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AXt'IKNT HISTORY.
The Decline and Fall of Theodore
Koosevelt: Two Volumes—Chicago:
The Bull Moose Publishing Co.
SHI>RT I’AKTNK.KSHIPS.
A paper announces that the part
nership in law of Bayless and
Shackleford will soon be dissolved
and comments upon its brief exist
ence of four years. The political
partnership of Wickersham ana
Shackleford seems to have been
even still more ephemeral.
NOT A TRIVIAL MATTKK.
In last evening’s Nugget, the edi
tor of that paper has the following
upon the New York strike, wherein
he reveals his complete unfamiliar
ity with the situation as regards the
traction workers:
“The recent sympathetic industri
al strike in New York is suggestive
of an occasionnal case in court
where the penalty inflicted is dis
proportionate to the offense com
mitted. The attempt to tie up all
the industries of a great city failed.
Hail it succeeded it would have been
almost a calamity, the depressing in
fluence of which would have effect
ed the whole country. And this
monstrous evil was seriously and
understanding!?' planned by some of
the union leaders because of a com
paratively insignificant difficulty be
tween the traction company and a
few of its employes. The members
of the unions were at first led away
by sympathy for their fellow, but
on second thought reconsidered and
wisely resumed their oceucpations.
When united labor has a genuine
grievance all workers concerned
know it and they are justified in
seeking redress. In such ease pub
lic sentiment is usually with them.
too.”
In quite a number of people's
mind, any attempt to up-set the nor
mal industrial condition by radical
action is not only regarded with dis
pleasure but seriously condemned.
That is due either to the fact that
the person so condemning has either
the point of view of an employer,
or being an employee loves to adopt
the master's point of view as his
•Own. And he enjoys the felicity of
a master’s smile when he severely
reprobates the activities which have
for the object the overcoming and
redress of a nevil can in no other
way be overcome or redressed.
The tractionist troubles in New
York are of such nature as to in
volve the well-being of the entire
working class in that city, because
beginning with the Iffterborough
Company an attempt was made to
compel the workers to sign away all
their individual rights and to be
come in effect the contracted slaves
of the employers without any means
whatsovere of redress being avail
able to them.
They are in effect asked to sign an !
agreement which had among its
clauses one which individually reads !
as follows:
“The undersigned agrees to work
for the company in such position
as may be assigned to me from time
to time, for such wages and hours
and for such period and periods as
may be offered.”
Could anything be more unreason
able? Would the editor of the Nug
get work for his employers under
such conditions?
Mr. Quackenbush, the legal
pachyderm who drew up that agree
ment for his company to offer its
men, in response to the objection by
Mr. Fitzgerald for the union that it
was nothing more or less than a
master and slave contract, and that
on the positive assertion of an at
torney Louis Frediger, declared that
“There is no use our beating about
the bush. It is such a binding legal
contract.”
Tpon the men refusing to sign It
hey were discharged or where an
mmediate discharge became imposs
bie, subjected to such discrimina
ion that tlie tenure of the job was
mpossible.
All men who had shown unionist
.ctivities were discharged and the
greement made between employees
nd the companies under Mayor
ilitchel was by the company thrown
nto the waste paper basket. So
nuch for their word.
Obviously there was nothing left
or the workers but to fight and
hat too on as extensive a scale as
>ossible. A strike is tantamount In
ndustry to a war. Employers and
■mployees are drawn up on opposite
iides and each tries to beat the
>tlier.
If the workers are reduced to
iconage in the traction company’s
■rnployment, in New York city, it is
)nlv a matter of time when indus
rial despotism will make its pre
sence felt in all other employments
The cause of one union is or ougln
o be the cause of all unions. New
York city can only be reduced to its
simplest terms as an agreggation 01
■mployers and employees. All em
aloyees have a common interest. Ii
they are subjected to repression is
one field they feel it in all thi
others. That is an economic fac
that cannot be ignored, and foi
that reason if for no other an in
jury to one is tlie concern of all.
A strike to be effective must b<
is general as possible. It must re
suit in the most complete tie-up o
ill industrial activities. If union:
strike as is too often the custom, om
organization at a time, they gener
ally do lose out. It would be im
possible to expect a battle to be woi
by the regiments on one side fight
ing the combined army of the other
a regiment at a time, while the res
looked on hoping against hope tha
an individual unit might make som
gains against the huge army that i
opposed.
The traction company is eontrollei
by Wall Street. Those who contro
it are in control of every industria
activity in New York city. If the;
say-so tomorrow they can inaugur
ate any policy that they see fit
They control the political and lega
life of the city through their eco
nomic control and the only possibl
means of affecting them is by th
workers making a common caus
with one another and by a genera
strike causing such an industria
“calamity” as would result in eithe
speedy victory or speedy defeat.
The fact that harships would b
worked upon some supposed non
combatants is a fact fo
which the system is re
sponsible. The workers, if to gaii
industrial freedom they have to in
volve innocent by-standers am
harmless rubber necks, it is no
their concern. A recent investiga
tion in New York revealed the fac
that one of the most prominen
white slavers had been also a gen
erous donator to a great charity
and it might be justly argued tha
it would be a crime to abolish th
white slavery because it would with
draw from that charity the suppor
of the white slave king. The work
ers in this matter cannot afford t
think of any others but themselves
If they do, they will wait a Ion
time to improve their condition, an
will generally wait in vain.
The workers must get out of tliei
heads the notion that they are callei
upon to wear a martyr's crown, les
they create by their action such a
industrial calamity as the sensitiv
long distance heart of the Nngge
editor dreads. If sentiments of thi
kind had delayed human action, w
would still be in the dark ages wait
ing the pleasure of a feudal lor
to endorse our actions, before w
dared undertake them.
Standard upright Grand Piano fo
sale, see Crooks, next Fire Depart
ment.
Political Cards.
KOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 191G.
FOR REPRESEN TATI VE:
Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1SUG.
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