Such unionism means organized strength for the railroads and organized weakness for the employes. And the latter foot the bill. No wonder their grand officers get annual passes and their delegates free trains. The stupid employes pay for them all an hundredfold.
And to what base purpose the railroad magnates put these brotherhoods to still further entrench their power and perpetuate their reign of robbery!
At this very moment they are using them as political pokers to stir up the fire of public sentiment against rate legislation. And the poor dupes that pay the dues don’t even know that their unions are in politics, corporation politics, the dirtiest of all politics.
On their own account the unions are forbidden to have anything to do with politics—that would fracture their delicate diaphragm—but when the corporations need them as political tools—ah, that’s different; that’s what they are for!
Cannot you hoodwinked railway slaves begin to see something?
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.
It is a spectacle for the gods, and future generations will marvel that such an exhibition of servility was possible in the twentieth century.
Union workingmen, rallying round the robbers of the working class, and defending them against their own people!