Show I H I ot z I r UNION LABOR LABORi i DEP I 1 t i Under the Auspices Address all Communications tol J of the tho d W M PIGGOTT Editor C OGDEN TRADES ASSEMBLY Street H x r I T t I pu puI SCAB DEFINED I j Tho word scab Is one of the vilest I that can bo be hurled at a hu tiari being and one who rIghtly I tho Is 1 of the same sameI I A scab says Gays Webster ebster Is a amea amean mea mean 10 low paltry fellow This Thia deli I Is general in Its ILc atlon but ma may bo be specifically applied to ono one lit in walk wak of life Ufe In looking over I the tho Industrial field wo we can lind but i ino no class of follows fellows to Ie whom thit i definitIon will 1111 apply in all Its lull full fullness ness and tho they are arc those who act as the fence fonce or the tho with which the tho employer hopes to to penury and abject ser I rutty the tho honest workingmen antI who b offer or of women Those by an I Iless less cs wages would take tako the employ employment employment ment from another Those who cut I prices anI underbid to such an extent that it affects the well being of the tho laborer and for what Not that It Itis js is of any Ln benefit to them for It Is on 1 an Injury But they thoy are like the tho pro proverbial dog who gnaw the bone nor let an anyone ono else elso gnaw It Th They do not want to advance avance or 01 un Im themselves and tho they are aro will willIng lag Ing to be used to compell oth others lS to re remain I main on the same sarno level leol wIth thorn them They arc willing to be used as the tho i tools through which honest manhood and womanhood may mar be compelled to forever pay tribute to the tho bloated plu plutocracy i The They are aro the who would rob infancy of Its nourish nourishment mont ment childhood of r Its pleasures youth or of Its innocence and old age of Its restful repose If IC there Is a place hot hottel hotter tel ter than the of hades liades wo we feel sure suro thal the they will be Presented with free tickets to the tho boxes closeSt up The subjoined quotation is m an ex cx I Itra tra tract t from a book written by Dr Dl I Fr Fruk Julian Warne Varne and is n a splendid did definition of the union labor term I Isca cab and a description or of Its be beginning beginning ginning Dr Warne said is a stronger social force lu In a high standard o conduct than most of oC us real realIze realize Ize It means or exclusIon Ion from social intercourse or favor and is usually employed etl b by a particular ular group roup against members of Its own class or craft Its weapon Is some term of reproach coined for forthe the purpose Lawyers for Cor example who do not come up to the standard set et for fOI that profession b by Its group are arc ostracised and termed shysters So It Is with the medical profession PhysicIans engaged in practices which the dom dominant l group denounce are arc ostracised b by the more reputable practitioners with the reproachful term quack The same samo social force Is at work V V V V among the tho industrIal classes lie do dares clares Dr Warne Union men he heaS aS set n a standard as to wages and conditions of employment In n a partie particular ular Industry and those workingmen I who fall below that measurement In offering their labor for a less prIce I are and denounced as asU scabs Whether lie group be doc doctors U tots tors or lawyers or 01 what whatever ever it adopts as the standard of meas conduct along particular lines Is Isi i sooner or later lator taken up by the tho broad broader er social grouping in the and accepted as Its of judg judgment 1 ment along those lines This Is Just Justas as true or of a community Iden Identified tIlled with an Industry the tho livelihood of whoso whose me moors it ma may be depends upon the activities In iii which a dominant group members or of a trade trado union creates the Indus Industrial Industrial trial standard This explains the nt at O 0 of hostility an Industrial com coni comI 1 4 I i exercises toward the UlO scab t V lt it explains also perhaps how men 4 I I I far removed from the of r the tho working classes can look upon ullon tile the t Z I I I scab IlS as n a hero horo I I I h i social force or of ostracism put putS putI I h j into loto operation by the tho working of the S trade union Is directed and particularly j arly so 60 In strIke times not alone alono di II j against the scab himself but i 0 F ii P along all those channels of social TO re reV TOI I V I affecting him and which might aught 1 V i have hae influence upon him In bringing V V 1 I il about action conformable to the stand standI bI I I ard or of the tho dominant group The Ther C of r strength or of this weapon In the strike I l I iA J of the anthracite mine In Ini i 4 Ii i i 1902 Is Illustrated from incidents from strike times which Dr Wayne Warno secured 0 from actual experience 1 V LABOR DAY DAYI DAYe I e Labor Day ill rapidly Are you ou preparing for It I dont mean mean union p only hilt but everyone V The Th commIttee are trying to make the tho Labor day c celebration this year rear a cel of the people for tho people V I and by r tue tho people And Ancl Sn In connection with Sith the Fair the arc of oC a program that will surpass anything that has Ims attempted In inthe V the past rho rhe fun will begin early In the da day and will be continuous mi ml the grand Wo We are arc ollda oring to make the da lay of special In Interest interest terest to the children and wo desire that tho parents como come earl early brIng the little ones and make malte the tho day daJ long longo V o bo be red b by thorn them The V morning beginning at al will be exclusively for the boys Ioos and so o brIng thorn them and let them havo the time lime of their lives We must not forgot that the boys os and girls or of today will bo be tho men and women or of tomorrow and the fathom nl mothers or of the near future So Soil SoV V V il becomes the duty or of the tho men and women or of today to start them Ulem right In me life help hell them to conceIve the hIghest V possible Ideals and teach them the of a determined effort to nt at VV V t tim Ilu them theu Teach them the great nIne alno of on an unblemished character of oC unimpeachable integrity or of sturdy I manhood and womanhood roach V them and and to be determined to attain as noni nOIl In all their undertakIngs as asit it Is 15 for humanity Teach them tham the value of doing with their might what hands tind Ond to do doand doand and of doing It now Teach Tench them tIm tho V alue of oC every overy moment for home thore Is only one minute In tho tl o world III at a time and nd that Is alwa always s talon taken V away before another is hs given ghen This Is One ouo or of the things for which V th the labor movement was organized and It Is ono otie thing for which the un V lop people arc cons and Inai insist t V ontI nil Lion ot of the child and had It not been ceen for the efforts put forth In that dl di direction I Instead of the chii dren now In tho ho mills and factories there would be nearer three or four times that number So if IC you ou would help holp In thIs great work bring the children to the Fair grounds on the of next Sept September and We will give thorn tl at least a short lesson on the Importance of doing their and andI I doing dolUS it NOW i In talking with soma seine of the tho mom mer chants wo we find that lint at least some seine are our department and arc re coming to 10 realize the lie importance of I the tho distInction bot between weon sweatshop and mado goods antI goods made b by union labor Our article on the tho UnIon Label or of two weeks ago has hind had a good effect on sonic soma and andI tho they are arc bog beginning to see their I for contagious Infection that might be due to the tho handling of that class of goods 0 hind hall be become como somewhat discourager at the seeming indifference manifested toward our feeble efforts but we shall alto cour courage I age ase and so go on realizing that lint wo we are arc doing at least sonic somo good even Ii if those I who are or be ba most vitally in interested are not doing what they I should I If Oll are arc too busy with your pleas pleasures pleasures I ures to attend the meetings of oC your our local dont complain I it your wishes and ideas V are not carried out The Tho officers nor lie tho are not mind readers su So If you do not tell them V what you rou want at the meeting you have only yourself to blame for what I you call f on their p parL rt I I Do you OU want your label supported Then support the tho label or of others I A man who has never neer belonged to toI toa a labor has 1115 some excuse I fOI purchasing nonunion goods and patronizing nonunion stores rants harber shops laundries etc and cannot be blamed for the ilace of the striker in the sonic same incas meas urn uro as a member of a union taking a aV V union mon mons s place But when a union man purchases nonunion goods spends his money with nonunion os o otc etc he Is a traitor to unionism and is the meal I Bulletin I I |