Show Conil tine certainly erta standing near the broom hotel a day lay or tak to 0 ago I 1 wai was acostar by a g with whom I 1 have a i light acquaintance with the question what do you think of the ti trade ado union question dont you believe that the working population of oden ought to combine at once GO so as to meet tile rapacious grasping of the tile real estate buyers who tre trio guise of booming tile city are swallowing up every bit of land they can capture without as much as laying out one factory or work works where the artisan class in may 8 to some extent find the wherewith to pay the tile enormous house rents that are now being asked on every olda eide fur the merest cumile tum lie down than tiec where no whole sated man would dream of putting in bish hia borso orso or hia his cow phew this question took away my breath I 1 have labored for years in meae rusus combining eo so as to be able and if necessary demand a fair days wages for a fair d dys work cut but I 1 have never hitherto of the tumble tumbled down d ow n places laces that no whole man would dream of pulling bis his horse or cowin cow in 11 great scott I 1 dies Dae D ies stills this sort of thing exist in the lire land of the great and the free mow now I 1 dont want to be thought trifling trilling nith ith BO so grave a matter no I 1 am arn serious lion iron jin mine inep coal mines gas works and factories would undoubtedly aas bring work and money to the workmen or kmen but would he be lose anything would they not bring slums close and unhealthy dwellings drunkenness and horror it it is III 4 I 1 1 7 1 1 oi 11 thought not take A a glance at our lre L ans at tit our great centers of trade supposing you still remain skeptical skip over and anti examine the position of the of 0 th the 0 older countries and rind you will pee fee that luw iw wag wages os and misery ralser seem to run hand in ili hand with filla all T factories combine by all means BO so that you may be able to ask for and demand justice but brit then let it be understood the working roan man to t o often looka upon justice as 8 from froin the moneyed class to tobina elf it 0 u kitt to be here re mem e in hered e ed 1 however hoa ever that justice lice is due duerod T it him I 1 ai as well aa as to him that fh un until 1 I he I 1 la prepared to do ju justice tice he lie can hardly expect to have justice meted out to him when a unionist bag ha money to spend pend do dos doo o he alwa always e encourage union shops hope or does ga be is nol not buy in the cheapest market it he wants hia hig lot plowed or his rost mended and has hoe to pay for it himself does he not turn aa as closefisted as any money king in the world orld there are no doubt exceptions among them but unfortunately every day illustrates to even a casual observer ob seiver that yesterdays kicker against anything and everything emanating from an employer becom a only jut jupt and reasonable today now that 1 I am an employer I 1 suppose ese we all favor justice but inalee cups sups doca hoeq t not cori piat in kicking out real estate buyers r any other class of capitalist capitali efe s and putting in their place the artiman even though he should alonto bl onto to a trade union who may become as cruel as obdurate and as aar accious aa as thone against whom he rails iet let those workmen who are BO so ready to denounce the employing capit capitalist aliAt ask themselves w bethel er they are quite free from the leprous spot OGDEN apra 1890 |