. The National Civic Federation review . e have endeavored to group some of the salient (Concluded on page 15.) Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : You may question an appearance of impartialitytoward labor unions, by a Chicago man lately escapedfrom a state of street ruffianism and a general mix upof brickbats, lumps of coal, glass bottles, stones, brassknuckles and the rest of the familiar equipment ofdisorder and slugging incident to Chicago strikes. And you may not welcome Chicago suggestions aboutlabor unions; our city being considered a high-rollerin labor matters. Chicagos labor ferment, howev
. The National Civic Federation review . e have endeavored to group some of the salient (Concluded on page 15.) Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : You may question an appearance of impartialitytoward labor unions, by a Chicago man lately escapedfrom a state of street ruffianism and a general mix upof brickbats, lumps of coal, glass bottles, stones, brassknuckles and the rest of the familiar equipment ofdisorder and slugging incident to Chicago strikes. And you may not welcome Chicago suggestions aboutlabor unions; our city being considered a high-rollerin labor matters. Chicagos labor ferment, however,it is fair to say, is but part of the wider ferment,because of which many of the problems of our nationaldevelopment are finding their chief forum in Chicagoand this Middle West. Doubtless our teamsters strike has not heightenedChicagos authority. But you must admit that it is acredit to our originality. For it is unique as a finishedexample; being an unprecedented combination of everymistake and every abuse which unionism has so far. FRANKLIN MAC VEAGH,Merchant and Publicist, Chicago. evolved. One may study in this one strike all thedefects, excesses and deplorable features of the labormovement—and with the brilliant effect undimmed byany of its virtues. It was at first sympathetic, though the teamsters hadagreements specially prohibiting sympathetic strikes. They struck for the garment workers, but only whenthe latter had long lost their cause. .And they did notstrike against the employers of the garment workers,but, like lightning from a clear sky, against houseswith whom their own relationships, and those of allother unions, were satisfactory and unruffled. Theystruck only such houses as had never, to their knowl-edge, seen a garment worker in their lives—with thesingle exception of one house who had as a side showof their business nineteen tailors,and who didnt care apenny if they did not have one. The houses with whomthe garment workers had their strike were not mo
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