A Short History of the American Labor Movement
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In vain did the Knights seek to win craft support. In TSS'B" they appealed to the iron and steel workers in the following language : '^In the use of the wonder- ful inventions . . . Your organization plays a most important part Naturally it embraces within its ranks a very large proportion of laborers of a high 122 AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT grade of skill and intelligence. With this skill of hand, guided by intelligent thought, comes the right to demand that excess of compensation paid to skilled... above the unskilled labor. But the unskilled labor must receive attention, or in the hour of difficulty the employer will not hesitate to use it to depress the compensation you receive. That skilled or un- skilled labor may no longer be found unorganized, we ask of you to annex your grand and powerful corps to the main army that we may fight the battle under one flag. " The appeal was without effect. Efforts were then made at cooperation in the form of "the interchange of working cards, the adoption of some plan by which all labor organizations could be protected from unfair men, men expelled, suspended, under fine if guilty of taking places of union men or Knights of Labor while on strike or while locked out from work, the adoption of a uniform standard of hours and wages ...
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In vain did the Knights seek to win craft support. In TSS'B" they appealed to the iron and steel workers in the following language : '^In the use of the wonder- ful inventions . . . Your organization plays a most important part Naturally it embraces within its ranks a very large proportion of laborers of a high 122 AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT grade of skill and intelligence. With this skill of hand, guided by intelligent thought, comes the right to demand that excess of compensation paid to skilled... above the unskilled labor. But the unskilled labor must receive attention, or in the hour of difficulty the employer will not hesitate to use it to depress the compensation you receive. That skilled or un- skilled labor may no longer be found unorganized, we ask of you to annex your grand and powerful corps to the main army that we may fight the battle under one flag. " The appeal was without effect. Efforts were then made at cooperation in the form of "the interchange of working cards, the adoption of some plan by which all labor organizations could be protected from unfair men, men expelled, suspended, under fine if guilty of taking places of union men or Knights of Labor while on strike or while locked out from work, the adoption of a uniform standard of hours and wages ...
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