| Show difficulty IN THE WAY OF THE WORLDS FAN CoLu COLUMBUS mims underwent matiy many serious difficulties and experienced many disheartening rebuffs before he be set foot on american soil the chicago worlds fair which is to be held in commemoration of that event in the year 1893 seems to have an aa many difficulties to encounter as had columbus himself first there was a hot contest for the location but chicago triumphed then came the fight over the site which is not definitely settled as yet the dissatisfaction arising from the appointment of paid officers was and is deep and widespread the force bill la Is still holding the sword of damocles over that unlucky fair if it should ever be stirred into life again tb enthat then that weapon will fall and sever the ties which bind the fair to the world and the american continent it will be remembered the commission created by congress to conduct the fair assembled in chicago last autumn and adorned itself wi with th high salaried officials the president was put down at a year the vil vice president at the members of the executive committee the secretary tary clerks stenographers e etc at equally large salaries the commission consists of two members from every state and territory in the union these member akre allowed six dollars a day and expenses while the commission to is in session but a system of bureaus or committees was established by which most if dots not all the members can draw a salary all the year round then was created the romanis commission consisting of ladies paid the same as an the other branch while in session the ladies lid did not go into the salary business as muchas much as the male department but they did very well in that line in congress last saturday the salary question of the fair was discussed an attempt was made to limit the whole salary expense of the fairno fair to however the original figures were out down mostly one half in itt ll 11 every instance but a new difficulty has sprung up and one which really threatens the successful completion of the structured structural department of the fair this to is the question of labor on sunday the trade and labor assembly of chicago discussed the worlds pair fair and its re lation to labor this organization it is said has a membership of in chicago it has entered its protest against what it calls scab labor that is labor not in its own organization the president of that organization said we will make the directory put a regiment of soldiers around the grounds u ads if they employ scab labor the day has passed when when organized labor can be ignored in a great public enterprise of this kind it like a great many other issues the labor question has two sides it can hardly be denied that labor has the right to organize as well as capital has but the question m is what are the objects of this organization if capital organizes organ izee into a trust to raise prices and curtail labor then its object is not just if labor organizes to force every wage worker into its ranks or else sub eject him to starvation then its object can hardly be said to be legitimate or in accordance with the individual and national liberty this is what the chicago trades union propose to do before bettl getting ng employment in the fairgrounds fair grounds one must enroll himself in its ranks and pay a monthly stipend into its treasury of no small amount if this Is iff not done the only alternative is to starve the threat that soldiers must be employed to protect the scabs I 1 is a a f foolish bolis h one when organized labor takes ou such ch a course as this and puts itself on a par with the most arbitrary despotism is it not possible that nonunion non union onion labor will try to protect hect itself when a man has no alternative but to starve or die he is likely to fight before doing either and if a nonunion non union man is working with a revolver in his pocket pockes sooner than be forced either into death or into an organization distasteful to him he will use that revolver this to is the condition that now confronts the he worlds world Is fair and a serious condition it is it means the placing of the whole labor department of that great work under the direction of trades union walking delegate he it is who will say what person to is to be be employed and what person perron not employed A A nd when it is understood that the trades of cak ago are three fourths made up of foreign socialists nihilists nihilisms lists and anarchists then these people can veto the amplo employment ament of a child of the pilgrim fathers or of the virginia cavallera cavaliers Cava Caval liers lerg in an american enterprise |
