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A BOOMERANG ARGUMENT,
In the May Federationist (p. 377),
Samuel Gompers declares
“Trade Unionism has been tried ,
with every conceivable test and has |
proved its power to secure for the
toilers beneficent and advantageous
and ever increasing advantages.”
We are not inclined to marshall
the facts wherewith to dispute that
assertion. We will let Mr. Gompers
himself show that there have been
some5 tests to which trade unionism
has not succesfully responded.
In the same May Federationist,
from which the above Is quoted, Mr.
Gompers takes issue with Editor
Hewitt of the International Machin
ists Journal (p. 381). This editor
want0 political legislation; w tere
upon Mr. Gompers who has twice
run for political office and maintains
a political lobby at Washington
and the state capitols, proceeds to
show bow detrimental political le
gislation is to labor, as follows;
“But what of the workers ot
Australia, who have found barriers
to necessary normal activities of
organized labor in the judicial
mazes of wages boards or arbitra
tion courts?
"What of those workers who are
lined or imprisoned because they
strike or refuse to work under con
ditions prescribed by governmental
agents?
“What of all workers whose in
dustrial welfare has become entang
ed with political issues, ambitions or
trigues?”
•What of the barbers of Pueblo,
Colorado, who found themselves
commanded by the Colorado Indus
trial Commission not to remove
their union card from a shop that
bad failed to maintain union stand
ards?
“What of the tailors of Denver,
Colorado, who wuited 173 days
while the Industrial Commission
stood between them and their de
mands, which the commission,
after 172 days, declared were just?
“What of the snieltermen of Lead
ville, Colorado, who were told it
was illegal to strike against in
creased work demanded by the em
ployers without adequate increase
in pay?
“What of the workers of Canada
who are informed that the govern
ment intends to extend by execut.ve
order the provisions of the Indus
trial Disputes Act to cover all work
ers in industries producing muni
tions of war and by that order to
restrict the power of a greater num
ber of workers to protect themselves
and their standards of work and
life?
“What of the workers of Great
Britain, who, under the defense of
the Realm Act, feel the iron grip ot
compulsion throttling theR free
dom?
“What of the men, women and
children of France who find them
selves helpless under the militariza
tion of the workers in the facto
ries?
“What is transpiring in Germany
and Austria is clouded in the un
known and will be until the war
shall come to a close.”
All of which shows that, while
“trades unionism has been tried
with every conceivable test,” there
'e one—political coercion—that >t
does not respond to with success.
The general strike is necessary for
that.
M.r Gompers. political nominee
and lobbyist, hurled a boomerang
at his pet theory when he threw
the above.—Solidarity.
AS CLEAR AS MUD.
“I stand for an Americanism
that has no ulterior purpose; for a
patriotism that is single and com
plete. Whether native or natural
ized, of whatever race or creed, we
have but one country, and we da
not for an instant tolerate any divl
sion of alliance.
The a’ocve words occur in Mr
Hughes letter of acceptance, and
substantially repeats 1, and the New
York Telegram declares that they
are “clear enough’’, and then pro
ceeds to rebuke the ‘‘pro-German-’
element for rejoicing over Hughes’
nomination, as if his utterance clear
ly differentiated him from Rooseve’t
or Wilson in the matter of foreign
policy. The Telegram assumes th «t
it hasn’t.
But, as a matter of fact, it gives
not the slightest indication ot
where Hughes “stands” on the mat
ter. Roosevelt has yelled himself
hoarse saying exactly the same
thing, and Wilson also has express
ed himself in this manner again and
again. They are all “clear enough",
but they tell nothing.
We notice that Mr. Jeremiah
O’Leary, of the American Truth
Society, cautiously refrains from
premature rejoicing, declaring that
he is in the dark regarding tl.o
Hughes attitude; that “until he ex
presses himself more clearly I will
be unable to commit myself”.
If Hughes ever expresses him
self “more clearly”, we are greatly
mistaken in him. No practical poli
tician will ever “commit’ himself in
the way that Mr. O’Leary evidently
wants. The most ordinary mem
bers of the tribe Know only too welt
that language is just as effective as
silence for the purpose of conceal
ing our thoughts.
There is, however, one safe
guess, and that is, that Hughes if
elected, will do what the great cap
italist interests of this country want
done. That is one thing that will
be “clear enough”, at any rate. As
for the rest, his expression of loft,,
sentiment is nothing more than 'lie
usual political gabble that has be
come the recognized, standardized,
patriotic bait for political suckers.
—The Call.
A DELICIOUS BIT OP HUMOR.
In these days of political strife,
the following bit of genuine humor,
written by an angry constituent to
an Australian member of Parliament
may prove interesting:
“Deer Sur—You’re a dam fraud,
and you know it. 1 don’t care a rap
for the position or for the muney
either, but you could have got it
for me if you wasn’t as means as
muk. Two pounds a week ain’t
any moar to me than 40 shillin’s is
to you, but I object to bein’ made
an infernil fool of. Soon as y .11
was elected by my hard-working
friends a feller wanted to bet me
that you wouldn’t be in the house
moren a week before you made a
ass of yourself. I bet him a -:ow
on that, as I thought you were
worth it. When I got your note
sayin' you dekllned to ackt in the
matter. I druv the cow over to tne
feller’s place an’ tole him he had
won her. That’s orl I got by
howlin’ meself horse for you on
election day and months befoar.
You not only hurt a man's pride,
but you injure bis bizness. 1 be
lieve you think you’ll get in agen
I don’t. An’ what I don’t think 's
of mora konsequince than you
Imajin. I believe you take a
pleshir in cuttin’ your best friends,
but wate till the clouds roll by an'
they’ll cut you—just behind the
ear, where the butcher cuts the pig.
Yure no man. Yure only a tule.
Go to hel. I lowers myself ritin
to a skunk, even tho I med him a
member of Parliament.”—Ex.
—Ex.
LOW WAGES A MENACE.
The San Francisco Evening Bulle
tin is not impressed with the steel
trust’s wage increase of 10 per cent
of $1,500,000 to its 250,000 em
ployes. The Bulletin editor says:
‘This Indicates an average annual
wage of about $660 per man. The
same result is obtained by multiply
ing the rate per hour-—22 cents for
unskilled labor—first by 10, as the
average number of hours worked .
.n a day, and then by 300, which is
probably above the maximum a urn- ,
ber of days worked in a year. It
has been a foresighted policy
among steel manufacturers, blessed .
as they have been with an unlimited ;
supply of unskilled labor from i
abroad, to attach to their service a;
number of men considerably in ex
cess of those that they could em
ploy at one time, or at least for any
api'ieciable time.
“Besides thi3, it has .o be re
membered that the $660 rate is an
average, and that there must be
wages which fall below $6G0.
Seven hundred dollars a year, ac
cording to the careful computations
of numerous investigators, is the
minimum amount on which the
average workingman can bring up a
family in bare decency. ‘Bare de
cency’ excludes nearly everything
that we call luxuries. It signifies
a condition under which a working
man is practically, in brutal terms,
no better off than a breeding ani
mal.”—Ex.
A big congregation took part at
Queen’s hall, London, in the day of
united intercession arranged by the
World's Evangelical alliance.
The bishop of Chelmsford said
they might ask why did not God in
terfere in the war. Were we not on
the side of righteousness?
Reverently, he said, it seemed as
if God Himself were “sitting on the
fence.” How could we get Him to
come down on our side, and gi\e
us a mighty victory?
He asked them to think of Eng
land gathering wealth into her
barns before the war, begrudging
the old age pensioner, begrudging
money to sweep away the slums
and making houses fit for people to I
dwell in, and now they were spend- £
ing $5,000,000,000 a day on war. .
Had their spirits changed since
the war? Some were making money
out of the war. There were strikes,
slackness in work, dishonesty in
contracts, and drink, where there
were not restrictions, just as of
old.
God had his politics, and would
never be an ally of any nation that
was not clean. We must cleanse
England and get the country right
with God. He was not so much
concerned whether God was on our
side if he could get England on the
s’id& of God. We had now to get
God out of his dilemma and m^jce
it possible for Him to come and
give England victory.—Ex.
AT HOLT’S.
Just received a shipment of Lang’s
stoves,, tents, tarpaulins trunks, suit
cases, tobacco, cigars, fresh snuff
We carry all kinds of notions, tools,
prospecting outfits, BARS, shovels,
picks, steel, sledgos, gold pans, axes,
camp furniture, cooking utensils,
and every requirement for the min
er, the prospector or the house
hold.
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