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Show THINK BEFORE ITS TOO LATE HP HE labor convention just closed at Butte has selected Great Falls, Montana, for the next convention to be held August 15th. Before adjourning ad-journing the Butte convention, the organization of the "one big union of wage workers" was completed. com-pleted. A resolution was adopted demanding that the government withdraw troops from Russia and asking recognition by the U. S. of the soviet government gov-ernment of Russia. About fifty delegates attended the convention from Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Arizona. The I. W. W. was represented and among the leaders of the movement were the I. W. W. and leaders of the Winnipeg revolution. The constitution of the Canadian "one big union" was adopted almost word for word and provides principally prin-cipally that demands of one labor group be supported sup-ported by every other and the general strike is the weapon to force compliance. The preamble begins with these words: "Modern industrial society so-ciety is divided into classes those who possess and do not produce and those who produce and do not possess." Reference is then made to the "class struggle" in which it is declared there can be no compromise. The American Federation of labor was denounced by the new organization and Wm. Houston, organizer of the United Mine Workers of America was hooted when he declared general strikes and general unions a failure and said that no funds raised by the United Mine Workers could be diverted to the "one big union." Thus was launched the "one big union" movement move-ment in America. The plan provides for industrial revolution, pure and simple to enforce the demands of every labor group. When the carpenters have a grievance, griev-ance, labor in all lines will walk out to bring employers em-ployers to their knees, and so on with butcher, baker and candle stick maker it would be one strike right after another. Conservative labor leaders believe such a plan can never win in the long run, but that in attempting attempt-ing to cary out the plan, the radical element stands a very good chance of bringing wreck and ruin to industry and poverty to the laboring man. The "one big union" is simply the American phrase for Holshevism the object of which is to take from those who have saved and accumulated anything, and turn industry over to mob rule. When the dividing up process is over, industry is wrecked, the people pennyless and there is no employment. em-ployment. Inasmuch as the radical mining element has organized the "one big union" in the west the general gen-eral supposition If that the first raid will be made upon the mines. The result can be easily seen. The mines will of necessity be forced to close and once closed they will stay closed for some time. Labor in other lines of industry, striking in sympathy with the mines in the "one big union," can keep on striking and have the satisfaction (?) of causing a complete shut down. Thus the radicals can force industry to the wall, throw thousands of men out of employment and win what an empty dinner bucket and suffering suf-fering for thousands of helpless persons. Wages in the west are high, higher than in any other part of the world. Industry can pay just so much and when the cost exceeds the profits prof-its it must close. You can't get blood out of a turnip, neither can you get wages out of a bankrupt bank-rupt business. Thoughtful employes and labor leaders in conjunction with employers in all lines of activity ure striving to work out plans which will eliminate elim-inate the strike evil and assure both labor and capital its just reward. Is this pragressive idea which has already gained much for labor, to be knocked in the head by a Bolshevik uprising in America? |