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Show A non-union laborer and American Ameri-can has just as much right to a jot as a union man who is or is not a citizen, cit-izen, and visa versa. T!ii: I'KINCJI'I.K INVOLVED. The American people struggled for a (iiiarler of a century to bring capital capi-tal into subjection to the rights of th" public. They have defeated the efforts of capital to dictate. They now face an effort at dictation in the name of labor, which is as contemptuous con-temptuous of the rights of the public pub-lic as capital was formerly. The spirit of the oft-quoted "public he damned" epigram is just as apparent, appar-ent, in the present conduct of labor as it was not to be damned by capital. capi-tal. When labor comes with a threat to tie up the railroads, to extinguish the steel furnaces and to cut off the fuel supply with winter at hand unless un-less its demands are conceded, ,he people recognize it as an attempt to hold up the United States, and they will fight. In taking this attitude the people do not oppose labor unions as such; they oppose only a leadership with revolutionary aims and contempt of contracts. They are no more desirous desir-ous of breaking up organizations of labor than they were of breaking up corporations when capital became arrogant. ar-rogant. The protest is against the effort .. f any class, any minority, to ride roughshod over the whole nation in assertion of its pretended rights and in contempt of the rights of the majority. ma-jority. Within those . limitations there is abundant room for the activity ac-tivity of labor unions. |