why | Am Tn The Labor
Movement
BY NELSON S. CRUIKSHANK
Director of Social Insurance Activities, AFI

Director of Social Insurance Activities, AFL
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ed in past experiences.
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immigrant parents was thwared in his desire for formal
on Rs Se a @ mGde eas
status He ana a % ueu GevfVpg successful 3 cd pHsne n his religions life the
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combine proposed for the profit of the grain dealers at
When forced to sell Of his loss newyorgan
not fight the COOP because he felt ere Das a good
Why farmers shouldn't % learn their produce remember
ehurch @ and his telling Ing about the first time barber
cause eau & he said that sign means the barber in that shop stands with
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outraged to work after School hours and during @ he e
tories that had wn % up in our town near the great automobile tutor pro-
Only did he take hand choice Of work. that when
Toledo He told these wages being offered
there would be sides against the other
became that there could be like father
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from the pulpit or r in is youth education program program
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discussion relations Of New Testament teachings to industrial
like the boss and brief hour the realities
my becoming active organizing activities or
thy % s% v f fh1 @ ud
organize into trade union did want to hear Just the things had hoped
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really in their hands They the hands Of the amen who paid
learned about the that political Iefts just
found my 6re irtons with them that their eSoutionay dea
confused with their ambitions and that they left
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and hope can stay nOt bee because perfect % but because
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not % been been imposed upon them either from without
Of certain because it's s people are too e I0r a tne
fed If in other too hard for too rapid change
owned by other group this be said all
t Essentially T the @ labor movement democratic form
by unions There are
they can and do @ ea5 Tee %
from the abo and and it's resp a%a hs
will of its constituency than is the industry politics
While the labor
tonary the implications of the lead inevitably
In collective bargaining (backed all such bargaining
successful the
of of
such W % hats @ ony been COM
mted to the limited objectes of lifting improving
conditions obectves coupled with
noganzed contain dynamic that stayed
evably protection political
because the already made cannot be held without pushing
This being
poruny for bringing about those social changes
desirable by the people. (
An ordinary capacities for under
standing and leadership ask of life that
the history
the labor affords the
whereby
and human dignity.
That's why nhe labor