Organized Power and the Boycott
ABOUT one year ago there was organized in New York the American Anti-Boycott Association, whose object is to make the labor unions financially responsible for losses by boycott to manufacturers. Now Mr. Thomas J. Kidd, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, after an investigation of damage suits against trades unions, which suits were supported by the Anti-Boycott Association, says: “Organized capital, through its anti-boycott association, must stop its raids on the savings of trades unions, or the union men will withdraw three hundred million dollars from its savings banks.” Mr. Kidd intimated that it was within the power of union labor to throw the country into a financial panic by taking from the circulation the three hundred million dollars which, he said, labor controls. Thus it is that organized power is met by organized power, and the whole country is threatened with a financial panic if a legal redress is sought against the use of the boycott as a means of bringing employers to terms. There is no telling what will come next, but we may be sure that more than human wisdom will be displayed in organizing and using the forces which are to play their part in the fulfilment of the prophecy concerning the world’s greatest boycott, when no man will be able to buy or sell unless he has “the mark of the beast” in his forehead or in his hand. To this time we are fast hastening.