| Show r r I t THE WHITE FLAG II The abject refusal or the editor ot or j l the Union Labor Dept to reply to so o it i called adverse and vindictive eMU criticism L cism Is altogether consistent wun I the inherent nature and md tho lie conduct I l lj of craft unionism Tho The emit craft union i I i of oI today owes Its iti It very ery existence to toA A the of the capitalist class I Hence the prating of brotherhood or t capital and worker naturally of or Inter Interest j est C servility ad nil I T On Labor Day Dar the workers on pa parade paI I I rade irule are out of all proportion to toI I I those that line tho the thoroughfare Somo Some two millions are arc organized In cratl craL craLI I affiliated with the tho A 1 F ot or o L L Lj LT T j Willie while a possible forty million arc are un unorganized organized Until very 01 recently as a one ono 1 i I friend has Intimated a member ot or the tho I Marxian club was counted In the he heI I I great greal majority Joining a n union is j I nothing moro nor less than an 11 economic nIle mic proposition For the lie time limo being H j I It Is Inic tnie that tho the writers economic I 1 Interest lies lles within the Ule union Neither conceit nor short sight blinds tho the J writer to tho the fact that It Il IB lii equally that In the long Ions run his lot loC lo in J J Irrevocably cast with that of or the work workIng workIng Ing class CIMS at large Tho craft croft union is a Chinese wall walli j I i thrown up against the bulk built of the workers to secure fair conditions for fora I I Ij i a few It IL IB ill a job trust that Is 15 roe roc recognized I O by class elMs conscious capitalism j ns us tho the greatest bulwark against so socialism I Tho The young joun man or woman casting 1 I about in search of or a trado trade or equip equipment merit ment with wIlh which to 10 conquer tho ne necessities I of life finds many man avenues closed by the apprenticeship limits i of the tho craft unions and ZOOS sees the tho van vari various arl arli 3 i ous unions exterminated or what Is 19 worse verse subdivided by b the tile Inroads of 01 I automatic and machin machinery I cry ery cr crr r The The Tho craft unions are so fettered ann ana I bound by br tho the potty Interests of the Immediate present that they can never realize moro more than tItan a small part of or their stunted aspirations What does a blacksmith or a ma mn machinist machinist chin 1st or a carpenter know about legislating for a barber barbor or a clerk clork or ora ora ora a street car man 7 Or ico versa versaNo I No doubt tho the blacksmith the tho machin machinist I 1st and tho the carpenter would hesitate to legislate an Increase In the tho of or a shave shavo or to add fifteen or twenty i ty tr per cent cont to the tho price of his goods r 1 Tho The Hatters Strike r I Our guileless friends have havo present presented I ed cd the most forcible argument J 7 the thC A F of L and favorable I o 0 Industrialism wo we have hao over ever seen scon I By nr one ono stroke ot or tho the pen the tIle Em Bm Employing I plo ln Hatters Flatters Combine a mighty conspiracy controlling 97 n per cent 01 ot the Hatting Industry locked out tho the workmen engaged In tho the manu manufacture facture of hats hat Such an nn excellent opportunity and so much leisure vIthal for the workmen and women machinists blacksmiths barbers and clerks affected to look one another In the eye oyo and exclaim All AI workers havo haO been heen much unemployed Winter inter IK II ii now no here Fires must bo be kept up lip Children must mu t havo have shoes Tho lays days are cold But Dul so 80 It must be for you know wo we could not possibly legislate for ono another mother Could a more eloquent plea be found against tho tue terrible delusion or ot orthe orthe the union label Ono One way war or tho other tho the hose boss by a n scratch of the tho pen reduces persons to lo beg hes beggary beggary gary gat Where and what Is the tho label The Tho workers are arc powerless ss to Control tho the quality of tho the goods gOOdR on which it appears It Is advertised as a 11 sort of or plaster paster p aster to protect the tho consumer from contamination with tho the slums and not an al a a i token that tho the work ra have rights aud arc are bound to lo get goL them Tho Iron Age Since wo we live 11 e In the lie Iron Age Ago it Itma may ma ho bo well to note noto tho the condition ot the workers On every hand machinery Is displacing human humm labor laborIn In the smithy smith drop droll forging machines In the machine shop automatic lathes and marvelously enduring steel j in inthe Inthe inthe the boundary but The tue use usa The Tho least ve we could COUll say aa would receive credence by a man up a tree treo Speaking from personal experience the lh Iro mo arc aie Inseparable but they the aro are not organized that way wa in inthe Inthe Inthe the A z F of or L Lj The Tho object seems to tobe tob tobt be bt b to guarantee the employer er a Il sut aur su number of molders machin machinists or hound by b sac sacred sacred sacred red contracts to break brenk any strike tho the way It works out In practice practIce tice Ice and each succeeding convention of the A F of L Is marked by br Juris inns Jurisdiction jurisdiction diction squabbles that give no prom promise Iso ise of a change The Tho several unions ot or which the theA theA theA A F 1 of L Is composed have havo been compared with the tho watertight ht com corn compartments compartments of a ship The Tho ship shill Is capi capitalism tal ism Puncture any an compartment tho lie ship still floats through the union and its members are annihilated Now row tear out the compartment par partitions and you ou havo ho Industrial Union UnionIsm UnIonIsm Ism tern An Injury to one Is an Injury to all and when one ono Is Injured tho the reckoning will bo be with all nil with no noI sister unions to thrash the Injures injured 1 I ones Into submission These In short aro are a low few of tho the rca rea reay eons cons why y the Iho Marxian Club receives no answer to Its pointed but Imper Impel Impersonal senal comments on tho the union ques quos question lion tion |
