Show V h l 1 i i I ii is 1 i I Ul IO s t LAB LABOR 1 1 OR X IX s I i I f i DED La a I OO I tl L Vr t 1 I J i iI t I t t Under the Auspices Address all aU Communications to toof f of the W M PIGGOTT Editor t I J I OGDEN TRADES ASSEMBLY Street I I J f t 1 I I II GIGANTIC BLACKLIST i 11 I By Dyane B one stroke of tho lima pen the Em Hatters flatters Combine a Ii I conspiracy controlling 17 per lIer cent of the tile hutting hatting Industry locked out the workmen engaged In the man uman manufacture manufacture a of hats haLs I Why Wh should not they tile the blacklist every eer 4 employee belonging bolon to the union since A jl tho the Wisdom l Factory at aft Washing the time Supreme Court Commit of the United States Slates has declared that blacklisting n of o wurl who belong to lo a 0 union is legal mega and constitutional F I Twe thousand hatters hallers have hae been heen locked out omit Ill Dr By one order ono one hundred thousand or more persona have been deprived of work and ot of j the means menus of livelihood I 1 o I They Tho arc sold to have hac the thc right to tolIe live lIe But a Joke jake They havethe have Imo havethe v the right to sit Elt r lawn down to w n and starve stare to togo as J go forth and anti beg or to wander wandel over I d the earth in hl search of work I I t It Is winter Then Ihen snow scow sno Is IB here hero e f fI r The days and nud nights are bitter biller cold colel I and thousand halters hatters are aio locked out Over Ocr the I b factory facton door loor the Bosses K have hao written We e Dont Union Labor p H For a year eal now times have hate been 1 i m m hard hur All workers have havu hat 0 beer been much II I unemployed ed Winter Is now hON here 1 Fires must ho 11 kept up Children must 11 have shoes The days fla art are cold and ana tw thousand hatters arc lock cd out omit 1 f Suppose the tho workers of New ew York I 1 City CIL should start starl up lp Fifth Avenue A J and pull 1 mill down flue tho palaces which thick shelter one hundred thousand people I f I That would be violence I Suppose tho patters Should tko luko 4 Ii possession of the factories and Insist upon ulton the right to work worl That would J be bo violence I I i lose Gone Gompers P er s said sahl that he hereafter Union Labor would not 1111 I nonunion non halters hatters That t hat would he be boycott IJO cott and ami a penitentiary j I i l o feast i But ut Jn In n a L committee room In a n big I hotel the Association ASt ftH ts I Ij m j 1 comfortably and says taya Wo do clo not notI I I Union Labor Wo have havo locked lacked out twenty live thousand men a 1 starvation will bring h them therm to terms I That is iR maw law and ancl order Let Lel any an man restrain trade talle and he lc will be crushed Time The militia the po par police l lice the private detective time the j cary clary clr and the whole power of the he goy gov 10 will Immediately bear Wll down and f fLot annihilate him butt Lot any an mon man restrain life lock out outI t I from livelihood men meu women and anti chit chil children dreg dren force them to slow starvation r antI and to d the militia the ht e police 1 C and tile the Ju JUi I i I will stand bj by h and amid enforce en force the sentence If starving workmen should I como come out ont of their cabins to talk tall to m protest or to denounce they ther would ho bo seized and ceased casteel Into prison Ue De time the Company of the time sales of o Its miserable fashion plates deprive the Buck Ducle Stove Sloe Company ol of the tho sale salo of its ils stoves and an you ou will taco face prison Deprive men of the sale of or their la In labor labar bor bar lock them out ont front from their helm means of livelihood condemn them and their families to starvation and the gov gO government with all Its power powel will sustain the time boycott I God pity the poor lit is winter The snow lino is 8 on ou tho the ground The nights are cold and amid live thou thop thousand sand with wilh their wives and babes are arc arC locked lockelt amid out Again we arc aie compelled to remind our brothers brothels to be careful In spend ig their money maner Assist the tho hatter I Buy no hat lint without the thu label Al XI Always ways Insist on out tho the label Patronize your our friends Give Co the hatters halters your moral and financial support Let l ei us light tills this greedy unscrupulous 1 ical association to tho the bitter hitler end J JH H C B L U of A 1 Journal A SOP TO Whatever Wh That Means Ve e have hae often oHen been beam asked why wo we wold did ld not answer the articles written hy y our Marxian friends We Wc will frankly any sit that we are not averse I to entering Into a argument with anyone but to in answer aUl er adverse HIlere I and vindictive criticism is not In our line We Ve have hao more Important work to III do ilo If Ie it lj is I true that the statement The hand hU I that thai rocks the cradle rules rilles the worM world is threadbare how munch much I can he lie sail of the Oclad the theory theor I ory or of Industrialism Our Oar friends attack attach the A I F P of L l because lu some instances all unions minions employed in ip the same s establishment do not mint all strike at once on e Bo it far Car from fromm us ns I to say that lint the A V I of L h l is portent but we 0 do dosay dosay say that the A R p Of L IB lIS the most I nearly perfect labor organization that lint has haM ever ell existed n It has lias settled more placed labor on a higher hl plane and hits lias dune done more to 10 alleviate the lime misery and sufferings of the toll ing masses than all tho limo others put to together gether getie This It is Iea ll shown by Oy Its Ili history if one cares to to r read ad I But what of industrialism The Theold Theold I old Knights of Labor L bol in her lIer heyday heyda of glory glor w the was as most exam pie of Industrialism that i over ever ex isted Then Than came the United Brother hood of or Railway y Em l es which held I sway for a Q tine time and exerted a L won Influence but sue she went the way wa waO oi O tho the K ii of L f Then rhea came carne the Ue In L Workers of the Wood At I first they wore powerful but they the are arenow arelIo arenow now lIo on the time decline and It will be only onla a question of time when they thc will r meet t the sonic same fate fato of the others And AndI I wimp why wh Because it is impossible for fa a aman aman aman man In one craft to legislate for a aman aI aman man in ht a different t craft Their work WOI I Is different their conditions are dif different ferent and their knowledge of each I others business Is so limited for Cor we Weare arc are fast becoming a n nation of experts In our particular lines of work worl that thal ono one knows but bul little of the needs of tho the other What does a blacksmith or 01 ora a u machinist or a carpenter know about legislating for a barber or a clerk or ora ora ora a street car man Or vise versa ersa t Nothing In a practical sense So let letus letus letus us look 1001 at things from a Ii practical standpoint at least Utopia will ar arrive arrive rive with wilm the dawn and not nol before One ot of 0 the thc many ninny troubles of our oury women omen t y is they Wy UIO ey are arc too too much like IL o Mrs Irs They go ho hunting bargains that arc are not bal bai gains at It nIl all They The get geta a lot of shelf worn goods with a few good goods mixed In him where If it they would buy bu all aU hand han goods roods they would bo be e much betl better r off they the could dress better live lle better belter and have ho more money at al the end of the time month Why cite the time failure of or ono one lone logo mis mismanaged managed union goods store stoic when hundreds of others nonunion goods gonds stores have hao failed for the same saute rea rear reason reason son i It Is true that thousands of women ornen and girls work wurl on high ma machines machines chines year after year ear and wo we 0 feel fell badly enough about it and aid we have ha 0 helped to In greatly better betler their condi condl condition tion We Ve have assisted in lu seeming securing an un eight hour day dar for Cor them and md mal mak making maling ing other othel conditions much heller heler for them Now Mow o friends C n what have hae you done along these lines You have hae taught hUght unity among all classes classel and it has ended In dissension Now you would to teach each all men that they the should disregard the union label because it will do them tore more harm than good that it makes them then dc do I Il on charity chanty that tho the union lapel label stands for time the present system s of government meat under ender which It Is as im hm impossible possible for the great mss mass of work worl workers i ers erg to 10 bettor bell their conditions as it Is i ifor for tor them hen to trip to olio aho moon And Ind all this In the face faco of the fact that practical all the th benefits and I improvements in iii the conditions of the I I workers has been accomplished hecl j through the organization of unions In Int i Those hos I I t erm and federations things recd need ne d no proofs for they limey stand stant standout I out omit boldly emblazoned on ou every eer page I Io of o history But we Wl are arc not at time tho statements of oui friends 8 for forwe forwe we have luc It tin n good authority that at aL I least one of thorn I Is not nol oven cen a mom men j her of the union minion of his own eruCt craft For Tor ForIt ForIt It is time the same samme old threadbare scab scat argument that leas has been used against I the time union for the last hundred years and will he used as long bug as there are arc I people to use it Now lOW wo we want taut wan to say sa onto co and for all that we wo do not nol intend to any more time space and paper In iii Int I taking t any an notice of any an person 01 or pen pur IllI Sons who aria are willing to appropriate all nil lime Uie blessings anti and 1 advantages that I come COlli along and amid give nothing In him re return JI I turn hut hilt sarcastic criticisms and fault I I from ing THE I The have ha e good cause and amid ought to feel feci proud of or their groat greal success on tho ho th evening of the tho I I I They were greeted by b a large anal enthusiastic en on enthusiastic throng thronS at their annual dance at the Congress Dancing Acad Academy Academy emy Every one ommo seemed to lo enjoy themselves the time splendid man of the floor committee Everything went smoothly till the time we tee sma hours of the he morning when the lime guests departed with many expressions expressions of i regret egret that they could not lIot remain longer There is no use talk tall talking talking ing the weed twisters arc expert entertainers i I The Time world moves moes and so does dots capi capt capital I tal tai but labor Is too prone to lag be behind behind hind If the time lime Bate spent in splitting hairs halls was spoilt spent in doing something tangible we would see sec results and aid a 1 plenty of them When heu the great captains of want to do things they limey the dont waste six months ora or 01 ora a year In trying to ligure out how they will he be able to pay m JA teats cents pei capita They The just dig diS up imp what ulmat is peeled needed and go ahead And when la In labor labor bor learns to lo do the thC same thing then and Jul not until then hen will we bo ho able to accomplish what we the ought to Not until we decide lo to put viii aside tho limo petty pet Ilet petty Ilett ty t jealousies and spite and learn to treat each other othel aj mOIl men not until we get gel past the childish age past the time ago when we say sa to III each other 1 I wont play plo if you do if IC you rOil arc go goIng ling Ins to slay I will leave and step out upon the broad plane ol or man uman manhood manhood hood there lo to meet one another as a being worthy worth of our lilli steel then them and only then will we accomplish the end for which the labor movement I Iwas was wag started Then rhen lien lot let tS s educate oui solves in the labor laboi movement as we wo vowed we tee would and stop slop stop slop finding fault with each other othor which we vowed owed wo would not and see ace If we wo wont succeed much amuck better bolter We are aie not finding fault faun but hut simply pointing out a am condition that thal docs does ex exist exIst 1st and amid which can he lie remedied by a n m manly ugly effort l The best way a to break up tip a union Is to 10 stop ston attending meetings Tho rho only ani way to build up 1111 a union ninon is to at attend attend attend tend meetings and do your you part Use effort to make the meetings In IntI Interesting tI and you will trill soon SOOIl Sec HOC the differences We FC arc are sorry SOll that we omitted to say anything ln of Of tho erg deuce danco In lit our oln lust last t Issue Isue but hut wo we 0 got not tangled in him our OUI dates We apologize to them as a well as to all union people and mill promise to 10 do 10 bet better bettel better ter tel hoi cat tor Dou Don you Oll patronize the union label It stand for honesty Integrity de tic decency and manhood |