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Show ANSWERS TO C0BBESP0NDENT8. (By President H. G. Creel of th Associated Asso-ciated Labor Press.) Will you kindly aaswer the following: - 1.- Will the union man ever get enough t 1 Is it not true that If the proposed spelling reform is brought about "union-Ism" "union-Ism" will b properly spelled "saloon" T 5. Is not organised labor composed of, the scum of the United States and the' offscourings of Europe T 4. Do not union men choose for their leaders those showing th more .advanced stage of moral leprosy and degeneracy, Including grafting propensitlest 6. When a man once antagonises ycu people is not his life In danger ever after? : . , . Never ' mind what you "think" about the above, Mr. Cceel, mak good and tell us what you "knbw." "FREEDOM. L This query calls for a prophecy, not a statement. I should say, however, that the union man I human, and so long as the energies of the Nation are devoted" to the accumulation of wealth, so long will b endeavor to keep pace with his teiiows. ' in other words, tbe union man will have "enough" as soon as will his employe.".' ; - v " 2. I know of no labor organisation -fiurage Inebriety. On the other hand, X know of hundreds of union men -i.e total abstainers, and there is at this time a movement on foot to create a temperance organisation of organised" laboring la-boring men. . By popular vote, clear .water .wa-ter Is th only beverage at the annual banquets of the Chicago Typographical union and throughout th United States and Canada a fine I imposed upon any member entering any - union- meeting in an intoxicated state. I. No. Organised labor seeks by every honorable means to stem th tide of undesirable un-desirable Immigration. 4. Unquestionably soma labor leaders have used their offices to further their Individual ends, but that this practice has been. so frequent as to admit of a general eharge .of ''graft" against the majority, I deny. I know many international treasurer, treas-urer, som of whom have held their offices of-fices since before many of the present members were born, and there has never been on cent's discrepancy In their annual an-nual reports. . I know that the International Interna-tional Labor News bureau was importuned impor-tuned from all parts of the United States to start a . fund for San Francisco, and that more than $100 sent their office was returned to the donors, to b contributed through the local unions. Here, you will admit, wa a chance for unlimited graft. I I mention this because you ask for what I "know . J ; i. No. Permit m to add: I "know" that If a member of a labor union were found guilty of writing an anonymous denun etatory letter upon a sheet cf paper from which the letterhead had' been carefully detached, he would be expelled from his union, ostracised by his erstwhile companions com-panions and presented with a scholarship for a kindergarten course in the elements of that cod of honor extant among men. |