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Show Trade Union Idea Based on Justice Industrial Liberty the Aim of Organizations of Workers. Those who believe that the trade union movement exists principally for the purpose of securing higher wages, shorter hours and improved conditions of labor, fall far short irom "understanding "under-standing the true purpose of trade unionism. - The trade union movement of North America exists primarily and principally princi-pally so that those who work for wages will have a controlling voice over their lives as wage earners. The trade union movement If It did not aim to establish freedom, and liberty, lib-erty, and Justice for the wage earners, would be a purely commercialized movement, aiming only to secure as many dollars and cents as were possible, possi-ble, regardless of the rights and the welfare of others. Human liberty, the right of men to control their own lives. Is the Inspiration Inspira-tion which has created and which will perpetuate our trade union movement. The wage earner knows from the most bitter experiences, that political liberty and religious liberty of themselves do not make men truly free. These two priceless conditions must be accompanied accompa-nied by industrial liberty before men are truly free, before they are in a position po-sition to have that full control over their lives which every man must enjoy en-joy if he Is to have the same opportunity oppor-tunity as all other men to work out the problems of his life, and establish human liberty upon a basis where everyone ev-eryone will enjoy the same rights, the same opportunities and the same privileges. priv-ileges. The wage earner has the same right to exercise control over his life that the employer has to control his business. busi-ness. When employers take the position posi-tion that control over their business is of greater importance than the right of their employees to have control over how they shall Live- and work, .then there is established a condition of inequality in-equality and Injustice which Is equal to that which is found in those countries coun-tries where the people are prevented from enjoying self-government through the power exercised by hereditary rulers. rul-ers. John P. Frey. '. |