. Carpenter. which isusually fatal. Then again political policies may di-vide an organization into factions whichdivides the sirength and necessarilyweakens its power. Spies in the employ of the Manufactur-ers Association who are holding unioncards, and some have held office, do not,cause disruption; they may sometimescause a local union to take ill-advised andradical action, but usually spies are dis-covered in the end in time to drive thevile creatures out before they cause anypermanent harm. Sometimes a fluenttalker will lead a union astray, by advo-cating policies that are ideal, but impos
. Carpenter. which isusually fatal. Then again political policies may di-vide an organization into factions whichdivides the sirength and necessarilyweakens its power. Spies in the employ of the Manufactur-ers Association who are holding unioncards, and some have held office, do not,cause disruption; they may sometimescause a local union to take ill-advised andradical action, but usually spies are dis-covered in the end in time to drive thevile creatures out before they cause anypermanent harm. Sometimes a fluenttalker will lead a union astray, by advo-cating policies that are ideal, but impos-sible to secure. These men, as a rule,do not remain long in one place, but driftfrom city to city aspiring for power and influence is not lastingin any one locality because, in the slangof the street, they do not make good. No employers association ever dis-rupted a union if the members all ob-served their obligations and remainedtrue to the spirit of unionism.—Roches-ter Labor Journal. 30. Our Duty of the Hour Editor The Carpenter: It is a very appropriate time, while thesemi-centennial of the Battle of Gettys-burg is being celebrated by fifty thou-sand Union and Confederate veterans,for those who, like the writer, were go-ing to school at the time to inquire:What was it all about? All one has to do to find out what itmeant to have armies hundreds of thou-sands strong contending against eachother, is only to read the immortal ad-dress of Abraham Lincoln, delivered atGettysburg, to become aware of the factthat they fought that government of thepeople for the people and by the peopleshall not perish from the earth. Now that the Brotherhood of Carpen-ters is being sued by a combination ofmill owners to decide whether they orthe union are the authority to regulatethe hours, wages and conditions underwhich the carpenters shall work, Lin-colns words take on a new did not say, that government of millowners by and for mill owners shouldnot perish fr
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