Show t H H t H H IH y UNION LABOR ii 1 DEi f X t Under the Auspices Address all Communications to toW toJ toof J of the W M PIGGOTT P Editor OGDEN TRADES ASSEMBLY Street f fuu r Some slight complaints have havo I Imade made to this office o to sonic tom unions receiving more notice than I others Every I ef union llon receives notice lc or to the lie information they ther time furnish We eo e dont know what ro to say aay or what you oli want said unless you fur furnish furnish nish the tho dala data If you the theline I time line to lo write Just furnish the time news n ws nod and we will do time the rout reM You will our office at I street now We Ve would be pleased l for fOl you OU to call cnn and amid talk over o VOl matters of f I interest and you ou may ma be lIc assured of ofin I f in proper Plover oner notice I LABOR EDIT EDl OU OH I Dont be bo a n sluggard get busy buy If J Jour your our union is not nol what oli omm think IL Ilo I o to bo ho remember It is just as asgood a asgood i good boo as the time members composing It ItU U you oU like lIko to lo see a full ull house Then answer answel present at loll call S J JJohn SJohn John Billings often spoke to a pact house the kind that lint is often orlen found at union meetings The lIme lio man who hmo does deems not live liv his hi obligation is a n liar of time the worst kind I It J wo we want men free If It wo we want wane I thou men sd we must have a t just civilization We Ve should have learned that a had hart tree I can CLI not bear ent good fruit If H wo we have hav havea havIl a Il civilization based on equality fra Ira fraternity liberty then Common Gommon life will m supply Its IU wants it will its own libraries and amid museums museum 11 i will do ilo away with that lint monstrous habit ha lt I of endowing Institutions with time tile sto stolen len lea le fruits of a labor lubom George D Herron flermon Organization is life lite not noL alone lo to lothe loho I the tho toiling masses but to all nIl things on earth Even tIme the lower animals have hayo sufficient instinct to band to together gether for fOI mutual nuit mut al protection Man Maii Manthe the tIme higher animal in many man instances alpo alfo realizes the need of combination with his fellowmen for his tier Remember n I say sa some sonic men havo have that ihal hut but right might hero her a thought occurs Who Vho ever evem saw sa a dumb brute bruLe scabbing on his mates males When the time animals herd henl together for CO mutual protection pm one or a dozen or om more do not find lind fault faull with the tho leader leale leadership ship and seek seck to injure the time hole hOld held because of their petty foolish foolishness h ness far from it They fight a united battle battlo until it il is won ron and then Elicit and anti then only do they the tho separate How many man many man harbors arc aro there I who vimo can nn take a lesson from the lower lowet ani aimi animals mals Were Tere ere the time barbers bambers of North Nonh America to realize tIme the superiority of if the dumb brute In mutters matters of comlin Ing lag for mutual benefit our om member membership ship would be doubled tomorrow to mo I CAN BE DEPENDED UPON We 0 said in a former article some come something timing thing to the effect that as a rule rille the Jie most skillful most conscientious and amid most to be he depended upon artisan nic a c members of ol the Ute various arlous unions The above statement has hus been greatly strengthened by h I a news Item based ba tinon lIlIon an nn investigation made into the time cause of o KO so many mail fatalities In the building of Blackwells Island bridge and of the Chelsea locks docks by hy a 1 com coal committee committee of th m Central Federated Nn ion lou We want ant to emphasize tIme the state ment that lint union minion men inca are arc more to lo be bo upon up n In all kinds Ith ls of labor mabom especially so when whon the work wok is of a 1 hazardous nature The news Item fol follows lows 1 s men have been heen killed in building the time new ume ne Island bridge over ovel the East Enst river riom 01 accord according ing lag to lo a report rel rt of ol time the committee e of Central Federated Union to ascertain the tho fatalities in that work The committee also found that Iii flu fifteen teen workmen have suffered death l in inthe the Chelsea docks Improvements The union workman who investigated the lie I subject said that city inspectors tried to conceal the loss of life which the thu union men attribute to the time employ employment ment meat of ol nonunion men inexperienced In work worl at lofty loft heights anti and to the time absence of proper precautions The 1111 investigators declared that no life bite has been Luen lost in building the time new Manhat Manhattan tau tan bridge where here union minion labor laboi is ls vm tm LOT OF THE STRIKEBREAKER Sometimes we are arc hardhearted enough to say harsh timings things about the time Individual who woo for a few fc paltry dol dollars dollars lars hams can be he purchased to work vork against tho thi best Interests of those who toll toil to even oven threaten harm to the man com coin commonly known as a strikebreaker Wo We 0 meet the tile common scab the man who for a few cents less per pem day would steal employment ment from a fellow follow work workman man niami when he fie ie can not advance a single sane reason ason why wh he lie should not reecho receive tho ho same compensation as time tho union man with silent contempt But lImit we cannot find words severe enough with which to arraign time the t maui man who will vill sell his honor and anti all that bitt a u uman aman man should hold dear in this life lICe for fora forn a n more mere moss m ss of pottage he ho homa hema ma may toll tell 01 m that he lie is receiving a splendid salary But as badly as wo we may despise such jv L man maim and amid as do lIe serving as aa they thoy may be nf if all tIme the th in invectives invectives that can be heaped upon them yet yolo whon we ve contemplate their condi condition con l tion tiomi in life and amid toe the sorrow and the deg leg degradation at tho time end of oC it and amid tho the herit bent heritage age they the must know kno ho are arc leaving to their families wo wu can afford to be bo boa bea a little charitable and anti express at least a little sorrow for the poor mis misguided misguided guided soul for It Is If divine divino to for fol forgive give gle An extremely sad case of oC the tho strikebreaker comes omes com s to us nit through a Do recent issue of tho time Iron Iroll Journal Joseph La Flour Fleur commonly known Iwon as Gunpowder er Joe committed commit ted suicide recently by drowning In III Ina Ina a L canal at al Dayton Ohio La Flem had hada a national reputation as a n strikebreaker er or in time the Iron Industry and was much sought after by br tho the anti antiunion antiunion antiunion union employers who ho were wore willing in to pa pay him from Item S to lo 10 per pel day duty to lo do elo their dirty work for them It may mima ma also al o ohe he be said that the violence of his hi death was wal in keeping with that of hIs hia life for Cor he lie was wae surely sureh the thie th cause of or a worst f 0 I r c TH than Ihan le being visited I I upon wives iVO anti and andi i J c a living death Commenting C on La Flours FleurS terrible end Bro Bio FLoh Fro editor ot of the time Iron Iders Journal says I IFor For many years he was to be ime found where whore molders wore on strike plying his profession lon and ninth selling his manhood for 01 tho time dollars offered S by b hi hm I former friends his only oni anI associates be bc became I came those who hmo like sought to secure an nn easier casier by b fol following I lowing the time He calling TIme The larger wages wag s seemed ed under these con COil conditions were were squandered In living JIving tIme the life of the mercenary and amil the time excite excitement ment mont of the time strike the time lift Jilt be behind time the stockade replaced time home with ltd it and the time respect of his neigh hums hois I Wilen old ago ngo began to make maine its In imi Inroads roads and amid the tIme life he had hind led leel corn com commenced le I tu to toil tell tel upon his vitality no nu friends except thos of the cup CUll stood I by I h to assist him He gave up imp friends I gave up imp family fawl and gave sao up ill II manhood I for a n few paltry dollars to be burled at nl last In it time the potters field There Is another side of the time picture I well wol worth looking at nt This unfortunate matte nate was known to the men wherever there thoro had been a prominent strike during the time past decade He was one of those whose were eon on of oC great great value when hen the foun drymen hail had hai entered Into a n struggle with wih time the union minion molders Time and again have they paid his fare tre Crom ont part parlor of country cOl to th the time other and him higher wages age than the time mol dorK had struck lt for lie He became a aro moat ro t valuable man to lo them lom and yet el when the time end em en came so imo 9 little did die they L Lent lont hits his body bo wn 18 allowed l to go bO to lo tho the paupers rs grave At At tho the lime of oC his death 10 lie way WI r plying his Ii is profession as a su stu er or yet vet ct his very err associates paid no at al lent ion to his lila remains No one camp to lo See e that the IC body hody was properly laid kill Hia to rest Iest of respect or om 0 of or friend friendship snip ship was was laid upon the rough pine coffin no shop Collection col i was taken talen ii up umi for the th widow wl ow evidently no one cared He hud hind shaped his hi life Jf by b disregard disregardIng Ing the time of his his fellow elow men lie lm h had hind soll his principle to Lo time the th highest bidder and while his services may ma mahave have been valuable to the foundry men for fOl the an his employers had II IIno no ho respect r What did ho c gain gin I LABOR NEEDS FAITH IN ITSELF Labor Lab r unions In the time years ears agone have hae made ma e many mistakes and anti you yomi rOi will w find that no mo people are arc more ready to acknowledge those these mistakes titan than the members cl of o these same amo unions union Because De atm we wo h ne wc made mistakes In iii iiiI I 1 Iho tho past we ve have every overy reason not nol to lo make lako those C same mistakes in iii 1 the fu Iu tune lure tre and ind I 1 believe heleve they tile thc will wi not be lie made math Labor needs more abiding faith in n Itself and in tho tIm people with wilh whom honi It deals leals Until It has this faith Ij lj will wll be be b able to accomplish nothing which makes for the progression of its It cause CallO We e a must trust each other and trust the time people all over the world to lo help us mis 18 in iii our righteous cause If time tho people once that wo we wo have havo Ito faith in them t they ther will w come to our ourI rid I and we will vili wil win in in the tho end ond When hen this great problem Is solved It will wl be bo bes solved s lod by the wage earners aud and it itis Itis itis is for fo us ns the time adherents of unionism to bring about a closer relation among time the wage age earners of the President dent clone Huber Brotherhood of Carpen Carpenters toms I r |