Labor's Vision for a Changing Nation

Discussing the question 'What is the Ultimate Goal of Organized Labor?' in a recent issue of the Boston Globe, H. B. Perham, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, outlines the program. The necessity for organization among the wage earners in the United States became apparent only during the past fifty years. The power of money is great, but when it is massed by corporation to such an extent that it makes Croesus of old look like a piker, the wage earner is forced to hustle to save himself from abject slavery. Organized labor is today resisting injustice and settling jurisdiction disputes. Tomorrow, it will be resolving itself into cooperative societies for the distribution of its product and becoming itself the employer by instituting manufacturing plants of its own. In the not distant future, it will elect its own members to Congress and the legislature to solve those larger problems that unionism cannot touch. The goal will be reached when we have achieved peace, prosperity and happiness for the citizens of the United States and commenced proselyting among other nations to solve their vexed questions in the same manner as we have done.