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Show DUTY NOW BEFORE ORGANIZED LABOR Not all of the people In this country view the rise of organized labor with satisfaction. There are those who still think of labor as something to be to make money with, and to be discarded, scrapped or traded In, Just as machinery and marketable goods are handled. This theory of labor will continue to cause Industrial trouble, and labor will have many occasions for the exertion ex-ertion of the power it possesses both in industry and in government. That labor can win every just battle and that the influence of labor In the affairs of the country can continue to increase will admit of no doubt just as long as labor remembers that might never made right. If there is a danger that threatens organized labor in this time, It Is not a danger due to weakness, but to Labor's Only Weapon. There ii only one way by which the workers can control their power t? produce; that is, by being in a position to work or to withhold their labor until they can secure fair wages and fair conditions of work. No wage-earner can have this power pow-er alone, but collectively they can force employers to agree to fair terms. strength. Workers in many fields of industry have had much to bear In the past, and many of them have brought from the old country a feeling feel-ing that, no matter what labor does, it cannot even the score by Inflicting as many injuries upon society as society has inflicted upon labor. There is also among workers, as among all men, that common human selfishness, which says "take what you can get," and It will be at work moving men to use the power of labor simply with a view to Immediate selfish Interest. Against this tendency stands, the fact that men who are normally constituted con-stituted acquire a sense of responsibility responsi-bility as they acquire power. This has been true of labor leaders, as a whole, and must continue to be true if labor Is to retain the general support sup-port which, year after year, It has been gathering to Itself. An attitude of forbearance, of regard re-gard for the common good and disregard disre-gard of an Immediate possible gain illustrates in a high degree the attitude atti-tude which organized labor, however powerful it may become, should take to attain Its highest usefulness. Pure unselfishness Is demanded of no class in Hits practical world, but the enlightened en-lightened selfishness which sees the good of one class In the prosperity of all Is fairly demanded of labor and every other class. Chicago Tribune. |