Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-29 | Page 4 | Defeat That is Victory

i Defeat That Is Victory 1 IF 11 F the effort to paralyze all tho energies I of oC New New- NewYork ew York with a sympathetic strike I haTs has tailed failed as reports Indicate tho failure Is riot not a n defeat for honest labor Jabor unionism but buta I a triumph Decency n n. sense of or responsibility as essentially essentially essen essen- Jt it ity and rind a a. fidelity to obligations are arc y component parts of oC tie tho equipment of or I labor unionism as of or an any other meritorious ous agency that has demonstrated it meets a aI I definite need in tho the world Had the tho labor laborI I unionists of or New York broken their conI contracts contracts con con- I tracts with their employers and struck to I I enforce demands In which the they could have I nn no fundamental Interest the harm done I unionism would have havo been incalculable I COli Contract breakers find it difficult to get new contracts I t I Lu Labor Lubor or unionists ts aro arc much like o other r folks I I Their membership in an organization that occasionally finds it advisable to apply pret pros pre t sure to get et what It thinks Jt ought to have havo In no nn wise males makes them different from peo- peo I what plo in other oilier avocations a The They know f fhe they ought to tn do and Imd most of them aro are disposed ills dis dis- dis IIO posed fd to do it Thc They sometimes find themI them them- i selves where they cannot but support an unJust unjust un un- just untenable position but that is not anI uncommon un UD- t I common even with those who do not belong It I to labor Jabor unions union But those who prefer to toI I follow th the rl right ht as the they see it arc aro in the I majority In unionism as elsewhere Union Unton labor libor cannot afford to demonstrate It cares nothing for tor its plighted word and t in tho the right of ot labor to organize who sympathize with labor when it stays within the bounds of Justice and propriety I will rejoice that the failure of at the sympathetic f th Is la duo to labor Jabor 1 itself The unionists would not obey oboy the behests of ot their I J leaders and perform au an act impossible of ot justification I 1 An economist on tho the outside looking on onIs I Is hardly In a a. better position to foresee the tho future otur of Germany than Ulan economists on tho the j Inside of G Germany P to SA w A ont not