Labor Unionism

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 38.

Labor Unionism.—According to labor-union philosophy, more than ninety per cent. of the laboring classes of the United States are only fit to be called "scabs." According to labor-union logic, less than ten per cent. of the laboring people of the country are worthy of any employment whatever—are really fit to live. According to labor-union claim, the privilege of public labor, for which all the people pay, should be restricted to less than ten per cent. of the wage-earners of the land. This little ten per cent., or one-tenth, have the temerity to ask legislative bodies to enact laws giving them special privileges over the other nine-tenths. No trust monopoly ever has asked any more. As the business trust says to the individual manufacturer or dealer, You must come in with us or we will break down your business, so the labor-union trust says to other laborers, You must join the union, or we will keep you from getting any work at all. And the labor-unions pose as the friends of labor! and they claim the inherent right to ruin the prospects of every one who does not support their claims.