Show organization only hope of workers militant trade unionism essential need of wage earners the problem which the wage earner ear mer Is compelled to deal with Is not sol ed by stock ownership company unions welfare work or any other system method or condition originated by the employers the wage earners principal problems are grouped under two heads under one lies the entire question of terms of employment and conditions of labor under the other the relationship which exists between employer and employed the trade union movement exists for the purpose of enabling wage earners as such to have a control over their uve lives a definite voice in determining the conditions under which they will give their labor in industry and commerce the paternalistic policy which underlies stock ownership welfare plans company unions and other forms 0 of relationship employers have established are all paternalistic in their purpose the workers are to be given something which will create a belief that the trade union organization Is unnecessary for their welfare and protection tec tion the purpose purpose Is not different from that of those few wise monarchs who prevented the people from developing a desire or a determination to establish self government by improving their condition through various so called reforms autocratic or paternalistic government could not endure when mens minds became open for then they saw the necessity of governing themselves and so monarchies were overthrown and republics established in their place it Is much the same with the problem which the wage earner must dral deal with whether he be Is willing illing w or not R ke e gard leas less of the improvements which employers may establish in their personal relationship with their employees plo and the methods by which this relationship is applied so that the employees may leave something to say about conditions of labor the outstanding fact Is that it ts s only through militant trade union organization that the workers can have control over their lives as wag earners with W ith society erected as it Is today tj upon an industrial basis it Is as essential that the wage earners should have control over their lives in industry as fully as to in their political relationship tion ship to all others as citizens of a common country it Is zoly only through trade unionism that the wage earners can secure an adequate voice in determining the conditions under which they labor and live international labor news service |