quoted numerous instances to show how labor unions have used
the boycott in their strikes to -the great detriment of industry.
Labor unions also limit the production. They reason on the prin
ciple that the less one man does the more there is for the others
to do, and this was brought out most forcibly by Mr. Hayes by
means of several very apt illustrations. He also dwelt to some ex
tent on the intimidation of judges and justice in general which
labor unions practice to a large extent, and showed that as all
industry depends on the just administration of the laws of the
country if the labor unions work to render these laws inactive
and thus make them favorable to a special class they are striking
at the very foundations of industry.
Mr. Rupp was the next speaker on the negative. He en
deavored to show that the labor union is a great educational in
stitution. In the enthusiasm of his argument he placed it above
even the school and the church. He said that if you want to get
the maximum output of a man and only want him to last a day,
you must work him twenty-four hours; if you want him to last a
year, you must work him twenty hours, if you want him to last a
life-time, you must only work him eight hours. Numerous ex
amples and the opinions of learned men were quoted to show the
great advantages of short hours. He’ proved that the labor union
was entirely responsible for all the laws which' had been enacted
for shorter hours in the past and the agitation which is going on
at present. In short, Mr. Rupp built up an ideal union for the
future, and what would happen if all these things came to pass.
Mr. Hart closed the instructive argument of the affirmative.
He started out by endeavoring to show that the negative had
been theorizing, that they were not there to discuss theoretical
unions, but the labor union as it exists today. What the negative
had been discussing was the principle of labor unionum. They
had to confront facts not theories. He took up two phases of the
labor union, due to their better organization, sympathetic strikes
and trade of “professional” jealousy. The working of the sympa
thetic strike was taken up, as it is used in Chicago, and the build
ing trade strikes of New York. The petty squabbles of the unions
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