Show ry t H H 01 1 x t UNON lJ LA LABOR DOR x f f DEP DEPARTMENT h r Under the Auspices Address ons T T of the W N M PIGGOTT Editor OGDEN TRADES ASSEMBLY Street I i HH I THE HE BARBERS TWELFTH INTERI INTER INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL CONVENTION A I MATTER OF HISTORY Tho convention or oC the Barbers Union of oC AmerIca Its labors on Oct lith tit at 3 a m in hay hav havIng haying Ing been In session thIrteen hours This convention was the largest nu most Important ever cyer held hy by the organization haYing having to deal with many numy weighty problems and do doIng Irig Ing so with a degree of Intelligence and aptitude that places the barber harber fraternity well up ip In the midst of older and larger and anel bespeaks for them a bright and pros prosperous porOus future In the revision of their grent care and judgment S was iud and when whon the nW new laws go Into the first of Jan January uary next we w believe a great grent bus wU have been given the organ organS I and thal it will grow and pros prosper prosper per as never nevor before Most of the or of officers reelected either un ani mou l or by good round majorities which speaks well for the shown during the past five fi years yean For In office St It would be dim difficult cult culL to find a better hetter set of oC officer than nt at the head ot of the bar hers ers union lune proven themselves to he be thus fm fat They have hae kept Sn In the bounds of the aw and have ae ac accounted counted for e ery coat cent or of han dIed b by them and In the conduct of their several offices the they displayed such ability rind good business sense ns as entitles entitIes them to rank among tho foremost hence there was no do de desire sire nor reason for but bul few changes Realizing that human nature Is hu human human man nature It see mod to be the dis disposition position of the great majority of the to frame the laws so as to hoop the within hounds bounds and not nOl allow them too much leeway and then to see that they keep keel within the bounds sot sel The officers elected to servo sene for the tho next five years are TO PresIdent t X ot of Albany N Y Jacob FIscher of Indianapolis md Ind F First Vice president John Young or 01 K Second Vice John J Do De Delane Domane mane lane of North Hampton Mass Third Vice President John EL E Con ConI Connelly I nell nelly of Denver Cole Colo Fourth Vice President H 11 J Hal Halford Halford ford of Hamilton Ont Firth Vice President J G Miller of Atlanta Ga General Organizer J C f St SL Louis Mo MoS S Editor W E p or of Los Loa An Angeles gobs geles Cal Delegates to the A F of T L Jacob Jacoh I Fischer W E Frank X and C S Mote Organizers m Hubble C 11 Felder A C and Albert Bouthillier The next convention will be held at Indianapolis md Ind on the first Tues Tuesday da day In October 1911 WHY THE WORKERS ARE DIS DISCONTENTED DISCONTENTED CONTENTED By Br II H E Steiner 5 lh My dear fellow have haye you eer ever stopped long enough to ask your yourself self sel why you rou and your fellow workers year after year keep asking for an Increase In pay par shorter hours and better trade trado con conditions I know that you ou have always saId that living had gone up tip and you could no longer exist on the tho old wages But if the advance In living W wa s all that you why then ask for shorter hours and better trade conditions Now dont you ou think that you ou have hac another guess coming comins and unbeknown to yourself 1 Is 18 it Il not nol because you Jou are not reedy recel mg Ing a just portion of what your Jour labor produces Just jot this down In your our I mind and when you have haye a few fow min minutes mm ute utes time think tt It over oer and see If back of It all it IC there Is not some thing besides the advance In living And Ani I belIeve bellee after aCter you wrestled wIth this problem awhile yOu ou will III h have le a better belleI u understanding why thy you ou I are arc discontented You will thou then stop I snapping up the wife when you ou are aro y H HH z asked on pRy pay day daJ for Cor a little extra change to get the children a pall pair of a hat or new dress Ot Of course there thore are lots who r read ad this will 1111 sa say why I am not discon discontented discontented tented I am satisfied Then wh why ito do ou belong belonS to your our union wh why do you ou continually keep kickIng about this thing and that Why dont y OU continue to work for the he old wages Wh Why dont ou ott live ns you rou did twenty or thirty years earB ago simply because I YOU are discontented and dont know mo It Probably you ou ire are the lie boss bOGs con fl man and of course In that case you ou wish to he be as near as pos possible possible sible like Jlko the boss and you ou know that he is not discontented Why did he not enjoy enjo himself durIng the last strike He did not have to deprive I himself any luxury or comforts But I Iho ho how was It In irn dear clear fe fellow II 0 worker with yoi ot Did you U have hare any luxury or comforts durIng that strIke You bet you vou did not All you had on your mInd was as when will thIs matter be straightened up Did not yoU con condemn lenin the boss bos who before you jOU had praised so highly lInt But things had changed some You and your fellow workers hal had asked for a little I share of what you OU had produced and that affected the boss material Inter eat cst and he was very ery quick to realize that interest Now if you on the oth other othor or er hand was as quick to realize your our and your our fellow material In Interest terest YOU would be all right The trouble with you Jou Is you ou are afraid that thal you might live as nature Intended you ou I to live Here let me quote a sa saying o of Abe Abc Lincoln and it Il would be a good Idea If every overy rea reader cr of this would get this down In their mind somewhere so that the they will not for forget forget get It ItIn itIn In the early days of our race raco tho Almighty said to tho ho first of mankind B the sweat of oC lh thy face shall thou cat bread and since then If we ox ex except the light and all air of heaven no good has been or can be enjoy enjo enjoyed ed cd without first having cost la In labor bor And inasmuch as most good things have been produced by labor it follows that all such things belong of rIght to those whose labor has pro produced produced them But It has so happened in in fill all ace of ni th I I have labored a and X others lh r b have with without ith out labor enjoyed a large portion of the fruits This Is wrong and should not continue To secure to each la Ia laborer borer the whole hoe product of his labor labora a as near nearly ilS as possible Is a worth worthy oh ob object of an any government Now let lel me give you a fe few facts to show yo you wh why you are arc nt Census bulletin tolls OIlS us that hat the average skilled mechanic produCtS 2 In wealth each year and that he receives In wages only Common labor only annually Women from three to five Ove dollars per week and children from fifty to se soy cents per week Then there are arc millions OC o workers who are arc un titi unable able to find work of any lund lemd who drift into poverty and crime simply because wc vc allow ono one clasH of socie society t ty to OWn all the material and ma without which we the work ors cannot exist 1 I J By these figures gures we can see hot bow It IL Is possible for Rockefeller to be worth i I Carnegie I 1 and so on down the list of the re 1 class Rockefeller Is estimated h by censor conser nUo authority ns a the Chicago Trib Tribune une and tho Chicago I to be worth The late I distinguished Republican scholar and andI I editor Dr Chas B Sparks in hIs hook of Wealth In the I United States saId that of the tho poorest families workers own property worth Taking I the a average six members to tho fam i Sly then wo we find that work workers ers era families male make a total of people Thus we se see that thal through ox and monopoly rule nale one man is 15 able to accumulate of wealth whereas herens American working people only own on property worth There fore Americans own OO less than one American But dont cuss Rockefeller Carne Came glo gb oran Of th the rest of those desir desirable able citizens Just remember that the thO that yields Ields the tho following re suIts One billionaire six Ix thousand millionaires millIonaire compelling more than on of the people In thi UnIted States to live l In rented d homes 1111 more than to 11 In morl mortgaged aged agel homos These are arC some omo facts farou to consider Just that Ro Is one or of the lie pro duets duds of our present Industrial s s stern tern and it I not nol right to condemn the fruits or of the system for logically lr if the system Is right the fr fruits be right rIhl The Fhe Declaration of Ind pend nce declares that all men are an cr created equal that ther the are arc endow endowed ll with certain rIghts among t these hOBO are life liberty and the thc pursuit of happiness I Now ow the six essential things to have to enjoy enior life lIl liberty orty and happiness arc light air water clothing food and shelter The rho first three of these theseas as yet are freo to us workers or near nearly ly Ir so at al least to those that aro lucky enough to live outside of the tenement I districts of the large cities eLtie But t clothing food and shelter We all have to hustle for and this hustling and of these necessities of life Ufe Il liberty rt and happiness Is the tho 0 os that reeds breeds discontent Just think when ono one of us its In order to get these three necessities ot of life for the privilege to sta stay on top of this beau beautiful earth We must send the flower o of tho th home the child Into one ot of those hell halos bolos the factory there to grInd their little bones and muscles Into profits so 60 that ono one class of so I clelY chay mn may enjoy enJo alt all the luxuries of life while the tho other class hardly ox Then to have havo this hi luxury X lII class to brand us as lazy shiftless burns bums goats and tell us that thai if wo we saving and did cUd not hivo beyond our means we would have something and wo are aro supposed to take all this and sa say amen But lot lol one of us say a 30 word as to how out our masters got their position In life at once We w nrc aro denounced as undesirable citizens and andIn I In iii many cases dumped In jail for forlet or orlet let It not bo forgotten that Olat these worthies have a all the powers of gov government and courts back of them hem They are aro the cream of society even though it il Is La In most cases had bad Just so 80 long as we the workers who pro produce produce duce a all stand by br and allow this master class to rule just so long longwIll wIll wili the they do so and we havo no right to blame them We VA would probably iO do the same thing I If wo we were In their place How long would you belong S to an organizatIon where the minority rul ruled od ed Not long would you We Well so clet Is simply an Uon and br 13 rl right ht tho ho majority should rule rulo J Now UJ my fellow workers It I is up to toI I you to get vise to 10 yourself as you rou are an In the lie majority anti and study I anti and economical problems so 50 that yoi mar he be able to take the tho reins of government Into luto own on hands and run rIm things for the benefit fit of a nil mankind The Steel octopus controlling over per cent of the steel In industry has decided to lower the price on st steel ol excepting rails raUs Steel used for and other oilier purpOses ses will be for COl LOO to OO per ton less than the tho market prIce I agreed upon bel between the big combine i and the independent concerns I The object or of this cut Is Of I to force tho independents to the wa wall II anti and thereby control the entire mar mur leet When congress attempted or or er made mad a a noIse bout about a reduction In inthe the tho schedules the entire pluto cratic Society of legal robbers went wenton on to demanding that the duty ut remain In order to protect their from what they ther claimed certain tain tam ruIn and destruction But the overlords will not suffer Already tho they have announced their Intention to lo male make the workers stand the burden o of this announced cut cul In prices I In the he aggregate about per persons sons are aro employed h by all the steel making plants of the country Per Perhaps Perhaps haps only about 25 5 per cent are arc or organized if not less The They must no doubt bow down before befort the tho steel kings and accept the InevItable or I to death Suppose the great combine Is able ahle I to close the tho plants of the smaller and Independent concerns and aDd forever ile de whole cities h by shutting up the tho furnaces which have hayo heretofore em employed employed all au the tho workers as tJ Is the case caso In iii man many localities what then What of the poor workers who after 26 25 ears of toll toil has saved sayed enough to own oln a little home and finds It worth worthless loss and Is compelled to aban abandon abandon don It and go somewhere else elso to la labor labor bor borWhat What in h hIl docs loes the Steel Slee Trust care for him What Whal about the profit sharing and the earnings of of poor misguided who per their few dollars donars to So go Into the coffers of the Independent concerns and become share and stockholders Oh well what does docs an any ono one care about the laborer anyhow This steel conspiracy ought to he be Indeed a strong lesson to the or of our country It will no doubt brIng tears and sorrow to many homes |