# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1906_S329
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Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. 329

3 derivative product of constitutions Germanie or Norman. German
musie is not a derivative produet of music Dutch, French or Italian. The
great historic forces cannot be derived from any one, two, or three things
outside them. Words, ideas, can be s0o derived, but no great and abidingly
important institutions. It is the philological method of most historians
of antiquity that has compelled them to assume that as words are derived
from one another, so also are institutions; ... the whole view is utterly
Wrong.“ F. B.

Rom und das Stimmrecht der Frauen. Der römische Bischof MeQuaid
von Rochester erklärte: Nothing counts in the United States but votes.
The time will come when women will vote, and then we will see the
greatest voting the world ever saw. We are not afraid of woman suffrage.
Our Catholic women will save the day for us.“ Das Ziel der Römlinge
ist hiernach Beherrschung des Staates durch die Papstkirche und das Mittel
zum Zweck die Frau im Beichtstuhl und am Stimmkasten. F. B.

Die landläufigen Arbeiterverbindungen betreffend schreibt Dr. Goodwin:
The labor unions not only profess to aim at the betterment of wages,
hours, and conditions, but they insist that, along with these things, they
shall have the monopoly of the wage earning opportunities wherever they
are organized. In the history of ninety-nine out of every hundred strikes
is recorded the violence frequently amounting to hot-blooded murder and
cold-blooded assassination, to which the strikers have resorted to prevent
others from taking the employment they have abandoned. It makes no
difference if the family of the man seeking that employment is in desti-
tution and sore néeed of the necessaries of life which the earnings of the
husband and father would secure to them. He is not a member of the
union and must therefore be prevented from earning his bread. Nor may
he hope, even in times of tranquillity, to be employed in the closed by the
union] shop, no matter how skillful he may be as a workman, no matter
how pressing the necessity of earning a maintenance for those who are,
in the providence of God, dependent upon him for support. And in this
matter of monopolizing and seeking to control labor opportunities, the
unions go further and restriet the number of members belonging to the
organizations, to ensure the constant employment of those already in,
without the slightest reference to the welfare of others. Instances are
plentiful where membership is denied because the number enrolled is
deemed already large enough to supply all demands in the local labor
market, because applicants cannot pay the exorbitant initiation fee de-
manded, or fail to pass an examination by à committee constituted by the
union, the first duty of which is to see that the ranks do not become over-
crowded, and upon various other pretexts, designed to obstruct and defeat
such admission. The ultimatum of the union is stern and inexorable —
Fou shall not work because you are non-union; you shall not be per-
mitted to join the union for reasons that are satisfactory to us.“ The
amount of work that a man may do in à given time is also restricted,
and the quality of his workmanship is held down to a low grade. The
member of the union is not only not encouraged to strive faithfully to
make the best return he is capable of for the wages he receives, but it is
enjoined upon him to do much less. The bricklayer must lay only so
many bricks in a day, the shingler must put on only so many shingles, ete.,