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Show mSmoKe From the Weekly I Tipe. The plotting Walking Delegate is responsible for a breach between contractors and what is 3,Hcommonly called the Constructors' Association. The result is that about 300 men will be out of "employment for an indefinite period. This same Walking Delegate is the most menacing form of nBhuman bacteria that ever infected a self-respect- Bing commonwealth or disrupted the peaceful avo- cations of a workingman. Probably there will yH never be a complete alliance between the capi- Btalist and the man who toils until the dawn of Bmillenial peace, but there would be something tiHakin to a reconciliation if this bleak-faced, barren- biained trouble-brewer, the Walking Delegate, (B could be expurgated from the industrial map. He is not only a pestilent distress and disgrace, but the mdst malignant and worthless enemy with whom the 'workingmen of America have to deal. The action of the Building Trades Council in this matter is unfortunate and appears to be totally to-tally uncalled for. Their action was not prompted by any abuse of men working under local contractors, con-tractors, but because, forsooth, they desire a recognition rec-ognition of union labor. Such decrees from salaried sal-aried sycophants who refrain from toiling themselves them-selves and live solely through a continual agitation agita-tion of the nation's workmen are the most inimical petards the laborers of the United States have to contend with, and it is a grand pity that the delegate's machinations, which are daily involving involv-ing hundreds of families in the uttermost distress, dis-tress, cannot be circumscribed by severe and stringent legal restrictions. The chief disadvantage disadvan-tage of these labor unions as at present constituted consti-tuted is the fact that when they band together I to meet one whom they consider the common foe, the arrogant capitalist, they are slowly and insidiously enslaved by the very men who most loudly shout the slogans of the union and at the same time abuse and debase their position as leaders of the toilers. The peaceable laboring man will never prosper so long as he remains a willing serf of unscrupulous leaders, and the dignity dig-nity of labor will never be properly acknowledged until the Walking Delegate is obliterated from the industrial landscape. |