Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Binkerd continued the debate for Yale, arguing that the trade unions have persistently violated the rights of the non-union man. Among these rights are (1) the right of personal security, and (2) the right to work. Mr. George Curtiss, Justice Brewer and President Eliot testify that there has been a general tendency to invade these rights, and the thousands of injunctions protecting nonunion men from interference, the great mass of legal decisions of the past twenty years, affirming the right to work, and the fact that nearly every state has specific laws against violence and intimidation is proof that...
Weldy, the second speaker on the negative, denied that trade-unionism has shown the general tendency alleged by the previous speaker. The non-union man is the small minority in the unionized trades, and has been injured in times of strike only. This injury to the minority has been necessary for the welfare of the greater majority, but even such injury has been transient and intermittent. Trade unionism strives to secure for the working man his natural rights; to deny these by peaceable evolution--the method employed by unionism--would mean their attainment by violent revolution. The working man loves...
...history of trade-unionism concerns, he said, what trade-unionism has done. The one central and established fact is that by organization and by that method alone, the working man has been placed in a position from which he can specify in some measure what his wages, the length of his working day and the general conditions of his employment shall be. That the best interests of the entire country have been subserved thereby can not be denied...
...arguments of the affirmative were then considered. It was argued that trade-unionism, far from promoting socialism, has been the one practical and effective argument against it. Both socialism and unionism spring from the inherent desire of the working man to better his condition. As trade-unionism has satisfied this desire by bringing about a steady improvement in this direction, the use of revolutionary measures has been foregone...
Finally, the contention of the affirmative that trade-unionism has decreased the individuality of the working man was combated. Modern conditions of employment have in many instances tended to this result. But trade-unionism has in fact gained for all working men a larger and more real freedom, truer self ownership than they could possibly have had without organization. Examples of conditions before and after the recent coal strike were cited. With increased means and leisure the working man has become a better man and a better citizen. In his elevation the entire country has been benefited...