Labor Unions Corner the Labor Supply
A real aim of labor-union leaders is to corner the labor supply, as the wheat or corn speculators corner the supply of wheat or corn. While professedly seeking the welfare of the laboring class, they seek to build up a union class—limited to a supply a little short of the demand, and then make it unpopular for employers to utilize any other labor. They do not want the mass of laborers in the unions, for the supply would be too great for them to corner, just as in a year of plentiful crops the grain speculators can not corner the grain. A short supply is what the labor speculator is seeking as a prevailing condition. Thus they seek to establish a line of caste, and to heap reproach on four-fifths of the wage-earners in the country. Some day the ranks of labor unionism will learn that they are being flattered into a mass of the veriest chatteldom.