Union Labor Tested

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 30, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 21.

Union Labor Tested.

"Where is boasting then? It is excluded." These words of the apostle Paul may be applied to the common boasting of labor "leaders" about the superiority of "union labor." All men of experience have known all along that there was no ground for it, but it is a general stock in trade with the agitators. Since the earthquake it has been a mooted question whether, on account of the great emergency, union men should work with independent laborers. With the usual spirit of boasting, a union official said, "We might vote ourselves permission to work with non-union men under conditions that exist were it not for the fact that we (the unions) would be blamed for the poor work that the others perform."

To this the Palo Alto Citizen aptly and tersely replies: "It was union labor that constructed the buildings at Stanford that now are ruins; it was non-union labor that built those that stand. Certainly organized labor is a delusion and a snare. Stanford owes its great loss of to-day to the restricted output countenanced by union rule. The evidence stands out bold and reassuring, so that every one may be convinced. Surely the employment of union labor, the graft practised by architects and contractors, and the scheming connivance of these several agencies, constitutes 'The Crime of the Century.'"

The Citizen specifies building after building at Stanford in support of its contention.