Workmen's Advocate

We enjoin again organized workingmen and women to patronize those who are friendly to them. Look for Union labels: trade with those who pay living wages and who advertise in labor papers. It is only one of the many ways to strengthen the union among the workers. City Unionists and K. of L. members should take careful notice of those who advertise in the Workmen's Advocate. We are careful to elect our advertisers from fair tradesmen.

The tradesmen, too, must realize that they are dependent on the producers. They are no more safe from the large dealers than are the wage workers in their struggle.

How many are caused to suspend business by the relentless competition of stronger capitalists, whose grip is constantly drawing the chains of monopoly about the victims? Bradstreet's reports show. Co-operation is as desirable to them as to other workers, and co-operation without the forces of the State at its back is only another form of private capitalism.

The time is at hand when the heads of the Labor bureaus make their annual reports. The preliminary facts given to the public should make labor organizations note the fact that absolutely nothing new will be established, that thinkers in our midst have not already given them the cue. It does not need a bureau to make plain the fact that convict labor is detrimental to honest labor; that child labor is demoralizing to the child and cuts down the parent's wages. That strikes and lock-outs are ruinous to all. Labor intuitively sees the wrongs; they are ever-present. Bureaus may help our organizations some by putting the facts in clear shape before us. But we must not rest content with this sop thrown us by the old parties.

The Labor Party brings us hope. Let us unite and demand that our wrongs be abolished. It is the only way.