| Show NEED OF TRADE UNIONISM Labor Forced to It as a Measure of Protection Against Aggression of Capital In the individual contract between to ti powerful employer and a single workman the laborer secures the worst of the bargain He lie Is progressively debased because of wages insufficient in sufficient to buy nourishing food because because be bo- cause of hours of labor too long to permit of sufficient rest because of conditions of work destructive of or moral mental and physical health and finally because of danger from accident and disease which kill off 01 the tle workIngman or prematurely age agA him The individual bargain or Indi Individual vidual contract between employers and workmen means that the condl condi condition tion of ot the economically weakest manIn manin man manIn In the Industry is often otten that which iho tho average man must accept Therefore There There- tore fore ore there can be no permanent pros- pros to the wage earners no real ind lasting progress no consecutive improvements In conditions until the tho vi la Is firmly and fully I that In industrial life ute especially especial especial- ly Iy In enterprises on a large scale the settlement of wages hours of ot labor and all essential conditions of work shall be made between employers and workingmen collectively and not between between be be- tween employers and workingmen In In- John John Mitchell in Atlantic |
