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Show CAUSE OF HUMANITY BOUND UP IN PROGRESS OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT Out of the changes', the perplexities, perplexi-ties, the disappointments, the multi- tudinous happenings happen-ings of the past year, one fact stands out distinctly dis-tinctly the position posi-tion of power and influence the organized or-ganized . labor movement has won. The labor movement move-ment represents the demand of the oppressed for opportunities for freedom. It is an organism existing ment is for the purpose of protecting the oppressed against those who have the power to enforce their interests. The work of the labor movement is a struggle in which the success of the workers depends upon their power either exercised or held in reserve. The agency upon which workers as well as all other members of society rely is power. The power of the workers is the essential es-sential service that they contribute to sjuciety that is, their power to produce, pro-duce, their ability to work. Whoever controls the producing power of the workers con t ruin the workers. When employers control this working work-ing power and dictate the terms under, un-der, which it is to be used, then employers em-ployers dominate the workers and oppression op-pression results. When the workers control their own power to produce and have the right to determine when they will work and under what terms and conditions, then the workers have real freedom, they are free men and women, are able to protect themselves and their own Interests. Warren S. Stone. to inert real needs in the lives of peo-ule. peo-ule. It has virility and an effectiveness effective-ness that belong to no artificial organization organ-ization It has existed since Industrial Indus-trial oppression began and will always al-ways exist in some form. Progress of the labor movement means the progress of the cause of humanity hu-manity and freedom, for the move- |