p. 16 | A Good Suggestion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 19.

A Good Suggestion.

In an editorial supporting the labor union cause, the Baltimore Labor Leader says:

A campaign of education is needed worse than anything else at present. Unionism should have the support and financial aid of the general public, whose battles it has been fighting so long and with such a heavy handicap. It can obtain what it wants if it goes about it in the right way, depending upon brains, and less upon force, to accomplish its purpose.

A good illustration of the fact that brains are better than force in support of the interests of wage-workers, is seen in the policy of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. They have a strong union without compulsion; work side by side amicably with non-union men, and have no strikes. As a result their union is recognized as a reasonable association, whose purpose is remarkably successful, and no class of laboring men are more highly respected by their employers and fellow-citizens. Brains instead of force is a good watchword for men who want to succeed in business and live peaceably. Brains constitute an excellent auxiliary of muscle in the battle of life.