Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same time likely to gather under its standard a great many persons who would like nothing better than to wreck our government. All the I. W. W. people and Red agitators will flock to it, not because they believe that in it lies the salvation of the workingman, but because they think they see a chance to get something for themselves. It is possible that in a short time it will make itself a dictator, and the tyranny of the many is no more comfortable a yoke than the tyranny of the individual...
Radical labor was taught a lesson in the Massachusetts election, but it was not a constructive lesson. The real question of how a workingman can improve his conditions of labor has yet to be answered. At the present time the strike is the only means available. Public opinion is against the strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap...
...differences equally. Though there never was a time when production meant so much to the world, capital and labor bicker and brawl. This cannot go on. The new party shows that the crisis is at hand. It can be averted, but not by any half-way measures. Employer and workingman must come to an understanding; and it looks as if the employer would have to take the first step, lest a worse thing befall him than the mere injury to his pride...
...leaders of the printers' strike in New York. In other words, a part of labor believes the public more interested in its own convenience and pocket-books than in seeing justice done. Such a pessimistic outlook is ruinous to the proper functioning of government. If every workingman becomes an advocate of "direct action" we will see mob rule established in a very short time...
...lawyer for Brotherhoods, and as shown by past performances, Mr. Plumb is deeply interested in the economic situation from the workingman's point of view...