ures of modern life. He would do this and in Russia he has done it, and because his system would not work and produced famine, confusion, and oppression, they have been returning to the capitalism which he tried to destroy and still theoretically repudiated.

The infection of American thought by European radicalism is a misfortune to the American people, and especially to those whose conception of life it poisons and perverts. Fortunately American life is sanitary and as the newcomer remains and his children are raised under American conditions, radicalism tends to disappear. Americanism gradually proves itself and absorbs him.

Nevertheless, discontent is natural to mankind, and much as a man possesses he is likely to want more, especially if he sees others who have more. This, indeed, has its value, since content may degenerate into stagnation. We in America don't want stagnation, but we do want wise and orderly progress, not blind destruction led by false doctrine.

-(The Chicago Tribune.)

YOUR DUTY

May you who have trod the pathways of opportunity keep them open for others. Aid them to find, in the establishments in which they labor, the unit of successful production and rewarded merit. Tie them to you with bonds of justice and sympathetic human interest that, light as air, will grip them as with a force of steel. Help them to save and invest, to raise a barrier against the assaults of disease and accident, or the approach of age, to minimize the causes of unemployment, to become shareholders in American industries, home-owners and home-makers, with a stake like your own in the future of the nation.

Help to accomplish these things and you meet the great responsibilities of your leadership as the founders of the republic conceived the society they sought to establish, an aristocracy of character and intelligence, carrying forward a democracy of right and opportunity.

-(James A. Emery, Washington, D. C.)

The New

Year

COMMENT

The world is getting back upon its feet again. It has been very unsteady since the period following the war, as all of us who go to make up the world know full well.

Every country, every business, every family and every individual has had its or his or her troubles during the last few years, but conditions have been gradually improving and the young year starts with the brightest of promise that during its reign the good old world will be firmly established on its feet again.

The nations of the earth are on the verge of finally adjusting their differences; business, especially in our own country, is steadily climbing upward; unemployment is as steadily decreasing and it seems certain that 1923 will mark the return of general prosperity and happiness and good feeling in our country.

But how about ourselves personally? A year from today what will have happened in our own lives? Will we be better off or worse; happier or more discontented? These are questions whose answers all of us would like to know. Yet all the prophets or fortune tellers in the world cannot begin to answer them as well as we can ourselves.

We know our present circumstances and have our past experiences to build upon. If we will be honest with ourselves, we know the things we have done which have worked to our advantage, and we also know of mistakes which have counted against us.

It's a good time to look ahead and to make up our minds that we are going to be better off a year from now and to face squarely the fact that our condition-good, bad or indifferent, is going to depend above all else upon ourselves.

Have we saved anything from our wages, have we concentrated upon our jobs, have we learned anything to make us more valuable in our industry, have we developed determina

tion in the face of discouragement-these are only a few of the questions we might ask ourselves if we seriously resolve to get our share of the benefits which 1923 promises for the world. Think it over-and may this be a most happy and prosperous year for you.

Conviction of
Railroad

Union Leaders

Eight railroad union leaders were convicted by a jury in the United States District Court, at Los Angeles, California, December 20th, of conspiracy to obstruct interstate commerce. These union leaders were accused of plotting to bring about a tie-up of Sante Fe trains in order to assist the striking railroad shop craftsmen. To this end, twenty trains were abandoned in the California-Arizona desert. The mercury at the time reached 130 in the Pullman cars and men, women and children were left to suffer, that the railroad unions might win their strike. An investigation begun by Attorney General Daugherty resulted in the indictment of the eight men whose trial has just been completed. Two of the convicted men are connected with the shop crafts organization and the others with the Big Four brotherhoods.

Advice of Federal Judge to Striking Shopmen

At the time of the railroad strike a number of striking shopmen at Cleveland were convicted of violating the Federal Injunction granted the railroads. The last three of these shopmen were recently given their releases. Before they were permitted to go, Federal Judge D. C. Westenhaver said to them: "You have been in jail here since the middle of September, while the men whom you elected as leaders, who live in comfort and ease on the money you earned by hard labor and paid as dues -where have they been? Have they been in jail too, enduring the discomforts and hardships you have endured for carrying out their orders? Go home and remember," he continued, "that when you quit your job, you forfeit your right to that job. Also that you have a right to quit working if you want to, but you have no right to stop others from working."

HOW UNIONS OPERATE

Union Officer Advises Members to Accept Applications of Non-Union Men "No Matter What Their

Past Record Has Been"

From time to time, we note the instructions given their members, by the various union leaders. Just recently our attention has been directed to the surprising candor of Mr. Matthew Woll, president of the International Photo-Engravers' Union, when he counsels deception.

Over his signature, the following advice is given members who participate in the drive for new members, during the weeks of October 8th to 14th, and November 12th to 18th:

"During this visiting week, local organizing committees and all members of all local unions are requested and urged to call on all non-union men at their homes.

Members are urged to carry the message of trade unionism into the homes, and to the families of all non-union photo-engravers during this Visiting Week.

Do not rest content to visit their homes, but call on their friends, and secure their co-operation during this visiting week.

If you don't succeed in your mission on your first visit, call again, and if necessary, see that some other member will call later, on him, during this visiting week.

Assure the non-union man you are visiting, that his identity with our union will be held in confidence, and that he is free to deny his affiliation when questioned by his employer. This is imperative, because employers will watch their non-union men more than ever, during this visiting week.

Members and local organizing committees will accept the application of all non-union men, whether journeymen or apprentices, and no matter what their past record has been. Adjustment will be made, after the close of the Organizing Week.

All applications for membership received, must be retained in confidence by the local organizing committees;

every applicant must be assured and secured against his employer knowing anything about his affiliation with our organization, because of this Organizing Week.

Non-union craftsmen making application, should be directed to deny membership in our organization, if asked about it by their employers, so as to assure success in our concerted drive during this Organizing Week."

The above choice bits were copied verbatim from the first and second calls to service, issued by Mr. Woll, and appeared in the September and October numbers of the official journal of that organization.

You will note that the order is to get them, no matter what their qualifications may be; that deception is too small a matter to be considered. Elsewhere, we find leaders of the unions advising their members to ignore courts and coupled with this, we have the frightful exhibition of union methods employed during the recent miners' strike, and the conduct of the striking railroad employes, which required the sweeping injunction, issued by Judge Wilkerson, of the United States Court of Northern District of Illinois to abate.

Employers and right-thinking people, will be astounded to learn the methods of these so-called friends of labor, and wonder how they can expect these methods to bring about good.

Destroy a man's honor, and integrity; but unionize him! Make a liar of him, rob him of his every principle as a man, but unionize him! Destroy that contact and fellowship that should exist between co-workers in any way they can, but be sure to unionize him! These are the orders issued by this particular organization. There is no reason to think they are any different than those employed by other unions.

We give, below, a part of the International Typographical Union obligation, as evidence of similar ideas, held by that organization:

"that my fidelity to the union, and my duty to the members thereof, shall in no sense be interfered with by any allegiance that I may now, or hereafter owe to any other organization, social, political, or religious, secret or otherwise."